Windows 95/98
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
a) Im not sure thats a lounge question b) 'really simple' - no such animal(see (c) :-) c) you dont actually list any requirements - gui, file/data processing, commandline ..... d) if that's all you've got (Windows 95/98) its all you've got, but what if/when you need to upgrade it ? e) along with (d) - what's the life-time of this 'relatively simple application' ? f) are you going to develop AND deploy to this machine ? I was thinking you could conceivably use gcc and c or c++ and target that machine, but even that (according to this) https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#windows[^] is looking doubtful :-(
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
Just an idea.. give a try to D? http://dlang.org/download.html[^] And share your experiences! :D
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a) Im not sure thats a lounge question b) 'really simple' - no such animal(see (c) :-) c) you dont actually list any requirements - gui, file/data processing, commandline ..... d) if that's all you've got (Windows 95/98) its all you've got, but what if/when you need to upgrade it ? e) along with (d) - what's the life-time of this 'relatively simple application' ? f) are you going to develop AND deploy to this machine ? I was thinking you could conceivably use gcc and c or c++ and target that machine, but even that (according to this) https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html#windows[^] is looking doubtful :-(
Thanks. Straightforward gui, file read, portable, deployment.
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Thanks. Straightforward gui, file read, portable, deployment.
if you had a version of Visual Studio 6 around you might be able to get away with it
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
+1 for VB6
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
Turbo Pascal?
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
dBase IV.
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
An abacus, pencil, paper, and smoke signals for network communications (TCP/SS with a wood based 7 layer stack)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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An abacus, pencil, paper, and smoke signals for network communications (TCP/SS with a wood based 7 layer stack)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
There is an application for that...[^]
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
+1 for VB6, and good luck!
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
A time machine!
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
Visual Basic 6 :thumbsup:
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
I would select a language that I know and choose an ancient toolset that supports Win9x. The newest Visual Studio that supports at least Win 98 is VS 2003. I'm not sure about Win 95 but it should work too. Otherwise you have to use version 6. Be prepared to setup a development system for those tools too. VS 2013 2003 may be only used with Win 7 with some dirty hacks.
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
My first question isn't what, but rather why?
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An abacus, pencil, paper, and smoke signals for network communications (TCP/SS with a wood based 7 layer stack)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If you had to develop a relatively simple application for Windows 95/98 what language, toolchain would you use? Thank you all.
I'm with Jorgen, why, what possible business reason could there be to justify building a new app on win95! Some options VB6 Turbo Pascal (delphi) MS Access - get the version for the windows version Of these I think Access would be the quickest if you know VBA at all. None of these will upgrade!
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Turbo Pascal?
IIRC, Turbo Pascal for Windows only produced 16-bit applications.
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if you had a version of Visual Studio 6 around you might be able to get away with it
Both Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual Basic 6.0 will run on Windows 95 Visual C++: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/145669[^] Visual Basic: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/190775[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
