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This seems so amazing that I had to close it immediately, scared of how much time I would lose with it.
Awesome site, make sure you play the Castle Wolfenstein game and check out chapter 2 - "Operation Stallman".
It's the most /g/ thing I've seen all day.
Solitude even has the victory animation: http://i.imgur.com/IlSm5pE.png
Funnily enough if you leave the tab in the background, the events queue up and when you tab back there are a bunch of cards bouncing around at once: http://i.imgur.com/dNObRGb.png
Clever and artful, with a little nostalgia thrown in.
1993 was the year I started my undergrad and would not see a "web browser" until the following year. It's nice to re-capture a little of the spirit of what computing was like back then.
Tip: Be sure to click on the virus and after what happens happens, fling the icons around. Moments of mindless fun.
It has probably been shown plenty of times before, but here is a linux command-line javascript one too.
The trick in the "simulator" is to drink coffee, smoke cigarette, smoke weed then take lots of acid and procrastinate until the operating system is finished. Then launch it to finish game. I got 194 #Hero
You can also go to Paris at some point.
This is bringing back strong memories of messing around with QBASIC and Clickteam's The Games Factory.
My first game was called "Money 4 Nothing" and you moved a mouse-cursor locked guy around collecting floating cash piles and avoiding guards who usually just shot you on a loop.
In the trash, there's a zip that contains a link to this album:
I think it's funny to find an old bytebeat formula I made in this.
The snake game music when you click to defrag... Felt young and old at the same time.
The PlayStation boot sound kind of surprised me...
This is by hacker/musician Jankenpopp, which is why it links to their music.
Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7fKoamz0nY (for example)
http://jankenpopp.bandcamp.com/ (full free albums)
Pretty brilliant site. Unfortunately it locked up Chrome tight after I ran the 3d program and tried to close it along with running Wolfenstein.
If you open the recycle bin there's a zip file that actually downloads through your real browser to your real computer. I didn't bother opening it. It has a filename not everyone will immediately know how to delete. That's really not a funny thing to put out there.
I forgot about that hamster dance website! Talk about something that was ahead of it's time...
I love you, Internet.
so what's the stack on this? curious how this is done. Is this like the http://copy.sh/v86/ ?
something kinda vaporwave about this
My eyes and mind were not ready for that! This is brilliant!
Worth checking out The Old School Emulation Center on Archive.org
> The Old School Emulation Center (TOSEC) is a retrocomputing initiative dedicated to the cataloging and preservation of software, firmware and resources for microcomputers, minicomputers and video game consoles
WIndows 93 does not work on Safari mobile :/
I'm sure I'm not the only one who created a load of recursive virtual PC's inside one another. PCeption.
This is art.
Needs sheep.exe
I love the "VirtualPC" application. Recursive metahumor for the win!
Love that there's an Atari ST and ZX emulator running inside of this.
I actually had Virtual Girl running for a few days in my teenage years :)
The corgi doesn't work as expected. Can I return this for a refund?
You can cheat on the "Solitude game" (that I finished few times already) by double-clicking on hidden cards to add them to the top if they are the matching cards.
The Window Manager and opening/closing/dragging/resizing effects were really impressive for 1993. Way more than Mac at the time, or even Linux 3-4 years later.
I must be crazy but when I opened this up on my phone, I thought " with a few more tweaks, this could be my go l-to mobile UI"
Does everyone else have their Microsoft lottery winner certificate? I'm itching to cash mine in for that € 250k.
It's tricky to win at SOLITUDE when the first deuce played to a foundation just disappears.
Hell yeah! That must have taken a whoooole lot of fun programming time to develop that.
Someone have a guesstimate?
I love the individual soundtracks for all the applications. They're so well-done.
Pre IE, no simulation levels
I love classic software such as windows 95. I love this!
That bounce on window open is really annoying
Why does it play the PS1 startup noise?
Old but gold.
This is pretty amazing.. well done!
The sad part is the author did a better than Microsoft did and half of the programming was in turing incomplete languages.
I love the Vaporwave vibes
Kinda disappointed that Puke Data isn't interactive. ;- )
needs sheep.exe
Is this magic?
I love this!
neat
This seems so amazing that I had to close it immediately, scared of how much time I would lose with it.
c:\libs has all the javascript you need ;)
I love these things.
It's pretty amazing how much classic software can actually run, and works pretty well. The Wolf3D clone is totally playable, and you can actually use LSDJ (one of my all-time favorite pieces of software), and it seems to be actually running the real LSDJ, too, which is pretty impressive, considering that it means that the site actually has an embedded gameboy emulator