#ms-dos5

[commodorez]

OS What-Ifs: Two 90s Operating Systems That Never Made It by @ms-dos5

VCF East XIX

[krissiefox]

Somewhat long, so list is below the divider!

https://ms-dos5.tumblr.com/ Computer photos, old 3d renders, old PC games.

https://chunkycomputers.tumblr.com/ Pictures of nice chunky computers.

https://wwwtxt.org/about An archive of online writings from the early days of the internet

https://arconinternet.tumblr.com/ Internet archive fun!

https://opendirectories.tumblr.com/ Image directories from around the web.

https://www.tumblr.com/oldguydoesstuff Old arcade machines and computers.

https://webcoreparadise.tumblr.com/ Old internet gifs, pixel arts, photos of old tech, etc

https://gaywebcorenostalgia.tumblr.com/ Old LGBTQ web sites.

https://geocitiesdig.tumblr.com/ Old website art and cool 90s CGI stuff.

https://56k-modem.online/ Photos and screenshots of old computers/operating systems/software.

https://oldwindowsicons.tumblr.com/ Collection of old Windows UI graphics.

https://oldwebsurfing.tumblr.com/ Art and gifs from old web sites.

https://obscuritory.tumblr.com/ Obscure old pc games.

https://www.tumblr.com/oneterabyteofkilobyteage Old Geocities Web Sites.

https://never-obsolete.tumblr.com/ Old tech ads, Operating systems, computer gifs.

https://wirlds.tumblr.com/tagged/worlds.com Worlds.com is an old online game form the 90s that, from the look of it, let people make their own little rooms. Quite nice looking!

https://whatdiditlooklike.mementoweb.org/ See the looks of web sites throughout the years.

https://www.tumblr.com/compactdiscinteractive Screenshots from old cd-rom and multimedia games.

[techav]

VCF Southwest

This was the first time I've been able to attend a VCF, and it was the first held in the Dallas area in over a decade. I was lucky enough to participate as both event staff, helping to plan and run the show, and as an exhibitor. It was exhausting, it was overwhelming at times, and I nearly lost my voice by the end of the first day ... But it was also an incredible experience and I really enjoyed it.

I brought a few of my projects to show off. First and foremost was my Wrap030-ATX project, which I paired with a Wyse WY-30 terminal I rescued from Computer Reset, and had running a demo program for printing names on my recently-repaired Apple ImageWriter II/L. Next to that was my Wrap030 board stack running a Mandelbrot fractal renderer using its 68882 FPU and video generator cards. Then came the Mac SE from Computer Reset I repaired, with my SE-VGA card driving an external monitor, and running Oregon Trail (always a crowd favorite!). Finally I had my Franken-Plus, which sadly suffered a power supply failure early on the first day and sat dark all weekend.

My exhibit was situated just down the row from @commodorez , who won the show's Best Microcomputer award for his "VICs that aren't 20" exhibit of rare and lesser-known Commodore computers. Across from Commodore-Z was Usagi Electric, who won Best in Show for his exhibit of the Centurion, a PDP-11, and his vacuum tube computer.

I had a great time talking to Commodore-Z, @ms-dos5 , Usagi Electric, Nybbles and Bytes, Macintosh Librarian, Retrotech Chris, Kevin & Michael of the Turbo 9 Team, Al Williams, and so many more wonderful people that I couldn't even begin to catch names for.

I also got to go into deep-dive discussions on very specific details about my projects with people who already knew so much more about the components and the tools that I'm using than I do. It's energizing to be around people that understand the work that goes into these projects and appreciate what I've accomplished.

The show was so much bigger than I anticipated. Including staff, volunteers, sponsors, speakers, exhibitors, and attendees, we saw nearly 900 people come through the main hall over the course of the weekend. Seminars were full, with CuriousMarc's presentation on Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer forming an imposing line for entry well ahead of the scheduled start of the talk. We had incredible community turnout; it was great to see entire families come through with awestruck small children in tow.

There was so much to see and do, so many people to talk to. The entire weekend is just a blur. My brain is still trying to process everything from the show.

One thing does stand out though — an unbelievably generous act from someone I spoke to on Saturday about my homebrew builds and my methods for testing and debugging. This kind soul was so impressed by what I have accomplished without an oscilloscope that he bought one from the VCFSW charity auction and gave it to me on Sunday. I was so surprised I didn't think to even get his name before he disappeared into the crowd. I can't wait to put it to good use, and I hope that what I build with it lives up to his expectations.

Following VCF East earlier this year, Bil Herd said something about riding that high from VCFE, and that prompted him to agree to come out to join us at VCFSW this year. Now that I've experienced it for myself, I understand what he meant. I've been looking though all the pictures and blog posts everyone has been sharing, and catching up on recordings of the presentations I missed. Interest in some of my projects has me thinking about what I can do with them next. It's exciting.

I can't wait until next year.

[pineapplegirshy]

How have I not heard anyone talking about how April 8th was not only the end of Wii and 3DS servers, but ALSO the end of windows XP support exactly 10 years prior.

Credit: @ms-dos5

The sun blacked out and

The heavens cried in anguish

8/4, days of end

(Or 4/8 if you use dates weirdly)

[commodorez]

I know @ms-dos5 will agree with me on this one, but what's the point of having a desktop if you don't have multiple removable storage devices attached to it?

How else do you play DVDs? Rip music CDs that you bought into your digital collection? Archive an old program disc for later? Burn custom playlist discs to use in your car from before they commonly had an aux jack?

you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this

[rumoursjunior]

Broke Family

Preganacy Reveal!

Teaching Beau to walk

Birthing Bobby

Dustin being a good brother, shocking noises

Loded Diper

Discord won't let me post a pregnant brandi but will let me post this?

Dustin and Angela are sneaking out

Makeovers

[zazdravn]

MS-DOS says TRANS RIGHTS through Composite CGA

160x200@16 colors, Composite Mode

76 byte .COM File

Source code and Binary

[sgibbz]

Why is this still a thing...

[commodorez]

See @ms-dos5 ? You aren't allowed to reblog this one.

1995

[user-alan]

BOOTABLE MEDIUM FOUND.

LOADING...

[antsypoindexter]

fav windows media player skins from an old @ms-dos5 post 📺

[commodorez]

VICs that are not 20

My exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 2023 went well. It was a major lift to drive it all out to Texas in summer, but the results were worth it. I got to meet a whole different group of the vintage computer community, and share my esoteric VICs with them. Seems like alot of people enjoyed talking with me, trying out the games, and even programming in BASIC. My exhibit even won the award for Best Microcomputer.

Items on display included:

Rainbow label VIC-20

Early American VIC-20

Japanese VIC-1001

Prototype VIC-20 aka the "Brown Board"

Prototype 16K VIC-20 plus a variety of expansions, peripherals, and software. I filled my trunk to the brim with items for my exhibit.

Special thanks go out to @ms-dos5 for helping with setup and breakdown of my exhibit, as well as demonstrating many of my exhibit machines by playing some of the supplied video games. I was glad to finally meet @techav who had the table next to mine, keeping extra sets of eyes on each others tables throughout the weekend.

[commodorez]

Oh hey, it's the Galloping Ghost Arcade in Chicago!

@teckheck @ms-dos5 & I went last year during VCF Midwest

[msdos5]

Apparently in 2022 the url msdos5 is available, unlike in 2013. Sadly, the blog ms-dos5 is no longer available because @staff and @support decided to terminate my account without warning. I have a few other blogs on that account too but that's the one I really care about. Anyway I did NOT deactivate on purpose, if I would leave I would just leave everything up so people could still see old OS screenshots. I just made a new account because I still wanted to see straycatj

[commodorez]

@ms-dos5, I know I already showed you this again but...

This is why we're friends.

Pretty much my viewpoint on usability

[crashpl]

I scored an amazing bundle this Tuesday, though I only have free time during the weekend to toy around with my little retro machines.

For a low, low price I managed to grab a complete Dell Latitude LM TS30G, along with a nice floppy case, removeable floppy drive, mechanical mouse, mouse pad and a PC Card modem - all nicely packed in the original Dell notebook bag! According to the data found on the HDD, it was used in 2004 for the last time. I believe it was stashed in the bag shortly after and left to this day, as it’s fully functional, looks nice, and even the battery lasts for around 25 minutes.

Yes, I know it would easily gobble Windows 95 (the sticker, duh), but I already have a W95 dedicated machine - a Win31/DOS PC with a working CD drive was missing in my collection. But not anymore!

With a Pentium 133MHz, 40MB RAM, ESS 1688 sound card and an SVGA 1.1MB graphic card, it sure is an absolute rocket! But goddamn, it’s sure a massive and heavy beast.

Oh, and if you were wondering - all of the floppies are completely functional!

So, as always - shoutout to @ms-dos5, another retro notebook found in the wild and restored to it’s former glory!