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April 27th, 2006MS DOS logo.
Do you remember the computers which you navigated by typing hard-to-remember white commands on black background to be able to run Tunnels of Armageddon, Scorched Earth, Prince of Persia, Nibbles and Gorillas? Perhaps you remember a graphical interface with white windows, blue menu bars, ugly icons and boring white background? To reach the command text thingy you either “quit windows” or double-clicked this icon.MS DOS, what a memory. What a pain in the a** it really was. And boring. I never understood it. You had to use it to b able to play the games, though. But I never noticed until now when I stumbled upon this icon on the internet how funny this logo is. At least, how funny Microsoft tried to make it. Red goes with violet, violet goes with yellow, yellow is a tone of red… kind of, so all these colors CAN go togehter? Hmm… Anyway, this is interaction design – to make something completely boring and make it look funny. No, this is how Microsoft tried to solve things back in the 80s. There isn’t much more to say about this, is there?
Except that it looks like it says: MS DOG…
Speaking of DOS games, you can find some here (all require windows): www.dosgamesonline.com
and here: marge.uvm.edu/sdempse/games.htmDirect links to:
Nibbles
Gorillas download
Scorched Earth
Prince of Persia ONLINE! -
Anonymous says:
And you click on the picture of Alice at the top of the page
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April 27, 2006 at 1:38 pmAnonymous says:
www.web-design-directory-uk.co.uk/jobs.htm
Asia and the US might be cooler for you perhaps.
Other stuff for you
Build an animal: http://sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm
Alice and Elbot are "chatbots", computers that you can talk to just like you do with a human. (you press elbot's red button).
http://www.alicebot.org/
http://www.elbot.com/