On the desktop, yes. Comes with some readability issues but does work well. However it doesn’t render correctly on mobile — half the site is lopped off.
I got flickering when looking at it on my iPad. I’m not sure if that was a deliberate attempt to emulate a CRT (and I don’t remember any of the CRTs I had when I was a kid flickering that bad, although I have certainly used some terrible CRT screens that flickered a lot).
Certain parts of the past are not worth emulating :)
Typical CRT flicker was pretty subtle, especially at high refresh rates. It becomes more pronounced at low refresh rates, or simply bad monitors.
Making a silly effect on a website to evoke a nostalgic feeling doesn't really have to be accurate, and it'd probably be near-impossible to accurately represent the subtleties of a CRT display without compounding them with the subtleties of LCDs, especially so when the LCDs an end user will be using is an unknown.
(thinks of human Kryten in that episode of Red Dwarf trying to find the zoom function...)
Perhaps rotate your phone?
It is irritating when pages block zoom (sometimes intentionally but usually as a side effect of working around sizing oddities in some devices/browsers/versions) but here you may have all you need to solve the problem.
Unless you have a smaller device and it is still too wide in landscape orientation.
Rotating might work but the bigger problem is that it’s not immediately obvious that you’re losing half page. The retro effect makes it look like the screen fill is intentional. It’s not until you view the page on a desktop that it becomes clear just how much content is missing in portrait on mobile devices.
I agree it’s pretty inappropriate but in fairness to the author, they’ve gone for a retro vibe and content like that was, unfortunately, pretty common back then. It was a different era in many ways, not just in term of technology.
Sorry, but that's not enough to give it a pass. Just because objectification of women was commonplace then does not make it OK to continue doing so now. There are plenty of other art forms from the era and medium that don't marginalize people, and tasteful ways to pay homage to the retro vibe.
It gives me everytime the laughs when i see how american socialized "woke" people want to force everyone to act in their mindset... i would just say: Life with it or go away :-D
yes, volkov commander is good enough. i'd like to have a good win3.11/9x browser that can display current ssl and css heavy websites. For freedos I compile things like the below myself.
http://www.ausreg.com/dos_ports/index.htm
I'd also like a recent jvm for windows 3.11/9x. My wishes might never come true :-(
I remember when it was a big deal that I could play MOD files through my PC speaker (I forget the name of the tracker I used, but the interface was in German and was fast enough to run smoothly on my 386SX/25).
That mplayer now runs on DOS is amazing to me (even if it is on more powerful hardware) -- I could never back then have imagined computers playing full color video with audio.
Ah that's nice, I remember the win3.11 speaker.drv with which you could play through the speaker.
Full color video with audio is a bridge to far with a 386 i think unless it's something like a 320x240 mpeg-1 with low bitrate audio, or that low bandwidth codec realvideo. Did the DVD decoding run on a 386? In any case it's indeed amazing that mplayer has been ported to dos.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 79.5 ms ] threadCertain parts of the past are not worth emulating :)
Making a silly effect on a website to evoke a nostalgic feeling doesn't really have to be accurate, and it'd probably be near-impossible to accurately represent the subtleties of a CRT display without compounding them with the subtleties of LCDs, especially so when the LCDs an end user will be using is an unknown.
That’s exactly what I meant when I said half the page was lopped off.
Perhaps rotate your phone?
It is irritating when pages block zoom (sometimes intentionally but usually as a side effect of working around sizing oddities in some devices/browsers/versions) but here you may have all you need to solve the problem.
Unless you have a smaller device and it is still too wide in landscape orientation.
Found it after inspecting the site to see how it was done.
[0] https://psychoslinux.gitlab.io/DOS/QCKGUIDE.PDF
http://www.mattowen.co.uk/files/home-computing-weekly-23.jpg
I can't believe how blatant it used to be. At the time it just seemed 'normal'.
https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/934-launchbox-fo...
Containerized apps could do with a similar interface.
Somebody quick, register gitilab.io :)
For the rest it all seems very cool & retro.
I'd also like a recent jvm for windows 3.11/9x. My wishes might never come true :-(
That mplayer now runs on DOS is amazing to me (even if it is on more powerful hardware) -- I could never back then have imagined computers playing full color video with audio.
say -v Fred "(that pages text)"