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I ordered an iPod from Alibaba back in the day and it was most certainly not an iPod. I think they’re more reliable than back then, but who knows. It’s always a gamble ordering from those kinds of sites.

One time I ordered a PS2 kit from some janky-ass Chinese site. The kit converted it into a flip top and included a CD that would let you play burned games. After a couple months of it not showing up, I figured I got ripped off, which I half expected anyways. 3.5 months later the kit showed up at my doorstep and actually worked. Haha! I used that thing for years after making the conversion.

There’s a difference between being contrived, and seeming contrived. The latter is usually an indication of poor writing or directing.

I tried it, it’s not for me. It felt very stupid and contrived. It’s cool that you’re enjoying it though.

I never did play Squadrons. I joined the Army right after the X-Wing era and had a several year gap where I didn’t touch a computer at all.

Now that I think about it, if these are straight-up DOS games then you don’t need Windows at all. You can just load MS-DOS and then run the game straight from the command line. I think you’re right that XP broke a bunch of old DOS games. It’s been so long that I completely forgot we were mad at Microsoft for the removal of DOS back then and the move to an emulator only experience.

Sim City games were so cool back then! I hate what they did with them as they progressed.

Oh yeah! How could I forget Duke Nukem? Wolfenstein 3D was pretty rad too.

That’s why I still have RAM pairs from every computer I’ve ever built in a box in the garage. I’ll probably never use them again, but I spent so much money on them, and it took so much research to get the right ones, that I can’t bring myself to throw them away.

4x is pretty common for desktop gaming these days. Laptops are hardly an indication of our gaming progress.

That sounds like a fun project, although I’d recommend XP over Me. XP has a DOS emulator, and it’s a lot easier to configure drivers for.

My favorite games from that era are Star Wars: X-Wing and Wing Commander: Privateer. Both games stood out as exceptional back then. Warcraft was also an excellent game. Command and Conquer is worth checking out too.

Edit: I’m pretty sure I played the first two games on Windows 3.2, so I’m not sure how they’ll play on Me or XP.

Edit 2: Silent Hunter is another memorable game

People definitely got mocked in more tech focused communities for using AOL.

Probably because you’re not a kid.

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They rely on their customers to pressure others into switching. Also their customers don’t understand how anything works, so they think that Android phones are broken and don’t support cool features. They’re unaware that their beloved Apple is enforcing a closed system, and holding them hostage as customers, refusing to adopt other protocols.

I missed the part where you said you’re also interested in building a website. Java is a popular and powerful programming language for desktop and mobile development. You can also use it with a framework for back-end website development, but there are better options out there. If you want something that does everything you posted then JavaScript is actually a good option. You’ll need frameworks for back-end website development and desktop development, but it’s kind of a beginner friendly language, and ChatGPT can help you set up the frameworks. It does get complicated working in the different stacks though. What do you want to build first?

Idk how I missed that. I only saw the desktop program part and the languages listed after it. I completely overlooked the website part, unless it was edited or something. But yeah, for websites JavaScript is the go-to for front-end and there are even some decent back-end options these days, although development and deployment gets a lot more complicated if you go that route. Java is still popular as a backend language for website development, and there are frameworks that have out of the box components that give you the JavaScript for free, but they’re typically expensive enterprise solutions like Adobe Experience Manager.

Edit: I just checked and it was edited, so they might have added that part after I wrote my reply.

You’re probably looking for Java. Not JavaScript, Java.

Yeah, I almost added a clarification for that very point, and see now that I should have.

That’s boneheaded.

If documentation is the root cause of that then you should fix that by creating enough documentation to allow your software to continue to work

Or create a better UI that doesn’t require so much documentation.

According to the study, putting a specification in place before development begins can result in a 50 percent increase in success, and making sure the requirements are accurate to the real-world problem can lead to a 57 percent increase.

Is this not self-evident to most teams? Of course you will not reach your destination if you don’t know where you’re going.

Odin’s Ravens has beautiful art work.