Last time I used dosbox was so long ago that back then their April fools joke was that it could run Windows - complete with a fake screenshot. Amazing progress by the project if it's routine to run it now.
There was a/. article about some joker got Windows 3.1 to run on a phone under Android, sure as shit, I installed DOSBOX to an Android Mk802 PC-on-a-stick and got it to run Windows.
Indeed, Windows 3.11, being a DOS program is officially supported by DOSBOX now. Windows 95, being mostly a DOS program, is unofficially supported by DOSBOX.
Win 3.11 works great in DOSBOX under WIn 7, XP, Ubuntu, except it won't fly under Puppy Linux, because of mouse issues. Win 98 will install under VirtualBox but there's some display driver issues, it will default to 640 x 480 x 4. Better to run that raw, not virtualized. Win95 it's a case of "why bother?".
Windows has been quickly going downhill after version 3.11.
I run Win3.11 as a hobby on one of my boxes. There ain't no more BBS's out there, except I can get out to Seattle Community Network and King County Libraries with Terminal, at 19,200 baud, woo. I sure as hell ain't going to get an AOL or Netzero dial up account for a hobby. There's a lot of great Windows 3.1 CD-ROMs I get at thrift shops for no more than three dollars. Vetusware has everything. Excel 4.0 for my family budget. Word Perfect for my Great American Novel. There's nothing wrong with running old school.
A million years from now lawyers for SCO will claim the quartz crystal contains their precious proprietary code from Unix and demand a 700 credit per seat license from the archaologists plus their signature on a non-disclosure agreement.
This is also about the time most PC compatible computers no longer came with Basic, and if you could get a copy of basic, in no longer wrote to specific memory addresses or i/o ports.
You mean GW-Basic, running in DOS where 640 K was enough for everybody, couldn't PEEK and POKE addresses in that fat juicy 16 meg pile of RAM Windows 3.1 was hogging all to itself in Extended Memory? DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!
This is the age of tokenism and they clearly set out to pick 4 women. A simple statistical analysis of their candidate pool will tell you it's highly unlikely that half of the _best_ candidates would be women.
Eight and a half months to and from Mars on a minimum energy ellipse, plus a number of additional months to line up the return launch window, and I betcha those male astronauts would be glad for the "tokenism" as you put it. Just sayin'...
But rather than inventing a new series with fresh ideas, Cosmos II is just an attempt to reanimate dead flesh. It's a frankensteinian monster pieced together from someone else's long dead body of work. Magic can't be cloned...
I disagree. There's a lot of neat stuff we've discovered since 1980, particularly with Hubble.
Why would matter and energy fall down while anti-matter alone falls up? Matter is frozen energy, and converts to and from matter and antimatter with equal probability. We know photons of starlight bend toward the sun.
I'm boycotting Slashdot for the entire month because of their lame joke. I'm just really sick of how much this place is a joke under regular circumstances but having to endure this crap is too much.
And I'm girlcotting Slashdot for a month. That about covers it.
Not so much a Microsoft reservation as a zoo with all the Windows wide open, but the animals stay right where they are because isn't that what they're supposed to do?
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Where is the file manager in "Metro" ?
None, just as there is no file manager in Android, unless you download an app. Developers developers developers developers!
The Jobs Pinnacle. Get more toys than any other kid on the block, then die of pancreatic cancer.
Opening the same jpeg in Paint versus Metro takes about 1/10th the time.
Yeah, but all you can do in Paint is draw Hitler mustaches on supermodels and junk.
The start button takes you from the Desktop right back to the Metro screen, which is what pisses everyone off in the first place.
So Microsoft will get a 30% cut from what used to be Netscape. How much farther will Mozilla grovel?
It only effected a small handful of people unlucky enough to have windows phones.
Now Microsofties (the only ones who actually have WP) can't surf YouTube at work.
Last time I used dosbox was so long ago that back then their April fools joke was that it could run Windows - complete with a fake screenshot. Amazing progress by the project if it's routine to run it now.
/. article about some joker got Windows 3.1 to run on a phone under Android, sure as shit, I installed DOSBOX to an Android Mk802 PC-on-a-stick and got it to run Windows.
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Indeed, Windows 3.11, being a DOS program is officially supported by DOSBOX now. Windows 95, being mostly a DOS program, is unofficially supported by DOSBOX.
Win 3.11 works great in DOSBOX under WIn 7, XP, Ubuntu, except it won't fly under Puppy Linux, because of mouse issues. Win 98 will install under VirtualBox but there's some display driver issues, it will default to 640 x 480 x 4. Better to run that raw, not virtualized. Win95 it's a case of "why bother?".
Windows has been quickly going downhill after version 3.11.
I run Win3.11 as a hobby on one of my boxes. There ain't no more BBS's out there, except I can get out to Seattle Community Network and King County Libraries with Terminal, at 19,200 baud, woo. I sure as hell ain't going to get an AOL or Netzero dial up account for a hobby. There's a lot of great Windows 3.1 CD-ROMs I get at thrift shops for no more than three dollars. Vetusware has everything. Excel 4.0 for my family budget. Word Perfect for my Great American Novel. There's nothing wrong with running old school.
Microsoft has become quite good at being last-to-market.
MS Recycle Bin 95 was Apple Lisa Wastebasket 82.
It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together.
SpyDrive
The Y chromosome is a li'l runt and they think it won't even be there anymore in a hunnert thousand years or so.
It's no big deal now when Mr. Obama is doing it, but when Jeb Bush is doing the same thing in 2017 only then will the media get all upset.
"Sweep the sand out of the garage? But Uncle Owen, I was going to Toshi Station to hang out with Koo Stark!"
A million years from now lawyers for SCO will claim the quartz crystal contains their precious proprietary code from Unix and demand a 700 credit per seat license from the archaologists plus their signature on a non-disclosure agreement.
This is also about the time most PC compatible computers no longer came with Basic, and if you could get a copy of basic, in no longer wrote to specific memory addresses or i/o ports.
You mean GW-Basic, running in DOS where 640 K was enough for everybody, couldn't PEEK and POKE addresses in that fat juicy 16 meg pile of RAM Windows 3.1 was hogging all to itself in Extended Memory? DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!
This is the age of tokenism and they clearly set out to pick 4 women. A simple statistical analysis of their candidate pool will tell you it's highly unlikely that half of the _best_ candidates would be women.
Eight and a half months to and from Mars on a minimum energy ellipse, plus a number of additional months to line up the return launch window, and I betcha those male astronauts would be glad for the "tokenism" as you put it. Just sayin'...
Fuck everything, we're doing five quarks.
And Gillette will get promptly their ass sued by Apple who has already patented the "look and feel" of particles comprised of more than three quarks.
But rather than inventing a new series with fresh ideas, Cosmos II is just an attempt to reanimate dead flesh. It's a frankensteinian monster pieced together from someone else's long dead body of work. Magic can't be cloned...
I disagree. There's a lot of neat stuff we've discovered since 1980, particularly with Hubble.
I'd still wait for Windows 8.11 for workgroups. Maybe they'll add a proper command line and support x forwarding natively.
Windows for Warehouses.
Why would matter and energy fall down while anti-matter alone falls up? Matter is frozen energy, and converts to and from matter and antimatter with equal probability. We know photons of starlight bend toward the sun.
We are talking about fusion here so of course it perpetually will be available in 20 years.
It's a real toss-up which will come first:
1. Fusion power
2. Artificial intelligence
3. The Year of the Linux Desktop.
I'm boycotting Slashdot for the entire month because of their lame joke. I'm just really sick of how much this place is a joke under regular circumstances but having to endure this crap is too much.
And I'm girlcotting Slashdot for a month. That about covers it.
Not so much a Microsoft reservation as a zoo with all the Windows wide open, but the animals stay right where they are because isn't that what they're supposed to do?