Upgrading through every version of Windows. - General

I thought this was really cool and interesting! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14&feature=topvideos[/media]

He goes through almost every single windows OS and he's complaining about it not keeping his desktop settings? Actually I take that back I missed the part where he said it would have lasted through 23 years of compatability.

I think this shit is older than i am. After looking it up, Windows 1.0 is older than i am by about 4 years and 2 months. I never considered 20, turning 21 this year, would make me feel older than i am. I remember 95 and 98.

Interesting, very interesting. This would be a fun project to do over a weekend.

Holy shit! I thought it was impossible to do.

Played my first games on a 386 with windows 3.11 and my granduncle had an Amiga. Good times. My Grand-Cousin had Doom 1 and Dune 2 and I was 8 or something when I played that during boring family dinners over there. SkiFree all day.

Pretty cool that extremely old Windows apps can still work in Windows 7. I also didn't know that color scheme settings carried over the older Windows versions. Really cool.

The most suprising part for me was that the Windows 1.0 programs ran without any problems on Win7.

Now try this with an apple computer.

Fuck yeah reversi :razz:

[QUOTE=Bellminator;28418052]Now try this with an apple computer.[/QUOTE] You'd have to be fucking Richard Branson for that kind of shit.

[QUOTE=Saxon;28418728]Fuck yeah reversi :razz:[/QUOTE] I got Game of the Year for making a Reversi game in Game Dev Story.

Oh gawd, the nostalgia

Heh i remember when i used windows 3.1 It was pretty simple and i mostly used dos to launch games. Now it feels like it happened ages ago.

[QUOTE=ripsipiirakk;28424320]Heh i remember when i used windows 3.1 It was pretty simple and i mostly used dos to launch games. Now it feels like it happened ages ago.[/QUOTE] Well it did.

"Twatface" :v:

That was really interesting and awesome for some strange reason I want those legacy applications

[QUOTE=ripsipiirakk;28424320]Heh i remember when i used windows 3.1[/QUOTE] Oh god, i rememeber that. Sooooo Ollldddd.

That was pretty awesome.

[QUOTE=Bellminator;28418052]Now try this with an apple computer.[/QUOTE] i don't think that's possible because early apple os can only run on early apple computers. and early apple computers most likely cant run newer os. try running tiger on the apple plus or lisa! the apple plus doesn't even have a hard drive!

I like how he spoke really formally and scientifically but kept putting "twatface" as the company name :v:

[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;28416931]The most suprising part for me was that the Windows 1.0 programs ran without any problems on Win7.[/QUOTE] And some people say the compatibility with 7 is bad.... hah.

I wonder if it would be different if he upgraded from Windows 1.0 straight to Windows 7.

Perfect timing. I'm writing a biography about Gates for school :awesome:

Now that's awesome, I'm impressed.

this guy has an amazingly sexy voice [editline]5th March 2011[/editline] i'd tap that voice [editline]5th March 2011[/editline] i'd tap it gooood

[QUOTE=Fhenexx;28429244]I wonder if it would be different if he upgraded from Windows 1.0 straight to Windows 7.[/QUOTE] Very Different. As in, impossible.

If he were to upgrade to 64-bit versions of Vista or 7, it would've destroyed the compatibility with the DOS games and all the 16-bit applications.

[QUOTE=michaeldim;28436676]If he were to upgrade to 64-bit versions of Vista or 7, it would've destroyed the compatibility with the DOS games and all the 16-bit applications.[/QUOTE] I can play Doom 1 on 64-bit; what are you going on about?

[img]http://i54.tinypic.com/35jgoq9.png[/img] [url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/282423]Here[/url] They also removed the built-in MS-DOS visualization program that had been in all 32-bit NT based OS's in the 64-bit version.