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I wonder what "limited lifetime warranty" means.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

95 was on CD. This might be enough to pirate Doom though

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

As I recall, my windows 95 CD-ROM contained a bunch of floppy-sized .cab files in a folder, so it's entirely possible it was available as a set of floppies...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

sure, use arj to compress doom to your disk:
c:\games\doom\ arj a -va a:\doom.arj

It fits on 4 floppies that way is I remember correctly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was available on floppy. So was Win98.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep I had 95 on floppy. It was like 30 disks. That installation was hell, you had to sit there and swap disks for several hours.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When one of these is corrupted then it's all for nothing lol. I mean CD Rom was so ubiquitous here by 95, 98 that this idea seems silly but I guess it existed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It was more for upgrading 386 computers from 1992-1994 if I remember right. Or maybe we had a 486. I dunno. It was definitely pre Pentium. Back in the dark ages!