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Fun with old software

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 4:19 am
by Octal450
Up and running in Windows 98 and Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6. Oh the memories of the my first PC!

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Yeah, it looks odd, and some icons are missing, but it works good enough to post this!!!

Gonna try more old ones out later. I like messing with old software.

Re: Fun with old software

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 12:53 pm
by IAHM-COL
Haha. Old Windows has the interesting problem of too much vulnerability

Re: Fun with old software

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 4:15 pm
by Octal450
Yeah, but it's all good fun.
If careful, then it is fine.

Re: Fun with old software

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 4:17 pm
by IAHM-COL
it0uchpods wrote:If careful, then it is fine.


Honestly, I don't think so.
You can't bee "careful"
It's a problem of your software vulnerabilities, not of what you do or don't

Careful there is probably:
1. dont install anything
2. dont insert external media (usb/floppys/etc)
3. dont connect the internet.

Which means, by all practical means
Do nothing except play "mines"

:mrgreen:

Re: Fun with old software

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:54 pm
by oscar6662
Hahaha

Re: Fun with old software

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:57 pm
by Octal450
IAHM-COL
Please be careful. To get a virus you have to be dumb. I have never gotten one, and I download a lot of stuff.

Re: Fun with old software

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 8:08 pm
by SHM
Israel's reaction : I don't give a damn about virus! Linux ftw.

Re: Fun with old software

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 2:28 am
by LesterBoffo
IAHM-COL wrote:Haha. Old Windows has the interesting problem of too much vulnerability


I used Win 98SE 'til about 2004, and had Mozilla and some defunct freeware antivirus and never had any issues with malware. We of course didn't have DSL, just Dial-up. My sims all worked, my 3D programs all made good models, even Blender with old Python import-export .py's functioned.

Win98SE was not as malware prone as you remember.. :roll:

Re: Fun with old software

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 3:02 am
by Octal450
Yup.
I really enjoy Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. I use Windows Vista as my main OS. My OS is about 6 years older than the oldest part of my PC, and I like it that way. Wiruses? Never!

Re: Fun with old software

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 6:15 pm
by Octal450
Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 with Firefox 10.0.3 Extended Service Release. Most sites are working well.

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