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- Eddie, the Shipboard Computer - PC: Emulation of old PCs, PC hardware, or PC peripherals.
- Eddie, the Shipboard Computer - Macintosh: Emulation of old Macintoshes, Mac hardware, or Mac peripherals.
- Heart of Gold - Marvin: Discussion about old PC hardware and Retro PCs
- Heart of Gold - System Specs: Feel that you haven't shown off the l33tness of your system enough in your profile? Post your full system specs here to be oogled at!
So, yeah. Still clearly documented. Don't understand what isn't understood about this. (also, that should probably be 'ogled' but I haven't the heart to suggest fixing it now... 😉 )
Perhaps this would make more sense to the non-English-speakers and, or, pedantic:
- Eddie, the Shipboard Computer - PC: Emulation of old PCs, emulation of old PC hardware, or emulation of old PC peripherals.
- Eddie, the Shipboard Computer - Macintosh: Emulation of old Macintoshes, emulation of Mac hardware, or emulation of Mac peripherals.
Maybe that's not what we intended though. It was so long ago now! But, yeah, "Eddie, the Shipboard Computer" was intended for emulation-talk AFAIK.
Keep in mind, and I don't think I'm being revisionist here:
- Marvin is an afterthought, we didn't attract hardware collectors until years down the road from Day One. I do love that it happened though.
- The "PC" subforum also (basically) pre-dates DOSBox and its forums here. (Clarification: DOSBox 0.1 was released January 31st, 2002 and used only Sourceforge forums initially, VOGONS started June 29th, 2002 or thereabouts, DOSBox later moved their forums here sometime in late 2002.) Therefore there never was intended to be tons of DOSBox discussion there in the "PC" subforum, with the idea being that the PC subforum would instead be used for all/any PC emulation/virtualization (and peripheral emulation/virtualization) discussion, as a solution to act as a repository of information/discussion on how to get old software running by using emulation/virtualization. (and indeed, originally this wouldn't have concerned virtualization either originally, as it really wasn't an option when the forums started.) Anyhow, VMWare, Virtual PC, MESS, Bochs, PCem, PCEmu, dosemu, etc. could all be discussed here and then some. DOSBox can, but minimally, since they have their own hosted subforum. Yes I realize that my wrapper discussion is currently happening in "PC" but it's the closest match for what I intended for that discussion topic, because...
- For that matter: DOS/Windows subforums in "The Guide" were, in my mind at least, originally intended for NON-EMULATION solutions to getting old DOS/Windows games working in newer Windows operating systems. (Excluding tack-on things like VDMSound). This would be more like Application Compatibility Toolkit fixes, switching from 64-bit to 32-bit to enabling 16-bit, NTVDM hacking, registry editing, unofficial patches, using a wrapper, etc. Wizardry. But, with each topic intended to be about a game(s), sometimes coming up more than once as needed, and not more general "let's talk about Glide wrapper" or "Windows 2000 Compatibility List" discussions. And the end result might be an official, crowdsourced howto on getting a specific game working in, say, Windows XP, which could then be moved to "Deep Thought" - a rather stillborn idea if ever there was one *sigh* I do understand that times change though - we're dealing with human discussion here, which is organic. And the only way to get 16-bit software working in predominantly 64-bit OS's, without dual- or triple-booting, is by using emulation/virtualization, so the scope has changed some, perhaps...
- Finally, apologies if you're not keen on the whole HG2G theming but the four of us who basically started this place (Snover, DosFreak, Nicht Sehr Gut, myself) were all drawing a blank when it came to naming things originally. We had all abandoned the Bravenet VDMSound forum and said "hey, we keep talking non-VDMSound things there about how to get old games working on new OS's, let's start a forum, something vladr might even be okay with using than Bravenet" and Snover said he could do the job. He set up "OGONS - Old Games On New Systems" as a subdomain on his server. I suggested: "Hey, that sounds like Vogons, the anal-retentive and nasty bad guys from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series, which I've read a bazillion times" and so we quickly thought up something for the 'V', Snover began theming it in a HG2G style (the admins/mods all originally had default profile pics of illustrated Vogons if anyone remembers that) and the rest was history. Soon enough you guys all trickled in. 😀 And let's face it, it does give this place an even nerdier flair than it ordinarily would. It stands out, in a way, so you'll remember it. 🤣
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