Does anyone out there know of a gaming podcast like @dosgameclub but for #win9x and even late #win16 games? Like every month take a look at forgotten games from the pre-always-online era/ pre-Steam era of Windows gaming?
Talking about stuff like Heretic II and Dark Colony or whatever?
i've been building a little Windows 3 VM with #DOSBox-X recently. originally to play with #LotusImprov but i ended up installing all 
productivity software i could think of. this website proved pretty useful: https://winworldpc.com/ it's got tons of old software, including some things missing from archive.org.
got any recommendations of what i can try? perhaps some open-source programs still have #win16 builds?
It feels so weird to be able to run Windows 3.1 on top of FreeDOS on actual modern hardware - it's not perfect - can't do more than 640x480 at the moment, but it should be able to do more with some tweaking. Used that GUI daily about three decades ago - didn't love it, but it was good enough and ran fine on my 286.
Finally, somebody developed a good AI tool!
https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/
This site is a gold mine of cool Win16 stuff. I need to give Win16 programming another crack one of these days.
So I went ahead and turned a bunch of old compilers for #DOS and #Win16 into #Ghidra FunctionID databases. Like DOS? Sick of having to identify strncpy 500 times? This is for you!
https://github.com/moralrecordings/ghidra-fidb-dos-win16
We're starting with a handful of popular compilers from Borland and Microsoft; if you have any old compilers or popular SDKs for DOS/Win16, sling them my way and I'll try and add them in.
so I'm reversing after dark for windows.
basically, I adore the "Itchy and Scratchy" screensaver from After Dark: The Simpsons, but it's 16-bit only.
It's a ~300kb NE, borland c++.
It calls into a lot of exports from ADXPL310.DLL which exports only by ordinal. (also borland c++)
After Dark 4.0 contains ADXPL510.DLL which also exports by name. Quite a few exports happen to be direct ports. For example adxpl510!360 aka @PushFarCatch$qpql$v aka void PushFarCatch(void (__cdecl *fptr)(int)) is the 32-bit equivalent of adxpl310!516.
#ReverseEngineering #Win16 #Win32
cc @foone - I know you've been interested in reversing after dark stuff before.
a brief trip into 16-bit drivers, reverse engineering and cat // 2021-10-19 https://diode.zone/videos/watch/edd9bf42-e910-45d6-93e7-5ae57b3065ae
Because why not? 
#win16 #windows #retrocomputing #programming
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Win16 for Fun and (Probably No) Profit
