use more gradients. use more 3d buttons. make your ui elements shine. for goodness sake

Decided to "redesign" the Weasel Center Shelter for Old and Abandoned Computers today. Well, "redesign" is saying a lot there as a word, when what I actually did was swap three background images, reduce the contrast of one of them, and change the font color. But still!

netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelt

This did also slightly bury the lede of me adding a section to said website to explain (and embed) the Quake Benchmarks spreadsheet.

netizen.club/~wildweasel/shelt

This is Quake running on CGA. Normally Quake requires VGA (320x200 256 colours), but WinQuake can actually run fine on any card supported by Windows 95.

Now, CGA doesn't support Windows 95. But turns out with a little manual hex editing, it can start with a CGA driver from Windows 3.0 (I believe no one succeeded in doing this before). And with Windows 95 kind of sort of running on CGA, @gloriouscow recommended to try if Quake would run. It does, and it is almost playable. Definitely more playable than Doom8088 on MDA.

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