Ok .. I really wanna try this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXkvM3b2Qg #windows3.1 #retro #vga #gpu
#Windows3
@nina_kali_nina Do you see the fonts named 'Roman', 'Modern', or 'Script'?
You wouldn't believe (actually, you would) how hard these are to google.
Anyway they're a dumpster fire but they totally work … if you are into non-intersecting polygons. This is when Adobe Type Manager was hella expensive, and TrueType was a liberating dream coming soon, from two enemies joining forces f.f.s.finally.
BTW, yes this screenshot is from Windows 3.0 Runtime (or something like that … CONTROL.EXE not found haha) but they are the fonts that Windows 3 inherited, I swear
Nach 33 Jahren enthüllt die Designerin Virginia Howlett die Wahrheit hinter dem berüchtigten "Hot-Dog-Stand"-#UI-#Design von #Windows3.1, für das das #Microsoft-#Betriebssystem von 1992 bis heute berühmt ist. https://winfuture.de/news,155504.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
It's about to be #patchtuesday but this one is bittersweet. This month will be my last patching my own personal #windows installations. With the upcoming end to #windows10 support, I'm migrating to #linux .
This month marks the end of my continuous personal Windows use dating back to #windows3 in 1990, 35 years ago. I went to work at #microsoft just as #windowsforworkgroups 3.11 went into beta in 1993. Through a very random set of circumstances, I gave the first press demo of #windows95, to the tech reporter for the #houstonchronicle . Years later, I managed a wonderful team for #windows7 security assurance, and I couldn't be prouder of what we accomplished.
My relationship with Windows runs deep, to say the least. But the time has come for that relationship to end. I will migrate my main computer in about a week.
👋 :windows: 😢
I've pushed myself a bit and tossed a rough tutorial on cross-compiling for #Windows3, #WindowsNT, #Windows95, and #MSDOS with #OpenWatcom up on the web zone: https://indigoparadox.zone/tutorials/watcom.html
It's late, so I don't trust my proofreading, but I've been asked about this enough where a quick and dirty tutorial has become a practical consideration. Hopefully it's useful!
Finally got this working last night, but I gave it the wrong deploy key before I went to bed... but I fixed it this morning and so now: automatic beans: https://codeberg.org/indigoparadox/mbean/releases
More platforms and projects to come, but at least I got the basic process working so that's nice.
Look, it's a #listicle of 💀 software fails from the Jurassic era of desktop publishing. Because nothing says "innovative" like reminiscing about programs that couldn't hack it in a world of Windows 3.1. But hey, at least we can waste pixels on them now! 🖥️🚮
https://tedium.co/2022/10/12/forgotten-desktop-publishing-tools-history/ #softwarefails #nostalgia #desktoppublishing #Windows3.1 #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
I also decided to move Analysis in the page dedicated to my old programs. Analysis was a Windows 3.1 program I wrote between 1998-2002 and that could draw mathematical functions. It was mainly written in Visual Basic 3.0, with a DLL written in C that could parse functions: http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=retroc/oldp/oldp.inc
BRNDNBRG.mid remix
#renoise #music #electronic #trapmusic #bullshit #midi #windows #windows3 #windows3x #midimusic
Happy International Jazz Day! 🎷
Throwing it back with the classic WinJammer Demo—timeless grooves on vintage synths and pianos.
Tracks feature Martinic AX73, Pianet T, Kee Bass & AXFX, all sequenced in Windows 3.1 style.
Listen & explore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks1NKxFvGik
#WinJammer #Sequencer #JazzDay #Windows3 #Piano #Synthesizer #Effects
Startup of an old 386 computer running #Windows3.11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdEDab73vaw
How OS/2 flop went on to shape modern #software
#Windows3 beat #OS2 because #IBM insisted that OS/2 ran on #80286, which crippled the new #OS. IBM's determination to serve its customers with 80286 PS/2s, and keep a promise, resulted in OS/2 being a failure. That is what allowed #Microsoft #Windows to gain the upper hand.
Soon after Windows 3.0 turned out to be a hit, OS/2 NT was rebranded as #WindowsNT. Even ardent Linux enthusiasts must concede Windows NT did quite well. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/01/05/microsoft_os2_flop_future/
#RetroGaming Did you know?
- #WingCommander *didn't* hack a DPMI error when it closed. That's a myth.
- #Myst was written in HyperCard on the Mac, w/ a plugin for big 256-color images. Broderbund created a custom(?) engine to port it to Windows.
- #Undertale has some wonky code, but it still works! Good code is only important if you want your game to run on a 486 (I wish Undertale ran on a 486!)
- #SimCity2000 for #Windows3 had a use-after-free bug that #Windows95 was patched to accommodate.
GVim – it looks like Windows 3.11 and it is a advanced text editor
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2024/12/gvim-it-looks-like-windows-311-and-it.html
#gvim #learningprogramming #ide #retroprogramming #codeeditor #freebasic #compile #makefile #writecode #programming #newskills #knowledge #firstexpirience #software #windows3.11 #retrovisual #advancedtool #basic #soft
While I do very much like my PC booting up in a matter of seconds and not having to try and configure boot disks to get games to run, I do miss the clicks, whirrs and beeps of starting up old PCs.
Now that we saved this 486, let's see what was inside…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdikHOZh7Ws
#Live #RetroComputing #Varta #DestroyerOfWorlds #LiveAtFabrico #i486 #MSDOS #Windows3
(had to restart the stream)
Every few years, I like to fire up what we lovingly refer to as "the dinosaur" at our house, and play the unforgiving Ms Dos computer games of my childhood on a mouse that is a marble. Oh the nostalgia of 1992! Also, that this baby still fires up and boots every time, priceless! #retroTech #MsDOS #Windows3 #laptop #oldTech
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