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MattKC - I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95 - YouTube (youtu.be)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by DosDude@retrolemmy.com to c/win9x@retrolemmy.com
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Tl;dw: he backported dotnet v2 to windows 95, adding the possibility to port software and games to Win95.

Visual studio still has the option to export to dotnet v2 in the current version.

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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I watched this yesterday and talk about entertaining. I want to know though how he got packages to call his layer before .net so he could replace calls he needed.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Probably along the lines of DLL injection

https://dzone.com/articles/windows-api-hooking-and-dll-injection

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

That's incredible.

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[–] JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 week ago

Definitely saving this for later, sounds impressive!