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How do I write a program for Windows 286/386?

FatTurtleFatTurtle
edited October 2004 in Software
I want to know. I had this idea.

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  • nighticenightice
    History of the Windows API

    Yeesh. No wonder almost no apps were written for Windows 1.x/2.x. IIRC, the first Excel for Windows needed to include a custom version of Windows in the box to run right.
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  • FatTurtleFatTurtle
    So much for that idea. Too bad. I was going to make a 95 like gui for Windows 286.
  • nighticenightice
    edited October 2004
    Tomchu wrote:
    nightice wrote:
    IIRC, the first Excel for Windows needed to include a custom version of Windows in the box to run right.

    That's not what it says.

    I wasn't quoting the page. Go here and look at Excel 2.0 for Windows.
    1987: Excel 2.0 for Windows. This was the first Windows version, but we're not hung up with mundane details. This product was so innovative that we had to pair it with a special version of Windows to make it work--at a time when we were telling other developers that our systems guys and apps guys were totally separate!
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  • SlashSlash
    Most of the programs for Win 2.x I've seen, included a run-time Windows environment, like Word 2 and Excel 2.1.
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