API for older windows versions 1.0 and 2.0?

[JT64]

How was applications programmed for early windows, did they conform to a standard what language is the windows framework developed in. Did they have to license developing software to make a windows application?

 

[JT64]

If someone throw me a developing suite i promise to make some nifty games ;D for your old 8086 and 8088 to run in windows.

 

[xprt]

You bought the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) and applications were written in C. But the API functions used the Pascal calling convention, I don't remember why. Here is a relatively recent talk about looking back at Windows 1.0: http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/Windows1/index.html