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[tgies]

LJ boycott is for kids

YouTube doesn't seem to think so, though, and refuses to actually post anything here when I click the "share" dealio, so let's do it this way.

(super quality)

Presented as a Curiosity for those who Existed in the 1990s, a brief overview of a default Windows 3.11 installation (plus the SoundBlaster 16 goodies, of course — how else was I supposed to play Birdhouse in Your Soul on the OPL3 in the background?)

A spectacle of graphics and sound

This is running in a hacked version of DOSBox 0.72, by the way — VMware is a piece of trash which would unceremoniously puke every time something tried to write to certain sound or video control registers which Windows 3.1 wanted to touch approximately once a tick, and DOSBox needed its dynamic recompilation majorly tweaked and its OPL3 emulation fixed up a bit (NONLINEAR MULTIPLICATIONNNNNN), so I patched it haphazardly.

Comments

[tgies.livejournal.com]

no man you don't understand there will be maybe a minor outlier on the server statistics

surely this will stop livejournal trying to come up with solvent business plans

[nathew.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP IT'S LIKE THEY MADE A VIDEO OF MY PAST


okay actually i got into TMBG when i had windows 95 but still

[999kcelfe.livejournal.com]

I was still using Windows 3.1 when I first
started using the internet... in 1996.
I had a 486-33DX, with 4 mb of ram, a 160mb
hard-drive, a 2400 modem, and AOL 2.5
No sound, 16 colors. (because someone didn't
have the right driver installed... I got it
to pump out 256 at 800x600 later on)

[nathew.livejournal.com]

dude i used windows 3.1 in elementary school way back in like 94 or so shazam

[999kcelfe.livejournal.com]

I finished ES in 1992.
My mom bought our 486 right
after I finished it.
I still have the motherboard
for my 486 screwed to the
cork-board that's sitting
in the window to block out
the sun.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

Was using Windows 3.1 on a 386 until late 1998 or early 1999 myself.

[nathew.livejournal.com]

plus i remember playing that one educational game that toxic bob put into chocolate niblet beans that said "what rhymes with orange? sporange!"

[999kcelfe.livejournal.com]

you mean, this one...



I played that on the Apple IIe

[darnn.livejournal.com]

This is extremely nostalgic. Extremely! Nice job on the music, too.

Shouldn't you tell the DOSBox guys about this?

[tgies.livejournal.com]

My patches? Yeah, I did. I think they might break some stuff, though, so they have to be tested thoroughly.

[darnn.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I'm one step closer to managing my files rather than exploring them, and playing the PC version of the Toy Story platformer.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

IIRC, fileman.exe actually came with Windows until XP SP2. I know Program Manager did (progman.exe).

[korgmeister.livejournal.com]

Wow, that worked far more smoothly and quickly than Windows 3.1 had any right to.

I remember back in the day it could not do multitasking in any sort of meaningful way.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

I think they didn't really understand exactly how multitasking was supposed to work until, like, 2000/XP.

[flamingspinach.livejournal.com]

Huh I told you to do windows 3.11 instead of 3.1 and you were like "NO!!" so I figured you wouldn't but it looks like you did. Oh well.

Good stuff. Nice MIDI, did you make it?

[tgies.livejournal.com]

One of my Windows 3.1 install disks has been misplaced, and the only torrent I could find was Windows 3.11. It took some extra work to get it to run this smoothly, because the VGA drivers are busted in 3.11, hence the tweaks to DOSBox.

The MIDI is from some repository of They Might Be Giants MIDIs somewhere, but I tweaked the hell out of it (fixed the arrangement a bit; changed some instruments; better drums)