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Calmira Reborn – a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1

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Re: Calmira Reborn – a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1

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Post by jcelerier »

leeman2016 wrote: post #26
integricho wrote: post #6

So is there a light, Windows 9x-like (so really really fast and responsive) shell for Windows 10? I cannot believe how unresponsive Windows 10 is, the menus, windows, all opening with so huge delays, it's a disgrace.

Using Windows 10 with the 6th Gen 6700 HQ, 16 GB ram and an SSD. There are some annoying lags here and there. Like the login screen, for example. Lock the PC (Windows Key + L) followed by CTRL key to activate the password prompt, and immediately put in my password ... then the 1st one or two characters from my password won't usually make it into the password input.

modern software which does this is soooo infuriating, when you have the muscle memory of typing entire sets of commands before the UI even showed up and it just registered them all and did them perfectly

Re: Calmira Reborn – a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

askonomm wrote: post #23
integricho wrote: post #6

So is there a light, Windows 9x-like (so really really fast and responsive) shell for Windows 10? I cannot believe how unresponsive Windows 10 is, the menus, windows, all opening with so huge delays, it's a disgrace.

I don't know, with 64GB 6000mhz RAM and Ryzen 9 7950X processor, things are instant for me on Windows 11, and even faster on Windows 10. Surely nobody runs on Windows on any lesser system?

Did you recently install? Wait a year.

I'm a linux home user, does Windows still do that slow-down-gradually thing?

Re: Calmira Reborn – a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

thesuitonym wrote: post #40
protoman3000 wrote: post #16

Who uses these things productively as daily driver in 2023? No judgement, just curious.

Do people have to be constantly productive all day every day? Maybe someone just has some old games they want to play, and they want a more modern shell to do it with. But if productivity is the only thing you recognize, I recall reading that George R.R. Martin uses an incredibly old PC to write on. I think it was DOS or maybe Windows 3.1.

I remember stories of famous authors using one-off word processor devices (imagine: old LCD that can only show about 5 lines of text, and the device can hold a megabyte of crap in some sort of flash or something similar) from back in the day. Basically the minimal step up of computerization from the typewriter.

What else does a writer really need?

Re: Calmira Reborn – a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1

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Post by layer8 »

stuaxo wrote: post #45
ttrrooppeerr wrote: post #7

Took me a while to find the link, so here are some screenshots for you: http://calmira.net/screenshots/index.htm

Nice; back in the day "grey" was Win95 and the new thing all the themes look like Win95. It would be interesting to see the start menu etc but in a more native Windows 3.1 style.

It wasn‘t necessarily gray:

http://calmira.net/screenshots/josiah.htm

http://calmira.net/screenshots/david_b.htm

http://calmira.net/screenshots/mike_g.htm

Back when Windows supported real color theming.

Re: Calmira Reborn – a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1

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Post by anthk »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #65
thesuitonym wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do people have to be constantly productive all day every day? Maybe someone just has some old games they want to play, and they want a more modern shell to do it with. But if productivity is the only thing you recognize, I recall reading that George R.R. Martin uses an incredibly old PC to write on. I think it was DOS or maybe Windows 3.1.

I remember stories of famous authors using one-off word processor devices (imagine: old LCD that can only show about 5 lines of text, and the device can hold a megabyte of crap in some sort of flash or something similar) from back in the day. Basically the minimal step up of computerization from the typewriter. What else does a writer really need?

-A spell checker

- A dictionary/thesaurus

- Grep

- A few MB of public domain books in TXT format from Gutenberg to get inspired

Re: Calmira Reborn – a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1

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Post by askonomm »

aliqot wrote: post #36
askonomm wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know, with 64GB 6000mhz RAM and Ryzen 9 7950X processor, things are instant for me on Windows 11, and even faster on Windows 10. Surely nobody runs on Windows on any lesser system?

jeeeesus, do you dump old beer and banana peels into that thing or does it take unleaded?

The souls of environmentalists.

Re: Calmira Reborn – a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1

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Post by askonomm »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #64
askonomm wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know, with 64GB 6000mhz RAM and Ryzen 9 7950X processor, things are instant for me on Windows 11, and even faster on Windows 10. Surely nobody runs on Windows on any lesser system?

Did you recently install? Wait a year. I'm a linux home user, does Windows still do that slow-down-gradually thing?

Honestly no clue, built this machine a few months ago, and built it with the thought that even an inefficient OS would not be able to get slow anytime soon.
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