Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️look it's 9pm on a saturday:
of COURSE I'm installing Office 95 intro a Windows 98 VM, why wouldn't I be?
God, Powerpoint 95 is a look. How many buttons can you fit on a 640x480 screen? At least this many!
five toolbars. count 'em. I did. and got it wrong the first time, because I missed that there's one embedded in the status bar
the fact I can turn on a toolbar that just lets me jump to other Office Software is the most "Someone got a promotion for that" feature I've seen in a while
good point, why DON'T I have FoxPro installed? I am often asking myself this!
if you ask it to help you create a table, one of the suggested databases is one to track your film, you know for photographers? like what date you had that roll developed...
That's some 1996-ass functionality right there.
for some reason Fox Pro comes with Imagedit, a pixel image editor that can edit BMP, CUR, and ICO.
The FoxPro logo is definitely Arial, but it's tweaked a little bolder than Arial Heavy, and the kerning has been manually tweaked, it looks like.
Microsoft liked to do this around 1995. They'd design something with their standard fonts, but then have some graphical designers tweak how it looked. Like the "It's now safe to shutdown your computer" screen: they tweaked several letters in that.
I overlaid some Ariel on it and tried to match it. Aside from the boldness issue, you can see the kerning is different on "Fo" and they redrew the V
this is a little annoying if you're invested in mimicing Microsoft typography from 1995.
That may seem an obscure thing to be concerned with but it seems to come up for me all the time.
you know how much I'm working? I'm using Microsoft Visual ProPro Professional Edition™!
I wrote some code to generate a random name out of some of the wordchunks I had edited already and it resulted in this
>>> import random
>>> options=['Fox','Box','Pox','Pro','Bro','Fro']
>>> print('Visual '+''.join(random.choice(options) for _ in range(8)))
Visual BoxProBroProBroProFoxBox
>>> options=['Fox','Box','Pox','Pro','Bro','Fro']
>>> print('Visual '+''.join(random.choice(options) for _ in range(8)))
Visual BoxProBroProBroProFoxBox
oh god this "quick shitpost" (already two hours in) just hit the "hey I could make this twice as funny if I just spent 10 times as long on it" point
it kinda feels like I spent most of the 2000s staring at JASC Paint Shop Pro 3 or 4
Digging through the extensive MSDN help files to figure out how to use VB6 controls
Tofu 
@foone is it possible to dump these into plain text so you can search through them easier?
Parsingphase@foone The NINETIES attack. You take PSYCHIC DAMAGE.
Peter Brett@parsingphase I honestly miss having actual developer documentation available that isn't just a list of types and functions with one-sentence tautologies next to each of them.
Alaric Snell-Pym
Kawaoneechan
Julia :v_bi::therian:
QCATOPR 
big ole spiderbox
Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊@foone Flashbacks of irfanview dance through my eyes. From the way back when.
niarbeht
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@foone paintshop pro for the win!
dominic
Anthony, of course@foone JASC PaintShop Fox Pro Bro 4
Kroc Camen@foone I’ve been using PSP7 for 25 years and PSP10 for about 20 as PSP7 caps out around 100 layers (2GB RAM limit?). I switched to Krita now only because PSP10 won’t work on WINE and even then Krita doesn’t show you individual vector objects in the layers palette yet :( GIMP UI is still a writeoff
Oriel Jutty 
@foone the clown log scale
Benjamin Reed@foone I think it’s time to retire the concept of “quick shitpost” — maybe you should go with tshirt sizing? Or Fibonacci?
C.
pyro
Zrephel
Gwen the Loitering Fox 
dgelessus
🐙ptoothfish🐙
Pxl Phile
Rairii 
Chris Lowles@foone call a bondulance
Forst
🐻 John@EponymousBosh how DARE you? :)
RootWyrm 🇺🇦
@foone <looks over at Visual FoxPro reference manuals>
<looks at picture>
<thinks back to users>
... there is not nearly enough Fox or Box.
<looks at picture>
<thinks back to users>
... there is not nearly enough Fox or Box.
Woozle Hypertwin@foone Where's Dr. Seuss when you really need him...
Scott Small 🇨🇦@foone FoxSocksBoxKnox
KnoxInBoxAndFoxInSocks 🎵
