I haven’t seen a community dedicated to Windows 9x yet, so I decided to make it myself.

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    • DosDude👾@retrolemmy.comOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Nostalgia is a helluva drug. It’s not just about the OS, but also the retro games that were made for it. And the hardware for retro collectors. I just noticed trying to find games to post on the DOS Gaming community that many of the retro games I loved as a kid were made for Win9x. So I made the community to post more of my personal nostalgia.

      • testuser@catata.fishEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yep, once a year I’ll get the itch to play Sim Tower and will end up spending hours in it.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Holy smokes… Millennium Edition! I had forgotten all about that one!

    I’m with the other guy though, how come? Pre-HAL OS’s were a pain and you can make most software run if you set up the environment correctly on a modern computer.

    • DosDude👾@retrolemmy.comOPEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      I still remember the windows Xp compatibility problems with old software and games. And windows 10/11 didn’t make those problems go away, instead it got worse. Old software is not a priority, understandably.

      For example have you tried to play Dungeon Keeper 2 on a modern pc? I have, and it crashes constantly. Other software won’t even run a lot of the times, even with tinkering.

      DOSBox made using DOS software accessible. There is not a catch-all like that for pre XP windows software yet.

      Also this community is mostly for/about nostalgia.

  • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have a laptop rocking Win 2k. Unfortunately I couldn’t back up the Program Files folder before the hard drive failed. But at least I got the original La-Mulana playable on the desktop.