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Comment by qingcharles | Hacker News Reader

There are pics from the developer in this article (not sure why he neglected them in the README):

https://www.neowin.net/news/developer-ported-word-for-window...

Wow, it really looks like Win 10/11. Microsoft is back to the roots now. But Word 1.0 even has 3d GUI elements. They must have had impressive computers back then.

It’s mere decades ago!

CTL3D.DLL .. I remember installing Office for Windows 3.1. It would update this system DLL and make the UI of the entire system look more 3D.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

I'm pretty sure it was an opt-in thing for individual programs, if an app didn't intentionally use it they kept the old look.

I've always thought that it's a bit of an undocumented and slightly forgotten bit of Windows 3.1, most things on the internet only show the flat style. I guess people doing retro things often only mess around a bit with the base OS, and don't really install things like Office 4.x on top of it.

so true - modern windows has no contrast between windows - so terrible

Top-left window icon looks garbled. A porting bug, maybe?

I think it's just that 16x16 icons didn't become a thing in Windows until Windows 95, and so older apps don't supply one. Windows will then scale down the 32x32 icon instead, and it's never really done it that attractively, and I suspect the black and white nature of this icon really suffers.

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