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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by molticrystal on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:32PM (#35632317)
>It's an old citation but here's the snippet:

Really old citation, 1995...

>There was an article a couple of years ago about taking binaries from either windows 1...

The below article seems to go more indepth and was written in 2020, might even be the one you were thinking of:

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/05/10/1753203

>As previously noted, Windows 95 dropped support for 1.x and 2.x binaries. The same however was not true for Windows NT, which modern versions of Windows are based upon. However, running 16-bit applications is complicated by the fact that NTVDM is not available on 64-bit installations.

>After letting NTVDM install, a second attempt shows, yes, it is possible to run Windows 1.x applications on Windows 10 [32-bit].

>FONTTEST also worked without issue, although the TrueType fonts from Windows 3.1 had disappeared.

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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by djur on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:42PM (#35632431)
There's even a way to run 16-bit Windows binaries on 64-bit Windows now.

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by jamesfinlayson on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @08:26PM (#35634953)
Oh neat, I might need to try this on Wolfenstein 3D.
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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by ronyclau on Thursday April 20, 2023 @02:30AM (#35637034)
Oh my gosh. That screenshot of the Calculator alone brought back memories from my childhood.
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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by kristopolous on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:41PM (#35632417)
"As previously noted, Windows 95 dropped support for 1.x and 2.x binaries. The same however was not true for Windows NT, which modern versions of Windows are based upon."

No way. I'll need major citations on that. Wikipedia for one, firmly disagrees as does every book I've read on that history.

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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by djur on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:48PM (#35632487)
Which part are you objecting to?
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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by speed_spread on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:07PM (#35632672)
I object to NT natively supporting 16 bit apps. I think they dropped that in Win7 or before. Of course with VMs everything is possible but it's no longer built-in.
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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by guipsp on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:20PM (#35632818)
Windows NT is 3.1 and above
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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by piperswe on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:47PM (#35633139)
Eh, not quite. 3.1 ran on DOS, there was an NT 3.1 (separate OS) that was NT. NT and legacy Windows ran in parallel for a while, up through Windows 2000/Windows ME. That ended with Windows XP, the first consumer Windows NT release.
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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by fredoralive on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:51PM (#35633178)
32 bit Windows NT supported 16 bit Windows apps (and DOS) right until 32 bit Windows was dropped with Windows 11. 64 bit Windows has never supported them. As 64 bit Windows became commonly installed around Windows 7, you might get the impression it was dropped then, but it was still around if you really wanted it.
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Re:The GTK+3 port of GIMP is officially finished by kristopolous on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:27PM (#35633526)
I misread it. I thought it said windows nt is based on windows 1 and 2. carry on
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