It's got minecraft too? (game named Blocks)
yes, full disclosure, it's a clone of minecraft classic with retexturing.
Windows 96
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Re: Windows 96
#72If you click activate windows it says its not a genuine copy, greys out and starts spitting out DLL errors haha, nice easter egg.
"Failed to load DLL". You have to click "Damn" to exit dialog box. I wish today's apps made interactions little more fun like this.
Cute messages are ok sometimes, they’re easy to make aggravating though.
Like on Smugmug, which is generally a great product, when you try to delete a photo it has a message like “Do you really want to say good bye to … .jpg”
Imagine if that was a photo of your dead grandma or worse
Re: Windows 96
#73super well executed! I launched IE and loaded windows96.net!
Re: Windows 96
#74I think this is the nicest one of these I've seen—seems to actually work in a non-superficial way, from the package manager, shell, system settings, chat app, "p3" ("pseudo peer-to-peer"), system backup (downloads filesystem contents as zip), to running Half-life Uplink or Doom. Seems like if you were a deeply unusual person you could actually do some computing in here :) main thing missing is a browser.
internet exploder is a browser (iframe lol, a browser is so heavy it's unreal)
Ah thanks—I hadn't noticed it.
Re: Windows 96
#75the shell has ls but not dir? faaaake
Re: Windows 96
#76Is this an emulator or did someone re-write all of those apps?
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#77These UIs definitely look outdated, but somehow they seem better than current Windows UIs. Not, sure if it's nostalgia or if there's something there.
Probably due to fewer "discoverable" elements. The Win95 GUI is very up front, there's no "do I click here? or here? or maybe over here?" nonsense.
Re: Windows 96
#78I misss that time of
1. web
2. OS
Re: Windows 96
#79There is also Windows 93: https://www.windows93.net/
omg, it has a TRACKER! (does anyone else remember .mod files? Predates mp3's?) Fire up "Bananamp"
Re: Windows 96
#80These UIs definitely look outdated, but somehow they seem better than current Windows UIs. Not, sure if it's nostalgia or if there's something there.
I predict we're going to come full circle in ~10 years.
I don’t know how (voice commands to “AI” chatbots, maybe), but I expect it to get worse. At least in the mainstream.