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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 01:06:59 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   That's cute. PartitionMagic pretty successfully copies the look of Windows 95, although it's purely a DOS program, despite the confusing "DOS 32-bit Win95 executable" notice in the About screen. I don't even have Windows installed on this machine.

   • IvanDSM (ivandsm@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 01:38:47 UTC IvanDSM

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     @dosnostalgic Did they make it all from scratch? This looks insanely good, and I kinda can't believe it's not Windows.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 01:43:11 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • IvanDSM

     @IvanDSM Of course. They had to. It wasn't completely uncommon at the time, and several popular utilities did exactly this.

   • IvanDSM (ivandsm@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 02:15:50 UTC IvanDSM

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     @dosnostalgic I'd seen stuff like WinBIOSes and stuff, but this is truly beautiful. I'm not from the DOS era and I know relatively little about the pre-9x era... Thank you for sharing this, it's great!

   • Louis (extentofthejam@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 02:17:07 UTC Louis

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     @dosnostalgic that is a lot better than the Win95 mode in WWIV’s RIP graphics add on

   • ashley (rabcyr@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 02:45:25 UTC ashley

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     • mcc

     @dosnostalgic @mcc you know what else ran on dos?

     windows!

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 02:45:54 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • mcc
     • ashley

     @rabcyr @mcc *reaches for the block button*

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jan-2024 01:29:26 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Andy

     And now @rasteri discovered that it was using Zinc Application Framework. Today it exists as OpenZinc: http://openzinc.com/Screenshots.html