Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-17, 01:57

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Today I basically gave up to my plan of trying to make a version of my website to work with vintage browsers (IE5+). Nowadays, is much easier to build a site because HTML5 and CSS3 (and soon, CSS4) are so damn powerful. So why should I limit myself to very old techniques that always ended in pain/ …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-17, 00:45

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I will never give up. This is a part of me, my childhood. I will take it with me and pass on to my kids, if one day I have kids...

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Re: NEW iPhones

Posted on 2019-09-14, 17:22

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i think everyone gets unwanted telemarketer calls Here in Brazil I do. I get them all day, every day, mostly from other states (I’m from Rio de Janeiro, yet I get calls from São Paulo mostly). About the new iPhones, I strongly dislike the new cameras. The design is terrible and they are unnecessary …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-11, 18:56

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@bfcastello check out a phpbb style named "legacy". It's been made for ie5 minimum and it looks good even on ie4. So if you want to have examples on how to do vintage browser webdesign, this is probably the way to go. Thanks for the tip! I will have a look later, ofc. But my game plan "was" simple: …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-11, 11:54

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I thought that when I started my career, coding for IE6 was the worst time of my life, but IE5 is officially worse than that. It’s unbelievable to see that it cannot give layout no matter what I do, to anchor tags and heading tags. Microsoft, what were you thinking 25 years ago??? I was playing with …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-11, 00:56

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Just saw Apples Keynote for the new iPhone. It was the worst ever I saw since 2007. The “new” iPhone design with three cameras is terrible. I will keep the X model and maybe move to XR in the future just to stay with only one camera. I don’t use my phone to take selfies and photos for instagram …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-06, 19:31

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Took my 486 with window 3.11 and installed: Video for Windows WinG Win32s Xing player WinPlay3 While it can play mpeg video files, it doesn't do it very well. :D Also noticed that the FM/MIDI sound is very quiet on the left channel. Mixer is fine. Maybe some trace has got damaged on the card? I …

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Re: WfW 3.11 - how this guy did that?

Posted on 2019-09-06, 14:21

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Heyy, that distro in your signature! Does it allow to use other dosbox versions? I was exactly looking for a similar solution to use with my raspberry pi 3 Sorry I didnt see this earlier. Good question, I never tried. I've just always used the dosbox package designed for tinycore. I'll have a look …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-05, 18:35

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I decided to take a challenge today, I wanted to make a retrocompatible version of my own modern website. The main goal is to render it an (ALMOST) exact copy of the modern version on IE5.0/WFWG 3.11. Now, I took this challenge because I wanted to remind me of the old days when I started doing this, …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-04, 13:25

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I woke up thinking about opening a thread here to discuss all things webdesign. Techniques, trends, code snippets, and also discuss about retro compatibility for websites and about the "abuse of libraries/frameworks" some developers these days actually do. I just don't know in which forum zone I …

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Re: This forum is very hard to use from a mobile device

Posted on 2019-09-03, 12:15

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Stiletto wrote: bfcastello wrote: Reminds me of late 90’s early 2000s website designs. More like early 2000s, these kind of buttons were a trend in that era. That's an old joke post, hope you knew that. 😉 Good morning! The joke is THAT old? Lol I didn’t knew that.

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Re: This forum is very hard to use from a mobile device

Posted on 2019-09-02, 02:49

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Skyscraper wrote: Snover just sent me this preview showing the current state of the new smartphone friendly forum UI! Any thoughts? New smartphone friendly Vogons.png Reminds me of late 90’s early 2000s website designs. More like early 2000s, these kind of buttons were a trend in that era.

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-09-01, 23:07

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ayy are you on freenode? Hey! Nope... I used to be on brazilian networks almost daily when I was a kid (BrasNET and/or BrasIRC). Never been on Freenode. I might as well go there later, since BrasNET is dead and BrasIRC is now almost empty. @oeuvre: Which IRC server is #Vogons in? I tried irc. …

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Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-30, 18:31

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the new macbook keyboards are atrociously awful... zero ergonomics, zero comfort, zero usability. I couldn't agree more. I would love to go back to the mechanical keyboards - the click noise, is now a thing of the past. And I find myself correcting my typos with the current keyboard a lot more than …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-08-29, 13:07

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I remember I had used Red Hat linux in one occasion. It was quite complicated tbh

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-08-28, 23:45

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Caluser2000 wrote: Ran some 20 year old software on a 24 year old hardware. Amazing! Which linux distro is it?

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Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-28, 23:42

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But nothing has native DisplayPort input. We skipped straight to USB-C on that one. You're wrong. Every 24" and higher professional monitor has DisplayPort input and has had it for years. My DELL U2410 from 2010 has it just like my BenQ PD3200U from 2018. And even if you have a monitor that doesn't …

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Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-28, 23:37

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keenmaster486 wrote: Here's what I want: a laptop with the screen and touchpad of a MacBook, the keyboard, build quality, and repairability/upgradeability of a Thinkpad, and non-16:9 form factor. A dream we all share. Heheheheh except I would prefer 16:9 factor

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Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-27, 19:25

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I got a 2013 MBP instead of newer ones just because of the keyboard... and because the previous owner had replaced the HD with a 1TB SSD. 16gb RAM came soldered, of course. For me, I'm fine with the ports (2 USB, 2 TB, 1 Audio Jack, 1 HDMI and 1 SD card slot). For other kind of ports (like a VGA …

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Re: WfW 3.11 - how this guy did that?

Posted on 2019-08-27, 12:26

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Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I got so damn interested in how the hell he achieved a such amazing resolution. Is it possible with DOSBox? Vanilla DosBox is emulating a 2mb videocard, so its unlikely a modified driver would help. Some of the custom builds allow for more flexibility. Heyy …

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