nostalgia

Being older than some rocks, I get up often at night. When I got up at 1:00, I turned on the computer. Nothing. I checked Windows Update and was shocked when it asked if I were ready. That would have been 1:15 and by 1:45 I had Windows 10. The downloading and installation was automatic. My only...

Since Windows 8, the newer Microsoft OS's have been designed with touchscreen capabilities in mind. This led to the diminished functionality of the classically recognizable Start menu. Earlier versions of Windows 8 didn't use a start menu, that bottom-left based pop-up menu that Windows users...

Paul DeCarlo, Kinect4NES (Yes, Kinect to a Classic NES), is back and continues to push forward on his cool project, Kinect4NES... Training Kinect4NES to Control Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out! In a previous post, I talked about how to create an interface to send controller commands to an NES based...

I have had Windows 8.1 on my tower for about a 2 months now. Am just getting tired of how controlling it is. I made comments in the past as to how good it was. I was being optimistic. Just missing all the good stuff in Windows 7. I don't care if I have to do ALL those updates. I want...

Over the course of many years, our website started from early beginnings. Once known as Windows Vista Forums (winvistaforums.com), the website spent almost three years counting down to the release of Microsoft Windows Vista. Several years later, that site acquired Windows7Forums.com, and over...

If you're old enough to remember tweaking your Autoexec.bat and tackling IRQ conflicts, days when launching Windows required typing "win" at a command prompt, prepare for a blast of nostalgia. YouTuber Andrew Tait (aka "TheRasteri") took a freshly minted VMWare instance and spent what looks to...

The Windows install and upgrade process isn’t normally something users get nostalgic over – in fact, more often it’s an anxiety-provoking experience that most would rather avoid – but for one man it’s an opportunity to track Microsoft’s OS progress over the past 25 years. Andrew Tait started out...

As the one year anniversary of the Windows 7 launch looms, Microsoft—and its partners—are looking back through the lens of time at one of the company's biggest successes Link Removed - Invalid URL

Fallout, King's Quest, Bonk, and more. Download the best titles that companies gave away For you old-timers................ We like free stuff. That’s why we posted links to download and play Link Removed - Invalid URL so you could have a decent game to play for every day of the year, free...

Well, I thought I'd try the old Broken Sword games again, for the pure nostalgic fun of it... Everything went well at first, Shadow of the Templars (BS1) and The Smoking Mirror (BS2) are working fine in ScummVM. Broken Sword 2.5 installed without a hitch and runs perfectly fine as well. But...

Here is a thread that was posted on the MyBB Community Forums. This guy tried to convince us that windows 95 was a great platform. If you have some time read some of his posts. I think the guy is nuts! What do you think?

hi to all of you people, finaly I have the pleasure so see vista runing nice and neat on my old PC, I know is old but is the only one I have!... Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed I must say VISTA is way COOL!! too bad I only have 8MB of Video RAM to run AERO...

I used to run a program called Task Arrange in XP which allowed me to re-arrange the buttons in the windows taskbar. Currently it does not work with Vista (crashes explorer.exe) and therefore I would like to know if anyone knows of a similar program. The site for Task Arrange is Link Removed -...