I posted the most recent mirror possible a little further up this thread. Hopefully it works for you. Not sure what other repos it might require which are also gone, but it's something.
I'm working from memory, but AIM at the peak had webcam support and a very rudimentary screen share component. I keep thinking the name of it was "AIM Share", but Googling that does not bring up mentions of it.
There were potential competitors back when it really didn't matter - the early 00s. Even AIM at its feature peak could do pretty much everything Discord can do now (save for some of the server organization and custom content), but only a fraction in the US had Broadband to take advantage of it.
And it wasn't written in resource-hungry Electron.
Funny you say that, Lego Island, a game that required niche DX5 features to run properly and thus notoriously never worked in WINE, is finally getting addressed as of July of last year. Those issues in question (10729 and 22039 on WineHQ Bugzilla) were over a decade old, too.
So yes, please leave reports, they will get addressed, eventually. :-)
Wine has been a wonderful piece of software when it comes to running old 16-bit Windows games and CD-ROMs of the early to mid-nineties. I can run tons of games which will never see a re-release on a modern machine without spinning up a VM.
This is the kind of stuff Wikis (and wiki-likes) were made for. It's so frustrating when trying to find some references and stumble across the answer on random blog posts.
As an early Linux user, I still remember running a Windows VM with IE installed, for years, just to do online banking. Heck, at my current corporate job all the Mac users (mostly the web designers) are given VMs to run IE11 to fill out their timecards, and use product management software. This is absurd, but real.
I'm no stranger to having to use VMs to do basic stuff online, but not everyone else is. And, to be honest, no one should have to set up a VM to use a browser they cannot trust, just to protect themselves from stupid drive-by malware.
Well, Contrast is usually in parlance as extremes. I think he means in context of what else is in the image, not just contrast. For example, you can have a "dark green" and "dark orange" used in a graphic of a tree on a black background, and you would perceive it as brown due to the context of the "tree-ness" on your screen.
I think we need to draw a line in the sand though and say fast, forced development doesn't work on humans as well as some imply it does. You cannot make the brain "grow faster"; that's not how humans work.
I'm so glad this happened, this may put an end to the many, many bespoke midi implementations I've come across.
I participated in a piano competition over a decade ago (I believe it was sponsored by YAMAHA) which recorded all participants through an extended MIDI format that increased the resolution and bumped almost everything up to 1024 max from 127 max. With MIDI 2.0 this wouldn't even be required, all the functionality is included.