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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@jameswoodcock Oh, anyone remembering the Norton Utilities from the DOS times? I ran Norton Defrag – err, Speed Disk – then and yes, it had something "therapeutic".

No idea about Win98 though, sorry: I ditched Windows 1995 (throwing it threw themselves so to say) and installed an operating system instead 🙊 💨

Screenshot of Speed Disk (from the Norton Utilities aka "NU" of the "good old" DOS times) with menu opened, showing an already defragmented disk about 1/4 full with some sectors marked "unmovable"
Norton's Speed Disk in action in a QEMU window, just writing some blocks close to the beginning of the disk while other "used blocks" can be seen in other positions
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Petr Tesarik

@IzzyOnDroid @jameswoodcock I even took the pain to understand which blocks were unmovable and why, so I could manually move them to the beginning of the disk. After three failed attempts, my system could boot again… 🙈

IzzyOnDroid ✅

@jameswoodcock @ptesarik dedication was using the Norton Utilities to localize a learning app by editing its HEX code, making sure the translated strings exactly fit into the space defined by the original locale 🙈 Those were the days, back in the 90s… I even remember the name of that learning game: "Googol Math Games" – eek, they are still around? Wow: dosgames.com/game/googol-math- (I doubt my translation can be found anywhere, though – that was 1993/94 and done for a kid, no copy kept)

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