Quickly taking a look at the most used products where I work...
MS Office Installer https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
MS Word (I stopped here) https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
Darn, it would be nice if MS was forced to break up in to different product divisions so that their Office product would be released on various platforms.
It probably got removed in Windows 2000, when GDI gained alpha channel support, as the dithering mode was specified in upper byte of 32b COLORREF, which probably got at least internally repurposed as alpha (also, alphablending dithered surfaces is not exactly sane thing to do).
To see this, go to https://classicreload.com/windows-31.html and then open Accessories > Paintbrush.
In Paintbrush you had palette of 20-ish colors, which were or were not dithered depending on whether they were displayable by your graphics adapter. (The default palette consisted of 16 default EGA/VGA colors and few dithered ones, with particularly notable burgundy-ish color that almost didn't look dithered). In the control panel you could set arbitrary 24b RGB colors for user interface elements which were dithered in exactly the same way.
Interesting thing related to this is that Windows 3.1 had significantly different default color scheme depending on what graphics driver you selected during installation. The really default color scheme was similar to OS/2 2.x (pastel colors, active window title with black text on light blue background, different background color for MDI master and slave windows) and significantly different one was used for graphics drivers with 16 or less colors (ie. the one that everybody remembers, with white text on dark blue or black background for active window title bar). Obviously the reason for this was to eliminate dithering in default color scheme.
On the other hand, this was not applied consistently. Windows 3.1 post installation tutorial essentially introduced the pastel yellow (also used in the default color scheme for MDI window background) as the "help popup color", even thought this color was dithered on VGA. Another inconsistency was that Windows 3.1 shipped with CTRL3D.DLL and some (2 or so) applications that used it. (Until Windows 10's consistent Metro-ish style I regarded CTRL3D as the most consistent UI that Windows ever had, because most applications consistently used this same UI style. The Windows 95 HIG mandated style is also nice, but it was never used consistently used by anyone, not even Microsoft itself).
God I feel old. Please tell me I'm not the only one who uses dosshell, or hacked gorilla.bas
I've taken to firing up an instance of IDLE instead - which is actually a little nicer in the end
Or this is a good opportunity to use tools not built into the OS or write own replacements. It's a bit silly to have calc program dictated by the OS version.
Genuinely curious, why?
What is the processor support issue?
It's sad, because by themselves programs like Paint and Calculator are simple. But, when done well, they come together to improve the quality of life while using Windows.
If any knows any other good simple programs for bitwise operations and binary conversion then I'm all ears.
No telemetry.
Agree. I bought an iPhone 7 and now I never listen to music or podcasts with it, a very unexpected side effect of not having a headphone jack.
Personally I just keep the adapter permanently attached to my 1/8" headphones. Only downside for me is the inability to charge at the same time, but then the iPhone 7's battery life is pretty great, so that's not a huge deal.
The sound quality is fantastic and it's easily way more convenient than using an aux cable: No cord, and it has play/pause and track skip buttons on it!
Also has a microphone for Siri/phone calls though I've never used it to speak to its quality.
There are a bunch of similar ones on Amazon with slightly varying features.
I do understand it would be frustrating to swap the dongle around if you have multiple headphones though. Worth noting that the "crappy included ones" that come with the phone are already lightning though so they don't need an adapter.
Obviously that is objectionable on a $$$ apple tax $$$ level, but pragmatically it's not much of an issue.
I do still miss the mini RCA jack, however, because on occasion I do forget my headphones & adapter and can't use any other normal headphones. (And I hate charging headphones and wearing batteries on my ears)
Do you carry a spare dongle in your pocket?
Thankfully all my listening is in the car, over the speaker, via Sonos, via AirPlay or Spotify Connect, or on my Bose QC35 or Jaybirds X3 bluetooth headphones.
I bought an SE rather than a 7 last year because of The headphone jack size issue.
Confirming to scale an image by manually entering a % value requires you to click outside of the value field BUT inside the scale dialog. That's right - there's no Apply or Confirm button, you just have to figure out to click there. Pressing Return or Enter doesn't do it either.
On the second open, there was a "rate this app in the app store if you like it" popup.
Microsoft's ineptitude at UX is mind-boggling.
Interestingly, my teenage sons use the phrase "pass the aux", meaning let me drive the music we are currently listening to over the party speakers with my phone.
So yes, Apple's attempt to kill the aux jack was definitely premature, even among young tech savvy people.
Not sure what you mean by this, it is the best selling iphone.
I'm very curious -- anything thoughts on what will be your next phone? Iphone again, or branching out to new 1/8" jack pastures?
If Microsoft is listening 'PLEASE, do not remove Paint. I use it every day for doing very simple tasks, and it JUST WORKS!'
(Yes, that's a terrible feedback/issue, but it's the closest one I've found).
In my case so that I can use, with appropriate adapters in some cases, reasonably nice over-ear headphones (Beyerdynamic, Grado and Seinheiser). Do I really need several stages of modulation, propogation, reception and demodulation between me and my signal?
And all the nicer phones aren't going to lightning cables either because the Pro Audio community (the people primarily buying $3-400 non Beats headphones) would revolt.
It's replaced most of my need for ms-paint
Paint isn't going anywhere.
EDIT: Wikipedia says it used to be open source, but it went to closed source. Still free as in beer, though.
https://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware...
It was put on a list of free/open software that we can't use at work awhile back, apparently for another reason. I should have checked first.
That's an exaggeration. It's very limited. There are much more capable free image editors:
* Photo Pos Pro
* Krita
* GIMP or CinePaint
There are also many simple Paint-like options:
* Pinta
* Pixelitor
* PaintStar
* PhotoScape
Paint3D takes longer to load, and has made the simple... much less simple. While we can all say "Yes, that's the way of tech", it's just not necessary.
And yes, I still miss my 1/8" jack on my iphone. Every single day. And stay off my lawn, you whippersnappers.