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Nostalgia: Turbo Pascal 7 installed. Is it usable? No idea, it's just fun to be working with FreeDOS and TP again.
The Euphoria programming language is included in the FreeDOS program library. A beautiful language, easy to learn and very fast. The data objects in the language consist of numeric values or lists of numeric values. Text, numbers, and character strings can be part of a series. I bought the language in 1997 for $49.00.
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If a USB memory stick is offered before the PC boots up, the stick will be available as a drive after startup. So the USB problem is solved for now. The annoying thing is having to restart your PC every time you change the memory stick.
My old HP Compaq NC6120 stopped working with Linux AntiX. The last boot crashed. It is an very old one from 2007 with all the nice interfaces such as a parallel printer printer port, RS232 serial port, VGA port, 3x USB and a DVD-writer. It is a real electronics tech machine.
I installed FreeDos 1.4. No network and USB support yet. Options: NetMount client 1.5.0 and server 1.4.1 to connect to my Linux PC.
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Jim Hall takes us back to the days of 640K RAM, .COM files, and assembler hacks. Explore how hardware constraints led to programming brilliance in the early days of As-Easy-As.
https://allthingsopen.org/articles/as-easy-as-paris-karahalios-part-4-edge-hardware-constraints
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Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4 https://hackaday.com/2025/08/06/jennys-daily-drivers-freedos-1-4/ #HackadayColumns #computerhacks #SoftwareHacks #freedos #16bit #dos
Hackaday · Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an A500+ from my Sinclair Spectrum. The Amiga could do it all, it became my programming environment for electronic eng…
Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4 - When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/06/jennys-daily-drivers-freedos-1-4/ #hackadaycolumns #computerhacks #softwarehacks #freedos #16bit #dos
Hackaday · Jenny’s Daily Drivers: FreeDOS 1.4When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an A500+ from my Sinclair Spectrum. The Amiga could do it all, it became my programming environment for electronic eng…
Today's mission is to try to fix the floppy drive in this badboy.
A thread.
I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):
- Updated #curl to 8.14.1
- Updated #mbedTLS to 3.6.4
- Enabled HTTP 3xx redirections
Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
Screenshot is showing both, the DOS ( @DOSBox_Staging ) and the the win32 version (Win10).
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Jim Hall dives into DOS graphics with a simple C program that draws Sierpinski’s Triangle using just a few lines of code. No toolkits. Pure retro joy.
https://allthingsopen.org/articles/intro-dos-graphics-programming
It's a tiny one! I'm going to embed this inside a CRT to make an all-in-one. Must be one of those CRTs with speakers attached or built in. #freedos #dos #msdos #retrogaming #retrocomputing
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@PaulaMaddox @rasteri @polpo which makes total sense...
Personally, if I had like €1M I'd propably consider starting a company that basically builds a "#TinyRetro" with like a #FlashFloppy, #PicoGUS, #QuadFlop and all the other parts (incl. #IDE controller & IDE->SATA Adaptor) on a #MiniITX form factor (with one of those SOMs) and a spare #ISA slot which then fits into a compact case like the #M350 or similar.
- Kinda like the #CommanderX16 but for #16bit & #32bit #PC / #DOS gaming.
Think of it as a faster alternative to the #NuXT...
Time for a #DOS #retrogaming #LAN party!
We're going to play Carmageddon, C&C, Descent, Doom (1,2), Duke3D, GTA, OMF2097, Quake, Red Alert, Rise of the Triad, Terminal Velocity, and Warcraft 2.
Running FreeDOS and 8086tiny on the Game Boy Advance Because You Can https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/running-freedos-and-8086tiny-on-the-game-boy-advance-because-you-can/ #NintendoGameBoyHacks #handheldshacks #gameboyadvance #freedos #8086
Hackaday · Running FreeDOS And 8086tiny On The Game Boy Advance Because You CanHow many people haven’t looked at their Game Boy Advance (GBA) handheld gaming device and wondered how much better it might be if it could run FreeDOS. Inside an 8086 emulator. If you’r…
Today I found out:
My eeePC running #FreeDOS works much better than the #Pocket386. Must have something to do with 2G of memory vs 8M.
And 15x faster CPU.
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@merlin so what are you gonna do then?
#OpenBSD? #DragonflyBSD? #FreeDOS or #Linux?
- Honest question, I'm curious...
Modern computers have tons of memory & disk. My desktop PC has 32GB memory and ¼TB NVME storage.
It's hard for some to imagine what programming was like when memory was counted in kilobytes and disks were single digit megabytes.
Here's a demonstration using #FreeDOS with 640kb memory and 5MB disk, using just #edlin and a C compiler to write programs. 
“Code like it’s the 1980s”
