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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 00:21:44 UTC Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   it has been ZERO DAYS since I have installed Windows 95

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 00:21:30 UTC Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     which makes sense, a lot of DOS resolutions did, but it's still odd to see, in our future where 60hz is the default and we only see more than that in rare gaming circumstances

     Anatoly Shashkin💾 repeated this.
   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 00:21:30 UTC Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I've annotated the Windows 95 boot animation: The screen doesn't update any pixels once it's initially drawn, instead the VGA palette just has a subsection (colors 236-255) that's rotated, saving on CPU cycles during the loading screen.

     This is animated at the correct speed: 7 frames at 70hz, so 0.1 seconds per frame

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 00:21:31 UTC Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     interesting discovery:

     this boot screen is running at 70hz.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 00:21:36 UTC Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the palette of "It's now safe to turn off your computer" is interesting.
     It's basically greyscale, but in shades of orangey-brown, except color 0 is black and color 255 is white.

     Color 0 being black makes sense for CRT-border reasons, but why not just set up the palette so that the darkest color is 0?
     also, why white? there's no white in this image.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 00:21:36 UTC Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it has been zero days since I crashed DOSBox-X

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 00:21:40 UTC Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I need to search my own timeline and hard drive and figure out how often I do this. It's... frighteningly often. I think once a month is the lowest I ever manage, and there was one day where I did it something like 40 times in one day. I had to write an automation system to install it for me