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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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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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Thanks.
Straightforward gui, file read, portable, deployment.
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if you had a version of Visual Studio 6 around you might be able to get away with it
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I would consider vbscript or jscript.
They can both read files - GUI-wise it won't be easy but a scripting language will get you up and running quickly.
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Franc Morales wrote: what language
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Franc Morales wrote: toolchain
hammer->broom->bin
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IIRC, Turbo Pascal for Windows only produced 16-bit applications.
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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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OriginalGriff wrote: smoke signals for network communications (TCP/SS with a wood based 7 layer stack)
I prefer semaphores. 
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+1 for VB6, and good luck!
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Visual Basic 6 
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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.
modified 1-Dec-15 6:31am.
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I use VS 2013 Community Edition on Windows 7 every day. I've also run VS 2015 in the same environment.
If you are referring to building applications for the WinStore (or some such), I haven't tried it yet.
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
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Oops.
It is a typo and should be 2003 like mentioned before.
I will edit my post.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: VS 2013 2003 may be only used with Win 7 with some dirty hacks.
Hrmmm. The only issue I remember from the last time I installed it on my W7 system was that I had to explicitly use run as administrator to install the service pack. 
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I'm still using it sometimes to build apps for old Windows versions. The problems are not the installation but the usage:
The IDE must be run as administrator.
The IDE locks when searching in all files or executing external tools. Searching in all files will work when disabling visual designs.
When running an app using the debugger, the PDB file is not closed so that the next build will fail because the file is locked. Then it must be closed manually using the SysInternal tool ProcessExplorer (optionally the command line program handle.exe from that tool).
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Jochen Arndt wrote: The IDE must be run as administrator.
Is this another C++ problem? My C#/Winforms app runs fine without admin.
Jochen Arndt wrote: The IDE locks when searching in all files or executing external tools. Searching in all files will work when disabling visual designs.
Never ran into this before. At least for .net, it looks like it only freezes if the designer is the open file. Search all works without disabling anything if a code file is being viewed. My postbuild event includes using copy to make sure test data is in place; that also works fine. C++ only problem, or running an external tool from a different point in the process....
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote:
Is this another C++ problem? My C#/Winforms app runs fine without admin.
I'm using it only for C++. I made a note about the fixes after I installed it many years ago. I found the solutions by web research because the problems where well known.
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