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andrea76··on Norton Neo Browser
I really miss the times of Pete's Norton Utilities for DOS.
andrea76··on Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
Our company has now migrated its Lotus applications to web applications written in Java, but it took us quite a few years.
andrea76··on Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
As written in the article, the UI sucked to many to us. Then our corporate migred to GMAIL and never looked back.
andrea76··on Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages
The website is unreachable at this moment
andrea76··on Classic Amiga titles, free to download
From webpage I read: " Search or browse games, applications, demos, graphics, music and tools from the golden age of 32-bit home computing."

But Amiga has a 16 bit CPU... or not?

andrea76··on We're Building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of Databases
Tried DOOM in that page, it's really slow...
andrea76··on The Computers Used in Movies
Commodore 64 film list is really impressive.. .
andrea76··on XLibre XServer 25.2.0 Released
So do you use Trinity Desktop environment?
andrea76··on KDE Plasma 6.7 Released
Finally we can use plasma login manager!
andrea76··on Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up
There had already been an attempt in 2023 https://www.lemon64.com/game/the-secret-of-monkey-island

Based on reviews, it was a bad conversion

andrea76··on DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
This is a masterpiece
andrea76··on Dune II written in HTML5/JS
Is there any opensource engine that modernizes the game?
andrea76··on SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others
Contact, recommended movie to watch! (For me much better than Interstellar)
andrea76··on KDE is now my favorite desktop
I've used gnome for 7 years in Fedora. Often certain extensions stopped working betweenv after Fedora big upgrades (i.e. from 32 to 33). The JavaScript engine that runs extensions had many memory leaks bugs so I had to kill the gnome-shell process on a TTY session.

After 7 years I was fed up and switched to KDE and never looked back

andrea76··on Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python
The problem is that it's still using unsupported qt4 libraries
andrea76··on KDE Plasma 6.4 Released
I used Fedora GNOME for 7 years and I didn't like the experience, so I migrated to KDE Neon from two years and never looked back again.
andrea76··on FreeBASIC is a free/open source BASIC compiler for Windows DOS and Linux
Is there an ide with form designer like visual basic?
andrea76··on Free Gpt4o Image Generator
It seems not really "Free"
andrea76··on SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces
The former maintainer published a video summary every month on YouTube about SerenityOS progress. And now it seems that anyone does it
andrea76··on Why Lotus Domino? (2024)
Is there any evidence of a DOS version?
andrea76··on XAN: A Modern CSV-Centric Data Manipulation Toolkit for the Terminal
I am using Goawk with good results
andrea76··on This Month in Ladybird February 2025
OT: I liked SerenityOS monthly development video, too. Are they gone, now?
andrea76··on Show HN: A playable game of Tetris inside a PDF
Can we run Windows 3.1 in protected mode from a PDF?
andrea76··on Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life and Morrowind Engines
Can it run on a MS-DOS machine with 640 KB of RAM?
andrea76··on Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser
I miss those times. Every IDE had a line by line debugger. Now those Angular/React applications, even after years, do not have one; and they still have a confusing syntax.
andrea76··on MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program
It's written in the website. Read the 3rd paragraph for all information you need.
andrea76··on Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts
Does it support wayland?
andrea76··on Virtualizing the 6502 on a 6502 with 6o6
Can it run GEOS in a GEOS window?
andrea76··on Running DOS Apps on Windows from 1.0 to 95 (2020)
An interesting overview on how Windows (from 1.0 to 95) executes DOS apps with all the challenges
andrea76··on Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux
Is there any curses based good spreadsheet?
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