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(DIR) Post #AyqbnpuhVf1dixLxLs by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-03T23:36:47Z
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I'm working on a project now and unfortunately I'm running low on reasons why I shouldn't write it in Visual Basic 6
(DIR) Post #AyqdPXv8xGcEsX6bJo by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-03T23:54:50Z
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I added a CD-ROM drive to my windows 95 system and I'm having to run the Add New Hardware Wizard to get it to be recognized.That isn't very Plug & Play of you, Windows 95!
(DIR) Post #AyqdZ2ktgJOR7JqEca by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-03T23:56:31Z
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oh god it's just not detected at all. I'm gonna have to go find drivers
(DIR) Post #Ayqdl0hh8RiOEG39e4 by ddlyh@topspicy.social
2025-10-03T23:58:42Z
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@fooneYou could write it in Object Pascal and make it compatible with old (Delphi) and new (Lazarus) systems?
(DIR) Post #AyqduE4So0CqIE5tuS by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:00:14Z
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oh nevermind, it was a misconfigured BIOS.
(DIR) Post #Ayqdzykcg5SUW4Yb32 by shtrom@piaille.fr
2025-10-04T00:00:45Z
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@foone I believe the original meaning was Plug and PRay.
(DIR) Post #AyqeOM07t0fZZiQoUa by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:05:42Z
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@ddlyh nah I grew up on BASIC->Visual Basic, so I prefer to go back and play with that instead of Pascal
(DIR) Post #Ayqeko703FGn88LxSq by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:09:52Z
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I need to put the Windows 98 installer into the death generator. Look at this "Even your grandparents can use it!" screen
(DIR) Post #AyqexBWioyaDE1HpXk by tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk
2025-10-04T00:12:07Z
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@foone That was back when microsoft considered ease of use in their operating systems.
(DIR) Post #AyqfSebSlWcqNhVfIe by derrydavis@techhub.social
2025-10-04T00:17:47Z
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@foone I'm your grandpa now
(DIR) Post #Ayqg6dlRIwaHMWF8WO by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:25:03Z
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after carefully considering my needs, I have decided to not install Visual FoxPro 6.0
(DIR) Post #Ayqgjdr2tznmw7Skxk by wndxlori@ruby.social
2025-10-04T00:32:00Z
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@foone win95 was more plug&pray
(DIR) Post #AyqgnVCF2DlZF4DYgK by kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-04T00:32:43Z
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@foone OMG from what I know of VFP installing it should be considered a form of self harm, I think you did the right thing.
(DIR) Post #AyqgvYo5UlXKkwlKS0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:34:12Z
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anyway I need a simple GUI app that runs on windows 95. VB6 seems to be the easiest way to target that, as at least there I have some nostalgia to help me get through the pain of win32
(DIR) Post #Ayqh7j5X5xVM7OiuK8 by ity@estradiol.city
2025-10-04T00:36:26Z
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@foone ~~I want to try getting Rust targeting Windows 95~~
(DIR) Post #AyqhFMwNK7p1kG5HrE by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:37:41Z
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@CunnyverseAuthor less painful to use than raw win32 or MFC?
(DIR) Post #AyqhLyvqz71HJMzey0 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:39:01Z
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I may need to upgrade to a bigger hard drive. this 1gb drive was fine for win95, but now that I've got win98 on it + visual studio, I've not got enough room to install all of MSDN on there
(DIR) Post #AyqhfZmeCCaT6f1xnk by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:42:33Z
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checking a May 1998 PC Computing Magazine and looking at the computers they were selling:https://archive.org/details/PC_Computing_1998_05/page/n13/mode/1uplooks like 8.4gb for the high end, 4.3gb for the low end
(DIR) Post #AyqhjaigeoN3AU5ohM by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:42:49Z
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gotta make my windows 98 development VM period accurate, you see
(DIR) Post #Ayqhnc4bZCr2WZGKvo by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:43:36Z
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@thomasfuchs yeah just the other day I was thinking that if vibe coding worked, someone would glue a Visual Basic-like GUI on front of it and we'd see an explosion in little utilities that do specific things.
(DIR) Post #Ayqi55d6vgxJ7CjgZc by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:47:09Z
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I'm in.
(DIR) Post #AyqiCUvPHVJvarpHJg by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:48:33Z
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And I'm ready to begin
(DIR) Post #AyqiHytNI7iVz1USLw by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:49:27Z
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@Lydie targeting windows 95? I mean, I guess I could make a DOS program that then runs on windows 95 through a dos box, but I meant a windows GUI app on win95
(DIR) Post #AyqiaEy8G08Z3aQEvg by superflippy@mastodon.xyz
2025-10-04T00:52:11Z
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@foone Oh man, I remember those days. Forget politics, operating system factions were the thing, at least among the nerds I hung out with.
(DIR) Post #AyqiuD0PGZYQl90XLs by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T00:56:18Z
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@nickgully I didn't set the clock back, no.
(DIR) Post #Ayqj8Ig4ySbsPCDe0e by green@forgi.social
2025-10-04T00:58:58Z
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@foone this was honestly my first programming experience. I don't know if I miss it or hate it.
(DIR) Post #Ayqjz9uEJm46Y32iWm by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T01:08:31Z
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VB6 makes you add a menu item with the caption "-" to create a separator in a menu. This much is fine, if not obvious (you couldn't have put a button or checkbox, I had to look that up in the manual?) but the one problem is that they make you name all the separators.menu items must have names, and separators are (represented in the editor as) menu items, so you must name them all. MenuSep1, MenuSep2, MenuSep3...
(DIR) Post #AyqkAaKGQhZTfofVOy by beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-04T01:10:21Z
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@foone if you add & in the name of a menu item the character after or before (I forget which) will have an underline
(DIR) Post #AyqkVX73ZRqjn1Tnf6 by RavenLuni@furry.engineer
2025-10-04T01:14:25Z
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@foone Delphi does the same
(DIR) Post #AyqmCkDeohywqRjg4O by ZiggyTheHamster@ruby.social
2025-10-04T01:33:23Z
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@foone @thomasfuchs It would be the Nth copy of Electron running on a given machine, unfortunately.We can't have nice things anymore, remember? :)
(DIR) Post #AyqmME2JKMHjvWwv1E by eddieddieddie@mastodon.nz
2025-10-04T01:35:00Z
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@foone "Many programmers are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate programmer who dares"
(DIR) Post #AyqmPqmTjSJOxaGx4y by tdr@masto.nu
2025-10-04T01:35:32Z
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@foone Yes, you need the name to show/hide the separator.
(DIR) Post #AyqnPKjmy7BTX8Kd7o by enno@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-04T01:46:51Z
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@foone wise decision. I always wondered if there was a use case for it besides porting legacy DOS FoxPro applications. Surely nobody would ever have started a new project in it? Not even a seasoned veteran of the DOS version like me.
(DIR) Post #AyqrRRx5W2oIIwoiGW by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T02:32:06Z
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@tdr ahh, devious. I didn't think there'd be any reason to refer to a separator, but that is one
(DIR) Post #AyqsCKFfxkNC27ragy by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T02:40:33Z
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yeah that worked pretty well to let me quickly prototype what I need for this project
(DIR) Post #Ayqsu6U2VwTS4bSNsW by ktnjared@corteximplant.com
2025-10-04T02:48:23Z
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@foone The nostalgia of sitting at home, my senior year of high school, a few months after upgrading to Win 98, and installing VB6. I still use my VB knowledge thanks to Excel VBA, but damn just seeing that splash screen is bringing back some feels!
(DIR) Post #AyqtBwqH6DQTNqMl5U by dbat@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-04T02:51:41Z
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@foone nostalgia... kind of reminds me of Godot!
(DIR) Post #AyqtFTvUY8j0rRUW7k by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T02:51:55Z
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I'm sure there's an easy way to do regular expressions in VB6uh oh
(DIR) Post #AyqtOJ4GI5l3n2nkEi by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T02:53:55Z
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oh fuck me, there is.I just need to add a reference to Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions
(DIR) Post #AyqtYhcvpq90r3yWga by babble_endanger@freeradical.zone
2025-10-04T02:55:46Z
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@foone really brings me back
(DIR) Post #AyqtkFxEXxooVMyqjg by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T02:57:50Z
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how much you wanna bet it'll take the same regexp as I'm using in python?
(DIR) Post #Ayqtvypa2MfQs9zVEu by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T03:00:03Z
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Runtime error: 5018Application-defined or object-defined Error
(DIR) Post #AyquD7aQjlAGx04uhs by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T03:03:06Z
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is ([\[{][^\]\n\r]*?[\]}]) really that confusing, vbscript?
(DIR) Post #Ayqur4KoFNSYRqouki by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T03:10:05Z
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it's wrong, too, in a way I didn't realize until I tried to port it to VB
(DIR) Post #Ayqv7xODK1I9pbSuv2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T03:13:23Z
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it's the questionmark!?it doesn't support non-greedy matches, it seems.
(DIR) Post #AyqvKHrN2WZOnGyzR2 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T03:15:27Z
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https://web.archive.org/web/20080210040734/http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f97kw5ka(VS.85).aspxnope, no non-greedy matches.well that should be fine so long as my negative character class is fine
(DIR) Post #AyqvOBsTDvF3OlMHkO by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T03:15:39Z
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(it isn't in the above regex)
(DIR) Post #Ayr23k5nW8k370myFE by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T04:30:58Z
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@pare yes. but also many *silly cows* that make me *frumple*
(DIR) Post #Ayr8eVFIHPhlVN8u2K by wolfin@were.party
2025-10-04T05:44:43Z
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@foone Pascal, Delphi, Visual C++ 6.0, and other ancient enchantments by Apress
(DIR) Post #AyrBBpiHP2XyRrimPY by henryk@chaos.social
2025-10-04T06:13:15Z
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@foone What, do you want to see whether you can track an IP address or something?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
(DIR) Post #AyrH0oskkgK6PVkfUu by f4grx@chaos.social
2025-10-04T07:18:35Z
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@foone oh yes oh fuck
(DIR) Post #AyrHo9pfeEShZmpttA by bruce@darkmoon.social
2025-10-04T07:27:34Z
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@foone Oh lord. Somewhere i have an actual Win98 cdrom. It worked the last time I tried it, probably ten years ago.
(DIR) Post #AyrlcsFJgsAsTMMq6i by BernieDoesIt@mstdn.social
2025-10-04T13:01:26Z
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@foone I *smell* your *fingers* are in the *slow time*.
(DIR) Post #AyrmFX5cHdfe9PGRH6 by luelista@chaos.social
2025-10-04T13:08:35Z
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@foone good ol' times 🥺
(DIR) Post #Ays51t89RBjVaHeni4 by foone@digipres.club
2025-10-04T16:38:56Z
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@Rairii ooh, I didn't know that existed! I'll have to look that up
(DIR) Post #AytkdEEiDhNb2Ibryi by bloognoo@retro.pizza
2025-10-05T11:59:35Z
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@foone Turbo C++ 3 should do it
(DIR) Post #Az3BAREhFphy8ojozw by silvermoon82@wandering.shop
2025-10-10T01:09:38Z
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@foone Oh, memories!That was the year I taught Grade 11 or 12 or whatever programming because they had more classes (several) than qualified teachers (one) and my class ended up with the Band teacher.