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Previous version of Windows in VirtualBox - Boredom

johnspack said:
Just found this in my vmware collection, converted it to virtualbox for linux:
neptune.png

This is Neptune booting up.... it never made it out as an os... too bad!
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So you actually use Virtualbox and might be able to answer this question?

I loaded Windows 98SE in the install went just fine. It rebooted and then states "not enough memory, please shut down anything running" or something very similar.

I have to think it's something to do with Virtualbox.

I have the latest version with the correct extension pack. Not sure what is going on.
 
stinger608 said:
So you actually use Virtualbox and might be able to answer this question?

I loaded Windows 98SE in the install went just fine. It rebooted and then states "not enough memory, please shut down anything running" or something very similar.

I have to think it's something to do with Virtualbox.

I have the latest version with the correct extension pack. Not sure what is going on.
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You get that far? I just get stuck halfway through before Explorer starts throwing errors and exceptions.

Though maybe it is a Ryzen thing? Heard something about it a while ago, but can't really remember what exactly...
 
Here's my settings for win98se for virtualbox, and 98se running..
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johnspack said:
Here's my settings for win98se for virtualbox, and 98se running..
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Awesome bro. I'll look at my settings as see if something is amiss on it. Thanks for posting these. :respect:
 
Heh, here's a mongrel os. It's basically windows 3.1 on top of ntfs! Requires 3 boot floppies and the cd. Video driver was a pita to install, no guest additions for this os....
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Might as well show how much NT 4 progressed. It used the slick "new" win95 interface. I dual booted with it and win95, win98 and 98se until win2k came out and I dumped them all.
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Well, that double posting feature is annoying... I needed to separate the nt 3.51 from the nt 4 screens... it wouldn't let me
Well as long as people know they are competely different oses on the same screen!
 
johnspack said:
Well as long as people know they are competely different oses on the same screen!
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The GUI change should be obvious which screenshot belongs to NT3.51, and NT4.0.
 
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Well for most of us in here.... the funny thing is not much difference under the hood. Both NT. But that god awful win 3.1 gui on nt... I have to try to install NT 3.1 still. Very first NT, grandfather of
all modern oses. Amazing these old NTs are what windows 10 is based on!
 
These screenshots are like going into a museum of classical paintings.
 
Well might as well finish the museum with grandaddy. NT 3.1, where it all began. This took a pile of tweaks and hacks to get installed, but
all updated to sp3, it's ready to go!
nt3-1-sp3.png
 
The worst thing about old operating systems is that you cannot browse the web with them any longer: the WWW has long shifted from insecure OpenSSL cyphers to TLS 1.1 and higher and there aren't that many websites which still work via the plain old HTTP protocol. Luckily we have http://web.archive.org but it's pretty limited as you must know all the URLs in advance and then it doesn't serve fresh data unless it's been saved by someone. Oh, and forget about searching the web. Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo all work via https exclusively.

It's even started affecting currently supported operating systems like Windows 7 and 8. Install them and you'll find out that you cannot even download updates automatically any longer. You first need to patch them extensively to enable modern HTTPS ciphers. Sigh.
 
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birdie said:
The worst thing about old operating systems is that you cannot browse the web with them any longer: the WWW has long shifted from insecure OpenSSL cyphers to TLS 1.1 and higher and there aren't that many websites which still work via plain the old HTTP protocol. Luckily we have http://web.archive.org but it's pretty limited as you must know all the URLs in advance and then it doesn't serve fresh data unless it's been saved by someone. Oh, and forget about searching the web. Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo all work via https exclusively.

It's even started affecting currently supported operating systems like Windows 7 and 8. Install them and you'll find out that you cannot even download updates automatically any longer. You first need to patch them extensively to enable modern HTTPS ciphers. Sigh.
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seems like we need a proxy server that converts https to http
 
If you want to see what happened to warp, this is it. eComStation 2.1 last version from 2011. Not really sure why really...
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Bigger pain to install than NT 3.1.
 
I'll try windows 2.11 next, have the installs. Back in the day I didn't bother with windows 1 and 2, stuck with dos. So I am kind of curious.

Jeez... okay, got it installed. Dam it's primitive. Was able to use dos 6.2 to install it on top of.
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Apps and commands are what you see. You click on an exe to get it to run.
You have no idea how jealous I was of my professor when he got a brand new 386 computer,
and all us students had were xt computers.. not even 286s, which he just replaced... bugger....
 
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Thought this might be fun to see. A 32 bit os from 2000 running 8 cores and 8GB of ram! Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
Also have kernelx installed so can run firefox esr 52.9 and load modern web pages. Don't recommend this though, TPU is
the only page I tried.
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