Saw this in alt.hacker and thought I'd x-post it
From: Big Bad Bob
To: All
Subj: "old windows" code
Date: 01/03/18 11:54
Base: ALT.HACKER
I put a repo up on github for some "old windows" code that I wrote, some
of which dates from the very early 90's and was targeted at windows 3.0
http://github.com/bombasticbob/OldWindowsStuff
'WinXRay' looks at internal structures of 16-bit windows (and Win '9x)
and reports some interesting information about files, memory management,
and so on. What's probably more informative is the "how I did it" part,
which (in some cases) involves the use of call gates.
'SFT Shell' was an old command-line shell that did things that
command.com could NOT do, such as running windows programs from the
command line. I extended the batch-like language to include formulas
and substitution, command/control features, and so forth, so that you
could have used it to control windows applications by simulating
keystrokes and mouse button presses [things like that].
'toilet' was a drag/drop trashcan for win 3.x that probably worked on NT
3.x as well [since I was making regular window API calls to implement
it]. Basically, Win '9x trashcan made it obsolete so I didn't pursue it.
These were originally intended to be shareware or "strut my stuff"
utilities (to advertise my skills), but they're so obsolete and out of
date that only hackers that want to toy around with VERY old versions of windows would even be interested in.
So it's all open source now.
You might have trouble building these things, unless you can manage to
install an old 16-bit version of Visual C++ (and possibly a 32-bit
version), along with MASM 6 and the old Win 3.x (and/or '9x) SDK.
Except for 'toilet' they should run on '9x as well as 3.x .
*Enjoy*
Best, Paul
`I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going' - Kerr Avon, Blake's 7
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