A blast from the past.
The Essential Win 98 tutorial
Thursday, July 23, 2015 by Uvah | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Found this book on Windows 98 circa 1998.
Just a list of the different chapters.
Chapter 1: What's new in 98
Chapter 2: Understanding the desktop and programs
Chapter 3: Nah
Chapter 4: Using Explorer to manage stuff.
Chapter 5: Changing what's on the desktop...he he.
Chapter 6: Nah
Chapter 7: Customizing the start menu...the task bar...Ok.
Chapter 8: Nah
The rest are just blah blah blah but Chapter 10....Getting creative with paint (ugh)...caught my eye. Hard to believe it was the first one I played with. Not counting 3.1 or Windows for workgroups. I didn't read any of them.
Reply #2 Thursday, July 23, 2015 1:29 PM
I'm hoping the book is. Somethings you just can't pass up.
Reply #3 Thursday, July 23, 2015 1:46 PM
.. Or win3.11 that is nearly as old as myself.
.Getting creative with paint
Were they serious ? Paintbrush from 3.11 was even better and there was a good alternative : PaintShopPro 3.12 .
Don`t laugh PSP 3.12 is a program i use today sometimes too ( but gimp has nearly all the features it had and even more) .
And win 98 yeah it was on 95% of all computers i found but never used it -/ win 2000/2003 was better , ME was garbage and 98 SE a good OS but too late.
used win3.11 for a while too its better than 98.
GEM, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGEM if you want to read was more adavanced than any windows 3.11-/98.
But unfortunately nobody remembers it nowadays. It would have been great if it got popular.
I have an actual Windows 98 CD in the original CD case with code an everything here too. Wonder if our items have become collectors pieces yet Ross?
And i have a win95 cd.
Here my and also my parents favorite text editor ( yes we are in 2015 but...)
and i also have an old version of pcglobe somewhere (yes it shopws the german ddr) or leprint a wonderful application before tex text processing.
regards bluedxca93
Reply #4 Thursday, July 23, 2015 2:09 PM
We are dating ourselves guys. I have the Dos 6 disks on floppy and yes I still have a floppy drive. Also have Win 3.5, 95, and I still have a working 98 computer for running the old Dos based games. Then again I'm a packrat and never get rid of old computer stuff. Things sure have changed.
Reply #5 Thursday, July 23, 2015 2:38 PM
Maybe starting an old fogie Windows thread here. Not.....old fogie members lol
Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
- Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums and downloading skins.
- Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
- Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
- It's simple, and FREE!
Reply #1 Thursday, July 23, 2015 12:20 PM
I have an actual Windows 98 CD in the original CD case with code an everything here too. Wonder if our items have become collectors pieces yet Ross?