Also, a new version of Asteroids was developed for PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Windows, and the Game Boy Color in the late 1990s.

Microsoft first introduced AGP support into Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 ( OSR2 version 1111 or 950B ) via the USB SUPPLEMENT to OSR2 patch.

After applying the patch the Windows 95 system became Windows 95 version 4. 00. 950 B.

Worst of all, the highest revenue earner of the combined company was dBASE with no Windows version ready.

* A Cygwin-specific version of the Unix mount command allows Windows paths to be mounted as " filesystems " in the Unix file space.

The version of gcc that comes with Cygwin has various extensions for creating Windows DLLs, specifying whether a program is a windowing or console mode program, adding resources, etc.

* Windows CE, a version of the Windows operating system designed for mobile devices

This was a version of Windows 2. 1 adapted for the 80386 processor.

While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

However, Edlin is included in 32-bit versions of Windows NT, since NTVDM's DOS support is based on MS-DOS version 5. 0.

Version 0. 7. 5 also shipped with a new version of the Windows installer.

Opera was somewhat faster, but it was proprietary software distributed in trialware and adware versions, both of which lacked some of the functionality of the Microsoft Windows version.

However, due to the prevalence of 3dfx hardware at the time of release, the Windows version of the game installs an OpenGL ICD ( opengl32. dll ) designed specifically for 3dfx's hardware.

The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1. 0, released on 20 November 1985, achieved little popularity.

The first version of Microsoft Windows included a simple graphics painting program called Windows Paint ; Windows Write, a simple word processor ; an appointment " calendar "; a " cardfiler "; a " notepad "; a " clock "; a " control panel "; a " computer terminal "; " Clipboard "; and RAM driver.

Microsoft Windows version 2 came out on 9 December 1987, and proved slightly more popular than its predecessor.

Much of the popularity for Windows 2. 0 came by way of its inclusion as a " run-time version " with Microsoft's new graphical applications, Excel and Word for Windows.

Microsoft Windows received a major boost around this time when Aldus PageMaker appeared in a Windows version, having previously run only on Macintosh.

One of the demo videos included with the Windows 95 CDs was the music video " Good Times " by Edie Brickell.

It is distributed on two CDs, with one CD being the Windows Server 2003 SP1 CD.

Information on CDs such as album name, artist and track listings can optionally be automatically downloaded from the online Windows Media database when the CD is inserted.

Microsoft employee Raymond Chen wrote in an article that an encrypted copy of Bob was included on Windows XP install CDs to take up space and slow down illegal copies.

* ASUS uses FreeDOS to let users boot their motherboard driver CDs to create the SATA device driver disk ( needed for Windows versions before XP SP2 ).

Audiophiles play music from a wide variety of sources including phonograph records, compact discs ( CDs ), and digital audio file formats that are uncompressed as well as ones that are compressed using lossless data compression such as FLAC, Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless and Apple Lossless ( ALAC ).

Prior to the release of Windows 2000, PWS was available as a free download as well as included on the Windows distribution CDs.

Using a special swap method could allow reading a GD-ROM game through a CD-ROM just using common MIL-CD ( standard CD Boot loading, commonly found on Windows Installation Discs, Linux Live CDs, and others ).

Some live CDs can save user-created files in a Windows partition, a USB drive, a network drive, or other accessible media.

* Windows Explorer also gained the ability to burn CDs and DVD-RAM discs in Windows XP.

K3b can also burn data CDs that support Linux / Unix based OS, Windows, DOS, Very Large Files ( UDF ), Linux / Unix + Windows, Rock Ridge, and Joliet file systems.

It is the same system as the standard Windows NT 4. 0, but it comes packaged in a database of components and dependencies, from which a developer can choose individual components to build customized setup CDs and hard disk boot images.

Since version 9 of Microsoft's Windows Media Player ( WMP ), released in 2003, it has been possible to decode and play HDCD enabled CDs on personal computers fitted with a 24-bit sound card.

Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.

Audiobooks are distributed on CDs, cassette tapes, MP3-formatted audio CDs ( MP3CDs ), downloadable digital formats ( e. g., MP3 (. mp3 ), Windows Media Audio (. wma ), Advanced Audio Coding (. aac )) and preloaded digital in which the audio content is preloaded and sold together with a hardware device.

BartPE is known to have certain incompatibilities with the Windows XP CDs shipped with most Dell PCs.

* WinBuilder, a free application designed to build and customize live CDs based on Windows PE.

Software to author HighMAT CDs transparently in Windows XP, as well as a Windows XP player for HighMAT content, can be downloaded from the official site.

The first Windows NT-based operating system to receive AGP support was Windows NT 4. 0 with service pack 3, introduced in 1997.

The eventual joint company effort, named Borland Office for Windows ( a combination of the WordPerfect word processor, Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Paradox database ) was introduced at the 1993 Comdex computer show.

ClearType was later introduced as an operating system feature in Windows XP, where it was kept turned off by default.

The Win32 API first introduced with Windows NT was adopted as the standard 32-bit programming interface, with Win16 compatibility being preserved through a technique known as " thunking ".

It included new hardware drivers and the FAT32 file system which supports disk partitions that are larger than 2 GB ( first introduced in Windows 95 OSR2 ).

In September 2000, Microsoft introduced Windows Me ( Millennium Edition ), which upgraded Windows 98 with enhanced multimedia and Internet features from Windows 2000.

The first version of Windows Movie Maker was introduced also.

Windows Server 2008 builds on the technological and security advances first introduced with Windows Vista, and is significantly more modular than its predecessor, Windows Server 2003.

In 2011, Microsoft introduced Windows Thin PC or WinTPC, which is a feature-and size-reduced locked-down version of Windows 7 expressly designed to turn older PCs into thin clients.

Netware dominated the personal computer LAN business from early after its introduction in 1983 until the mid 1990s when Microsoft introduced Windows NT Advanced Server and Windows for Workgroups.

* XPS, XML Paper Specification introduced in Windows Vista

Easel introduced Enfin at this time on Windows and OS / 2.

PathPing is a utility introduced with Windows NT that combines ping and traceroute functionality.

Windows 2000 introduced many of the new features of Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE into the NT line, such as the Windows Desktop Update, Internet Explorer 5 ( Internet Explorer 6, which came in 2001, is also available for Windows 2000 ), Outlook Express, NetMeeting, FAT32 support, Windows Driver Model, Internet Connection Sharing, Windows Media Player, WebDAV support etc.