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Windows 93 in JavaScript
- arpitverma007 12y agoIt's awesome, I am playing my childhood game from like half an hour
- hackhat 12y agohaha, yes, it's really full of surprises (:
- arpitverma007 12y agoIt's awesome, I am playing my childhood game from like half an hour
- curiously 12y agoplayed with it yesterday, loved the playstation intro
- codecondo 12y agoyeah, a nice touch.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- kxo 12y agoI was very hopeful when I saw Ecco.
- user24 12y agoI... didn't even know there was a Windows 93. edit: oh, right.
- tajen 12y agoWindows 95 should have been released in 93, but was full of bugs. It was then renamed 95, with an expected publish date at the end of 94. Good thing to name a product with year+1: Gives a futuristic taste if published early and a bit of leeway otherwise ;) I believe it's not an exact replica. To my knowledge, the splash screen's progress bar was introduced with Windows XP [1]. Also were windows flipping like that before opening? [1] Here's Windows 95 splash screen. Aw, the graphics... https://www.google.fr/search?q=windows+95+splash+screen&client=safari&hl=en&tbm=isch https://www.google.fr/search?q=windows+95+splash+screen&clie...
- cpcarey 12y agoYou can open windows93.net in Cat Explorer to run Windows 93 in Windows 93
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoOr choose Virtual PC :)
- jameshk 12y agoThere's a virtual PC, which is Windows 93 on Windows 93.
- ttty 12y agoYes (: virtual machine into browser!
- xbenjii 12y agoUm. https://xbenjii.co.uk/i/jcu1Z https://xbenjii.co.uk/i/jcu1Z
- johnboiles 12y agoyo dawg....
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- Lerc 12y agoIt is somewhat disconcerting to discover that someone has made what is essentially a version of my current project as a gag.
- dang 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507786
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- pamparosendo 12y agoGreat Wolf version! jaja
- NotHereNotThere 12y agoPretty interesting! Started playing with the nested virtual machines, windows93 stopped loading after the 9th instance ;)
- j45 12y agoCool, love the icon names.
- ubercow13 12y agoThis loads about 10 times faster in Chrome than Firefox for me
- CodeWriter23 12y ago"totally not a virus" was quite amusing.
- Namor_Votilav 12y agoanybody else tried winception?
- anujku 12y agoWhat music it is when you start the defrag program ? I am sure I know the tune but just dont remember it ? some old game ?
- yincrash 12y agoThis website just taught me that there is an HTML5 Speech Synthesis API! And there are so many accents you can choose from!
- thomasfoster96 12y agoWell, it's a separate API that only Chrome and Safari support, and the accents are all on your computer already.
- e12e 12y agoAs far as I can figure out, on chrome it's just a web service -- and doesn't work on Debian Chromium as they stopped shipping google api keys (which makes sense, part of the point of using chromium over chrome is to have some measure of independence from google). Just thought I'd mention it here, in case anyone else were about to run off and try stuff like: http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk---Introduction-to-the-Speech-Synthesis-API http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk---I... only to be disappointed :-/ Note that on Debian/Ubuntu you can for example do: sudo apt-get install festival echo "I speak nothing, because I no verbs." | festival --tts if you need to get your computer voice fix.
- thomasfoster96 12y agoYeah, Chrome implements it as a web service, but Google and Apple have been slowly working on a Web Speech API for a while (I suppose Mozilla and Microsoft see it as an unnecessary abstraction when the Web Audio API could do speech-related stuff). I think Safari has only implemented the Synthesis part of the API because it can all be done offline and rely on the system voices on OS X and iOS. Google uses their own web APIs and thus also does Speech Recognition, but it doesn't work well offline or when you don't have Google API keys within Chromium/Chrome.
- smegel 12y ago1. What is Windows93? 2. That worked scarily well on my 3.5" Android phone (chrome).
- iMuzz 12y agoWow, this is incredible. Massive shout out to the people who made this.
- UweSchmidt 12y agoFunny and, for a gag, surprisingly thorough and complete. Could you please allow closing windows by doubleclicking on the top-left(!) corner of a window? I kinda need that (e.g. this still works for the file explorer on Windows 7, even though there is no icon).
- anonymfus 12y agoSince Windows 8 system menu icon reappeared in file explorer's titlebar.
- ishansharma 12y agoDouble clicking that button closes the window. Just tried on Windows 8.1
- magoon 12y agoI can't believe I just got sucked into Solitaire on this thing
- yaddayadda 12y agoYou mean "SOLITUDE"? ;-)
- Natsu 12y agoI'm too busy listening to it defrag this thing.
- juhohei 12y agoThis is great! Nice easter eggs, too: "Cat Explorer" redirects facebook.com to ello.co.
- manofsound 12y agoCan someone please tell me where the start-up sound is from? It's so familiar.
- motles 12y agoacid box 93 is my jam
- bpodgursky 12y agoI'm playing snake... in a Windows defragmenter, in JavaScript. I'm lost for words.
- clarkm 12y agoGlad to know I'm not the only one who clicked on the defrag button first.
- ChartsNGraffs 12y agoNope! Me too. Visual defrag was the thing I was most disappointed to lose in newer versions of Windows. Not gonna lie, I was supposed to head to a party with a friend in college, but we both got sucked in watching a Win98 defrag and lost track of time.
- Sami_Lehtinen 12y agoUse UltraDefrag.
- cyorir 12y agoMy favorite is pokeglitch. Otherwise this is before my time, I've never seen 93/95/98 (my elementary school had machines running 2000 and DOS, though).
- diroussel 12y agoThere was no Windows 93. 95 was the first release named after a year.
- techonup 12y agoThe move Growl plays every sound in the game once- this is hilarious.
- chris_wot 12y agoI feel old.
- Natsu 12y agoWindows 3.1 was before Windows 95. One of my former employers was using DOS not that many years ago (well after 2000), using Novell netware for networking. I wrote a backup program (glorified xcopy script) for it, automatic patching (autoexec.bat called a script on the network drive), and a few other things.
- techonup 12y agoPokeGlitch is surprisingly playable (if you're very familiar with Red), once you get past the two-minute Growl move sound. e: Or not, as the Viridian PokeCenter crashed the game. Was fun while it lasted, though.
- Rexxar 12y agoWith the full photo of Lenna (after resizing the image).
- WA 12y agoAh, very nice. And everything is there: Stupid games, random images, random sound snippets you really had to have on your computer, nice gradient background (anyone ever changed the color gradient of the title bar with TuneUp 97 or whatever that was called?) Nostalgia. Edit: Oh god, Acid Box... one of my first DirectDraw attempts with a tutorial had me program a sin-wave with almost exactly that font.
- batrat 12y agoVirtual box is awsome :< http://imgur.com/4Lwd9ro http://imgur.com/4Lwd9ro
- barbs 12y agoIn the trash can there's a strange zip file you can download. Unzipping it reveals a readme.txt, which says: Sorry, no album download for the moment, our server is under reddit hug... The album is also here : https://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/album/poire-c-poire-v https://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/album/poire-c-poire-v Going to this bandcamp it mentions: THE IDEA BEHIND THIS ALBUM WAS TO MAKE A DEVIANT DANCE MUSIC LABEL TO RELEASE THIS HORRIBLE TRACKS, BUT THIS PROJECT WENT TOTALLY WRONG AND BECAME THE THING KNOWS AS WWW.WINDOWS93.NET THERE IS A LIMITED SD-CARD EDITION OF THIS ALBUM THAT YOU CAN BUY FROM ME IRL FOR 10€ THIS ALBUM WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR FREE BUT HIDDEN ON WIN93 SOON, IF YOU SUCCEED TO FIND IT. So I guess that's the backstory.
- chris_wot 12y agoIt's that "Glitch Grrrlz" icon.
- Gracana 12y agoOr corglitch? I'm really enjoying that one... http://www.windows93.net/#!glitch http://www.windows93.net/#!glitch [edit] Well crap, what did I click? I could have sworn this was what was playing the music, but I realized it's not. Hmm. [edit-edit] Oh, it was acid box. That makes sense.
- itsjareds 12y agoI also found this in the "What if?" app that is apparently a collection of Matrix memes. http://i.imgur.com/aq8NAO3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/aq8NAO3.jpg >What if I told you >Jankenpopp's new album is in the trash
- edgarvm 12y agoSolitaire (Solitude) is nice but it has a weird bug, some cards cannot be found
- chris_wot 12y agoIf you go into catexplorer, click on "P()rn". Quite a list of unfortunately URLs!
- tux 12y agoWOW This is better then Windows7. Any one knows keyboard keys for "Castle GAFA 3D"
- itsjareds 12y agoIf anyone is interested in playing the roms in /C/files/roms/sms/, they can be played with an emulator like Kega Fusion[1]. There is a decently sized collection of games... http://www.carpeludum.com/kega-fusion/ http://www.carpeludum.com/kega-fusion/
- omt66 12y agoVery interesting implementation in JS :)
- agumonkey 12y agoI can't wait for Windows 94.
- fny 12y agoThe bookmarks in Cat Explorer are priceless. Especially the Pr()n list... tickled my immature parts immensely. (Self-deprecating pun intended.)