Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
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Re: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
#2I'm trying to forget that horror show and you want to put it under a spotlight! If I never see a bsod or windows registry again it'll be too soon.
Re: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
#3How cute… imagine my childhood home would have a computer with a graphical desktop…
I feel so old now…
Re: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
#4I'm trying to forget that horror show and you want to put it under a spotlight! If I never see a bsod or windows registry again it'll be too soon.
Well, at least buttons looked like buttons.
Re: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
#5This looks nice and easy to use.
My hypothesis is today's "modern" OS user interfaces are objectively worse from a usability perspective, obfuscating key functionality behind layers of confusing menus.
It reminds me of these "OS popularity since the 70s" time lapse views:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cTKhqtll5cQ
The dominance of Windows is crazy, even today, Mac desktops and laptops are comparatively niche
Re: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
#6How cute… imagine my childhood home would have a computer with a graphical desktop… I feel so old now…
Yeah as far as GUIs go, Win95 isn't in the "nostalgia" category for me, I was already well into adulthood.
I kind of get the appeal, but it's also unnecessarily skeumorphic/fake-3d and there were some UX things that made little sense especially lumping all the window controls all together (including the destructive "close" X) where MacOS smartly separated them.
Re: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
#7It needs the BSOD screensaver from XScreensaver, for sure. And, maybe, DOSBox-X or DOSEmu2.
Also:
- Pan
- Sylpheed
- Audacious with the WinAMP theme
- Hexchat kinda has a MIRC vibe
- Parole looks like WMP from - You can't simulate a dialer, but with trickle you can mimic a 56k/ISDN connection pretty well
- SyncTERM for BBS's
- ScummVM, with just a bilinear filter, because I played tons of adventures
- There's an SDL2 reimplementation of Space Cadet Pinball at github.
- Trigger Rally would look like a great shareware game
- Pidgin, hands down. Either you were an AOL user in America, or a MSN user in Europe. It has emoticons, not emojis. Add that annoying notification theme with a sound and that would be the very late 90's/early 00's (my early teen years)
Re: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
#8This looks neat. I remember the various fvwm95 and icewm themes doing a similar number in the late 90s and early 2000s.
It would be fun to pair this with Gambas[0], a free VB6 clone that works with GTK.
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#9This still remains the absolute pinnacle of cohesive desktop environment design in my books.
Re: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room
#10My childhood home would need DOS. Maybe deskview for multitasking. :)