I found a great guide from 2014 that got me started, but still needed some DIY. So I went where the classic pc gamers go: DOSBox. I didn’t just want Encarta 96, I wanted Encarta 96 in its natural environment. The iso is on WebArchive! May need to take a nostalgia trip with DOSBox tonight: - Tom Porter “as Code” August 6, 2019 It was all fun and games until: /7bqHY4l5ZD- Tom Porter “as Code” August 7, 2019 Okay, to your point, I tried it natively on Windows 10. *Make sure you use the MPEG Edition, to avoid any codec issues More good news everyone! It is still (amazingly) compatible and works* on **Windows 10**. Well, good news! Encarta 96 is available on. When there was no fast Internet, or no Internet at all, this was the Internet - Scott Hanselman August 6, 2019įrom there it sparked many, including myself, to remember their childhoods watching postage stamp resolution videos and playing the Mind Maze trivia game that came with it. It started with a Tweet by that got people taking about pre-internet Wikipedia, otherwise known as Microsoft Encarta:Ĭan we just give a major shout out for Microsoft Encarta? Tell me what you loved about it. Nobody needs to run Encarta 96 in a virtualized Windows 95 environment, unless there is a very particular need to feel nostalgic for mid-1990s computing. I can’t think of a better way to describe what I’m about to present. The song Still Alive in the Classic Valve game Portal has the lyric:
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