Let's share images of old computer software to evoke nostalgia

[medyej]

This has probably been linked here already but found this site on Ars recently:

https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/

A great collection of behind the scenes stories about the making of early video games and the personalities behind them.

And since this is a pic thread heres a couple of boxes I have shoved in the closet:

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Jeez, so many memories come flooding back seeing those boxes like that. Some classic games right there. I wish I kept my old PC big boxes but unfortunately they are lost to time.

 

[SigSig]

Still the best

 

[Deleted member 48897]

If anyone hasn't seen this video before I highly recommend it. It's a guy who installed Windows 1.0 on a VM and some old apps and then did upgrade installations through every other version of Windows to see how the upgrade process works and application compatibility.

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5:21 killed me

 

[JimNastics]

5:21 killed me

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Haha indeed :D That's a great vid, not just for the comedy drawings and usernames! So many memories, Windows 3.x was my first Windows experience at school, but my biggest flashbacks from that vid were the installation procedures for Win 95 through to Win XP, I must have gone through all of those so many fucking times for friends and family. By Vista I had dropped enough hints to them all that I did not actually want to go through this pain for them.

 

[ShinJohnpv]

So I started my animation life in Alias Wavefront's Power Animation running on SGI's Irix OS.

 

[Seb]

What it was like to code demos on the Atari ST, the pinnacle of software development as far as I'm concerned:

1.Make the graphics with Degas Elite:

2.Prototype and precalc tables with GFA Basic:

3. Write asm code with devpac (and a 68k cycle table, you'll have to count them all):

4. Rip a MadMax music from some other demo with MonST (look for the JMPs !):

5. Yes, it's shit, but it's your shit!

 

[BlackGoku03]

mIRC

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Hey!

I STILL use this... >_>

 

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[ManaByte]

 

[Deleted member 1627]

My Dad worked in teacher training with computers in the 80s and 90s; as a result of this I've ended up with a huge pile of weird and wonderful BBC Micro edutainment titles when they threw them out - that are often truly bizarre. I've been tempted to do some sort of Let's Play-esque thread exploring them, because I think it's a world of edutainment that has the odd trait of occasionally being not just only in a single country, but occasionally only in a few *regions* of that country depending on which educational boards worked with which..

Dust is one I particularly would like to write about; a pseudo-sequel to the better-known Dread Dragon Droom, it's an educational game set around the whole solar system, and it's frankly insane

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Fuck yeah, dude, Granny's Garden was the shit.