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Windows Vista. Then I downgraded to Windows XP. I don't remember why.

Sirius wrote:Windows Vista. Then I downgraded to Windows XP. I don't remember why.

Going from Vista to XP could hardly be considered a downgrade.

Hmm, if I remember correctly, it was a chunky old Windows 95 or 98. It was one of them though, that much I am sure of. Good days back then, especially when you raid electronics bins just for the rubber balls inside the computer mice from back then. At last count, I think I managed to scavenge about 250 of them, though I never did find out where that collection went.

My first OS was Windows 98 (I may be 14, but I enjoy the classics). After that, I had XP. At one point in time, Mom had Windows Vista. It ran pretty swell for awhile, then started having problems. To make matters worse, whenever I accidentally infected Mom's laptop with a virus, I would get scared of the virus and shut down the computer very speedily. Some time later, Mom got a s**tload of viruses that were rated "bad" and "critical" by her antivirus. Dad also had Vista, but it was on a Dell desktop and ran just fine. The current home computer we have is a desktop Win2000 with an E-Machines monitor. The monitor is older and has problems, which makes me want a new monitor but oh well.

Squishy Rex wrote:Hmm, if I remember correctly, it was a chunky old Windows 95 or 98. It was one of them though, that much I am sure of. Good days back then, especially when you raid electronics bins just for the rubber balls inside the computer mice from back then. At last count, I think I managed to scavenge about 250 of them, though I never did find out where that collection went.

you silly aussies

Squishy Rex wrote:Hmm, if I remember correctly, it was a chunky old Windows 95 or 98. It was one of them though, that much I am sure of.

Windows 98 had good qualities, like the Maxis line of games (ie. SimAnt, SimTunes, SimCity 2000, etc.) Ahh... the good times.

Squishy Rex wrote:Good days back then, especially when you raid electronics bins just for the rubber balls inside the computer mice from back then.

"Rubber balls"... there goes the dirty side of my foolish mind AGAIN.

windows 98 had that cool screensaver. the 3d maze i think. wasn't that written in opengl?

Luigifan2010 wrote:windows 98 had that cool screensaver. the 3d maze i think. wasn't that written in opengl?

I had so much fun watching that when I was younger, literally even for a Windows 95 Computer. That was just amazing.

OpenGL? I'm not that sure but it could be.

bossedit8 wrote:

Luigifan2010 wrote:windows 98 had that cool screensaver. the 3d maze i think. wasn't that written in opengl?

I had so much fun watching that when I was younger, literally even for a Windows 95 Computer. That was just amazing.

OpenGL? I'm not that sure but it could be.

well C++ using OpenGL because I don't think DirectX was out at the time

bossedit8 wrote:

Luigifan2010 wrote:windows 98 had that cool screensaver. the 3d maze i think. wasn't that written in opengl?

I had so much fun watching that when I was younger, literally even for a Windows 95 Computer. That was just amazing.

OpenGL? I'm not that sure but it could be.

As I recall, The screen saver did say OpenGL right on it. As part of a painting on one of the maze's walls, and as a floating object in the maze itself, the screen saver was made to show it off.

(Just for fun, in a dream I had about a week ago: The maze was part of a real game, the screen saver was merely a demo of the game itself, and you could actually lose the game by running into enemies!)

My first operating system was Windows XP and it was very good experience, and I want the years I was with Windows XP return

Currently I have Windows 7 but no operating system can overcome my old XP