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Does anyone remember the Norton Desktop shell for Windows 3.1? It turned 3.1 into something beating the Mac in terms of a desktop experience. Absolutely amazing
by core-questions 7y ago
Does anyone remember the Norton Desktop shell for Windows 3.1? It turned 3.1 into something beating the Mac in terms of a desktop experience. Absolutely amazing levels of customization, a full shell scripting language with GUI components reminiscent of Tk/Wish, I could go on.
That desktop plus the whole set of Windows 3.1 programs were a killer combo.
- mixmastamyk 7y agoDon’t remember it, but sounds neat.
- core-questions 7y agohttp://toastytech.com/guis/ndw.html http://toastytech.com/guis/ndw.html has some screenshots.
- jaclaz 7y agoSure I remember it, it also came with a sort of scripting (very much batch-like) language. I remember writing a pseudo-GUI for PKzip in it at the time (WinZip was more or less the only graphical zip tool and it costed too much).
- core-questions 7y agoShame that so many interesting GUIs like this simply fell away, and meanwhile my Linux GNOME desktop still doesn't feel as obvious and powerful as that machine did back in 1994.
- jaclaz 7y agoWell, there was also the MC Shell, you can get a copy from here (in case you get an attack of nostalgia and have a VM or a spare old-old machine available): http://reboot.pro/topic/752-mcshell-a-shell-look-a-like-to-mac-and-win31/ http://reboot.pro/topic/752-mcshell-a-shell-look-a-like-to-m...