Twenty years ago, a small group within Microsoft took on a seemingly audacious ambition at that time: to create a video game console from scratch and take on much more established competitors. Despite many obstacles, Xbox was born. And, over two decades, it became a lasting presence ubiquitous...
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Try to add the month and year to your screenshot uploads, if possible 😊
Here are some of my oldest screenshots:
June 1999. I was about 13 years old. Windows 95's Control Panel on our Packard Bell MultiMedia 9030.
April 2003. Unreal Tournament 2003, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and...
I'm currently in a backup project and I've got ALOT of old software. But should I even make ISO backups of theses old software? I've got old versions of Visual Studio, every Office back to 98, every Windows os back to 98 SE.
Have any of ya'll come across a situation where you needed an old...
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I was talking to HOLDUM333 yesterday, on an open thread on a Win7 help issue, and we got to talking about the old days of computer stuff, and he's even older than I am--starting to feel like a fossil now that I'm retired! :bigtongue:
So, he suggested we talk about that stuff here in the Water...
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...
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Hi there, I'm just a person that happened to find and buy this mug on Ebay.
I tried doing some research, trying to figure out it's origins, but I didn't get too far. I'm wondering if anyone here can help me out with this, or point me in the right direction. Sorry if the images are flipped...
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