Quote: "Plug and Play? PLUG AND PLAY? I had to install the drivers for a JOYSTICK I bought. And installing windows 95 itself on the pavillian I had, you might as well give up. I ended up clearing it all with the backup CD that also came with my pavillian."
Was your Joystick a Plug'n'Play device though? The GamePort wasn't and STILL isn't a PnP Enabled Port.
Quote: "USB support? Support what? My Flash Drive? It only support 98/SE, a 64MB PNY Atache... And that is not a new FD, it is around 5 years old."
a) Windows 95 is now 11years old.
b) Windows 95b Provided USB 1.0 Support, which was only around until 1997. When USB 1.1 came out with the Pentium II, you required drivers to install it. Your USB drive is much younger than that; which is why it's 98/ME/2000/XP with no 95 drivers. By 2000 everyone had upgraded or bought a new PC that came with 98. What's the point in releasing drivers for an OS no one used?
Further more have you even TRIED it under Windows 95 using the USB 1.1 Drivers? It might not know what the hell it is, but it sure as hell would show us as a Removeable Drive.
c) Simple fact is by the time USB itself became popular enough, we were already using Windows 98/ME/2000. Yet the origins of that technology started with Windows 95 being able to automatically detect hardware. As I said, the first version wasn't amazing; but it was improved upon over the years and without 95 starting it... it's likely that it either wouldn't exist, or we'd still be using the fairly useless v1.0 which had a max speed of 1.5Mbit and had a habit of disconnecting devices all the time.
Quote: "I belived it was because CD-Rom drives were expensive at that time."
I got my 4x Creative (then Oak Technology) CD-ROM back in 1991 for around £45 (which would be the equivilant of getting one now for £80). For new technology that was amazing, but believe it or not the price of CD-Roms didn't start dropping to reasonable prices until around 1997; when they'd become a standard and everyone NEEDED one not just wanted one. Windows 95 introduced not just Auto-Detection, but also the ability to play Media CDs; Such-as VCD and Audio CD.
Quote: "People were using DOS, you have to type in a series of commands to run your game."
Less and Less people were using DOS... hell many of them didn't even know what it was because Windows 95 opened up a HUGE new market of people using computers. A market that is STILL expanding today.
Quote: "I may have missed the 95c, you see, I didn't use teh internet at that time, and if there was a patch for that. I sure as hell didn't get it."
It was only available as OEM when buying a new computer.
Quote: "95 may have started it, but it was extreamly primitive. All I can give to 95 is the fact that it acted as a catalyst, not that the features it had worked. Just that they made a foundation. I will have to find an old 95 computer too... thinking back, I can't remeber a single USB port on my pavillian."
Almost everything that 95 created for the 32-bit era, is still in use today. It's had over a decade of evolution, but it is still using exactly what Windows 95 created. I upgraded straight from 95c to Windows ME/2000 combo on the simple basis... 98 compared to 95c was an unstable pile of crap.
I've also never had anywhere close to the number of issues with ME as most people on here seem to. Perhaps it was because I always used the Windows ME/2000 WDM Drivers (which still work on XP which is kinda cool) instead of the 98/ME VxD ones
Quote: "I will have to find an old 95 computer too... thinking back, I can't remeber a single USB port on my pavillian."
Not every machine had USB. In-fact most people didn't know what it was until '97 when Pentium II's came with it as standard.
