Looking for suggestions...
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...for things I could do to make a slide in a power point presentation look like a Blue Screen of Death. It will be in a part of the presentation where I mention how unstable early versions of Windows were, and it would be nice if it looked somewhat authentic (not that it will fool anyone long, I will be presenting from a Mac). In particular, what should the message be? Though any suggestion will be welcome as I only vaguely remember what it looked like (on versions after Windows 98 it either worked fine or the computer would not run at all). Thank you in advance.
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...for things I could do to make a slide in a power point presentation look like a Blue Screen of Death. It will be in a part of the presentation where I mention how unstable early versions of Windows were, and it would be nice if it looked somewhat authentic (not that it will fool anyone long, I will be presenting from a Mac). In particular, what should the message be? Though any suggestion will be welcome as I only vaguely remember what it looked like (on versions after Windows 98 it either worked fine or the computer would not run at all). Thank you in advance.
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...for things I could do to make a slide in a power point presentation look like a Blue Screen of Death. It will be in a part of the presentation where I mention how unstable early versions of Windows were, and it would be nice if it looked somewhat authentic (not that it will fool anyone long, I will be presenting from a Mac). In particular, what should the message be? Though any suggestion will be welcome as I only vaguely remember what it looked like (on versions after Windows 98 it either worked fine or the computer would not run at all). Thank you in advance.
Gwenio wrote:
and it would be nice if it looked somewhat authentic
Why do you need text? To make it very authentic, just show them the blue background and they'll remember the earlier versions.
Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
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...for things I could do to make a slide in a power point presentation look like a Blue Screen of Death. It will be in a part of the presentation where I mention how unstable early versions of Windows were, and it would be nice if it looked somewhat authentic (not that it will fool anyone long, I will be presenting from a Mac). In particular, what should the message be? Though any suggestion will be welcome as I only vaguely remember what it looked like (on versions after Windows 98 it either worked fine or the computer would not run at all). Thank you in advance.
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Gwenio wrote:
and it would be nice if it looked somewhat authentic
Why do you need text? To make it very authentic, just show them the blue background and they'll remember the earlier versions.
Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for... -
A blue background with light grey text:
Aaaaaa
aaaa
aa
aa
a
a
a
r
g
h
!Funny, but if I were to use a made up error message, I would like to have it be of a similar format to a real message. Given the cotext, either a message about "Microsoft has been insulted" or "Mac OS detected" might be better. Needs some thought. Possibly with "arrrg" at the end.
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...for things I could do to make a slide in a power point presentation look like a Blue Screen of Death. It will be in a part of the presentation where I mention how unstable early versions of Windows were, and it would be nice if it looked somewhat authentic (not that it will fool anyone long, I will be presenting from a Mac). In particular, what should the message be? Though any suggestion will be welcome as I only vaguely remember what it looked like (on versions after Windows 98 it either worked fine or the computer would not run at all). Thank you in advance.
Google image search?
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...for things I could do to make a slide in a power point presentation look like a Blue Screen of Death. It will be in a part of the presentation where I mention how unstable early versions of Windows were, and it would be nice if it looked somewhat authentic (not that it will fool anyone long, I will be presenting from a Mac). In particular, what should the message be? Though any suggestion will be welcome as I only vaguely remember what it looked like (on versions after Windows 98 it either worked fine or the computer would not run at all). Thank you in advance.
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...for things I could do to make a slide in a power point presentation look like a Blue Screen of Death. It will be in a part of the presentation where I mention how unstable early versions of Windows were, and it would be nice if it looked somewhat authentic (not that it will fool anyone long, I will be presenting from a Mac). In particular, what should the message be? Though any suggestion will be welcome as I only vaguely remember what it looked like (on versions after Windows 98 it either worked fine or the computer would not run at all). Thank you in advance.
Gwenio wrote:
look like a Blue Screen of Death
Why don't you just google an image of a BSOD and paste it into your presentation? Nobody understands the gibberish anyway, so it'll fool most people. I remember in school we had fun with a teacher. We wrote a little calculator program that would disable all key and mouse input and show a BSOD image if you did a calculation that returned a number greater than 100. Then posed the question to the teacher: "why did my pc just crash? it's just a small calculator app." So the teacher comes over, sees the BSOD, tries a few keystrokes, does a hard reset. After reboot, we run the app again and the fun starts over. We kept the teacher busy for the better part of the class while she figured out what was wrong with the pc. ;P