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old-new-win32api
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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
Do you have any recommendations?
I assume this is the one you’re talking about https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
I was curious, went to the end (page 699!) and it’s pretty interesting. But obviously it’s hard to find the important ones.
- Frontman of Weezer, Rivers Cuomo, is an active developer on GitHub
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Windows NT: Peeking into the Cradle
Not quite. DOS was just the bootloader for Windows 9x.
While Windows 95's kernel didn't have the full feature set of NT, it still was more sophisticated than DOS.
Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=24063
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KSP2 is spamming the Windows Registry until the game stops working permanently
Some registry keys also have The Old New Thing posts by Raymond Chen [1] /s
[1] https://github.com/mity/old-new-win32api#registry
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Lookin for a decent C++ data structure resource
Lucky you, Raymond Chen did an overview in his blog series "Inside STL". You can view it here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
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Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane
Yes, Raymond Chen describes such fixes in [several blog posts](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/) and in his book The Old New Thing. Check the old posts, back at the beginning. There are posts about to which lengths they went to ensure buggy applications still worked after an update or a fix.
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Is there a known reason that Vista's startup screen was so plain?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
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Technical articles recommendation
A couple of blogs as an example: - Raymond Chen - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ - Pavel Yosifovich - https://scorpiosoftware.net/ - Adam Sawicki - https://asawicki.info/index - Matt Pettineo - https://therealmjp.github.io/ - Scratchapixel - https://www.scratchapixel.com/
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Ask HN: Who are tech bloggers with a good archive?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
- Why is the FAT directory creation time 24 bits and not 16 bits like the modified time?
winevdm
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Winlator: Android app that lets you to run Windows apps with Wine
Not exactly what you were asking, but winevdm [0] does use code from Wine to run 16-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Windows installs that don't support it natively (via ntvdm).
[0] - https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
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"LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"
https://github.com/otya128/winevdm run 16 bit apps on 64 windows
This, along with Windows's own compatibility mode tweaks, should run almost any game that has ever been released on Windows.
- 29 years ago today I went online. Netscape Navigator 1.0 was the tool I loved
- Anyone ever play Castle of the Winds?
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SimCity Classic - Guide to Installation (Windows / DOSBox)
WineVDM: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/releases
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Show HN: WinGPT, AI Assistant for Windows 3.1
It could work with the help with otvdm: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
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Free Tech Tools and Resources - Mac Scrolling, Load Testing, Win Server Switch Tip & More
You can repeat this command as many times as you need to for additional records. More information can be found here. Total downtime in a VMWare environment is less than five minutes, barring any DNS server replication in play." Yet Another Free Tool winevdm enables you to keep old Windows programs on life support by running 16-bit Windows (1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on a 64-bit Windows system. Ojakobe explains, "Had a special case of a user who clung to their Windows 7 PC because their work was reliant on a 16-bit program from 1997 (and even on 7 it didn't run properly). Used the program above to make it run reliably on 10." One Final Free Tool LocalAI is a self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible API that allows you to run language learning models locally or on-prem using consumer-grade hardware without the need for GPUs. This RESTful API supports multiple model families that are compatible with ggml format. Our thanks go to mudler_it for this one.
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IT Pro Tuesday #255 - Mac Scrolling, Load Testing, Win Server Switch Tip & More
winevdm enables you to keep old Windows programs on life support by running 16-bit Windows (1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) on a 64-bit Windows system. Ojakobe explains, "Had a special case of a user who clung to their Windows 7 PC because their work was reliant on a 16-bit program from 1997 (and even on 7 it didn't run properly). Used the program above to make it run reliably on 10."
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Anyone know how to get ActiveSync on windows 10?
After that you should now be able to install software. One final sticking point is that some older programs are wrapped up in 16-bit installers, however these can be installed by running the installer with something like otvdm.
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Why won't this run on my windows 11 pc?
Try WineVDM because NTvdm never got a port to 64-bit since the CPU mode it relied on for fast 16-bit code execution gets disabled when a x86 processor is switched into long mode. WineVDM is likely translating 16-bit instruction calls to 32-bit and then passing that off to Windows
What are some alternatives?
winforms - Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
OTVDM - Windows/DOS emulator -> https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
anbox - Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system
dosbox-x - DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project
reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
ntvdmx64 - Run Microsoft Windows NTVDM (DOS) on 64bit Editions
GameStretcher - Run 2D Windows Games (GDI, DirectDraw, D3D9) with a stretchable window, and a SuperXBR upscale filter
em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox
AnyAny - C++17 library for comfortable and efficient dynamic polymorphism
ScpToolkit - Windows Driver and XInput Wrapper for Sony DualShock 3/4 Controllers
apps - a monorepo of all my python scripts, modules, and packages
DS4Windows - Like those other ds4tools, but sexier