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Fire up your favorite abandonware OS from the past: talk, scrot, hack, go!

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During the next week for me:

* BeOS 5.0 Professional (one of my personal favorites, I even had the BeOS Bible by Scot Hacker)
* Mac OS X Server 1.2, a.k.a. "Rhapsody": Classic Mac OS interface, but *NIX underneath! Without the Quartzy, Docky awfulness!
* NeXTSTEP 3.3.7
* OpenSTEP 4.2 Enterprise

*drools* Wow, bones! I haven't even thought of digging around for abandonware! I might try tossing QEMU on Fedora and seeing what I can do :D This is the stuff wet dreams are made of. I read about HP-UX in The New Hackers Dictionary and would love to try it out...

I liked BeOS a lot. I think I once wrote a poem about gl_teapot.

Hmm, does crunchbang count :p

MacOS X server sounds nice :)
Would love to run Amiga OS - needs a m68k of course...

Windows Vista, is it abandoned? :) Was my first OS on my first laptop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista

It did not last long. The laptop yes.

^ hope not, wife's lappy is still running it :)

And so, the first abandonware scrot! Mac OSX Server 1.2, installed on a Blue & White G3 tower...

I have posted this scrot before, but here it is again. SourceMage Linux. They are still on Distrowatch, and still have a web site and IRC channel, but as far as I can tell they have not released a new version since 2009. There is no date in this scrot, but the file is dated 2012, and the 3.5.2 kernel would have been new then (August 2012).



I installed this back when I would try just about anything (oh wait, I still do that.) I was still experimenting with kernels and was actually amazed that I got it running at all. It did not survive updating, but it was interesting while it lasted. I blame gutterslob for mentioning sorcerer (when sunfizz was being stupid about how he neded a challenge because everything was too easy to install.) But gutterslob also introduced me to evilwm, sithwm, and cwm, so I forgive him.

bones wrote:installed on a Blue & White G3 tower...

That's it! theres an old G4 quicksilver looking sad in the warehouse here - that's still m68k - just...
Ace - ahhh the old days, no flashy browsing, what is that, mozilla? Wonder if iCab would work.

No, that is OmniWeb! Omni Group had already been writing software for NeXTStep, so their browser was ready to go with Rhapsody/OS X. There is also the Mac OS 9 compatibility layer, called "Blue Box," so I can run OS 9 and it's apps.

@Pidsley: I hadn't ever heard of that...

Anyone remember Geoworks??
http://www.geocities.ws/originalravinra ... tents.html

Nope never heard of it o.O
If in doubt click, the massive EXIT at the top left corner, if anyone missed it :D

An online emulator of my first computer:

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.html

ZX81 was the British version; in the US it was marketed as the Timex Sinclair 1000.

Membrane keyboard and 2K on-board ram. I had the 16k ram expansion pack, which allowed play of a side-scrolling shooting spaceship game. Programs were stored on *cassette tapes*.

simgin wrote:Nope never heard of it o.O
If in doubt click, the massive EXIT at the top left corner, if anyone missed it :D

Was 16bit - yep blocky graphics yep take yr point about the big button - have to be prettty short sighted to miss that. That graphic is actually how big the interface was.

Had it installed on a 286.

maso wrote:An online emulator of my first computer:

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.html

ZX81 was the British version; in the US it was marketed as the Timex Sinclair 1000.

Membrane keyboard and 2K on-board ram. I had the 16k ram expansion pack, which allowed play of a side-scrolling shooting spaceship game. Programs were stored on *cassette tapes*.

Thats awesome - loved those membrane keys.

Ok here is another memory https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/le ... come-again
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/leisu ... izards-2wt

yes to GEOWORKS trying to remember the machine and the situation I was running it. I believe the first versions of AOL used it as a operating system it came on there install CD. The next version was windows compatible and the end of that story.

Back then there were a few services before the web took off. I used Compuserve and GE Prodigy and I think they were ran on DOS. Ah the good old days when you would spend 20 minutes downloading to see a pair of tits.

C64 emulator, needs Flash

http://codeazur.com.br/stuff/fc64_final/

For fun, I decided to install OpenSolaris 2009.6 this morning...

how is it?