Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

RinatNabiev•about 1 hour ago

Impressive work. Translating 16-bit segmented memory to x64 without emulation is no small feat. The test suite covering UI workflows is a nice touch.

spider-mario•40 minutes ago

Tried to build it but it references a `cmake/GenerateMenuHelpHeader.cmake` that seems to be absent from the repository?

pmkary•19 minutes ago

Cool!

ulfw•about 2 hours ago

A screenshot or two would have been nice

qingcharles•about 2 hours ago

There are pics from the developer in this article (not sure why he neglected them in the README):

https://www.neowin.net/news/developer-ported-word-for-window...

hulitu•about 1 hour ago

Wow, it really looks like Win 10/11. Microsoft is back to the roots now. But Word 1.0 even has 3d GUI elements. They must have had impressive computers back then.

warpech•about 2 hours ago

There is a screenshot in the original source code release: https://computerhistory.org/blog/microsoft-word-for-windows-...

consp•about 2 hours ago

Might the lack there of be copyright related? I guess not something you want to burn your hands on.

qingcharles•about 2 hours ago

The original source for WfW 1.1a was open sourced (I realize that doesn't mean there isn't copyright, but it's unlikely to be the reason that there are no pics):

https://github.com/danielcosta/MSWORD

hnlmorg•about 1 hour ago

The point of open source is to address and concerns around copyright. And this source is not open source by the definition most people use when they refer to “open source”. It’s still proprietary but source available.

However I will say, this source is unlikely to be useful to anyone beyond academic curiosity. So for the purposes of this project, the source license is “good enough”.

zatkin•about 1 hour ago

>This project is a fully working native Windows x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, whose historical codename was Opus.

Not to be confused with the Anthropic LLM model Opus - what was once an old codename is as good as new once again!

userbinator•about 1 hour ago

Would be ironic if Claude Opus was used in making this port. IMHO the README does have a bit of LLM smell to it.

pcblues•37 minutes ago

Check in the github src directory.

dsign•about 1 hour ago

I came here to say that. Though not in a bad way; the economics of what is possible but practical/impractical changes greatly with LLMs, and I suspect and hope we will be figuring out the ramifications for a while.

trvz•about 1 hour ago

It’s a common word amongst people with even a bit of erudition. In truth, using it for any kind of software is overusing it.

IsTom•about 1 hour ago

And not to be confused with its plural form "opera".

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

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