- I think these Windows hacktranslators should install Msys2 and have a look on *nix utilities such as grep, strings(1) and so on; they are really helpful to spot text strings and detect formats with file(1). Not to mention od, hexdump, dd...
- I played lots of SNES hacktranslations just a decade after their former release. Best years ever.
- Here you can get Retrozilla and more libre software for Windows 9x:
http://piteusz.ovh/files/windows/9x-nt/
It supports some modern sites and Gopher. Also, there are some about:config tweaks for TLS 1.3 by using DDG or Google.
- I think the infamous Tetris clone "Brick Game" used the same CPU too.
- QB64 will run on any modern OS and it's compatible with all the software made for QBasic.
- Yeah, well aware and interested in QB64. However, if the focus is on teaching children, I find QBASIC 1.1 somewhat more suitable: it provides less options, menus and other potential footguns that may scare the child away at first.
Also, most importantly, QB64 is a compiled language, whereas QBASIC is an interpreted one. I noticed that QB64 does have an additional interpreter available on the site, but it didn't feel quite as comfortable to use as the QBASIC IDE. I assume children would prefer instant results -- in this regard, waiting for an .exe generation is maybe somewhat a hindrance as compared to pressing F5 or shift+F5 in the old QBv1.1 IDE.
My plan is to first learn QB1.1 via DOSBox and maybe later, if our son shows interest, introduce him to QB64, which is definitely a more serious tool (or LowResNX which is an excellent find for sure; looks like it is somewhere in between QB1.1 and QB64 or the old QB4.5 in terms of complexity and possibilities). Also, a definite pat on the QB64 devs' shoulders for keeping that old QBASIC look! Ha.
- How could an MMX based Pentium be slow to play DN3D at 640x480? I know the Build engine wouldn't be using MMX instructions, but a Pentium MMX itself could play MPEG videos.
- There's a repo which had tons of terminal colorschemes, and one of them is the Borland one:
https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes
That with a TUI IDE such as fpide for Free Pascal or WPE/XWPE for C/C++ programming can make a close Borland IDE lookalike.
- Great RPG for the Mega Drive but obviously you couldn't compete with the Super Nintendo which basically was the JRPG generating machine:
- Chrono Trigger
- FFVI
- Terranigma
- Secret of Mana/Evermore
- Earthbound
- G.O.D Mezame Yo
- Star Ocean
- Shin Megami Tensei / IF (almost Persona 0).
And I'm sure I forgot several more.
On JRPGs, by playing Chrono Trigger, FFVI, Star Ocean and Earthbound plud G.O.D. (the last ones as a parody of the genres) you followed all the tropes in the genre and you can be satisfied for you whole lifetime as most newer JRPG's are just watered down versions of those.
- I think FreeDOS should ship a complete build of GEM with all the tools as a suggested desktop. By far it's the most complete and usable one.
- Get the executor fork, it's much more updated:
- More
https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts2.htm
On Gopher, you have gopher://magical.fish and gopher://mozz.us as 'modern' starting points to cool services, such as a news directory, weather, a language translator and so on.
If you need a ZIP file (and more) uncompresser for w9x:
http://dk.toastednet.org/vogons/win98/7z920.exe
https://www.vordweb.co.uk/standards/download_lynx.htm
No modern HTTPS support, but well, with http://68k.news and the Gopher hole portals you'll have interesting sites to grasp from anywhere. Add gopher://gophernews.net and that's it.