VOGONS

Alternate Shells for Windows 3.1x

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First post, by Jo22

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Hi everyone,

I've found an old site (archived) mentioned at the Beta Archive forums, I think.

It's about alternate shells for Windows 3.1x. I was very surprised to see such a diversity..
- I expected to see Calmira, the Workplace Shell for Windows, maybe that Norton Desktop thingy, but not that much.

https://web.archive.org/web/20021129030912/ht … /Platform/8269/

Alternate URL: https://www.oocities.org/wilmarcdw/

Here are some sample screenshots:

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Reply 1 of 5, by Jorpho

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Ol' ToastyTech has a bunch of screenshots.
http://toastytech.com/guis/indexshells.html

I remember reading about something in PC World called "Visual File Manager" that was supposed to mimic a Mac, with its distinctive feature being a "Pear menu". I'm not sure I ever found that for download anywhere.

Reply 2 of 5, by chrismeyer6

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Nice find! They look like fun to play around with

Reply 3 of 5, by Intel486dx33

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Looks like UNIX CDE and OVM virtual desktop manger.

Reply 4 of 5, by winuser_pl

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I remember using TabWorks on my Compaq Presario cds 520 😁

PC1: Highscreen => FIC PA-2005, 64 MB EDO RAM, Pentium MMX 200, S3 Virge + Voodoo 2 8 MB
PC2: AOpen => GA-586SG, 512 MB SDRAM, AMD K6-2 400 MHz, Geforce 2 MX 400

Reply 5 of 5, by gerry

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i remember trying out some shells years ago, it was all good fun but actually i was happy with the standard win3.1 shell too! nice to be reminded of it all 😀

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