Jun 26, 2023 21:00:00

Unexpected chat AI for Windows 3.1 'WinGPT' appeared

Chat AI, whose use expanded rapidly in 2022, has been released in various forms such as web applications and smartphone applications. A new chat AI application ' WinGPT ' that runs on Windows 3.1 has been released.

WinGPT

https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/

Below is how WinGPT actually works on Windows 3.1. In response to the question 'Who is the current American president?', 'George H.W.

WinGPT is developed using C language and Windows API, and compiled for 16bit using the compiler '

Open Watcom v2 '. Also, the UI is mostly written in C language.

Also, the icon is created with Borland's image editing software 'Image Editor'.

A ZIP file containing WinGPT's executable file can be downloaded by clicking 'Binaries for 16-bit and 32-bit Windows' at the bottom of

the distribution page . However, of course WinGPT cannot be run on 64-bit versions of Windows 10 or Windows 11.

In addition, Windows 3.1 does not support the encrypted communication protocol 'TLS', so you cannot use the ChatGPT API as it is. Therefore, in the development of WinGPT, a mechanism to realize TLS connection with Windows 3.1 is also built. The following page provides technical explanations for realizing TLS communication on Windows 3.1, and also distributes WinGPT source code.

Modern TLS/SSL on 16-bit Windows
https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/tls.html