I broke Windows 95

Created on February 22, 2014
Indexed on December 02, 2022 at 02:03 AM

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A mishap occurs whilst trying to set up file sharing between a 486 machine and my Windows 7 workstation.

After recording this video, I reinstalled Windows and got the file sharing working. If you want to share files from a modern Windows machine, keep in mind that you'll have to allow for 40/56 bit encryption and SMBv1 connections, as well as allow LM/NTLM logons or install NTLMv2 support in Windows 95. Also be sure the client has TCP/IP installed.

But it's been so long since this happened that I forgot what exactly caused it. I guess having the NetWare client (NWREDIR) installed is a bad idea if you're not connecting to a NetWare server.

And yes, this is a little bit different from the original. I recreated it from the raw captures of the original MiniDV tapes, was pretty easy given it's a very simplistic video.

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Kugee - December 02, 2022 at 02:06 AM

I recently figured out a way to drastically speed up encoding clips to Cinepak using FFmpeg, which basically involves using GNU Parallel to split up a clip into as many segments as there are CPU cores and then concatenating them together. It's still not quite polished up, so for a brief moment there were links to 16 AVI segments.

For clarification, this doesn't come close to Kugee's first recording of a legacy machine, particularly this 486. You'll see what I mean when the later episodes of Hardcore Windows get published.

Kugee: unix hacking ! Anyway if only I had time to experiment on parallelising the encoding code...

Blue Horizon: I keep thinking about the first PC I had back in like 12012 HE or something. If only I had time to tell about that...

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