Subj : Re: Winamp
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Aug 01 2022 08:04:00

-=> Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Ni> I was using WinAmp since 1998 or so, and I thought it was always
 Ni> freeware..  I don't remember seeing any shareware notices or anything,
 Ni> but I could be remembering wrong.

Back in 1997 or so they switched. I was working at a gaming company at the 
time - we did Tomb Raider. Our QA manager was a horse trader, we ended up 
swapping licenses of Tomb Raider for Microsoft Office licenses, WinZip, 
WinAMP, anything we needed. People wanted Tomb Raider in all of its' 
polygonal goodness.

 Ni> One thing I noticed was that WinAmp doesn't scale its UI according to
 Ni> the Windows UI scaling settings.  Currently I'm using a 4K monitor, and
 Ni> WinAmp's UI is tiny.  I think WinAmp has a scaled-up skin, but I don't
 Ni> think it applies to everything (text and some buttons & things might
 Ni> still be fairly small).

Yeah, there's a way to double it using ctrl-D, but then it's too big.


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