Re: Well, it's about time (HD on Win3)

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 02:15:07 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0K58EfJSg

Heheh, I have that video saved in my "random Doom videos" directory.

But it just goes to show how big a shift it was for Windows to
actually be able to play games like that. This was is an era when the
OS struggled to show window contents while you dragged a window around
the screen (you just got an empty outline of the window until you
dropped it, then the contents were redrawn).* To be able to run a game
like Doom on Windows (and _in_ a window!) felt like the blackest of
black magic. It's just something you couldn't DO on Windows!

Microsoft always had the best videos reserved for internal use,
whether it was this one with Gates carrying a shotgun from Balmer
pretending to be an over-the-top car salesman.







* there was a third-party hack for Win3 that added the feature; I
remember shuffling windows around just to marvel at how everything
stayed in place within the window as I moved it to and fro across the
screen.