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Virtual Windows 3.11 Computer
- rahimnathwani 2y agoI clicked the link just to see whether Trumpet Winsock was installed. I wasn't disappointed.
- jmward01 2y agoWhy is it that a button that says 'DO NOT CLICK' calls out SO hard to be clicked?
- omoikane 2y agoI believe that's called "attractive nuisance". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
- isoprophlex 2y agoI once filled in some psychological test. Some of the multiple choice questions were like "please select option C when answering this question" I deliberately put in the wrong answers there, figuring they were probably scoring me on rebelliousness or impulsiveness or whatever... but I just had to do it.
- jwiz 2y agoI think they are to check if you are actually reading the questions at all, vs. just spamming random answers.
- Dwedit 2y agoMore interesting if you exit windows and run DOS. Also the Windows 95 version of EDIT.EXE is in there for some reason, rather than the actual edit.com (which is a frontend for qbasic /edit) For some reason, edit.exe has a com file extension.
- Xxfireman 2y agoDoes anyone else miss simple gray GUIs? There is something in my brain that associates that style with “real” computing. I would love to have an editor theme for it (IntelliJ / vs code / terminal.app).
- litenboll 2y agoNot even a little! I can get nostalgic, sure, but I wouldn't want it to be part of my everyday experience.
- com2kid 2y agoI use the MS DOS editor theme for VS Code!
- netsharc 2y agoWow, the edit.com / qbasic.exe UI! I spent hours in QBasic when I was a teenager. Damn, that's ages ago!
- _joel 2y agoGORILLA.BAS
- ta12653421 2y agothis is already advanced LEVEL II for experienced programmes who were able to use Q Basic. but ... real pro's were using GW Basic! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW-BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW-BASIC LOL
- bionsystem 2y agoI like to run LXQt sometimes for that (and for the snappiness / low resources).
- bpye 2y agoI don’t know if I miss grey UIs, but I do miss the consistent design language and how easy it was to tell if something was a button, scrollable, etc.
- bitwize 2y agoHoly crap, he has Jazz Jackrabbit?! I'm defo going over to Pieter's house to play vidya. The 90s web page is a really nice touch, especially with the modern touches like the Perplexity.ai searchbar. Definitely meant to take you back to simpler tech times.
- maxloh 2y agoLooking through the source code, it appears to be powered by js-dos: https://github.com/caiiiycuk/js-dos https://github.com/caiiiycuk/js-dos
- grugagag 2y agoFrom the page: > The simplest API to run DOS/Win 9x
- imp0cat 2y agohttps://dos.zone/diablo-1996/ https://dos.zone/diablo-1996/ Diablo I in browser? Wow. So worth it just to idle in the village and listen to Matt Uelmen's music. :)
- Maakuth 2y agohttps://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/ https://d07riv.github.io/diabloweb/ here's another one that's more integrated
- Sweepi 2y agoZNES 1.51
- Walf 2y agoPretty cool. Needs a function key row. Prince of Persia seemed to load okay, but wouldn't accept input.
- therein 2y agoWorks for me. Exit Windows and launch it under DOS mode.
- PhasmaFelis 2y agoKeyboard input wasn't working for me on several games, until I reloaded the page.
- bpha 2y agoI miss the old Paintbrush application, it has a selective eraser. I remember me and my brother invented a mini-game where we drew a house with a dark green lawn and then ran the selective eraser using the arrow keys to mow the lawn and make it light green. I also miss the old times when an application took 0 seconds to load, loading solitaire in Windows 10 is a horrible user experience with loading times and bloated UI and ads.
- Tepix 2y agoOK, i don't associate old Windows PC with "applications taking 0 seconds to load". In fact, usually the disk drive would spring into action and it would take much longer than nowadays to load a 300kb application.
- theodric 2y agoBack in the late 90s there was some tool that ran an actual Windows 3.1 which displayed in a browser window. I had a demo, and I remember it clearly, but for the life of me I can't tell you what it was or how it worked. I think it was a Win32 program.
- kristopolous 2y agoWindows 9x had a win 16 subsystem. You could ostensibly access it through ActiveX which was in IE at the time. Certainly more of a hack than an emulator. It also could have been an Adobe flash imitation which is probably more likely.
- theodric 2y agoMust be the former, because I loaded a Windows 3.1 app into it and ran it!
- kristopolous 2y agoHad to have been that given the age. The only other alternative is a binary plug-in. JavaScript/VBScript didn't have enough control to pull it off and Java was way too slow back then. It used to be a real dog - probably still carries some of that baggage albeit undeservedly (Android for instance, runs things just fine)
- pixelesque 2y agoFor those confused about the mouse cursor like I was, you need to click in the monitor first for it to take control of the cursor, otherwise it mostly skips over most of the window areas.
- ensocode 2y agoFlashback! Did you get Wacky Wheels running? :-D Otherwise: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/wacky-wheels-2qq https://www.myabandonware.com/game/wacky-wheels-2qq
- ulfbert_inc 2y agoJust in time when I got new DOS/Win3.11/Win98 hardware :)
- kristopolous 2y agoI played tripeaks and I still can't get into reliable profit 30 years later.
- robertpnl 2y agoThis feels not the original Windows 3.11 machine. Otherwise: https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/ https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/
- redbell 2y agoI don't know why, but when I saw the bundle loading, my brain triggered the floppy disk reading sound into my ears in the background, I felt it and I miss the old days :)
- Theodores 2y agoImpressive but the Microsoft product is now underwhelming. So many people here spent years of their life doing things with the wonder for its time that was WfW 3.11. Think how many man years were wasted trying to configure autoexec.bat and config.sys. The first decent OS that I came across was SGI's IRIX. Unlike every other OS GUI you could focus on your work, in your applications, and not be concerned with the OS. There was nothing to battle against. Operating systems should be invisible and enable you to do more important things, not an end to themselves.
- citeguised 2y agoI left it to run in the background and was pleasantly surprised by the Windows-Logo-Screensaver that started after some minutes.
- crb 2y agoIs it just me, or is the font in the title bar/menus, off?
- einr 2y agoIt's the "large"/high-DPI version of the font, intended for larger displays and resolutions like 1024x768 and up. The size and style of the system font in Windows 3 is not fixed, but depends on your display driver and what mode it's in. There would often be different choices like "1024x768 (small fonts)" and "1024x768 (large fonts)"
- danielrangel 2y agoNow I see why I love 256 colors
- fodkodrasz 2y agoThe mouse acceleration is insane, makes it unusable.
- dalf 2y agoI discovered that my institution blocks all traffic to Russia (v8.js-dos.com is hosted in Russia).
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- wkjagt 2y agoVery cool to see there's still love for this era of computing. I still have a 486 set up, with Windows 3.11. I sometimes play minesweeper on it, or play around with Borland C++.
- sourcepluck 2y agoThe games! Amazing.
- larrybolt 2y agoI didn't even realise mIRC worked on 3.11, wow! It was my first introduction to programming in a way. It makes me wonder if adding something akin to the script editor you had in mIRC to for instance a game such as minecraft would serve as a good way to introduce people to programming, similar to how mIRC might have..