about as random as it gets, but does anybody know where i can get a picture file of the Windows 95 setup background? you know, where they had the mouse and the keyboard and other computer equipment in a blue lithograph, and it looked really cool? i'd really like that as my desktop background.

 

 

 

i seem to have hit something of a 90's nostalgia period (and no, i haven't had cable for about a year now, so please don't blame this on any VH1-esque trip) - first i'm going through my old music and finding stuff like boss tones and soundgarden, then I'm looking up websites on old awesome shows like Pete and Pete, or power rangers. man - all of the old nickelodeon shows were awesome - GUTS, You Can't Do That On Television, Clarrissa, All That (although I hated the skit where that kid spent the whole time screaming), that one about the Lost Temple or something, and there was video-game based gameshow. and the good old fashioned Nicktoons - Doug, Ren and Stimpy, Rugrats, Rocko...I'll admit though that I started to lose interest somewhere around the Angry Beavers.

 

 

 

and do you remember when arcades were cool? my dad worked at the university and sometimes my brother and I would go meet him after school and we'd take quaters and go play video games in the student union, or when we'd go to the mall my parents and sisters would go shopping while my brother and me (not nostalgic for that one - even as a junior high (junior high? yeah, i think that's right) kid i knew the acting was juvenile) would spend all of our money on Street Fighter, XMen, Police trainer, Soul Edge, Ninja Turtles (we weren't allowed to play the games like Mortal Kombat or Area 51. not that we didn't, we just had to watch our backs and time it right.) nowadays they don't have arcades anywhere, and the ones that are still around have decade-old games because nobody plays them anymore - everyone's stuck on consoles.

 

 

 

speaking of random - right now i'm looking at an advertisement for a National Lampoon movie featuring a young naked coed. is it just me, or has NL bleed the vein of party/college comedies absolutely dry? i mean seriously - why don't they just name them "National Lampoon's Animal House XXVI - This time, National Lampoon goes direct-to-video so fast, we're not even done filming it!" i mean, without the magazine, why do they still exist? i think that life will be a lot better when they finally have to declare bankruptcy.

 

 

 

sooo.....yeah, if anybody knows where i can get that Win95 wallpaper that'd be great.

should this be in T&C?

 

or VG&C maybe?

 

 

 

I know what you mean, but i have no idea where you would get a picture. Try googling it?

Install a virtual machine program, obtain Windows 95 and install. Screencapture the picture and save.

 

 

 

Or Google it, someone silly might have already done something like this.

 

 

 

Hell, someone might still be running Windows 95.

ha! answered my own question (the one pertaining to the windows 95 background, not what happened to arcades or why NL is still in business). this guy actually posted standard backgrounds for pretty much every version of Windows since 95 -

 

http://home.mchsi.com/~khadzic/MyWebsite/files/category-5.html

 

although the file is fairly low res - was it always that small? part of me is suspicious of another cadbury-esque conspiracy.

 

 

 

well now my desktop is all old-school. gives me a hankerin for some Quake 2...

ha! answered my own question (the one pertaining to the windows 95 background, not what happened to arcades or why NL is still in business). this guy actually posted standard backgrounds for pretty much every version of Windows since 95 -

 

http://home.mchsi.com/~khadzic/MyWebsite/files/category-5.html

 

although the file is fairly low res - was it always that small? part of me is suspicious of another cadbury-esque conspiracy.

 

 

 

well now my desktop is all old-school. gives me a hankerin for some Quake 2...

 

 

 

WOO!! quake 2!