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MattKC - I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95 - YouTube (youtu.be)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by DosDude@retrolemmy.com to c/win9x@retrolemmy.com
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Tl;dw: he backported dotnet v2 to windows 95, adding the possibility to port software and games to Win95.

Visual studio still has the option to export to dotnet v2 in the current version.

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[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I watched this yesterday and talk about entertaining. I want to know though how he got packages to call his layer before .net so he could replace calls he needed.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Probably along the lines of DLL injection

https://dzone.com/articles/windows-api-hooking-and-dll-injection

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

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