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Somewhat unrelated, but it's crazy to see how durable Windows APIs are. I, for unrelated reasons, last month, opened Guitar Pro 4, which had been laying around
by kkkqkqkqkqlqlql 2y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but it's crazy to see how durable Windows APIs are. I, for unrelated reasons, last month, opened Guitar Pro 4, which had been laying around in my warez folder (copied many tines accross hard drives) since I pirated it circa 2004 as a teenager, and it worked perfectly in my machine running windows 11. Even though I love Linux, that doesn't happen over there, right?
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoDefinitely not. I have a few legitimately purchased Linux releases from GOG that fail to launch on a modern distribution. Have to use the Windows build plus Wine.
- trinix912 2y agoYou can actually take some Windows 1.0/2.0 programs, run them on 32-bit Windows 11 and they work! The code structure of Win32 programs is still quite similar to the 16-bit era apart from removing archaisms like the Pascal call convention and far pointers. And when you move to the 98/2000 era, the APIs have really changed very little to this day.