Windows 95❌ A fucking movie:✅

@jackintoshgamer

Ай бұрын

LETS GO

@RipVanFish09

Ай бұрын

Oh jeez, I just noticed it’s an hour long! Today is a good day.

@chanceForNotBeingRapper

Ай бұрын

australian scott the woz with no glasses in computer diy hannel

@BrokenCircus

Ай бұрын

This sort of video is why we should stop saying "content", and instead call it a film

@brinleyhamer729

Ай бұрын

@@BrokenCircus a film is technectly content just alot of it

This is a phenomenal piece of cinematography you've produced here. It doesn't even look low-budget! (well, except for my 2 second cameo)

@MattKC

Ай бұрын

Aw c'mon the video would be nothing without that red hot 𝕾𝖎𝖝𝖙𝖞 𝕹𝖎𝖓𝖊

@alexp15-

Ай бұрын

i honestly didn't even realize you were in the video, but just knowing you were in it makes it even cooler

@qoombert

Ай бұрын

holy shit cs is heh sis

@qoombert

Ай бұрын

oh, was CS the guy that said 69 was the number of registry keys added by the .net 2.0 installer?

@CarlTheSkunk

Ай бұрын

YOO THE GOD OF YTPS IS HERE

i’m a game developer, and the workaround for printing the unhandled exception to the gui made me CRY laughing. genius.

Neighbor Discovery Protocol Helper and 0x40 means "NDP_NEIGHBOUR_SOLICITED" A network mode to connect 2 computers without a router. And this step announces the computer on this network.

@speeder3235

3 күн бұрын

Thanks, ancient wizard!

@noahcrosby9876

3 күн бұрын

No way. Someone always knows!

@kargaroc386

7 сағат бұрын

probably looked in reactos or whatever

Fun fact, the installer has more registry keys than there are seconds in this video. Can't believe the amount of effort that went into this whole thing! Utterly incredible.

@dogewasfound

Ай бұрын

so it has more than 3,113 registry keys? damn. edit: shit i didn't watch the whole dvideo before responding it does yes

@jlewwis1995

Ай бұрын

​@@dogewasfoundyeah it apparently bas 5409... and thats just for version 2, i can only imagine tbe amount .net 8 has if microsoft didnt eventually get their shit together since then...

@monad_tcp

Ай бұрын

That's because there's this thing called DCOM, or COM+ that basically takes a C++ class and turns it into 10 registry keys at minimum in the registry, so that C++ class can be used by any other DLL or software. Its all done because C++ never had binary compatibility between compilers and systems. DotNet uses it heavily internally because you know, it is made in C++, but C# must be able to call C++ objects and there's this JITtted code that must be able to use it via the marshall interop laywer, and the rest of the other software on the system, like Office and the rest of Windows also communicates like that. Really, that's an ingenuous solution to a very hard problem, how do you do Inter-process communication at scale ! It seems a lot of registry keys, but they are automatically generated, I remember using ATL for that in C++. So instead of just loading a DLL and calling C prototypes, you have to put them in the registry, for each "function", its literally just a more complex database of symbols, like the symbol table any EXE has.

@tomaszsikora6723

Ай бұрын

Why so many registry keys though? Does someone know?

@dafaislami3107

Ай бұрын

​@@tomaszsikora6723(ignore this lol) Around 5.000, Matt said it in act 2

A wise man once said DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

@Desperate.edits.

Ай бұрын

Heck yeah!

@harveysattic3918

Ай бұрын

Didn't expect a Steve Ballmer reference.

@NickBouwhuis

Ай бұрын

He also said "AAAAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! WOO! COME ON!" A wise man indeed

@bsbsbspl

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@NolieRavioli

Ай бұрын

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

I write NET 2.0 projects all the time. You'd be shocked the private companies, cities, government, and other projects that all still run on dinosaur technology. Though, the depressing part is so little people utilize NET 2.0 and they continue making their ever expanding code/framework in the old framework that will never translate to the new one. It's such a pain to force clients to move to NET 2.0 because I've got to tell them, "Your code won't last forever. Use Net 2.0 because then you can continue coding but the library will translate to newer projects". Because in the NET world, there was an apocalyptic event that split the NET environment. Anyone who was on the 4.7 (or now 4.8) NET framework got completely dropped by Microsoft for the newer NET core framework. The newer one is millions of times better, but it screwed everyone on the old framework. So I've basically been employed for a long time simply helping project after project after project get off of 4.7 and onto the newer core. That's my developer rant. Your welcome. You're weird if you read this. But if you did. Remember. USE NET 2.0 IF YOU ARE STUCK ON THE OLD FRAMEWORK! Please!

@CrapperCopter

Күн бұрын

8 years ago I got a recruiter offer for compiler engineer job at a Texas bank who wanted a COBOL frontend written for LLVM and a backend for their System/360 mainframe which they no longer had a supported COBOL compiler for. A bank still using System/360 in ~2016 wasn't too surprising, and I briefly debated sending them a gigantic estimate for the labor (and then even though it would have been a doable project, fleeing to a remote Island with the money) but the scare words aside from COBOL which could no longer instill fear in me at that point and the ancient mainframe were "no longer supported compiler"... this implied a terrible lifetime spent supporting this machine until I drove to texas in a fit of rage, grabbed a 6 shooter out of the free 6-shooter basket at the entrance of the bank (I assume they have those, we nearly do in the midwest in [redacted] and we're not even known as a gun happy state) and plugging that machine full of hollow points until someone physically pried that gun from my warm live hands and forced me to start supporting the damn COBOL compiler again. I made the right decision in completely ignoring the recruiter, I think.

@IllidanS4

19 сағат бұрын

So if you are on .NET Framework 4, you downgrade to .NET Framework 2? ("Core" is crucially missing here)

@slurp50s

18 сағат бұрын

@@IllidanS4 No, not NET Framework 2. There's a completely different thing literally called, "NET Standard 2". It's not the same thing as NET Framework 2. You can thank Microsoft for that naming confusion lol. But the NET Standard project is compatible between the core and pre core frameworks. Thus, it's a great intermediary library to start translating data from a NET Framework 4 project. Which then means once your project in whatever capacity is ready to take the jump off of the NET Framework 4. The data you put on NET Standard 2.0 will be directly useable in the new core environment. Jumping straight from Framework 4 to the newer core versions is obviously the most preferred path. But many projects that're wayyyyyy too large can't convert immediately and have to continue to develop features in the old framework to keep operations going. But you can continue development in NET Standard 2.0 to keep operations moving while still moving the code to a location that'll translate towards the future. hope that makes sense.

@IllidanS4

13 сағат бұрын

@@slurp50s All clear; in fact I use .NET Standard 2.0 regularly as well. Though in my experience it is sometimes even less than the intersection of .NET Framework and .NET Core, but it is still nice and, of course, compatible with everything.

I used to work in IT in the meat industry, we had multiple machines in factories across the world that still ran on 95 or 98 and had zero upgrade paths. When one went down if the spare didn't work (or just didn't exist) we would frantically scramble to bring up a VM backup of the machine and fight for ages to get it to talk with the old hardware. I can think of many situations where having this solution would have been useful. You sir, are a genius!

@crtx3

13 күн бұрын

What is your justification for murdering animals?

@LumemDH

13 күн бұрын

@@crtx3they taste good.

@crtx3

12 күн бұрын

@@LumemDH So you value your taste over the lives of sentient non-human animals. Does that make murdering them okay? Would it be okay to kill humans for the same purpose?

@876r2rfs

10 күн бұрын

@@crtx3 Their screams sound good to the ears.

@nibblrrr7124

10 күн бұрын

"you don't wanna know how the sausage is made", in more than one way...

Program: *eldritch screeching* Matt: "40" Program: *purring*

@HNedel

Ай бұрын

That would be 0x40, thank you very much 😉

@OttomanDrifter91

Ай бұрын

Program: YOU SHALL NOT PASS Matt: no u Program: ... you know what, that's a valid point. Here's some more obscure clues for you to follow.

@robonator2945

Ай бұрын

the fact that this is not even remotely an uncommon thing to deal with when it comes to computers hurts my soul. You have no fucking idea how many hours I spent before I finally realized that, *_unlike every single other thing in the entire god damn language,_* C Macros are white-space sensitive. I literally lost like 5 straight hours of my life because there was a fucking space before a parenthesis. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was inventing computers, because I refuse to believe anything else in human history has caused more suffering than computers and their BS antics.

@KookoCraft

Ай бұрын

@@robonator2945 autism

@GamemodePC

Ай бұрын

0x40*

Imagine if every time you put a project on GitHub, you had to spend six months making a parody film explaining your process.

@stylis666

27 күн бұрын

I wish! I'm only learning how to program. It would take me a decade to learn all this stuff. But I would totally make a parody film out of the journey to getting Pro Pinball games to work on modern machines. You can't even make an image of the discs that work without using some niche format only some programs, like Alcohol120% or DAEMON tools can make or use. And on modern machines there are security issues with the original discs and even disc images you can buy from the company. I have a cracked version of Big Race USA someone gave to me a couple of decades ago that still works on all machines and operating systems from Win98 to WIndows 11. So it's definitely possible. Maybe it even runs on Win95. I'm pretty sure I've only gotten and played the game after I got Win98. And I bought a disc copy and later all the other games as well and the digital versions in one pack and ended up sticking with playing the crack because it just works, unlike the disc and digital versions. But they did some really cool stuff.The physics, including spin and bounce against the glass worked very well. And they used audio tracks of live played music in the games, which was pretty rare back when The Web came out (didn't have bounce on glass yet) for MsDos. But it also makes it impossible for most disc burning software to copy both the files and the audio so they both work without a CD-rom. I found an old msi file I made with Alcohol120% way back when and I got that one to work by copying the game files and ignoring the installer, and it will play the audio and the game on Windows 10. So that's pretty cool. I would love to get all 4 games fixed and working properly on all systems. Two of them never worked without sound glitches on any system I've tried them on and some didn't work at all. And they've got great music and they're still great pinball games with a lot of cool and fun options to play with.

@jaycarlisle5770

25 күн бұрын

That's a LOT of armature porn They'd probably have to rebrand as Get Only Fans Hub or something... and that only covers half the primary functions the intranets were purposed for What about the cute kitty pics?

@KaizarNike

17 күн бұрын

by this metric im already 50 years old

@FarmYardGaming

17 күн бұрын

Should be a necessity

I worked at a tape manufacturer not long ago that has all the lab testing equipment still on 95. Youll be making some very happy people out there.

@vjcodec

3 күн бұрын

Would be a great follow up video.

I hope Dave from Dave's Garage sees this. Reckon he'd love to see it being one of the devs of Windows' OS back in the 90s. Great effort mate. Was a pleasure to watch your journey and inspiring as a neat project for software devs to try it for fun that isn't just another 'portfolio piece'.

@Jono997

19 сағат бұрын

Wouldn't be the first time they've crossed paths lol.

Dude the fact that you did this project is insane on its own, but you also just MADE A FILM NOIR IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS VIDEO? So nuts dude, amazing work

@EthanBlesch

Ай бұрын

First 30 seconds I thought it was supposed to be parodying Mr. Robot tbh

@nicl83

Ай бұрын

@@EthanBlesch I was thinking that, he almost sounds like Elliot lol

@caliellimadacosta

Ай бұрын

I'm curious about what role more time: make it or produce a film about it

@suprememasteroftheuniverse

Ай бұрын

Still completely useless.

@evanbarnes9984

Ай бұрын

@@suprememasteroftheuniverse yeah man, art is definitionally useless. And?

As a .net dev I really, really enjoyed seeing you get it working on an operating system it was never meant to run on! I haven't enjoyed a video as much as I did this one in a long time - well done Matt!!!

@Welvrt

Ай бұрын

That’s great

@WilliamMelton617

Ай бұрын

how was developing dotnet? smooth or frustrating??

@4rumani

Ай бұрын

choo choo

@unicodefox

19 күн бұрын

@@WilliamMelton617i think they mean they make programs with .net, not an actual ms employee

I have to say, I am very surprised to not only see such a technical feat of backporting, but a good noir parody film. I've made movies with people, it's a lot of work. But you're also debugging. You are an inspiration!

The cinematography in this is amazing. Not only did you produce a genuinely informative and entertaining retro-tech video but you also made a FILM out of it. The sheer quality of it absolutely knocked my socks off and I loved the take on noir you added in the mix. Big W's all around man, this was a masterpiece.

I checked ndphlpr.vxd file with a disassembler and it's really just a simple wrapper to get and set the thread context. Presumably on Windows 9x they could not use GetThreadContext and SetThreadContext because of some quirk. On newer versions they do not load that driver (obviously) and use GetThreadContext and SetThreadContext directly. Judging by paths in the .NET dlls (such as "f: tm dp\clr\src\debug\ee\debugger.cpp") ndp is just an internal codename or abbreviation for .NET. EDIT: I looked at the Win9x kernel and I think I understand why this is needed. In Win9x SetThreadContext changes the context immediately regardless of whether it's the current thread or another thread, while on newer versions an APC is used when changing the context of another thread. Presumably .NET needs the latter and it implements it through ndphlpr.vxd, also using an APC.

@evanmcgurrin

Ай бұрын

This could be helpful

@ZiggyTheHamster

Ай бұрын

Given future projects at Microsoft have the pattern NxP (.NET Compiler Platform = Roslyn), I would guess that NDP means .NET Developer(?) Platform.

@DouglasWalrath

Ай бұрын

@@ZiggyTheHamster oh so it means .NET Developer Platform Helper

@naota3k

Ай бұрын

I'm so glad people understand this stuff so I don't have to.

@ShadowSlayer1441

Ай бұрын

How were you able to look at the kernel? Did it leak at some point?

Okay, hear me out. 10:44 - I own that chair. I bought it for my daughter when she was 1 thinking it was a cheap plushy chair. It is easily the best-upholstered, nicest piece of furniture in my entire house. It is stupidly-nice for a elmo-faced piece of child furniture. Seeing it pop up in this video killed me.

@Space_US

Ай бұрын

lol

@superzin086

Ай бұрын

lol

@cardude8996

Ай бұрын

Lol

@OldManBOMBIN

Ай бұрын

lol

@TreeeLeeeaf

Ай бұрын

lol

I had the pleasure of working with orca a few months ago. The second i sat MSI on the screen i shouted "ORCA" and had a good laugh as you encountered every issue i had too with the installation process.

Sometimes it actually might matter more than we think. When I was doing my thesis in chemistry less than 10 years ago, we had this chromatograph that needed to be connected to a computer with win 95. Mostly because of the port used to connect the machine to the PC, but also the software wouldn't properly run on more modern versions. While a bit older than two other models we owned, the fact was that this was the best chromatograph we owned - not as versatile or flexible, but it was the one less prone to weird malfunctions and was very reliable (while the more modern one, I spent more time "debugging" - ergo, moving screws and valves around - than actually working) and cheap to run thousands of analysis. This meant that my working process was: - Run stuff on 95 and save to a floppy disk. I could only save 2 or 3 runs (my thesis involved thousands) per floppy due to file size. - Get the floppy on another computer with XP, because it had both floppy disk and support USB. This PC does not support either the modern software I needed to run analysis on, neither the old software from the other PC. It also didn't have internet, presumably, because the USB was connected to a PCI port instead of network card. Realise that most modern usbs aren't recognised by the PC for some odd reason, needed to find a 1Gb drive to be able to make it work. Save to usb. - Take the USB across the hall to a modern computer running (at the time) Win 8.1 and finally shove the files into my analysis software and upload them to the cloud. - Repeat this 10x a day. Everyday. For two years. While I'm not sure backporting would've solved anything here (but probably we would've been able to transfer that port into a more modern computer if we had been able to run the software), this just goes to show that there is still a lot of specialised equipment still to this day running on win95 and good will (because I very much doubt they bought a 20k equipment - 20k is considered economical by this equipment standards - to replace a fully functioning old one).

program: "what the FUCK. the driver did not send me the number i need. i will now refuse to work whatsoever until this issue is resolved" "0x40" program: "oh ok ☺"

why is this a cinematic masterpiece? i expected a documentary on how some guy ported some modern windows apps to windows 95

@rubaitahamed7611

Ай бұрын

ifkr!! i didn't even realise this was a hour long

@lunakoala5053

Ай бұрын

I wonder what took longer do to. Figuring out this kinda insane endeavor. Or turning it all into a freaking arthouse movie.

I’ve got to say that this video is the best I’ve ever watched on YT, very in depth, entertaining & let me just wanting more afterwards… you should go into short films if you don’t already, some real talent there. All the best, Rich

I watched this while debugging my own software. Your resilience really motivated me to keep pushing through some hard problems. Compared to all the hoops you had to jump through, my issue wasn't so bad. Thank you.

Not only does this scratch my nerd itch, but it is so well written and the sketches are fantastic. You’ve found a way to keep getting better over time.

@ObscEst

Ай бұрын

I was interested in technological side of this video, would've sat, watched, and enjoyed it if it was just a dry explanation of what was done. But the creativity shown here had me hooked on a whole new level. Their was genuine suspense, I was sucked in. Honestly most modern studio produced films don't have the immersion and I'm glued to screen factor that this video does. MattKC you're incredible. Keep doing great things.

@blazen123

Ай бұрын

i just wish the sketches felt more intertwined, as by the end they felt like interruptions instead of being part of the entire point of the video.

@randomazzy11

Ай бұрын

i rlly like mattkc, and expected nothing more than a video where he does this, like his previous videos. This is now my fav youtube video EVER. I hope we will see more.

@oz_jones

Ай бұрын

​@@blazen123that's what all sketches are

@blazen123

25 күн бұрын

@@oz_jones no sketches should not interrupt the flow of the video if they are a major part of it, these do however

As the author of Rust9x (Rust language/standard lib ported to 9x/NT), glad to see other weirdos do similar things

@jailsonmendes6120

Ай бұрын

wait, do people use rust unironically?

@Brisolo32

Ай бұрын

@@jailsonmendes6120 yeah?

@mme725

Ай бұрын

​@@jailsonmendes6120people use it ironically?

@seshpenguin

Ай бұрын

You did such a great job with Rust9x, it's a lot of fun to use!

@walleras

Ай бұрын

Fuck rust

This all is absolutely incredible! Your tremendous work, the fun and optimism you describe it with, and the film you've made! I truly love how deeply you dive into the details! Thank you, this is a video I'll be telling my friends about the next few days.

The cinematography and jokes in this are amazing. While I already really enjoy your videos, I did NOT expect your new upload to be THIS good, I'm blown away. Thank you so much for all the work you put into this (and shoving butter in your ear)

I have to admit, I started the video just listening to it in the background, but as the story progressed, I became more and more invested in your struggle, until I stopped my chores altogether and was completely engrossed, gripping the arm of my couch, bating my breath to see whether you'd break the code or not (even if the title spoiled the end result). But at the end, seeing the programs run flawlessly, your hard work having been paid off, made a rush of endorfins flow through me and I was audibly cheering for your victory. I guess it just tells something about your narrative/editing skills, that even when knowing the ending, you were still able to capture my full attention. Windows 95 was part of my childhood, and whenever I see the chunky UI, I'm filled with nostalgia. I'm happy to see people still caring enough for this obsolete piece of software, to be spending hours and upon hours of their time to make something like this. As a token of my appreciation, here's a little something for your trouble, King! 🏆

@sarkal5302

Ай бұрын

GOLLY!!!

@Psythik

Ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more. This truly was a captivating video. 10/10 production quality all around.

@MattKC

Ай бұрын

Wow thank you so much! I really appreciate the kind words, it's the greatest compliment in the world to hear people genuinely enjoying and excited about what I make. Long live 9x!

@HabibiBlxberg

Ай бұрын

100 Dollars vor Euros? Holy banana pie's choco cream

@TheMiningCrafter

Ай бұрын

@@HabibiBlxbergwhat

I am 3/4th of the way into the video. I had to stop and write this. This is literally insane. I have never seen someone so unfazed by such a ginormous task. And with a SMILE on his face. It blows my mind that on top of that you made an entire top notch movie production and editing. Honestly I would have given up so so long ago or gone mad. I feel so small, as if this mission of yours is like asking me to carve down the Everest, with a spoon. A plastic spoon. Great job, this video now lives in my head for the next few years. Thanks. P.s: for my sanity, i must know, how? How did you manage to muster the willpower to follow through even when you faced brick walls?????

@dagahanfdm

Ай бұрын

It's hard to begin but the point comes when something makes 'click' inside you and you just can't stop until you are finished. Maybe you must have at least some preposition for OCD or similar.

@warmCabin

Ай бұрын

Three quarterth

@atomictransfusion

Ай бұрын

what currency is that

@gizmowizard352

Ай бұрын

Yep, I don't know how he bypassed the Windows 3D Maze brick walls.LOL🤣🤣🤣

@lantsukka

Ай бұрын

@@atomictransfusion israeli shekel

Man this was so cool to watch. The whole film like thing is so well done that the hour i spent watching it flew by so quick. Good luck with your future videos.

I love how you improve your format in every video a little bit more. Really great work, keep it up. Im courious how long it takes you for a whole project like this, from the idea to research, recording, editing.

This is one of the most impressive programming videos on the Internet - both from the actual achievement perspective, but also from the filming/editing/pacing/skit perspective. Bravo.

@cosmnik472

Ай бұрын

Minor spelling mistake

@JacobP81

Ай бұрын

YEP

Ай бұрын

indeed, I don't like to think about perfection in life but this video changed my mind

ngl, my mans not only pulled the craziest card on us by putting in hours upon hours to contribute to software preservation, but produced a film on top of it. In all seriousness, I was not prepared to watch an hour long video, but the in-between bits were genius and made me watch the whole thing without stopping. Another W upload.

@billkeithchannel

28 күн бұрын

I just finally stopped at the crime scene white board to give the 4 F's for respect. This is phenomenal so far. Damn I must be a total nerd.

@clownstep

25 күн бұрын

"Preservation"

@DinoNuggies4665

25 күн бұрын

@@clownstep in retrospect it's probably not the right term

@clownstep

25 күн бұрын

He basically tortured himself for our entertainment ☺️

@foxonboard1

22 күн бұрын

It is only 30 min for me 😂😏

I think this is my favorite video of all time. The amount of time making this work through cryptic errors, and fantastic recording/editing make this something else

I haven't watched your videos before, but this was so unexpected and fun! I sat down to see a curiosity of getting apps working, and what I received was so much more, and such a treat to watch. Fantastic job!

The technical hurdles needed to do this are both significant and numerous, but the fact that you created an entire Oscar-worthy feature-length movie documenting some of the struggles involved is absolutely bonkers. Bravo good sir, bravo indeed!

@alexandredelevaux6865

28 күн бұрын

I was more involved in the plot than most of the movie released last year.

DAMN this production quality is GREAT

@ptrdblmeter

Ай бұрын

ONG

@jonapoka7109

Ай бұрын

Eh

@onlypuppy7

Ай бұрын

I thought it was filler and was 3 times longer than it needed to be

@pranavkulkarni6921

Ай бұрын

@@onlypuppy7 I mean you are technically correct, even I found some parts unnecessary but you can't deny that there was a lot of effort

@onlypuppy7

Ай бұрын

@@pranavkulkarni6921 effort yes, but misplaced

The last section, the resolution, was all I watched here, but what a blast from the past. Messing around with any and every setting to see what else could be customized or done, the magic behind it all, playing solitaire, the screensavers, Lego Island, etc. Awesome. From there to miniclip online games and so much more. Great stuff. What a project for nothing more than the passion of it. Props on the hard work!

@mylittleparody2277

5 күн бұрын

Honestly, watch the whole thing, it's awesome!

What an incredible journey! Your persistence is seriously admirable. I'm so glad you didn't only release the code - it's amazing to see the story behind work like this; and so well told ❤

I did not expect this to be such a cinematography masterpiece. An amazing mix of education, entertainment, and raw passion. Thank you.

@maggie3060

Ай бұрын

Its even got proper captions!!!

@calebchris000

Ай бұрын

I wish i could donate to Matt, I'm just broke haha 😢

@DxsPro

Ай бұрын

cinematography masterpiece?

@g-starthefirst

Ай бұрын

what’s a BYN and why did you give MattKC 20 of them?

@itisliamhfjone22

Ай бұрын

real

17:16 As someone who had to battle with encoding to read visual novels in the dark dark times of over a decade ago, this feels very personal

@HerbySystems

Ай бұрын

NEW MATTKC CONTENT!! 🥰🥰🥰

@dad_hoc

Ай бұрын

I only knew about encoding as a 16 year old because of Katawa Shoujo, man

@izperehoda

Ай бұрын

@@dad_hoc based

@muizzsiddique

Ай бұрын

Luckily these days you can just use WinRAR or PeaZip, set the encoding (from a drop-down list) and then extract.

@cool-person1161

Ай бұрын

I still see C:¥Users¥user¥Downloads

Play it, Matt. Play 'As 95 Goes Bye' A 1 hour video on backporting is a risky proposition, but you pulled it off. I understood just enough to follow along in fascination while being entertained by your rather corny & bizarre sense of humour (which I understood fully), and film-noire schtick. Your passion shone through for the full 51 minutes. Thank you so much for sharing. We'll always have Unhandled Exceptions. Here's looking at you kid.

Absolutely epic video… can’t imagine how long this must’ve taken to pull together but the effort is hugely appreciated. Amazing!

I have done exactly this but in reverse. Windows 95 16 bit software on windows 10. We had an old gateway PC for a UV-vis spectrometer that grad students kept alive with parts from ebay. Vendor wanted $10,000 for a the new software that runs on windows 10. So, I grabbed all the dependencies, registry keys, MFC dlls, and started them moving over from the Win 95 machine to the windows 10. Every time it threw an error, fix, patch, solve it, only to get another one. After a week it worked, flawlessly. It was like turning water into wine. We literally had a stack of floppy disks because thats the only way to get the data from the win 95.... But no more, now everyone can sign in with their SSO and get the data directly to their network drive. it was amazing...

@DonaldDucksRevenge

Ай бұрын

I'm such a fan of such hikes

@VESTI

Ай бұрын

"We literally had a stack of floppy disks because thats the only way to get the data from the win 95." Had a similar dilemma trying to rescue 15 years of Lloyd's Tensile machine data from a '95 box, fortunately it had an old optical drive so I could boot from a Puppy Linux CD which does support USB.

@aharte17

Ай бұрын

Oh boy, I hope you made a record of each of those items that were migrated, where they came from and where they go because if that machine ever were to be re-imaged… I’ve done a similar project but with a very “throw shit at the wall until it works” approach, got it working but then the machine went kaput before we could image it. Re-creating each step to get that old software working took longer than the first go-around. That was the day I learned creating step-by-step documentation is a vital task in the service of your future self not going insane.

@MrSevenEleven

Ай бұрын

I'm so confused, why did the vendor want $10,000?

@jengelenm

Ай бұрын

So 10.000 usd diveded by a 40hr/ work week…. This guy was charging 250 usd/hour !

IT'S HERE

@MrCaseyJames

Ай бұрын

I've enjoyed seeing you and MattKC pop up in each other's videos!

@hemadegraduation846

Ай бұрын

Smasnug :D

@gerkim3046

Ай бұрын

your comment shows 1 day ago on a video uploaded 1 hour ago. time traveller

@esseferio

Ай бұрын

You're really EVERYWHERE on KZread !!! (and it's nice :))

@maciejglinski6564

Ай бұрын

old nerdy tech Cinematic Universe

instant follow! Super awesome info, media and editing.

Love the vids. Keep it up! PS: Also congrats on making it to the news here in Britain theres a full on article about this vid!

This video about Windows 95 has no fucking business being this good.

We can now use way, way later versions of software on Windows 95. This is a huge step in the direction of allowing these older operating systems to fluidly integrate into society!

@rkan2

Ай бұрын

Embrace Operating system fluidity! Osfluidity!

@prophetzarquon1922

Ай бұрын

Ageism is truly one of the most severe issues in tech.

instant top 10 youtube programming videos ever. Informing, hilarious, wholesome, you truly are insanely talented! Thanks you so much

The editing, and compilation of shots, the idea of presentation is just outstanding, its of cinema or production house level, apart from non gimbal handheld shots, in short enjoyed it even though i am no genius dev like you. Almost felt like watching a movie. Thanks for this one, good luck for future ones.

Dude, the fact that you actually went out into the world to act out scenes for 2 second bits, spliced seamlessly into the flow of the video is the epitome of dedication to the craft. Absolutely top notch stuff, mate! 😸👍

@awesomeferret

Ай бұрын

Many retro tech KZreadrs do this every once in a while, just saying (maybe retro Brite in your driveway doesn't count though).

@TheSliderW

Ай бұрын

Don't wanna mess up your 95 thumbs up but I +1 your comment.

@awesomeferret

Ай бұрын

@@TheSliderW it's 101 now haha

@TheSliderW

Ай бұрын

@@awesomeferret X )

Someone, somewhere has a embedded Windows 95 OS controller in a factory that had no upgrade path options due to the vendor no longer being in business and being unable to afford anything beyond maintenance of the existing machines. You have no idea who is going to come out the woodwork but you almost certainly just saved a few million jobs globally with this project.

@prophetzarquon1922

Ай бұрын

Not just some_one,_ *thousands* of mission-critical computers still run Win9x because redeveloping abandoned proprietary code has been cost prohibitive or not legally possible. If more industry apps were open-source, the situation might be different; closed-source code results in massive lost functionality once the rights-holders stop supporting it or change their business model.

@orora667

Ай бұрын

@@prophetzarquon1922 but if industry apps were open source it could be more easy to hack too.

@froseph85

Ай бұрын

When I worked at VMware, the primary reason that Windows 95 was an officially supported guest operating system was the demand from customers who used VMware to run legacy software on contemporary hardware.

@DRNEGOLICIS

Ай бұрын

Its funny you say that, youd be surprised how many 486 based machines are out in the field still running and useing win9x . the military is one for sure 386 and 486 still out at sea in ships being used to do one specific task and are good at it and continue to do so.

@mytuberforyou

Ай бұрын

YES! Try my CNC Jr. Milling machine that ran Win3.1 on an IBM clone 80286. I bought it from a lock factory in Virginia in 2006 and immediadely built a new controller because there was no documentation on the card and I wasn't even sure of the bus architecture, I think it's pre- ISA bus. I upgraded to a computer running Win98, Win95's evil descendent.

This was a fascinating trip of a video. I'm used to the context of DLL wrappers used for getting old defunct APIs (mainly for graphics cards) working on modern systems, so seeing the technique being used for backporting was a really interesting reversal of the idea.

Matt I followed you since the beginning and always loved your videos. This feels like you are taking the next step really! I can imagine how much effort went into this and as soon as I get my financial situation sorted out (stupid loans) I will become a Patreon. Really love the enthusiasm and that you really go all into every project.

6:36 You cheeky for that one

@TheWagonroast

Ай бұрын

yes

@user-kk4vy7uq5o

Ай бұрын

Vsauce reference

@bungsbodulus

Ай бұрын

You know it's real when you hear moon men

@narfharder

26 күн бұрын

Dang, it's so -subliminal- familiar I missed it

Matt: 48:56 “the kind of patience you only have as a kid” Also Matt: steps through a program for “days on end”

This was an amazing project. Thanks for doing it!

This video is truly outstanding - one of the best I've ever seen on this platform. It's entertaining, educational, inspiring and nostalgic all at once. Can't stress enough how incredible it is. Thank you for this masterpiece!

As a .net dev I felt your pain when you discovered the GAC. So many problems on old framework versions were always just the fucking GAC.

Oh wow, the lego island guy promised a technical deep dive, and delivered not only that, but a metric ton of editing AND an intriguing murder mystery on top of that. Great video!

Back in the late 80's I tried learning assembly by just using the C128 monitor and not an actual compiler program. You stepping through the program line by line brought nightmare flashbacks.

@troybelding3816

26 күн бұрын

Don't feel bad. I keep having to step through bash scripts, HTML, and other server code on a regular basis - and I'm not a programmer. I just run some servers.

Amazing work! I am glad you didn't give up and got it to work.

Fun fact: the way that Microsoft used to make C# available everywhere was to acquire the company that created the unofficial port of C# to Linux and Mac, Mono, and take over the maintenance as an official MS project

@stevethepocket

Ай бұрын

Embrace, extend... then just keep doing that?

@pave_unpaved

Ай бұрын

yeah pretty much lmaoo although i guess by making the official runtime cross-platform it is _kinda_ being extinguished???

@p4rk5h

Ай бұрын

It's now named .NET Core, So, Extinguish as "Return of the .NET Framework"?

@charliekahn4205

Ай бұрын

@@stevethepocket why extinguish what makes money?

@computerfan1079

Ай бұрын

​@@p4rk5hEven better, it's now the only version and just called .Net it's pretty neat

What's funny about this video is that it's basically a KZreadr movie and is better than other, "professional", KZreadr movies. On top of that, it's with a topic that you'd think would never be able to be generally entertaining. Fuckin' hell Matt, good job.

What a delight! I started wrangling with PCs in the Timex-Sinclair era, and I have an appreciation for all of the guru-level skills involved here...but no innate abilities. :) Thanks for doing this.

Phenomenal video. Thanks for helping me sleep an hour later than I wanted. Your movie references hit hard. I thought I had subed to you after your Lego island videos, glad I found you again.

GUYS MATTKC JUST UPLOADED

@nodontdoit9007

Ай бұрын

AND ITS 51 MINUTES LONG

@pastasauce8919

Ай бұрын

AND ITS ABOUT WINDOWS 95

@TheGlitchyMario

Ай бұрын

YOOOO!!!

@awsomebot1

Ай бұрын

thanks for letting me know

@thetechsavvy0153

Ай бұрын

YAY!

Oh sweet, a new MattKC video! I'll watch this as a break from my job as a .net developer.

@dant5464

Ай бұрын

Oh

@toara

Ай бұрын

LMAO

@martinrocket1436

Ай бұрын

Have you seen the Reddit post of that truck driver who added a high end gaming PC to their truck so they could play truck simulators after work?

@burp2019

Ай бұрын

**clueless**

@madgaming6667

Ай бұрын

Now you have to use win95

What you managed to pull off was amazing. Very well done! :)

I really appreciate you going all the way into the weeds about the technical stuff. I feel like so much current KZread learning is just basics and surface level. And the way you presented it is something I have never seen before. I could watch this type of video everyday and never get tired of it. Great job man!

The fact that MattKC can revolutionize windows 95 backporting like this, creating something that will make similar projects indescribably easier and still have less than 1 million subscribers is insane to me. This man deserves millions of subscribers.

@stellviahohenheim

28 күн бұрын

That's not how the algorithm works, you have to click bait, be the most annoying and pander to little kids to have millions of subscribers

Matt: Makes a fucking movie Also Matt: "Sorry it took so long to come out" Bro don't be so hard on yourself, this was incredible!!!!

Amazing video! That is such an interesting project. I am fascinated and nostalgic for the various Windows OSs of the past. It’s very interesting to learn about their inner workings.

Multiple times i found myself trying so hard to give this video more than one like... It was THAT good. Keep up the great work, from Argentina i wish you the best!!!!

31:52 Just speculating that the VXD file might be called "No Debugger Present HeLPR" and just checks on a kernel level (therefore loaded as a driver) if there's an active debugger.

@MiaKiesman

Ай бұрын

either that or something to do with printing (Line PRinter). I know that's what the device was called in DOS

@theunknown4834

Ай бұрын

@@MiaKiesman I don't know whether to be afraid or amazed you guys know this...

@Manawyrm

Ай бұрын

Maybe something IPv6 related? NDP (Neighbor Discovery Protocol) Helper?

@Manawyrm

Ай бұрын

Actually, scratch that. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP is where .net lists all the installed .net versions and NDP might be short for ".net Developer Pack" (which is what Microsoft used to call .net's distributable package in development/early on and then of course they couldn't ever change that registry key after that). So ndphlpr.vxd might be some kernel module to help figure out which version of .net is installed?! Not sure why this would need a driver, but it'd fit.

@YOEL_44

Ай бұрын

​@@Manawyrm Have you seen when IPv6 was launched?

6:39 Vsauce logged in:

@WastedDad

Ай бұрын

To many vsauce comments and im 5 hours late, im deleting mine

@calebchris000

Ай бұрын

@@WastedDad Bro just keep it.

@AhrkFinTey

Ай бұрын

I've grown so accustomed to people using that as a vsauce reference that it didn't even register in my mind as one

This is amazing. Been listening to it in the car and am sure going to rewatch it tonight.

As someone who has been working at Microsoft for more than 30 years, and started around Windows 3.1, what you have accomplished has me completely amazed. Impeccable work, dedication, and drive for trying to push the envelope on what is possible. Your approach to troubleshooting was amazing, and your reasons behind it were amazing. It was a mountain in front of you that you felt needed to be climbed. Great job, this is fantastic!

"50 minutes? what could he possibly have?" I didn't know the half of it. You nearly had me in tears by the end that was quite the incredible delivery

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue

Ай бұрын

but if you embrace 30 year old version of windows Microsoft employees cannot spy on you record you on your webcam and master bate to you watching porn on your computer because windows 95 computers even the laptops did not have a built-in webcam so they cannot record from the webcam if you do not have one this is why new laptops have a built in webcam so Microsoft employees can record and watch you play with yourself and make you pay 45 grand so they can make the video disappear

Not having had a Qt 3.1.4 seems like such a wasted opportunity @04:06

@ashleybyrd2015

Ай бұрын

They hadn't invented pie back then so they couldnt make this joke :(

@jaydeep-p

Ай бұрын

​@@ashleybyrd2015I'm amazed

@GerinoMorn

Ай бұрын

What is Cute Pi? /j

@lmost

Ай бұрын

@GerinoMorn chibi Pi.

incredible video!!! what a unique blend of filming

Amazing work! Really! I appreciate your huge efforts that I can understand in detail because I did similar things in the past.

Several things. 1. This was awesome - production quality was phenomenal - guest stars were awesome - beard growth was on fire 2. Dude, grow your beard you devilish man you 3. Cannot overhype these long form videos

Loving this higher production value

This was amazing. I did not understand most of the errors but totally related to the way you solved them. Debugging in windows 98, prompting errors on the UI, following the clues and trying to guess the acronyms of the functions names. It is a beautiful piece of entertainment and an opportunity to witness how the mind of a programmer solves problems. Thanks for sharing.

So satisfying hahah, great skills with the choreography, writing, cinematography, editing too. . Mans knows things.!

The amount of effort and skill that went into this video is actually hella amazing, good stuff matt

@soli-ethd

Ай бұрын

The crazy thing is that this would've been incredibly impressive even *without* the excellent cinematic sections but he absolutely blew all expectations out of the water, this is MattKC's magnum opus

@Duckiling

Ай бұрын

@@soli-ethd He really gave us an entire movie

Seeing f4mi and CS188 was the best part. I love this little corner of KZread. Now I feel like I missing out on something by not knowing the first guesser.

@dominiknovosel883

Ай бұрын

For what it's worth, I only recognized f4mi.

@melsbacksfriend

Ай бұрын

​@@dominiknovosel883For me it's the other way around

@graemewiebe2815

Ай бұрын

Sounded like kenadian to me

Your producing is nuts with your different locations and effort put into this. Really cool.

This is actually an incredible achievement and it's fantastic that you have helped keep older systems useable for the future. I think these type of projects mean so much to people with old systems. I recently restored an old 80s xt system and could not have done it without the usb floppy emulators and flash floppy. I have a couple of 90s boxes that I've been fixing up and this project will likely be beneficial to those too.

I clicked on this expecting a technological explanation of everything. I was not expecting a whole narrative arc, complete with a full noir detective case.

You have God level patience and dev skills and your filmmaking skill is on another level. I had a lot of work to do but I simply couldn't stop watching. This was an experience!

Well done! This is really amazing. Great video. Taking a seemingly boring concept and turning it into an engaging work of art.

I love your Videos man. Keep going, I love the topics 🎉

When you got to Orca, I had PTSD of forward porting installers for 16-bit apps to Windows XP for a School Network in a previous life!

Matt has massively matured both as a programmer and a content creator. It's really remarkable to see, love this so much. Kudos!

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue

Ай бұрын

but if you embrace 30 year old version of windows Microsoft employees cannot spy on you record you on your webcam and master bate to you watching porn on your computer because windows 95 computers even the laptops did not have a built-in webcam so they cannot record from the webcam if you do not have one this is why new laptops have a built in webcam so Microsoft employees can record and watch you play with yourself and make you pay 45 grand so they can make the video disappear

informative, entertaining and an amazing feat of perseverence. Well done !!!

Thanks for all the hard work it must have been to both do the backport and make this entertaining video.