No Pinball :(
Fear not! https://98.js.org/programs/pinball/space-cadet.html
Oh my, thanks for this. Quickly made 1.5M
Used to spend lot of time when I was a kid (I didn't even see a real pinball machine before)
Windows XP Professional
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Re: Windows XP Professional
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It's just moving, it gives no actual indication of progress.
this reminds me of a tool at work that uses a progress bar but the software doesn't calculate the job size so it just fills up quickly and then goes back down again, and repeats endlessly.
I called those Congress bars, con being the antonym of pro.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember being extremely envious of the "Alienware theme" that you could only get with an actual Alienware machine. That was surprisingly short-lived though, such custom experiences are uncommon these days. Seems like nobody is theming Windows- they just fill it with crapware.
> Seems like nobody is theming Windows We found more fun in ricing our linux desktops :) https://reddit.com/r/unixporn
Specifically to look like Windows XP: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/pdd4o6/xfce_windo...
Re: Windows XP Professional
#134Win XP remains my favourite OS till date. I was in college and getting hands on a pirated copy back then makes me so nostalgic. There was a cambrian explosion of tools to customize the look and feel. TweakXP pro is the one I remember. All pirated off-course.
How was it better than Win2K?
It had Pinball, Solitaire and other games we never really understood.
Re: Windows XP Professional
#135Will call our IT support tomorrow and start this as a full screen. That will be fun in the office :-)
Have an automatic defibrillator ready just in case
Re: Windows XP Professional
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man nothing drives me further up the wall than when a nice progress indicator with discrete segments gets animated with a lazy `to { rotate(360deg); }` etc[1]. It is my molehill to die on [1] https://cdn.dribbble.com/userupload/41647820/file/original-8...
You know talking about progress bars, it takes a lot of confidence to program a linear progress bar. You think you know when loading will be complete and think you know can break down the incremental progress made during loading. Instead we get these spinning wheels that are like "maybe in the future this wheel will stop and we will have a return value." No confidence whatsoever. I know this is true because Apple tri…
I would imagine that progress bars generally represent the progression of the task state and not time, for that very reason. Or is that not the case in practice?
Re: Windows XP Professional
#137Using this made me feel happy. I don't get that feeling from modern Windows.
The 1990s were very Information Superhighway (I get that's said in a mocking tone now for people who didn't actually know what the internet was, but I tend to use it unironically)
It's just a shame about the antitrust stuff and the bugs and glitches that came with MS Windows
Re: Windows XP Professional
#138How can you tell that any Windows or Mac clone UI is a re-implementation? Easy: try to move your mouse diagonally into the Send To menu after letting it pop up. If the send-to menu closes as you mouse over the item into the submenu, it's a clone. If the menu stays up even if you brush over another menu item, it's either real or a Good Clone. :) For the fun history, @DonHopkins had a thread a few years back: https://n…
I could tell instantly in the loading screen because the three blocks in the progress bar move smoothly across it.
Old, but good mandatory xkcd
Re: Windows XP Professional
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man nothing drives me further up the wall than when a nice progress indicator with discrete segments gets animated with a lazy `to { rotate(360deg); }` etc[1]. It is my molehill to die on [1] https://cdn.dribbble.com/userupload/41647820/file/original-8...
You know talking about progress bars, it takes a lot of confidence to program a linear progress bar. You think you know when loading will be complete and think you know can break down the incremental progress made during loading. Instead we get these spinning wheels that are like "maybe in the future this wheel will stop and we will have a return value." No confidence whatsoever. I know this is true because Apple tri…
I think the most common operations a user will see is stuff like CRUD, which means you're waiting on a remote database and a network round trip
Hard drives and networks are both so fast that you rarely are waiting for data to stream, you're just waiting for the stream to begin
Re: Windows XP Professional
#140Win XP remains my favourite OS till date. I was in college and getting hands on a pirated copy back then makes me so nostalgic. There was a cambrian explosion of tools to customize the look and feel. TweakXP pro is the one I remember. All pirated off-course.
How was it better than Win2K?
Multiple users on a same machine out of the box and way faster boot time.
Didn't care for the UI, though - looked childish...