Have you ever heard of the Open Windows 3.x project? Well, http://www.jankie.net/soedesh/20.htm is (at least) worth visiting...

heard of it before

the system setting functions are easy to call
would you even really need control panel?

.CPL files are just dlls
I dont know how to finish them
yet...
why dont you post some usefull links
on how to do what needs done?

sure its worth a look...
its been started for years

any one ever finish it? & if not...
who is for renewing the attack?

I think Microsoft should stop being so tight-buttocked and release Windows 1.x 2.x and 3.x free to the general public.

I also think Apple should release up to and including Mac OS 8.6 free to the public.

I mean why not? Both of those companies no longer make any profit from the said programs, and haven't done for a number of years now.

    
 

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I wish I knew some sort of programming so as to help finishing this project... At present, I thing that Calmira should be incorporated into the project (no real need for winfile.exe - Calmira Explorer does the job better).

I actually have Windows 3.1 on Floppies. I guess I should e-mail that guy and help him.

Anyone heard of ReactOS?

    
 

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arisoue
as the person who started the project
points out no programing skills are really
required to help with the project

dont think any one is working on it
right now though so...
if calmira needs added just do it
no programing skills should be needed

if a project such as wine can run the win16 api
then they must have some info that we dont
has any one inquired into that or was there only talk?

if old system dll functions were remade
it would leave room for fixes that would
remove some limits from old programs

the subject is not new
there are several old posts on it
check em out there quite interesting

Celsius
since M$ is not a person you would have
to get key persons vibrating with the idea
surely a few share you views

they could do like borland
and release one or two original versions
in a museam of historic M$ programs r smthin
the subject has been looked into before
with out much luck but in computer terms
time passes quickly so
its likly been years since any one asked about it

ReactOS I was told is aimed at win32
think they might have any usefull info on win16?

I managed to shove windows 3.1 onto a live-floppy with notepad.exe and winfile.exe, and there was about 50KB to stick a CD-ROM driver in.
Except that was for standard mode (KRNL286.EXE/DOSX.EXE).

MS wont release Windows software free anytime soon, look in your windows XP and Windows Vista system folders at some of those DLL, some date back to windows 1.x and some are based on that. MS still uses there code as a matter of fact a somewhat working PROGMAN is still in XP and needs a single DLL from NT 3.1 to work. Untill all the old code is no longer in Windows, MS has no reason to release it opensource.

Recently Workplace Shell for Windows was
released under a public license. I
contacted Mario De Armas, who wrote it
originally, to see if it could be open
sourced. I am very pleased that it has been
released. My hope is that it will be
enhanced and included in projects such
as "Open Windows 3.x".

The WPSFWIN source code tree can be found
at the following link:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwor...

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Releasing Workplace Shell is very good news, indeed! Hope the source code be enhanced and compiled. Nice idea to incorporate it in Open Windows 3.x., but someone, with knowledge in programming and love for old OSes, has to do the job...

This release is not Workplace Shell from
OS/2. This version was written by an IBM
employee to run on Windows 3.x instead of
using Program Manager. It is surprisingly
like Workplace Shell on OS/2 v2 or v3.

Tim Locke
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