Score: 6

"Not much to do"

by: phantomlassuk

date: May 10, 2008

I liked how you mae this very much like Windows Xp which i have so i regonice the start up with using a username which is nice. I like the control panel and being able to ,choose a background and you had quite a few which was nice. The trouble was there was not much do to the mp3 player did not seem to work and the ms paint was limited to how much you could do. This had only on color for ms paint red which was a shame. I think you did a good job but the file codes, i did not understand you could have added an anti virus software on there good try

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Score: 5

"Hmmm"

by: Shadow-1409

date: May 10, 2008

Hmmm, another one of these wierd pc parodies, this wasnt very good, boring game for a start. I didnt look great either, this wasnt covincing at all.
The screensaver thing was a bit weird. When i wnet to change it the image takes up the whole screen. Also, in the media player, it doesn't seem to be able to choose another MP3 path. I couldn't find a way to get back to that.
Needs alot of improving.

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Score: 3

"Don't Beg"

by: Coop83

date: May 10, 2008

When you write in your author's comments, please don't ask or tell people to reccomend your flash for a collection - it will get reccomended if it's good enough, trust me.

Thsi program has issues like any other of these cheap parodies. Personally, I think that the system has been completely done to death, until someone comes up with some sort of new program that can actually replace Windows... Oh wait, they already have those, but their success is limited for some strange reason.

Like Little-Rena says, Paint doesn't work properly, because you can actually paint on the background of the 'windows interface' The screensaver is buggy as well, as when it shows you what the program does and I was changing the backgrounds, the screensaver engulfed the whole screen, even while I was trying to work.

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Score: 4

"Enh .. what?"

by: MacGuges

date: May 7, 2008

This flash would like to be a mock Windows XP machine. Okay. A Windows XP machine with only Notepad, Paint and Windows Explorer would be pretty dull, but using an imitation of one in a Flash could be somewhat entertaining, if were convincing. Unfortunately this game appears clunky, buggy and incomplete.

Images from the real operating system have been copied into this game, but there are anti-aliasing artifacts around them. The shortcut labels look too big (though that could be an issue with Flash on Linux that I could resolve independently, I don't really know). Windows do not simulate proper Z-order behavior, appearing above or below each other independently of which one I opened last. There's an HTML editor which does not (apparently) provide a means to preview HTML. There's Paint, which allows you to write in only red all over the screen. There's a shortcut to Internet Explorer, which does nothing at all for me, which isn't terribly surprising but could've opened a tab in Firefox, as the link I found to NewGrounds did. There's a Display control panel, with a screen saver demo which draws over the entire frame. Aside from clunky buggy behavior like this, this Flash omits a lot of familiar Windows XP behavior like Windows Explorer filesystem navigation, the cascading Start menu, the standard system menus and file chooser dialogs.. I could go on. There are parts of XP which are mentioned, but go nowhere, like the Console (cmd.exe) or RegEdit.

It's also notable that the only sound this Flash produces are the 'starting windows' jingle and the one song available from the mp3 player. Many sound effects come with Windows which are as readily available as the icon art this game uses, so it's surprising not to hear them.

A simulation like this is going to succeed by its fidelity to detail. But I've gotta ask that if someone tries this again, please have something I can do with the computer. Have a game within the machine, or a puzzle to discover, or an adventure to complete. A mock computer is only just a start, no matter how good it is.
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Score: 5

"Average"

by: Hemlok

date: May 7, 2008

This was a pretty good Windows game but it didn't have anything different from any of the other ones. All of the features seemed to work just fine. I had the most problems with the painting. You were able to draw on the screen, the pad could have been bigger, and it would have been nice to have more colors. Other then that the other features were good. Over all this game was alright, I just wish you added something for more originality.

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