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CALMIRA

Calmira was a replacement shell/program manager/file manager for Windows 3.1x. The original author (1996-98) was Li-Hsin Huang, but development after 1998 was undertaken by Calmira Online.

Its purpose was to integrate Windows interfaces across the board. It provided Explorer-like features (icon windows, a taskbar, etc) and other enhancements which brought Windows 3 closer to Windows 95.

Calmira was completely free. The program was written in Delphi 1, with full source code.

Calmira Online is still at: http://www.calmira.de

So why the past tense? Effectively, Calmira is dead. Nothing new has been produced in the last two years, and there has been no substantial development for nearly five. Neither the Calmira mailing list or its host (Escribe) is online any more.

When Calmira was started in 1996, Win95 was only a year old (and Win 3.1 only four years old), and developing a program for low-spec. machines running 16-bit Windows made sense.

It was (and is) a great program, but its time has come and gone.

I have a collection of Calmira-related add-ons and utilities which I wrote between 1998 and 2000. They should now be considered as having historical value only... Click HERE to go to my Calmira Utilities page.

Calmira was a very useful, functional program, but it also gave Windows 3 the chance to shine visually. The CALMIRA SCREENSHOT GALLERY replaces the old CalTheme page and includes the previous monthly desktops which used to feature on this page.