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Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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mitchivin wrote: post #37
mkl wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, the start menu takes a couple of seconds to appear, and disappears again after a fraction of a second (Chrome 138 on Windows 10).

interesting, if you can be bothered - could you let me know if disabling the screen effect via the system tray toggle makes any difference? thanks for letting me know

That makes it work 30-50% of the time, after flickering closed briefly.

After reloading the page and leaving the CRT effect on, it worked once (the first time) then not.

Reloading the page and turning the CRT effect off immediately, it seems to work every time, but flickers.

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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Post by tombert »

Pretty cool stuff.

Every time I see it, a part of me misses the styling of Windows XP. It was kind of the only well-regarded windows that tried to actually be fun; the fact that there was a little dog mascot in the search results, the fact that the bar on the bottom kind of looks like a Fisher Price toy, Clippy!

I kind of miss when professional programs were allowed to be goofy.

As a side note, I really like your avatar; has kind of a Simpsons/Bob's Burgers vibe that I find appealing.

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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Post by mitchivin »

mkl wrote: post #42
mitchivin wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

interesting, if you can be bothered - could you let me know if disabling the screen effect via the system tray toggle makes any difference? thanks for letting me know

That makes it work 30-50% of the time, after flickering closed briefly. After reloading the page and leaving the CRT effect on, it worked once (the first time) then not. Reloading the page and turning the CRT effect off immediately, it seems to work every time, but flickers.

thanks for testing - thats really strange, i've never experienced anything like that myself or had anyone else mention it. ill try and recreate it with the info you gave me - thanks mate

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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Post by mitchivin »

zx8080 wrote: post #47

To me, the CRT effect looks like an early LCD (TFT panel) one. CRT monitors picture did not look like made of dots from what I can remember (maybe not for all monitors). Except maybe the Trinitron ones. Great site, thanks for nostalgia!

you're probably right and I've actually had someone tell me that no monitor during the XP era would've been a CRT one haha so the whole things a bit off but I think people can let it slide
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