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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2017
- It's back! What's on my Disk! Episode 11! For this episode I have a single high density 3.5" floppy which claims to contain a whopping 2.5MB of ESSENTIAL Windows Programs... I may have already overwritten these with other things, I may have not. What's clear is that;
a) We need to find out exactly what is on this disk, and
b) If it contains the original programs, we need to determine whether they are truly "essential".
Let's find out, What's on My Disk!
Spoilers:
Backgammon
Block Breader
"IT Utilities"
MDI Fly
Star True Type Fonts
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Regarding MDI functionality... I was actually thinking of OLE (3 letters is clearly my mind's breaking point). MDI allows for multiple documents in a single parent window. OLE allows for "Object Linking & Embedding".
Pretty Fly for a White Guy is the actual song title by Offspring.
I've lost interest now. Seeya.
Bad RUclipsr! You deprived me of something to whinge about. ;)
OLE is also the predecessor to COM, which APIs such as Direct* are based on.
Essential? But there's no Shareware copy of Doom on it.
That was on the disks before this.
New video idea: NN sings 90's pop-punk songs, including all your favourites: Too Fly For A White Guy, All Some Small Things, How Old Am I Again, Zippy Lock, Teenage Dirtball, Basketbag and The Kids Are Okay
I like you. You're amusing.
Oh my goodness, I had this disc too. Those fonts are bringing back soooo many memories (mostly of teachers being annoyed that I used them for headings). :)
Does it have global thermonuclear war?
Greetings, Professor Falken.
I remember buying that exact disk and it's magazine. Many happy memory's of unzipping and then installing games and programs in the 90's
MDI applications are things like Photoshop that allowed multiple documents to be open at once inside a single window as "child" windows. It seems that MDI Fly added a lot of the functionality for arranging child windows that existed by default in the Windows 9x interfaces for MDI applications.
You are of course correct... I was thinking of OLE.... Apparently, my brain just witnessed 3 letters and exploded.
12:46 ohhh that Monica Lewinsky's book...
I love these unknown disk episodes. So cool seeing all these weird utility/game programs.
You are pretty lucky with your floppies, about half of mine turned unreadable over the decades. :-)
Trust me. I've got a good stack of unreadable ones. I'm going to try them with some other drives in case of head alignment issues, etc. You can usually get a few more working through that route.
You can try dd_rescue and a lot of patience, or there's a crude but sometimes-useful program called stitcher I wrote years ago - a bit from one drive, a bit from another, a bit of luck, sometimes works.
@Vyl Bird interesting idea, i never tried dd_rescue with a floppy, since mine never contained much of a treasure.
um, the hack is baking them if u can't recover them. most tape based stuff can be baked to use once and mirror it, tho u should watch some vids on baking tapes before trying...
Wow. I remember using Norton Disk Doctor back in the day.
Some time I wish I had my disk´s from back in the day but I lost them or threw them away.
Loved this series, brought back a lot of memories, easy to forget what a big deal screen savers were back in the day.
Who else misses the noise of dot matrix printers?
HaydenX if thats the commadore 64 one yes but dont miss tearing the paper boarders off
+Simon Brown
For me, it was a particular dot matrix that my dad's workplace used. They used IBMs. Sometimes I would go to my dad's workplace when he had to do some kind of work on an odd day and there would be a free computer. We didn't have a pc at home, so this was the computer I got to play World Class Leaderboard and Doom on. But he'd be printing invoices and shipping stuff, so I would be shooting demons while listening to that mechanical sound.
Ain't No Cushion Thick Enough. God, how I loved printing in the middle of the night, especially using an enhancement prog to get NLQ. That prog was pretty good (don't remember its name) but made for many more passes and much more screetching from my Amstrad 9-pin..
If I want that sound, I just go to my doctor.
Wow this brings back memories to the old days of PC Magazines. Still remember the old school PC Gamer disks
When I used to install softwares from floppy disks, I was always focused on the error messages I knew I'd get rather than just thinking about having the software installed...
"replaced by winzip"..
Ah Winzip, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time..
7zip master race here. XD
That same Block Breaker game came on some RadioShack windows games floppy disk back in the early 90s. One of the few games I had as a kid and had totally forgotten about it until now!
Block Breaker was one of my favorite games as a kid, that very same program you found on the disk. Was the first Breakout / Arkanoid clone I'd ever played.
"Upsettingly Small", I hope for you're sake it's not a 3.5" Floppy either :P
Another interesting video, thank you.
I remember that disk! Good grief... memories.
Of course a backgammon game is essential ...
Good video as ever. thx.
Woah, Windows runs like lightning on your PC! You running some sort of 100Mhz CPU supercomputer??
Windows 3.11 always runs like lightning. It went downhill from there.
Your good at block breaker, which had so many more better rememberal names. I can skill to work with the ball in sync at least a slow level.
I remember now getting full versions of software I could never ever make use of - Like Quicken.... but I was so interested that I had a go anyway.
2:38 A file viewer in Windows File Manager.
A feature technically (not couting sidebar previews) STILL not in Windows yet but has existed in macOS since Leopard.
I do miss that MS-DOS Editor. I like working from the Command Prompt sometimes so it used to be a very much-used tool of mine, wish they would ship a version that can run on 64-bit Windows!
I'm kicking myself, I had some computer magazine cdroms from late 90's early 2000's, thinking back they had some cool stuff. you would open the index.html file on CD-ROM to bring up a webpage on disk with a directory of the game demos, free software etc. brings up some cool memories of the early days of surfing the web lol.
I wonder if Block Breaker was a nod to Steve Woz
i need that BJ Book font. For research purposes of course
I remember buying a magazine just for the Daggerfall demo. That provided months of entertainment.
awesome programs! loved the video. could you share the recycle bin prog?
Wow, that took all the fun out of bumblef**kery.
about the MIDI problem; the speaker sound driver in win3.1 has no midi functionality. In those days the soundcards had real midi chips on them to play midi sounds (unlike modern soundcards, where it's done by software). So since you're already playing wave through the speaker (all done by cpu, but for wave it's not that big of a hit on the system) you're missing that midi chip (eg. a Yamaha chip, on the Soundblaster cards they used the same as you could find in the synthesizers)
the Midi interface is also used for coupling a synthesizer to your pc and let the pc record your played notes (not the sound, but the actual midi codes) and you could use that same midi port for connecting joysticks; for which is was actually used more often than for connecting sound devices. (as you'll remember back then USB didn't exist and joysicks had this 15-pin midi-connector)
You're correct, but I'm not missing the MIDI hardware (at least in the eyes of Windows). I'm running DOSBox which has MIDI pass-through/emulation support... I just wasn't using the correct drivers to access it, as I'd been using a PC Speaker driver in a previous video.
Glad we've cleared that up.
Thank you!!!
I remember playing block breaker for hours back in the day. Why!
full playthrough of block breaker please, the plot seemed cool
Oh wow, I remember playing block breaker as a kid, pity it didn't have the midi working on this, I remember it being annoyingly catchy :)
I have the install disks to Windows 3.1
install it using oracle virtualbox
LOVE this series. Make it all the way to "What's on my Floppy #61"
EDIT: Wait, Disk 18 at the 8:42 time. More coming?
I used to get a load of cover disks free because I knew someone who worked in a paper recycling factory getting the unsold magazines.
Thanks, doc.
That font is the same one you used for your 486 image you created in paintbrush and featured on a previous episode!
Do you have a link to a download of your 'dosbits' folder? It seems like it'd be useful.
I keep meaning to pop a few bits out like this. I shall.... keep an eye on my Twitter.
Someone with a little disposable income should try to register as many ancient shareware programs as s/he can just to test the success rate.
That backgammon by Geoarge, I remember it as being everywhere
I wonder just how large a capacity a floppy disk would have if it was manufactured today, since we've progressed a crapton since the 80s...
did you try installing the one that failed directly from the floppy disk? or from a directory with a "normal" name, not a long name, you copied it to something~1, that's a win9x long file name. (which I find weird, how did you do that on a dos 6.x w3.x partition? do you have both systems on the same machine? I'm curious, I used to run "dos 7.10 with windows 4.10" and 6.22 with win 3.1 on the same machine).
edit: oh, nevermind, you are using dosbox, that explains it.
wasn't it pretty fly for a white guy, not too fly?
Herbie Husker yah
I was so frustrated when you said that I was like "BOY YOU WHAT" haha
Wasn't it Pretty Fly for a Rabbi?
That was a parody.
I love these videos. It reminds me of when I was a kid and I'd find an old C90 with loads of old games on and load them in one by one on my CPC.
2.5 Megabytes of space? What insanity be this?! Do they think everybody has a 5 GB Hard Drive?!
been cool to see them new fants printed on an old printer
1:59 Whoa what a very customised Windows 3.1 install...
Please revive this series, 'Nerd!
Did you ever play the game hidden on the Windows disk (95-98 probably other versions too) called Hover?
Yes! Loved it. Definitely video material.
Thought you might, best played with a gamepad, I used to play using a Microsoft SideWinder pad that plugged into sound card port, back in the day.
are you using an emulator or a real machine? this video really makes me want to start putting together an old 486 or something
emulation
I'll be honest, I don't miss this shit.
Wow a trash can utility! What a time to be alive (in 1995)!
Man you honestly crack me up.Your skills in dos are also impressive.I accidentally blew up my 486 in 98 by hitting that switch on my psu.Was a good bang though.
That switch was mighty tempting.... I can't blame you. I mean it was RED. REEEDDD.
Tigger Warnings please when you switch abruptly to a BLUE SCREEN!!!! :D
2.5mb on a floppy?! What witchery is this?
Edit: Also PKZip was pleb tier - ARJ was the shiznitz. =D
PKZip witchery as it happens.
Nostalgia Nerd pkzip was used on the disks as it was free to distribute, but the most important was it was the smallest executable, leaving room for more PD awesomeness
My IBM PS/2 has evolved past your 1.44 MiB-centric world view :) The grass is greener (ahem, bluer) over here. Come on over and enjoy 2.88 MiB floppies with the rest of us :P
Don't mind Mr. OS/2 in the corner there... he still hasn't come out of the closet and insists he's a Windows clone. He keeps to himself and won't bother you.
Since the man did not license his pkware software he became a penniless drunk. So sad.
Pkzip 2.04g. shit i still remember it like 1,474,560.
LHA was my fav back in the day.
Just seeing the likes of PKUNZIP is all I needed for the nostalgia fix, the rest was just the icing on top :D
Get on with it!! Sorry I typed that in the first few seconds of the show.
I can't find "Paghetti Condensed" font but all the others work OK in windows 10!
Mic audio is peaking quite a bit in this one, did you do something different?
Some people are scared of The Hell. I wonder why?
Beats me. I'd be more scared of things which were real.... like people who have access to nuclear codes.
Nostalgia Nerd Well said.
Wouldnt it be funny if he found 90's pr0n on his disk... XD
...A 2-frame, 24 by 24 pixel GIF. Of a woman having a seizure.
That too would be funny!
or 69
Chicken Bites In 1995-96, I was looking for a blank floppy disk near the family computer. I thought I found one, but when I put it in, there were 3 low-res jpgs of a nude paraplegic woman.
Fun fact: when in later years started giving CDs, some magazines actually had pr0n. You had to do some weird combination in a specific sub-menu or write the password.
Give it to me baby
uh huh, uh huh
I know I have some 3.5" Floppy disks laying around with Diablo 2 characters on them somewhere lol
You fiddling with useless computer problems in dos/3.1 is quite entertaining
Even more so for me.
Good god that Windows colour scheme, hehe.
It's called.. "Perfection".
Charging people for freeware/shareware. I miss the 90's.
I do NOT miss this version of windows!!
Richard Servello it was cool tho.
Ah, the days when the root of the C: drive was invariably filled with garbage from installs and from leftovers. You don't get that these days, programs just store all their garbage in your Windows documents folder instead...
you do know you can close in Win 3.x by double clicking the menu button thing right?
Double clicking top-left part of the window title bar still works in every version of Windows since!
you got 11 weapons of mass destruction?
only your undertaker knows for sure
I like the pink and green color theme. I wonder what its called
Helledie hell hell!
Get on with it!!
whats in the arnold folder? hey arnold episodes? :D
arcticridge one second, 'ill be back'
I always thought disks were 1.44 mb ? I know there were double density drives but they weren't standard. Not in the States at least
Double density disks were 720KB, but as far as I know there were never "single density" 3½” disks. This is still relative to the 5¼” disks!
Futurewise, sounds like Newspeak.
PKUNZIP!!! I haven't seen that name in years.
You forgot to show the "Freely" font :)
The color scheme reminds me of TOS.
DOSBox?
4:07 You rolled a 5... and a 7.... wait... wut?
Your sound is higher pitched. Why?
That's a lot of data...lel
@1:00 -- Hmmm... that looks a little more like 1.1 MB than 2.5 MB...
@2:25 -- Those are clearly "It" utilities, not "IT" utilities...
omg pkuzip files :p
2.5MB of content on a 1.44MB disk?
it is 'Pretty Fly For A White Guy'....
Um now its 100 gb of esential programs
Hells bells some one got butthurt over a word named hell. Oh noes. xD
XTree ... my Best Friend 🥰
Dos Shell.
And all the girls say I'm pretty fly for a white guy!
The song was called A pretty fly for a white guy, I believe.
_So far away_ from their second album was my favorite Offspring song. An Offspring song was also used in the arcade version of _Crazy Taxi._
Winzip NO 7Zip YES!
There's a MOUNTAIN named BJ????