Windows 3.1 and 16 bit would be a little too painful for me. Windows 95 was quite nice with 32 bit and preemptive multitasking though. I kind of miss this or Windows 2000.
Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
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Re: Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
#12Reading this article and others by the same author on his travails of getting Windows 3.11 to install and then bridging it to modern(-ish) tech was like being transported back to the 90s when I was first learning about computers. Seeing those screenshots of the unmistakable Win 3.1-style dialogs was a real nostalgia hit. What a treat. 10 points (well, an upvote, I guess) for anyone who knows why the Windows DOS-mode…
I seem to recall that F1 and F2 had some sort of hard wired functions (that were printed on my keyboard) but I don't remember which they were...
Re: Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
#13Reading this article and others by the same author on his travails of getting Windows 3.11 to install and then bridging it to modern(-ish) tech was like being transported back to the 90s when I was first learning about computers. Seeing those screenshots of the unmistakable Win 3.1-style dialogs was a real nostalgia hit. What a treat. 10 points (well, an upvote, I guess) for anyone who knows why the Windows DOS-mode…
> Seeing those screenshots of the unmistakable Win 3.1-style dialogs was a real nostalgia hit. What a treat.
When I first saw that UI in 1990 or so, I was so confused how one program could accidentally cause another one not to respond. And how all the filenames had to be in 8.3 format.
Amiga had spoiled me.
Re: Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
#14Reading this article and others by the same author on his travails of getting Windows 3.11 to install and then bridging it to modern(-ish) tech was like being transported back to the 90s when I was first learning about computers. Seeing those screenshots of the unmistakable Win 3.1-style dialogs was a real nostalgia hit. What a treat. 10 points (well, an upvote, I guess) for anyone who knows why the Windows DOS-mode…
I seem to recall that F1 and F2 had some sort of hard wired functions (that were printed on my keyboard) but I don't remember which they were...
F1 was already Help by then I'm pretty sure
Re: Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
#15Windows 3.1 and 16 bit would be a little too painful for me. Windows 95 was quite nice with 32 bit and preemptive multitasking though. I kind of miss this or Windows 2000.
NT4 was very nice, although no USB.
Didn't crash and was smooth as butter.
Re: Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
#16Reading this article and others by the same author on his travails of getting Windows 3.11 to install and then bridging it to modern(-ish) tech was like being transported back to the 90s when I was first learning about computers. Seeing those screenshots of the unmistakable Win 3.1-style dialogs was a real nostalgia hit. What a treat. 10 points (well, an upvote, I guess) for anyone who knows why the Windows DOS-mode…
I seem to recall that F1 and F2 had some sort of hard wired functions (that were printed on my keyboard) but I don't remember which they were...
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Re: Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
#18This presents c89 as the most antiquated thing in the world, but VS didn't support mixed declarations and code in a .c file until 2015. There is still a lot of code out there that avoids this to be able to work with MS's compilers.
Re: Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
#19It’s unfortunate slack is this difficult to integrate with. Jabber or IRC clients could be spun up with zero pain.
Re: Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client
#20I built a Win 3.1 app during a company hackathon just for fun. Here, I detail learnings and process for how a new old app can be created with the aid of modern tools and hindsight of old technologies. And perhaps what lessons can it offer us today. Without the benefit of modern libraries and languages, I had to read up and take care of many low level details, socket programming, HTTP, JSON parsing, UI design in code…
bet you had fancy pants autocomplete also! That was a game changer when it came along....otherwise you had to refer to docs/books.... not to mention the limited screen size.... two monitors? no one was that rich :)