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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by Dwedit on Thursday October 31, 2024 @04:43PM (#42011310)
"Layered Windows" is how an application can have a window which is not the typical rectangular shape, such as the "Head" skin for Windows Media Player. That would be the "crazy things" that apps were allowed to do.
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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by andrewshadura on Friday November 01, 2024 @02:46AM (#42014593)
That's just a mask applied to the window, app were always allowed to do that on Windows and still are.
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