Windows 3.1 Online - With Minesweeper • Hacker News Board

randomwalker wrote: post #12

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/131764/recursive.png Well, somebody had to. I could get it to nest 10-fold, but after that the innermost browser window was unresponsive.

Awesome. Exact same thing I did.

Re: Windows 3.1 Online - With Minesweeper

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Post by hexley » Sun, Jan 24, 2010, 2:12 PM UTC

timdorr wrote: post #3

Only problem I see is anti-aliased fonts. Those didn't get added until ClearType came along in Windows XP.

Windows 98 had antialiased fonts.

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Post by joubert » Sun, Jan 24, 2010, 2:30 PM UTC

Where's gopher?

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Post by isotherm » Sun, Jan 24, 2010, 2:43 PM UTC

xuhu wrote: post #29

billpg wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disappointed to see the 'type' command didn't work.

Or starting notepad.

Programs like Notepad can be started that way too, but there's no PATH set. So you have to "cd windows" first.

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Post by isotherm » Sun, Jan 24, 2010, 2:47 PM UTC

hackworth wrote: post #25

man, there was no web browser in windows 3.1. not even in windows for workgroups 3.11.

Although Internet Explorer 5 can be installed on 3.11.

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Post by freakwit » Sun, Jan 24, 2010, 3:05 PM UTC

Does it have a .bmp viewer?

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Post by dacav » Sun, Jan 24, 2010, 3:39 PM UTC

muon wrote: post #31

cellis wrote: post #22

Who else tried running MS-DOS > dir right away? :)

Tried "ls", used to Cygwin.

I always try ls even when I'm on the real windows terminal, and I suffer each time it happens. Fortunately it's a rare event.

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Post by ez77 » Sun, Jan 24, 2010, 3:52 PM UTC

Pardon my ignorance (hope I'm not kicked out of HN), but how does this work? Is there a server? Is it pure Javascript? Clueless...