Question: Once every decade I get the itch to boot up a Windows 1.0 environment to poke around at it and marvel at how far we've come. However, in any of the environments I've seen (say [PCjs](https://www.pcjs.org/)), they never seem to have anything other than the default applications which came with Windows (e.g. WRITE.EXE, CALC.EXE, etc.)

I've tried using Google to find old Windows 1.0 applications, but what you end up with is simply version 1.0's of applications written for Windows, not applications written **for** Windows 1.0.

So that being said, is anyone aware of a repository of software designed for this ancient version of Windows? Even Windows 2.0 (whether 286 or 386 versions) would probably suffice.

Answer: 
David Simunič maintains a [website](https://win1.krnl386.com/) dedicated to Windows 1.0, which includes lists of [third-party software](https://win1.krnl386.com/software/thirdparty.html) for it. I don't believe he hosts the software itself, but knowing the names of packages may make it easier to track them down.

The only software from the list that I've personally installed and used is Micrografx In\*a\*Vision.
[Internet Archive](https://archive.org) holds a repository of retrocomputing software, some runnable in browser emulations. Searching for ["Windows 2.0"](https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22windows%202.0%22&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22software%22) and ["Windows 1.0"](https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22windows%201.0%22&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22software%22) software yields some hits for applications, including CD-ROMs of shareware collections.

(The keyword search is imprecise and also locates software for later versions of Windows, but you may find some surprises.)