Your stuck on a deserted island, It has internet infrastructure but the only computer left on the island is an old emachine running windows 95, You will have to write your own drivers to use the network hardware, And if you don't have a compiler you will have to write your own compiler from scratch for windows 95.
this is your only way off the island, the only way to contact the outside world.
>Will you survive? Yes >old emachine NEVER OBSOLETE !
Sebastian Collins
>you don't have a compiler How will you compile your compiler then?
Anyway, I used to tinker with C++ in Visual Studio on Windows 95 in my youth, and since then I've gained a fair understanding of both kernel programming and networks, so I think I will survive. Don't need to implement a feature complete network stack, just need to hack something together that can (mis)use whatever network equipment there is on the island that is connected to somewhere I suppose?
Logan Thompson
but.....I need man pages user.
kek'd hard.
Nathaniel Miller
I'll just live on the island, seems pretty comfy
Juan Davis
You can also just choose to stay on the island and play solitare offline on windows 95 or maybe use the text editor to write a novel or a suicide note.
Levi Turner
you will have to write your network program in C but you only have what comes availible with stock windows 95.
you also have a windows 95 restore disc and a copy of doom.
Gavin Johnson
Copy of DOOM?
I'm fine with that.
Logan Miller
>you will have to write your network program in C No, you don't.
>copy of doom. Well, Doom already had networked multiplayer over serial. I guess I don't have to write anything complex at all, I can just use the serial port.
Cooper Jenkins
you'll have to make your own hardware to connect because their are no ethernet ports.
Gabriel Perez
how will you write your network program? in assembly?
Joshua Thompson
Visual Basic and some assembly
There is the serial port, which is by definition network hardware. That's how people used to connect to modems in the older days.
Oliver Adams
>How will you compile your compiler then? You write the compiler in bytecode
Caleb Bell
Bytecode will only run on a virtual machine.
Parker Robinson
You're running windows 95C which has java preinstalled.
Evan Peterson
No :(
Christian Smith
Just connect using the wireless networks manager, kek
Charles Johnson
>And if you don't have a compiler you will have to write your own compiler from scratch for windows 95.
Well do we or don't we?
>Will you survive?
Unlikely. Writing drivers without documentation? Good chance of breaking something.
Ryder King
emachines systems never shipped with win95 dipshit
Lincoln King
Erm. Gonna need specs on that network card and valid IP configuration information ...
Evan Jones
What network card is installed? What kind of network infrastructure? Is it documented? What development tools are available on the system?
Owen King
break the computer apart, use wood and stones to forge the metal of the computer into a knife, use the knife to construct an outrigged kayak, then set out to sea
Camden Sanchez
Brilliant.
Jaxson Watson
Well I'm still better off than if I had a computer booting to grub recovery mode.
Logan Lewis
Unless you know the strict protocols, you're not contacting anybody. You'd have better chance of salvaging the machine for parts and making a ham radio.
Xavier Sanders
Doom? I'd just play that until I die. Life well lived.
Chase Rogers
Sounds like Australia. So no different to my current predicament.
Aaron Gonzalez
>95 >2000/ME icons
Daniel James
How about we say that the computer is a Toshiba Satellite 105cs, and for network cards you have a Conexant 56k modem card and a 3Com 10/100 Ethernet card model number 3CCFE575CT-D. Both PCMCIA cards. And of course the computer has a serial port as well.
(Arbitrary choice of computer and network cards because I happen to have one right here.)
Charles Campbell
Do we have access to documentation for the appropriate Windows driver interfaces and network interface?
Dominic Ross
uh.
uuuuh
jam a network cable into the modem card's phone port.
you can make it fit
Ian Ross
That would depend if such material was shipped with any copy of Windows 95.
Jaxson Peterson
Salvage metal from computer to make a fork. Jam fork in electrical outlet
Win95. Never again.
Andrew Perry
winrar
Liam Walker
there's not enough copper in a computer to make an antenna worth any damn
Colton Roberts
>Your stuck on a deserted island, It has internet infrastructure but the only computer left on the island is an old emachine running windows 95, You will have to write your own drivers to use the network hardware, And if you don't have a compiler you will have to write your own compiler from scratch for windows 95. Oh, so you mean hell then.
Charles Thomas
Sure, if you don't know how to use it.
Samuel Robinson
>Jasc Paint Shop
my god the nostalgia
Carson Hall
The only way a person could do this, assuming there is no documentation or compiler included in the operating system is to do it the hard way around my directly accessing and writing memory via a glitch.
I would be dead, as would 99.9999% of everyone else. Maybe like 3 people in the whole world could have done this once upon time, and I doubt they remember how to now.
Leo Martin
Well, was it or not? You're gay, OP.
Isaiah Walker
RIP me
Nathan Morris
Windows 95 comes with basic network drivers installed for telnet use.
I'll connect to a BBS and leave a message asking for help. Now if I can only remember the address for one of them. Surely at least one will be buried somewhere in the help files for Win 95.
Angel Long
Does doom come with the level editor? This is important.
Gabriel Reed
>years of a great, free image editor >suddenly not free It was an end of an era.
Juan Sullivan
You can write object code by hand in a hex edittor. Dos came with a hex edittor. I'm betting windows 95 did too since it was made on top of dos. Use the hex edittor to create a simple assembler IF you had intel 8086 documentation.. yeah fuck it. it's impossible
Nolan Brooks
>emachine running windows 95 emachine was founded in 1998
Ayden Perez
why can't I just go on Facebook and keep saying Obama sux until the CIA comes and gets me
Ryder Allen
I think its impossible to contact the outer world given the conditions. If it had linux it would be a completely different situation. The problem is not having a compiler.
Grayson Watson
> Your stuck
Use proper grammar you fucking retard.
Jacob Rivera
Pretty sure old versions of Windows came with DEBUG.COM, which included an assembler. I remember writing some small programs using it when I was younger.
Jaxon Ramirez
That laptop has a microphone and a speaker. You have said I have a modem and an ethernet card, so that means there is some kind of wired connection.
First thing you do is record an emergency message requesting help.
Then you splice the network cable into the audio output of the laptop. Then you set the laptop to play back your message through the speaker over and over.
Then you hope someone out there on the other end will notice this pattern in the noise of the connection and try to figure out what it is.
That's the best I've got.
Ryan Davis
Could this actually work??
Nathan Watson
>And if you don't have a compiler you will have to write your own compiler from scratch Or I can just make everything in pure assembly and save some time to find resources.
Owen James
It's a long shot but it isn't impossible.
Carter Sanders
Without documentation or proper development tools there wouldn't be much that I could do as far as driver development goes.
But I have a really retarded idea; functional internet infrastructure implies there are other functional computers running the show to manage and facilitate access, if that infrastructure is ancient like the shitbox I'm stuck with, there's a chance the local internet/telecom provider is probably running a Unix box or two, more than likely made by Sun, and owing to their status as the backbone of the dotcom boom, Solaris has shipped internet-ready since at least 7, maybe even before.
Assuming they haven't cleaned up the default installation image, I can wire up the laptop to the serial port and fire up HyperTerminal and attempt to send for help using a mail client, or even fire up the shitty bundled Java browser if there's a working monitor/keyboard/mouse console setup in the datacenter.
Xavier Rogers
no you write it in another lang to initially bootstrap it.
Thomas Walker
>you must upgrade to win98se before they come and save you
Grayson Wright
Great, let's write in qbasic
Bentley Moore
>writing a network driver with no hardware documentation