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The Rise of Discmaster
- dusted 4y agoThe best feature of discmaster is that it works on pure clean HTTP on actual webbrowsers on period correct machines. It makes it much easier to get software onto old machines.
- superdug 4y agono embedded sound and no blink tag ...
- textfiles 4y agoThe blink element has been consistently criticised by usability and accessibility experts. In 1996 Jakob Nielsen described the element as "simply evil" in his Alertbox column Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design.[14] The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 state that content authors should avoid causing the screen to flicker or blink, noting that such effects can cause problems for people with cognitive disabilities or photosensitive epilepsy.[15]
- superdug 4y agoOh my, that comment was made in jest I swear, it was the very few things lacking in the site. The counter was there, the animated gif, center tags, etc. I just noticed two things that stuck out as missing to me.
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- btrettel 4y agoAny tips for searching DiscMaster? If I'm looking for a particular file, I'm finding it useful to know the filename used back in the day. I didn't pay that much attention to the specific filename until now.
- textfiles 4y agoTurn on contents search and try strings that might be in it.
- sterwill 4y agoI did a quick search for my username, and to my surprise I found that I submitted both a trivial patch and a new splashscreen image for The Gimp 1.1 back in 1999! I would have never remembered that on my own. Lots of fun!
- password4321 4y agoPrevious discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33254791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33254791
- zozbot234 4y agoI'm pretty sure that I've seen some interesting stuff in IA's collection of downloadable discs/software/computer data that's not yet part of this. Still a great resource, of course.