If you 'play' an operating system as if it was a game, what is the final boss, and how do you beat it?

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Thank you. That just means I have more experience than you.

If I need to figure out floppy drives I'll ask

Thanks. I happen to have arranged Windows 3.11 to be live bootable from a single floppy disk. I call it WinFlop. Various versions of it actually, including a build with a taskbar and start menu.

I also made a companion disk, Diagnostic Utilities, that includes not only basic diagnostic utilities, but also CD, USB, and NTFS drivers.

I'll be around all week. I'd share a link, but not much point right now, the Internet Archive is still apparently down ☹️

Cool! Let's hope the archive is remains up, and if not we've got a community backup project coming up

If/when the Archive does come back up, the short link is..

https://tinyurl.com/winflop395

It has a variety of versions as I've already mentioned, the 95 part of the link refers to the one with a taskbar and start menu.

I do hope the archive comes back up soon.

Edit: And yes, it does have the Y2K patches and a few other critical updates.