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I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video]

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Re: I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video]

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Post by follower »

Watched this a couple of days ago and was just telling someone about it earlier today...

The technical content is really engaging (the "joy"/"frustration" of digging in some ancient technology for no easily justifiable reason--though in this case...) and there's been a heap of work put into merging the technical deep dive with a cinematic narrative that helps communicate some of the experience of what it feels like when you're three days in trying to find a piece of a puzzle someone probably hasn't cared about in 20+ years. :)

Re: I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video]

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Post by password4321 »

ant6n wrote: post #5

This is a great video, with a cool technical story that is well told. Too bad it didn’t make the front page!

It did make it to the front page 4 days ago. https://hnrankings.info/40002712/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40002712)

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40017272

Re: I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video]

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Post by dmitrygr »

Very cool, but i imagine it'll hit a number of fun bugs randomly, with code like:

    // Reimplemented
    LONG WINAPI CORKEL32_InterlockedCompareExchange(LONG *dest,  LONG xchg,  LONG compare)
    {
      LONG temp = *dest;
    
      Trace(TRACE_FORCE_DONT_PRINT, "InterlockedCompareExchange");
    
      if (compare == *dest) {
        *dest = xchg;
      }

      return temp;
    }
Not very interlocked at all :)
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