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win1999

17 hours ago

I got a critique that MS-DOS in Windows 99 isn't really DOS. Time to dust off the cobwebs for resolving that...

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aznet 3 hours ago

Windows 2000 didn't have access to DOS at all.

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win1999 2 hours ago

And Windows ME had MSDOS 8.0. The last released version.

win1999 wiishopchannel

1 day ago

Incredible site. I love that the links actually go to .wad files (brings me back). Have you considered importing the wii cursor? I think that would be the cherry on top :] best, win99

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wiishopchannel 1 day ago

It's already a feature, it's in the settings menu. It even wiggles!

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win1999 1 day ago

I spoke too soon! Ok, this is officially complete and perfect.

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win1999 printerfish

1 day ago

こんにちは!あなたのコンテンツとスタイルを楽しんでいただきました!もしあなたの美しいページに掲載したいなら、こちらが私のバナーへのリンクです: https://windowsneptune.com/Windows%2099%20Home%20Page_files/win99ani.gif

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win1999 updated their site.

1 day ago

internet/intervalodyssey99

index

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onio win1999

2 days ago

Congrats on 2 mil!! Amazing project, well deserved

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win1999 2 days ago

Thanks Onio :]

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win1999 aznet

3 days ago

On MS Agent: It's actually completely custom TypeScript built directly into the app! It manages state, sound, balloon styling, and event triggers natively rather than using VBS or MASH. I did use MASH a lot as a reference when designing the behavior, though! Adding direct MASH script/file compatibility is on my backlog, but integrating it into the current service is quite a bit of work for a niche feature.

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win1999 2 days ago

Although I did download a lot of stuff off archive.org, maybe you have some stuff I dont have?

aznet 2 days ago

I have the full tool suite for making your own custom agents from scratch, including a compiler and decompiler. My email is lainerunner at gmail, just shoot me a ping if you want me to send everything. If not, all good. I personally think tying your msagents into even more stuff would be cool! Agentic ai is taking off and these guys were the first hermes agent. They bring back good digimon vibes.

win1999 2 days ago

Good to know! As for tying into Agentic workflow, it's possible someone could fork off this work in the future, but to keep in check with the design system and overall ethos of Windows 99, I'm trying to avoid being anachronistic when it comes to using out of universe elements like modern LLM artificial intelligence.

win1999 2 days ago

Either way, let's keep in touch :)

aznet 1 day ago

msAgent doesn't use LLMs for agentic AI though though, and you're literally already running it ;) AI is new? Must not know about the Ultra HAL AI from 1998 that works with Clippy lmao. Only Transformers is new. You never used an ELIZA model on dos? We've had Artificial Intelligence since 1867, with the automated mechanical Turk. You already added more novel features than msAgent had out of the box.

win1999 1 day ago

I think we may be misunderstanding each other here: I simply am trying to say I don't want to pipe the infrastructure into modern LLMs, which is what I thought you were suggesting. I am familiar with Eliza and Ultra HAL, but those are not LLMs, they are rule-based systems.

win1999 1 day ago

For reference, the current W99 MSAgent implementation is just event-driven scripting with static phrase arrays (ex. when you open Notepad, it picks a random line from a hardcoded list and says it). It's closer to the original Clippit/clippy than anything you'd call AI (event hooks and static response, no inference at all).

win1999 1 day ago

And I don't know why you're bringing up the Mechanical Turk, it was literally a man hiding in a box intending to trick an audience. Also that was in the 1700s, not 1867. I'm not sure where you got that date from.

win1999

3 days ago

2 Million views! Here's what's new in the new update: Windows CE: Accessible via mobile device Games: Tut's Tomb, Tetris, Interval Odyssey Applications: Windows Movie Maker, System Restore Greatly Improved: Internet Explorer (1999 websites accessible, favorites/bookmarks, history) ???: Drag a file from your actual computer onto desktop! The rest you'll have to find out on your own! Have fun, report bugs :]

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win1999 3 days ago

https://win99.dev/CHANGELOG.md

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win1999 3 days ago

Microsite: http://windowsneptune.com

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solradguy 3 days ago

Incredible!! Happy 2 million :D

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hhroses 3 days ago

nice!!!!!

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chilblands 3 days ago

TETRIS!!!

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karpdm 3 days ago

I've been loving the update sm, thank you for your website

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aznet 3 days ago

Could you add MASH to this? And other msagent toys and editors? I can send you them all if you need. What's running this desktop agent, is this custom vbs or faked somehow? You willing to share your agent setup so I can add it to my Finffin?

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irony-machine 3 days ago

hell yes!!

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win1999 updated their site.

4 days ago

internet/websites/yahoo

internet/websites/test-connection

internet/websites/terraserver/desktop

internet/websites/scrollbar/untitled_files/maintop_LYIf

internet/websites/scrollbar/untitled_files/maintop_data/fill2_LYIf

internet/websites/scrollbar/untitled_files/maintop_data/fill2_007_LYIf

internet/websites/scrollbar/untitled_files/maintop_data/fill2_006_LYIf

internet/websites/scrollbar/untitled_files/maintop_data/fill2_005_LYIf

internet/websites/scrollbar/untitled_files/maintop_data/fill2_004_LYIf

internet/websites/scrollbar/untitled_files/maintop_data/fill2_003_LYIf

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kirbydogs 4 days ago

oh my god he did it he updated the site!!

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win1999 4 days ago

expecting to get a friendly email from neocities "omg wut 2 many files"

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win1999 4 days ago

I also anticipate there will be some latency in this being properly refreshed

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perstar 4 days ago

Perhaps I like this, windows 1999. I am born in 2007, so I definitely don't know what does the 1999 looks like. However, I want to go back to that year...

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hhroses 4 days ago

if ur site gets too big i wonder if it would be worth using the free storage space on github or something. or like host certain things in iframes that link to ur other sites hosted elsewhere

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karpdm 4 days ago

oh schnap new win1999 updates <3

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karpdm 4 days ago

I will never tire of spending time on this website.

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win1999 3 days ago

@hhroses not a bad idea :)

win1999 celoscorner

1 week ago

"if you're scared, do it scared. if you're sad, do it sad." Profound life advice if I ever heard it :]

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win1999 wizirdi

1 week ago

Thanks for the kind words! I'm digging your workbench <3

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wizirdi win1999

1 week ago

What a cool project man. I miss the old days D: Keep up the good work

win1999

1 week ago

I'll do another one of these since it's relevant to recent dev work for an upcoming release--The favicon! In March 1999, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 5, which supported favicons for the first time. Originally, the favicon was a file called favicon.ico placed in the root directory of a website. It was used in Internet Explorer's favorites (bookmarks) and next to the URL in the address bar.

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win1999 1 week ago

Parsing favicons from 1999, 2000... their usage was quite rare. It appears that the adoption wasn't really incorporated until tabbed browsing came along 2002-2004 (to help distinguish tabs through iconography). Furthermore, early IE only looked at the server root (http://domain.com/favicon.ico), so individual user sites couldn't have their own favicons.

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win1999

1 week ago

Today's Did You Know about those 88x31 banners: The size traces back to Netscape’s 1995 Netscape Now! promotion, which rewarded webmasters for displaying an “authorized” browser badge on their site. In the Wayback Machine, the website shows that the button appeared on Netscape’s own site in 1995, and GeoCities picked up these in 1996.

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brachypelmide 1 week ago

oh so THAT'S where that comes from!

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hhroses 1 week ago

wow! fascinating

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beachgoth 1 week ago

interesting

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pripyatprincess 1 week ago

s/o netscape

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evfan 1 week ago

i did not know this! thank you :)

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onio 1 week ago

I'm glad to finally know where they came from!

hhroses win1999

2 weeks ago

did you just buy me a coffee??? oh my gosh! thank you if you did! i just got a tip from a user "win99" and an email from stripe. was that you?? gosh im flattered

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win1999 2 weeks ago

creatives need coffee. keep up the good work :]

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win1999 2 weeks ago

(well some creatives, i know tea drinkers too)

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hhroses 2 weeks ago

i really appreciate it T_T<3 i've been a brokie since i lost my main job. thank you so much. <3

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gollum win1999

2 weeks ago

this is killer

win1999 2 weeks ago

Thank ya! Hope you found Half-Life :)

win1999 2 weeks ago

(oh how badly I wanted to implement 1999 beta CS with bots)

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gollum 2 weeks ago

I did find it!! Love all of it, and CS wouldve been so cool. I wonder how complicated that would be. I imagine pretty complicated haha

win1999 4 days ago

I need to reverse engineer the Counter-Strike beta source code (valve owns it, it was never released) to do it, which is out of scope for the time being.

plastigon win1999

3 weeks ago

This is probably one of the coolest sites I've seen on Neocities! I'm mainly a Mac guy and the only older Windows OS I've ever really used was Windows XP, so it's super cool being able to mess around with 99 in a web browser of all things!

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win1999 4 days ago

Thank you! I want to recreate Mac OS 9 at some point...

ninevolt win1999

3 weeks ago

this is so cool... now i can experience playing with a VM without installing one! and the half-life demo?? insane. thanks for the follow :D

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moonlitayanami win1999

1 month ago

Your website, feels like I am experiencing old retro computers. Thanks for this as I wanted to experience what it's like in those times, especially y2k because people have Playboy Logos on their clothes, which is what I like...

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strangetowngirl win1999

1 month ago

thanks for the follow!

win1999 1 month ago

likewise! your earthbound shrine is ON POINT

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lattematche win1999

1 month ago

I played around for a good hour, and had so much fun!! already bluescreened Win 99 3 times and crashed windows explorer 2 😭 I have absolutely no idea how you managed to make a whole OS like this, but my jaw is literally on the floor :O

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win1999 1 month ago

Thank you! It's been a massive labor of love for the past 16 months. There will be a big update soon-ish as well to look forward to. If you can, report any glaring bugs you might run into.

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lattematche 1 month ago

It's showing! And I will :D Is it like a real OS that you somehow made available in a browser? I mean it's probably a super dumb question but I never seen something like this before!

win1999 1 month ago

It was supposed to be Notepad, Internet Explorer (with pages I repaired from 1999 in archive.org) and MS-DOS. Then it grew to Display Properties, Date/Time Settings, and so on and so forth. Some of the starting code was built off github repos, and some were jettisoned as we learned the design systems were off. Lots of VM referencing. There is some documentation in https://win99.dev/devblog/ but it needs updating.

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lattematche 1 month ago

That is so frikin cool!! ill take a look at it!

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