Downloads

Damn, I’m too lazy to organize. So, I’m gonna dump everything I have and you try to find what you want!

Select the category.

All kinds of software I kept for no reason.

Some very old – and as useless as they were in the past – software I have. Now I’m sharing with you.

Now we’re talking! You will be back to your childhood remembering when you played Street Rod, or Quake, or Duke Nuken, Nascar, Prince of Persia… I can even smell my old green display!! … and the chemical products I used to try to keep the case beige, not burned brown… 🙁

— — Old OS	Snapshots, images, bootdisks, install disks, everything for you to remember how painful it was to install a Windows 95 over a DOS in a Pentium overclocked to 100MHZ.
— — — DOS	Old Unixes-like OS packages for you remember the old times when you had no cd-rom and you took 3 days to figure that your FTP client was looping the downloads because of symbolical links! (or not, go figure!)
— — — *Nixes	Old Unixes-like OS packages for you remember the old times, when you had no cd-rom and you took 3 days to figure that your FTP client was looping the downloads because of symbolical links! (or not, go figure!)
— — — Windows	Now, this is cool. Beyond cool. Our very own time machine! Let’s be honest—I never touched Windows 1 or 2 before the Internet age. In fact, I had never even heard of a graphical OS that wasn’t built for Macintosh, OS/2, or Amiga OS (which I only had a few chances to play with). And to be honest, I didn’t really care! All I wanted was an OS that let me play my games without too much hassle. (And by “hassle,” I mean running out of RAM.) That said, my first real introduction to Windows was version 3.1, and I liked it. I liked it a lot. It felt like a warm goodbye to DIR /S/A/P, nc.exe (Norton Commander), and tree.exe (you remember that one too, right?). Before Windows, my daily OS experience revolved around various flavors of DOS—Commodore DOS, MSX DOS, and later, when I got my first PC, PCDOS, MSDOS, and even some early Unix-like systems that were just starting to emerge on x86 home PCs, like Minix and BSD. Back then, I wasn’t doing much with Unix-based systems – just some occasional experiments. But one thing I absolutely loved doing was “cracking” software. Using hex editors to compare two binaries, manually patching them so I could play games that lost their cracks when copied with diskcopy.exe, I have no idea how Anyway! What I really want to say is that this is an amazing way to learn how things worked back then – and to imagine how a simple, rough prototype evolved into the powerful operating system we have today.
— — — Other Flavors	Generic OS I downloaded and tried, caham, sorry, never even installed.

Published @ 2024-07-26 19:45