Timeline for Was it feasible to create Win16 software using pre-existing DOS development tools?
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| Jan 14, 2021 at 10:09 | history | edited | user3840170 | edited tags | |
| May 26, 2020 at 17:00 | comment | added | Kelvin Sherlock | Since this old question had some activity today... virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2020/05/22/… "More interestingly, all the above tools were compilers for DOS, and didn’t have any specific support for Windows. Instead, a replacement linker was shipped in the SDK that could create Windows 1.0 “NE” New Executables" | |
| Jul 14, 2018 at 1:34 | vote | accept | rakslice | ||
| Jul 11, 2018 at 12:43 | answer | added | jwzumwalt | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 11:05 | answer | added | jr593 | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 15, 2018 at 16:18 | comment | added | rackandboneman | Also, a DOS compiler probably can't setup a winmain function correctly... | |
| May 15, 2018 at 6:57 | comment | added | rakslice | I originally said "necessary to buy" instead of "necessary to use" -- it seems the SDK was not free (groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.windows.ms.programmer/DN0cWWErlPA/…), so perhaps that makes no difference | |
| May 15, 2018 at 5:33 | comment | added | No'am Newman | I remember something along the lines that special start-up code was required for Windows executables and that Microsoft didn't publish this code for some time. So all toolmakers had to first disassemble a working Windows program in order to find this magic code. Thus a pre-existing DOS development tool certainly wouldn't have this code. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 22:23 | history | edited | rakslice | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited body |
| May 14, 2018 at 18:23 | comment | added | user8678 | I'm surprised none of the answers mentioned Actor. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 12:03 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 14, 2018 at 11:52 | answer | added | PeterI | timeline score: 15 | |
| May 14, 2018 at 9:24 | answer | added | john_e | timeline score: 24 | |
| May 14, 2018 at 9:08 | history | asked | rakslice | CC BY-SA 4.0 |