Damn Microsoft

Prophet][ · Post by **Prophet][** » Fri May 31, 2002 6:32 am

Its been over 15 years since the first version of windows was released, shouldn't they have released the source code by now? If say Windows 3.1 code was available (I mean legally) their should be now reason it could run on DC just like linuxDC and NetBSD. This means that more programs could be made in C++ or Visual Basic. What are your thoughts on this?

Sanchez · Post by **Sanchez** » Fri May 31, 2002 8:45 am

Linux and NetBSD are far ahead of Windows 3.1 in terms of functionality... And to "port" Win 3.1, you'd also have to have DOS, which would require a PC emulation.... and so on....

In other words, not gonna happen...

NeonGenesis · Post by **NeonGenesis** » Fri May 31, 2002 11:49 pm

Well, a lot of code used even in very old versions of Windows, even 1.0, is still used today in much later versions, so they kind of keep it under wraps. Hell, did you know with only a very slight hex modification of a Windows 1.0 app, you can make it run in Windows 98? lol, just goes to show you how lame Microsoft can be.

donatj · Post by **donatj** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 12:08 am

somwhere floating around my hard drive I have a qbasic program that can actualy run windows 3.1 programs, im me on aim screen name Donatj if you'd like the code I'd try to hunt it up

Post by **|darc|** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 9:06 am

donatj wrote:somwhere floating around my hard drive I have a qbasic program that can actualy run windows 3.1 programs, im me on aim screen name Donatj if you'd like the code I'd try to hunt it up

I've got this cool program that can run windows 3.1 apps too.

It's called Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. Cool eh?

DNR · Post by **DNR** » Sun Jun 23, 2002 9:36 am

I've got this cool program that can run windows 3.1 apps too.

It's called Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. Cool eh?

Whoa, all those in one program? That must be the Windows Generations Value Pak!

(j/k)