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You mean something like this?

I never played "Alone in the Dark" myself, but I do remember people were talking a lot about that game.

I still have that Box. :8~)
It's made awesome, as many of these games were.
To me it seems it gave inspiration to Tomb Raider and Resident Evil.

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Sorry i don't understand, why i should go back to the MS-Dots Days.

A pun to "Multi-Task", which MS-DOS didn't support (like Windows does) :P

Hmm, but there was Unix, Atari, Amiga .... :-)
And the possibility to write a memory resisting extension in assembler to get a Mutlitasking like behaviour.
Aaaand there also was Novel.

Maybe it wasn't the best idea to get Multitasking.
But who the heck needs more than 640kB Memory?

Sorry for not naming them all, the number of computers back then was beyond counting. The first computer i used was a P2000T, and I guess you never heard of that one, eh?
AMIGA and Mac did support multi-task back then, and where pretty stable. Windows 95 came with a unstable multi-task and it has brought nothing but trouble since then. How come Microsoft always managed to ruin something that worked, eh?

640KB? I remember that when the Commodore 64 came that everybody branded Commodore a bunch of idiots as nobody would ever need 64KB, and it would only make the machine more expensive than it needs to be. Now, in the year 2019, that smart phones... hand held computers, already have much much more than that... Oh those were the day :)

Nah, you are right, i never heard of a P2000T. Sort of Schneider CPC ...
My Colleagues and my boss at the given time said Z80 CPU are evil shit,
so i never touched them.

Once i had a Philips XT with 732kB Memory and DOS 3.3, which was something special.

When my friends got a C64 or Amiga 500 my dad invested our money into
highly concentrated drinkable solvents.

I had to wire my own ones using 8080,8085 and 8051 CPUs.

"Amiga and Mac .." and they also had the better Kind of CPUs.

Scott McNealy roasted Gates big time for his statement and for Dos. lol

"How come Microsoft always managed to ruin something that worked, eh?"
To much fiddling at to much screws at nearly the same time.

I had to make QA for Siemens, Certain MS-OSes considered as experimental technology. The NT Series up to NT4sp6e ( iirc) was the best OS they made.
According to what i understood the Server Series is still based on the NT line.

OS2 Warp3 awesome OS. Just not the same lobby as that cheap ass MS-DOS CP/M copy.

I see you are somebody who knows their stuff. My own first PC (the first one I owned and didn't borrow) was a 386SX with MS-DOS 5.0, but I had worked with XT computers I had to borrow for a long time.

"Too much fiddling at to much screws at nearly the same time"
Yeah, perhaps you nailed that one.

I once made the joke that they doubted Windows 95 was made by Bill Gates. Jos Verstappen would be more likely. (When you are not into Formula 1 races. Jos Verstappen was notorious for crashing his car a lot).

I've never worked with OS2 myself. I did see it demonstrated once, in "Het Kantoor Van De Toekomst", which was a project by Chriet Titulaer, a Dutch scientist and TV host who died a few years ago. The name means "The Office Of The Future" in Dutch. That was back in the 1990s I visited it. They did advertise OS2 as the operating system that everyone would use in the future... Didn't happen, I suppose. Some people still told me it was much better than Windows ever was, but frankly I can't judge that. I wish I could have used OS2/Warp for awhile so I could see for myself.

Now I've seen many things in "Het Kantoor Van De Toekomst" that didn't become much of a reality. The Re-writable Optical Disc (ROD) for example would replace diskettes... Too bad its release took long and that USB sticks came out by that time, so the ROD was already surpassed before it was officially born (The discs Neo (the Matrix) searches for his client in hacking look a lot like RODs). What they did get right was that cooling systems in computers would be a lot more silent in the future. Well when I compare my current computer to my first 386SX computer, then that 386SX definitely made a lot of noise. ;)

Yes i vaguely remember Verstappen.
I was fan of Schumacher and Hakkinen, but couldn't watch F1 since 2001/2002 or so.

"The name means "The Office Of The Future" in Dutch."
Microsoft BoB was the OS of the future. Didn't you know that? lol

OS/2 had an awesome support. I made extremely good experiences with them.
At the given time, somewhat 1994/1995, i came into the honor and pleasure to speak the german distribution manager and they sent me a lot of stuff for free.

In Compare to Win95a/b/c the TCP-Stack and Network connectivity was much easier to set up and worked much more stable. Their PPP worked flawless and
the entire OS-scheduler as also the Memory Management seemed to be more stable and implemented cleaner. But their huge lack, drivers for newer gaming hardware and the OnChip Settings of some Graphic and Sound Cards didn't worked so reliable, if one used other Operating systems on the same Computer.
If Win95 and a driver update changed something on the Boards, OS/2 either worked or it didn't in this regard.
But it never had astable flip-flop effects or the
"reboot as healing effect" as we know it from some MS-OSes.

We have Re-Writable Optical Disks since CD-RW. Or not?
You referring to the WORM disks, which looked like big vinyl disks made of glass?

Still missing: The Display and sort of Human Interface like it is shown in Minority Report. I don't know if Apple still works at it, but at least some cracks
got a very close kind of Display/Input Device assembled using the Wii console.

Never heard of BoB, but honesty requires me to say that "Het Kantoor Van De Toekomst" was a kind of a big advertisement you could walk through, and technical companies paid loads of money to show the prototypes of the technical things they planned for the future... I don't know if Microsoft ever participated in that project, to be honest ;)
(I've looked up that Bob system... WAS THAT REALLY A WAY TO USE AN OS MICROSOFT CONSIDERED??? 😲😲😲 )

CD-RW is not exactly the same as ROD. CD-RW does follow much of the same principals, though. Sony MiniDisc is what comes closest to what ROD was supposed to be, although MiniDisc was only used for Audio, ROD was to be used for actual data. CD-RW was meant to be eventually sealed so you could not rewrite it anymore and use it an a common CD-ROM player or even common audio CD player. ROD was to be used until it was overwritten so much it would become useless. WORM discs look a bit like them, so that's why Neo reminded me of those. ;)

When it comes to network connections, you reached my Achilles heel when it comes to computer knowledge. I never got networking set up well unless I followed each direction given to me letter by letter. Given that I am a coder who used dozens of different languages over time, that might be an embarrassment.

When it comes to the F1, I was never a fan of that, but as Jos Verstappen was ridiculed so much due to his tendency to crash a lot (and thus the joke about him in relation to Windows 95 and 98 was obvious), I could never miss that. Although I do know Schumacher. ;)
Max Verstappen, one of the current F1 stars, is the son of Jos Verstappen, by the way ;)

AFAIK MS BoB was a Design study and thought to be a framework for Win3.5 and Win 3.11 in first place and obviously they also created a working Version on top of the Win95 W32 stack. Otherwise we could not see that on Youtube or the specially created Website.

Well, my "first official Contact" was SCO-Unix and there we had difficulties with
the 16 port DigiBoards and the 3Com Network cards, due to driver issues.
The good ole times when Tandberg Streamer and Wise Terminals still were modern and high end. lol. I still have some Tandberg Tapes.
Very reliable technology. Much better as the later DLT and LTO drives.

Later i also had to program some RMON conform Network analysis Software,
so it would've been a shame, if i weren't able to understand and configure Networks.

Hmm, what you describe looks like the portable Disk-Trays which were
often used in the MAC-OSX Design branch to me. I think i remember the Sony Mini-Discs with a capacity for 2 Songs but not more. lol

Yeah, sadly Sony also didn't got it managed to sell a Walkman Rev.2 which
would've used DAT tapes. Ironically, the digital audio tapes were made for it and got used for Backups instead.

A (former) friend of mine owned a MiniDisc recorder and he did store quite a lot of music on them, however as MiniDisc fell to decline soon, he soon couldn't buy new discs anymore, which was kind of a bummer for him. The RODs would (like CDW and CDRW) mostly contain 640MB, which was quite a lot back then, so I was pretty much interested in them.

Now I must say when it comes to Chriet Titulaer who set place up where I saw the RODs first, is that in his TV show "Wondere Wereld" (means "Wonderful World" in Dutch), he showed many prototypes of inventions that never came to be on the market, like video discs as big as a LP record, although we can say that DVD was a bit of the same thing, only smaller and better. He did however predict that we would in the future all be connected on a network of glass fiber wires, and that prediction wasn't that inaccurate. I must say that I was really sad when he passed away. He was the guy who triggered my interest in computers when I was a boy so a part of my childhood died with him. But his show made clear how many failed project, or projects that were in potential good, but already surpassed by something better before they were ready to be shipped.

Well, I see you made a living of programming. I've always been a hobbyist, but yet a professional coding trainer did dig through code I wrote when he was tutoring me some JavaScript, and did say that I was good enough to work for big companies like Philips... That really amazed the heck outta me, tbh. But I guess that makes clear why some areas in this field are still abracadabra for me... I am an autodidact after all, and as an autodidact you'll always miss stuff a professional trainer wouldn't.

You guys really know your stuff.

I wanna go back, and do it all over, but I can't go back I know.

"One cannot step into the same river twice"
~ Heraclitus

Don't change horses midstream either.

My see pee you?

Cast my memory back there, lord. Sometime I'm overcome thinkin' bout makin' love in the green grass behind the stadium with you.

lol
Interesting approach.
You know there is no free WiFi?

Free wife eye?

I am not sure what you mean by this.

There is no cost free thin(g/k) in the world,
only the death is free and it costs your life.
Is what my Grandma tend to say.

Oh I. I just died in your arms tonight. Must have been somethin' you said.

Where Cutting Crew is, Savage Garden isn't far.
Truely, madly, deeply ...

.... and that was?

A reason for living. A deeper meaning, yeah.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God;
3 all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

I really love that one.

The furthest back as i remember was a 386. And in those days, as soon as you could save up for newer technology, then something else would come out that was better. I like mac, but even better is chromebook.