Virtually Fun

The only thing left for us is to pray. Pray for the safety of our families, for our countries, for our planet. May God forgive us and protect us.

@tuuu28283 YUP

アメリカの兄弟達 日本人なんであんまりわかってないんだけど 英語のyesとyupは意味ってほとんど一緒？？

@muwlgr there was a desktop version of AltaVista! You can front it with some redirection magic to turn it into something kind of usable. I use one to front the UTZOO usenet posts, making it much easier to search through. altavista.superglobalmegacorp.com/altavista

@virtuallyfun Oh, the sweet memories about AltaVista ... :>

Pinball for the AXP64 patched to run! all work by broken pipe. The struct alignment and pointer truncation issues, seem to have been the worst of it! Granted it's crazy slow under emulation, but anyone with a capable enough Dec Alpha ought to be able to enjoy 64bit Pinball now!

@alphafox Mosaic wasn't too crazy...

If you need one of these ethernet adapters, your computer probably can't use a web browser:

@ivanrouzanov axp64 pinball...

And then when NT was ported to 64 bit, we built even internal dependencies - things that other Microsoft divisions produced (like Richedit from Office or MFC from DevDiv).

@muwlgr Here

@virtuallyfun amazing, can it have color depth >4 ?

Huh, so apparently it was mostly struct alignment issues. 64bit Dec alpha pinball on alpha 64! (Work by broken pipe)

Did the Alpha64 have native tools? Or was it all crossed from Alpha "32"? At least now we have virtual machines capable of running both, but it seems such a pain.. Also still cool the wow was x86, but it didn't include POSIX or OS/2. Guess the x86 emulator was strictly Win32 only

@billycanada That's GBP, or good boy points redeemable for chicken tenders....lol

@virtuallyfun LOL when I read this earlier, I was thinking GB was some sort of short form for Great Britain Currency. I couldn't find a price. But now I get it! This is a great find, thank you for sharing.

if you have a few hundred GB to spare, check this out! All the virtual machines you'd ever want, in a nice simple launcher virtualosmuseum.org

@Philip932155613 @Hunterkll @spaztron64 es40 currently only does raw disks. use qemu-img to convert it.

@virtuallyfun @Hunterkll @spaztron64 I restored to a vmdk in vmware but the es40 emulator is not detecting the hd image?

A WORLD FIRST!!! Windows NT 4.0 for DEC Alpha systems can now finally boot under the es40 emulator! This has been made possible by the efforts of gdwnldsKSC on GitHub, with additional testing by @virtuallyfun and I!

@Philip932155613 @Hunterkll @spaztron64 different hal, drivers etc... im not much into franken builds. I just restore these into a new disk image archive.org/details/royt-a…

@virtuallyfun @Hunterkll @spaztron64 Is it possible to just create a 86 box diskimage and add in the win2000 2210 iso in the config and it work?

@Philip932155613 @Hunterkll @spaztron64 I threw this together, going to do the reset soooon.. ish. virtuallyfun.com/2026/05/20/fla…

@virtuallyfun @Hunterkll @spaztron64 Sorry for the noob questions but How do I p-flash the rom? I did find in the qemu package a already p flashed rom but it doesn't work with the S3 Graphics adapter. Is there a way to configure the qemu package to use the network?

@BrianRoemmele needs more self service signs...

“Ha this is AI slop, look at the gas prices, two digits, you can’t fool me”

@alphafox I had to break down and get an adapter for my 286 25Mhz board, as I could only find a PS/2 keyboard...

If you know what plugs into this connector, you are old:

@rsnous NTFS finally took over!

you don't really see .htm extension these days

@pikuma I still can't believe that a google side project had absolutely dominated Brazil, and it was every slowly escaping.. it would have been so much bigger, but like anything google, they strangled it before it got a chance to really flourish.

The only constant in life is the the corruption of everything that was once wholesome.

@OnyxCrack Oh this is NT 4.0 for the Dec Alpha on es40 emulator!

@virtuallyfun never used a vax other than terminals at the irs

Did you know there was a DEC Alpha version of Winamp!? Thanks to the es1370 patch, you can even enjoy MP3's of the ALPHA POWERED Generation! Party like it's 1999!

@OnyxCrack last was the POSIX thing. Although 3.1 & 4.0 were more fun in the era..

@virtuallyfun you still playing with nt 351?

well... I got to the point where the kernel is now catching the crash.. but .. yeah. wow a n00b like me never noticed the massive change from a.out to elf..

NGL it was kinda exciting to see it doing something! Although the source is so intertwined I'm going to have to break down and figure out how to get some pipeline tools and get AI to help on what is going on with the TSS and whatnot. Standing on the shoulders of giants just lets me fall harder & faster!

@virtuallyfun heh heh.. i'm good at crashing anything..