I have spend so many hours in decades past running that on clients', co-workers', and family members' computers. Big hit of nostalgia watching that in my browser tab. Thanks.
I haven’t found any site, including this one, quite nailing the Windows 9x GUI. It is always a bit off, especially font rendering, but I can’t quite tell why.
It's nitpicky, but I'm the same way. In this version there's too much padding above/below the ? and X buttons in the title bar.
If I ever win the lottery I'm going to live out my days building a GUI framework that looks like Windows 95, including unit tests that make sure the widget rendering is pixel-perfect.
In 1998 it was typical to have 1024x768 monitors at about 72 DPI. Shortly afterwards, the whole world switched to a 96 DPI standard, at higher resolutions.
I miss the time of spinning, clicking disks. The time of bluescreens, reinstalling windows every few weeks, broken drivers, lan parties, heavy small screens, noisy keyboards and useless custom windows UI stuff.
I don't think this is quite right. The reads were not sequential - the whole point was that the tool was coalescing and reordering files for optimal layout and access times. Plus, you usually had some gaps in the drive layout - a mix of used and empty sectors / blocks.
There are some YouTube videos showing the real thing.
Indeed. This 3-hour long "ASMR" version including hard drive sounds is one of the better ones [1]. It seems oddly satisfying to watch a couple of single sectors getting written into the holes and reshuffled, after which an enormous block of sectors gets dark blue at once. All while listening to the hard drive sounds that are in symphony with the graphics.
When defragging my own computer in the past, I could look at this for an embarrassingly long time, but I've also just watched this YouTube video up to timestamp 00:08:50.
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In 1998 it was typical to have 1024x768 monitors at about 72 DPI. Shortly afterwards, the whole world switched to a 96 DPI standard, at higher resolutions.
There are some YouTube videos showing the real thing.
When defragging my own computer in the past, I could look at this for an embarrassingly long time, but I've also just watched this YouTube video up to timestamp 00:08:50.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbkujZ0OuI