Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X

Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by anyfoo on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:35PM (#42009975)

Yep, that’s what I mean. Art comes from restriction, and the designers at Microsoft did really charming stuff with what they had to work with.

I still vividly remember such simple but delightful things as the Excel icon, or the icon of a stylized 386 processor for the System category in Control Panel.

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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by Lammy on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:55PM (#42010197)

> the designers at Microsoft

Susan Kare did a lot of those! I love how they're just as expressive at 16-colors as at higher color depths. https://www.stardock.com/blog/502254/the-evolution-of-comput...

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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by anyfoo on Thursday October 31, 2024 @02:59PM (#42010228)

Ah, thanks for telling me that. I had absolutely no idea she had any involvement, but now it makes perfect sense.

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