Back in those days I had a copy of Dashboard and I loved it. It was my favorite Win 3.1 shell. So much quicker to use and less cluttered than the Program Manager, lots of cool modules to customize it, and workspace support. It was really great.
Imagine, if you will, a guest on the show that Stewart doesn’t feel the overwhelming urge to cut short, and talk over, time and time again. That guest, simply does not exist.
there is a somewhat recent interview of Stewart and he said if he didn't cut them off, the company representatives would just sit an fillibuster about their product.
Legend has it someone made an early Windows app that prevented the presenter from being cut off by Stuart when presenting new hardware/software. It was however not featured on any episode of Computer Chronicles.
Using Autocad (r12-13 versions mostly) those days, redraw and zoom change was unbearable slow, if the draw was to complicated, took ages to redraw it on the screen, many people destroy their eyesight only to avoid changing the zoom, and it was in a 14-15 inches screen, 17, 21 inch screens were rare and pretty expensive, also the object references weren't that good either.. a true eyesight destroyer
Windows 7 has this as an official downloadable option from Microsoft even, supposedly so you could run XP in a VM if you needed to for some reason. Well, what of it anyway. I just use VirtualBox. Makes sense for Windows 10 though as they're closing in the ecosystem with that OS. Maybe good for some people, but also the beginning of the end of the PC as we might care to know it. You know, for "safety," etc., etc. lol
@@WR3ND There was a PowerToy for XP that added virtual desktops. Similar to the one for 7, and both are pretty similar to how they worked in 10. There was also a XP PowerToy that added full window previews to Alt+Tab, which is something that became standard with Windows Vista (if you used Aero Glass).
Man, Windows was so clunky back then! Even Win98, though a vast improvement in terms of UI, was still quite rickety. I remember Windows 2000 being the first version that truly "felt" different to me. Sure, it _looked_ like 98, but it behaved so much better that it actually didn't feel like a Windows OS!
One factor may have been that Win2K had more in common under the hood with the "industrial strength" NT than the "presumed end-user" deals of WFW3.x, W95, and W98
With Windows, pretty much every other version has been good/bad since the beginning. 95 was good, 98 first edition sucked, 98 SE was good, ME sucked, XP was good, Vista sucked, etc, etc, etc.
Microsoft:"These utilities seems really useful, it would be a shame if a large computer software company happen to integrate them into their operating system and make their competitors versions largely obsolete. "
If you ask me, the show lost some of its charm when guests such as Jan Lewis and Gary Kildall stopped appearing. The change in formats didn't help much either.
The target audience changed in this rapidly evolving market. The show became more of a churn and burn on what new products were coming out, mostly done by professional marketing staff vs when they had actual engineers on the show do the demonstrations in the very first few years.
Win 3.1(1), ugh. Never did like it as it was so ungainly and crude looking. Much better alternatives existed, e.g. Mac, BeOS, GEM. But it was of course Gates' his powerful network all the way to his high influential powerful parents (his dad's lawfirm PG&E, his mum's powerful top corporate positions) who also profoundly paved the way. PG&E received millions alone for lobbying. Clever marketing campaigns on top and Gates simply muscled any competition out, except Apple, Next and high-end tech, as he felt that they were needed for inspiration and future business. Microsoft played with competition as well by not disclosing specifications and standards up to a very late point where certain competition would be evidently lagging behind creating Microsoft's big advantage. The best tech for mankind for that reason never wins, most sadly. Here we are still bound to MS Windows for the majority of us.
Back in those days I had a copy of Dashboard and I loved it. It was my favorite Win 3.1 shell. So much quicker to use and less cluttered than the Program Manager, lots of cool modules to customize it, and workspace support. It was really great.
$129 for a primitive quickstart bar + useless utilities ... I'm sold.
My favorite program then was Norton Commander....
My favorite app was the Windows commander.
9:11 "One thing that I like is I like doors!"
Imagine, if you will, a guest on the show that Stewart doesn’t feel the overwhelming urge to cut short, and talk over, time and time again. That guest, simply does not exist.
Stewart is the fucking boss
there is a somewhat recent interview of Stewart and he said if he didn't cut them off, the company representatives would just sit an fillibuster about their product.
Hey look, it's a start menu.
Didn’t SGI or OS/2 have something similar before Microsoft?
It's a start, lol XD
And bill gates thought of it. Just don’t tell the attorneys.
I’ve been waiting for this for over 30 years now!
Legend has it someone made an early Windows app that prevented the presenter from being cut off by Stuart when presenting new hardware/software. It was however not featured on any episode of Computer Chronicles.
3:41 - Dashboard "memory alarm" set at 64 K of RAM!
Man, I miss those days! :D
It's painful to watch how slow computers were back then, you could actually watch as the form controls get drawn.
Still faster than Windows 10 on laptops DESIGNED FOR IT!
Using Autocad (r12-13 versions mostly) those days, redraw and zoom change was unbearable slow, if the draw was to complicated, took ages to redraw it on the screen, many people destroy their eyesight only to avoid changing the zoom, and it was in a 14-15 inches screen, 17, 21 inch screens were rare and pretty expensive, also the object references weren't that good either.. a true eyesight destroyer
23 years later and people are still complaining about what's wrong with Windows 10.
I remember using Dashboard, great tool :)
snx70 it has what linux had at the same time
Version 2 Dashboard was so successful that I didn't want to switch to Windows95 for a whole year.
23:25 No lady I'm not looking forward to commercials in my video games.
How interesting - Only 23 years later Windows 10 now has Virtual desktops built in to the OS :)
Windows 7 has this as an official downloadable option from Microsoft even, supposedly so you could run XP in a VM if you needed to for some reason. Well, what of it anyway. I just use VirtualBox. Makes sense for Windows 10 though as they're closing in the ecosystem with that OS. Maybe good for some people, but also the beginning of the end of the PC as we might care to know it. You know, for "safety," etc., etc. lol
@@WR3ND There was a PowerToy for XP that added virtual desktops. Similar to the one for 7, and both are pretty similar to how they worked in 10.
There was also a XP PowerToy that added full window previews to Alt+Tab, which is something that became standard with Windows Vista (if you used Aero Glass).
When you try to make the clever comment only to look stupid.
Man, Windows was so clunky back then! Even Win98, though a vast improvement in terms of UI, was still quite rickety. I remember Windows 2000 being the first version that truly "felt" different to me. Sure, it _looked_ like 98, but it behaved so much better that it actually didn't feel like a Windows OS!
One factor may have been that Win2K had more in common under the hood with the "industrial strength" NT than the "presumed end-user" deals of WFW3.x, W95, and W98
18:18 - some truly terrifying UI colors were possible. Good Lord.
With Windows, pretty much every other version has been good/bad since the beginning. 95 was good, 98 first edition sucked, 98 SE was good, ME sucked, XP was good, Vista sucked, etc, etc, etc.
This is because you were not familiar with NT 4.0. I got acquainted with this system in 1997 and was very pleased. I haven't played games on NT4.
Eugene Evans was famous in the UK. At age 16 he launched a game development company and made a fortune.
little did they know animated retro icons would be somewhat aesthetic in the future
“Aesthetic” ?
@@johnnylongfeather3086 A E S T H E T I C ;)
Ooooooook
even in windows 10 there is no dancing cup mouse ...
lol
Not bad. Going to rush out and buy some of these enhancement packages. Are they still on the shelves after all these years?
I wouldn't be surprised to find some of these enhancements in a random computer shop to be honest. Some of those still keep super outdated softwares.
Calendar says "Saturday, October 17"... *checks calendar. "Oh..."
Microsoft:"These utilities seems really useful, it would be a shame if a large computer software company happen to integrate them into their operating system and make their competitors versions largely obsolete. "
"How can we capitalize on Windows' success? I know! Rooms and Doors!" :|
Rizimar linux had this for 20 years. Its amazing Microsoft took so damn long to implement this
I wonder what a couch application would do.
Holy c*p, $100 for a desktop shell? What a terrible time that was...
cap? cop? cup?
Did they ever do a review or demonstration of Tandy Winmate?
"Don't Copy That Floppy! Copy Those Apps and Pretend It's All Your Idea!"
And this is the foundation of Android.
This is literally where Microsoft took its inspiration for 95 !
It's ironic most of that add-ons cost a lot a that time but similar or better add-ons can be downloaded for free nowadays.
1:22 nice to meet you, Steve Fucks.
Stewart: "Have you ever had trouble printing from windows?" Me, 27 years later, "Yep..."
Microsoft had developed some of these software enhancements to Windows when it came to the later versions such as Windows 95 and Windows 98.
_Commericals!!? Where!?_
What's with the fascination for the clock?! Everyone mentions it...
"Dashboard 2" my favorite addon was for windows 3.1.
What happened to the Top Ten Software?
Sprint was a telephone giant. 😂🤣😂🤣
memories!
i remember using moreicon.dll for customizing another apps
Even win10 still has moricons.dll. My favourite was imageres.dll though, glass folders baby
I'm so glad Windows has grown a lot and since '95, you wouldn't have to use such shitty tools to perform some "easy" tasks...
No it hasn’t changed a bit imo.
innitgeeza it has changed a lot objectively. From a DOS program to a real OS with a mature multi architecture kernel.
virtual desktops in 1992. ah jesus, those parc guys
ON THIS EDITION OF THE COMPUTER CHRONICLES
"Schedull" 8:17
0:18
17:24 No disrespect or anything, but Carol’s voice is v. cute.
1:24 Linus Torvalds' doppelganger.....? O.o
They did have Torvalds on the show in '98.
1:24 Linus Torvalds' brother...?
Did you come back three years later to repeat this??
who needs michale mjd when there is this
Does it bother anyone else that they didn't even use a properly adjusted monitor?
it reminds me how old i am
Good lord the UI was not only basic but those garish colours. Ouch. And people use to complain about the far better XP UI.
10:06 AMIPRO.EXE
:3
That Rooms app is so bad it makes using Windows natively slower.
It's said that the best windows enhancement software was SoftRam 😅
What about HardRam?
oh my god i need squeegee
If you ask me, the show lost some of its charm when guests such as Jan Lewis and Gary Kildall stopped appearing. The change in formats didn't help much either.
The target audience changed in this rapidly evolving market. The show became more of a churn and burn on what new products were coming out, mostly done by professional marketing staff vs when they had actual engineers on the show do the demonstrations in the very first few years.
Phil Seder is Mike Judge in Office Space and also Beavis and Butthead's teacher. Are we in the multiverse?
I just don't have the hard drive space for this shit
Jesus, I don't know how someone actually could have work with WinTools, too convoluted for me
Why am I watching this? I'm born in 1994, I'm Brazilian, I'm in 2018 and I don't even use Windows
Matheus Bitencourt you mean just a holes in the wall, no windows? Makes sense, its hot in Brasil.
@@avigdonable in fact he meant that he uses Linux or Mac
@@pabloherrera7210 it may be, but Pele doesn't like white powder
It's funny to see how more tech literate people used to be, even in a time when things were far less intuitive.
Or you could have just bought a Mac. I grew up with 3.1 and now I see how superior Apple was.
Kim is sweet!
Kim Medrano I love you
Windows 3.1 looked like trash compared to Mac OS....Glad I had a Mac back then...
Win 3.1(1), ugh. Never did like it as it was so ungainly and crude looking. Much better alternatives existed, e.g. Mac, BeOS, GEM. But it was of course Gates' his powerful network all the way to his high influential powerful parents (his dad's lawfirm PG&E, his mum's powerful top corporate positions) who also profoundly paved the way. PG&E received millions alone for lobbying. Clever marketing campaigns on top and Gates simply muscled any competition out, except Apple, Next and high-end tech, as he felt that they were needed for inspiration and future business. Microsoft played with competition as well by not disclosing specifications and standards up to a very late point where certain competition would be evidently lagging behind creating Microsoft's big advantage. The best tech for mankind for that reason never wins, most sadly. Here we are still bound to MS Windows for the majority of us.
I just wanna go back to those times when life was simpler and everyone knew what their gender was
Bigot.
@MustafaSayeed
Take me with you back to those times.
Useless software! Yay.
Those hairstyles were horrible.
@Andrew Tarrant I'm just here for the cringe.
windows 8.1 is great
Emily eighteen lol
You smoking something bruh?
In comparison to Windows 8.0, yes. In comparison with any other Windows OS, even Vista or ME, not so great.
@@anonUK Windows 8.1 is better than Windows 10 at least
@@anonUK ME was a huge disaster. Vista wasn't far behind but still worked.
Fuck windows