Windows 10 - What a BULLY!

[rogue06]

Windows 1 - 1985

Always liked it too

[One Bad Pig]

Windows 3.1 was the one that had that skiing game with the abominable snow man/yeti, right? The first PC our family used had Windows 95 (Although we also had some kind of Amiga before that), but I remember playing the aforementioned skiing game on our relatives' computer and I think what they had on that computer was 3.1.

I don't think that game came with it. If I remember, I'll check when I get home; I have Win 3.11 installed on an old PC.

[Cow Poke]

I don't think that game came with it. If I remember, I'll check when I get home; I have Win 3.11 installed on an old PC.

It seems like there was an accessory pack that came with some promotional versions of Win 3.11. 3.11 was the one that was touted to be the "home network" version - it was a nightmare, because NOWHERE in the documentation did it EXCLUDE Arcnet as one of the supported infrastructures... HOWEVER, when I called Microsoft and griped about how my entire Thanksgiving Weekend got ruined because of this, they FLOODED me with all kinds of free Microsoft products!

[JonathanL]

I don't think that game came with it. If I remember, I'll check when I get home; I have Win 3.11 installed on an old PC.

I think you're right. It was made for Windows 3.x, but it didn't come with the OS itself, it was part of the "Windows Entertainment Pack" according to wiki.

[Carrikature]

I think you're right. It was made for Windows 3.x, but it didn't come with the OS itself, it was part of the "Windows Entertainment Pack" according to wiki.

That sounds right. I played it on Win 95, but we had other games that were installed on Win 3.11. Some of the better ones booted from DOS.

Dark Castle is the first game I remember playing, but that wasn't on Windows.

[Cerebrum123]

Windows 3.1 was the one that had that skiing game with the abominable snow man/yeti, right? The first PC our family used had Windows 95 (Although we also had some kind of Amiga before that), but I remember playing the aforementioned skiing game on our relatives' computer and I think what they had on that computer was 3.1.

Ski Free. That game was awesome. Once did a jump so long that 3 yetis came, and ate each other then my character.

[NorrinRadd]

I went ahead and upgraded to 10, only because I figured MS would, without warning, stop supporting Win7 and simultaneously start charging for an upgrade. It's not like I was in love with Win7 anyway.

"Mainstream" support for 7 ended over a year ago. "Security" updates persist until 2020. See here, inter alia. However, this does not seem to jibe with my own experience. I continue to receive updates not labeled "Security"; as I suspect most of them are attempts to weasel Win 10 onto my system, I reject them.

My objection to 10 is that I love 7, and I'm concerned about the Win 10 EULA, privacy, "phone-home," and "Windows-as-service" issues raised by various people.

[rogue06]

Always liked it too

Oops. I was thinking Windows 95. That was the one we had at work.

[Sparko]

Ski Free. That game was awesome. Once did a jump so long that 3 yetis came, and ate each other then my character.

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/ski_free_remake

[JonathanL]

http://www.onemorelevel.com/game/ski_free_remake

The music in that remake is seriously annoying, and I can't find a way to shut it off.

You can download a 32-bit remake from the original creator of the game from this website:

http://ski.ihoc.net/

[DesertBerean]

We didn't get any Windows for a long time in the 80s...the first machine I ever got to use then was an IBM DisplayWriter which was a decent word processor with 8 1/2 inch floppies that held a whopping 100 pages worth of text each! I'm trying to remember the first Win version we actually got. 3.11 was the first network one, wasn't it? I believe we got the version before that. I do recall that war nearly broke out when the network version was rolled out...nobody liked it.

[Cow Poke]

OK, cloned my main laptop's hard drive to a bigger one* using AOMEI Backupper software -- I love that program! -- and successfully swapped hard drives....

now, downloading Win 10

PRAY, CHURCH!!!!



1T solid state!

[Christianbookworm]

Will a terabyte of storage space be small in twenty years?

[Cow Poke]

Will a terabyte of storage space be small in twenty years?

Sure, but the laptop will be obsolete in 2.

[mikewhitney]

We didn't get any Windows for a long time in the 80s...the first machine I ever got to use then was an IBM DisplayWriter which was a decent word processor with 8 1/2 inch floppies that held a whopping 100 pages worth of text each! I'm trying to remember the first Win version we actually got. 3.11 was the first network one, wasn't it? I believe we got the version before that. I do recall that war nearly broke out when the network version was rolled out...nobody liked it.

Usually an ethernet networking software from Novell or Lantronix was a better bet in those early days.