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Grateful for the continued windows 95 updates at least. (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Haven't seen the default VB6 Form icon in a while...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was about to say, why can I still identify what version of visual studio used to make this nearly 3 decades on.

I can remember the Mondrian style icon that was the default for the first versions of .net

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In the case of VB6 I'd blame trauma, personally. The default Winforms icon is kinda nostalgic for me. <3

[–] JulesTheModest 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I actually miss VB...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Me too and Borland Delphi, they were chill for programming small GUI tools.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can still use VB.net

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I saw it like 2 or 3 years ago when I was still making a Banking app on it....

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is real?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1.6 GB HD back then...I wish.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's a ludicrous amount of storage that will last you a lifetime!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I remember scoring a 540mb Western Digital and thinking it would be the last hard drive If ever need.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"baldur gate 3" and "starfield" laugh track in the background

[–] ZombiFrancis 8 points 1 year ago

Those hard drive sizes were blown out of the water by 2002. More like Neverwinter Nights and Morrowind laughing in the background.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It definitely lasted the OS's lifetime

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could Windows 95 really run well on only 32 megs of RAM?

[–] ratman150 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Officially the min required amount of ram is 4mb for win95 and 70mb of disk space.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just an fyi minimum for XP is 64mb.

But it is totally possible to run a striped down install on 32mb and not have it just abuse the swap space. With a under 120mb install space.

[–] LucyLastic 7 points 1 year ago

I bought it on release (on floppy disks) and it did indeed run on 4mb of ram ... it took about 10 mins to boot, and was grinding the disk for swap constantly, but it did run :-)

16mb was plenty for it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I did tech support for a computer line that had Windows 95 on 8MB of RAM. It was pretty snappy for its time. Windows 3.1 flew on that hardware.

32MB of RAM on a PC? Only UNIX workstations and servers had that kind of luxury.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

my first win 95 pc had a whopping 8MB of ram. I got into programming on that thing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Somehow I want to be a thing, and ported to every computer imaginable under the sun.