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Re: Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

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Post by lloeki »

vog wrote: post #16

This is a really great theme! I love it how even the button clicks are authentic. Some suggestions: 1. To get a real DOS feeling, the number of characters per line should be limited to (exactly) 80, and the font size should be increased accordingly. 2. Links to headers [1] within the document make the browser scroll to the header text itself, rather than the top of the surrounding colored box. 3. This is mostly a "QB…

Strangely I vividly remember setting (S)VGA text modes to higher counts than 80 per line for such UIs. Maybe my memory fails me and I'm mixing things up with Debian text mode installs?

Re: Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

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Post by IncRnd »

lloeki wrote: post #21
vog wrote: post #16

This is a really great theme! I love it how even the button clicks are authentic. Some suggestions: 1. To get a real DOS feeling, the number of characters per line should be limited to (exactly) 80, and the font size should be increased accordingly. 2. Links to headers [1] within the document make the browser scroll to the header text itself, rather than the top of the surrounding colored box. 3. This is mostly a "QB…

Strangely I vividly remember setting (S)VGA text modes to higher counts than 80 per line for such UIs. Maybe my memory fails me and I'm mixing things up with Debian text mode installs?

Perhaps you ran mode to set the columns and rows?

Re: Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

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Post by vog »

lloeki wrote: post #21
vog wrote: post #16

This is a really great theme! I love it how even the button clicks are authentic. Some suggestions: 1. To get a real DOS feeling, the number of characters per line should be limited to (exactly) 80, and the font size should be increased accordingly. 2. Links to headers [1] within the document make the browser scroll to the header text itself, rather than the top of the surrounding colored box. 3. This is mostly a "QB…

Strangely I vividly remember setting (S)VGA text modes to higher counts than 80 per line for such UIs. Maybe my memory fails me and I'm mixing things up with Debian text mode installs?

Yes, some of the tools did, but the ones mentioned here didn't (QBasic, Norton Commander/Utilities, Turbo Pascal/Vision).

Norton Utilities did play some interesting games with modifying the VGA character set in real time, implementing a mouse cursor over the text mode. But it was still 80x25.

However, some if the programs adapted to 80x50 if you enabled that mode before (or while?) starting them.

Re: Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

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Post by jacquesm »

lloeki wrote: post #21
vog wrote: post #16

This is a really great theme! I love it how even the button clicks are authentic. Some suggestions: 1. To get a real DOS feeling, the number of characters per line should be limited to (exactly) 80, and the font size should be increased accordingly. 2. Links to headers [1] within the document make the browser scroll to the header text itself, rather than the top of the surrounding colored box. 3. This is mostly a "QB…

Strangely I vividly remember setting (S)VGA text modes to higher counts than 80 per line for such UIs. Maybe my memory fails me and I'm mixing things up with Debian text mode installs?

Some cards (Tseng, and others too) allowed 132 column text modes, some even 160.

Re: Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

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Post by harleypig »

rabidrat wrote: post #28

I thought I was being original when I redid my website[0] in a similar style this past summer (right down to the text appearing to come in at 9600 baud). But it appears this repo is at least 2 years old.. [0] http://saul.pw

Gah ... I automatically started looking for doors when I went to your site! :D
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