Still planning that trip to the Moon.
I totally agree with you and I know it was always going to be a long shot. For what it’s worth, the whole thing is local and you can see on all network reports there is no telemetry, no communication with any servers at any time. But I get it - this should not be your homework, nor yours to prove. Still. Maybe someone here will find it helpful.
Not open-source for now, sorry, but I do consider open-sourcing the networking layer one day though. I am very proud of it and I am sure it would help many projects. It’s an amazing peer to peer system with many helpers like broadcasting, managing connections, discovering peers and so on. But the whole app needs a lot of stabilization so definitely not ready to be slapped publicly on GitHub.
86Box can emulate the 8088 and WinWorld has the first version of DESQView so I might just try it. As for how they did it…I wouldn’t know.
Oh congratulations for your kid’s software! In fairness, I don’t even think I will ever get to charge anything for my software. I was thinking maybe if I reach 1000 users I would do that, but I am basically at zero currently so…