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    1995, obviously. But I also wouldn't mind 1992.
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    Windows 8 for me, it seems simple and clean.
    it's hip to be square
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    I loved DOOM, Hexen, Heretic game-family back in the day. Nothing ever came close to them in regards to gameplay, store, even soundtracks. Games such as these were thought to be fun not like these days where you first hire psychologists to make the game addicted and then make it fun.
    John Romero is the last of dying breed I'm affraid. And I am too. Have a lot of respect and love for old-school programmers, administrators who are just in the business for the love of doing it and not money. Unfortunately there aren't many people like him left.


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    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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    What could be more retro than this?

    https://commodorez.tumblr.com/post/1...ing-stream-the
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    https://github.com/OBattler/86Box

    This is a sort of middle point between DOSBox and VMWare... it's not a full-fledged virtual machine, but it emulates the BIOS for the components. You can choose the corresponding ROM for each computer part (motherboard, video, disk drive, sound, network card, even disk controller) and build anything from an 80s XT to a (comparatively) modern Socket 7/8 computer with a Pentium II.

    I can't wait to install Windows 95 with it
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    I remembered eMule. Such a slow, malware-prone, piece-of-crap p2p application. It was even worse than DC++.
    And I've always wondered why eMule was way more popular than DC++.
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    Let me tell you about that time I downloaded Norton SystemWorks from eMule and the file ended up an XXX anal movie...

    I eventually became better at detecting fakes. Using eMule over dial-up on 2002 felt so exciting, though (At least, until the phone bill came)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor
    I remembered eMule. Such a slow, malware-prone, piece-of-crap p2p application. It was even worse than DC++.
    And I've always wondered why eMule was way more popular than DC++.
    afaik
    seeding a lot was a way to speed it up, getting data chunks with higher priority than others
    the app itself was not malware-prone, but there were people filling the network with malicious and fake contents
    there were public indexing sites for trustworthy files
    it came earlier than DC++, it was open to all, the network allowed integration in other apps (shareaza) alongside other networks, you didn't have to bother with channels, private channels, where only a certain kind, a certain amount of shared material was allowed, there were other popular apps at the time (napster, kazaa, audiogalaxy, winmx, soulseek), etc.
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    eMule's chunks are always 9.5 MB, and you need to have at least one complete chunk before you can upload anything. Compare this with BitTorrent's pieces, which are dynamically sized and can be as small as 16 KB. Downloads in eMule aren't slow per se, but the vast majority of your time is spent in queues... waiting until you can finally start. And the consequences of not being connectable are more severe than in other filesharing methods (the waiting becomes even longer, and many servers won't accept you at all), it's essentially mandatory if you want to get anywhere.

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    there were public indexing sites for trustworthy files
    Filedonkey!
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    lol, I still use emule when I can't find files to download from anywhere (mainly old tv shows)
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    When someone asks "where can I find thing X", guess which is the first place I look into.

    It once took me two months to get a rare movie off it, but eventually I made it. With subtitles
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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    https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile

    This is retro, right?
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    https://github.com/rn10950/RetroZilla

    This has "retro" in its name so it has to be!
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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    Code:
    http://system32dreams.tumblr.com/
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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