Just bored. What software should I create.

[TheLeftOldComputer]

I'm an advanced developer. I maded alot of WinXP projects but I kinda ran out of ideas so post whatever you want. you can make it imaginary and hard as possible or just a normal idea.

[AstroSkipper]

Hi @TheLeftOldComputer! Many antimalware programmes are no longer compatible with Windows XP but ClamWin has always been. Unfortunately, it does not have a real-time protection. Only an additional tool called Clam Sentinel which has no longer been developed for years and never was a good one. It could only use ClamWin to scan downloaded files. So what about a programme based on the open source ClamAV with its virus definition databases which offers real-time protection? Or a fork of ClamWin with real-time protection and still compatible with CPU's only having the instruction set SSE?

Kind regards, AstroSkipper

Edited July 28 by AstroSkipper
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[user57]

1 hour ago, TheLeftOldComputer said:

I'm an advanced developer. I maded alot of WinXP projects but I kinda ran out of ideas so post whatever you want. you can make it imaginary and hard as possible or just a normal idea.

well we took the .heic image format, c++"standart 23+" compiler was taken, google chrome was taken

 

however a video H.266 codec (.266) both video and image is missing

AVIF (.avif) are also still missing (the methods are very similiar to heic but)

 

 

there still open questions, maybe the others point out some things too (dibya for example wants to take firefox)

a other thing we could need are new ISO´s, not these what spawn upgrade installers after they installed SP3 - no thats not what we want we want these files being installed due the windows installer

 

while a few other things dont have very elegant solutions the TLS 1.2 for example, i thought i make a installer out of that (instead of installing 3 KB upgrades and creating registry entrys manually)

the directx10/11 maybe 12? sometimes seems to have problems too or need the OCA 

you could improve some existing codes too the OCA recently came up with an experimental version (that still has many bugs) 

[ED_Sln]

Compile an up-to-date version of MPC-HC/MPC-BE, but with VMR7/9 support so that hardware acceleration works.

[FantasyAcquiesce]

9 hours ago, TheLeftOldComputer said:

I'm an advanced developer. I maded alot of WinXP projects but I kinda ran out of ideas so post whatever you want. you can make it imaginary and hard as possible or just a normal idea.

A few ideas. But, they're likely too complicated:

• Backport of the latest VLC
• Backporting the latest LibreOffice
• Backport of modern document viewers
• Creation of a quality offline SAPI5 TTS voice- it's still super difficult to find one without forking over a bunch of money
• Fix Keynote NF to work on Windows 95 and XP natively
• Port Linux drivers to Windows for unsupported Windows XP
• Backport Windows 8.1 or 10's ACPI.sys to Windows XP

[dmiranda]

Cheers! There is this very old app (late 1990s) called ANNOTSX (https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/ANNOTSX.shtml). It creates a context tab in properties for files and folders. I have used it to remind myself about particular instructions for certain files and folders.

I have no clue where it writes those notes to, but I always thought that it could be used to develop a tag system (I've tried many freeware that do something like that, but ended up getting rid of them: too complex, too heavy, too slow, don't really so the job).

Basically, I propose you kill your boredom creating an app that can look at ANNOTSX annotations (wherever they are), and allow to search for them across folders/drives. I see w10-11 now have something like what I'm talking about, as per  https://www.lifewire.com/tag-files-in-windows-4587240.

Would it be possible to use ANNOTSX's to replicate that functionality in XP (and precedents, perhaps, but at least XP up?)

Be well.

 

Edited July 29 by dmiranda

[Sampei.Nihira]

Advanced Anti-Exploit software such as was EMET later transformed into WDEP.
Less interesting,in my opinion, (but you decide as you see fit) make a fork of Hitman Pro Alert or MalwareBytes Anti-Exploit.

[genieautravail]

On 7/29/2024 at 12:55 AM, AstroSkipper said:

Hi @TheLeftOldComputer! Many antimalware programmes are no longer compatible with Windows XP but ClamWin has always been. Unfortunately, it does not have a real-time protection. Only an additional tool called Clam Sentinel which has no longer been developed for years and never was a good one. It could only use ClamWin to scan downloaded files. So what about a programme based on the open source ClamAV with its virus definition databases which offers real-time protection? Or a fork of ClamWin with real-time protection and still compatible with CPU's only having the instruction set SSE?

 

On 7/29/2024 at 7:07 AM, ED_Sln said:

Compile an up-to-date version of MPC-HC/MPC-BE, but with VMR7/9 support so that hardware acceleration works.

 

On 7/29/2024 at 9:35 AM, FantasyAcquiesce said:

• Backport of the latest VLC
• Backporting the latest LibreOffice
• Backport of modern document viewers
• Creation of a quality offline SAPI5 TTS voice- it's still super difficult to find one without forking over a bunch of money
• Fix Keynote NF to work on Windows 95 and XP natively
• Port Linux drivers to Windows for unsupported Windows XP
• Backport Windows 8.1 or 10's ACPI.sys to Windows XP

 

21 hours ago, Sampei.Nihira said:

Advanced Anti-Exploit software such as was EMET later transformed into WDEP.
Less interesting,in my opinion, (but you decide as you see fit) make a fork of Hitman Pro Alert or MalwareBytes Anti-Exploit.

You are Incredible guys!

@TheLeftOldComputer, perhaps can you rewrite on your free time the framework of the universe in the Matrix style and give the power to XP forever ?

Otherwise and more seriously, you can for example ask to @Zorba the Geek if he need help for his project of KernelEx for Windows XP.

Regards

 

 

[genieautravail]

@TheLeftOldComputer

Other possibility:

@K4sum1 is developing Eclipse r3dfox, a browser based on Firefox.

The browser can works on XP with One-Core API:

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/issues/129

Perhaps can you slipstream One-Core API directly into the browser ?

A guy was doing that on the My Digital Life forum.

Regards

Edited July 30 by genieautravail

[D.Draker]

On 7/28/2024 at 6:04 PM, TheLeftOldComputer said:

I'm an advanced developer. I maded alot of WinXP projects

Could we be granted the ability to look at them? 

[D.Draker]

On 7/28/2024 at 6:04 PM, TheLeftOldComputer said:

I kinda ran out of ideas so post whatever you want. you can make it imaginary and hard as possible or just a normal idea.

Oh, and we also would need to figure out what suitable punishment to apply to you if nothing happens.

[AstroSkipper]

On 7/29/2024 at 12:04 AM, TheLeftOldComputer said:

I maded alot of WinXP projects

Indeed, it would be interesting to see what kind of Windows XP projects you made so far.  Did you already release some of your projects, for example, on GitHub?  Are your projects open source?

Edited July 30 by AstroSkipper
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[K4sum1]

Something cool would be QT 5.7+ and 6.x backported to XP. Then after that, a fork of nheko compatible with XP.

On 7/29/2024 at 2:35 AM, FantasyAcquiesce said:

Backport of the latest VLC

I'm fairly certain VLC still supports XP. Although I would be interested in a fork of the last 2.x version with the newer codecs in 3.x. VLC 3 is a bit too buggy for my liking.

58 minutes ago, genieautravail said:

Eclipse r3dfox, a browser based on firefox.

The browser can works on XP with One-Core API:

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/issues/129

Perhaps can you slipstream one-Core API directly into the browser ?

At that point, just install One Core API. I'd make exceptions for stuff like DirectWrite as using DWrite.dll from OCAPI or Wine would theoretically benefit Vista+ too. I would rather the main codebase be made compatible with XP.

Edited July 30 by K4sum1

[Sampei.Nihira]

4 hours ago, genieautravail said:

 

 

 

You are Incredible guys!

@TheLeftOldComputer, perhaps can you rewrite on your free time the framework of the universe in the Matrix style and give the power to XP forever ?

Otherwise and more seriously, you can for example ask to @Zorba the Geek if he need help for his project of KernelEx for Windows XP.

Regards

 

 

Did I write something excessively ridiculous?
EMET was perfectly usable in Windows XP:

https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/what-is-your-security-setup-these-days.111264/page-1190#post-2222301

Indeed it was I who showed Pedro Bustamante that it could be combined with MBAE (as you can see in the link,originally, the software was named differently).

Then of course market logic meant that MBAE introduced an incompatibility during installation.