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Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

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Re: Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

#21
Nice job. I saw a portfolio designed as a Mac OS 9 interface a while back, but I think one of the best ones I’ve ever seen was one that modeled a sort of 3D, “UNIX‑esque” operating system [1].

A small bit of feedback: the progress bar during boot is a little too smooth. If you want to be accurate, it should technically move in ticks, where each tick corresponds to one of the segments.

[1] - https://joeyderuiter.me

Re: Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

#24

Not to criticize your work too harshly, but you specifically call out that this showcases attention to detail, and it's actually very inaccurate to the actual Windows XP, for anyone who's ever used it before. The UI elements are all haphazardly sized relative to each other, there are alpha-fade ins/outs, the loading bar in the boot screen animates smoothly when the real thing popped along block-by-block, fonts are an…

XP had cleartype no?

Re: Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

#25

Not to criticize your work too harshly, but you specifically call out that this showcases attention to detail, and it's actually very inaccurate to the actual Windows XP, for anyone who's ever used it before. The UI elements are all haphazardly sized relative to each other, there are alpha-fade ins/outs, the loading bar in the boot screen animates smoothly when the real thing popped along block-by-block, fonts are an…

no offensive taken dude, great eye you have and at some point i'll go through and see if I can address each of these things aside from the pixel grid effect - thats just there for fun and I like it

I enjoyed the pixel grid

Re: Show HN: My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod

#28

Nice job. I saw a portfolio designed as a Mac OS 9 interface a while back, but I think one of the best ones I’ve ever seen was one that modeled a sort of 3D, “UNIX‑esque” operating system [1]. A small bit of feedback: the progress bar during boot is a little too smooth. If you want to be accurate, it should technically move in ticks, where each tick corresponds to one of the segments. [1] - https://joeyderuiter.me

it's been mentioned a few times so ill take a look into it. from memory i think it was a choice but i'll go back and reaccess the loading bar smoothness :)

and yeah there's some really cool one's out there!

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