According to the author's bluesky posts, there's a few features missing from Win32s compared to regular Win32 that prevent this from being ported even further back to windows 3.1 easily.
pjmlp 24 hours ago [-]
"General limitations under Win32s (131896)", surviving technical note.
How long until they get slapped with a trademark claim?
account42 9 hours ago [-]
Why would Discord need a trademark claim - they control the backend so they can shut down third-party clients and/or ban users using them whenever they want.
jeffwask 1 days ago [-]
I don't think Discord cares as long as their backend still gets to harvest all the data.
thatguy0900 1 days ago [-]
Ripcord is a third party discord client that's been around for quite a while, as far as I'm aware they haven't run into any trouble. And they actually might get used as opposed to someone seriously trying to run discord on windows 95
DoctorOW 1 days ago [-]
I think the root of the problem in this one is that it's named "Discord Messenger", Ripcord is reminiscent but not confusing.
thatguy0900 1 days ago [-]
That's fair
bathwaterpizza 1 days ago [-]
Same for Vencord/Vesktop
zxvkhkxvdvbdxz 1 days ago [-]
Cool project, but it is missing central features of Discord such as voice and screen sharing.
RestartKernel 15 hours ago [-]
It'd be interesting to see this project develop further, if only to get WebRTC running on Win95 (iirc).
johnisgood 16 hours ago [-]
I mean, it is for Win95 and Win98.
mmmlinux 2 hours ago [-]
What do you mean my 250mhz processor cant handle voice chat and screen sharing?
johnisgood 38 minutes ago [-]
What I mean is, they are the potential limitations:
1. Modern VoIP applications are incompatible with Windows 95/98
2. Hardware availability
3. Networking issues
4. Driver support
5. Obsolete Protocols
6. Performance limitations (indeed, modern audio codecs may be an issue, incl. Opus and AAC)
A 250 MHz processor can handle basic voice chat but with significant limitations, and there is much more to it when it comes to practice... so while technically a 250 MHz processor might (for historical experimentation or nostalgia), in reality it is not practical for functional use today.
umajho 14 hours ago [-]
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Download for the Win95 version: https://github.com/DiscordMessenger/dm/releases/tag/v1.07a
https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.microsoft.com/MISC/KB/...
1. Modern VoIP applications are incompatible with Windows 95/98
2. Hardware availability
3. Networking issues
4. Driver support
5. Obsolete Protocols
6. Performance limitations (indeed, modern audio codecs may be an issue, incl. Opus and AAC)
A 250 MHz processor can handle basic voice chat but with significant limitations, and there is much more to it when it comes to practice... so while technically a 250 MHz processor might (for historical experimentation or nostalgia), in reality it is not practical for functional use today.