![]() ![]() (You might have inferred some of this from the story about the release of FreeDOS 1.3.) It's easy to get DOS (or even, say, Windows 9x) running inside a VM on a modern OS, but it's then very difficult to get files into or out of that DOS VM. There are snags, though: Where do you find the ancient OSes to run on the emulated machine? And the apps or games to run on that OS? If you do find them, then how do you get them into an emulated machine that only understands long-obsolete media and – if you're lucky – network protocols?Įarly in his career, your correspondent was a bit of an expert in all things DOS, and still has some hobby projects involving resurrecting ancient, now freeware, versions of DOS. Even a low-end 21st century computer is so much faster (and more capacious) than one from 25 or 30 years ago that it can not only easily run a full-speed emulation of the older machine, you can also do tricks like running emulators inside emulators. All of them load inside a web page, but execute on your local machine their storage is online, streamed on demand, and comes preloaded with a swath of apps and games… but even so, they're set up to allow you to load and save files from your local drive, and they can even network with other instances of themselves.Įmulation is fun. That meant changing emulation engine, since MacOS 9 is PowerPC-only. It adds a MacOS 9 version to the existing System7.app and MacOS8.app emulators. ![]() MacOS9.app is the latest, and in some ways the most impressive, installment of "the Infinite Mac," a series of five web-based emulators of classic Macintosh computers. It turns out, unexpectedly, that a good answer to this is… run them in a browser. I know my vision is Bad, it’s very bad, but that has never stopped me from reading fanfics before, and then I discovered forums.Friday FOSS Fest Emulators make it easy to run vintage software in a window on a modern machine, but without specialist knowledge of obsolete systems, it can be hard to do much with them. It just ruins the whole enjoyment of fanfiction, trying it on the black background. The text was too small, and I couldn’t find a way to make it bigger, so I sure hope nothing important happened.Īnd ‘sure’, I guess I ‘could’ zoom in all the way and read it one line at a time, but still, what gives?Īnd here’s a link to a fic I had to drop entirely, because that cyan blue-green is not visible on a white background, and I don’t want to take Ibuprofen every 20minutes to get through the fic. What gives? Does anyone else have this problem? If so, how did you fix it?īecause I know I’m going to be asked for specific links, here’s a story I’m reading now, and that inspired me to finally ask for help, because I couldn’t read chapter 2.2, so I had to skip it. Additionally, if it’s just the standard font size, then I can set it larger, but if it’s specifically smaller text for whatever reason, than the option goes away, and I’ve just got to drop that story. Then most colored text is fine, but specifically lighter white colors are all but invisible, so I guess I just don’t get to read whatever that part of the story was. It gives me a headache, but atleast I can set that to white background, black text. To start with, I can’t read on inverted colors for very long. Why do people on SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity purposefully change text color and size? Do they Want nearsighted people like me to not be able to read it? And is there a way to make it just be normal text? Parahumans: Fanfiction Database - created by /u/Rjjt456 site to keep track of when fics last updated. Massive list of one-shots compiled by /u/finebalanceį - tool to download fics created by /u/iridescent_beacon QuestionableQuesting Creative Writing Forum No personal attacks, real-world politics, or drama.ĭo not recommend canon in story search threads. This rule covers anything generated by "AI," shitposty, shower thoughty, and overly specific posts that are tagged Fic Search - General or Author Help/Beta Call. When you advertise your own fic, explain what the fic is about and identify yourself as the author.ĭon't make threads for story ideas, prompts, or plot bunnies. Stories featuring sexual content and minors are against Reddit's Terms of Service, and we are not going to check every (or any) link to determine whether it meets the criteria. The code to make a spoiler tag is: >!like this!< results in like thisĭo not link to NSFW fics, post requests for NSFW fics, or post NSFW plot bunnies. Worm /r/WormFanFic Wiki Story Ideas Header Art RULES:įlair your posts correctly and use spoiler tags where appropriate. A list of fanfic can be found on our Wiki.
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