[OFB Cafe] Old Computers for Old Guys

[dep]

said saki:

| I rather think it may have been GEM, but may have been Windows 3.1.
| Whichever it was it was flakey but fun.

gem was cute . . . not as ghastly as the windows-386 runtimes that got 
shipped with things like pagemaker and corel draw.

though the best of the dos-based guis was geoworks. tiny and incredibly 
fast -- written in assembler -- and even the first gui for aol, on those 
floppies. i really would like to get it from the archives and see if it 
can be made to run in dosemu.

related, kinda: i have two machines here that have xp installs on 
seldom-booted partitions. seems to me there ought to be a way to point 
wine to them and run apps using the genuine windows code, or at least some 
of it. has anybody done this? apparently there is no way to get vmware to 
boot an existing partition, which is maybe the stupidest thing in the 
world. (there is a screenshot around here someplace -- it was 
in "practical kde" -- of i think a win-95 app, a dos word processor, and 
win-3.1 with the legendary microsoft bob, all running in a vmware virtual 
machine. useless computer stunts can be fun.
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dep

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