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Christian Himpe<p>KiloLISP ( <a href="https://t3x.org/klisp/index_d.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">t3x.org/klisp/index_d.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ) by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@AverageDog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AverageDog</span></a></span> is a 13KB <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SchemeLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SchemeLang</span></a> / <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scheme</span></a> -like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lisp</span></a> for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a> / <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> / <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> / <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DOSBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSBox</span></a> providing only symbols and pairs as datatypes. What's not to love?</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.kif.rocks/@merlin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>merlin</span></a></span> so what are you gonna do then?</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a>? <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DragonflyBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DragonflyBSD</span></a>? <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>?</p><ul><li>Honest question, I'm curious...</li></ul>
@LinuxGeek46<p><a href="https://www.both.org/?p=10559" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">both.org/?p=10559</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a></p>
The FreeDOS Project<p>Modern computers have tons of memory &amp; disk. My desktop PC has 32GB memory and ¼TB NVME storage. </p><p>It's hard for some to imagine what programming was like when memory was counted in kilobytes and disks were single digit megabytes. </p><p>Here's a demonstration using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> with 640kb memory and 5MB disk, using just <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/edlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>edlin</span></a> and a C compiler to write programs. 🤓</p><p>➡️“Code like it’s the 1980s”</p><p>🌐 <a href="https://www.both.org/?p=10559" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">both.org/?p=10559</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Rafael<p>1/2 I was talking to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@howtophil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>howtophil</span></a></span> 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...<br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/freedos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/msdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>msdos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/geos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geos</span></a></p>
Luke T. Shumaker<p>2) The <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Plan9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plan9</span></a> kernel relies on the b.com bootloader having inited the segment regs. But 1e b.com forgets to init FS &amp; GS. I see that 2e fixed this by adding `MOVW AX,FS`/`MOVW AX,GS`. The values of GS/FS at the crash are indeed what FreeDOS set them to before handing over to b.com. So I guess 1e "relied" on DOS setting them to something that won't crash when `PUSHL GS`/`POPL GS` and let that just be a noop wrt the register. Anyone know how to massage <a href="https://social.coop/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> to adjust GS/FS when calling a COM?</p>
Luke T. Shumaker<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@lukeshu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lukeshu@fosstodon.org</span></a></span> </p><p>1) Turning off <a href="https://social.coop/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> high mem and telling it to stick to low mem lets the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Plan9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plan9</span></a> kernel observe a double-fault and print an error message, instead of 2000 nested interrupts happening and silently crashing. I don't think I care to figure out what's going on there.</p>
HowToPhil<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ipxfong" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>IPXFong</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@davefischer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davefischer</span></a></span> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GEOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GEOS</span></a> 2.0 runs on top of <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a>, but you have to modify the geos.ini file</p><p>After the Geoworks install finishes, edit geos.ini (in c:\geos20) and set</p><p>fs = os2.geo</p><p>Then it'll start up fine when you run geos.bat</p><p>This also makes it work in <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/DosBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DosBox</span></a></p>
janolap1<p>Alors, je n'y connais absolument rien mais pensez-vous que l'on puisse entraîner cette <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/ia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ia</span></a> <a href="https://github.com/yeokm1/dosllam2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/yeokm1/dosllam2</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>sous <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/freedos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedos</span></a> pour qu'elle réponde en français sur un entraînement de données en français ?<br>Il y a quelqu'un que ça tente de m'expliquer comment faire ? 🤗</p>
fuuma<p>Morning Fedi! Favorite tracker music?</p><p><a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/tracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tracker</span></a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/mod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mod</span></a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/xm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xm</span></a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/midi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>midi</span></a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amiga</span></a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/c64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>c64</span></a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/dos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dos</span></a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/freedos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedos</span></a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/milkytracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>milkytracker</span></a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/daw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>daw</span></a> <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a></p>
All Things Open<p>🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀</p><p>FreeDOS 1.4 is out now! 🎮🖥️ Jim Hall covers how new sound emulators, image tools, and critical updates breathe new life into classic DOS computing. Celebrate 30 years of FreeDOS!</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://allthingsopen.org/articles/freedos-1-4-retrocomputing-system" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">allthingsopen.org/articles/fre</span><span class="invisible">edos-1-4-retrocomputing-system</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WeLoveOpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeLoveOpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a></p>
SuperIlu<p>Working on my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOjS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOjS</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOStodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOStodon</span></a> talk for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vcfe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vcfe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vcfe24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vcfe24</span></a> <br>The slides are done using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Javascript</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOjS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOjS</span></a>. They will be presented in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/86box" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>86box</span></a> running <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a>.</p>
Xerxes<p>WordStar 4.0, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a> software George R.R. Martin has used for all of his writing, running flawlessly on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> 1.4 in a Virtualbox VM.</p><p>While I usually don't promote <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/proprietary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proprietary</span></a> software (especially one with a proprietary file format like WordStar), with the help of a page on Technically We Write ( <a href="https://technicallywewrite.com/2024/06/26/wordstarfiles" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">technicallywewrite.com/2024/06</span><span class="invisible">/26/wordstarfiles</span></a> ) I have some ideas for ways to make WS4 files forwards-compatible with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>libre</span></a> software. But I'm just a hobby dev so the chances of finishing anything is low. We'll see.</p>
HP van Braam<p>Who'd have thunk it, it is possible to write a <a href="https://mastodon.tmm.cx/tags/CD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CD</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.tmm.cx/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.tmm.cx/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.tmm.cx/tags/freedos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedos</span></a></p>
/brúno antúnɛs/<p>My blog post about the ITX Llama board <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/msdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>msdos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedos</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://blog.nootch.net/post/the-promise-of-a-new-vintage-pc/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.nootch.net/post/the-promi</span><span class="invisible">se-of-a-new-vintage-pc/</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>FreeDOS 1.4 Is Here</p><p><a href="https://www.freedos.org/download/announce.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">freedos.org/download/announce.</span><span class="invisible">html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDOS14" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS14</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
SuperIlu<p>After some delay I did an update of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lib16" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lib16</span></a> (a tiny helper library for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenWatcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenWatcom</span></a> 16-bit DOS programs).</p><p><a href="https://github.com/SuperIlu/lib16" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/SuperIlu/lib16</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>This time I added <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lua</span></a> to the mix (example prj04). You can now write graphical scripts using Lua on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a>. I also included the regular lua.exe and luac.exe binaries. This is compiled for i386/387 upwards...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CreativeCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCoding</span></a></p>
Xerxes<p>Somewhat intended bonus of writing your website in pure html: it looks great in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a>!</p><p>Here's my website accessed with the software <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lynx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lynx</span></a> on a basic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> install. It looks basically 1-1 with how it looks in a web browser (except it isn't purple :).</p>
OpenSourceFreeDOS 1.4 Now Available — A Major Update for the Beloved DOS Revival FreeDOS 1.4 open-source ...<br><br><a href="https://www.linuxtoday.com/blog/freedos-1-4-now-available-a-major-update-for-the-beloved-dos-revival/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linuxtoday.com/blog/freedos-1-4-now-available-a-major-update-for-the-beloved-dos-revival/</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blog" target="_blank">#Blog</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDOS" target="_blank">#FreeDOS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/1.4" target="_blank">#1.4</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="mention hashtag" href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ms-dos" target="_blank">#ms-dos</a><br><br><a href="https://awakari.com/pub-msg.html?id=DuCYXLEKNEngNL8NnXQDgusoFOa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Event Attributes</a>
SuperIlu<p>I pushed an update to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOStodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOStodon</span></a> (the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> client for MS-DOS):</p><p>- Updated <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/curl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>curl</span></a> to 8.13.0<br>- Updated <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mbedTLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mbedTLS</span></a> to 3.6.3<br>- Fixed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/win32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>win32</span></a> version (works on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WinXP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinXP</span></a> or newer), DLLs were missing</p><p>Grab it at <a href="https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Screenshot is showing the win32 version running on Win10.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Javascript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CreativeCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCoding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastodonClient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonClient</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeDOS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DJGPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DJGPP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOjS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOjS</span></a></p>