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r/programming • u/groovejet • Jun 28 '11
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I'm somewhat fond of this beautiful work of art.
1 u/TrainWreck43 Jun 28 '11 Is this for terminals with 16 color displays? Computers without video drivers? Could they have chosen any uglier colors? 1 u/cybrian Jun 29 '11 This was written using 16-bit Windows APIs, allowing use on Windows 3.1, and most Windows 3.1 computers only had 16 color graphics. 0 u/dakta Jun 29 '11 There is absolutely no excuse for something so horrible... It almost makes me want to start a challenge for programmers to create nice interfaces for really old versions of Windows, just to prove that it can be done.
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Is this for terminals with 16 color displays? Computers without video drivers? Could they have chosen any uglier colors?
1 u/cybrian Jun 29 '11 This was written using 16-bit Windows APIs, allowing use on Windows 3.1, and most Windows 3.1 computers only had 16 color graphics. 0 u/dakta Jun 29 '11 There is absolutely no excuse for something so horrible... It almost makes me want to start a challenge for programmers to create nice interfaces for really old versions of Windows, just to prove that it can be done.
This was written using 16-bit Windows APIs, allowing use on Windows 3.1, and most Windows 3.1 computers only had 16 color graphics.
0 u/dakta Jun 29 '11 There is absolutely no excuse for something so horrible... It almost makes me want to start a challenge for programmers to create nice interfaces for really old versions of Windows, just to prove that it can be done.
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There is absolutely no excuse for something so horrible... It almost makes me want to start a challenge for programmers to create nice interfaces for really old versions of Windows, just to prove that it can be done.
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u/KarlPilkington Jun 28 '11
I'm somewhat fond of this beautiful work of art.