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lnterneton Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

There are quite a few older Win32 games that won't run on modern Windows systems despite the built-in compatibility modes.

lnterneton Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

Is it possible to run Wine on Windows (without resorting to Windows 10 and WSL)?

lnterneton List of Computer Science courses with video lectures

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13000158

lnterneton ReactOS 0.4.3 Released

> improvements to ReactOS' implementation of NTVDM has seen several more DOS-era games now running successfully. Strategy fans in particular should enjoy a trip down memory lane with the likes of Age of Empires and Command & Conquer.

Isn't Age of Empires a Win32 game? (Its system requirements are "Win 95 or Win NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3".) Why would it need the NTVDM to run?

lnterneton Building Win16 GUI Applications in C (2014)

Heh, I always thought of Win16 as the Windows 3.x API. It never occurred to me that the "same" API was used for Windows 2.x and even 1.x. Makes sense though...

Really cool to see that Windows 1.0 application run on Windows 10!

lnterneton Win3mu – Windows 3 Emulator

Source?

(Are you referring to the use of software like Colinux and Andlinux? Those only worked on 32-bit systems last time I checked...)