MaartjeNov 19, 2022

Introducing the first alpha release of Mastodon 3.11 for Workgroups!

Available for Windows 95 

whermansNov 20, 2022
Show threadMaartje

Due to popular demand... The source and a binary release note that this is a very early release it is full of bugs. I literally spend just a few hours on this without knowing VB6 before I started:

https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

GitHub - meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups: A Windows 9x Mastodon client built in Visual Basic 6

A Windows 9x Mastodon client built in Visual Basic 6 - meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

GitHub
Nov 20, 2022 at 6:39pmWeb
Show threadFixsternNov 20, 2022
@maartje which area are you working on? Should we organize by creating issues and grabbing them or do you want to work on it for yourself some more?
Show threadMaartjeNov 20, 2022

@dunkelstern currently the area I am working on is sleeping. 😴

Feel free to make issues and “self-assign” them!

I will probably do some more work on it but I don’t have a specific domain to tackle

Show threadFixsternNov 20, 2022
@maartje have a good night then :)
Show threadAndreuNov 21, 2022

El #RetroComputing portat a l'extrem: Una programadora crea un client de  per a Windows 95!

https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

@maartje

GitHub - meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups: A Windows 9x Mastodon client built in Visual Basic 6

A Windows 9x Mastodon client built in Visual Basic 6 - meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

GitHub
Show threadPJ Perez Nov 24, 2022
@anigwei hahah ja venia jo a avisar-te d'això! @maartje
Show threadbhtooefrNov 21, 2022
@maartje I suddenly wonder if it can be backported to VB4 (purely because it's the last version to support Win16, so that Mastodon 3.11 for Workgroups can run on Windows 3.11 for Workgroups)...
Show threadMaartjeNov 21, 2022
@bhtooefr oh was it VB4? (this is confusing 1990s msft 😅 )
Show threadbhtooefrNov 21, 2022
@maartje IIRC everyone kept using VB3 when targeting Win16 because VB4 was considered bloated at the time, but VB4 was both the first to build for Win32 and the last to build for Win16
Show threadPJ Perez Nov 24, 2022
@maartje went to check the code to see how did yo deal with SSL as AFAIK current versions are not available in old Windows... and there it is in the Readme: "You need a HTTPS to HTTP proxy". Brilliant! :)
Show threadMaartjeNov 24, 2022
@pjperez I originally planned to try importing a modern libcurl like the DOS client does but it would cost a lot of time while I recommend WebOne a lot for all retro users! It even repairs some old apps by using archive.org
Show threadPJ Perez Nov 24, 2022
@maartje wow that's nice, I had no idea!