Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.club
on second thought maybe I shouldn't have just assumed that there'd be any chance that a game from 2003 would just work on windows 11.
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubthe winzip self extractor seems to have extracted nothing to nowhere and is waiting for it to run.
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubahh, the winzip self extractor is dropping an installshield installer
because of the good ol' days when you'd wrap a compressed installer in another compressed installer, because it let you save some download size
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.cluband since I have the files:
the winzip self extractor is 1.85 megabytes, and the installshield installer inside is is... 2.07 megabytes!
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@foone isn't there a version of wine for windows for that exact use case?
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@gkrnours ntvdm? that's for windows 16 support on win64
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubgod we used to care SO MUCH about download size. I'm happy to not have to worry so much about how many kilobytes the JPEG I'm using is
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@foone I feel like you just perfectly described what happens in my brain when I walk into a room intending to do something but instead I completely forget why I'm even in the room at all
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@captainvellalives yep, exactly that
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubhey 2001 foone: save yourself a lot of time by scripting a jpeg resizing/recompressing tool so that you can tell it "give me this jpeg under 75k" and it'll compress it for you at various sizes until it finds the best-quality-without-going-over-75kb file.
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admittedly you don't now any scripting languages yet, but hey! write it in visual basic.
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubanyway, back to the old game.
To the windows 98 VM!
*batman transition*
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.club(I'm hoping it runs in 98, I think it might... I don't currently have an XP VM on this machine, and it's way too midnight to have time to install one today)
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubcorrection: she installs.
I need directx 8. that's win98 supporting, right? yeah. time to upgrade some old VMs
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubI have no idea how well directx-in-86box will run, I've not tried this before
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubwe rebooted and windows had to build a driver information database.
I'm not sure exactly what that is. I'm not sure why you need a database about a driver.
or maybe that means "we integrated a bunch of new drivers into the list-of-drivers-windows-knows-about, go apply all those PCI IDs and such and see if we need to recognize a bunch of stuff"
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubI understand I don't have a deep understanding of the internals of the windows 95 driver model, and I'm finally prepared to accept that can just be a hole in my knowledge, I don't NEED to know this
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubwhen you have a rabbit-hole-seeking brain like mine, it's important to set firm boundaries for yourself
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubit's also too midnight to really work on my pocket PC emulation (and/or hardware?).
but that's yet another thing on the todo
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@foone what are you trying to do and are you in need of any Software? I've been collecting Windows CE software for 25 years
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Cursed Silicon
CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems@karpour I don't mean to jump in. But is there an archive of those efforts anywhere?
(I'd rather like to get a copy if so!)
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@CursedSilicon it's WIP, so far I whipped up some CLI tools to extract info from installers and PE headers and came up with a json format to describe CE software. Sorting tens of thousands of titles manually is too much work.
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Cursed Silicon
CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems@karpour How large is the archive in terms of storage currently?
A medium-to-long-term goal of CGHMN is incorporating mobile devices. Having a library of software for WinCE (and others) would be an absolute boon for that
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@CursedSilicon couple gigabytes. Windows CE software is generally tiny. In fact so small that the wayback machine scraper often even archived the installers, which is how I saved a lot of it.
If you want to talk, hit me up on Telegram!
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Cursed Silicon
CursedSilicon@social.restless.systems@karpour I don't know your telegram offhand I'm afraid ;-;
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