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ICYMI: a few weeks ago, I put together a comprehensive guide for #blind #RetroTech people on getting a fully working Windows 3.1 installation fired up, screen reader and all. fuge.seediffusion.cc/emu-guide…

The accessible Windows 3.1 setup guide

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Sean Randall
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Windows 95 turns 29 this year, perhaps you should do that one next
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Stu Hughes
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@cachondo It turned 29 just under 3 months ago. It's a royal pain in the backside to get installed though, even unattended.
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Lots of floppy disks when I did mine! frustrating at the time. I don't know why it feels so nostalgic
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my first desktop was built from scrounged parts, added in a CD drive later on.
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@cachondo I think I'll do Windows 98 SE next, since it's generally the more stable of the 9x series.
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was that the one with all the sound schemes? Or did that come later.
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@cachondo Those sound schemes came from Microsoft Plus! For Windows 95, though 98 and its respective Plus pack added a lot more.
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ah I presume it's the increase I'm thinking of.
It's interesting how the use of audio has changed over the years
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@cachondo The first version of Windows to really lean into Theming including sound schemes was 95, specifically with the Microsoft Plus! pack which was sold separately, though the base installation did include a few sound schemes on its own like Utopia, Musika, Jungle and Robots. Windows 98 had its own version of plus, which included a unique set of themes different from the 95 ones, but the base installation also included the sound schemes I listed above.
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@pitermach I think I was still using a hardware speech synthesizer with 95. I don't actually recall having speakers on my desktop, and of course the PC speaker did its beeps without them anyway. Amazing to think that the entire audio side of things was just missing in my experience.
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