look it's 9pm on a saturday:'nof COURSE I'm installing Office 95 intro a Windows 98 VM, why wouldn't I be?
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the fact I can turn on a toolbar that just lets me jump to other Office Software is the most "Someone got a promotion for that" feature I've seen in a while
good point, why DON'T I have FoxPro installed? I am often asking myself this!
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good point, why DON'T I have FoxPro installed? I am often asking myself this!
I'm on it
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I'm on it
There it is. God, that splash screen is a Time, isn't it?
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There it is. God, that splash screen is a Time, isn't it?
if you ask it to help you create a table, one of the suggested databases is one to track your film, you know for photographers? like what date you had that roll developed...
That's some 1996-ass functionality right there.
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if you ask it to help you create a table, one of the suggested databases is one to track your film, you know for photographers? like what date you had that roll developed...
That's some 1996-ass functionality right there.
for some reason Fox Pro comes with Imagedit, a pixel image editor that can edit BMP, CUR, and ICO.
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for some reason Fox Pro comes with Imagedit, a pixel image editor that can edit BMP, CUR, and ICO.
The FoxPro logo is definitely Arial, but it's tweaked a little bolder than Arial Heavy, and the kerning has been manually tweaked, it looks like.
Microsoft liked to do this around 1995. They'd design something with their standard fonts, but then have some graphical designers tweak how it looked. Like the "It's now safe to shutdown your computer" screen: they tweaked several letters in that.
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The FoxPro logo is definitely Arial, but it's tweaked a little bolder than Arial Heavy, and the kerning has been manually tweaked, it looks like.
Microsoft liked to do this around 1995. They'd design something with their standard fonts, but then have some graphical designers tweak how it looked. Like the "It's now safe to shutdown your computer" screen: they tweaked several letters in that.
I overlaid some Ariel on it and tried to match it. Aside from the boldness issue, you can see the kerning is different on "Fo" and they redrew the V
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I overlaid some Ariel on it and tried to match it. Aside from the boldness issue, you can see the kerning is different on "Fo" and they redrew the V
this is a little annoying if you're invested in mimicing Microsoft typography from 1995.
That may seem an obscure thing to be concerned with but it seems to come up for me all the time.
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this is a little annoying if you're invested in mimicing Microsoft typography from 1995.
That may seem an obscure thing to be concerned with but it seems to come up for me all the time.
you know how much I'm working? I'm using Microsoft Visual ProPro Professional Edition™!
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you know how much I'm working? I'm using Microsoft Visual ProPro Professional Edition™!
I'm installing so many microsoft products I'm a...
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I'm installing so many microsoft products I'm a...
put all your stuff in a Visual ProBox
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put all your stuff in a Visual ProBox
I wrote some code to generate a random name out of some of the wordchunks I had edited already and it resulted in this
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I wrote some code to generate a random name out of some of the wordchunks I had edited already and it resulted in this
>>> import random
>>> options=['Fox','Box','Pox','Pro','Bro','Fro']
>>> print('Visual '+''.join(random.choice(options) for _ in range(8)))
Visual BoxProBroProBroProFoxBox -
>>> import random
>>> options=['Fox','Box','Pox','Pro','Bro','Fro']
>>> print('Visual '+''.join(random.choice(options) for _ in range(8)))
Visual BoxProBroProBroProFoxBoxoh god this "quick shitpost" (already two hours in) just hit the "hey I could make this twice as funny if I just spent 10 times as long on it" point
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oh god this "quick shitpost" (already two hours in) just hit the "hey I could make this twice as funny if I just spent 10 times as long on it" point
it kinda feels like I spent most of the 2000s staring at JASC Paint Shop Pro 3 or 4
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it kinda feels like I spent most of the 2000s staring at JASC Paint Shop Pro 3 or 4
Trying out this handy Imageditor for my icon editing needs.
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Trying out this handy Imageditor for my icon editing needs.
Digging through the extensive MSDN help files to figure out how to use VB6 controls
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Digging through the extensive MSDN help files to figure out how to use VB6 controls
@foone Here, catch.
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