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This is the first official release of OG-Steam. This means I am happy enough with the project's current state to give it the "1.0". I didn't bother with versions for the "beta" because there were too many minor changes to track (and I'm lazy). From now on, all updates will be released with a version number. At this point, most, if not all visual inconsistencies have been rectified, and most, if not all unnecessary files have been trimmed. Future versions should be maintenance patches to fix problems caused by newer versions of Steam. |
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README.md
OG-Steam
Update: Try OG-Steam-Library theme for use with SteamFriendsPatcher.
An Internet Time Warp
Steam, in its current form, is hardly recognisable when compared to early releases. However, you may be surprised to learn that, despite innumerable changes made to Steam in its 17-year lifespan, its Graphical User Interface system, VGUI (which is built into the Source engine), has remained virtually unchanged. This has allowed me to create a skin which very accurately replicates the look and feel of the Steam client from around 2004. I have future-proofed this skin to the best of my ability by including as few files as possible (and, therefore, fewer points of failure). Ostensibly, Valve has plans to re-write the Steam client in JavaScript; we have already seen several moves in this direction. Until such time, welcome to 2004.
This version includes fixes for the latest version of the Steam client (Last Updated 2021-13-01).
Installing
Note: This skin has not been tested on Linux or MacOS
- Copy OG-Steam into
Steam/skins - Select the new skin trough
Settings/Interface - Disable font smoothing in both Steam and Windows for a retro look.
Known Issues
- [FIXED] Window minimise/maximise/close buttons do not render properly on some windows. This is because some containers do not have associated .res files so there is no way to specify button positions (that I am aware of).
- [FIXED] Overlay web browser seems to have some hard-coded styling that I have been unable to change.
Preview