windows is insane. who thought, any of it was a good idea

@nyanide@lab.nyanide.com I dunno man it works for me

@VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe yeah cause you're probably just a home user who uses it for shit like hentai and art but im dealing with the after effects of backwards compatibility with dos.

@nyanide@lab.nyanide.com But they removed DOS compatibility with XP 64 bit, what version of Windows are you developing for man holy fug

@VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe open up cmd in windows

@VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com wait do you mean that win2000 still has some sort of dos compat?

@lina@eientei.org @VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe ntvdm or some shit

@nyanide@lab.nyanide.com cmd in Windows NT is no longer an MSDOS prompt tho, and the DOS compatibility layer from it got axed.

@nyanide@lab.nyanide.com @VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe huh

@lina@eientei.org @VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe nt dos virtual machine

@nyanide@lab.nyanide.com - https://lab.nyanide.com/users/nyanideA guy from Digital who wanted to make a non-UNIX? 🤔

@m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net Get out the drink coaster for that son of a bitch Cutler.

@VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com > But they removed DOS compatibility with XP 64 bit, They replaced DOS with the NT kernel. They didn't remove DOS compatibility. You can probably still run DOS shit in Windows. There was some shitty weird 16-bit Windows 95 API that almost no one used because it wasn't present in 3.1 and had been replaced with the 32-bit Windows 95 API by the time Windows 95 shipped. Basically only a handful of developers that had development versions of Windows 95 used it, and they kept compatibility with that until Windows 7.

@p@fsebugoutzone.org @VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe >You can probably still run DOS shit in Windows. nah as of vista they completely killed off the compatibility layer for dos programs. and 16 bit apps don't work on 10 and later. yesterday night the frustration was i wrote a really small batch script which didn't work even though it was not complicated and was literally just setting 2 environment variables and using them in a one liner. it was a very unpleasant experience.