alt Hacker NewsA lot of those were written in assembly by teenagers, using WinAPI directly. Yet they still run on Win10/Win11. A lost art.
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reactordev • last Sunday at 12:00 PM
It wasn’t all assembly (though those were the popular ones), heavy C use too. What really changed the game was when DirectX came.
yonisto • last Sunday at 10:16 AM
Do you know where I can find source code for such intros?
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throwfaraway135 • last Sunday at 9:05 AM
Thematically, many of them resemble the kind of WordArt we used to make as children in MS Word.
Win32 is definitely not a lost art. It's more accessible than ever with modern code generation tools like cswin32.
This inspiration to build things that look like this is what has been lost.