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First post, by autoexecdotbat

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Hello,
here, you may post trivia or fun facts about dos and windows. I figured this was the best place to put them, but you may move if you think it belongs someware else.
1. windows 3.1's release occured on the same day that barney and friends (a really popular american Children's tv show at the time, who's pc rights were eventually acquired by microsoft) premeared.
2. microsoft hidden minigames in several older versions of ms office, all clones of popular games.
3. the release of doom95 was inspired by the dos original outselling windows95. microsoft did considder acquiring ID software in the same way they would later acquired bungy studios and rare roughly 5 years later, but opted to handel the windows95 port of the game instead. There was even a demo shown at a confrence in which bill gates took on the room of doomguy.
4. passport.mid, a midi included with all windows versions prior to mileniam, was named for passport designs, who were involved in crearting the multimedia extentions for windows3.0.

to win the game you must defeat coppa!
http://chng.it/DNc2L8LvLJ

Reply 1 of 4, by RoyBatty

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The team that ported Doom95 was founded by Gabe Newell, who went on to make Half Life and found Valve.
Hover was shipped with Windows 95 and is a neat game you can install from the CD.

Last edited by RoyBatty on 2016-03-04, 18:48. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 2 of 4, by leileilol

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RoyBatty wrote:

Doom95 was developed partially by Gabe Newell

allegedly. No trace of "Newell" in all of the Windoom/Doom95 builds I have

enlighten me though

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long live PCem

Reply 3 of 4, by autoexecdotbat

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the pinball game included with windows me to xp was originally one of 3 tables from Full tilt! pinball, released by cinematronics (no relation to the arcade game maker) in 1996.

to win the game you must defeat coppa!
http://chng.it/DNc2L8LvLJ

Reply 4 of 4, by Malik

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Good concept for a thread, but the scope is out of proportion - too vast. A trivia thread dedicated to a sub-sub-sub topic would keep the readers and writers in focus. Otherwise going through random trivia of anything within "Windows/Dos" would quickly become tedious and will not be interesting later on. Of course, later on, citations may be needed to claim the authenticity of certain trivia.

(Btw, Trivia is one of my favorite sections in any subject.)

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