Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane

• old-new-win32api

  34 237 4.7

  Organized bookmarks to Win32API posts of Raymond Chen's blog "The Old New Thing".

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.

• GameStretcher

  3 17 0.0 C++

  Run 2D Windows Games (GDI, DirectDraw, D3D9) with a stretchable window, and a SuperXBR upscale filter

I once made a program (Intended for Games only, doesn't support standard windows controls) that allows you to stretch an otherwise fixed-size window. Uses D3D9 and Pixel Shaders to draw the upscaled window.

https://github.com/Dwedit/GameStretcher

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• WebKit

  151 7,456 10.0

  Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.

  

FWIW Safari and Chrome are also doing this with their “quirks” files: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa... (I can’t find the chrome one)

• IndirectInput

  3 22 0.0 C

  A simple DirectInput wrapper to work around a Windows 10 device enumeration bug

Lots of Microsoft app compat stories out there, but plenty of breakage too. One example: I had to create IndirectInput [1] to fix Myst on Windows. Microsoft refused (via private email thread with leadership) to take responsibility for what is clearly an appcompat bug and were jerks about it too. Oh well.

[1] https://github.com/riverar/IndirectInput

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