I use VMware Workstation Pro (it is free now) and run VMs of 98SE and XP. Works pretty well desu once I figured out how to get sound working in 98

>>107692840 (OP)
The technical artifacts are only half of the thing. They're dead without the people and theory to go along with them.

I solve most of my problems with free software which doesn't have this failure mode

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>>107692840 (OP)
>softwaremaxxing
Based. I've installed 24 different toolbars on internet explorer.

most of them end up on archive.org and I can test stuff in a windows xp virtual machine

>yahoo messenger Idia

>>107693775
epic

>>107693013
did these ever work?

>>107692840 (OP)
I used to keep some exes around, but every reinstall it just made more sense to grab the updated version

>>107692840 (OP)
you get shitposts as replies because in the linux world this concept is nonexistent
i could get a windowsxp iso and install 900 apps from that era and all of them would function perfectly
meanwhile on a linux from 2004 i dont even know where to start, gonna take me 3 weeks to find the 900GB of libs necessary

>>107692840 (OP)
the only thing I'm "maxxing" is my credit card out

>>107695681
They just sent you to their custom sites which showed ads next to google results in a frame

>>107695845
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive

>>107695845
>meanwhile on a linux from 2004 i dont even know where to start
With certain distros like SUSE they would include basically any package they had at the time on a few DVDs. I think Debian still does this

>>107692840 (OP)
>3 media players on sight.

Kys you streetshitting animal.

>>107692960
i've got several programs with dead developers and they run just fine

>>107698259
but... how do they work without updoots?

>>107698229
>3 media players

you just outted yourself.

>>107692840 (OP)
I do softwaremaxx
I have over 300GB of archived installers for everything. Software I use regularly or ocasionally, have used in the past, or might need eventually.
I also keep installers and archives from old versions when I updoot.

I also softwaremaxx in my OS installs, just my "programs and features" CP applet has over 250 installed programs, not counting dozens of software that don't have installers

If I'm gonna be without internet access for an extended period of time I have way bigger priorities than making sure I have access to an outdated build of Alcohol 52%.

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>>107695845
"In the linux world" this is reality; you download couple ISOs and mount them to offline Linux pc and have all software ever existed. In your Windows most of the ISOs and apps from any era wouldn't function properly, and would have to install Dependency Walker or the newer Dependencies tool to identify which DLLs are missing and troubleshoot with internet access to research and download random dll files. Even that Linux from 2004 would have GUI software manager that you just click and install anything ever existed, all locally offline. People like you are so stupid you don't even know what you are talking about.

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>>107693866
>automatically sends "good morning" to all your contacts on startup

>>107692840 (OP)
sudo apt-get install *