Windows 95 snap

Support & Help Requests
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I am trying to determine uses for this.

For example I used mspaint and saved a file.

But I can not access the saved .bmp outside of the program.

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Hi I have just installed this. It seems to work ok. But, I have made a bmp file and saved it to the win95 desktop. Then, outside of the win95 app, loaded the win95 image, but the bmp file is not there. So, not sure where the hell it is being saved. Because, it is still there then next time I open the app. So, it is saving it somewhere!

3

What did you click to save it ?

The picks are confusing.

I like mspaint a little better than Gimp for simple stuff like drawing a circle around something.

4

I clicked “file/save as”

5

For a more or less identical program to Mspaint, I recommend the following:

sudo apt-get install kolourpaint

See below:

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No, I meant the win95 program.

I do not understand what these are.

   Reset Machine and Delete State

  Discard State and Boot from Scratch

  Show Disk Image

Any option other than hitting space bar to show something as code?

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Reset Machine and Delete State

This restarts the machine as it was when you first installed it and so whatever files you have created, as well as any other changes you may have made, will be lost.

Discard State and Boot from Scratch

This restart the machine from a cold boot. But, does not delete any files or changes you may have made to the machine

Show Disk Image

This will bring up where the win95 image that is stored on your linux host machine. This is the confusion I was referring to earlier. Although it will bring up the win95 image and although you can mount this in linux as just another drive, any files you created are not present when you navigate the image. Furthermore, if you then re-run the win95 app, you will find those files are indeed still there. Hence my wondering where on earth they are being actually stored, since it is not in the image itself

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Thanks.

So, I conclude that the program is good for nostalgia for those who like those kind of things.

This site is cute.

http://www.windows93.net/

The Wolfenstein clone brought back some memories.

9

Circles in Gimp are actually hella easy. Just lasso something, bucket fill, then shrink selection and delete.

10

For something difficult, I am trying to debug a Win 32 program.

I am using Ollydbg.

Winedbg is more difficult as it is not a GUI program.

11

if you wanted to use ms paint in as seamless way as possible inside Linux, I suppose one option to employ would be the following method:

Install and old copy of win95 or winxp in virtual-box

Have mspaint as a startup program

Apply seamless mode to the VM

All of the above would mean that when you started the vm, only MS paint would load on your screen along with the ms lower panel. But, that’s it.

Additionally, you could set up a host folder to be shared with your VM such that you saved all files there.

12

Thanks.

KolourPaint is close enuf to Mspaint.

I am happy with it.

I tried Virtual Box, but had a lot of issues and it sucks up the memory too.

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Brilliant. Glad to hear it Fixit.

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For what it's worth, Win95 & Win98 do not play well with VirtualBox. However, XP runs very well as a VM.

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I used to have XP, but threw the install disk away after I had Linux going.

I would get XP tweaked out like I wanted, the then a Windows update would break something.

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Two things I do with my XP VM.

  1. After initial updating, turn off updates (although, to be honest, I think XP updates may be dead now anyway)

  2. Take a copy of the entire XP VM folder (you’ll find it in “/home/username/VirtualBox VMs”) and save it on an external storage medium

  3. If anything goes wrong with my VM, just swap out the existing VM for the copy

  4. Carry on as if nothing happened

However, having said all of the above, I agree with you about Kolorpaint and so this would not be a good reason to keep an XP VM running. For myself, I use it for the rare occasion I need to work on an Access database file.

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Yeah, Internet Explorer updates where never good.

18

I remember when a programmer took IE apart and took all the "spying stuff" out.

And posted it for downloading. :slight_smile:

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Use to turn off system restore as well. But I no longer have any need for a winXP VM.

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Do you remember 98lite? It was a free program that would strip IE from win98.