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The PsychDOS Desktop Environment
- vbernat 5y agoNice CRT effect using a CSS animation!
- laumars 5y agoOn the desktop, yes. Comes with some readability issues but does work well. However it doesn’t render correctly on mobile — half the site is lopped off.
- dspillett 5y agoWhich mobile? Looks fine in Chrome on Android on a 1080px wide screen. Though some pages are too wide for portrait orientation, and not zoomable.
- galgalesh 5y agoWorks fine in Firefox Focus too.
- ch_123 5y agoI got flickering when looking at it on my iPad. I’m not sure if that was a deliberate attempt to emulate a CRT (and I don’t remember any of the CRTs I had when I was a kid flickering that bad, although I have certainly used some terrible CRT screens that flickered a lot). Certain parts of the past are not worth emulating :)
- chungy 5y agoTypical CRT flicker was pretty subtle, especially at high refresh rates. It becomes more pronounced at low refresh rates, or simply bad monitors. Making a silly effect on a website to evoke a nostalgic feeling doesn't really have to be accurate, and it'd probably be near-impossible to accurately represent the subtleties of a CRT display without compounding them with the subtleties of LCDs, especially so when the LCDs an end user will be using is an unknown.
- laumars 5y ago> Though some pages are too wide for portrait orientation, and not zoomable. That’s exactly what I meant when I said half the page was lopped off.
- dspillett 5y ago(thinks of human Kryten in that episode of Red Dwarf trying to find the zoom function...) Perhaps rotate your phone? It is irritating when pages block zoom (sometimes intentionally but usually as a side effect of working around sizing oddities in some devices/browsers/versions) but here you may have all you need to solve the problem. Unless you have a smaller device and it is still too wide in landscape orientation.
- laumars 5y agoRotating might work but the bigger problem is that it’s not immediately obvious that you’re losing half page. The retro effect makes it look like the screen fill is intentional. It’s not until you view the page on a desktop that it becomes clear just how much content is missing in portrait on mobile devices.
- techrat 5y agoCSS was borrowed from here: http://aleclownes.com/2017/02/01/crt-display.html http://aleclownes.com/2017/02/01/crt-display.html Found it after inspecting the site to see how it was done.
- unixhero 5y agoIt seems very cool
- prashnts 5y agoThe quickguide [0] is beautiful and quite well written catalog of the features and included programs. [0] https://psychoslinux.gitlab.io/DOS/QCKGUIDE.PDF https://psychoslinux.gitlab.io/DOS/QCKGUIDE.PDF
- dspillett 5y agoA lot of time has gone into this. I wish more things were as well documented!
- bitwize 5y agoOh, man. I feel like I should show it to my hacker friends at Cyberdelia and ask if it's worth the trouble of downloading/using.
- rascul 5y agoThe font is difficult for me to read.
- dbsmith83 5y agoInside was a link to this awesome retro font site https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
- kstenerud 5y agoNeat, but I'd remove the naked women pics from the user guide.
- dspillett 5y agoI suspect their web server logs have just seen a small but noticeable peak in requests for the user guide...
- laumars 5y agoI agree it’s pretty inappropriate but in fairness to the author, they’ve gone for a retro vibe and content like that was, unfortunately, pretty common back then. It was a different era in many ways, not just in term of technology.
- kstenerud 5y agoSorry, but that's not enough to give it a pass. Just because objectification of women was commonplace then does not make it OK to continue doing so now. There are plenty of other art forms from the era and medium that don't marginalize people, and tasteful ways to pay homage to the retro vibe.
- RalfWausE 5y agoIt gives me everytime the laughs when i see how american socialized "woke" people want to force everyone to act in their mindset... i would just say: Life with it or go away :-D
- mattowen_uk 5y agoI stumbled across this image on eBay a few days ago: http://www.mattowen.co.uk/files/home-computing-weekly-23.jpg http://www.mattowen.co.uk/files/home-computing-weekly-23.jpg I can't believe how blatant it used to be. At the time it just seemed 'normal'.
- scrutinizer80 5y agoLooks kinda like LaunchBox. https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/934-launchbox-for-ms-dos-special-edition/ https://forums.launchbox-app.com/files/file/934-launchbox-fo...
- itomato 5y agoI wondered when these shells would make a comeback. Containerized apps could do with a similar interface.
- wila 5y agoCan't unsee the gitilab.io typo on their "DOS LIKE A BOSS" poster. Somebody quick, register gitilab.io :) For the rest it all seems very cool & retro.
- mattowen_uk 5y ago.io domains are mega expensive - I'm sure they used to WAY cheaper?
- bobajeff 5y agoI think I'm way more impressed by the website than I am the software itself.
- fsiefken 5y agoyes, volkov commander is good enough. i'd like to have a good win3.11/9x browser that can display current ssl and css heavy websites. For freedos I compile things like the below myself. http://www.ausreg.com/dos_ports/index.htm http://www.ausreg.com/dos_ports/index.htm I'd also like a recent jvm for windows 3.11/9x. My wishes might never come true :-(
- cout 5y agoI remember when it was a big deal that I could play MOD files through my PC speaker (I forget the name of the tracker I used, but the interface was in German and was fast enough to run smoothly on my 386SX/25). That mplayer now runs on DOS is amazing to me (even if it is on more powerful hardware) -- I could never back then have imagined computers playing full color video with audio.
- fsiefken 5y agoAh that's nice, I remember the win3.11 speaker.drv with which you could play through the speaker. Full color video with audio is a bridge to far with a 386 i think unless it's something like a 320x240 mpeg-1 with low bitrate audio, or that low bandwidth codec realvideo. Did the DVD decoding run on a 386? In any case it's indeed amazing that mplayer has been ported to dos.
- maartenh 5y agoOh wow. This disclaimer page is a piece of art in absurdity: https://theouterlinux.gitlab.io/disclaimer_mobile.html https://theouterlinux.gitlab.io/disclaimer_mobile.html
- totetsu 5y agomacos users might try for a laugh say -v Fred "(that pages text)"
- stuaxo 5y agoNice, this looks like the GUI from Neopaint.
- tdeck 5y agoThe visual style is very reminiscent of VBDOS, e.g. https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-visual-bas/10-for-dos https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-visual-bas/10-for-d...