It needs the BSOD screensaver from XScreensaver, for sure. And, maybe, DOSBox-X or DOSEmu2.
Also:
- Pan
- Sylpheed
- Audacious with the WinAMP theme
- Hexchat kinda has a MIRC vibe
- Parole looks like WMP from < v9 releases
- You can't simulate a dialer, but with trickle you can mimic a 56k/ISDN connection pretty well
- SyncTERM for BBS's
- ScummVM, with just a bilinear filter, because I played tons of adventures
- There's an SDL2 reimplementation of Space Cadet Pinball at github.
- Trigger Rally would look like a great shareware game
- Pidgin, hands down. Either you were an AOL user in America, or a MSN user in Europe. It has emoticons, not emojis. Add that annoying notification theme with a sound and that would be the very late 90's/early 00's (my early teen years)
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