Windows93 SP2

[ninjakeyboard]

I've been staring at the half life 3 loading screen for the last 6 hours. I don't think it's going to start.

[omk]

After a 18 month long wait it did load. Totally worth it.

[make3]

.. Also, probably unsurprisingly, vulve is french for Vulva.

[delinka]

You’ll need to have waited 3^(33+(1/3)) to see it launch.

Note: units intentionally left blank

[nickpsecurity]

It was probably that "unsettling, disk operation" or one of the "trojan's." I think I saw the former. It came and went so fast. :)

[meerita]

We are two.

[vxxzy]

Just a suggestion... Open up the calculator and do 0/0.

[pgeorgi]

Somebody took 'undefined behavior means that your compiler may optimize out large swathes of code in favor of execve("/usr/games/nethack"); way too seriously" :-)

[zumatic]

IIRC for a while the Amiga calculator would crash the OS if you did that.

[nom]

now I get the urge to build a physical calculator that explodes if you try to calculate 0/0 :D

[jordache]

would be great if he reproduced the 3.11-3.10 subtraction bug

[vocatus_gate]

This site is my favorite page to put full-screen on coworkers' computers when they forget to lock their screens.

[lordofire]

Good idea:)

[graeham]

I was going to protest the full Lena image without a NSFW warning, but hadn't realised the full story of its history[1]...

The site in general is a beautiful work of art, a great blend of attention to detail with comedy of computing in that era.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna - tl;dr is this iconic test picture for computer imaging was a cropped Playboy centerfold from 1972. I've just finished a PhD which included a fair bit of image processing, but I was unaware of the story behind this iconic image.

[PostOnce]

You were going to protest it? And do you think anyone would care about your protest? Do you really expect everyone else to annotate the entire internet on your behalf? Despite the fact that this is a totally random, joke website that is almost certainly not work related?

What about people in countries or workplaces where "unacceptable" is a far broader and more oppressive net than "contains nudity", or places where nudity is fine? For whom do we annotate the internet? Maybe you should just disable auto-load of images in your browser or install a nudity filter.

This is insane.

[laumars]

The part that impressed me the most is you can drag and drop files from your own desktop onto this. It even opens those files in it's own editors when you double click the icon.

[marxdeveloper]

Woah shameless plug, my game is "Windows93 SP2" compatible it seems - right click on desktop - Create shortcut. Command: iframe https://data.mo.ee/index2.html?inapp=steam&node-webkit=1 --width=1280 --height=720

Title: RPG MO

(Don't leave a space before iframe in the command)

[krrrh]

This is a work of art. The ProgressQuest game loading screen is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. Like all well-told jokes, it's in the timing.

[scrame]

ProgressQuest[1] was an actual "game" many years ago. It was kind of the progenitor of the current incremental/idle games. Looks like its basically the whole thing compiled to this ui.

[1] http://progressquest.com/

[Jach]

It's been a good joke for a while, let it run in the bg of your workstation for years and see how high a level you can get! http://progressquest.com/

[shimon_e]

Back button goes back to previous app. If this can get the back button to work correctly why can't Google AMP?

[JulianWasTaken]

You call that correctly? It's a nightmare

[ahacker15]

Awesome that this even work well on mobile browsers!

Is this open source? So we could see how it was made?

[kowdermeister]

Sort of :) Explore the "c drive" to learn about the libs. I couldn't find an uncompressed version of the main code, but in the Chrome devtools most scripts are uncompresed.

[blntechie]

Amazing that this was built in HTML/JS/CSS.

[msq]

Open credits.txt on the desktop.

[flavio81]

Finally, an operating system for my Android phone that will let me do useful stuff, like playing Wolfenstallman 3D!!

[tambourine_man]

"Safari is the new Internet Explorer"

Accidental "works best in browser X" 90s reference right there.

I find Safari superior to every other browser on any platform in every possible metric except for dev tools, which took a nose dive when they ditched the open source WebKit one for this calamity.

[Nadya]

The joke isn't "works best in IE" the joke is "Safari is the default browser that ships with the OS, few people get a better browser, and even though it's a piece of shit you have to continue supporting it."

>I find Safari superior to every other browser on any platform in every possible metric except for dev tools

I could remove nearly 15% of my CSS if I stopped supporting Safari at work and I wouldn't need a hundred different quirky workarounds to make the sites look even remotely how they're supposed to look. It fights me every inch of the way and then has some of the worst dev tools for debugging where any issues are.

I'd rather support IE8 for eternity if it means I never have to write another `@media screen and (min-color-index:0) and(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {}` in my CSS again.

[maaaats]

Those using IE6 also thought it was the best for a long time. Only because developers adhered to it's quirks, though, so stuff worked there (and not in "better browsers"). In the same way people accommodate Safari today, otherwise you would have felt left out a long time ago.

[jrimbault]

> I find Safari superior to every other browser on any platform

I can't really disagree with you, but Safari is exclusive to macOS...

[TeMPOraL]

Took a cursory look for now; few things I love:

- Half Life 3

- Defrag <3.

- Running Windows93 inside Windows93 inside Windows93 inside Windows93...

A work of art, indeed. Kudos!

[elipsey]

bug report: i broke it by making a folder on the desktop, opening the folder, and putting the folder in itself.

now it's crashed and won't reload.

is there a work around for my workflow?

[abluecloud]

> /c/files/documents/private/SUPER TOP PRIVATE/THIS IS PRIVATE STOP/WHAT ARE YOU DOING/WHAT STOP PLEASE/I DID NOT GIVE YOU PERMISSION/PRIVATE GET THE HELL OUT/YOUR HURTING ME STOP/HOW HAVE I WRONGED YOU/I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE/PLEASE STOP ITS PRIVATE/I HATE YOU/

fair enough.

[strin]

At first, I thought this is a VNC connecting to a Win93 in a virtual machine.

Then I realized everything is written with web technology.

[josteink]

> At first, I thought this is a VNC connecting to a Win93 in a virtual machine.

That would be very impressive, considering that Windows 93 never existed.

[runnr_az]

That's clearly a labor of love. Nice job!

[koyote]

This is awesome!

It's also quite buggy (chrome/linux) which adds to the whole Windows 9x feeling. Not sure if intentional but well done anyhow!

[gerdesj]

I run the same(ish) as you. How are you killing it? It's been stable for me so far.

[joecool1029]

lol'd that it won't run in Mobile Safari (calls it new Internet Explorer) but will run in Microsoft Edge.

[std_throwaway]

You can actually win the game in the solitaire clone; the minesweeper clone not so much.

[Drakim]

Game -> Options -> Troll mode

Uncheck that box and you'll have a chance :D

[gallerdude]

Best ratio of Comedy:Operating System that I could have ever imagined.

[Paul_S]

Inspired. Microsoft should learn from this and include the "Reinstall" button in the start menu of windows 11.

[NTripleOne]

http://i.imgur.com/owqqiLA.png