I want a strange thing. You know how Windows 1.x-3.x video drivers are a pain to develop because they are expected to implement a whole GDI? Most third-party drivers are just a fork of drivers coming with Windows DDK exactly because of that.
I've been playing with DDK-based drivers for Windows 2 and Windows 3 a while ago, and I realised that it's close to impossible to implement the hack I want based on those.
SO... I want to try and write a simple toy video driver for Windows 2 (and later try to make it work on Windows 3). Surely it's not going to happen overnight, and maybe never, but it's yet another thing I want to do.
In the meantime, I'll just spam you with screenshots of Windows 2 dev environment install, maybe.
And of course it starts with DOS!
Nina Kalinina
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in reply to Nina Kalinina • • •apt-get install install fish && exec fish
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Nina Kalinina
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in reply to Nina Kalinina • • •F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to Nina Kalinina • • •Rylie Stargazer 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Nina Kalinina • • •ironically this probably does most of what I need.
(Edit: NVM I think pivot tables was like excel 97. I'm not great at them but I do use them.)
eoaiuastwg
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in reply to Nina Kalinina • • •I seem to understand most people didn't really switch over to using Office in Windows until Windows 3.0 and whichever version was appropriate to it though, right?
This is before my time really, but I didn't use Office much as a kid anyway. By the time I needed it for school I was running Office 2000. ... Which I kept for a very long time because I hated everything that came after, lol. (Well, Office 97 wasn't bad, but 2000 was the best of the series.) Did people ever actually like the "ribbons"?
PierreNick 💾
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in reply to Nina Kalinina • • •"what kind of graphics adapter (display) you have, if any" *ftfy Microsoft 🙂
I think I saw some discussion on Windows 3.x graphics driver development gotchas at, of all places, the OS/2 Museum blog.
Jonas
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www.os2museum.comJonathan ‘theJPster’ Pallant
in reply to Nina Kalinina • • •at the recent Retro Computer Festival I brought a Lenovo PC* running Windows**.
* Core i3-4130
** Windows 1.0, on top of MS-DOS 3.3, natively booting off SATA using the UEFI CSM it came with.
So if you make a driver, I could try it on Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics. That's normal, right?
(thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-202…)
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