Reply to post: I remember a buddy of mine...

It's 2021 and someone's written a new Windows 3.x mouse driver. Why now?

Luiz Abdala
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I remember a buddy of mine...

[first of all, we need a new icon - I AM TOO OLD FOR THIS - Vintage, - Back in the Day - Use a reel-to-reel IBM tower as the image.]

He had a rental business. A game cartridge rental, back in the Genesis/ Mega Drive and SNES era. He had a custom made app for Windows 3.x to track rentals, dues, fees, that sorta of thing. It ran in Access, and pretty fast at that. It saved after every completed operation, as expected.

He then bought a new machine, a Pentium 4. It booted and opened Windows 3.11 in under 15 seconds. If it crashed, it could reboot, and still register your request without waiting.

I never found quite an app better tailored to his needs, including pictures of the cover of the titles and means to capture them.

I could see him running that same app, 25 years later, in a VM on a much more powerful, up to date machine that would let him alt-tab into Doom Eternal, as he did back then, with another PC running Doom.

And using that driver.

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