Calmira Reborn

Calmira Reborn on Windows for Workgroups 3.11, demonstrating the Windows 9x-inspired shell, custom window decorations, and support for Long File Names with the DOSLFN driver running.

Calmira Reborn is a Windows 9x-inspired shell for Windows 3.1, featuring:

Shortcuts on the desktop
A taskbar with a Start Menu, Quick Launch, running programs, user-defined applets, and a clock
An easy-to-use replacement for File Manager
Windows 95 long filename support (if DOSLFN is installed)
4DOS file description support
An implementation of the Recycle Bin
Multiple user support
Custom window borders

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

History

Calmira Reborn is fourth in the line of Calmira projects. It is a fork of Calmira LFN 3.32 by Alexandre Rodrigues de Sousa, itself a fork of Calmira II 3.3 by Calmira Online!, itself a fork of Calmira 2.2SR by Li-Hsin Huang.

This fork does not place much emphasis on new features and instead focuses on fixing issues I've discovered with Calmira LFN while using it on my old computers. So far, the following changes have been made:

Fix an instance of C:\WINDOWS being assumed as the Windows 3.1 installation directory
Fix numbered separators ("-1", "-2", etc.) displaying as menu items instead of separators when the Windows 3.1-style Start Menu is chosen
Fix the taskbar's free memory display from overflowing when 100 MB or more memory is available
Fix selection box appearing when multiple items can't be selected
Fix possible general protection fault when terminating a task via the taskbar
Fix various typos in the interface
Fix some resource leaks
Fix Windows version being reported as 3.1 on a 3.11 system (thanks michalgw!)
Fix Desktop Properties crashing on non-English systems (thanks michalgw!)
Fix File Explorer invalid class typecast error on drive change (thanks michalgw!)

Getting It

These archives were last updated 2024-05-28.

Unzip-and-run: calmirar.zip

Source code: calmirars.zip or GitLab

An installer and updated Help file are not yet available.

Support

If you have an issue, please file an issue through GitLab or email me.