Notices tagged with msdos, page 3

Here's an updated mini-album of my most recent games for DOS. If you want to check them out, you can visit my site at http://dos.cyningstan.org.uk/ #ibmpc #msdos #cga

Using the "new" 5.25inch, 40-track drive, I just uploaded a whole stack of fresh disk images to archive.org.

Have fun!

- BeckerTools: https://archive.org/details/beckertools_525_kryoflux
- SimAnt English: https://archive.org/details/simant_kfx
- SimAnt German: https://archive.org/details/simant_de_img
- Flight Simulator 4.0a English: https://archive.org/details/fltsim4_en_kfx_525
- Flight Simulator 4.0 German: https://archive.org/details/fltsim4_de_kfx_525
- SimCity v1.02, EU Release: https://archive.org/details/simcity_525_kryoflux

#KryoFlux #FloppyDisk #Diskette #Preservation #RetroGaming #MSDOS #archive_org

New video: Let's Code MS DOS 0x26: AdLib Drum Machine

Programming the OPL2 FM chip on the original AdLib card can be a bit tedious. Join me in this episode to learn how to program the drums on the AdLib card to create a simple sequencer or drum machine. In the future we will also look at the melodic instruments, but for now we try to create some nice percussion!

https://youtu.be/kP2B9a7Btpk

#letscode #msdos #opl2 #retrocomputing

ms-dos story time

so way back in 1990, my family still hadn't made the jump to a PC yet. all we had was a TRS-80 Color Computer, and a Mattel Intellivision.

but we had just moved to an acreage in another province, and i found out that one of the neighbours' dads had a computer: a Zenith AT/XT

my friend's dad would come home with random diskettes, probably copied from someone at his chemical engineering job. we'd pop them in and usually find something decent to play.

we played a lot of cga two-player SOPWITH.COM and a moon patrol clone that was honestly pretty good, even in eyeball-piercing magenta.

but one day he came home with a disk that just said 'JOLT' on it. we ran the exe, and i was instantly blown away. it was a jolt can, perfectly digitized in VGA, spinning around in circles faster and faster, until it was barely recognizable. i watched the animation a dozen times before my friends got bored and wanted to play something else.

the next day, i told my best friends at school about the animation. no one believed me, and the diskette "mysteriously" disappeared the next time i visited my buddy's house.

i was haunted by the jolt cola can animation for decades. that is, until a while ago i ended up finding it buried in an ms-dos demoscene site.

here it is, over 30 years later, with an original file date of February 22, 1990. ❤️

#msdos #demoscene #bbs

DOS ain't dead: an article in the MagPi magazine, featuring various games including #barrenplanet https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/dos-aint-dead #msdos

Text is one of the most fundamental things people work with when using a computer. Yet there's a lot more to text than meets the eye - text encodings, codepages, scancodes, font hinting and kerning, complex script handling, endianness, OS-dependent line endings, extended ASCII for drawing "pictures" in text, control "characters", etc., etc. I'd have to learn a fair bit in order to make a good article on it, but should I try and write an article on what a computer's idea of "text" is and the history behind it?

#text #computers #linux #windows #macos #classicmac #retrocomputing #msdos #unicode #fonts #hardware

Oh my Goth! @dutchtux got #Typescript running on #DOjS. Now you can have #Javascript and #Typescript in #MSDOS 😊

https://github.com/dutchtux3000/dojs-typescript

I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):

- Added #Linux executables for #Arch and #Ubuntu

Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS

Okay, I've seen plenty of MS-DOS games using PKZIP SFX, LHA is also quite common, especially with Amiga games. But, I think, Commander Keen is the first game in my retro library I noticed to use ARJ SFX. It must be pretty rare...

Also: Commander Keen! 🙂

#RetroGaming #MSDOS #Emulation #86Box

The Amsterdam Compiler Kit (#ack) makes it very easy to setup (C, Fortran, Basic, Pascal) cross compilers for #cpm and #msdos (both real and protected mode) targets. I did work on a little library with it to make it a bit easier to do pure c98 development and used this project to standardize future ack practices. I may see if I can do a useful subset of it with #sdcpp .

I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):
- Updates to #mbedTLS, #curl and kuba ZIP

Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS

The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded - Enlarge / The IBM PC 5150. (credit: SSPL/Getty Images)

Microso... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1993233 #retrocomputing #microsoft #86-dos #ms-dos #pc-dos #ibmpc #tech

Someone recently discovered the early copy of 86-DOS (the pre-cursor to PC-DOS/MS-DOS). This person made a video exploring it. This is version 0.11 from July 1980 previously seen by less than a dozen people.

#RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #history #msdos #microsoft #86dos
Exploring The Hidden Roots of MS-DOS: 86-DOS 0.11 (1980)

8x8 Font Advent Calendar 2023 Day 18

Discworld

Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels are a fantastical comedic romp through a crazy world of heroes, villains and improbable but familiar situations.

The 1995 graphical adventure loosely follows the "Guards, Guards!" book and adorns the game with gorgeous art and voice acting and a small pixel font for us to admire.

https://download.damieng.com/fonts/conversions/Discworld.zip

#adventoffonts #fonts #pixelfonts #msdos #discworld

If you have ever worked with Deluxe Paint or heard about it, be sure to check out PyDPainter, a great and free resurrection of the legendary DPaint pixel editor.

https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter

#pixel #PixelArt #graphics #GameDev #RetroComputing #tool #editor #tip #FediTips #Commodore #Amiga #MSDOS #retro

So, I remember a game from the early 90s that was a dungeon crawler, but everything was branded with I think IOMEGA, and you had to hunt down bad sectors.

I'm pretty sure it came as a bonus with a box of 3.5" floppies.

I can't seem to find anything on google, is there a decent list of #RetroGames #MSDOS #DOSGames somewhere?

So has anybody ever tried this "internet" thing? #RetroComputing #MSDOS #Windows95 #VintageComputing #internet

In case you missed it, there are now several #RetroComputing Mastodon apps available:

:apple_inc: Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/binary-release-of-mastodon-for-the-apple-c/

:apple_inc: Apple Macintosh OS (pre-OSX)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

:amiga: Commodore Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon

⌨️ IBM MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON

:win3_msdos: MS-DOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

:windows: Windows 95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups

#FediTips #Mastodon #ComputingHistory #MSDOS #AppleII #Mac #MacOS #Amiga #Commodore #CommodoreAmiga #Windows95 #Win95 #MVS

This is ported over from my old qoto.org instance (and shortened... no 65K char limit luxury here). I used to be @alecui

#introduction #intro #introductions

Hi! o/

I am Ștefan (ș as sh, I also accept Stephan or the equivalent in your language). I’m 21 years old, ♑, he/him, proud #leftist and soon to graduate CS @ UVABc. Sort of proudly living in #romania. My native language is Romanian, fairly proficient at English, slowly learning #finnish (and #italian).

Tried a lot of programming languages in my childhood up until now, a non-chronological list of ones that stuck with me for one reason or another being: VB6 (that’s what I started on at 8 years old), #pascal (+ #freepascal and #delphi), #perl (+ #raku), #tcl #tcltk, #lisp (usually #scheme, on a good day #elisp #emacslisp and #commonlisp), #elixir, #php, #forth, #lua, #oberon, #modula-2, #cpp #c++, #ocaml, #fsharp, #smalltalk (+ #squeak #pharo #self), #ada, #powershell, #dart, #matlab, #rlang, #zig, #nim, #cobol and #julia. I’m flexible in learning new languages and technologies if needed.

I also do #sudoku and #math for fun (especially functional equations and number theory problems, sometimes calculus and geometric algebra). I am interested in #linguists, #conlangs (#lojban and #esperanto) and #nlp, contemporary (post-‘45, usually post-‘89 for me) history, #balkan history, lower-level stuff (I like to learn about how tools around me work, I’m most interested in #compilers, #emulators and #microcontrollers), #typography and #texlatex, #linux + #bsd, #msdos, #amiga, #oberon, #plan9, #philosophy, #astronomy (especially in a worldbuilding context) and #philosophy, along with other less notable interests.

Nazis and fascists can have a merry fuck off, DNI with me. I am also a spiritual person, a #deist and I find #astrology and #tarot interesting.

I hope I'm welcome here!

n o s t a l g i a

#QuickBasic #MSDOS #Caturday #RetroComputing