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There was Z80 code to record from the MIC socket in one of the small books (Melbourne House maybe?) that came out in the early 1980s. I remember borrowing it from the library and it worked! Heavily quantized of course by the snapping to 2 or 0.

Also some games had sound samples, Activision’s Ghostbusters had a couple.

It’s a Spectrum. You’re going to do a HALT to sync with the start of the frame and then cycle count to prevent tearing. You can disable interrupts if you know how long you have to render your frame before the beam catches you (or let it pass then start rendering).

And there’s still mercury contamination from the gold rush in San Jose.

If I remember from poking around at the 16 bit version in that timeframe (1.52?) there was still an option to generate P-code and (this is now nearly thirty years ago) that was used by Excel to minimize code size for the segmented 16 bit systems.

Did you ever work on the cross edition that would compile Windows apps for the Mac? I think that was a version 4 fork that never got another version.

After Visual C++ 6. They broke a lot of the C++ IDE features and they weren’t as good as the prior versions (dialog editor etc) so for a long time we preferred staying on 6. I think if we could have the newer compilers but the snappiness of that UI many developers would be happy.

It’s also a product of the segmentation of the developer tools in Microsoft. The Windows team was responsible for the compiler rather than the Developer Tools team.

And then there’s the apex sex in The Player Of Games.

I think at least Excession has one of the protagonists transition at the end of the novel.

He wrote Programming Windows 3.1 which was the classic reference for Windows programming in the 90s and just known as ‘Petzold’. All Win16 and C. The managed languages are much later.

ClearCase?

You can print from iOS to printers that support AirPrint. No drivers needed, but the printer needs to support the AirPrint protocol.

I seem to remember on one of the special features on the DVDs that they needed to change to a lighter more comic style with Moore because of the reaction to the Vietnam War.

Garmin has incident detection and will send a message within fifteen seconds unless you cancel.

It’s not only that but it’s also that drivers could ship custom property pages in an accompanying DLL. All using property page / dialog box classic Win32 technology.

So unless you have a locked down device like a phone, you can’t magically port everything over to a new settings app without providing a path for your ISV / IHV ecosystem to migrate to on timelines that are sensible for the business. And ‘drivers’ consists of way more than hardware devices: database access drivers etc etc.

Part of me wonders if an AI model couldn’t just sandbox the old UI and inspect it, and then auto map to a new settings style AI.

Google TV for two completely different products. The initial one was an OS on Sony / Logitech devices that came out in 2010.