Back in high school the bass player in my band switched to BeOS for a while and tried to convince all his friends to follow. Makes sense, BeOS was a pretty bass player OS in retrospect.

That's like pitting Ben Stein against Steven Hawking.

I used BeOS for a while but the networking support was never good enough for me so I gave up and switched back to Linux, which also had shitty hardware support at the time but at least it supported my goddamn ne2000 Ethernet card.

BeOS lives on: https://www.haiku-os.org/

BeOS was cool because it was the most music production oriented OS at the time outside of the Atari ST. I almost set it up on an old tower 5 or 6 years ago, maybe now that virtual machines are actually practical on a laptop I should finally try it. Ixm already doing a lot of CGI tinkering in an NT 4 vm, itXd be easy enough to add another.

You could watch 8 seconds of a cheetah running in Encarta 95 or go to Heckler's Online on AOL. Not to mention }{3LLrAisEr and the world of punters.

You missed out Holmes.

My family's first computer had Windows 95. My siblings and I did more gaming on the DOS side than the Windows side. There was almost nothing available for Windows at the time, so we didn't use it a whole lot once we got bored with the Encarta package.

Of course that all changed when our parents finally signed up with an Internet provider a couple years later.

I still use DOS (or at least DOSbox/console) pretty regularly for non gaming purposes.

Roadkill was awesome! I was white elephanted a 10 dollar gift certificate to Electronics Boutique once so I got Roadkill and some other game. I wish I still had it.

Yeah me too, I have no idea what happened to my copy and since there was never a PC version its one of those things that's difficult to just pirate as a GOG or something.

do what now?

20 years later and I just look at my keyboard and was surprised that I had it.

Seems pretty fucking useless.

I opted for "what" instead but in retrospect you're right.