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		gfaure on March 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old ‘Pirated’ Copy of Acr... That installer brings back memories. When I was a kid, I would wonder how it managed to render its own UI and look so different from all the other DOS executables.

5- on March 16, 2021 [–]

i had the same sentiment about partitionmagic, which managed to draw a very convincing windows 95 gui lookalike running under dos: https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c2a66b5e-6e28-3811-c3a7-c2...

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