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- Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic
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Ask HN: Hunting for a Framework
> I've often wanted a VB6 equivalent for the web, but open source.
That's Gambas, it can create web apps.
https://gambas.sourceforge.net
Some more links here:
https://github.com/wekan/hx/tree/main/prototypes/ui/gambas
- Recovery of function prototypes in Visual Basic 6 executables
- Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux
winfile
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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
Ask and ye shall receive: https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile
File Manager, or winfile.exe, was the predecessor to Explorer's file management aspects. You can use it on Windows 10 and 11 (and all the others) if you want to.
Program Manager, or progman.exe, was the predecessor shell to Explorer. It was included with Windows through Windows XP SP1 before finally being stubbed in SP2. You can probably grab the binary from XP SP1 and run it in newer Windows versions, though.
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RIP, WordPad
> Plenty of open source apps are abandoned. The maintainers get tired, too busy, or whatever.
Other people can pick up the baton. For example my window manager of choice is Window Maker which was abandoned for literally years (fortunately since the underlying tech doesn't change every other month, it still kept working) before someone else it picked it up and nowadays there are a few developers working on it.
> If it was open source, the odds are no one would care to take over maintenance (though they could) since it’s basically redundant at this point.
When Microsoft opensourced winfile[0] (the file manager from Win3.x/NT 3.x) some developers did flock to it (i personally even added a small feature to allow for multiple file masks which was merged), so i'm pretty sure the same would happen for an opensourced wordpad.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
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[Windows 10/11] [S Files Pro X] [$14.99 -> $0] [Dual Pane File Manager with Colorful Themes]
There's always winfile lol. I wish they'd drop the 95 era file explorer source. That was the best one imo.
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How to split your models among several drives in Windows 10
The ancient winfile (that get revived by microsoft), ctrl+shift drag to make symlink.
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Is there a better file manager than Explorer that I can download?
Joke comment: WinFile if you do not have Windows 11 22H2.
- Valve is paying a whole lot of developers to keep the Steam Deck's open-source software going
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I’m trying to install Monkey Island but don’t know what I should install it on.
Here's the WinFile link, enjoy :) - https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile/
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file manager/windows explorer
Good old Windows File Manager from the early 90s! In the Microsoft Store or github https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
- Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware
- the "folder jump up" problem in Ms windows and it's solution in WinFile.
What are some alternatives?
HelloWorldDriver - twinBASIC Kernel mode driver demo
ubuntu.com - The official website for the Ubuntu operating system
reactos - A free Windows-compatible Operating System
Files - Building the best file manager for Windows
gambas
yori - Yori is a CMD replacement shell that supports backquotes, job control, and improves tab completion, file matching, aliases, command history, and more.
MouseTray - Simple tray app to quickly adjust Windows cursor speed.
MS-DOS - The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes
low-code-backend-dockered - Fully dockered starter kit for Elm with Hasura
webapp-manager
pywin32 - Python for Windows (pywin32) Extensions
budgie-extras - Additional Budgie Desktop enhancements for user experience