Screen Shot Gallery -- DESQview®

Graphical User Interface     From the late 1980's to the mid-1990's, Quarterdeck made an attempt to rival Microsoft's Windows graphical user interface with their own GUI called DESQview. It was originally based on an older IBM multitasking environment called TopView.     But like so many other GUIs before DESQview -- GEM, GEOS, etc. -- Quarterdeck could not get the support from commercial software vendors to write DESQview versions of their products. Without a WordPerfect for DESQview, Lotus 1-2-3 for DESQview, dBASE for DESQview, Harvard Graphics for DESQview, The Norton Utilities for DESQview, etc., Quarterdeck had no leverage against Microsoft's DOS-based Windows graphical environment.

DESQview/X 2.1 Copyright © 1995 Quarterdeck Office Systems This version of DESQview features a suite of programs that brings a high level of productivity to IBM and compatible personal computers. The first is the X-windows graphical user interface native to UNIX and other "platforms." DESQview's version is a mouse-driven sizable windowed graphical environment with menu buttons, pull-down menus, copy and paste between application windows, hyperlink help files, scripting, numbers in each window's title to indicate the order of opened programs, and support for Microsoft Windows 3.x using the conversion program WINX. DESQview's X-windows interface also utilizes a special version of Adobe Type Manager 1.0 for displaying and printing dynamically-sized Postscript fonts. Instead of using icons like other GUIs, DESQview's X-windows utilizes graphical macro buttons to launch programs and other X-windows. DESQview's main pop-up menu also gives access to the Application Manager which is DESQview's equivalent to Microsoft Windows 3.x's Program Manager. Macro buttons give access to DESQview's file manager, Toolbox and Fun & Games "groups," full-size and scaled DOS windows, tutorial, help, and "readme" files, and a group "menu" of graphical buttons that launch programs DESQview detected on installation and has the ability to add new program buttons. For virtual memory, this version uses the DOS/4GX extender. This version of DESQview also bundles and installs QEMM 7.5. DESQview's Toolbox "group" has graphical macro buttons to launch QEMM's Manifest program, show the system's memory status, launch Adobe Type Manager, run DESQview's bundled Icon Editor 2.0, display DESQview's clock and monthly calendar, launch DOS Editor, display the System Monitor, run DESQview's setup, and manage its network-supported users and remote program launcher. For entertainment, DESQview also includes a couple of screen saver-like programs that run in an X-window. Ico is a geometrical sphere that "bounces" in a window. Eyes is a pair of "eyes" whose pupils follow the mouse pointer. Puzzle is the age-old "slide the numbers" game in which you must put the numbers in order moving one numbered square at a time. DVX Tetris is a version of the classic Russian game. Since DESQview does not have native screen capture capability, these screen shots are literally that -- digital photos taken of DESQview displayed on a 17" SVGA CRT monitor. This version was released on nine 1.44MB floppies.   Total install size: ~ 13MB

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