Is there a Linux distro or program that would allow me to do this to my desktop?
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If you find one, I want to know too. This would be a fun customization.
Gorgeous
TBH I prefer the modern minimal UIs. It is easy to understand. Although I don’t mind having an option.
Peak skeuomorphism.
Smartphones and mobile phones used to be inventive too.
I loved the more blob / liquid designs like the rio forge
There was more then a few Winamp skins that looked like that
Man the eyewitness learning games were fantastic - I loved the dinosaur one where you'd find bones in the museum and reassemble them and then have them wander round the otherwise empty liminal space of the museum.
It was fun while it lasted!
God bless the rains down in Africa...
Gonna take some time to do the things I never had
(Is there some open source media player with this kind of skins?)
XMMS is able to use Winamp skins. This one seems to be WMP, but that one copied the concept of crazy skins from Winamp.
Winamp has been open sourced https://github.com/alexfreud/winamp
Read their license. It does not meet the definition of open source.
Wow, they prohibit forking and distributing changes, that fucking blows.
Also, doesn't look like it supports Linux natively, which is a shame.
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Packard Bell Navigator. I really tried to make it work when I was a kid, but it was all style and not much function. I miss it, though. It was ambitious.
Oh my Deity
How'd you get a screenshot of my mom's desktop as I found it when I'd be home from college, cir. 2003?
Banzai Buddy!
My neighbor intentionally installed that shit on his family PC when we were like 15.
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I feel like some of the old cluttered WoW UIs might be an example of maximalism, by trying to show as much information as possible.
Eve players: noooo... It's not just a spreadsheet
Veteran WoW players: hmm... I can still see the actual gameplay, lemme add another stat display
Eve online mentioned o7
I miss it sometimes. Then I remember, last time I played it, I didn't have my original log ins and whatnot so had to start from the beginning and it took weeks to get to a level where I could do basic noob stuff without dying right away. I then spent like 18 months of just training skills, I'd log in, fill the queue, log out, log back in a week or so later and fill the queue again. After nearly two years of doing that I just gave up :D
But I still miss it. But I also miss my abusive ex.
I don't think I've met a single eve player who doesn't proudly refer to it as a "spreadsheets in space" game XD
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This has just been a giant nostalgia trip.
I can practically hear my external CD drive spinning up just looking at these. Makes me want to play a Sierra game real bad.
Remember when the Google search trend for "skeomorphism" peaked?
This comment section is the first time I've seen the word, and it's been multiple times.
John ivy did away with the early iOS design leather and glas optics and went non skeomorphism. NobodY knew the word back then. Nobody does now. Hence Google.
And you just know the globe rotates when you hover over Habitats, and the drawers pull out when you hover over those
I had this as a kid. It absolutely did all of those things, and the intro cutscene showed this menu as just one nook in a giant museum with other things to see. I had a few of their other games as well.
I can all but guarantee that a lot of the curiosity and enthusiasm for learning that I had as a kid was directly thanks to these edutainment games. Compared to my overwhelming adult apathy it really stands out.
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Back when all screens were more-or-less the same size and nothing ever had to scale. Your UI was the size it was, and if your screen was too big, too bad! You can either stretch it and deal with the pixelly mess, or squint your eyes to see the teeeny tiny program.
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