Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 19

@b4ux1t3 We're going to find out for sure once the next release of QuickInstall happens, but honestly I can't really think of anything. Current guesses are either some crazy edge case, or most likely it's just to make sure that the user sees that something is happening.

TIL that Windows 9x's "found new hardware" process has a hardcoded artificial delay of EIGHT seconds. It waits 3 seconds before displaying the device name and type it got from the driver, and then another 5 seconds before proceeding. I want hours of my life back. 😭
Birbsite link: https://x.com/oerg866/status/1853402804297118197?t=w7xrwry7Rzhc5TN5gmHF_A&s=19

Oh, buddy, that is *not* what that "some dude" was asking. 😄

I know that's just the way the world functions because it's a vast space full of all kinds of people, but I really hate the fact that before I virtually engage with someone in my field of interests I gotta scroll through weeks of their social media posts to determine if they are a white supremacist or not.

@Ferrovore They do. I think they are just an old school hacking enthusiast with a lot of time on their hands.

@vampiress Yeah, I actually started laughing in disbelief while scrolling through the feed.

@SiteRelEnby Yeah, I also thought of that. But only barely.

@georgia Correct

The biggest delusion besides of the bigotry in the replies is a belief that someone would actually pay for a crack for LOOM in the year of our lord 2024.

There's a new DOS gaming account on Birbsite! They specialize in making new cracks for old games. Oh, but also...
- website downloads are locked behind a forced account. 🤔
- they offer a paid account tier. 🤔
- they use AI slop to advertise the website. 🤔
- Birbsite checkmark. 🤔
- they follow a bunch of right wingers. 🤔
- they are just a bigot from Germany. 🤷
Yeah, bud. This ain't it. 😄

@Olly42 You could always just build one. The first Spectrum I've used was built from the ground up, and that was back in the good old USSR.

On this Halloween 🎃 let's remember the greatest song in the history of all horror videogames - the closing theme from Roberta Williams' PHANTASMAGORIA (1995):
#DOSGaming

Cause this is MIDI!
MIDI night
And no one's gonna save you from the tune about to strike

🔊🎵🧟 #OPL3MIDI

GOG is giving away a classic MicroProse point & click adventure "Return of the Phantom":
https://www.gog.com/en/game/return_of_the_phantom

Rumpelstiltskin's Labyrinth of the Lost (TerraGlyph Interactive Studios, 1995) #DOSGaming

@diana Yes. I run Windows 3.11 in DOSbox.

Though I know I should be wary
Still I venture someplace scary
Ghostly haunting I turn loose
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice BEETLEJUICE!

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

@th3rdsergeevich NPC stats, weapon class damage, those sorts of things. Matches them with AD&D 2nd ed.

Did you know that this year ScummVM added fixes for Eye of the Beholder under the "Faithful AD&D rules" option?

🎶 Bubble Bobble music plays 🎶