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I’ve also seen many references to dual pane file managers in this thread but no mention of the arguable leader of this group, which is still going strong on windows; Directory Opus.
From the screenshots, it is a bit cluttered. I know the VGA resolution is limiting, but GUIs were not uncommon at that time.
Then I got into visual basic in the later 90's and was able to build amazing apps as well. Then it all got overly complicated seemingly.
Icons used to be meaningful and convey what they did. Now it's mostly shiny fancy crap, and they all look the same. I always find it difficult to find VSCode on macOS because a lot of apps use similar colors and patterns. I tried customizing VSC's icon but it goes back to its ugly confusing default icon after each update.
*DESKTOP is somewhat in the middle between MS-Windows and Norton Commander...* Does anyone here recall the intuitive nature of Norton Commander, especially in terms of file operations? This may be reaching back about three decades, so my recollection might be a bit hazy. As I recall, it was a viable alternative to Windows Explorer even during the era of Windows 3.1. One particular aspect that stands out to me was the…
Was a bit like XTree Gold, but not quite.
*DESKTOP is somewhat in the middle between MS-Windows and Norton Commander...* Does anyone here recall the intuitive nature of Norton Commander, especially in terms of file operations? This may be reaching back about three decades, so my recollection might be a bit hazy. As I recall, it was a viable alternative to Windows Explorer even during the era of Windows 3.1. One particular aspect that stands out to me was the…
In SCADA systems I know teams that still use XTreeGold on Windows today
My father used to use another one, I think it was called START and made in Czech. Unfortunately I can't find it on any internet archive sites :(
Back in middle school, circa 1997 or 98, with the tiny scraps of time I could get on an Internet connection with a web browser, I ended up using Infoseek (or similar) to look for software I could run on my 486 at home. Amusingly, I think this was on a Mac.
One of the first things I found was Desktop2, but alas I never got it to run because the installer I downloaded ended up corrupted. Probably on account of using the Mac to download it and save it on a floppy (probably using the PC Exchange Mac extension?)
Never actually saw the thing run until I YouTube'd it more than 20 years later.
Shame I never got it to run - it looks like it actually would have been pretty useful and interesting.
Not long after I found FreeBSD, got dialup at home, and embarked on a project to download and run that.
This was my first (tiny) taste of a non-MS-DOS/Windows environment for PC. Back in middle school, circa 1997 or 98, with the tiny scraps of time I could get on an Internet connection with a web browser, I ended up using Infoseek (or similar) to look for software I could run on my 486 at home. Amusingly, I think this was on a Mac. One of the first things I found was Desktop2, but alas I never got it to run because the…