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No matter how hard I try, can't find a way to trigger the BSoD. There must be a way, will keep looking. Edit: Seems it's supposed to crash on its own at random

by 4cao 7y ago

No matter how hard I try, can't find a way to trigger the BSoD. There must be a way, will keep looking. Edit: Seems it's supposed to crash on its own at random intervals for no apparent reason. It's really just like the original.

mrighele 7y ago
I clicked Corglitch and my Firefox became completely unresponsive. Somewhat close, I would say.
- 4cao 7y ago
  I managed to do that too (browser freezing until I closed the tab, also in Firefox) but there's supposed to be a proper BSoD. I found a screenshot of it: https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/windows_93_bsod.png https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/windows_9... (It's a stylized "Error 404: The page is missing or was never written. You can see if it becomes available again.")
  - shantara 7y ago
    Found it! Open "/c/files/documents/keynotes/opening/" file and keep clicking on the next button (the triangle) until you reach the last page with "Windows 93. Are you ready?" text. Click on "Are you ready?"
    - 4cao 7y ago
      Great job. Got it! And the presentation that leads to it is hilarious in itself. How did you find it?
      - shantara 7y ago
        I wish I could say there was some complex forensics involved, but the truth is I just stumbled upon it when exploring the files on the disk.
4cao 7y ago
So much to explore, and so much fun: Defrag is a game of Snake with some old Nokia (I guess) monophonic ringtone playing in the background. "Manifest" is a randomly-generated hilarious equation, for example: "utf8 + doge = web 3.0" There's a Star Wars episode all in ASCII. Inside /a/README.txt: 'Indeed, we have a "fuck the cloud" philosophy !' Start → Run: "There's nowhere you can run..." In "Cat Explorer" (browser) there is a bookmark under "INTERWEBZ" for "Mark Zuckerberg's homepage" that appears to be genuinely his, back when he was 15 years old: https://web.archive.org/web/20021104225654/http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/ https://web.archive.org/web/20021104225654/http://www.angelf... In some places it gets very modern though: What If: "What if I told you / You can eat without posting it on Instagram" In any case, no matter what you do, don't start Hydra.exe. (And I still couldn't get the BSoD.)
- gmueckl 7y ago
  There is even more. There is a selection of old Amiga demos that run in an emulator! Whoever made this stuff is a genius for putting this sprawling thing together.
- zaat 7y ago
  >There's a Star Wars episode all in ASCII. You can have it in your terminal too: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
  - VRay 7y ago
    Man, it was mind-blowing back in the day to see a video streaming from a server right to your local machine in real time
JdeBP 7y ago
I wonder what "global thermonuclear war" in the terminal does. It probably starts a game of Hangman or something. It would be ironic if it were a double-bluff, though.
- 4cao 7y ago
  It's tic-tac-toe but with a reference that's obscure to me ("Greetings, Professor Falken").
  - emdashcomma 7y ago
    These are both references to the movie War Games (1983), which is excellent.
    - 4cao 7y ago
      Thank you!
  - mintplant 7y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames Classic 80s cyberthriller.
    - 4cao 7y ago
      Thank you! Relevant clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzNo0vR_dU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzNo0vR_dU
edeion 7y ago
Not a proper BSOD but there's an evocation. Have you tried "crazy" in the Terminal? You'll go for a 3 min ride of music with funky animation starting with a BSOD sprite. (It's probably the same as Start > Programs > crazy but as much as I liked it, I won't run it twice.)

by 4cao 7y ago

mrighele 7y ago

I clicked Corglitch and my Firefox became completely unresponsive. Somewhat close, I would say.

4cao 7y ago
I managed to do that too (browser freezing until I closed the tab, also in Firefox) but there's supposed to be a proper BSoD. I found a screenshot of it: https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/windows_93_bsod.png https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/windows_9... (It's a stylized "Error 404: The page is missing or was never written. You can see if it becomes available again.")
- shantara 7y ago
  Found it! Open "/c/files/documents/keynotes/opening/" file and keep clicking on the next button (the triangle) until you reach the last page with "Windows 93. Are you ready?" text. Click on "Are you ready?"
  - 4cao 7y ago
    Great job. Got it! And the presentation that leads to it is hilarious in itself. How did you find it?
    - shantara 7y ago
      I wish I could say there was some complex forensics involved, but the truth is I just stumbled upon it when exploring the files on the disk.

4cao 7y ago

So much to explore, and so much fun: Defrag is a game of Snake with some old Nokia (I guess) monophonic ringtone playing in the background. "Manifest" is a randomly-generated hilarious equation, for example: "utf8 + doge = web 3.0" There's a Star Wars episode all in ASCII. Inside /a/README.txt: 'Indeed, we have a "fuck the cloud" philosophy !' Start → Run: "There's nowhere you can run..." In "Cat Explorer" (browser) there is a bookmark under "INTERWEBZ" for "Mark Zuckerberg's homepage" that appears to be genuinely his, back when he was 15 years old: https://web.archive.org/web/20021104225654/http://www.angelfire.com/ny/mez51/ https://web.archive.org/web/20021104225654/http://www.angelf... In some places it gets very modern though: What If: "What if I told you / You can eat without posting it on Instagram" In any case, no matter what you do, don't start Hydra.exe. (And I still couldn't get the BSoD.)

gmueckl 7y ago
There is even more. There is a selection of old Amiga demos that run in an emulator! Whoever made this stuff is a genius for putting this sprawling thing together.
zaat 7y ago
>There's a Star Wars episode all in ASCII. You can have it in your terminal too: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
- VRay 7y ago
  Man, it was mind-blowing back in the day to see a video streaming from a server right to your local machine in real time

JdeBP 7y ago

I wonder what "global thermonuclear war" in the terminal does. It probably starts a game of Hangman or something. It would be ironic if it were a double-bluff, though.

4cao 7y ago
It's tic-tac-toe but with a reference that's obscure to me ("Greetings, Professor Falken").
- emdashcomma 7y ago
  These are both references to the movie War Games (1983), which is excellent.
  - 4cao 7y ago
    Thank you!
- mintplant 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames Classic 80s cyberthriller.
  - 4cao 7y ago
    Thank you! Relevant clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzNo0vR_dU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzNo0vR_dU

edeion 7y ago

Not a proper BSOD but there's an evocation. Have you tried "crazy" in the Terminal? You'll go for a 3 min ride of music with funky animation starting with a BSOD sprite. (It's probably the same as Start > Programs > crazy but as much as I liked it, I won't run it twice.)