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Finally, the PC of my dreams.

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Or it would have been in 1998. That was the year that Google was founded, the

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first module of the International Space Station was launched, and Microsoft

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became the biggest company in the world, propelled there in part thanks to the

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success of this operating system,

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Windows 98. That was so long ago that

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many of our staff weren't even born yet, let alone using computers. So, since

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this sucker still boots up, and I want to know what they think of Windows in

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the 32-bit era, we are going to go for a little ride back in time. But not before

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has generously allowed us to borrow scale once before when we tried out some

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questionable game controllers, and we don't know the actual origins of this

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PC, but the piece of paper on the front gives us a pretty good hint at its

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history. We suspect, though we have no way of knowing for sure, that it worked

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for decades in an offline environment, likely exclusively running the software

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for a way station for trucks next to the highway or waste at a landfill before

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being retired. That's all speculation, though, as whatever software was once on

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here is now long gone, leaving only the OS. This particular Windows 98

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installation is not an entirely fresh out-of-the-box experience. Some software

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had to be installed for the joysticks and USB didn't work without first

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burning drivers onto a CD. But it's otherwise good old Windows 98 exactly as

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I or at least as I think I remember it.

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All that remains then is to see how quickly our whippers snappers adjust to

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an operating system whose exciting selling features included things like

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support for DVD playback, multiple monitors, and the FAT 32 file system.

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Fat 32. I'm going to be awesome at this. My elementary school ran Windows 98

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until like grade six, I think, and then we upgraded to like Windows 7. It was

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like, whoa, this is quite the upgrade. I

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think my first Windows was 7. Yeah, I

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didn't start using computer till I was like, I don't know 10, 12 or whatever.

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So, I was 2 months old when this operating system got released. Windows

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XP was my first system. So, back in the

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day, this was my daily driver, Windows 98SE. I spent a lot of my life using

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Windows 98SE and Windows 95. All of my schools had Windows 95 or 98. I did

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pretty much everything that you would normally do with a computer on Windows 98. Man, is it clunky today. Like, I

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can't rightclick the taskbar to get task manager. I can't right click the start

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menu to get anything. It's just very bare bones. There's something charming

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about that, man. I swear this runs better than like Windows 11. It's so

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responsive, honestly. Like, okay. All right. So, Oh, man. Look at that lag.

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You can actually change that. Oh. Oh, menu animation. Yes. Yes. There you go.

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Now it pops up. Windows update. Holy. Is it just as bad as it used to be? I don't

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know. This kind of looks pretty cool to me. That whole vapor wave wave kind of

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came in. Vapor wave wave. Vapor man. Network neighborhood. the amount of time

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I spent fighting with this back in more

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the XP days. You know, you'd click entire network and it just it wouldn't

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be there and you'd go into all the different settings for it and try and

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get file sharing working. It was it never freaking worked properly. My

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briefcase. Okay. No clue. That's not in any of the Windows that I've tried.

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Given that it says briefcase, I assume it has something to do with files. Can I

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open it or no? I was going to say files, but there's a my documents thing right

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there. I don't know. important files maybe. Yeah. Okay. I remember opening

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this, reading this and being like, "Wo!" and never touching it. Not understanding

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what this did at all. When I was a kid and I was like using Windows 95, I

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accidentally like dragged my briefcase into the recycling bin and I was like, "Oh crap, I just broke something."

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Contains files you want to work on at a different computer. Oh, that was for

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syncing with PDAs and other things that you could uh pull out from your computer

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and then take along with you. So, like you'd have a personal digital assistant,

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like a small little computer or a handheld device. So, you you put files

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in here, it saves onto whatever floppy disc you have. You'd have files that you

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could drag into your briefcase and they'd be synced to your your device for

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the next time that you left. And then when you came back, they'd be synced back into your computer. I guess that's

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why it's called briefcase. That's kind of cool. Who uses briefcases, though?

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That's a real question. Is that a '90s thing, or do people still have

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briefcases? I I don't know. I never used it. Not a single time. I would use a

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floppy disc to transfer my files until I was in grade eight. And my friend Tiger

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brought me my first USB thumb drive. It was 16 megabytes,

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not gigabytes. So, it could only hold about four times the amount of a floppy

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disc at. I just had to install drivers for it on the library computers all the

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time because they would wipe every time you use them. So, I had to redo it every

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time. All right, what's next? Flashy desktop background. Come on. I know

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this. I know this. Okay. This is how you would change your background. I see. All

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right. Oh, this is easy. I remember being in an elementary school. They

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didn't have the software to lock this stuff out. We would change the

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backgrounds on all the computers and play with the screen savers. You had the

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little pipes going. Oh, you can change the color. Let's make it something

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stupid. Oh my god, I remember these. Oh, they're

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all so awful. Here, let's do clouds. And I want it stretched. There we go. Yeah,

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look at that. That's easy. There we go.

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That's horrible. Here's the size of the font. Oh man. Red blocks, pinstripe, tan

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st. Ooh. Is that flashy enough for you or do you want flashier? I definitely

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had a bubbles background at some point. What? Let's turn on active desktop. Why

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not? Active desktop's really weird. It's always been kind of a crapshoot. What

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we're looking at here is actually a web page. I can copy this link here. I can

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click on it. It'll open a web page that no longer exists. And we can add stuff

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to it like widgets and stuff. You can have weather, traffic reports, news, and

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any other web page data at your fingertips. You could actually set it up

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with uh like a full web page that you built yourself. I did that once. Had a

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habit of crashing a lot. Please tell me

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we have uh After Dark. Where's my toasters? After Dark had the flying

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toasters. Yeah, 3D pipes. Yeah, there we

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go. We would just sit there and like watch it fill the whole screen.

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Hours of entertainment for like an 11-year-old Jake. Yeah, I like that.

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Now, there's a multiolor one. Hold on a second. Did that come later? You can do

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multiple pipes. They might just be different colors. Yeah, there they are.

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Yes. I remember this being a lot cooler.

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That's actually faster. I like that better than like going all the way into

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your settings and like changing it. Why don't they have these features on modern

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computers? This is so much fun. Audio recording. Yeah, there's a sound

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recorder program. Oh, right. There's no search. Hey, you accessories. Yeah.

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Communications. Um, nope. Oh,

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entertainment. Dial up. Can you record in Windows Media Player? What's dial up?

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Virtual sound canvas. Okay, this has got to be it. Here.

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Noep.

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No. I don't want to get stumped. Sound recorder. There it is. Jesus Christ. I

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looked at it earlier and I totally missed it. Sound recorder. Yay. I did

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it. Okay. Yeah, here it is. Man, I'm good. This application, so much time

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spent in it. It's the default wave file player in Windows 98. All right, here we

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go. This microphone doesn't seem like it's from 98. This looks a little

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advanced. I'm not going to lie. Hello. Okay, but we got to create a voice

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recording. Is that right? That's weird. Oh, yeah. It shows up a little bit. I

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think I'm going to talk really loudly.

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We on window 98. I'm feeling so great.

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Hi, anonymous writer. to set up this video. You suck. This is probably going

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to sound like absolute ass. Now, the thing about sound recorder is that it

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limits you in terms of how long your sound recording can be because it asks

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you how long it will be. So, once I hit the 60.75 second mark, it'll no longer

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be recording and I'll have to play it back and listen to my voice in a very

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scratchy and honestly probably very quiet manner. Oh, it's really bad. Let's

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try reverse.

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Okay, that sounds awful. At least you get audio and you get a nice little

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update of the waveform as you're going through with sound recorder. I can't

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read this. I changed all the colors. Cool. Don't wave. That's going to be a

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big file. We got to compress that. Man, I still know how to use this. Play it

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through the front jack. Well, see, you said CD drive and I thought I was

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getting familiar with this and then you said plug in the headphones to the CD

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drive and you've lost me already. I don't think I ever actually tried to use

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the 3 and 12 mm jack on the front of the optical drive. It's not playing through

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these now. Hot changing my audio device probably won't work. Is the CD already

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in here or and my sound settings just went away.

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Oh, playback digital or analog? Use error correction. H speakers. Do do I

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have to go to a different program to actually listen to it? What's going on

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here? This is definitely like more tedious than it would be on a modern

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operating system. Multimedia devices.

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It has to be in here. What even is this? A wind groove. Okay, so not Windows

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Media Player Volume. Oh my god, my audio thing went away. It's not down there

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anymore. Did I break it? Oh, CD player. Let's go. Okay.

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Crap. I even saw it in there.

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Yeah, that makes sense. All right, this drive is in use. Okay, get out of here.

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Windows Media Player. That actually sounds pretty good. Oh, this kind of

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hard. I like it. I'm messing with this. You and me, baby.

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M. This is a sick groove. Man, they just have so much control and it's like

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immediately available. It all just works. This doesn't work actually. But

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this is not front panel audio in the traditional sense. What that is is

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dedicated to the CDROM drive. So, it's

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obviously on the CDROM drive because the way CDROM drives worked for audio is

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that you had a little cable that came off of the CDROM drive that went into your sound card that either piped out

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analog or digital audio because Windows just couldn't do like digital extraction

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or at least not all drives could do digital extraction back in the day.

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Yeah, that's that's just how that worked. So, it's smart enough to know. I

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never used that functionality and I feel like a lot of people didn't because it

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went away very quickly. But yeah, old tech, man. No one can figure that out.

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How is that hard? Okay, what else do I got to do here? Oh, where do you check

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your system specs? Goodness gracious me. Hold on. No, I know how to do this.

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Settings. Control panel. That seems right. Of course, I changed all the

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colors, so now this is just horrible. Task manager, right? Is that even a

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thing on these? I don't remember. I feel like yes. Printer, regional settings,

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sound system, telephone. What the What is that? Oh my gosh. She can make calls

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on this thing. That's wild. Uh,

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system. There it is. Yes. Wait, the CPU

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is not in here. Crap. How is it not system? 256 MGB of RAM. I love it. That

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tells me we got to be at least Pentium 2 era. Pentium 2. There it is. To find out

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the hardware specs of this PC completely within the operating system without

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opening it up. You'd think that you just go to uh device manager here, which

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would help, but it's not going to show you everything. The processor is not here. We got the network adapters. We've

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got the monitor. I have a CD rewriter. Fancy. You want me to find the CPU

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megahertz? No. Dr. Watson with some kind of utility

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that I remember using at some point for diagnosing something. But if I recall

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correctly, it was not actually included in the base operating system. So that's

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probably why it didn't come up with anything. Accessories, system tools,

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hardware info utility, which I believe is still part of Windows, believe it or

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not. MS Info 32, I believe. Oh, genuine

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Intel Celeron processor. 256 MGB of RAM.

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Wow. Windows manage swap file with a I guess a 6.4 gig or yeah gig hard drive.

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Am I just dumb? Yeah, probably. I would love a hint. The writer for this project

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also suggested top row DirectX. DirectX,

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maybe DX Diag. Oh, you I didn't want you to tell me. I was actually going to

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guess that, which you can still run today. Celeron MMX. Oh, I got to wait

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for it to load. I see. Not that anybody actually uses it anymore. Oh god, it's

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so frozen. Crucially for us, it tells us that.

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Okay, we're running an Intel Cel Celeron. Celeron. Celeron. Ew. Celeron.

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Jeez. I've seen this word so many times, but I do not know how to pronounce it.

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Hope it's one of the cool ones. like a 300A 330 megahertz.

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That's pretty small. Pretty slow. I

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don't know much, but I know that this is a troubleshooting step that you'd go through anytime you had trouble with a

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game. They'd ask you to run DX Diag and then save it and send them the dump. I

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don't remember how we even sent dumps back then. Maybe email. I guess it's an

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attachment. I have a Rage 2 AGPG GPU.

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Yes, this is a Rage 2C. The Rage series is so weird to me cuz like they they

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changed the the naming scheme so many times. This came out before the first

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GeForce. Before the first Radon at least. All right, what's next? Real time

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hardware monitor. Oh yeah, we can monitor our system. That's task manager.

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No. Control altdelete. Oh, that is not it. See anything I actually had to do

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back then? No problem. Stuff I didn't

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do. Big problem. Device manager hard

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performance. Yes. Now, this tweak UI thing. This I never saw back in the day.

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So, maybe there's something in here. No resource meter. That seems right.

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There it is. I did good. I mean, it's

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not a great performance monitor, but it's there. That's monitoring our system

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right here on a monitor. Okay, there we

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go. This is the very early version of our modern task manager. So, our file

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system, we can see the amount of data being read or written to. Memory

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manager, how much memory is allocated, and we can see that that caused the CPU

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to work a little bit to show that. Oh, yeah. You can connect to another

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computer to log that computer's information. Yeah, this is actually pretty useful. Seldomly used because you

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weren't multitasking that much because Windows 98 was unstable.

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What is any of this? That one works. I

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only play the real games here. That's how I used to play solitary, too. It's

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got to It's got to click somewhere, right? Games. Okay. Civ 2. I'm with it.

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Wait. An illegal operation. Wait. Keep tennis here. We're going to

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play Civ. Yeah, we're really living the retro life here. GDI resources. I do not

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know what a GDI is. I know you need more deep background, but we're up against

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it. If only I could get to the taskbar. It's a barrier. It's stopping me. I've

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probably clicked like a hundred times on a frozen screen. And I know clicking on

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a frozen screen does nothing but make it worse. So I assume it's rung game.exe.

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Oh, I love command and conquer. This is probably going to be the MS DOSs version

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even though. Yeah, that's a DOS window there. DOSs games don't have any concept

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of drivers. Or in fact, they do. The problem is the drivers are on the game

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developer. So, in order for any kind of

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anything to work, we need to set it up first. This setup actually has a pretty

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good sound card selection. Sometimes they could autodetect, but a lot of the

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time you had to choose. Now, none of these say crystal, but the crystal card

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is supported via Sound Blaster Pro or Pro 2. So, I'm going to go ahead and hit

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enter on that. Now, we can run the game, and we'll actually get audio. Oh. Oh,

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we're in the game. Command and Conquer. I've heard of that game, but I've never

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really played it. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Sorry for your loss. I ain't reading all

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that. Command and conquer is so good. I don't know what I'm doing. Am I the

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boat? What's happening? Okay. Wait, wait, wait. What's going on here? I

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don't really need the barracks, but if I build it there, it's an RTS. I'm

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guessing something's being blown up. I

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don't know if it's me or if it's something else. I should probably wait

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for the Humvees to get in. Wait, there's more people. Wait, who are that? Oh,

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those are my guys. Okay, let's go team. Don't want any damage. I'm like, uh, I

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got a little bit of damage on my Humvey. No, I didn't. Cool. Wa, that moves. What

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is that? Wow, they really just throw you in here with like no explanations.

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Intelligence is still coming in, so we can't tell you a lot. Everything's just

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like a pixelated blob. Yeah. So, this is

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like 320 by 200. Good old Westwood. EA

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did an EA and killed them. Ooh, this looks fun. Okay, I'm super down. Single

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player game. Here we go, boys. I used to love these kind of 3D blow everything up

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video games. Terminal Velocity is a pretty good one. I wanted to play Quake,

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so I'm kind of disappointed. This is kind of wild, you know, cuz I couldn't

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afford to play 3D games back when they were in their early stages like this.

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This compared to the games that I had to play. This is awesome. It reminds me of

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this game that I would play at school on the Mac called I think it was like Spect

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Vector. Vector was called Vector. It was freaking awesome. Wireframe Tanks. Oh,

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it's it's running way too fast. Unless this is supposed to be this fast on the

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link battle cycle. Many of these early games actually had their physics tied to

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the CPU clock speed. So, there were some games that I would play on our old

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Windows 3.1 machine and then I would try to play again once we upgraded that

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simply weren't playable anymore because they would run far too fast. And I'm

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told this is actually one of those games. Yeah, it's like speeding up and slowing down depending on what's on

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screen. Oh, rocket ammo. I got rockets. Oh, alt is rockets. Okay, cool. Rocket

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launchers. Boom. Yeah, get kaboomed.

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Kaboom. This is actually kind of fun. This is way better than that other game.

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I wish this heads up display wasn't taking up like 60% of the screen. You

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can see how the the textures are kind of

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warping. Wow. The scale is pretty messed

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up. Stuff looks real far away from you on the mini map and then it turns out it

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is very close. The terrain is kind of

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cruddy. This is from the days back when 3D was still kind of new and uh how

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exactly you should render textures in

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relation to the camera at any given point in time wasn't entirely a hard and

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fast thing yet. Doing it correctly as we do it now cost a lot in terms of

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computational power. Oh my god. Except I don't know where the walls are. They

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just appear right in front of you and then you die. This is uh an interesting

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experience. And that fog drawing in is pretty interesting as well. It's like

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dithering. Whereas usually you'd get like a banding effect instead. It's hard

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to gauge if you can actually drive over something. Oh, and I'm dead. All right.

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If you flip over, you die. What is that? That's not fair.

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That was not bad. Not bad for first run.

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Man, I would have played the crap out of this. I want to play internet games. Did

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I get the internet working? Hold on. Holy, it works. Okay, this is the

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website we played on in elementary school. It was called andacon.com.

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Oh, it's still there. No way.

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Wow. This hasn't changed a bit. They have they even added games, dude. This

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this this game. This is what we played. Quicksand Hell. Oh my god. Oh man. It's

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really slow. Why is this computer so h wow. All right. Shout out Andicon

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Arcade. This was a lot of my childhood. A lot of these things are pretty similar

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to how they are nowadays, honestly. It might look different, but I don't think

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it's really come that far in terms of, wow, I have to click 17 different times

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to change my refresh rate. That's still kind of the case in Windows 11. I like

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this. We should all run Windows 98 instead of 10. I'm already a Windows 98

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pro. If you liked this fun archaeological dig into an old operating

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system, you might like the time we took a look at its even older predecessor.

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Windows 95 on a laptop was pretty special and a lot of fun. So go check

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that out.