Alright guys enough living in the past, instead of pining for obsolete computers why don't we bring the 80s and 90s aesthetic and ethos to modern computers?
Alright guys enough living in the past...
James Clark
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Jeremiah Ross
chunky buttons and bitmap fonts, yes
battleship grey and obsession with blue, no thanks
Jaxson Scott
Sadly only chicago95 and xfce, everything else is too inconsistent
Joseph Bailey
Form your own cult. Make a website in HTML1. Implement a git clone or just git for a unified project of retroware and retro computing aesthetic.
Fork this into coding, design, and hardware, with subforks for each and subprojects for each too.
Ideally you should end up with a retro looking system running on RISC-V-ULP that can use assembly or C only to emulate or implement and port all old software or make more.
Make all of your hardware IEEE802X compliant for all the newer standards and ATX compliant as well so people can build their own.
Jason Bailey
Blue is perhaps the best neutral color for highlighting.
Tyler Rodriguez
bring back dither
Landon Jones
I'm working on it lads
github.com
Michael Williams
>Dither
>Not Hotdog Stand
Jacob Hill
>github
no thanks, github is plagued with the nu-age shitware we call metro design. If its not win95 like or a dos terminal, i wont touch it. You stupid silicon valley niggers are the plague of earth.
Connor Thomas
Any good themes for windows 10 that brings back this old school aesthetic?
Including icons etc
Mason Miller
Pervert. Win 3.11 for workgrpups is the last pure OS.
Also, don't use "ethos" if you don't know what it means.
Sebastian Hall
Would be better to make a linux DE, so actual people are going to use it.
Why reinvent the wheel.
Gnome and KDE suck ass. A fully functional Windows95 clone DE will be an instant shooting star.
The xclass widget set is pretty dope! (xclass.sourceforge.net
Leo Watson
>Would be better to make a linux DE, so actual people are going to use it.
I don't care if anyone uses it, I'm making this for myself. :) If it's useful to someone else that's nice too.
>Why reinvent the wheel.
The wheel has become corporate and dull.
Kevin Ortiz
> I don't care if anyone uses it
So it's a completely wasted effort.
> The wheel has become corporate and dull.
A resurrection of the foxproject would be more helpful. And that is as anti-corporate as it gets.
Thomas Cook
whatever you say buddy
Jack Gray
Since I have a real job and a gf I don't really have much time.
But making a Windows95 clone DE for X11 with the help of xclass would be a fun hobby.
Especially when major DEs like Gnome and KDE are screwing up since years.
Nathaniel Scott
I am married with a full-time job. I still have plenty of time for serious projects.
I'm sorry about your lack of time user. Maybe one day you'll have more of it.
Asher Brown
Still like your project.
You can make a real difference If you introduce something radical, a feature Linux is never going to have and that will really set you apart:
A stable driver interface.
Christian Campbell
release bootable iso so I can test it in a vm thanks
Isaiah Gonzalez
Not gonna release ISO's anytime soon, but FWIW it's pretty easy to get it running in a VM, there are scripts that do all the work. It takes about 20-30 minutes to build the toolchain, but that's a one-time thing.
Levi Wright
you guys know that equinox desktop environment already exists, right?
Juan Perez
>last updated in 2014
Nathan Ross
it's finished
why would it need updating?
change for the sake of change is why most software nowadays is absolute shite and that's the reason why this thread was made
Julian Robinson
I actually like this idea. Bring the simplicity and functionality of retro computers into the modern age with updated visuals and compatability.
Lets start a cult
Jaxson Flores
get rid of the X button in newer GUI's, double clicking [-] works fine.
Benjamin Williams
I like my X button