Win9x - A place to discuss windows 95/98/ME games and software

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• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why?

  Honest question.

  People still actually use those versions?

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  • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Retro computing is a really popular hobby. There’s a Mastodon client for DOS, for instance.

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    • DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also there’s !dosgaming@retrolemmy.com ;)

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  • DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨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.

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    • testuser@catata.fish ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  30 years too late

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  • DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Inset Gandalf meme here

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • DosDude@retrolemmy.com ⁨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.

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