Depends on which one you get: apparently it’s been bounced from developer to developer, and not all of them work.
(I finally thought to look at the “About” page, and I’m using something calling itself “T-Clock Redux x64 - 2.4.3 build 471” — I’d provide a link, but the target doesn’t seem to have been updated in several years so I’d recommend research.)
Here’s the link:
The last update seems have been in 2018, but it’s a nice little utility.
With the exploding bananas? Yes!!
My boss and I used to play that a lot on Friday afternoons when things were slow.
Assuming you mean the one written in QBasic, you can relive your nostalgia online:
Cardfile. I forget exactly which Windows iteration dropped it altogether, but I kept copying it forward until it wouldn’t run at all.
I have yet to find an electronic Rolodex that I like even half as much.
Not quite the same, but:
Thank you for the link! In fact I’ve used it for several years and while I’m delighted to have it, I’m crestfallen that the original “music” and sound effects are gone, especially the little “dance” number the victor would do when he/she scored a hit.
I really don’t miss a lot about Win 3.1, but it was a big improvement over DOS and Windows 3.0. I liked how there was still a command line under everything, Windows was just a graphical user interface, kinda like how Linux does it.
My favorite overall Windows user interface/look and feel was Windows XP, followed by Windows 7.
I miss the hourglass. Over the years it has become a shadow of it’s former self - the computer and apps can be busy but there’s no longer a consistent visual clue.
I know, it’s not restricted to Win 3.1, but I miss the progress bar, nowadays I only see spinning circles that don’t tell me how long anything will take to complete. I used to be a programmer myself and when I wrote a progress bar, I always made sure to make a realistic approximation of the progress, not something taking 20 minutes up to 20% and then jumping to 70% in two seconds.
I truly do not miss Win 3.Anything or even '95. During that era I wrote video editing software that relied on 3rd party analog video capture boards, and even setting them up was a nightmare of IRQs for the customer, and the drivers crashed constantly (C-Cube CL550 reference drivers: I am glaring hard at you) once they were set up, taking the whole machine down and my product consistently got the blame, not the OS and not the capture drivers. It sucked. It wasn’t until 1394/Firewire cameras came out, with digital interfaces to the computer, that video was even tolerable on Windows. Yeesh, nightmare. XP was a godsend and every OS after (save Vista) was little angels singing.
@squeegee - you mean “every second OS after” don’t you??
I’m thinking of ME, Vista, Windows 8
OK, that’s a good point. I remember using ME just for testing, but stayed on '98 until Vista (ick). I used Win2k but there weren’t a lot of drivers available. I did use Win 8 and really wasn’t as offended as others about it’s weirdness, but it was definitely an adjustment.
I got along fine with both Vista and 8.
Windows 8 was fine with a replacement for the Start Menu. I never had any problems with it.
It’s actually very easy in any version of Windows to create custom pop-up menus (with a whole hierarchy of sub-menus if you want) at the bottom right of the taskbar. It’s a built-in feature.