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Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by cs702 » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 4:14 PM UTC

This is a work of art.

All the details are just right, from the color palette to the menu separators and edges drawn with fake ASCII 'drawing' characters to the little blip that refreshes the screen line by line. Even the name is perfect: "BOOTSTRA.386" -- eight characters plus three for the extension, all in uppercase.

THANK YOU.

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by mhartl » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 4:15 PM UTC

This is so rad. I mean, like, totally awesome!

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by busterarm » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 4:16 PM UTC

busterarm wrote: post #40

This put such a huge smile on my face. I was having a shit day, but now it's awesome. Thank you! P.S. I will go build like 9 websites using this immediately.

Anyone have any advice for rendering images in a time/technology-appropriate fashion?

Re: Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s

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Post by cbreuel » Thu, Jul 03, 2014, 4:18 PM UTC

nitrogen wrote: post #42

bigtones wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LOL, the turbo button when the front of the PC displayed the number of MHz the computer was operating at, and you could slow it down so you could play old games. Good times.

Interesting bit of trivia: the MHz LED display on the front of most PC cases was typically configured by jumpers and wired directly to the turbo button; it did not read the actual speed from the motherboard. So if you wanted, you could make it say "HI" for high speed and "LO" for low speed.

Yep, I remember spending an afternoon reverse-engineering the jumper configuration to change the numbers to match the CPU I had just upgraded. I may still have the diagram I drew somewhere. And I thought I didn't have enough free time back then.