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I’m tempted to install Win95/98 on it, run Borland Delphi 4 from 1998 on it, and develop a UI in fraction of the time and resources it takes on the Web. The re
by dmitriid 6y ago
I’m tempted to install Win95/98 on it, run Borland Delphi 4 from 1998 on it, and develop a UI in fraction of the time and resources it takes on the Web.
The result will probably still run on modern Windows, too
- memsom 6y agoIt would be better to use NT4 or Windows 2000. Delphi had a habit of crashing hard under 9x whilst debugging and taking the OS with it. I used Delphi from 1 - 5 commercially and we never used 9x because the experience was a lot less usable. I did use maybe, Delphi 3 under Windows 98 at home, but it would never have been for anything important.
- dmitriid 6y agoThanks for the hint!
- keyle 6y agoThat has crossed my mind actually, bring me back to my youth. Just seeing the screenshot of win98 on pcem gave me strong nostalgia.
- benibela 6y agoThat does not actually need DOSBox, it runs great with WINE: https://i.imgur.com/YgOw2Zc.png https://i.imgur.com/YgOw2Zc.png
- dmitriid 6y agoSorry for breaking HN conventions, but: Oh My God
- arithmomachist 6y agoI'm tempted to install Turbo Pascal for a deep nostalgia trip. I grew up in a small-ish town in Appalachia, and when I ran out of math classes to take in high school I started learning to program. They had put together a little "computer lab" circa 1990 when cash was a little easier to come by for a public school, and hadn't updated them since. It was 2004, and their intro programming course was still taught in Pascal. We hacked on a version of Turbo Pascal that might have dated to when the Soviet Union still existed, and I remember that cheery blue terminal interface fondly. It left me with an irrational life-long love of text-based interfaces.
- sumnole 6y agoLazarus is the modern alternative for Pascal coders
- benibela 6y agoBut I do not think it will run on Windows 98 It needs the Unicode APIs