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Question: You said you learned win32 as you wrote winamp. Did you read petzold? How'd you get started learning win32 for the project?
Asked by Will (24.234.128.x) on September 22 2010, 3:43pm
Reply on September 22 2010, 10:39pm (edited at September 22 2010, 10:40pm):
    I did read some of Petzold's book (Programming Windows 95, I believe), but didn't much mesh with the style of programming. My Windows programming until maybe 2002 was pretty awful. Now it's just a little awful.

    There was a lot of experimenting, and I didn't use version control back in the day, so things were a bit chaotic.

    What was funny, though, is at some point Winamp because ubiquitous enough that audio hardware driver makers would use Winamp to test with, so it was widely supported (even though it wasn't necessarily "correct" to begin with). Heh.
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