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PayPalInspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint, Factory 95 is a fresh retro-styled automation sim out now with Linux support. This is the first game from developer Macrobit Interactive and looks rather clever.
Here you get to explore a retro operating system while completing requests for clients, getting increasingly complex as the requests go on. You need to juggle emails, manage space and create a whole lot of slides while Y2K looms over your head.
From the Steam page: "Your factories are built within a slideshow-making software, so you only have limited space to design systems and move resources. Send slides between pages and unlock a wide range of tools to build complex slides in a compact space. With multiple game modes, and new advances in 16-bit colour there are limitless possible slides to create. Flex your graphic design muscles and earn that long-awaited promotion!"
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Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPointThis is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol
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Caldathras 2 days ago
Quoting: ShabbyXBut, can't we like the desktop theme without liking the underlying O/S?Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPointThis is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol
After all, the desktop theme is available for Linux.
[Chicago95](https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95)
LoL. The look is a little too outdated for me, though ...
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Oh nice. The demo was interesting, but I'm curious to see how it goes. It having a native linux version is great too; the windows demo had some issue with weird characters…
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BrandonGiesing 15 hours ago
Quoting: ShabbyXI mean, there's many people that don't hate Windows entirely, they just hate Modern Windows so they can definitely still have a nostalgia for the classics.Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPointThis is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol
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Quoting: BrandonGiesingI get your point, see this is more of an FYI:Quoting: ShabbyXI mean, there's many people that don't hate Windows entirely, they just hate Modern Windows so they can definitely still have a nostalgia for the classics.Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPointThis is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol
Microsoft in the 90s were at their absolute worst. I grew up with this stuff too, of course, but once you learn the damage they caused it's hard to look back at it with love.
Multics (predecessor to unix) in the 60s had shared objects (dlls), filesystem permissions, multiple users, multiple processes etc, everything that is "modern" in windows. DOS in the 80s had nothing. Remember the viruses? Vista 35+ years after multics was the first windows to actually support multiple users.
They set back operating systems by decades. Maybe if Gates had actually stayed in school and took an OS course...
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Quoting: ShabbyXGates taking OS courses might not have helped much--it's not as if Gates wrote DOS. With the big contract with IBM in hand, faced with the need to deliver a DOS, he bought one called QDOS (I believe for "Quick and Dirty OS"), not telling the guy what it was for. The guy who wrote it got peanuts, Gates got the millions, and that was the start of Bill Gates as the first of the modern tech oligarchs.Quoting: BrandonGiesingI get your point, see this is more of an FYI:Quoting: ShabbyXI mean, there's many people that don't hate Windows entirely, they just hate Modern Windows so they can definitely still have a nostalgia for the classics.Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPointThis is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol
Microsoft in the 90s were at their absolute worst. I grew up with this stuff too, of course, but once you learn the damage they caused it's hard to look back at it with love.
Multics (predecessor to unix) in the 60s had shared objects (dlls), filesystem permissions, multiple users, multiple processes etc, everything that is "modern" in windows. DOS in the 80s had nothing. Remember the viruses? Vista 35+ years after multics was the first windows to actually support multiple users.
They set back operating systems by decades. Maybe if Gates had actually stayed in school and took an OS course...
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