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Applications for Windows 1.x/2.x Or "Sick Windows Tricks 4"! I had previously posted some freeware games and developer samples for Windows 1.x and 2.x w1w2app.zip Since then a few more applications have surfaced. Lets start with this little surprise: How often do you see a NEW application for Windows 1? Well then, make this the first time since about 1987!
This is a port of the MineSweeper program used by ReactOS and Wine. Surprisingly it uses a conservative set of WIN APIs that made it easy to recompile for Windows 1. After working around a couple of Windows 1.x/2.x bugs and shortcomings, it seems to work fairly well! It runs natively under Windows 1.x, 2.x and in "compatibility mode" under Windows 3.x. The Windows 1.x version will not run under Windows 95/NT or later, but I have included a resource converted version that will. Download here: win1winemine.zip
The source code is posted, and probably the intent is that you should compile it yourself. But for your convenience, I made you a cake! Windows 1.0 cake program: win1cake.zip
It appears it was distributed as a "DOS" program on a self-booting 360k floppy disk, and used a very minimal Windows 1.01 runtime. Download Balance of Power: BOPIMA.zip (set up for DOSBox)
You could probably count the number of significant commercial applications developed for Windows 1.x on one hand, and this was one of them. For the sake of historical preservation: AldusPageMaker1_0.zip
The other known significant commercial application for Windows 1.x was Micrografx In*a*Vision. The Windows 2 and later versions of this were renamed to "Designer". Micrografx In-A-Vision 1.23.zip
PC Paintbrush 1.05 for Microsoft Windows is a port of ZSoft's DOS-Based PC Paintbrush program to the Microsoft Windows environment. This version was included on the mouse driver disk of some Windows 2 / Microsoft Mouse bundles, but ZSoft also advertised it as a standalone product. A later version of this program was bundled with Windows 3.x as Microsoft Paintbrush. Although it was bundled with and intended for use with Windows 2, it is also designed to run under Windows 1.x. This Windows version should not be confused with the more popular version of PC Paintbrush for DOS. Also when Zsoft was bought out, Softkey confusingly restarted the version number over with PC Paintbrush 1.00 for their commercial Windows 3.x version release. (It is also no relation to the software "PC Paint" bundled with Mouse Systems mice.) The ability to edit and display color bit-mapped graphics under Windows 1 is an interesting feat. Windows 1 and 2 only support monochrome device independent bitmaps, with no concept of a pallet. As such, all color PCX files are assumed to match the 8-color EGA pallet used by Windows 1 and 2. (So to create a PCX file it will open, it must have the first 8 colors match that pallet) PC Paintbrush for Windows 1.05 (3.5).zip
Micrografx Windows Draw 1.04.zip Manuals:
Portfolio, a clipart viewer and clipboard tool for Draw/In*A*Vision:
And here is another sick Windows 1 trick, Windows 1 running at 800*600
thanks to this driver modification: http://www.seasip.info/Misc/win1.html
This includes a hexadecimal calculator, a simple bouncing ball program, a tool for saving the contents of the clipboard, and a clock that sits in the icon area - similar to Windows 95 and later. Code sample programs: win1samples.zip
Win1Taipei1.02.zip
Video Drivers:
A Microsoft Windows 1.03 driver disk set with drivers for:
win1drv.zip
A driver disk that adds support for the Tandy 2000 to Windows 1.
Win1OpusComposer104SW.zip -
A Win1.x music composer, the full version would have MIDI support.
Update:
Oh, and also:
Micrografx Windows Graph Demo 1.0 The full version turned up and can be downloaded here: Micrografx Windows Graph 1.0 Another update for another demo:
Palantir WinText and WinTime Demo A limited Demo version of Palantir WinText, a fairly full featured editor, and WinTime, a resource scheduling program. Supposedly WinText was the first real commercial word processor for Windows 1. Amazingly, it supports opening multiple documents at the same time, using overlapping MDI windows. Although these are demo versions, apparently they can edit and save files just fine. They are not allowed to print and the spell checker is not included. This demo requires at least Windows 1.03 to work properly. Most reviews said the WinText/WinTime 1.0 versions were for Windows 2, but clearly these two applications (probably Version 1.5) support Windows 1. Palantir also produced a number of other applications that may have run under Windows 1, assuming they were released before they went out of business::
ZSoft Publisher's Type Foundry 1.10 Also, a few more demo programs:
Micrografx In*a*Vision 1.23 Demo - Same limitations as all Micrografx
demos. Works on Windows 1.0x. Includes sample clip art.
Also, a Windows 1.x compatible screen capture utility is included with Show Partner FX 3.x. Update: Not much to look at unless you have a DEST scanner, but DEST Publish Pac 2.0 has turned up. Others known/suspected to run under Windows 1:
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