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Sedix19
Title: ~Baffling Artist~
Joined: Oct 01 2009
Location: U.S.A.
Posts: 183
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I've had Vista for five months and I haven't have had any real gripes with it.
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Thorinair
Title: Sophisticated as Hell
Joined: Jul 02 2008
Location: Limbo, doing the limbo
Posts: 349
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| 3.1 was my personal Favorite... |
Now 3.1 was ugly! I have that running on Virtual PC as well:
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I installed 3.1 on DOSbox and it didn't have that background. Did you change it?
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Thorinair
Title: Sophisticated as Hell
Joined: Jul 02 2008
Location: Limbo, doing the limbo
Posts: 349
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This is what I see when I run it.
I like the title bars for 3.1 better than the newer versions of Windows.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24887
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I miss PIF Editor! Also, the old school Control Panel icon.
Fun Fact: Although Program Manager was rendered obsolete after Windows 3.1, it was still included in every version of Windows up through XP. Windows Vista was the first version to remove Program Manager support.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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I remember not knowing jack shit about computers as a kid and subsequently deleting essential programs through file cabinet or whatever it was called trying to make space for the then newly released Mechwarrior 3. When that didn't work my idiot buddy came over and started deleting things like AUTOEXEC.BAT and SYSTEM 32. Sad to say we never did end up with quite enough space, and eventually turned my Mother's Gateway 2000 in to a paper weight.  
Speaking of ugly, remember how fugly MS Paint was?
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24887
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It still looks like that!
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
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I am writing this post from Internet Explorer in Windows 98. 
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 "Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
Posts: 4274
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sidewaydriver
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Title: ( ͡� 
Joined: May 11 2008
Posts: 6160
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Whatever happened to the flying toasters?
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Shake it, Quake it, Space Kaboom. |
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
Posts: 6544
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I still have it on floppy, along with Jezzball, Chips Challenge and the whole Windows Entertainment Pack thingy.
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
Posts: 4274
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| I still have it on floppy, along with Jezzball, Chips Challenge and the whole Windows Entertainment Pack thingy. |
That pack was epic. My favorite of the pack was Fuji Golf... sadly that's damn near impossible to work on XP. And Jezzball is often called something else, much like a damn Qix variant I'm not proud to say I've played...
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
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| Whatever happened to the flying toasters? |
That was in the After Dark screensaver pack from Berkeley Systems. I actually have a copy of it for Windows 95/Mac that I got at my college computer tech support job. It still works under XP. The college was getting rid of a lot of old stuff and they let me take what I wanted. That After Dark CD was one of them.
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"Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
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pineapple
Joined: Nov 11 2009
Location: Cajun Country
Posts: 1511
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Speaking of ugly, remember how fugly MS Paint was?
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Wow, is that for real?
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
Posts: 6544
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Rydog
Title: Dragon Slayer
Joined: Aug 11 2009
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 1511
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pineapple
Joined: Nov 11 2009
Location: Cajun Country
Posts: 1511
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24887
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| And Jezzball is often called something else, much like a damn Qix variant I'm not proud to say I've played... |
I've never seen Jezzball called anything else. I had a very similar game though, called Maxwell, that used many of the same sprites.
And let's not forget Snood and DX Ball!
There was another game that was fairly popular for awhile in the Win 95/98 era, I need help locating/identifying it. IIRC, it was a Missile Command variant. In between levels, there was a shop where you could buy upgrades, and when you bought something, it used an unlicensed clip of Ned Flanders saying "Okely-dokely-doo!". There was also an intermittent minigame where you played as a mushroom and had to grab falling money.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
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| Thorinair wrote: |
| IceWarm wrote: |
| Slayer1 wrote: |
| 3.1 was my personal Favorite... |
Now 3.1 was ugly! I have that running on Virtual PC as well:
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I installed 3.1 on DOSbox and it didn't have that background. Did you change it? |
Yeah, that is just one of the included bitmap files used as the background.
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"Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
Posts: 4274
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The original Snood is still awesome, but the Snoodoku and snood blasters is kind meh....
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 4637
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| joshwoodzell wrote: |
| I still have it on floppy, along with Jezzball, Chips Challenge and the whole Windows Entertainment Pack thingy. |
Jezzball was friggin' awesome.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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I always liked that skiing game.
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Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 4637
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SkiFree! SkiFree rocked my socks!
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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The fucking Sasquatch always got me. 
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
Posts: 6544
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
Posts: 4274
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| Blackout wrote: |
| The fucking Sasquatch always got me. |
You can get SkiFree on your XP computer (not sure about Vista) for free!
To avoid the Abominable Snowman make sure "F"ast mode is on and go in a diagonal movement after you finish your run. The Abominable Snowman can't go that way for some reason.
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