#windowsxp
Hey hey.
Yet another post about #VCFWest because the maps and layout just went up.
I’m all the way at the end of the main hall, exhibit 1/The Aero Aesthetic. Come on by on August 1-2, come get your streetpass on if you have a 3DS. Or get a 3D-printed bauble. And maybe play some games or confess your love to whoever’s sitting on one of the other machines via AIM.
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/vcf-west-2025-layout/
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My elderly friend Elaine's system has been aging poorly lately. It's got 6GB of RAM and a dual-core cpu.
She mainly uses it to keep in touch with family and play open source games like mahjong and solitaire.
She explicitly requested #LinuxMint w/ #cinnamon because #Windows is too complicated (she came from #windowsxp before trying #Windows8 )
NewEgg had a $240 Optiplex 7040 that is a massive upgrade over her old AIO. SSD, 32GB DDR4, Quad Core i5, etc.
Old hardware still has a use.
@kopio @shaknais Doesn't matter.
I'd just recommend to yeet #Windows and be done with it.
Even if that was a #WindowsXP-era machine, something like @bunsenlabs would turn it into a perfectly fine desktop that barely sips resources.
Seriously, #Linux #distros should really have a sort-of #Tour program like #WindowsXP:
The NC10 was dead. BIOS beeps, no POST, nothing.
I tried Debian. I tried 7. I gave up.
Then I didn’t.
I stuck the motherboard in the oven.
And somehow, it booted.
What followed was two full days of ISO failures, update errors, driver hell, and one buried ISO that saved everything.
XP is back. On the original hardware.
New post is up:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025-day-5-what-happens-now/
#DeadOSWalking #windowsxp #retrocomputing
In your opinion, what is the "correct" version of MS Visual Studio to run on #WindowsXP?
Retrocomputing adventure of the day: installed Windows XP alongside Windows 98 on my retro machine. On a whole different disk to prevent it from overwriting the MBR on the disk Windows 98 is on. Well guess what? It did it anyway. #retrocomputing #windows98 #windowsxp
People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.
I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.
No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.
Display drivers broke four times.
Serpent is the only browser I could get working.
I installed Office 2003.
Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.
NVDA still works fine.
I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.
I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dead-os-walking-30-days-on-windows-xp-in-2025/
#WindowsXP #Accessibility #BlindComputing #RetroTech
#NVDA #JAWS #audiogames
#30DaysOfXP
@cleverboi @FandaSin @BrodieOnLinux @neal to answer your question stuff like @rasteri 's #Wee86 * & #WeeCee ** are quite common in #embedded & #industrial setups because as much superior the #Atom Z520 and E3815 are, these have been discontinued unlike the #Vortex86 SoCs!
- Plus there is no good #ISA support with modern SoC's (Pretty shure not even on AMD's SoC's & #VIA has axed their #ix86)...
Yes, I hate #Microsoft & dislike the fact that people.use #MSDOS despite it being deprecated longer than #WindowsXP exists but someone's gotta have to do #DataRecovery or at least #backup & #restore said systems' drives...
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Windows XP Installation Music (Vapourwave edit)
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@fuchsiii @krutonium it was.
I had a laptop with dedicaded GPU and 2GB of RAM back then and it striggled so hard that I literally downgraded to #WindowsXP!
Same folks are the equivalent of #WindowsXP / #Winfows7 holdouts...
So yeah, #Windows is literally the problem!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50Q
- Also isn't it funny that Windows 11 can't even do proper sleep when this was a problem Linux #Laptops had like 20 years ago and neither #WindowsXP nor #Windows7, not even #WindowsVista, had at all?
@wyatt Also glancing from the #PC98 architecture and specific quirks that #Linux accounts for in menuconfig it's most likely not gonna be enough to "just boot the #i486 version of @OS1337"...
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/main/OS1337-core-prerelease.img
- Tho given the fact this is just a #toybox + #musl / Linux Distro that is barely booting using #syslinux and able to spit out a 80x25 MDA console, it is in an early infancy.
As for the specifics of the #PC9821+ and their detailed hardware I'm clueless beyond the Wikipedia Article and can only Assume anything before a (RAM-upgraded) #9821Ap & #9801BA is off the table and a #9821Af or better is desireable as the 14,6MB RAM limit will really become a problem quickly, as I'm pretty shure it's impossible to get linux-6.6.6 run on anything below 8MB at all and most recommendations hint that 16MB is more often than not a practical limit (tho that may be becaise 10/12/14 and other "asymetric" configurations were already avoided back then)...
- The #9821Ce should be workable in theory tho again that's just me reading a specsheet.
On the flipside I did manage to install #WindowsXP on machines with 32MB RAM and actually get them to display a desktop (abeit with seconds per frame instead of frames per second) so this is more likely a question of chipping down things.
- Worst-Case one could see to build a bootable CD-ROM or
ddsomething on a #BlueSCSI or similar...
@marjolica @utf_7 @dashjackson @froge @arstechnica It'll impact any application that uses #Windows' #CryptoAPI and doesn't come with it's own #Encryption Library and #CertificateManagment.
- IDK if the "#Linux Subsystem for #Windows" (The real "#WindowsSubsystemForLinux" is #Wine!) may or may not be as #cursed as to just wrap said functions into the #CryptoAPI instead of doing it with the applications' dependencies.
Needless to say all #Chromium variants and #IE / #Edge are vulnerable to this #Backdoor which exists since at least #WindowsXP to this day!
- Thus consider said #OS inherently unsafe!
Dell XPS Magazine Ad (2005)
@puppygirlhornypost2 @itzzen sounds more masochistic than #Windows7 or #WindowsXP to me...
- I do move these people to #Linux instead...