The Vault | Ajay Walia

The Vault

A shelf of old computing things — bits of my own archive, objects worth remembering, and a few toys from the Windows 98 era that still run in your browser.

Everything in here is old on purpose. Double-click an icon to open it.

A fan recreation of a late-1990s desktop. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

3½ Floppy (A:) 1998 — Insert a virtual 1.44 MB disk, copy local files, view and download them, format or eject. Only the virtual disk is changed.
3D Maze 1997–1999 — A first-person tour through a generated brick maze. Preview, pause, regenerate or select this saver in Display Properties.
3D Pinball: Space Cadet 1998 — A playable Space Cadet-inspired table with original artwork, bumpers, targets, missions, three balls and keyboard or touch flippers.
3D Pipes 1997–1999 — Colourful 3D pipes grow across a black screen. Preview, pause, reset or select this saver in Display Properties.
ACDSee 1999–2001 — Classic ACDSee-style folders, thumbnails, image preview and full viewer, with a NASA picture collection.
AJ TechFacts 2009 — My old Blogspot site — the first place I wrote anything about technology, kept here as it was.
CD Player 1997–1999 — A classic CD Player with a virtual audio disc, track selection, seeking, shuffle and repeat. Play original demo tracks or choose your own local audio files. No physical CD drive is accessed.
Clippy 1997–1999 — An animated Office Assistant in a Word 97-style writing window. Write a letter, ask for local help, format text and save a text copy.
Dial-Up Networking 1999 — The Dial-Up Networking folder and its two little dialogs — Connecting, then Connected at 44,000 bps — with a 56k handshake you can hear.
Disk Defragmenter 1998 — A working recreation of the Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter — the little coloured squares that shuffled around for an hour while you watched.
Internet Explorer 4 1997–1999 — An Internet Explorer 4-style browser with address navigation, Back/Forward, Favorites, History and Search. Pages are original offline period-style exhibits; this is not a live Internet browser.
McAfee VirusScan 1998 — A recreation of McAfee VirusScan Classic from 1998, with scan setup, file-type options, activity reports and a sample detection dialog.
MS-DOS Prompt 1997–1999 — A Windows 98 command window. Try HELP, DIR, CD, TYPE, VER, MEM, CLS, ECHO and command history. The file system is a local simulation; commands do not run on your computer.
MSN Messenger 1999 — An early MSN Messenger-style contact list and separate conversation windows.
Napster 2000 — Revisit Napster v2.0 Beta 7: search MP3s, browse a Hot List, watch transfers, join chat and use the Library player.
Nero Burning ROM 1999–2002 — Classic Nero-style CD compilations, file browser, capacity meter and simulated burning.
RealPlayer G2 1998 — RealPlayer G2’s late-90s channel browser and media controls, with working local audio and video playback.
Sound Recorder 1997–1999 — A classic waveform recorder with playback, seeking, local audio opening, simple effects and WAV saving. Record requests microphone access only when you click Record; recordings stay local. Recording stops after 60 seconds.
Starfield Screensaver 1995 — The flying-through-space screensaver that came with Windows, redrawn so it runs in a browser tab.
System File Checker 1998 — The graphical Windows 98 System File Checker, with scan options, installation-disk extraction and a sample scan.
Web Browsing 1994 — Browse a small offline web in a recreation of Netscape Navigator 1.0: blue links, grey pages, the original block N and a red transfer indicator.
Winamp 1999 — Winamp 2 classic player, equalizer and playlist. Play local music with the unmistakable late-90s interface.
Windows 98 Setup 1998 — Walk through a Windows 98-style setup wizard, file copying, hardware detection and first-run welcome. This is a simulation.
WinZip 1998–2000 — Classic WinZip archive browser with real local ZIP creation, viewing and extraction.
Yahoo! Messenger 2000 — Classic Yahoo! Messenger-style friends, smileys, instant messages and a local chat room.

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