[HN Gopher] A Windows 95-like shell for Windows 3.1x ___________________________________________________________________ A Windows 95-like shell for Windows 3.1x Author : notpushkin Score : 46 points Date : 2022-07-13 20:42 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.calmira.net) (TXT) w3m dump (www.calmira.net) | HeckFeck wrote: | This looks to be quite the achievement, with numerous custom UI | controls written just for the project. The author describes them | here http://www.calmira.net/source/index.htm and offers them for | anyone else to use. They include labels, paths, loading bars, | even a Win95 style Pie chart. | | There are also UI hooks and messaging components. | | All this written in Delphi and designed to run atop the humble | Windows 3.1 kernel! Source code is available should anyone wish | to hack away. | game-of-throws wrote: | If this could run on Windows 11, I'd install it in a heartbeat. | cmeacham98 wrote: | There are win95-esque themes for win10 at the very least. | There's probably some for win11 too (or maybe there's enough in | common the skins could work for both?) | mx7zysuj4xew wrote: | How on god's green earth is a 30 year old operating system more | customizable and user-friendly than any of the modern interfaces | (that includes both windows 10 and gnome) | etaioinshrdlu wrote: | I want to run it in Wine and use it as a daily driver. Apparently | Wine does have support for Win16, but I doubt it works on modern | systems for various reasons. | sedatk wrote: | I wrote a similar shell that ran on DOS in 1994. It was called | Baston. It won the 1st place award in a programming contest | organized by Microsoft and PC World Magazine in Turkey. I was 18 | back then. Here are a couple screenshots: | | https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/241217/159136746-e... | | https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/241217/159136763-e... | hvs wrote: | Nice. A Motif-style DOS shell. Looks good. | sedatk wrote: | Thanks! I didn't know it was called Motif, I'd only seen | screenshots of workstations in UnixWorld magazine, and I'd | loved the Motif style the most. There were also OpenLook and | NextSTEP screenshots in the issues I had :) | timbit42 wrote: | WPS4WIN is the OS/2 WorkPlace Shell for Windows 3.1x. Much nicer | than the Win95 shell, in my opinion. It looks like this: | http://toastytech.com/guis/wps.html | borissk wrote: | I remember running Netscape Navigator on W4WG 3.11. For some | reason the 16 bit version was many times slower than the 32 bit | one for Win NT. | pugworthy wrote: | Now if we only had a CP/M shell inside a Windows 95 shell running | on Windows 3.1. Like an OS without PID to keep it from | oscillating wildly. | weikju wrote: | I used it back in 1995 when my PC couldn't run Win95, and I had | Win95-envy. It was really mind-blowing at the time to be able to | change the UI of Windows like that. | | A little bit later I downloaded 20 or so Slackware floppies and | the rest is history... | rpastuszak wrote: | > I had Win95-envy | | Ha, I know the pain, I remember being 10 and (literally) | dreaming about 16mb or RAM so I could install it! | toast0 wrote: | I think minimum was 4mb, and it ran ok with 8mb, although | expect swapping if you multitask. It certainly ran nicer with | 16mb, but you didn't need it. | function_seven wrote: | I installed it on a 486 (DX2!!) with 4MB of RAM. It... | worked, kinda. I reverted back to 3.1 a couple days later. | The machine was just too slow. | | It would be another two years before I could afford | something that could run 95. I think I went straight to 98 | IIRC. | borissk wrote: | Did you run Slackware from DOS or did you install it properly | with a bootloader? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-13 23:00 UTC)