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1. mrngld · 1790335816 · focus · HN ↗

   Corrected title: My Childhood Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

   1. acidburnNSA · 1790337956 · focus · HN ↗

      I've been maintaining an emulated Pentium Pro 200 MHz Windows 95 machine on 86Box for some time with all my favorite old software from childhood. It's great for nostalgia, and if friends come over they have fun showing their kids things like SkiFree, Jezzball, and Encarta 96. Still holds up great for kids.

      1. mrngld · 1790340693 · focus · HN ↗

         Yep, I showed my little ones Odell Down Under in the browser at one point, they loved it. A certain amount of that old software I copied to .iso from my physical CD's, but not sure where I could grab something like Encarta 96. Legally.

         Had also been thinking about asking Codex to boil the oceans in an attempt to fully decompile or reverse engineer that OG of 1990s 4X games, 'Stars!'*, which I have a copy of, so I could have something modern and native for MacOS that kept all the mechanics. Maybe I should just do this instead, will have to investigate.

         1. bombcar · 1790347839 · focus · HN ↗

            Many of those ISOs end up on archive.org if you dig around.

            Memories of the ISO mounting program I had; so nice for all the disks to live on the server and just be mounted when needed.

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