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Updated readme with additional information about the application, updated release history, and updated copyright year in resource file.
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## Table of Contents
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- [Introduction](#introduction)
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- [Building the Application](#building-the-application)
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- [Terms of Use](#terms-of-use)
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- [Problems?](#problems)
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- [Known Problems](#known-problems)
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- [Changelog](#changelog)
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## Introduction
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This application is an example 16 bit Windows application written in C. It
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accompanies the
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[Building Win16 GUI Applications in C](http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/computing/win16-apps-in-c/)
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article on [Transmission Zero](http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/). The
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application runs under Windows 1 to Windows 3.11, and all versions of Windows NT
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which support Win16 apps (Windows NT 3.1 to at least the x86 version of Windows
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8.1). It does not run under Windows 9x (Windows 95 to Windows ME). The reason
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for this is not known at the moment.
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article on [Transmission Zero](http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/).
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The application is a little anarchronistic, since it makes use of functionality
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which didn't exist in Windows 1. An example is overlapped windows, which didn't
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exist until Windows 2 (Windows 1 only supported tiled windows). That doesn't
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magically make the functionality work on Windows 1, but means it works on the
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supported version of Windows and falls back gracefully on the unsupported one.
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This has been achieved by defining constants and structures in the header files
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of this project, which match the definitions of later Windows SDKs. This works
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because Windows API changes are designed to be backwards compatible, so older
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versions of Windows just ignore window styles it doesn't understand, and message
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handlers in the application will never receive messages which aren't defined on
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that version of Windows.
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The application runs under Windows 1 to Windows 3.11, and all versions of
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Windows NT which support Win16 apps (Windows NT 3.1 to at least the x86 version
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of Windows 10). It does not run under Windows 9x (Windows 95 to Windows ME). I
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think the reason is that Windows 9x just doesn't have support for Windows 1 and
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2 applications, whereas Windows NT does because the Win16 subsystem is based on
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Windows 3.1.
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## Building the Application
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To build the application with Microsoft C, open a command prompt, change to the
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directory containing the Makefile, and run "make Win1App". Note that you will
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Refer to "License.txt" for terms of use.
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## Problems?
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## Known Problems
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The icon does not display correctly in versions of Windows after 3.x. Icons in
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Windows 1 and 2 are a different file format from the ".ico" file format, and I
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think they either aren't supported in later versions or there is a bug which
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means they aren't rendered correctly. Either way, it happens to all Windows 1
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and 2 applications, so it's not a problem with the supplied icon file.
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If you have any problems or questions, please ensure you have read this readme
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## Changelog
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2. 2016-08-28: Version 1.1
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- Corrected name in module definition file. This was causing an odd issue
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where launching the Windows 3.x version of the application while the Windows
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1 application was running, resulted in a second instance of the Windows 1
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application!
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1. 2014-11-09: Version 1.0
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Transmission Zero
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Resource.rc

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BEGIN
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ICON IDI_APPICON,IDC_STATIC,7,7,20,20
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LTEXT "Windows 1 Example application.",IDC_STATIC,34,7,125,8
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LTEXT "�2014 Transmission Zero",IDC_STATIC,34,17,100,8
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LTEXT "�2016 Transmission Zero",IDC_STATIC,34,17,100,8
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DEFPUSHBUTTON "OK",IDOK,103,46,50,14,WS_GROUP
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END
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