Name: 101 Love Letters for Windows: From 1995, With Love
Uploaded: 2020-03-06T18:01:56.000Z
Duration: 10 min 26 s
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Greetings and welcome to an LGR Valentine’s Day... thing!

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Sure why not, because we’re taking a look at 101 Love Letters,

It’s a Windows PC application providing “words to express your love,”

with “full word processing capabilities.”

“Express yourself in the name of love.”

“Share your admiration for your family."

"Invite her off on a romantic weekend.”

“Why whisper sweet nothings, when you can write sizzling somethings?”

I gotta say, this whole package is really doin’ it for me: big beautiful box, copious

marketing copy, and ah, is that the bear, the great bear of the company’s namesake?

I just have no idea what with programs like this, but '101 Love Letters?'

After all, nothing says “I love you” like a letter

written by some unknown person in Moraga, California.

“Darling first name, there was a time when the thought

of seeking someone to love was at the bottom of my list.

A solitary walk on the beach was more attractive than being wrapped in a lover’s arms.

There just existed too many complications in loving.

I had no need to care for anyone other than myself.”

Yeah I dunno, sounds like a pretty sweet gig to me.

Oh here’s their other chosen example: “My dearest love, there is so much to say I don’t

know if I’ll ever find all the words or the time to tell you.

How can I in one lifetime give you all the love I have to give?

Every thought that comes to mind is of you.

Each day I live, I spend in the delight of your...”

Right, let’s open up the box and see what kinda [disk crashes to the ground]

Jeez, barely even got into the box and I’ve already lost control of my disk.

Ahh here we go, it comes on a delightful little 3.5” floppy disk.

I’d rather have a 5.25,” but you know what they say about disk size not mattering.

Anyway, next up is the disk’s protective sleeve -- always use protection.

Along with instructions on how to get started as quickly as possible.

You also get a fold-out card offering a lifetime of free benefits, ooh, how friendly.

And finally you got some, uh, very 90s stationery.

This one looking like a bedspread from Laura Ashley and the other one’s generic enough

that you don’t have to use it for wedding announcements.

Oh and there’s a remarkably beefy catalog of stationery, some more stationery,

even more stationery, and yet more stationery.

Enough with the foreplay, let’s get this thing installed on a Windows 3.1 PC and write

All right first thing to do is get the program installed and [chuckles]

That’s okay though, it seems it did actually copy everything over.

So we’ll just open up the program here and it looks like that we can -- okay, well.

Okay let’s try a different Windows 3.1 PC here and

When it comes to low-budget Windows 3.1 applications, just don’t do it!

I tried this on two different Windows 3.1 PCs and two different DOS emulators running

3.1 and both suffered the same errors on all the settings and configurations I tried.

The real hardware got the general protection fault, among others,

Ah that’s inspiring, I’m gonna write my own love letter, let’s see here.

I love you so much, I’m dividing by zeros.

So after continuing to fiddle around just to try to get the thing to install properly,

I ended up giving it a shot on Windows 98SE on a whim on my Megaluminum Monster build.

Even though it’s from several years in the future from when this program was made.

It’s not running perfectly but we can at least check out 101 Lover Letters finally,

Right, um, 101 Love Letters for Windows 3.1 running on Windows 98SE!

Here it is, in all its mid-1990s budget software glory.

And as described on the box, it really is just an assortment of love-centric correspondence

templates paired with an exceptionally unexceptional word processor.

Each of the premade lovey-dubby form letters are divided up into a number of categories

ranging from serious, to silly, to sultry, to somewhat stalkery.

There are letters themed around things like asking for a second date, apologizing for

screwing up, rekindling an old flame, talking to your partner about AIDS, venting romantic

frustrations, expressing admiration to friends and family.

And quite the assortment of letters about trying to attain love, too.

While there’s only a single letter for telling your kids you love them, there’s half a

dozen letters for revealing you have the hots for someone who barely knows you exist.

Perhaps it’s just me but I’m sensing a target demographic here.

Anyway, it’s time to choose a letter, either by selecting directly from those listed or

by searching for specific words and phrases contained within them.

Once you’ve chosen the perfect lovely little letter, opening it up provides a tool for

Kinda like Mad Libs for uninspired cassanovas, you just fill in things like your address,

your name, the subject’s name, and any pronouns, unique events, dates, locations, and so on.

Unfortunately, the program still isn’t quite working as it should, because you can’t

actually see the entire letter on-screen at once.

There’s no word wrapping option and no scrollbar for revealing the text off to the right, so

you have to edit the text line by line to see everything.

Not only that, but the fonts and formatting don’t function at all