[HN Gopher] Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above
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       Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above
        
       Author : Tiberium
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2025-02-03 11:49 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | Tiberium wrote:
       | * from the recent commit "V1.07 works on Win95. But you have to
       | install a different LibCrypto, LibSSL, and also install the
       | WinSock2 update."
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       | Download for the Win95 version:
       | https://github.com/DiscordMessenger/dm/releases/tag/v1.07a
        
       | zxvkhkxvdvbdxz wrote:
       | Cool project, but it is missing central features of Discord such
       | as voice and screen sharing.
        
       | extraduder_ire wrote:
       | According to the author's bluesky posts, there's a few features
       | missing from Win32s compared to regular Win32 that prevent this
       | from being ported even further back to windows 3.1 easily.
        
         | pjmlp wrote:
         | "General limitations under Win32s (131896)", surviving
         | technical note.
         | 
         | https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.microsoft.com/MISC/KB/...
        
       | thebeardisred wrote:
       | How long until they get slapped with a trademark claim?
        
         | thatguy0900 wrote:
         | Ripcord is a third party discord client that's been around for
         | quite a while, as far as I'm aware they haven't run into any
         | trouble. And they actually might get used as opposed to someone
         | seriously trying to run discord on windows 95
        
           | DoctorOW wrote:
           | I think the root of the problem in this one is that it's
           | named "Discord Messenger", Ripcord is reminiscent but not
           | confusing.
        
             | thatguy0900 wrote:
             | That's fair
        
           | bathwaterpizza wrote:
           | Same for Vencord/Vesktop
        
         | jeffwask wrote:
         | I don't think Discord cares as long as their backend still gets
         | to harvest all the data.
        
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