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Yeah, and that's even more confusing than using it for public/private. It just shouldn't have been a thing. I think I stopped trying to seriously gain experience with Objective-C after noticing that.

I was even kinda okay with the [callee verbingTheSubject withFooValueBeing 7 andBarValueSetTo "good argument"] but that was just too much.

It’s not the most accessible colour scheme - I’ll have a look and tweak it so dark mode is more readable.

I’d definitely be really grateful for help with that! I’m not planning to publish to the Mac App Store, but it would be great to have the build step a bit more compliant with current practises.

I was very confused by your comment because for me the background is clouds with black text.

Turns out it changes based on light/dark mode.

It was a really nifty visual website builder. I was sad when it went. Fantastic in the days when ISPs threw in a bit of webspace for customers to play with

My son is playing Reader Rabbit from 2001 on my Windows 10 laptop.

I had to clock "enable 640x480" compatibility mode and I need to directly run the EXE (the wrapper launcher doesn't work) but otherwise it works fine.

Depends on your definition of 'run' - for example, old games (pre DirectX 9) now run through an emulated DirectX layer (they removed the native implementation in Windows 8), and it makes the games perform much worse on modern machines than they used to run on decent machines back in the day.

There are some reimplemetations like dgVoodoo2 and DXWrapper but they can be pretty buggy.

Yeah, that’s the downside to swapping architectures. x86 goes to great pains to be backward-compatible at the instruction level, and then MS puts a lot of effort into keeping Windows backwards compatible.

A couple years back on Windows 10 I successfully installed and used a PCB layout tool from 1998. I was shocked at how smooth it went. I think it needed to run as administrator but otherwise zero issues.

Not really, depends from what era as well, even though Windows is more backwards compatible.

Win16 is only supported up to Windows 10.

Win32 did not run in special variations of Windows 8, like Windows RT tablets, where only UWP was supported (guess why they didn't took off).

All Windows versions that descend from Windows NT, also support many architectures, only a few had x86 emulators.

The latest attempt to push Windows on ARM, only started taking off with Arm64EC binaries, which are the Windows version of fat binaries, and the emulator isn't as good as Rosetta.

Finally even Microsoft does indeed drop functions every now and then, even if that is a seldom event.

Then the random exe might appear run, but crash into issues like modern HDPi, new security model,...

I came here to say the same thing! I used an ancient (DOS) version of it to get me through high school French, German, Latin and so on. Fond memories.

Flat is just modern macOS, but I agree. I miss colour.

Agreed - updated with colour again

Worst case, I guess you could set up an emulated VM running an Intel variant of macOS?

I think OP is confused about how Anki works. It can totally be used the same as this tool if you just hit '1' for things you got wrong and '3' for things you got right. '2' and '4' are more power user levels of control.