@win95promises is a bot that posts screenshots from the Windows 95 install process, but tweaks some of the promises of benefit made by your new life with Windows 95.
First job was to get screenshots of all the Windows 95 install screens.
That was easy enough, I installed a copy of Windows 95 in Virtual Box (with the CPU set to 1% to avoid crashing), and fired up Quicktime Player to record my screen. Screenshoting by hand wasn't practical as the installer progresses really fast.
This seriously 90%+ of the work. If the new benefit font looked off, it ruins the effect to me. I really wanted something that looks very convincing.
Unfortunately I couldn't even find a .fon file for whatever system font the installer uses. So I resorted to typing every character on the keyboard into the cd-key input box, screenshotting that, and then creating a sprite map of the results.
This was a pain because the font is variable width, so I had to measure and hand sort each character in the sprite map. You can see the results in spritesheet.png.
Then in generate_iamge.py you can see the sprite_map_rows dictionary, which maps each character in the sprite sheet.
I also had to deal with line wrapping and some other little things with text, but this font was the biggest time sink.
The formula I am using to generate new benefits is to start with a "daily affirmation" sentence, lop off the start of the sentence, and replace it with a feature of Windows 95 + some glue words to make the sentence hang together.
For instance:
I feel basically worthy as a person.
Becomes:
Recylce Bin makes me basically worthy as a person.
I found affirmations that start with the word "I am" or "I" work the best. I replaced the word "you" with "I" in a lot of cases.
I just found random 175 affirmations on the web, which I am a little uncomfortable with. I'd like to try re-generating them in the future using a recurrent neutral network if practical.