SE4 in higher resolutions + OT: floppy disks

[Fyron]

On the Mac it was a simple matter to change resolutions and colors...just go into the control panel. Couple of seconds and done.

There is no feature of Macs that is simple where the Windows Version is difficult.

[ May 25, 2003, 22:51: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[oleg]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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On the Mac it was a simple matter to change resolutions and colors...just go into the control panel. Couple of seconds and done.

There is no feature of Macs that is simple where the Windows Version is difficult.

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How about inserting a floppy ? On Mac it will make a pleasant sound and show itself on desktop. With Windows - nothing happenes. You must click "my computer" or something.

[Ed Kolis]

"My computer or something"... Gee, you must be new to PC's... you're not playing SE4 on a Windows emulator are you?

[Fyron]

Oleg, make a shortcut on the desktop to the floppy drive. You get that same effect, but minus the obviously redundant (and therefore annoying) sound. You know you just put a floppy in, why does it have to make a sound?

[Krsqk]

I'd prefer it not make a sound--I used to have a computer with a 3.5" drive that sounded like a paper shredder in action. Occasionally, it did return the disks in usable form. Maybe I should have removed the carcass of the first disk before trying to put the second one in...

[Fyron]

LOL! That's not the sound we were talking about.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
"On the Mac it was a simple matter to change resolutions and colors...just go into the control panel. Couple of seconds and done"

It is in the PC too. Batch files are for those extra-lazy people who don't mind tweaking (oxymoron?)

LOL OK.

About Windows, everyone knows it is just a pale immitatator of the older Versions of the Mac OS.

(tbontob knows he is waving a red flag to Fyron, but does it anyways. )

But joking aside...

On the topic of floppies, the mac would automatically put an icon of the floppy (and other drives) in the upper right corner with the name of the particular floppy. It would also give the name of the floppy, so at a glance you could confirm whether you had the right floppy in the drive.

It would do this for other drives, CD-Rom's etc.

Kinda nice to have all your drives grouped together on the desktop. The Trash would also be there which made it easier to find. I had it at the bottom of all the drives so it only took a split second to trash something.

If you want to eject the floppy you can do it from the desktop by putting the floppy into the trash. Easier than fumbling around for that little button on the floppy drive.

Also on shutdown, the floppy automatically ejects. I don't know how many times my PC stalled on startup because I had a floppy in the floppy drive.

More to the point, I can't count the number of times I was in a real hurry, started up the computer, ran away to do a chore, come back a few minutes later and Aaarrrrrrhhhhhhhhh, it was hung up on the floppy in the drive.

Can the stock PC/Windows imitate the Mac on this?

And in the older Versions of OS, maybe even older than OS7 in 1991, you could set it to automatically give the sizes of folders. Twelve years later XP, still cannot automatically give me size of the folders as there isn't an option for it in View/Choose Details.

[ May 26, 2003, 16:35: Message edited by: tbontob ]

[Fyron]

Mac is a copy of Windows, Windows is a copy of Mac. Each company stole all the good innovations the other had done from each other (and now Linux does the same, while maintaining all that obselete OS junk from the 50-70s ).

Make links on the desktop to the floppy and cd drives, and you get the exact same effects. The Recycle bin IS on the windows desktop. It is very hard to get rid of.

If you want to eject the floppy you can do it from the desktop by putting the floppy into the trash. Easier than fumbling around for that little button on the floppy drive.

Fumbling around? It is a big button, not at all hard to press. With CD drives at least, you can right click on the drive icon and hit "eject", which requires less work than dragging it all the way to the trash can.

And in the older Versions of OS, maybe even older than OS7 in 1991, you could set it to automatically give the sizes of folders. Twelve years later XP, still cannot automatically give me size of the folders as there isn't an option for it in View/Choose Details.

Actually, win 95/nt and up all have this functionality directly. 3.x had it, but it was not as easy. Use "detail" view instead of the other views, and you get lots of info. Hover the mouse over a folder, and you get a tool tip showing folder size and such.

[ May 26, 2003, 21:02: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[tesco samoa]

do it once ok.

do it twice... ok

do it three times... hmmm there must be a better way of doing this

do it four times.... automate it.

MAC / MS

Bah

DEC....

That is where it was at. They be puttin a CAP in that OS CRAP. Chill

[oleg]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
"My computer or something"... Gee, you must be new to PC's... you're not playing SE4 on a Windows emulator are you?

Oh, dear. How was I mistaken assuming everybody around know the meaning of "sarcasm". That should teach me right.