The Rise of Discmaster

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93 points·TangerineDream··9 comments

I did a quick search for my username, and to my surprise I found that I submitted both a trivial patch and a new splashscreen image for The Gimp 1.1 back in 1999! I would have never remembered that on my own. Lots of fun!

The best feature of discmaster is that it works on pure clean HTTP on actual webbrowsers on period correct machines.

It makes it much easier to get software onto old machines.

I'm pretty sure that I've seen some interesting stuff in IA's collection of downloadable discs/software/computer data that's not yet part of this. Still a great resource, of course.

Any tips for searching DiscMaster?

If I'm looking for a particular file, I'm finding it useful to know the filename used back in the day. I didn't pay that much attention to the specific filename until now.

Turn on contents search and try strings that might be in it.

Previous discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33254791

no embedded sound and no blink tag ...

The blink element has been consistently criticised by usability and accessibility experts. In 1996 Jakob Nielsen described the element as "simply evil" in his Alertbox column Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design.[14] The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 state that content authors should avoid causing the screen to flicker or blink, noting that such effects can cause problems for people with cognitive disabilities or photosensitive epilepsy.[15]

Oh my, that comment was made in jest I swear, it was the very few things lacking in the site. The counter was there, the animated gif, center tags, etc. I just noticed two things that stuck out as missing to me.

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