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VirtualBox 6.1 with Windows 95c

September 3, 2022September 3, 2022 Matthew Heick Leave a comment

I decided to set myself up a goal of running some old, old games in Windows 95. I happened to have an old Windows 98se bootable media and a Windows 95c ISO.

In creating this VM I let the Create Wizard do the needful, and made the following additional modifications:

256MB RAM
2GB Hard Drive
Removing Floppy Controller

…and kept the VBoxVGA, PIIX4, SoundBlaster 16, PCnet-Fast II (Am79C973), and USB 2.0.

First off I boot up into my Windows 98se, partition, reboot, and then format the hard drive. Then I mount the Windows 95c disk and copy over the files to C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS like the good old days. From that I run setup from the C: and go through the installation.

Annie Mae? Ellie Mae? Eleanor? Alice?

July 10, 2022July 10, 2022 Matthew Heick Leave a comment

Who exactly is going down the drain where you hear the sound “Glug Glug Glug”?

Data 3:16

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Matthew Heick Leave a comment

Being an avid Tekkie this snippet of The Offspring came across my random viewing plate and I felt the need to highlight it.

Oracle VirtualBox inside VirtualBox

June 11, 2021June 11, 2021 Matthew Heick Leave a comment

The goal today is to run Oracle VirtualBox (on Centos 7) inside of Oracle VirtualBox (on Windows 10), and run a Centos 7 server within that application.

On the main host system running Windows 10 I create a 4vCPU, 4GB RAM with 40GB of storage and install Centos 7. This was the easy part.

The Hunt for a 20 Year Old Video [6 Years Ago…]

March 17, 2021April 2, 2021 Matthew Heick Leave a comment

Editors note: I wrote this back on 7 February 2015

The 1995-1996 school year I was a freshman at Sweet Home High School[a] and had participated in a trip to Walt Disney World to participate in a Band Performance with my peers (Disney Magic Music Days). This entire event, from the loading of the busses to the trip from Buffalo, New York to our destination and back had been recorded on an 8-hour EP video tape.

I had originally possessed this specific video tape as a teenager. Over the course of time, however, I had lost this amazing heirloom as I’m sure a lot of other have. I’m sure that there is a copy of this somewhere that I can acquire so I can digitize it and be able to enjoy it though the future times.

This iswas my tiny blog on my progress in locating this by working back 20 years in my brain.