Today I wanted to inspect an old version of the Symbol font shipped with Windows since at least Windows 3.
I created a KVM virtual machine and ran a Windows 95 hard disk image. Windows wouldn’t load though — some searching suggests it happens when the host CPU is > 2.1Ghz.
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I rebooted into the command prompt and that worked ok. I attached an empty disk image to the floppy drive of the VM, formatted it with format A: and the copied C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\SYMBOL.TTF to the floppy.
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I then converted the floppy from qcow2 to a raw image and just mounted it on my system: mount -o loop fd.img /mint/floppy and it just worked. There was SYMBOL.TTF waiting to be copied.
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I probably shouldn’t be surprised but I was impressed by Linux and that I was able to just mount the image without installing anything special.
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Later @amacd31 pointed out you can do the same thing with https://www.pcjs.org/ and skip the VM. Just run it in a browser and download the floppy image.
Anyway I thought it was fun. Our operating systems are pretty neat these days, especially open source ones.
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