Tronix
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Looking for Windows 3.0 DDK
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alecv
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Chuck(G)
25k Member
I've got the real thing--paper books and all, but Moscow's a long way away. 
Tronix
Experienced Member
No, description not actual. It's Win 3.0 SDK (Software Development Kit). Not Device Development Kit (DDK).
Tronix
Experienced Member
Can you dump diskettes and share it, please? Paper books not needed....
Chuck(G)
25k Member
I'll dig it out sometime this week and see what I can do.
alecv
Experienced Member
It seems there was no "official" Windows 3.0x DDK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Kit
There was also book :
Daniel A. Norton (not Piter Norton!)
Writing Windows Device Drivers
Addison-Wesley Publisihing Company, 1992
ISBN: 0-201-57795-X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Kit
There was also book :
Daniel A. Norton (not Piter Norton!)
Writing Windows Device Drivers
Addison-Wesley Publisihing Company, 1992
ISBN: 0-201-57795-X
krebizfan
Veteran Member
Wikipedia is wrong on this. I don't believe it was given a fancy name but there were device driver kits for Windows 2.x and Windows 3.0. Available for special order instead of Win 3.1 DDK which was provided to everyone. Probably also Windows 1.x but I wasn't doing Windows programming then.
gslick
Veteran Member
July 9, 1990 issue of InfoWorld says the Windows 3.0 SDK and DDK are available.
Jackson
Experienced Member
Oh yes, paper books needed! BetaArchive is missing this essential piece, and it is good to preserve everything.
Tronix
Experienced Member
No news?
Chuck(G)
25k Member
Haven't gotten to it yet. Will give it a go today.
You probably want to take this discussion as PM rather than clutter up the list with it.
Ugh, this is going to be difficult--I've got several thousand disks to go through. What bugs me is that I can't find the manuals--and I know I have those. Probably hiding in a box somewhere.
Are you sure that you can't use a 3.1 DDK? That one's easy.
You probably want to take this discussion as PM rather than clutter up the list with it.
Ugh, this is going to be difficult--I've got several thousand disks to go through. What bugs me is that I can't find the manuals--and I know I have those. Probably hiding in a box somewhere.
Are you sure that you can't use a 3.1 DDK? That one's easy.
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Tronix
Experienced Member
Yes, i am sure. I want to modify and recompile VGA video driver for Win 3.0. I tried to compile VGA driver from Win 3.1 DDK, but no success.
Chuck(G)
25k Member
I'll keep looking, but no time schedule.
Tronix
Experienced Member
Still looking for....
Plasma
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Why would you post disk images with the stoned virus
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MasawVx
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it has Stoned.AA 
Al Kossow
Documentation Wizard
I had it up with the virus for like two hours and fixed it
the fixed version has no password
the second manual is OCRing
-- ah... this didn't come from bitsavers
A post was made yesterday on the Applesauce discord trying to determine if it had a boot virus
If someone knew that password, they leaked it from the short discord discussion and it was fixed within a half
hour. the version with the password was never on bitsavers. also, the infected .imds in it have names with _infected
in them
I had been searching for this since it was asked for in 2017 and it showed up a week ago in some things
that I was just given
I just popped over to this thread to post the availability after spending half a day cleaning up the scanned
manuals, and see this :-(
Really curious how much of the VM description in the DDK survived in later documentation.
Oh, did I mention betawiki are assholes? They nagged me for months to give them a copy of a beta windows CD I bought on eBay
the fixed version has no password
the second manual is OCRing
-- ah... this didn't come from bitsavers
A post was made yesterday on the Applesauce discord trying to determine if it had a boot virus
If someone knew that password, they leaked it from the short discord discussion and it was fixed within a half
hour. the version with the password was never on bitsavers. also, the infected .imds in it have names with _infected
in them
I had been searching for this since it was asked for in 2017 and it showed up a week ago in some things
that I was just given
I just popped over to this thread to post the availability after spending half a day cleaning up the scanned
manuals, and see this :-(
Really curious how much of the VM description in the DDK survived in later documentation.
Oh, did I mention betawiki are assholes? They nagged me for months to give them a copy of a beta windows CD I bought on eBay
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NeXT
Veteran Member
Hay man, you gotta save that random beta build that feels completely the same as the countless other test builds because this one has a few unimportant DLL's tweaked. Could be someone's ticket to fame for discovering history!
