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Scorched Earth

Thank you, that's quite the trip down the memory lane! I devoured Dr. Dobb's when I was a teenager!

I ended up on Michael Swaine's Medium site [1], and then ordered his book: "Fire in the Valley" (2014) [2].

[1] https://medium.com/@michaelswaine

[2] https://pragprog.com/titles/fsfire/fire-in-the-valley/

A couple of years ago I played a bit with Go and Win32.

I got to the point that I could create windows and controls, and had a basic message loop working.

I then started dabbling in painting in non-client areas. It was buggy and didn't work well (my fault), but then I could see 2-3 different Windows UI styles competing to draw the window chrome.

The amount of crumbs hidden under the Windows carpet is incredible.

When the project was presented in 1984 it was universally hated by the French press. All lot of commentators said it would ruin and deface a national pride.

People have learned to love it - I personally think it's a fantastic addition to a unique site.

If you are looking for 80's listings, please check out http://www.hebdogiciel.free.fr/

The site contains all the listings from the Hebdogiciel magazine, re-typed and ready for download. The magazine was a must for all French-speaking computer kids back then.