Thank you! It didn’t come off as a dig at all. Trust me, I thought about it and spent about an hour on Internet Archive looking for a version that ran on its site. But nothing was there and I learned the hard way last year that Virtual Box is still in the Intel era, so it’s useless for me.

I did look into UTM as others are saying, but based on its description it may not be able to run an OS that far back. Something to look into down the line.

Either way, again, thanks for reading my work. I really do appreciate it. There’s some other old Microsoft goodies I’ve written in the past, like this commercial introducing Excel.

Wow, that’s a cool story! Thanks for sharing it! I had no clue there was even a beta test group back then. Was that outside of Microsoft?

Hi, author here 👋. Thanks for the feedback. If the Internet Archive had it on their own VM to run, I would’ve tried playing with it and taken some screenshots. However, I simply did not have the time to get it running locally on my machine, especially because I’m all Mac and Virtual Box doesn’t run on M-series hardware.

I agree it’s a missed opportunity, but I chose to go a little bit of an easier route.

Thanks for reading and enjoying the other 99% of the article. 😉

Apparently Pauline is 13 in this game so… let’s hope not.

The VO was supposed to be cringy and over the top. IMO for adults it’s just silly and for kids it’s that funny intensity. Either way, I’d bet Nintendo did that on purpose.

As far as piracy goes, like… why? Either borrow it from a friend, your library (many rent video games), buy a used copy on discount, or just save up and buy it if you want to play it that bad.

The worst part is Apple’s AI attempts are tame compared to other companies trying to force it in your face instead of something sitting around that you can choose to bring up. But the whole thing is a big mess and I hope they focus more on dev relations than this stuff.

Apple listening to shareholders burned it so hard. But, it’s a good thing because it reminds them even Apple isn’t immune to historic f-ups that can damage it.

Totally messed that up. Sorry! Fixed.

TBH I would consider an M4 Mac Mini and either a NAS or DAS to go along with it. The power, efficiency, and price make it a really compelling choice.

It makes no sense!! Like… add a cooling down period between the two features.

Agreed!

It’s kinda crazy that “THE” launch title for S2 is Mario Kart. I get it’s sold like gangbusters on Switch, but I thought for sure DK Bananza was going to be a launch title. Ends up it doesn’t come out for a month after S2.

Is this the first Nintendo console (outside the NES) to launch without a Mario or Zelda game?

OMG let’s hope not. We lived through that insanity w/ Milbury for too long.

LGI? ¯_(ツ)_/¯