Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download
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It overwrites your MBR, guys.
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Yep.
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@XanderTheGamer hah.
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@XanderTheGamer said in Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download:
It overwrites your MBR, guys.
Good old hax0rs hacking just for the lolz and good sport, miss those days.
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It's a pain but it's reparable without data loss.
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Still preferable to Microsoft's start menu
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@XanderTheGamer said in Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download:
It overwrites your MBR, guys.
To be fair, it is a very classic shell experience.
If they really wanted to troll, they should've made it boot to DOS 6.22.
"Oh, you wanted a classic shell? HERE'S YOUR CLASSIC SHELL, BITCH!"
C:\>
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@dse said in Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download:
Good old hax0rs hacking just for the lolz and good sport, miss those days.
Was just about to say, that screen looks very oldschool, with the thanks and everything. Feels like reading one of those old "warez" release screens.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download:
@XanderTheGamer said in Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download:
It overwrites your MBR, guys.
To be fair, it is a very classic shell experience.
If they really wanted to troll, they should've made it boot to DOS 6.22.
"Oh, you wanted a classic shell? HERE'S YOUR CLASSIC SHELL, BITCH!"
C:\>
You know what? Props if they actually get a bona-fide MS DOS 6.22 running. It could totally work I think so long as it's not an ARM device, as I think you can set a floppy disk image as the boot image to load in the BCD store (though I forgot how that looks TBH).
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@cartman82 Funny, after I switched to windows 10 and got the small start menu, I made it fullscreen again because it felt weird.
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@anonymous234 said in Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download:
I made it fullscreen again because it felt weird
Bah. You're just a luddite who fears change.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download:
Props if they actually get a bona-fide MS DOS 6.22 running
It would probably be rather tricky on 64-bit processors. Though there's nothing that can't be emulated...
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@Maciejasjmj said in Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download:
rather tricky on 64-bit processors
Shouldn't be. The thing with 64-bit mode is that it's kind of a one-way hatch: turn it on and the virtual 8086 mode that's part of 32-bit mode goes away. But if you don't do that, as happens when you boot up a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit-capable CPU, then 8086 code works just fine.
Given a starting point in MBR boot, electing never to flip 64-bit mode on is quite doable. In fact, if I recall correctly the MBR first-stage boot is actually executed in real real mode - you wouldn't need to do anything clever at all to bring DOS up from there, just load it and run it.
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@flabdablet said in Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download:
real real mode
real_mysql_real_mode_for_real
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@Maciejasjmj said in Some drunk guy comprimised Classic Shell's official download:
It would probably be rather tricky on 64-bit processors.
64-bit processors start in 32/16 bit mode. As long as nothing switches them into 64-bit mode (which of course DOS 6.22 would never do), they'd run fine. At least for the time-being.