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Re:The Restart Page: rebooting experience from vintage opera... by LeoPanthera on Friday April 15, 2016 @08:36PM (#11508651)
The Amiga one is wrong. It shows a 2.0+ restart window, but then does a 1.3 boot when you click it.

Edit: Also, there are some oddities with the Windows 2000 one. The gradient-bar... thing, scrolls from right to left, but it should go the other way. And the boot progress bar starts out solid and ends up dashed, but should do the reverse.

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Re:The Restart Page: rebooting experience from vintage opera... by netsharc on Saturday April 16, 2016 @04:15AM (#11509793)
The XP one makes an alert noise, and then the shutdown sound. As I understand it, the error noise is some program crashing or showing an error in the background, but you can't see it because, well, it's showing that shutdown screen.

Also, on the Windows 95 and 98 ones, you can double-click an option to do that action - instead of clicking e.g. "Shut down" and then OK, you can just double-click "Shut down" to shut down.

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Re:The Restart Page: rebooting experience from vintage opera... by bananaboy on Saturday April 16, 2016 @04:18AM (#11509804)
I think the Win2k gradient bar is animating too fast as well.
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