- Don't be fooled by the word “trial” and general shareware aesthetic. Free serials are here: http://www.file-ex.com/freereg.html
- Meta: There are at least two later versions of this page in Wayback Machine, but both of those are incomplete and missing the actual list of games:
— https://web.archive.org/web/19990428015713/http://209.240.1..../
— https://web.archive.org/web/19990508074344/http://www.nt40ga...
- Hey from SF Bay. I post some times :)
Big fan of all of computer history but especially '90s to early 2000s machines. There's definitely some element of nostalgia to that since it's what I grew up on — System 7 at school, Windows 98 on the family PC, and various DOS/Win3/Win95 on my hand-me-down personal 486.
I also feel like that's the point when computers became recognizably modern and where the progression of technology stopped being entirely in my best interest, like the emergence of spyware which used to be rare enough to deserve its own term but is now just literally everything all the time. I love researching the evolutionary dead ends of computing as inspo for my personal projects, because there are so many cool ideas lost in products that didn't make it for marketplace and/or monopoly reasons.
The machine I've been spending the most time on lately is a HITACHI FLORA 270HX NW5, 900Mhz PentiumⅢ which is actually ACER OEM in disguise: https://www.hitachi.co.jp/Prod/comp/OSD/pc/flora/prod/oldmod...
Pixx:
— https://i.imgur.com/chwdeJT.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/N9sFQYZ.jpeg (I have two of them, using the other as the stand there lol)
— https://i.imgur.com/LEBbY9x.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/BODkAVB.jpeg
- The most important preventative measure in my experience: don't lay CDs upside-down in the name of “““protecting””” them! I know it's counter-intuitive, because I used to do it myself, but take a look at a cross-section of a CD and you'll see why it's the worst possible thing you can inadvertently do. The data layer is directly under the label, and the bottom of the disc is relatively well-protected in comparison: https://www.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/fig2-3.jpg
This is also the reason why all-over-print CDs are better survivors than discs whose obverse design integrates the raw silver. Note that this is specific to CDs — DVDs and BDs have polycarbonate on both sides!
- I 'member having to do that with XP when installing on AHCI-enabled SATA controllers
- Incredibly thorough write-up! I will refer to this in the future for my own pix.
> CRTs (catgirl ray tubes)
lol
- > Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended — Revised user interface
No, CS4 was the one with the new UI, not CS3: https://techcrunch.com/2008/06/23/yes-virginia-adobe-photosh.../
The only UI change in CS3 besides its ugly “periodic table” branding style is how the toolbox defaults to a single tall column by default, toggleable to 1.0–CS2 double-wide style by clicking its header. Source: Daily user of the activation-free “offline” CS3 Adobe gave out after shuttering the CS3 activation system: https://i.imgur.com/9XVQaF0.png
- I enjoyed Smiling Friends emulating this look for Gwimbly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk57rDdiExA
- Related
Opening ceremony photo: https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/noartistknown/ceo-rob-...
Conference talks (sadly all dead links): https://web.archive.org/web/19980704234736/http://www11.real...
RNC98 Developer CDs for the older RealSystem 5.0 and the “G2” RealSystem 6.0:
https://archive.org/details/realnetworks-conference-98-reals...
https://archive.org/details/realnetworks-conference-98-devel...
Production Guide: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~dcab/TPG/G2/prodguideg2b1.pdf
Public marketing site: https://web.archive.org/web/19980704230505/http://www4.real....
Installing my own irl boxed copy of RPPlus G2 (6.0) on HITACHI FLORA 270HX NW5: https://i.imgur.com/DdxWKKY.png
RP6 serials are also valid for RP7 and RP8 (didn't try / care about any later version bc I want to keep RealJukebox as a separate application) which is good because the box is just labeled “RealPlayer Plus” with “G2” on a circular sticker and doesn't mention the version number at all lol https://i.imgur.com/uS1v0ao.png
Engage nostalgia mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJpEBOun3Ac
- Live example of dead format! https://youtu.be/O_JixyzbcAM
- More
The Nicad battery still works!