The programmers invented the "Venetian Blinds" drawing technique because the Atari console couldn't draw eight separate sprites on a single row. If you look carefully you can see the chess piece horiz stripes are offset-by-one vs their neighbors. Pretty sneaky

Same vibe. I'm doubling down on German and Turkish this winter; also wish I could just do nothing but. All day long

(6) Bright color scheme was very pleasant after fixing the garish defaults; Mac was still black/white at the time and I bet they picked those bright colors to needle Apple

It was panned at the time but clearly all the pieces were in place. Color me impressed

#retrocomputing #microsoft #windows

(4) Performance is shockingly good, using a 286 8-Mhz emulator with slow hard disk. (5) Built-in apps are great tech demos but lacking in advanced features which MS must have hoped would arrive with 3rd party apps.

(3) Instead of flipping between overlapping windows, you switch apps using the icons below. Dbl click a title bar to minimize an app; dbl click an icon to bring the next app to fullscreen use. It's efficient and snappy. You only tile windows when you use copy/paste or want to take screenshots, heh

gahhhh 😍

I really need to find an old Epson dot matrix printer to complete the experience... 😢

His motto can be seen on the panel, "The tunnel is an art gallery through which we run buses."