Internet Cowardice
Image source: outdoorswire.usatoday.com H ello. I'm back to discuss yet another pet peeve of mine. This one isn't nearly as bad as mislabeling boxes as computers or charging money for software , but it's still worth writing a blog post about. I enjoy emulating old operating systems using software such as VirtualBox, QEMU, and 86Box, so WinWorldPC has been a valuable website for me. If you don't know what WinWorldPC is, it's essentially a large archive of vintage software that can be downloaded for free. This includes operating systems such as Windows for Workgroups 3.11, IBM PC-DOS 2.00, and OS/2 Warp 4. However, the operating system I've never emulated but really wish I could is Macintosh, specifically System 7. WinWorldPC and a few other websites have downloads for System 7, but they leave out an important part: the ROM files. A ROM file is a file that contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip. It can be used to contain a computer's fir