Mastodawn

Retro Techie 4d ago

Make sure you store your Product Key in a safe location!

#RetroTech #90sComputing #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #1990sTech #Windows2000

mlnf Mar 26

Uhhh. #Pinball auf einem alten #Maxdata #Notebook mit #Windows2000

Torb Mar 18

Having icons in menus on macOS is a good idea. The problem is that in Tahoe we're seeing a bad execution of it. It has way too many icons, they're rendered in very thin strokes and are all devoid of colour.

Windows had this figured out back in Windows 2000. It had icons in *some* menu items, in a clear and legible style and they had colour.

This meant that in Windows 2000 you could orient yourself in menus based on the presence of icons (they sort of worked like “anchors” for your eyes) and between the icons you had both shape and color to guide your eye.

#uidesign #icons #macos #macostahoe #windows #windows2000

Sijmen 🧑‍💻Mar 14

I set up a Windows 2000 VM in VMware, as one does, and now I'm trying to boot it with QEMU.

Turns out the CHS geometry set up by VMware is a bit unusual (56 sectors) and different from the QEMU defaults, and now Windows 2000 fails to boot.

So I tried to copy the geometry settings from VMware, but QEMU allows for only 16 heads - VMware used 255.

I guess I'm going to edit the partition table with a hex editor to update the CHS values according to QEMU's default geometry

#RetroComputing #Windows2000

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Kevin Karhan

Mar 9

@Eeveecraft @kirb good question.

Granted both #WindowsXP and #Windows7 integrated a lot of #accessibility features from #WindowsMe and #Windows2000 and they inclided high-contrast themes as well.
- But yeah, in terms of #HighContrast & #HiDPI-design, #Windows8 (which @fuchsiii really liked!) certainly does it better woth that full-screen Launcher…

I do think that #FrutigerAero can be made better and more #accessible with a reinterpretation that I'd call "#LexendGlass" because it not using #Frutiger and isn't merely #AeroGlass or #LiquidAss aka. #LiquidGlass, but should use more contrast…

Mike Roach Feb 24

Microsoft released an IPv6 Technology Preview for Windows 2000. It works! Management is all done with the command line and you're limited when it comes to support, but it does work! My Compaq Deskpro EN is now talking to the modern IPv6 world.

#ipv6 #windows2000 #retrocompuing