Re: Rebirth of Windows 3.x support

Glad I've come across your post.  I'm somewhat obsessed with Windows 3.x
development and have been looking into it for years, in and out.  Including
now... :P

I'm very interested in pursuing meaningful and fun projects of software
development
for such platform.  Once upon a time, I used QuickC to port Lua and Metamath
to Windows 3.x.  I'd like to port more modern and more widely used software
to it as well.

I'm a Retro PC enthusiast.  I really love the idea of exploring the power
and pushing the limits
of old computing environments like GW-BASIC, DOS, Visual Basic 1.0 and
Windows 16-bit.

I wish there was an organized community of users and developers of Windows
3.x where
I could find like minded people to start free and open source software
projects in this domain with.

If anyone knows about newsgroups, forums, organized projects or community
resources to this end,
please let me know.



"Adman Online" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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>I know that the Windows 3.x series was last updated in 1993 (then we got
> boring-old Windows 95), but I'm a bit curious to see if there are any
> hobbyist programmers out there that are still developing for Windows 3.x.
> Stupid question, I know, as (without patching, of course), the system can
> only run 16-bit software. Do you think that it would be possible for
> Windows 3.x to see a resurgence in developers? I mean, obviously, it
> wouldn't be in the same league as anything modern, but do you think it
> could make a comeback?