This is perfect to combine with openttd, playing a game within a game to help pass time at the farm or something lol

what the viruses do?

It'd be great if this could be connected to a printer. The Technology to make posters with PC's was still relatively new by 1993.
It could allow you to craft slightly smaller items like the vanilla Posters. It'd justify post-apocalyptic aesthetics like tribal seals, warning signs, "Fuck Off", "Fuck You!", "[Insert Loot] Here", "Trespassers Will Be Shot On Sight", "HELP!" posters, posters of the map markers, & posters of single alphabetical letters.
The World Wide Web browsers like "WorldWideWeb" (1990, renamed to Nexus 2 years after Zomboid), & Mosaic (1993, released just 2 months before the outbreak) had only just made the internet accessible for consumers. Windows had been released in the 80's.
It'd be interesting to see references or even an attempt to try & preserve some local Knox County internet that can act as a server chatroom. You could also make 'Server Chassis' & 'Cat3 Ethernet Cables' to connect & store a LAN across your base that acts as a message board for your group.

yes pls add b41 version

b41 version perhaps? Please.

*cough* Would you please create the internet in PZ? So during multiplayer I can download new pr0n and realistically upload my selfies to get clicks and likes of degenerate rando's to feel better about myself? And while you are at it, add an extensive catalogue of ROM hacks and GPS trackers, HAM radio's and the customary skill level to replace the electrical skill i.e. similar to the sims? And offcourse when that's done please add online datingsims and visual novels, and give us the option to choose our desktop backgorunds. Lol. (Some people AIR?)

would you be willing to? or kmow someone who would be willing to? make it so the laptop mod, can be used with pzlinux and zbay. even make it so you can install the laptop in your vehicle like players can gps mod. its not so strange cop cars have a onboard pc, a ham cb radio etc. you couuld even make cellphones have use, by using them to shop on pzlinxu or zbay. players getting there own bank card to use at atms is also a must.

can you release b41 version?

WHERE IS OUR COMPUTER VIDEO GAMES?

yeah

Adding Computer games would be pretty awesome, seems like that other mod maker hasn't touched his mod in like 3 years now.

Could you add compatibility for the 'Dark Web' mod? It utilizes the desktop computers as well with an extremely similar style and layout; implementing a patch for both this and that would be stellar! If not I totally understand.

Excellent mod Kaostic!

Hope be more added too this like to save what have stock of and compy machine to update map

bruh it is not been made now (build 42 only exists right now)

Does it work on b43

@DJ / Booce - This is, at present, only available as B42 for public use as I've not back-dated it to work outside of the WastelandRP server ecosystem for B41.

It seems not to have any items i can spawn, is there an ID for the floppy disk? This is on B41 on a dedicated server. Is this still working?

cool mod. Lets us find a floppy with windows 3 XD

Made progress towards fixing the scaling issue for larger fonts. The UI correctly scales now, although there's still some visual issues such as the Computer Border texture not being correctly positioned at larger font sizes, text clipping in buttons, and the output console moving, but it fundamentally works.

@Hans-Landa It's a cool idea, for sure. I wouldn't want to step on the toes of the Computer Game mod creator, but once I've nailed down the issues with the UI scaling, it's possibly something I could look into expanding the mod more.

Possibly even add software that helps or reduces the difficulty to do virus cleaning and search, maybe gaming/software dev kits that only spawn in universities so you can craft your own games and software that is better based on your skills.
The best part is that really you don't need to make anything visual and you can just make it so it's a timed action tied to options in the computer screen or even just right click.

Any chance to add games to the list of possible floppy's you can find (furthermore making them spawn inside mail-boxes as it was a thing to order floppy disks via mail), considering all the extra things you added like viruses and the ability to copy floppy's and what not I do kinda want to see this mod expand to include something similar to the computer games mod but instead of using cd's use floppy's.

your right, i also wasn't suggesting a absolute, the other OS in theory would be a incredibly rare thing, but that would be difficult to code, the only thing i really care about is what you already mentioned, the monitor does not look like what would probably be on the computer, im just gonna have this and zbay occasionally swapped out (if zbay ever updates), thanks for being civil, thats rare on the internet

@Meatwad, I wasn't intending to argue, just share my opinion.

In Zomboid's rendering of its setting there aren't many situations wherein computers were being used by the general public. We see them mostly in offices, rather than with folks who can't read. In offices, of course, GUI-heavy environments like Windows were adopted fairly quickly, but the legacy of DOS loomed large and many less graphical programs remained in common use. Also worthy of note is that this is rural Kentucky - an economically depressed region - and the vanilla computer shows a monochrome green display - which is a little painful for Windows. Considering these things, my opinion leans towards a DOS environment in a slightly dated office.

But, all in all, I'd say it's moot. This mod's got a great idea and, in my opinion, doesn't need to simulate any period correct UI. It's just a stylistic touch used to suggest what the player character is doing while the player is simply reading and writing notes. Good fun.

try this mode playing on 4k resolution windowd fullscreen and the case + Dos windows of the mod dont fit anymore thats so sad i rly want to use this mod but think u have to check on any resolution :)

@Viren The primary reason that I have everything happen from within the player's inventory is so I don't have to worry about updating modData for items outside the player's inventory as it's a massive hassle! Thanks for the feedback though, and glad you like the mod!

Sooo loving the mod. Just wanted to throw out a suggestion. Having the computer have a device option like the TVs would be cool and have you actually put the Floppy disks in the computers like we do with CDs and VHS

@willy a jeep. the monochrome dos look is fine sure, i wasn't complaining about it, also dos would make less sense in rural kentucky, kentucky's literacy rate is 21 percent of adults reading below a third grade level, dos would be around sure but mostly in colleges, but simplified operating systems like win 3.1 really started creaking the door that windows 95 opened to the masses using personal computers, i wasn't suggesting a replacement as much as just a additional blue colored skin, technically this IS a guide based operating system, it has buttons and everything

Thanks @Neth!

love coming across this mod in the wild, feels great on the wasteland rp server!

Nevermind i fixed it! Thanks for helping!

No im just trying to download it for build 42 and it wont show up in my mods i dont know why.

@Sir Shmoopy I'll probably look to get that sorted after Christmas. It should be largely compatible already, I just didn't have the time to check after I made some changes for B42.

@M1lkcart0n This is B42 only at the moment, so it won't show up in B41, if that's what you're trying.

does anyoen know why it wont show up in my mods?

let me play san andreas on this

Subscribed because this sounds awesome, but mostly waiting on B41 compatibility

@Kaostic, all good, appreciate it either way, definitely subscribed!

On the topic of OS/GUI "themes" for this mod, I think the monochrome MS-DOS look is fine! Not everybody was using the latest and greatest GUI-enhanced operating systems in the early 90s, especially in rural Kentucky, and DOS is pretty timeless even now.

The monitor bezel graphic used for the mod's UI is a bit dated for the 1993 date (though I'm not complaining), and does mismatch with the game's computer sprites. I'd say the sprites look like a thoroughly generic 1985-1995 horizontal tower with a very generic Phillips-designed monitor, such as the Commodore 1084, sitting on top. If you want to stick with the IBM-esque design, though, go for a PS/2-era monitor - fittingly late-80s/early 90s. Or just stay with what you've got, 'cause it's great, too!

@protoboi I was planning on adding in an option to find larger Floppy Disks with pagination.

@PHO-KINGYOURDAD There's a link in the mod description for the server I built this for originally.

@Vietzomb This unfortunately isn't a skill-recovery mod, and I'm sure the mod maker for that is working on a conversion, but with the addition of new skills will mean it takes some time!

This Mod came up on the Keyword "Recovery"? I ALREADY LOVE IT -- and I may just be sleep deprived, missing it, but I stumbled upon this looking for a B42 version of the Skill Recovery Journal. So if it's not in already, possibly a way to "write" your learned skills (option for XP too) would be AMAZING. Reading the disk would recover what you had last time you wrote to it. Even better, find someone else's disk and roll the dice on whether it will give you skills/xp... or the Virus!!

what is wasteland rp how does one sign up for said rp server

love this mod, will there be the possibility to write more info onto a single floppy disk rather then just one paragraph or two? like the multiple pages notebooks and diaries have, otherwise this is exactly what i was looking for for taking my notes and data logs on

yeah i disagree on the fallout aesthetic, the game is set in 1993. i'd only install this if it was more of a late 80s-early 90s windows 3.0 aesthetic

imo this gives off post fallout vibes, but its really cool, fallout computers are actually 1970s computers with MCM aesthethic compared to the late MCM of 1970s PC's like the commodore PET, Zbay is really cool but i fear it may remain unsupported, also it depends, the map of PZ is so big the game has many different feelings, especially with this new high pressure sodium lighting in the update

@Meatwad Thanks, glad you like it ! I was planning on doing something like this, although there's another mod (Zbay) who does this already. I felt like a more Fallout-inspired theme fit the overall vibe a bit better, y'know?

love this mod, only suggestion is maybe another OS theme, one resembling early 1990s operating systems, although that might be a lot of pain in the ass coding not worth the effort

@Ragnar - It's essentially an extension on the notebooks. It's not like the Computer Mod that allows you to play games on it.

@Pioepod - I'll be working on getting the scaling issue fixed in the semi-near future. Hopefully, once that's done, you'll be able to enjoy it again!

I love this, but for now it is personally unusable T_T. The 16px is a massive limitation as I play on a laptop and my eyes suuuuuuuuck. BUT, in the limited testing I've done, I like the UI and the idea of writing on it. I just think having it scale with the font would be great if possible.

can you actually do anything with the computers, like play video games or something? to lower your stress, boredom, and increase your happiness

@lancepatchwork Yep, that's why I originally built it! The events team on the WastelandRP server have been using it for lore drops and ascii maps.