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I no longer run Windows or DOS (just Linux) so this page is. Hopefully I'll get some stuff up and running so I can get. Now I just have a PC farm of. Windows 2. 00. 0 to. Windows 7 (and XP x. Also the BSDs, GNU/Linux, Open. Indiana, IRIX (on. SGI O2), and anything else inside Virtual. Box. Happy days.! Had the correct. email address listed but forgot to change the. URL. 1. 2/2. 00. 7: Wayfarer. Old ftp demon site/link. I found this one fromftp: //ftp. After finding myself in possession of a number of old software goodies. I decided to jump back into the DOS/Win. Working at an outdoor. I'm amazed at what people just dump as trash like tons. One day I came across a Unisys- branded box with. MS- DOS 6. 2. 2 and Windows for Workgroups. Soon after I. a full in- the- box Novell Word. Perfect 6 complete with manual. Quickly. by Corel Word. Perfect Suite for Win. CD (original, sealed). Followed. by the next version for Win. Win. 95. After failing to get any Linux or BSD OS to work properly with an old. Dell Inspiron 3. 00. I decided I'll use it for DOS. Cramped quarters at the moment is keeping me. Also time for me to move these comments away from the Makeover page. Soon, maybe. 0. 8/2. Yahoo Geocities is. I moved this to Fat. Cow webhosting. Now. Dell and have some more fun. I still haven't set. DOS/Win. 3 machine yet but I thought I'd better do some. Oh, one last thing. Just realized that I had my old hardware list on. I was using at the time this site went up. That was back in 1. MB of RAM was more than enough for Linux. I think I first discovered it as a. Compuserve. (RIP 2. I was hooked and immediately. Sometime later the name was changed to Makeover. It comes with predefined buttons ready to use for. Macintosh, Ne. XT, Motif, and 3. D Windows. Other buttons are included for. OS/2, Mac System 7, and variations on the others. This is what allows full control over. It comes with a number of schemes including variations on the standard. Control Panel color schemes. It even suggests a minimum border. I conducted a search on the. Found one Compuserve. I mailed to it. Just click. I included installation instructions in the zip file so. Everything is rather flat. Silver Wolf Desktop is the shell again showing the. OSFrame is running here along with Paper. Calc. Macintosh System 7. Macintosh with System 7 look. Silver Wolf Desktop again. The screen shot on- screen is of the Arachne DOS GUI web browser. Motif. OSF Motif look. The Motif look is best known on UNIX systems running. X Window System and usually mwm (Motif Window Manager). Users of. Geoworks' PC/Geos (Ensemble) environment also know this style. The shell used here is. New Menus for Windows v. German. The old English language pages seem. NMf. W Provides an uncluttered environment, virtual desktops. X Sloppy. Focus (moving mouse cursor over open windows give. The featured application here is the Opera web browser. Note: NMf. W is now freeware and the registration number to use it is. This meant trying to create. Active windows would. Icewm includes a taskbar so I went looking for one that worked well. A. or so ago most of them weren't too great including an older version of. However some apps will open up. Just left click on the taskbar and choose. No need to bring up the Configure window. Speaking of.. So when taskbar is hidden and you place the mouse cursor. Nice feature as it reduces the amount of mouse travel. The desktops can be switched by. Program. Bar also has a Live Desktop feature. Window 9. 5 desktop (and of course Calmira) where links or. A pop- up menu is provided for desktop. When Live Desktop is enabled the. Program. Bar so pop- up shells such as Plug- In and. New Menu For Windows will not work. Disabling Live Desktop will. This may not affect a program like. The application on screen is Comic Collector (now discontinued) by. Able. Soft. What's a. A very useful set of programs. Tab Window Manager. This spartan look belongs to twm, the default window manager for the. X Window System (or at least XFree. Due to the lack of 3. D anything. (borders, buttons, title bars, etc.) I've noticed a speed increase. Windows. Especially noticeable with AOL 4. The number. of gpfs relating to WAOL and the video driver have decreased. At the. I had to have it as I couldn't stand to point and click with Program. Manager. It has fully- customizable menus. In fact the whole. Command Post uses a powerful menu language. Command Post Menu Language (CPML). It is, for the most part, the same. Win. Batch. Your own user prompts, listboxes, pop- up comments. An example of the language is shown in the file viewer. One example of what the language can do: Choose edit INI files from. INI files appears. Click on. and now a list of . Then click on whatever. As with. Windows in general it works faster this way. Ne. XTThe Ne. XTSTEP(?) look. Ne. XT is know for the dock bar. Tried a few. bars but never really liked them. This means it's. older than v. January 1. 99. 5. The spelling within the doc changes. RIPbar to Rip. BAR to just ripbar. X- it is used for the rolled up. IFA is now freeware and the previous. IFA can be downloaded from here. Oddly, first link above points to a Luma. Pix site but the download still works. Check it out at Vogons. Main applications are Fox. Mail and ACDSee. OS/2. Here we have an OS/2 look using the. OS/2 Work Place Shell for Windows. If you want that OS/2 look and. WPS is a must. Go here for. On the right side of some title bars are additional buttons provided by. X- it. The Super. Pad text editor is rolled up here. X- it's other. provide an 'X' button to close apps and another button to bring up a. Featured shell here is Calmira II, Online! Just click on the minimize/maximize buttons. The idea of course came from David Burgess'. Calmira SR. Here he gave it that KDE look that I just. Makeover. Trying to get a flat but 3. D look. with Windows just didn't happen. You can see the difference by. Explorer windows with Text. Pad's. Still working on it. Now all I need to do is fire up Linux & KDE to get the right color. David Burgess' version of Calmira SR can be found at this site. X/Motif with Plug- In. This is another X Window/Motif look. The featured shell. Plug- In. a must- have addition to Windows if you want to be more. Here you see it adds life to Program Manager by changing. If you hate having to open and. Just right click on any group. It also supports nested. There are other enhancements to progman such as more detailed. You also see three additions to the title bars of programs here. On the. side is the current time and on the right is an alternating display of. These are not static and can. In the far left is a small. Plug- In's Quick Menu which is always available. This Quick Menu. up if you right click on the desktop as shown in the lower right. This. Quick Menu also has a task list so no matter what you can easily switch. The icons. of various sizes with icons, icons and text, or plain text. The icons. be placed along the top, bottom, or either side. The other feature of. Super. Bar is to have a program start at the last position and size it. Plug- In also has this feature but with more control. A program's. location, size, or both can be . This version is an alpha of. Nope, don't think it's gonna happen. It's completely up to you how you want it to look. Small. or large icons, fancy fonts, custom panels, etc. Everything is. panel- based. Start off with a blank panel/window and go to town. They can be separate or combined as. First we have a general (Programs) panel I use as the starting point. The Multimedia window is a good example of combined. A single panel was split into two (panels can be split. The Accessories window shows a three- way split where mini- icons. Each section has its own title, also. The Browser panels can be designed any way you want and I have two. Browser examples. You can. start programs from them but can't do any file management it seems. Wayfarer is a single- click environment. There is no double clicking. If you need to act on an icon. Panels can be pinned to the desktop. As part of the. customizable nature of Wayfarer you can even turn off captions. Browser panels. Wayfarer provides a taskbar at the bottom. It has nowhere near the. Win. 95- style taskbars and can be turned off if so desired. Right clicking will bring up a. Options.., Run.., help, and save settings. Left clicking will. One can do whatever. Contact Marc D. Williams atmarcdw at Digi. Sensei Page created with XEdit/QEdit (DOS), Jed (DOS/Linux),and Text. Pad (Windows 3. x) text editorsdepending on where I am at the moment.
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