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Windows 95

Ahhh, the old fella windoze windows 95 is 15 years old today.  took me a good while to install, did not want to move away from good old DOS 6.   ahhh them were the days. :|

PC world had a story here.

oh also the horror show that was Microsoft BOB [...]

Jumping Jack

Retro Crap moment:  Jumping Jack is a platform game for the ZX Spectrum 16K released in 1983. It was available for the Atari 8-bit computers and Dragon 32 under the name Leggit!

Played this game for hours when I was a kid,

Graphics were crap on todays standards, but gameplay was [...]

Double Dragon Arcade Game

Double Dragon – Arcade Game. (yes This is not a poster for the double dragon arcade game, but the nintendo, but this one brings back memories so meh!)

Released: 1987 From: Tatio / Technos

A two player co-operative side scrolling martial arts game, that was probably one of the original in this genre.    Typical [...]

Sweet 16

Sweet 16 is a Apple II GS emulator, grab the emulator here and disk images from Syndicomm you also need a ROM image, I cant give you this but I am sure if you ask google nicely you will get one. I have to say, this was a advanced system for its time … up [...]

New OS

Today we see the release of Microsoft Windows 7, so am I installing it? Noooooo Instead I am playing around with a retro system…  Mac OS 7.5.5 on Mini vMac

Mac OS 7.5.5

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Wrong

actually … old browsers are harder to find than I originally said to many dead links…  have some old apps i wanna post soon-ISH (after 10 days) i found the canadian  encyclopedia …. this was before the northwestern   split with Nunavut …. what else has changed…. probably loads….

More Old Browsers

I guess IE5 is relatively new compared with windows 3.1 time to dig out some old browsers that would be relevant to days of yore.   Its relatively easy to find old browsers, thanks to google.

First Stop Mosaic, I tried two versions 1.something and 2.0a, both failed to load this site.  oh well,  second [...]

Site Retro Style

I installed virtual pc on the windows box, dug out some old software, DOS 6.22 and Windows for workgroups 3.11 surprisingly the old floppies still worked.  After some digging around on the internetweb-thinggy I found suitable drivers for the graphics, Sound, TCP stack, NIC… I even found a copy of IE5 (yes i know its [...]

Vic20

PC or Mac? that’s your choice today Have one the other (both if you are greedy ;) ) Many moons ago we were spoilt for choice, and they had celebs selling the computers they probably never used….. Bill Shatner sells you the VIC 20

Bill Shatner

Makes me wanna run out get a VIC [...]

Another old video

This time from Illinois, Chicago mainly I think it was such a long time ago the old grey matter is fading. Naturally I have speed the whole video up!

included is a trip up the Sears Tower, its a little shakey not all that good, but meh! added some cheesy default youtube music.

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