98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs • Hacker News Board

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by dec0dedab0de » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:17 PM UTC

girvo wrote: post #8

pshirshov wrote: post #6

Cool. Does not support dark mode though.

Honest question, because I don’t remember: does Windows 98? I know you could edit the theme around to set the UI scheme colours to a darker one, but as a kid I could never make it look nice

There were preset themes. Some were dark.

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by ranger_danger » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:20 PM UTC

laserdancepony wrote: post #10

pshirshov wrote: post #6

Cool. Does not support dark mode though.

There was no dark mode fad in 1998. Different color schemes for visually impaired people existed, but they were most often not very aesthetic.

it's not a fad.

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by whatwhatwhat_ » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:21 PM UTC

why would anyone want to resurrect that terrible operating system? that’s the bar with which crappy software is measured against

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by MisterTea » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:22 PM UTC

girvo wrote: post #8

pshirshov wrote: post #6

Cool. Does not support dark mode though.

Honest question, because I don’t remember: does Windows 98? I know you could edit the theme around to set the UI scheme colours to a darker one, but as a kid I could never make it look nice

I do remember a high contrast mode. Quite garish with white text on black background with bright blues and I think yellow and red too.

I think this might be it: https://never-obsolete.tumblr.com/post/180144131029/high-con...

edit: yellow and red is from win 3.1's hotdog mode: https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-ho...

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by ranger_danger » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:22 PM UTC

I wouldn't really call this "faithful", I have yet to see actual pixel-perfect recreations of any Windows UI in any form whatsoever, but I'd love to see one.

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by ranger_danger » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:23 PM UTC

whatwhatwhat_ wrote: post #13

why would anyone want to resurrect that terrible operating system? that’s the bar with which crappy software is measured against

nostalgia.

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by ranger_danger » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:24 PM UTC

https://github.com/andersevenrud/retro-css-shell-demo

https://github.com/arturbien/React95

https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css

https://github.com/Gioni06/terminal.css

https://github.com/jianzhongli/csswin10

https://github.com/khang-nd/7.css

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

https://github.com/lachsfilet/Renkbench

https://github.com/lolstring/window98-html-css-js

https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css

https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css

https://github.com/npjg/classic.css

https://github.com/robbiebyrd/platinum

https://github.com/bryanbraun/after-dark-css

https://github.com/npjg/new-dawn

https://github.com/ritenv/retro-desktop

https://github.com/RoelN/c64css3

https://github.com/sakofchit/system.css

https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss

https://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by dhiggdyjkb » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:25 PM UTC

does a similiar thing exist for old macos style?

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by MitPitt » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:25 PM UTC

Also see XP and 7 versions: https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/ https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by panzi » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:27 PM UTC

Very cool! I want a Windows 2000 version of it. I think that was the nicest looking Windows. It is very close to this, but with a slightly different main GUI color. Not a complete gray, but ever so slightly beige. Makes it more pleasant to the eye, IMO.