It's been three weeks since I shared this project, so here's a list of the "hidden content" that I mentioned under Notes and Credits: 1. At the end screen, click between the letters S and O in the word "software". An error that is actually not an error will pop up, giving a tutorial on how to use Scratch 1.4 on Windows 98. Clicking one of its buttons will also create a second Not an Error that gives helpful supplemental information. Try it for yourself. 2. The end part where the screen gets covered in errors is random and does not play out the same way every time - it actually has two secret errors. One of them has about a 1/100 chance of popping up in place of a regular error, and references a piece of malware for Windows 9x called Calposa. Another one has about a 1/1000 chance of popping up in place of a regular error, and is in the Windows XP style. See inside the project and check it out for yourself - look at costumes 11 and 12 of Sprite5. Congratulations to @HTML-Fan for finding the 1/100 chance error naturally! 3. The project contains hidden comments - look inside and most sprites will have comments rendered as a series of ask blocks. Why ask blocks? Because if memory serves me right, Scratch 3.0 does not preserve project comments made in earlier versions of Scratch. 4. This one is unintentional, but there's actually a typo in the code that does the fade effect - instead of increasing the ghost effect by 3.33 per frame for a slow fade lasting 1 second, I put in 33.3, making a quick fade that lasts 1/10th of a second. Oops. To download this project in its original Scratch 1.x format, click the following link. You must rename it to a .sb file to open it: https://projects.scratch.mit.edu/406490680
I spent wayyyyy too long on this :P This project was made ENTIRELY on a real Pentium II computer running Windows 98 SE. No emulation and no KernelEx was used. List of software used: - Windows 98 SE - Scratch 1.4 (not supposed to run on 98, but a little hack will make it run natively) - Opera 10.61 (allowed access to the internet to use Atom Smasher's Error Message Generator (RIP) and SolMiRe.com's MIDI to MP3 converter, runs natively) - IrfanView 4.40 (used to convert between BMP and PNG formats, runs natively) - MS Paint - Sound Recorder This project contains secrets! Read the Instructions for more info. The explosion sound effect used was a public-domain sound from freesound.org. The music heard at the end (Passport.mid), the Windows 98 startup sound, the Windows 98 startup screen, and the Windows 98 error sound are all Copyright © Microsoft Corporation and all rights are reserved by them. No infringement is intended. (This is upload attempt 4, project revision 2. First two didn't work quite right, and the first revision had a typo on the end screen.)
