Man, I missed watching these kinds of vids from you! Glad to see you're back. I especially like the Vista side of things when it comes to betas, they're by far the one of the most unique.
@@supermarioglitchy10 yeah. they just allow you to look at ideas that made the cut, ones that got removed (such as the entertainment shell from 98's beta builds), and (sometimes) various developer tools that were used inside microsoft at the time
Congratulations on your return! I have also tried them and I like the wallpapers of the Betas more than the final versions like those of the canceled Longhorn Original, in fact in Minecraft I am recreating the icons of Windows 3.1, 95, 98 and 2K together with a theme blue reminiscent of the days of Longhorn Windows
Instead of paying for a server, you probably should’ve dualbooted with an older operating system (such as Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 RTM), older VMware versions should work fine there. Aside from that, nice video! It’s good to see you back nowadays.
I honestly resorted to paying for a server because Windows 8.1 would not work on the hardware I had because my hardware is too modern for these OSes (as in drivers are not available and they would not even recognize even the hard drive, yes even for Windows 8.1 believe it or not, absolutely insane). The server is actually pretty cheap for what it is, but it'd actually be cheaper over time to pay for physical hardware but I didn't want to take the risk of using hardware that I'd be unsure of its reliability. Even Windows 10 RTM from my experience is problematic with VMware Workstation 11 as I recall when Windows 10 first released. Thank you for watching!
Okay so I'm a bit embarrassed that I paid for a server now, lol. Just discovered nested virtualization may work just fine for me as my CPU (Core i9-12900k) is actually so good that I can get Windows 7 running in a Windows 7 VM with even Aero enabled and have somewhat decent performance (Windows 7 installed actually pretty quickly and I was able to watch a RU-vid video in 720p 60fps with some dropped frames, but it was still very watchable). I may try this out for a future video.
@@Sonicrush007 At least you have a free (and possibly better) alternative on running older versions of VMware. If you ever do nested virtualization, i’d suggest doing a linux dualboot and using QEMU KVM with GPU passthrough (if possible with your GPU, if not then its recommended to use a proper hypervisor instead) in order to maximize performance.
@@NotReallyHype Hmmm... I'd have to do some research as that is not something I've done before. From my understanding, GPU passthrough requires two GPUs. I technically have two GPUs because of Intel integrated graphics and my RTX GPU, but I keep the Intel iGPU disabled at the bios level to make the CPU run cooler (which it does as a result). And no idea about drivers for the Intel iGPU, but I know Nvidia has drivers for my GPU for Windows 7 (which is funny because they also at the same time block you from installing any drivers on Windows 8 even with the Windows 7 driver. No work around as I had previously attempted to dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on my host and it didn't work out).
It's because I used a Windows 95 bootdisk to create and format a partition because setup in many Longhorn builds have a bug where they either cannot create partitions or will not recognize the boot drive unless a partition is created beforehand. So yeah basically it's my workaround to that issue. Basically any way that involves creating a partition and formatting one works and I think my way is the fastest way to do it because an MS-DOS boot disk is very simple and fast in a VM.
