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Fascinating. DJ Delorie rates a mention, I wonder how he's doing, I owe him a good chunk of my career. This reads very much like the same journey I made recent
by jacquesm 2mo ago
Fascinating. DJ Delorie rates a mention, I wonder how he's doing, I owe him a good chunk of my career.
This reads very much like the same journey I made recently when reviving my old OS, only Oscar went much further than I did and wrote a working browser as well, which - even though the browsers back then were much simpler - is extremely impressive. I still have a stack of disks from those days, I should probably find a way to read them to see what's on there.
edit: I sent DJ Delorie a short note, I should have done that years ago, without him I would have never managed.
- nazgulsenpai 2mo agoI remember being probably 13-14 in my bedroom late at night with nothing but the glow of a CRT while poking around with Allegro and DJGPP. I could boot into Mandrake Linux and compile the same code I wrote in Windows. It felt like anything was possible! It is one of those core memories that sticks with me. I love the website still looks exactly like I remember it (even though I'm sure it isn't) https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
- nsxwolf 2mo agoDJGPP was a revelation. Suddenly I had real build tools, for free, and I was linking to Glide libraries and thinking I was going to be the next John Carmack.