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@a1ba It's better than the game imo.
@KeybladeSpirit the game is "fine" for Bethesda level.
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@a1ba Bah… youngin' "Starfield simulation" goes back a decade before Windows XP.
I did just check Windows 3.0, but no screen saver option there, maybe it was an add-on for that release, but Windows 3.1 it was an out-of-the-box standard feature.
@stuartl idk WinXP was the first OS for me.
And probably the worst, it was crashing a lot, slow and corrupting filesystem. Mostly The Reason why I got interested in computers because I had to repair this shit, so parents won't get mad at me.
And probably the worst, it was crashing a lot, slow and corrupting filesystem. Mostly The Reason why I got interested in computers because I had to repair this shit, so parents won't get mad at me.
@stuartl I honestly don't understand why people praying on XP's dead corpse.
I understand how it's aesthetics became cool because of nostalgy of early 00s, but I don't miss the software quality.
I understand how it's aesthetics became cool because of nostalgy of early 00s, but I don't miss the software quality.
@stuartl "software quality" because it didn't got better.
@a1ba Indeed… it's been interesting in some ways to see where it came from, but also sad to see where it's going.
HTML, CSS and JavaScript has become the new VT100 and ANSI colour. We came from dumb terminals that did nothing without a connection to the mother ship, and now we're slowly going back there.
I think in terms of that dialogue box… Windows 95 was the first consumer release that previewed what the screen saver looked like. Windows NT 4.0 shared the same interface.
Windows 3.1/3.11 and NT 3.1/3.5/3.51 basically just gave you that drop-down box, and to see what it looked like, you clicked Test.
But, this was also the good ol'e days when the OS didn't treat you like a pirate and "phone home" to check you actually _did_ buy that license and haven't installed it anyplace else. Windows 2000 was the last to not do that. Windows XP introduced it.
@stuartl the core design has changed significantly. The software now assumes the user is always online, for the better or the worse.
DRM evolves with it in mind.
DRM evolves with it in mind.
Anatoly Shashkin💾@a1ba Is this from XP? Because in Windows 9x it's called "Flying Through Space".
@dosnostalgic @stuartl posted screenshot from 3.1 above, where it's also called "Starfield simulation".
Maybe it's "Flying Through Space" in Russian version?
Maybe it's "Flying Through Space" in Russian version?
@a1ba @stuartl No, it's the English version. I know that for a fact because I did a clean Windows 95 install just to make the same joke a few days ago
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/010/426/606/986/492/original/77f00d80ec70c622.mp4
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/010/426/606/986/492/original/77f00d80ec70c622.mp4
@dosnostalgic @a1ba The window border/title bar and UI controls are a dead give-away. :-)
@dosnostalgic @stuartl looks absolutely weird, I love it
@dosnostalgic @a1ba Early versions of Windows Chicago looked very similar.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/the-windows-start-menu-saga-from-1993-to-today/ has some early screenshots of the OS that would eventually become Windows 95.
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@a1ba Don't forget Doom.
@timjclevenger that would be Wolf3D :)
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