5 ms·

I love it. A couple notes: - This is about 10x a real defrag speed - WAAAY too fast - IIRC the "Data that will not be moved" was typically lumped at the beginn

• msephton 18d ago
  It could be spread out too
• vunderba 18d ago
  I'm a stickler for accuracy too. The defragged blocks in the original Win9x program weren't solid blue - they had a hatch pattern texture to them. I remember it way too vividly. Source: Watching a disk defrag was every millenial kids equivalent of going to the laundromat and watching laundry tumble. https://youtu.be/dc_SDyLYq3U?t=347 https://youtu.be/dc_SDyLYq3U?t=347
• someothherguyy 18d ago
  author commenting on such things: https://morello.dev/blog/defrag98-rebuild https://morello.dev/blog/defrag98-rebuild what it looked like before https://morello.dev/blog/windows-98-defrag-simulator https://morello.dev/blog/windows-98-defrag-simulator a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962195 here is another version i found when googling these things that seems somewhat similar, but with a few more "accurate" features. also, has the source available in a single file. https://horatioconkerhead.github.io/win98-defrag/ https://horatioconkerhead.github.io/win98-defrag/ if you want the real deal, you can run windows 95 in the browser quick. it took running it a few times to get it to actually defrag: https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox
• bluejay2387 18d ago
  I am guessing the developer took into account the fact that the younger generations these days don't have the patience for real time defragging.