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Journeyman Geek

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Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

06:59

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog status-completed

@M.A.R. sure! Here ya go.

All my socks.

kaboom

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Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

08:53

status-still-waiting

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

oops

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda did he just remove his account?

Why?

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard oh. Yeah, he did but only on MSE and main SO, still has accounts on almost all other sites: stackexchange.com/users/20808/tim-post?tab=accounts

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

hmm

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

As for why, because of too many clashes with people, probably. Dunno.

Elements In Space

09:09

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard See medium.com/@tinkertim/…

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

09:41

@ElementsInSpace :/

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

10:30

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard \:

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda /:

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Elements In Space

11:58

That’s some very low quality spam.

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

12:30

@ElementsInSpace yeah that spammer fails even in spamming.

Elements In Space

It’s a sad attempt.

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

12:42

Yup.

Spammer very active on Quora though.

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

13:02

@ElementsInSpace this reminds me, I've seen somewhere a joke about low quality spam...

Elements In Space

...

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

Found it!

113

Q: We need to improve the quality of our spam!

Recently, I've noticed a downhill effect in the quality of spam posted on Stack Exchange websites. Take this as an example (found on Space.SE): There are a great many things wrong with this artifact: There is not one capitalized letter in the entire post. (-1 grammar point.) The only punctuat...

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

13:55

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard lol

But you won't find Tim's keys.

No way.

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

hah

@ElementsInSpace hi, do you want to play with my Lichess bot?

Elements In Space

With a bot?

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

Yep

I have two of them, actually.

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard are they twins?

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda yup

You tricked me! @Sha I thought it was Elements who replied. :P

waiting

Elements In Space

14:06

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard I’m playing Dune II (1992) at the moment.

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

@ElementsInSpace hmm, interesting.

Nobody to play against my bots... lol

I guess I'll challenge other bots, then.

Elements In Space

What do they do?

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

@ElementsInSpace play chess and variants

Elements In Space

Are they any good?

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

@ElementsInSpace yep, they are unlikely to get beaten by a 1600 ones

(sorry, didn't see your message earlier, because you didn't ping)

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

14:24

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard :-D

@ElementsInSpace awesome game, and read somewhere someone claiming that game is the inspiration for the new movie, which make sense. ;)

How you play? DOS-box?

Or is there version for Windows i.e. remake?

Journeyman Geek

GOG probably has that runnable on a modern PC via dosbox

Elements In Space

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda I play it on my mac.

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

@ElementsInSpace out of the box??

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

@ElementsInSpace .......

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

ah, this?

> Far and away the easiest way to run DOS games on modern gaming hardware is to install the RetroArch multi-system emulator. It has the ability to run dozens of different operating systems and classic hardware emulators. RetroArch is available on most platforms but you can also download and install it from Steam

@ElementsInSpace ^

Elements In Space

14:30

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda I downloaded something.

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

@ElementsInSpace RetroArch?

I used to use DOS-box but long ago, will check this new one if/when playing DOS games again.

Marco

RetroArch is very good, but I never used it to play DOS games.

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

tricking @Shadow so that he thinks that it is Elements instead Marco

Marco

Anyway, a good way to play DOS games is to run them directly on Windows 98, via virtual machine for example.

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

lol

Journeyman Geek

14:36

Running windows 98 VMs is tricky

IIRC virtualbox is the only one that does it semi OK, and that needs a bit of tweaking too

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

Tried running some old windows on virtualbox a few years ago, but gave up. Linux is better :P

Marco

@JourneymanGeek why?

I will try to install it on VMware later

Journeyman Geek

@Marco IIRC Vmware just won't, and there's no 'good' drivers for virtual machines on it like more modern OSes

Marco

strange, I'll try to confirm this later

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard oh hi Space Peter!

Marco

14:43

And if you install it on a different partition, that is, without using VM?

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

@Marco ah, neat! But won't install virtual machine just for that.

Journeyman Geek

@Marco I THINK windows 98 won't run on modern hardware

Marco

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda ok hehe

@JourneymanGeek oh

Journeyman Geek

If you had period correct hardware, sure

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

@JourneymanGeek I second that

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda lolol

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

14:44

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard \p/

Journeyman Geek

(or close enough, the chinese are making these adorable little netbooks that are essentially XT or 386 compatible )

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

yay! I've detected a domain scammer in the Internet.

waiting for Journeyman to criticize this

Marco

I checked here, you can install it using the PCem (pcem-emulator.co.uk) or 86Box - (86box.net) emulators.

reddit.com/r/windows98/comments/m2cjcn/…

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

...

Marco

Windows 98 for Retro Gaming with PCEm: A Comprehensive Tutorial

►

pcem-emulator.co.uk/screenshots.html

Journeyman Geek

15:07

@Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard why?

@Marco yeah, those are specific VMs for that :D

Marco

@JourneymanGeek nice!

Journeyman Geek

IIRC they're 'full' emulators, but old x86 is slow compared to modern boxen so its fine

Marco

boxen?

Journeyman Geek

plural of box, in a humorous fashion

Marco

you meant modern computers?

Journeyman Geek

15:10

well computers in general

old box, old boxen

Marco

got it

Journeyman Geek

like ox oxen, and fox foxen

Marco

well, modern boxen = modern computers, so it's what I said :D

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

boxing all dem boxez

Petəíŕd The Spring Wizard

15:34

@JourneymanGeek because you know, you almost always criticize everything

V2Blast

@JourneymanGeek Haha, thanks. Happy Tamil New Year to you too :)

M.A.R.

16:00

Mar 27 at 12:50, by Journeyman Geek

actually

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Marco

18:22

chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9824224#9824224: I tried using PCem but things didn't work out, I tested the 86Box and everything worked, this is a video from the emulator's own channel teaching how to install Windows 98. In fact, I'm finishing installing Windows 98 on it. I recommend the video and the emulator.

How to install Windows 98 in 86Box

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teaching how to install Windows 98 on it*

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

19:06

@Marco nice!

M.A.R.

20:05

@Marco you can ping yourself if you remove all of that link except the message ID.

Marco

20:41

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda later, if you know, please recommend me the best old Windows and DOS games.

@M.A.R. ok, thanks

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

@Marco well, what I remember, partial list for now: Bubble Bobble, Golden Axe, Heroes of Might and Magic (original), Super Fighter. Played all of those for many fun hours. :)

Marco

ok, thanks, later give me the full list please hahaha

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

Also Xonix, Digger, etc. I had one disk with all of them together, there was also something with bees, and with spaceships, and... Round 42 perhaps?

Marco

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda nice!

Shadow Wizard Love Zelda

@Marco ah, that might be a problem as I don't remember! I recall while I think about it sometimes. But will try! ;)

Marco

20:49

ok, no problem! haha

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