Very nice! Would you consider making it open source and sharing it on GitHub? I’d love to be able to easily install it locally on my machine and also to reuse the retro look of it for my own other local tools.
replyThanks, but if fails short without a dot matrix printer to go alongside it, to print out those hanging banners. :)
replyI feel like I should be able to crash the Windows behind this page by triggering some bug in the app.
replyWow, that landing page was instant nostalgia for me. Well done!
replyBrought back many memories. There were also some fonts that added 'shimmer' and 'sparkle' text. You didn't run up a Win98 VM and install the old Word? Great job at making it all by screenshots and eye.
replyWonderful.
replyI never thought of that, actually. Perhaps I should as I don't remember shimmer or sparkle. I'll see if I can find some examples (if you happen to know of any I can reference please send them over).
Here -- they were effects you could add on regular text:
replyhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/RHbP2Q7A-Wg
(I still find it mind-boggling that Word 2000 runs mostly just fine on a MacBook with an entirely different OS and processor architecture via Whisky/Wine.)
Man, whenever I see nostaligic things like this I remember how instantly responsive computers used to feel. Good times.
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