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Very cool! the whole thing could use some zooming in, everything looks very small it todays high DPI displays. Its OK to be a bit pixealted, We've looked at the

by sydd 5y ago

Very cool! the whole thing could use some zooming in, everything looks very small it todays high DPI displays. Its OK to be a bit pixealted, We've looked at these on 800x600 CRT monitors :)

sschueller 5y ago
To me many screen resolutions have gotten too small for comfort. Desktop large real estate is cool but sometimes I would rather switch desktops or run another monitor than squint my eyes to see another tiny window. This did not happen on mobile devices although they are all also 4k now. I think the main reason being that our fingers aren't any smaller either.
- iszomer 5y ago
  There is a feature in Winamp (as well as QMMP) that lets you double the size of it's UI making your custom skins more legible. Found titipoco again. I know I have a backup of it on a CD-R but no longer have an optical drive to read them..
  - usrusr 5y ago
    I'm in the opposite camp, compensation of high dpi is nice for "main show" screen parts like the active editor in an IDE, but stuff like Winamp is just perfect in an always-on windowshade living in as few millimeters as possible of the titlebar region of the left screen (dunno why it's the left, Winamp has been the left screen for almost two decades) On topic, where everyone mentions "their" winamp skin: for me, winamp is the pale blue of the inconsistently named trainatron/trinatron. Always on top, always minimized to shade, only expanded to toggle the playlist shade (but usually operated simply by drag&dropping album folders). One time ordering was broken when windows stopped to supply files in alphabetic order so I had to make a plugin that took care of that (my files are certainly named with padded index prefix). That plugin might have been the most wonky piece of c++ routinely ruining on my system, but it did the job for quite some years.
- grandchild 5y ago
  I think phone OSes just do DPI scaling better, because they've always had to deal with highly heterogeneous physical screen sizes. Desktops were firmly in 96DPI land for quite a while. I'd wager that if your screen pixels are "too small for comfort" you or your graphics setup hasn't gotten scaling right yet.
remedan 5y ago
There do appear to be +/- zoom controls in the lower right corner of the page (on desktop).
- captbaritone 5y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out. I just added it a few weeks ago. I wonder if it’s not visually obvious enough.
einr 5y ago
Right click -> Options -> Double size, just like in the original program :) That said, it doesn't seem to center the scaled version in the window in Firefox so it's not very usable.

by sydd 5y ago

Very cool! the whole thing could use some zooming in, everything looks very small it todays high DPI displays. Its OK to be a bit pixealted, We've looked at these on 800x600 CRT monitors :)

sschueller 5y ago

To me many screen resolutions have gotten too small for comfort. Desktop large real estate is cool but sometimes I would rather switch desktops or run another monitor than squint my eyes to see another tiny window. This did not happen on mobile devices although they are all also 4k now. I think the main reason being that our fingers aren't any smaller either.

iszomer 5y ago
There is a feature in Winamp (as well as QMMP) that lets you double the size of it's UI making your custom skins more legible. Found titipoco again. I know I have a backup of it on a CD-R but no longer have an optical drive to read them..
- usrusr 5y ago
  I'm in the opposite camp, compensation of high dpi is nice for "main show" screen parts like the active editor in an IDE, but stuff like Winamp is just perfect in an always-on windowshade living in as few millimeters as possible of the titlebar region of the left screen (dunno why it's the left, Winamp has been the left screen for almost two decades) On topic, where everyone mentions "their" winamp skin: for me, winamp is the pale blue of the inconsistently named trainatron/trinatron. Always on top, always minimized to shade, only expanded to toggle the playlist shade (but usually operated simply by drag&dropping album folders). One time ordering was broken when windows stopped to supply files in alphabetic order so I had to make a plugin that took care of that (my files are certainly named with padded index prefix). That plugin might have been the most wonky piece of c++ routinely ruining on my system, but it did the job for quite some years.
grandchild 5y ago
I think phone OSes just do DPI scaling better, because they've always had to deal with highly heterogeneous physical screen sizes. Desktops were firmly in 96DPI land for quite a while. I'd wager that if your screen pixels are "too small for comfort" you or your graphics setup hasn't gotten scaling right yet.

remedan 5y ago

There do appear to be +/- zoom controls in the lower right corner of the page (on desktop).

captbaritone 5y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I just added it a few weeks ago. I wonder if it’s not visually obvious enough.

einr 5y ago

Right click -> Options -> Double size, just like in the original program :) That said, it doesn't seem to center the scaled version in the window in Firefox so it's not very usable.