Notices tagged with msdos, page 4

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

Windows 3.1 just trashed my FAT. Let’s see if PC Tools‘ DiskFix can repair it…
#retrocomputing #msdos

Beneath Apple Manor

A very interesting article about Beneath Apple Manor (1978) who predates Rogue by 2 years & was the 1st commercial Rogue Like. BAM already had advanced gameplay.

https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2012/12/game-79-beneath-apple-manor-1978.html

You can get the MSDOS version (1983) on Don D. Worth website: http://worth.bol.ucla.edu & play it!

#MSDOS #DOSBox #Apple #AppleII #rpg #fantasy #dungeoncrawler #rogue #roguelike #freeware #gaming #videogames #games #retro #retrogaming #oldcomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

has a Tseng Labs ET4000AX maxed out to 1mb on the board

i was hoping for VLB but the AX is a 16bit bus, however it is still one of the best SVGA chips of the day

and has 128k of direct mapped L2 cache, which is enough to support that 32mb RAM 😀

#retrocomputing #retropc #MSDOS #DOSgaming

it lives!

kinda surprised they crammed 32mb in it but they didn't upgrade the CPU? 🙃

would love to get an IBM 5x86 100mhz in it like my first 486 had

wonder if the person i left it with still has it...

sadly nothing more i can do with it until i find some ribbon cables

and it needs an ethernet card

#retrocomputing #retropc #MSDOS #DOSgaming

okay now we need a hard drive

can't find the ~300mb drive i was thinking of, i dumped most every hard drive i had under 40gb at Free Geek Twin Cities when i moved

could be absurd and put a 120gb drive in it 🙃

but i found this one in my stash, a WD Caviar 1.6gb drive from April 1996 that refuses to work on my USB-IDE adaptor, however works perfectly on the PS/1, and pairs nicely with the 32mb RAM crammed in it

has a fresh install of Win98 which would theoretically even boot on this machine, but we run in to our first Annoying Vintage Problem, the BIOS predates LBA by a few years and can't see more than 528mb

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_block_addressing

the way around this in DOS is to install a Drive Overlay like EZ-Drive, which does a bunch of hackery to boot itself first and replaces the entire IDE portion of the BIOS with updated drivers

ta-da, we can boot DOS and use the entire hard drive! 🥳

#retrocomputing #retropc #MSDOS

IBM says these all came with 2400bps internal modems, and had Prodigy pre-installed

it appears it was upgraded to 28.8kbps around 1994

and it has a whole load of Micron RAM in it, manufactured in 1996

this is 32mb! that's the max the board supports and a hell of a lot of RAM to have in a 486

i had 16mb in mine back in the day and that was plenty to run anything you'd want to run on a 486 🙃

an early Windows 95 will run great on this old beast

#retrocomputing #retropc #MSDOS #DOSgaming

i have acquired the IBM PS/1

it has a first generation Sound Blaster 16 in it

floppy drives look to be the original equipment

no hard drive, i think i have a period appropriate replacement that may even work

it looks like a scrapper rather violently removed all the cables except power, dislodging the expansion riser in the process

so i have to replace all those, dunno if i still have a stash of them somewhere

has a 12-10-92 date stamp on the case cover, chips on the board have date stamps as late as 40th week 1992, so looks like this thing was built in Oct 1992

perhaps this was someones Christmas '92 present 🎄🎁

CDROM has a manufacture date of Jan 1993, so it was upgraded quickly or perhaps it sold later as a post-christmas clearance deal 🙃

this probably came with Windows 3.1, and would have been a fairly high end machine at the time

#retrocomputing #retropc #MSDOS #DOSgaming

@lodurel
1. #QBASIC 1991
2. #C / #CPlusPlus 94
3. #MSDOS Shell 95
4. #Python 2003
5. #Prolog 2004
6. #Java 2004
7. #Perl 2006
8. #Bash 2007
9. #Haskell 2008
10. #EmacsLisp 2017
11. #Scheme (Guile) 2019

I have also had a bit of experience with C#, PowerShell, SQL, Lua, Ruby, z80 assembler, MIPS assembler, 6802 assembler, and a few other random languages but not enough to call myself "proficient."

The days when CD-ROM technology was so new and exciting that entire magazines devoted to just the format could be sustained.

And they likely had to go far and wide to find enough stuff to cram onto 650MBs of storage. xD

#Retrotech #DOS #MSDOS #Mac #Retrocomputing
#TechBytes

I've made a bit of #gamedev progress on my game Barren Planet for #msdos on the #cga #ibmpc this weekend. I've streamlined the AI's unit repair routines. And I've tidied up a couple more scenarios and added them to the campaign, so the campaign is now 50% complete!