RetroComputing

RC2022/10: Weekend One

2022-10-03 05:39 +0200

Taking Stock

I started out by looking at what I had, and figuring out what to work on first. Immediately, I noticed memory usage was a little higher than I remembered. Looking closer, it seems the most likely culprit is simply the libraries being loaded - there’s a few:

libjpeg
libpng (statically linked into the core dll since the makefile built a static version)
libcurl
openssl (pulled in by libcurl, though I might use it directly later)
cJSON
zlib (needed by libpng)

Of these, openssl is the largest. I’m not actually using most of these right now, and I am actually tempted to use a design which does not depend on libcurl, however I’ll still need openssl (or similar).

RC2022/10: Project Introduction

2022-10-01 18:38 +0200

This tweet says it all really:

New RC2022/10 entry from @mich181189
Platform: Windows 2000/XP
Project : make a Twitter client for Windows 2000/XP (maybe also Win 98). Maybe Retro Challenge is enough of a motivation to revive this project?
It's going to be an awful twitter client, but I think it should work!
— RetroChallenge (@retrochallenge) September 28, 2022

So yeah… I signed up for the Retro Challenge 2022/10, my project is a Twitter client that’s compatible with Windows 2000/XP and maybe even Windows 98.