Windows 93 in JavaScript

[barbs]

In the trash can there's a strange zip file you can download. Unzipping it reveals a readme.txt, which says:

Sorry, no album download for the moment, our server is under reddit hug... The album is also here : https://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/album/poire-c-poire-v

Going to this bandcamp it mentions:

THE IDEA BEHIND THIS ALBUM WAS TO MAKE A DEVIANT DANCE MUSIC LABEL TO RELEASE THIS HORRIBLE TRACKS, BUT THIS PROJECT WENT TOTALLY WRONG AND BECAME THE THING KNOWS AS WWW.WINDOWS93.NET THERE IS A LIMITED SD-CARD EDITION OF THIS ALBUM THAT YOU CAN BUY FROM ME IRL FOR 10€ THIS ALBUM WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR FREE BUT HIDDEN ON WIN93 SOON, IF YOU SUCCEED TO FIND IT.

So I guess that's the backstory.

[itsjareds]

I also found this in the "What if?" app that is apparently a collection of Matrix memes.

http://i.imgur.com/aq8NAO3.jpg

>What if I told you

>Jankenpopp's new album is in the trash

[chris_wot]

It's that "Glitch Grrrlz" icon.

[Lerc]

It is somewhat disconcerting to discover that someone has made what is essentially a version of my current project as a gag.

[krapp]

Maybe you could consider it a hilarious proof of concept?

[magoon]

I can't believe I just got sucked into Solitaire on this thing

[yaddayadda]

You mean "SOLITUDE"? ;-)

[Natsu]

I'm too busy listening to it defrag this thing.

[UweSchmidt]

Funny and, for a gag, surprisingly thorough and complete.

Could you please allow closing windows by doubleclicking on the top-left(!) corner of a window? I kinda need that (e.g. this still works for the file explorer on Windows 7, even though there is no icon).

[anonymfus]

Since Windows 8 system menu icon reappeared in file explorer's titlebar.

[bpodgursky]

I'm playing snake... in a Windows defragmenter, in JavaScript. I'm lost for words.

[clarkm]

Glad to know I'm not the only one who clicked on the defrag button first.

[yincrash]

This website just taught me that there is an HTML5 Speech Synthesis API! And there are so many accents you can choose from!

[thomasfoster96]

Well, it's a separate API that only Chrome and Safari support, and the accents are all on your computer already.

[NotHereNotThere]

Pretty interesting! Started playing with the nested virtual machines, windows93 stopped loading after the 9th instance ;)

[anujku]

What music it is when you start the defrag program ? I am sure I know the tune but just dont remember it ? some old game ?

[weslly]

The groovy blue ringtone from old nokia phones. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCI_TL69rIE

[smegel]

1. What is Windows93?

2. That worked scarily well on my 3.5" Android phone (chrome).

[juhohei]

This is great! Nice easter eggs, too: "Cat Explorer" redirects facebook.com to ello.co.

[ikeboy]

Try reddit and google. Wonder if there's a list somewhere ...

[dang]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8507786

[CodeWriter23]

"totally not a virus" was quite amusing.

[techonup]

PokeGlitch is surprisingly playable (if you're very familiar with Red), once you get past the two-minute Growl move sound.

e: Or not, as the Viridian PokeCenter crashed the game. Was fun while it lasted, though.

[cyorir]

My favorite is pokeglitch. Otherwise this is before my time, I've never seen 93/95/98 (my elementary school had machines running 2000 and DOS, though).

[diroussel]

There was no Windows 93. 95 was the first release named after a year.

[Natsu]

Windows 3.1 was before Windows 95.

One of my former employers was using DOS not that many years ago (well after 2000), using Novell netware for networking. I wrote a backup program (glorified xcopy script) for it, automatic patching (autoexec.bat called a script on the network drive), and a few other things.

[techonup]

The move Growl plays every sound in the game once- this is hilarious.

[chris_wot]

I feel old.

[jameshk]

There's a virtual PC, which is Windows 93 on Windows 93.

[xbenjii]

Um.

https://xbenjii.co.uk/i/jcu1Z

[ttty]

Yes (: virtual machine into browser!

[johnboiles]

yo dawg....

[WA]

Ah, very nice. And everything is there:

Stupid games, random images, random sound snippets you really had to have on your computer, nice gradient background (anyone ever changed the color gradient of the title bar with TuneUp 97 or whatever that was called?)

Nostalgia.

Edit: Oh god, Acid Box... one of my first DirectDraw attempts with a tutorial had me program a sin-wave with almost exactly that font.

[itsjareds]

If anyone is interested in playing the roms in /C/files/roms/sms/, they can be played with an emulator like Kega Fusion[1]. There is a decently sized collection of games...

http://www.carpeludum.com/kega-fusion/

[manofsound]

Can someone please tell me where the start-up sound is from? It's so familiar.

[draebek]

I think it's either the Playstation (1) or Playstation 2 start-up sound.

[ttoti]

It's Playstation 1 start up

[edgarvm]

Solitaire (Solitude) is nice but it has a weird bug, some cards cannot be found