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Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386

Thanks. My most recent one took quite a long time. I'm going to be distributing floppy disks with it soon as a fundraiser

I'm curious though: Would people be interested in tossing $5 or $10 my way for a custom labeled vintage 3.5 floppy, with my software on it, made to look like the early 90s, shipped to them? It's more of a novelty artpiece, I realize it, but I have a box of old floppies, a couple drives, a bunch of packaging material, and a color laser printer, I can put them to work (the floppies will be from this viral image I made about 9 years ago, went viral on its own, don't ask me about the secrets, I do not know them: https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/web...) I probably have the original somewhere, probably on that same drive with those couple hundred bitcoins I tossed.

Anyway, I'm about to make maybe 10 of these floppies as a test run (and I'll put some surprises on the disk as well) but if nobody wants to toss the cash my way then I probably shouldn't bother.

I'll have to buy the labels, get glabel to have the right parameters, carefully affix the labels and test the disks, make the "marketing" material ... it's not a zero cost or low time operation.

This is silly, I should just do it. Who cares if I don't sell them ... my highest profit aspirations here are like < $500 ... it's silly worthless pocket change, I'm just looking for excuses to be lazy. Ok, I'm stating it publicly, I'll do it.

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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https://webamp.org/ this really took me back! Even the equalizer works, and the magnetic window stickiness!

The visualizers in this are really slick, I wonder if they're built from scratch or borrowed from somewhere.

The visualizer comes from https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn glad you like it!

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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https://webamp.org/ this really took me back! Even the equalizer works, and the magnetic window stickiness!

The visualizers in this are really slick, I wonder if they're built from scratch or borrowed from somewhere.

Looks like they're borrowed.

https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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I really miss Winamp!

Man I had so many custom skins for Winamp. It really was a different time back then.

I'm using a Macross Plus Winamp skin for QMMP as I write this, so it was funny to read your comment...I got so sick of iTunes that a few years ago I went back to the old way. I wrote some scripts to select & generate playlists and bound the scripts to keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+Super+Media Keys. QMMP has been really solid.

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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https://webamp.org/ this really took me back! Even the equalizer works, and the magnetic window stickiness!

Glad you like it! The code’s all on GitHub if you want to take a look: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

your project was very inspiring, thanks for making it!

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Glad you like it! The code’s all on GitHub if you want to take a look: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

your project was very inspiring, thanks for making it!

Thanks for including it in your list! You’ve done a great job collecting so many of them. We have a Discord with a few people interested in this type of thing. You can find a link in the Webamp readme if you are interested
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