My first computer had the following to get a directory listing of a floppy: LOAD”$”,8 That’s how old I am
Ok yeah I’m definitely that old
Shit, I’m old…
God, same. I’m actually using that currently on my laptop.
It’s on my old netbook, it will never leave.
That thing is nearing 20 now I think!
If you stare at it long enough the clouds start to move a little
I still use Winrar.
Because it really whips the llama’s ass!
That would be Winamp… ~unless I missed the joke?~
That is the joke:
If you’re still using WinRAR, you’re probably/possibly also still using Winamp, out of either a faux hipster-like desire to be retro and esoteric, or are just very stubborn and never changed your software setup.
It would kind of be like… if you go 10 years further back, and you know that one guy who is still vehemently arguing about how 8tracks are superior to cassettes, even though most people would be using CDs at that point.
7zip is better.
Unironically, 7zip is the best. It’s widely available, open source, and… Multithreaded. Really helps when I need to compress a few hundred gigs of experimental data at the 24 core workstation.
I am Reversi Hearts Freecell Solitaire Minesweeper 3d pinball for windows old.
I am “write your own shit in GWBASIC” old.
How dare you leave out SkiFree!
That damn yeti was scary af. Every game was pure anxiety.
Did you know you can press “f” to go faster and outrun the Yeti?
I remember dialing into bulletin board services to leave chat comments and share small files that would take hours to download.
Those speakers were great though!
my grandma had those and tgey would predict incoming phone calls
It’s also available as a Flatpak for those of us running Linux now.
And I just grabbed it. Thanks for the heads up.
Ah yes, the toe remote still works, also for laptops and without even changing batteries.
I mean, I’m in my early 40s and I’ve started with ms-dos. According to this meme what am I? A fucking dinosaur? Am I that old?
In my early 30’s. Started with W95. But did dabble in dos sometimes
Same, but then you severely undersold how old you are. Like, where’s the Space Cadet, at least?
On your phone, now. Somebody decompiled it and released it on the Google Play store.
Yeah, I have it on Vita, Switch and Steam Deck. Cause why not. Wonder if it’s on 3DS…
Not reverse engineered. Decompiled and republished. It’s exactly the same one from the ground up.
That’s nice. But it already seemed pretty accurate to me.
I remember playing a hotseat game with my friend and his brothers ( I think heroes of might and magic 2) and I accidentally big toed the power button, just like in this picture 😅
Everyone was pretty gutted, although we then found out that autosave happened every turn, what a releif.
Gorillas.bas
Nibbles.bas
I’m in my late 20s and started with ms-dos too. And even tried OS/2 to check I wasn’t missing something before upgrading to 3.1 then XP 😂
Nah, old(er) people would boot directly to a BASIC editor.
Hi, kiddie!
“it’s now safe to turn off your computer”
That’s how old I am
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Fuck
I had to type “/win” to boot up Windows
Into what did you type that? Wouldn’t something already have to have booted first in order to type it?
I assume MS-DOS.
This PC booted up in DOS
Oh gawd, there are people that don’t know DOS.
FACK…
I know about DOS if that helps? I’m not too far off from having used it though, I bet. I’m 38.
Yeah you have no excuse
Dos, windows was just a normal dos program you had to start like anything else until windows 95
And when Win95 booted, you exited into the DOS prompt, the true gaming environment at the time.
MS-DOS
And the power switch was like KA-JUNK when you pushed it, because it was a big ol’ switch that actually physically connected and disconnected the power.
“It’s now safe to turn off your computer” went away after we moved to software power control, where the operating system could signal the power supply to turn off.
I had my computer plugged into a power bar and we’d turn off the power bar to turn off the computer so that we wouldn’t wear out the switch on the computer.
People actually thought you’d have a computer long enough to wear out its power switch.
I knew far, far too many people in HS that just hit the power button without actually shutting it down.
Is that Windows 95?
95/98 and ME/XP to a far lesser extent but it was 98 for me lol
Any Windows machine that does not support ACPI or has it disabled. IIRC Windows has required ACPI since Vista.
I feel you man. Very nostalgic!
I had a friend who edited the .jpeg or whatever in the shutdown sequence to say “it is NOT safe to shut off your computer” and waited for his family to freak out.
The one I remember best was having to use the DOS ‘park’ command before you shut down the PC. I guess I am that old.
Yup. Thankfully that “feature” went away real quick and it became automatic.
I’m right there with ya. Don’t forget to make sure you set the interleaving correctly on your Winchester drive!
Huh, never ever seen that. We always used the rule "yoi can shutdown the computer when you can see the C:".
What does park do? Put the HDD arm into a parked position? Never needed that for ours, but we also had a blazingly fast 486 with a massive 250 MB hdd.
Yeah, old drives didn’t autopark like the IDE drive in your spiffy 486. I had an XT growing up, and dad was militant about having us remember to park the drive when we were done with it. I think by the end of the 80s, all drives were IDE and were autoparking, so the command was deprecated.
Damn, I had a Tandy 1000HX (very much not a 486) and never had to do that. Maybe because, despite having a hard disk, it had DOS on its own ROM.
Cool, I’ve wanted an OS ROM chip since the early nineties, and often wondered why nobody seemed to be doing it. Guess they were all along!
You technically didn’t have to park the old MFM and RLL drives, but if you didn’t, then you just had the drive heads resting on the platters after you shut them down. Then if you bumped or moved the PC at that time, it could scratch the disk like a record. If you never tried to move it, there probably wasn’t much risk.
From the sound of it, the HDD in your Tandy probably would have been an MFM or RLL drive, and depending on the drive model, it either autoparked the drive heads or didn’t. As a PC clone running MS-DOS, the command was probably supported, but maybe not needed. Or you may have just been the equivalent of one of those rebels who held down the power button every time they wanted to shut down the PC and always got away with it!
I never had to do that, because our computer didn’t have a hard drive. We booted DOS right from the floppy.
You guys gave guis?
Yes, they help make my terminal prettier.
So many games of Spider Solitaire
Entertainment packs 1-4. Chips Challenge, SkiFree, Rodent’s Revenge
Oh man, I found chip’s challenge again a few years back (it took forever because I couldn’t remember the name) but I totally forgot about rodent’s revenge!
You can install and run v3.1 in DosBox. In case anyone wanted to keep using it.
I was going to say!
The OP was using the fancy new icons…
