It's really fun to realize that the disks you load with all of DOS are about the size of a typical web asset.
Windows 1.01 in Your Browser
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#12Some things really stick in your mind. The pointer acceleration, icons, sandclock.
It's funny that Paintbrush lost the constrained line drawing (no more guides), what a regression.
Also, I laughed at the TODO list. todomvc.com has nothing on it.
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#13Sweet! I'm a bit sad that you don't get to launch Windows by typing 'win' and pressing enter.
You can if you want to! Close Windows and you are at the DOS command prompt. From there, you can do "anything"... like write a better OS, perhaps?
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try launching a few programs (double-click the floppy disk after each one to open the MS-DOS Executive again) and then move them around. It's a tiled window manager!
overlapping windows was actually a challenging problem within the constraints of the old hardware.
Actually it was due to legal worries that Windows 1 only supported tiling. In Windows 2 they ignored the worries and Apple promptly sued.
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#15I left it running in another tab and then it started beeping. Thought my PC was about to die.
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#16C64 please!
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#17Nice! If you missed it, there was also a similar demo but with Windows 95 just a few days ago, http://win95.ajf.me/
93 was better http://www.windows93.net/
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#18The fact that they actually tried to compete with the Mac with this is amazing to me. And, as much as I dislike Microsoft products, you have to hand it to them; they persevered until they had a product that could compete. ...at least until OS X. (I couldn't resist)
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#19Nice! If you missed it, there was also a similar demo but with Windows 95 just a few days ago, http://win95.ajf.me/
93 was better http://www.windows93.net/
Personally I find that site less interesting. It vaguely resembles Win9x, but only vaguely, it's not even trying to be faithful, and you can't really do anything.
Compare that to michaelv.org (now defunct), which very faithfully reproduced Windows 3.1, complete with games, a filesystem, various small utilities, and such. Or to win95.ajf.me (which I made) which has an actual instance of Windows 95 in it, so you can fiddle about with the real thing.
I dunno. Windows 93 is fun, but it's not quite the same experience. I'd love to make something in the same vein as michaelv.org for Windows 95. I already have win95.ajf.me, of course, but a recreation of 95 is fun for its own reasons.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
93 was better http://www.windows93.net/
Personally I find that site less interesting. It vaguely resembles Win9x, but only vaguely, it's not even trying to be faithful, and you can't really do anything. Compare that to michaelv.org (now defunct), which very faithfully reproduced Windows 3.1, complete with games, a filesystem, various small utilities, and such. Or to win95.ajf.me (which I made) which has an actual instance of Windows 95 in it, so you can fi…
It's meant to be cute, not useful.
Besides, it has a (broken) gameboy emulator!