Yes obviously the legal side of things prevents using that code, it's also a good reference of how it all works and you could build from scratch.
If you just want to make programs just use visual basic like I did back in the day to make new programs.. Quite limited by today's standards. Or take the fltk source code which already is basically a window manager/shell that has dillo and other apps built for it? On Sun, 9 June 2024, 9:50 am Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel, < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 6/3/2024 2:53 PM, Kirn Gill via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Does anyone here have any experience with systems programming for > > 16-bit (DOS-based) versions of Windows? > > > > Do you know of a good forum? > > > > Has anyone attempted to clone Windows 3.x in the same way as ReactOS? > > No. And it is doubtful that anyone ever seriously tried. ReactOS started > as a Windows 95 clone and was (and kind of still is) always a moving > target ever since. And not sure if anyone would ever try and pick this > up as a task, too many programmers these days are too lazy to be > bothered to develop anything for 16bit, you can even see this in the > contributions for FreeDOS.... > > > Ralf > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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