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Things we're simpler back then.
2009-12-13, 7:01 PM #1
Posting this from a Win98 machine I ressurected to play XWA on. It's nice. A no frills install without the boatloads of crap that XP and beyond have, everything is easy to do. I miss those days. Sure, I love Win7 too, but 98 just feels so good.
Also my spelling and grammar have reverted to the same level as when I was 6 :downswords:

Post old things that you know are terrible, but you can't help liking.
2009-12-13, 7:10 PM #2
You also miss the days of single user systems with monolithic kernels?
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2009-12-13, 7:11 PM #3
things we are simpler back then

Yeah for me the list is long, but I would likely get ridiculed :P
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2009-12-13, 7:12 PM #4
I know the girls were easier back then
2009-12-13, 7:14 PM #5
I know it's a terrible system.
But it feels good man.
2009-12-13, 7:23 PM #6
Originally posted by Tibby:
Post old things that you know are terrible, but you can't help liking.


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2009-12-13, 8:43 PM #7
Mb's jokes.
nope.
2009-12-13, 8:50 PM #8
Originally posted by Steven:
I know the girls were easier back then

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2009-12-14, 12:37 AM #9
I never liked 98, ever. Not in 98, and not now. It is one of the few things from that time that does not evoke a fond nostalgia. I don't remember if I ever had a Win98 machine (I think I had a 95 one then a Me one that I eventually upgraded to XP Pro).

NT 4.0 and Win2K were where it was it (I spent a lot of time using the computers at my mom's office).
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2009-12-14, 12:39 AM #10
Win2k was the mutt's nuts.
2009-12-14, 12:51 AM #11
:colbert:Win2K was the best MS OS over:colbert:
一个大西瓜
2009-12-14, 1:42 AM #12
In case my slang got by you, I'm saying that win2k was awesome. :)
2009-12-14, 5:43 AM #13
How has no one said "Jedi Knight" yet?
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2009-12-14, 6:28 AM #14
Originally posted by Tibby:
I know it's a terrible system.
But it feels good man.


...:huh:
Author of the JK levels:
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2009-12-14, 7:33 AM #15
I just wish I had owned a copy of Win2k back when Win2K was new. I went from 98->XP and didnt get to play around with Win2K until much later ;(
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2009-12-14, 7:53 AM #16
Oh man I was on Win2k up through 2004 and into 2005. I love that OS.
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2009-12-14, 8:09 AM #17
I used Windows 2000 up through when XP Service Pack 2 was released.
2009-12-14, 8:21 AM #18
It was my flavour of choice through university until I got a new laptop with XP installed on it in my final year.
2009-12-14, 8:23 AM #19
i swear tibby has nostalgia fetish or something

2009-12-14, 8:52 AM #20
Tibby is Digital Nostalgia incarnated.
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2009-12-14, 8:53 AM #21
Quote:
Post old things that you know are terrible, but you can't help liking.

  • Battlefield Earth
  • Daikatana
? :)
2009-12-14, 8:56 AM #22
Originally posted by Jep:
Tibby is Digital Nostalgia incarnated.

He's gonna miss 'em old days tomorrow and hate 'em today.

2009-12-14, 9:55 AM #23
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
I used Windows 2000 up through when XP Service Pack 2 was released.


This. I only "upgraded" to XP when my hard drive failed and I found my then pirated copy of 2KVL's disk had been ruined. I was at school with no high speed internet. :( I had to use my student discount and get a copy of XP pro for $5.
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2009-12-14, 9:59 AM #24
I upgraded from to XP from 2k Millennium. That OS sucked hard. I had never seen so many blue screens in my life.
obviously you've never been able to harness the power of cleavage...

maeve
2009-12-14, 11:23 AM #25
Windows Me (Millenium) != Win2K
一个大西瓜
2009-12-14, 11:28 AM #26
I like 2K alot too, but as far as I know that was designed for workstations and would probably have problems with the games I'm trying to play on this computer?
Like Dark Forces.
2009-12-14, 11:58 AM #27
i'm quite fond of old digital effects from the 80s... with the crappy (by today's standards) A/D/A conversion
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2009-12-14, 12:16 PM #28
I had nothing but constant incompatibility and crashed programs with Millenium, which was what I used when JK editing was first introduced to me. XP is King in my book.
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2009-12-14, 12:19 PM #29
http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/WinRG2.htm
一个大西瓜
2009-12-14, 12:25 PM #30
Originally posted by Jep:
Tibby is Digital Nostalgia incarnated.


Odd in one so young!
2009-12-14, 12:39 PM #31
Originally posted by Pommy:
http://www.deanliou.com/WinRG/WinRG2.htm


that was great
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2009-12-14, 12:56 PM #32
Originally posted by saberopus:
Odd in one so young!

I only really got into computers in 2004.
I've missed so much, what I wouldn't do to be able to play XWA during the peak.
2009-12-14, 12:56 PM #33
Win2K was great, I played all my games on that, infact I still do.
Flying over there some were...
2009-12-14, 12:57 PM #34
I'm installing it over there now.
Either the machine is ****ed, or Win98 won't let me use the 3D adapter for some reason, And I've tried 4.
2009-12-14, 1:19 PM #35
Originally posted by Tibby:
I only really got into computers in 2004.
I've missed so much, what I wouldn't do to be able to play XWA during the peak.


I suppose it's not as much nostalgia as curiosity/interest in stuff that was just a little before your time.
2009-12-14, 1:31 PM #36
My roommate had WinME. It was like GIANT AIDS for your desktop.
2009-12-14, 2:11 PM #37
Visual Studio 6.

Oh, 2010 is much better in a lot of ways, but Visual C++ development tools haven't kept pace with C++ developers over the past 13 years. No first-class unit testing support in the IDE, there's still no way to handle the static initialization order fiasco or force static initialization of linked static libraries, and a pathetic half-implementation of C++0x. Other than the somewhat-improved compiler and the modernized GUI, C++ developers might as well still be running DevStudio '97.
2009-12-14, 2:21 PM #38
Originally posted by Tibby:
I like 2K alot too, but as far as I know that was designed for workstations and would probably have problems with the games I'm trying to play on this computer?
Like Dark Forces.


No, only so much as XP would have. I think it actually ran JK better than XP did, if my memory serves.
2009-12-14, 2:29 PM #39
Originally posted by Jon`C:
a pathetic half-implementation of C++0x
No range-for and no initializer lists? What the ****, Microsoft? But hey, thanks for that syntactic sugar for <functional>. I bet it took you all of a week.
2009-12-14, 2:30 PM #40
wait a second.

"Things we're simpler back then"
[01:52] <~Nikumubeki> Because it's MBEGGAR BEGS LIKE A BEGONI.
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