Windows 96 • Hacker News Board

Re: Windows 96

#91

Post by Scienceer » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:37 AM UTC

msgroom is being hit really hard by HN, it's fun to watch lol

Re: Windows 96

#92

Post by SavantIdiot » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:39 AM UTC

qbasic_forever wrote: post #84

SavantIdiot wrote: post #76

Is this an emulator or did someone re-write all of those apps?

Re-write, it's all just fun modern JS apps made in a style of Windows 95.

Cool! (Nice newsusername. Would have picked "QuickCForever". :)

Re: Windows 96

#93

Post by lebrad » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:41 AM UTC

Microsoft is begging for the next counterfactual Windows version to be Windows 9

Re: Windows 96

#94

Post by robertwt7 » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:43 AM UTC

Well that's fun... and its not built with react!

Re: Windows 96

#95

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:43 AM UTC

SavantIdiot wrote: post #76

Is this an emulator or did someone re-write all of those apps?

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Re: Windows 96

#96

Post by nsriv » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:44 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #11

pier25 wrote: post #5

These UIs definitely look outdated, but somehow they seem better than current Windows UIs.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.

The mere presence of buttons that look like buttons, and static text that looks like static text, is innumerably better than the "ambiguous text and icons floating in a sea of flat white/blackspace" that UIs today seem to mostly consist of.

I feel this way about interactions on mobile. I grew up using Android and still have my phone on 3 buttons mode because it seems obvious. Have been using iDevices for work and some of the tap and swipe gestures are so unintuitive, along with the flat text as buttons. It feels like Apple decided "people that use our devices know this already."

Re: Windows 96

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Post by _qxjp » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:45 AM UTC

Needs work on mobile. But I'm already having a blast :) reminds me of windows93.net, but with different features

Re: Windows 96

#98

Post by stirlo » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:48 AM UTC

justusthane wrote: post #83

stirlo wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doom worked for me in that I could select the menus, start a new game and move the character around. But it seems the “shoot” button is not working. From googling it seems “shoot” is mapped to the ctrl button which then I assume is not passed through the browser to the emulator :(

FWIW, Ctrl to shoot worked for me (MacOS, Firefox).

Interesting. I was using Safari, MacOS11

Re: Windows 96

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Post by deathanatos » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:54 AM UTC

WaitWaitWha wrote: post #89

thatwasunusual wrote: post #29

Pretty. :) Gives me PTSD-like flashbacks to the time when I was tasked with installing Windows 95 on 50+ computers on the local school. For the young(er), Windows was on 14-ish 3.5" floppy disks, and I had to do some heavy calculation and logistics copying those discs while installing the OS to make my effort as efficient as possible. IIRC, I managed to keep the installing cyclus going on 28 computers at a time, and…

I just want to quietly grumble, like an appropriately crotchety old man... '3.5" floppies? Bah! Try 8", and they were really floppy! Try installing AT&T Unix from those...'

I'm probably not old enough to qualify as "crotchety old man", but yeah, 3.5" are diskettes to me since they weren't really floppies.

I raise your floppy disk install one OS/2 Warp install: https://twitter.com/jhegarty/status/1162326199445655552/phot...

I still feel that OS/2 Warp feels more valuable in ones hands, just because of the sheer weight of it… (compared to modern OSes that have no weight because I download them…)

Re: Windows 96

#100

Post by kowlo » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:59 AM UTC

It was all fun and games until I ended up on the chat - then someone convinced me I was a bot.