LGR - Windows 95
Added 2022-11-17 21:52:19 +0000 UTCGreetings, all! I've got an early version of the next LGR episode for you here. It's finally time to upgrade to Windows 95 – on the Woodgrain 486! Unboxing, installing, and enjoying the 1995 experience. This is very much in the vein of my previous 486 OS upgrade videos, directly following up to the ones on Windows 3.0 and 3.1. Can't believe it's been 3½ years since the last one.
Hope you enjoy the mid-90s goodness and have a nice weekend!
Comments
Glad all the disks worked. I had Beneath A Steel Sky by Revolution Software on the Amiga 500+. That game was 15 floppy disks, if memory serves. That game alone was the reason I bought a second floppy because of the excessive disk swapping. Sadly, my last disk was corrupt, so I could never complete the game and too much time had passed, so I could not exchange the faulty disk. :(
SuperTekBoy
2022-11-24 03:55:24 +0000 UTCDunno if you've heard it, but the podcast 20 Thousand Hertz made a two-parter on the Windows startup sounds, and it's fascinating. https://www.20k.org/episodes/tadaitswindows https://www.20k.org/episodes/windowslogonwav
Asaf Sagi
2022-11-21 09:46:33 +0000 UTCHm I’ve always just called it an lcd status bar. Not sure if it had any official term, and if it did I bet each manufacturer called it something different.
LGR
2022-11-21 03:58:45 +0000 UTCQuestion: In the late 90's, early 2000's there was a short lived trend in laptop manufacturing, where they put little status bar LCD displays on laptops, close to the hinge. Do you know what it was officially called? How can I search for it? Do you think it would be an interesting topic for a video? If you search for "IBM 760LE" or "multimedia notebook computer model 86" for example you'll know what I'm talking about. I'm looking for a specific laptop but I don't know the brand, all I remember that it had that little status bar and the power plug was on the back (not on the sides). Cheers!
Dukefazon
2022-11-20 20:45:48 +0000 UTCThat was pretty glorious! I super enjoyed the whole ride. I never installed Windows 95 on a machine. I used it but didn't install for the first time until Win98. That was about the time that my primary computing platform, the Amiga, fizzled out on me. I used Win98 until 2002 when I ultimately transitioned over to Linux but I think I see some 90s Windows machines coming back to me.
CubicleNate
2022-11-19 20:12:34 +0000 UTCThis is totally the era I'm so nostalgic about! Back in the late 90's we only had an Amiga 500, but all my friends had various other systems. One of the most influencial was this guy who had a Windows95 system. I saw that PS/2 or serial Microsoft mouse on the background (original install screen of Win95, maybe the actually had a mouse like that, I'm not sure), they even had Microsoft Plus! installed too and holy hell, you finally showed off the Duke Nukem Screensavers, I'm so happy that you finally touched on this, I saw that screensaver set there too. I saw and played Duke Nukem 3D first there, and my user name is that for a reason :) Saw and played Lode Runner, Need for Speed 3, Quake, Incubation - Battle Isle Phase IV, Networkd Q Rac Rally at this friend's place. Every single game was so... determinative? Maybe this is not the right word. I think this was a Pentium 1 system because it could run Quake. I'm still a fan of that era and still a fan of NFS3, Duke3D and Quake to this day, thanks to these wonderful times at this buddy's place. Thanks for making this video! :D
Dukefazon
2022-11-19 10:52:48 +0000 UTCI remember upgrading a 486 to windows 95, but I certainly used the CDROM not floppies. I don't know if anyone I knew installed it from the floppy version.
Lennart Sorensen
2022-11-18 20:15:58 +0000 UTCOh man, memories are fuzzy - I know I experienced 3.1 and MS-DOS first, but 95 was definitely the more formative thing for me, via my cousin's PC on both counts. Weirdly, though, I associate Space Cadet 3D Pinball more with XP - and I never knew it had music, what the hell??
Valora Inverse
2022-11-18 18:52:44 +0000 UTCWhen I saw you uploaded this windows 95 video I was smiling and went to the store first and bought some Christmas beers and chips :D It was a wonderful video. I can't remember exactly when I first experienced windows 95. But it was huge. So very modern compared to windows 3.1. And when I hear that windows 95 startup sound, I get sooo nostalgic. I get this feeling of the past I'm trying to get closer to but can't quite reach, so I'm focusing really hard on that feeling.
Uncleawesome
2022-11-18 17:16:31 +0000 UTCSo many fond memories of doing this upgrade back in the day. It was quite exciting making the shift to a "real" GUI OS from Windows 3.11
Joon Choi
2022-11-18 16:03:09 +0000 UTCI thought USB was included in the third service release though. I'll have to dig out my discs to test my memory.
Vince Fond
2022-11-18 15:35:26 +0000 UTCThis was my recollection as well. Thanks for clarifying with the exact version number!
Vince Fond
2022-11-18 15:32:26 +0000 UTCOddly enough, Lode Runner is one of my own earliest computer gaming memories from when I was 10 years old. A friend of mine had a cracked copy for his Apple IIe, and I made a copy for myself and played it for hours and hours on my Apple IIc. I was 19 when Lode Runner: The Legend Returns came out, and I picked up a copy of that, and installed it on my mother’s Macintosh Performa 450, which, in turn, got HER hooked on the game as well… By the time Online: Mad Monks Revenge came out a year and a half later, I had my own Power Macintosh and I remember my brother and I setting up an AppleTalk network between my Power Macintosh and Mom’s Performa 450 and then the two of us tackling the two-player levels. 36 years later, and Lode Runner, in all its incarnations, is still my all time favorite computer game. Oh, and my wife, who at 31 years old is much closer in age to you, has equally fond memories of playing Space Cadet Pinball under Windows 95 as a very young child. Good times.
Stavros Karatsoridis
2022-11-18 13:12:47 +0000 UTCUnexpected Inside Out reference.
Alex Weiss
2022-11-18 11:17:25 +0000 UTCClint, the reason you didn't have the OpenGL screensavers is because they were only included on the 4.0.950B OSR2 (OEM SR-2) release of Windows 95. It included some other enhancements, such as IE4 (I think) and super-primitave USB support.
Chris Rogers
2022-11-18 05:03:39 +0000 UTC
