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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 13:00:59 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   • a1ba-nyan

   @a1ba Is this from XP? Because in Windows 9x it's called "Flying Through Space".

   • a1ba-nyan (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 14:18:51 UTC a1ba-nyan

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     • Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
     @dosnostalgic @stuartl posted screenshot from 3.1 above, where it's also called "Starfield simulation".
     
     Maybe it's "Flying Through Space" in Russian version?
   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 14:18:51 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • a1ba-nyan
     • Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

     @a1ba @stuartl No, it's the English version. I know that for a fact because I did a clean Windows 95 install just to make the same joke a few days ago
     https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/010/426/606/986/492/original/77f00d80ec70c622.mp4

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 20:54:33 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • a1ba-nyan
     • Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

     @stuartl @a1ba Always good to double check because even Windows 3.1 can look like this:

   • Stuart Longland (VK4MSL) (stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 20:54:38 UTC Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

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     • a1ba-nyan

     @dosnostalgic @a1ba The window border/title bar and UI controls are a dead give-away. :-)

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 20:59:01 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • a1ba-nyan
     • Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

     @a1ba @stuartl Welcome to Calmira: http://toastytech.com/guis/cal.html

   • a1ba-nyan (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 20:59:02 UTC a1ba-nyan

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     • Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
     @dosnostalgic @stuartl wtf
   • Stuart Longland (VK4MSL) (stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 21:09:06 UTC Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

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     • a1ba-nyan

     @dosnostalgic @a1ba Early versions of Windows Chicago looked very similar.

     https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/the-windows-start-menu-saga-from-1993-to-today/ has some early screenshots of the OS that would eventually become Windows 95.