This is wonderful insanity...

When your ARM powered Acorn RISC PC can have a second 486 DX4 100MHz CPU and run Windows 95 in its own window.

Retro computing is so exciting dabbling with these things it truly is!

#KRITIS Sektor #Transport und #Verkehr

US-#Flugsicherung will #Windows95, #Disketten und #Papierstreifen los werden

"Die US-Flugsicherung arbeitet mit veralteten Systemen, die zu Ausfällen geführt haben. Jetzt soll die #Flugsicherung modernisiert werden.

Die Systeme der US-Flugsicherung laufen noch auf Hardware, die zum Teil aus den 1980er und 1990er Jahren stammt und mit Windows 95 betrieben wird. Daten werden noch per Diskette ausgetauscht..."
https://www.heise.de/news/US-Flugsicherung-will-Windows-95-Disketten-und-Papierstreifen-los-werden-10439137.html

The Early Windows 95 Builds Microsoft DIDN'T Want Us To See

https://makertube.net/videos/watch/a7d189d2-cc6e-470e-b32c-e52068b8f1d4

The Microsoft SideWinder Game Pad 1.0 released in 1996 designed for Windows 95 gaming (not DOS).

Most PCs of this era only had one gameport for controller devices, so it features a pass through port to connect additional players.

It's surprisingly comfortable considering its age too.

This is mine all cleaned up and ready for action.

What is the main use you give to your preferred #retrocomputing system?

Boosts and comments with more details are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for being involved in this

Mistodon: this blinking #teletext screen by @illarterate depicts a Microsoft #Windows95 desktop in the middle of having a trash fire meltdown. (It's not too late to give OS/2 a spin!) This piece was included in the MIST1121 artpack collection.

What is the earliest desktop screenshot you have? Share it in the comments below!

I remember when Windows 95 was being hyped so hard that people who didn't even have computers were buying it. I also remember job listings in 1995 requiring people to have at least five years experience with Windows 95. What a weird time. #90s #Windows95

Anyone have an FTP client they like for Windows 9X?

I'm having fun playing with these systems this week but pulling out floppies is painful at times.

I always used something that came with my AOL setup back-in-the-day but I have no idea what that was.

repost to unlock a millennial core memory

finally, some honesty in the shareware world

i've been posting a lot of my shareware research lately, because i've been working on a project for the past few months with a blend of Windows 3.1 & GeoWorks Ensemble used as inspiration.

Exigy is a tile-based game creation kit that lets you make windows 3.1/95-styled games, like spiderweb software's Exile or rick saada's Castle of the Winds. hell, you could remake the Microsoft Entertainment Pack if you wanted to :)

the editor is very intentionally built to work like MS Visual Basic: you can drag and drop any GUI element into the game editor window and script in your own actions with lua. it even comes with its own built-in sprite editor, so you can create your art while you work.

games are modified in real-time with no compiling. the entire thing is built in Love2D.

think of it as ZZT for windows 3.1 if that had ever existed.

my compaq 524 CDS came with the best modem suite of all time

thank you Gekk for preserving this old software

https://gekk.info/articles/cds524.html

Gonna get this on a t-shirt
#actuallyautistic #windows95 #tshirtdesign

In case you missed it, there are many Mastodon apps for old computers from the 1980s & 1990s:

#AppleII
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii

#AppleMacintosh (pre-OS X)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

#Commodore64
https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon

Commodore #Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon

#MSDOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

#MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON

#PalmOS
https://github.com/knickish/heffalump

#Windows95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

TIL there's a Finnish singer called "Windows95man", who just performed his song No Rules at @eurovision.