Re: Viewing BetaArchive with old web browsers...

In Forum: Computer Discussion
By User: WinPC

Just decided to post some screenshots from it. Of course, I first had to copy them from the disk image itself, and then convert them to .PNG format from my Windows 8 installation, since the Windows 95 version of Paint doesn't support the .PNG format.

But here they are. I'll explain each screenshot as I go along:

Here is the BetaArchive home page, viewed in Internet Explorer 3.0. As you can see, there's a border surrounding it, the sitemap is discolored, and the fonts and sizes are all wrong, not to mention that some of the images don't display.
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792461.th.73780.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792602.th.15464.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792634.th.6296.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792658.th.78303.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792676.th.86658.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792691.th.17298.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792705.th.20331.png

On just about every link, I get this error message first before everything else loads:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792719.th.90204.png

Here is the Photo Gallery:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792751.th.89490.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792779.th.4706.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792799.th.55427.png

Now, here is the forum index. Note that again, the fonts and font sizes are all wrong:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792814.th.49207.png

Here I am in one area, again, with the fonts and font sizes being all wrong, but I have a fix for that, which I'll explain below:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792855.th.67759.png

As you can see here, not only are the fonts nearly microscopic, but, if you drag your mouse over the text itself, you can highlight it, and copy and paste it into Notepad:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792910.th.40323.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792958.th.47648.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792972.th.5527.png

Or, I could just highlight one topic, and paste its name into Notepad, like what I just did here:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363792989.th.23789.png

Here is the Image Uploader. Notice that again, the fonts and font sizes are all wrong:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363793026.th.6101.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363793053.th.51014.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363793067.th.31907.png

Here is the BetaArchive Wiki. Notice that even here, the fonts and font sizes are all wrong, not to mention that just as with the rest of the site, it's also rendered incorrectly:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363793080.th.50678.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363793129.th.22535.png

Even here on the Wiki, though, I still get error messages such as this one:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363793143.th.33887.png

The text here isn't being displayed properly due to how it overlaps:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363793169.th.99808.png

Again, the text here is being displayed all wrong:
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363793199.th.39631.png

http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363793222.th.44129.png

Viewing the description of Nashville Build 999 in the Wiki (notice that again, the text is being displayed incorrectly):
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-03/1363793240.th.70478.png

Later today, I'm going to try earlier browsers such as Mosaic Netscape, and possibly, at some point, I'll be installing a copy of Windows 95 just for installing and testing old browsers.