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Obviously the ‘winning move’ was the Windows 95 desktop which reduced icons to mere shortcuts to give the illusion of something like the OS/2 desktop, but without anywhere the level of complexity and integration made for something far more lightweight. Perhaps it was the limitation of editing tools of the time, or how OS/2 had a different bitmap format from Windows, which really limited the ability to interchange images.Ĭompare this to the clutter of the Windows 3.0/3.1 desktop: Of course in the demos the backdrop per folder thing in OS/2 always looks great, but in real life it was never the same.

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PC Games?! Demos?! What is this! And sure enough it has a tonne of game demos including a bunch of Sierra, LucasFilm and even an Electronic Arts Syndicate demo! Leisure Suit Larry Demo

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OS2SE20.SRC README.1STħ Dir(s) 0 bytes free Total Files Listed: 2867 File(s) 501,115,944 bytes 637 Dir(s) 0 bytes free But mounting the CD-ROM showed it was far more interesting: Volume in drive F is V_MAG9310 Normally I wouldn’t be all that interested as I was thinking it was for PC-98 but but’s the ‘DOS/V’ variant which is mostly like a normal PC. I was more interested in Borland C++ 2 for OS/2 but there was also this Japanese beta of 2.1.

While on the Discord some cheap OS/2 CD-ROMS popped up and was nice to image them for me. What could they have put on there? Obviously the best answer is 3rd party drivers, any and all SDK (Although we are talking about IBM who famously priced the OS/2 1.0 SDK for $3,000), demos, utilities, free software?! Enter OS/2 2.1J Beta of Japan With 300MB on the disc that left space for another 300MB. One such opportunity to ship as much as possible to the users was absolutely missed in OS/2 2.1/3.0 Looking at the EN-US release you find the OS/2 2.1 for Windows CD-ROM contains just the OS, both extracted and disk images: Volume in drive E is OS2_CD_ROMģ Dir(s) 0 bytes free Total Files Listed: 645 File(s) 292,279,546 bytes 135 Dir(s) 0 bytes free But it was amazing how empty so many were. It was amazing to have access to nearly 700MB of data per disc. It was a great time to get stuff for pennies on the dollar as they say. Thanks Doug!īut here we had this awesome era of CD-ROMs, I managed to snag a NEC Intersect single speed external from TigerDirect, who would have these annual sales to clearance all kinds of RMA’s.

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It’s a BBS where I stumbled across Linux on CCUG, which was both great for being local but also letting me download at night at 2400 baud as many BBS’s kicked me for being too slow. Heck internet access wasn’t so prevalent, and dialing up to BBS’s was super common. I’ve had a 300 baud modem on the c64 so I knew the feeling of absolute painful downloads. I wanted a 32bit processor and at least 4MB of ram to join that elite home based 32bit computing to finally feel like I’d upgraded well beyond the Commdore 64, but money was tight and that 2400 baud modem I got on sale from BrandsMart USA was ‘good enough’. Back then dialup was the norm and I was ‘lucky’ enough to have a 2400 baud modem back in 93.

Something that used to annoy me to no end back in the early 90’s was nearly empty CD-ROM’s from big companies.

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