2022-12-27                         from the editor of ~insom
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  Bought the third edition of Petzold's "Programming Windows"
  from a charity shop, because I once gave away my copy of the
  fifth edition and so I felt it was a sign I should not pass
  up. That said: I also have the fifth edition, so the third
  is an historical artifact. (i.e. it's literally for Windows
  3.1 although that's basically still how Win32 programming
  works even today).

  This lead me down an unproductive rabbit-hole of looking
  into Windows NT 3.1 through 3.51 software development, and
  if I could emulate an environment and make binaries that
  work from 3.1 through to Windows 10.

  I'm at a very specific place when it comes to nostalgia for
  computers:

  - Windows 3.1 aesthetic, not Windows 95.

  - But! Quake, not Doom.

  - IPX/SPX LAN on thin coax ethernet, not dial-up
  multi-player.

  - System 6 on an SE/30, not OS9 on an iMac.

  I don't know what to do with this information, but I've
  noticed that many retro accounts on Youtube and on social
  media are _obsessed_ with the Doom and DOS era -- slide
  right over 3.1 -- and into Windows 95.

  Joshua Stein is absolutely doing amazing work with System 6
  on Compact Macs, though.

=> https://jcs.org/

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