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- Comment on Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? 11 hours ago:
Thank you! It didn’t come off as a dig at all. Trust me, I thought about it and spent about an hour on Internet Archive looking for a version that ran on its site. But nothing was there and I learned the hard way last year that Virtual Box is still in the Intel era, so it’s useless for me.
I did look into UTM as others are saying, but based on its description it may not be able to run an OS that far back. Something to look into down the line.
Either way, again, thanks for reading my work. I really do appreciate it. There’s some other old Microsoft goodies I’ve written in the past, like this commercial introducing Excel.
- Comment on Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? 13 hours ago:
Wow, that’s a cool story! Thanks for sharing it! I had no clue there was even a beta test group back then. Was that outside of Microsoft?
- Comment on Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? 15 hours ago:
Hi, author here 👋. Thanks for the feedback. If the Internet Archive had it on their own VM to run, I would’ve tried playing with it and taken some screenshots. However, I simply did not have the time to get it running locally on my machine, especially because I’m all Mac and Virtual Box doesn’t run on M-series hardware.
I agree it’s a missed opportunity, but I chose to go a little bit of an easier route.
Thanks for reading and enjoying the other 99% of the article. 😉
- Submitted 15 hours ago to technology@lemmy.world | 31 comments
- Comment on Plex Server Replacement 1 week ago:
TBH I would consider an M4 Mac Mini and either a NAS or DAS to go along with it. The power, efficiency, and price make it a really compelling choice.
- Comment on Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU 2 weeks ago:
So happy I haven’t used Windows in nearly two decades.
- Comment on It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0 3 weeks ago:
Those are great links. Thanks for posting them! Gonna give them a look.
- Comment on It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0 3 weeks ago:
Right??? Like it’s 1995 all over again.
- Comment on It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0 3 weeks ago:
But is it? Because the amount of websites that aren’t search engines but have insane levels of tracking and data collection are very high. Not all of it is for search ranking, IMO.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 39 comments
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 weeks ago:
Correct and what I’ve seen from Jellyfin / Emby are poor looking at best. While I could cobble together a system that works for me, there’s no way anyone I share with would put up with it. Plex is PLEX for a reason.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 month ago:
Appreciate the graphic! I’m definitely going to need to look into an upscaler sometime in the near future.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 month ago:
With this cable it’s getting the signal as vga, so it’s “pc” settings. No lag or anything. And I meant choppy like lines and such. Should’ve said “crispness”. The game plays flawlessly on the tv with no output issues.
Sorry for the confusion.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 month ago:
I’ll give that a look. Thanks for the rec!
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 month ago:
You’re right. The picture is cleaner but choppy from TV being set to Full. That’ll have to be my Solution for the time being.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 month ago:
Tv in Full mode is my only solution. Guess I’ll have to shop for an upscaler at some point.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 month ago:
No instructions at all. I just tinkered with my tv and the only “solution” is to have the DC in Full mode. I can live with that but it’s far from ideal. I would’ve liked something that scaled up.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 month ago:
Gonna check the tv settings and see. Thanks.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 month ago:
I was using an RCA cable output prior to this. It worked great, though was lower quality of an image than I would’ve liked.
I’ll have to check the display mode on the tv and see if any other options exist. I did play it in Fill mode which kept the 4:3 resolution but I feel like that sorta defeats the purpose of using hdmi.
- Submitted 1 month ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 29 comments
- Comment on Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more 4 months ago:
Been beta testing this as a Kickstarter backer for many months and it’s one of my top iPhone apps. Iconfactory has done a real good job and I’ll say that if you like the app, $80 for a lifetime purchase really will pay for itself after only a year of using it.
- Comment on Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus 6 months ago:
The weird thing is that it doesn’t matter what instance/server your friends are on. If they follow you, they’ll get all your posts in their feed. The best advice I can give anyone starting out on Mastodon is to follow tags instead of people in order to surface interesting posts, then you can follow people as they come up on feeds.
- Comment on Something I do to help integrate new mastodonians. 7 months ago:
I like this idea! It helps get people some traction out there without them needing to put effort into fumbling around how to do it. Kind of like a push start. I’m going to start doing this!
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 7 months ago:
Oh it will as soon as the investors demand more ReTurN oN iNvEsTmEnT.
