To my completely surprise and disappointment I have found out that OpenBSD's vmm does not in fact support FreeDOS. What am I to do now

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

Lesser known but awesome DOS software (part 2):

PED - Pliable Editor (1.5)

via @internetarchive : https://archive.org/details/PED15_ZIP

* Esc menu hotkey
* Status bar with clock
* Reasonably configurable

Above average functionality and seemless context switching; a good compromise between hotkey and menu-based editing.
Presumably written in 1988, this is a programming editor ahead of its time.

Lesser known but awesome DOS software (part 1):

3DMenu Plus (1.0)

via @internetarchive : https://archive.org/details/3DMENUPLUSDOS

* Nine item, four level configurable menu
* Clever internal and external design
* Makes good use of screen estate

I wish I had this smooth and intuitive terminal menu and program starter back in the day. This software from 1989 can teach modern user interfaces quite a lot in terms of usability.

Good morning Fedi! Do any of yall use a operating system that's not Linux, Windows, BSD or Mac on a regular basis? If so, which one?

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

Does anybody know if an XPM2 (X PixMap) viewer for #DOS / #FreeDOS / #MSDOS exists? Thanks!

Free Dos and Q4OS soft

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/06/free-dos-and-q4os-soft.html

Un programme #freebasic
flame.bas compilé et exécuté sous Linux. !
freebasic est un langage de programmation simple, puissant et gratuit ! qui tourne sous linux, windows, dos et #freedos !

#linux #programming , #basic #freebasic

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.

Retro comp with Free Dos and Win2000 cool thing!

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/06/retro-comp-with-free-dos-and-win2000.html

KiloLISP ( https://t3x.org/klisp/index_d.html ) by @AverageDog is a 13KB #SchemeLang / #Scheme -like #Lisp for #DOS / #MSDOS / #FreeDOS / #DOSBox providing only symbols and pairs as datatypes. What's not to love?

@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”

https://www.both.org/?p=10559

1/2 I was talking to @howtophil about GEOS and decided that I would spin up a VM to run it. Let me tell you what I learned. I used Qemu and started with FreeDOS (FD14 is really slick!) but GEOS20 would error out on launch. Something to do with memory/files/buffers but none of my fiddling would get it to work. I thought it might have something to do with memory management so I spun up a generic MSDOS6 VM...
#retrocomputing #freedos #msdos #geos

Alors, je n'y connais absolument rien mais pensez-vous que l'on puisse entraîner cette #ia https://github.com/yeokm1/dosllam2
sous #freedos pour qu'elle réponde en français sur un entraînement de données en français ?
Il y a quelqu'un que ça tente de m'expliquer comment faire ?

Morning Fedi! Favorite tracker music?