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by 1313ed01 11mo ago
Not as my primary language, but I wrote two or three small command-line tools for my own use in recent years. Cross-compilation and platform support is excellent, so it is convenient for writing something once to run on multiple systems as
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by 1313ed01 11mo ago
OK, I just posted a comment saying FreeDOS will no longer run on hardware because of lack of BIOS support, but that might change things I guess. Hope it can be made to work. Another big problem for FreeDOS is the lack of sound card support.
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by 1313ed01 11mo ago
FreeDOS is no good at all for booting anymore, since BIOS support is increasingly rare. No way to boot FreeDOS (or MS-DOS) from UEFI. And of course also no point in trying to run it on ARM or any other non-x86 CPU. Looks like the future for
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by 1313ed01 11mo ago
I guess it made a lot of sense to implement compilers in 32-bit protected mode to get more space to work with easier? Free Pascal's compiler also requires 32-bit even if it can generate 16-bit DOS code as well (at least when cross-comp
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by 1313ed01 11mo ago
I hobby-code for DOS, partly because of nostalgia, but much also because it (specifically DOSBox, or DOSBox-X) is such a fantastic and stable virtual machine. No one is going to deprecate even some minor part of the API. And some emulators
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by 1313ed01 11mo ago
Yes, of course. Source code would be nice, but I gamble on that there wasn't a terrible amount of bugs in that compiler. It is version 5.10, so not the first 5.x release, plus with the lack of good ways to distribute patches back then
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by 1313ed01 11mo ago
No, but that MIT license does not say anything about sharing the source code, so just sharing the binaries should be fine. (Not a lawyer.) ( * Also thanks for mentioning MIT. My comment said BSD, but I fixed that now.)
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by 1313ed01 11mo ago
To the list of compiler listed I want to mention this one as well, that is my compiler of choice for 16-bit C in (Free)DOS these days (because it has a MIT license, it's very small, and it runs great inside of DOS itself so no need to
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
I hope early digital games will be preserved better than early films: "around 75% of original silent-era films have perished ... Of the American sound films made from 1927 to 1950, an estimated half have been lost" https:/&#
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
In many ways being able to run something on a stable, well emulated, platform can be a better way to know some tool will always be around than to have the source code for the tool itself (even if that is definitely also a good thing). There
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CAD-3D on the Atari ST(stonetools.ghost.io)
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
Still don't support the claim that people were mainly updating from DOS without Windows 3.x. Anecdotally I still think almost everyone using DOS by 1995 had Windows 3.x installed as well. Not necessarily a copy of Windows that was the
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
What numbers? As much as I hated Windows 3.x (which is why I upgraded from DOS to Linux, not to Windows 95, and never looked back) it did not occur to me that many by 1995 did not have some Windows 3.x installed, as it was required for so m
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
Reminds me of some ~10 years ago I found a dirt cheap game in a budget bin in some store. It contained a few plastic, pre-painted, miniatures, that had some kind of special base with bumps on (possibly in some unique pattern for each miniat
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
Many say they would be useful for RPGs, but how? I know those that play with a large screen (i.e. old tv) on the table to display maps while playing. You do not need to track the pieces for that though? Typically the GM has a phone or lapto
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
I am terrified by Minecraft mods always being distributed from dodgy download sites and not rarely come with their own Windows EXE installers. And as far as I know there is no sandboxing at all in the game (uhm, no pun intended) so once in
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
Guess it's much like a PC speaker, so just you could start with just writing a library for that if you think 1-bit audio is fun?
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
I used to have some medium expensive good headphones. That was pretty much the only non-shit hardware I ever invested in and I really could hear a difference. But with age and decreasing hearing now I cant tell anymore, so that one thing I
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
HTTPS sadly offers no protection from that at all these days. At least in the past when something was HTTPS you knew that someone had to jump through some hoops and pay some real money to earn that padlock, but now any script kiddie can aut
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
An anomaly from some corporate pov, maybe, but at home the PC was definitely not more open to general purpose computing than the alternatives. Most early home computers booted straight into a BASIC prompt, and the line between being a progr
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
I enjoy old fiction enough that sites like gutenberg.org has that covered and I barely bother with trying to find anything new that I want to read, and that began long pre-ai-slop so no real change for me. For non-fiction it is a bit tricki
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
Also in Free Pascal? https://wiki.freepascal.org/Data_type#Boolean_types
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582758
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
Do you use the built-in WiFi on any of the Raspberry Pis? By coincidence I installed NetBSD last weekend on a Raspberry Pi. Never used it before, but it seemed very nice. I had some issues with sshd (most likely just me doing something stup
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
I agree they are not competing at all, and I will definitely consider Typst as an alternative to LaTeX, which to me is one of the output formats I use in PanDoc, and I might end up using Typst instead of LaTeX as an intermediate format when
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
PanDoc has its own version of Markdown that (more or less?) maps 1:1 to the intermediate representation in PanDoc, plus allows embedding other formats when necessary, or conditionally include some content only for some output formats. It&#x
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
PanDoc has Typst as an output format, so it should be possible to just keep using PanDoc Markdown (for instance) and just switch to Typst output if that is (or becomes) better than LaTeX.
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
I like my old ACE, but people with better ears than me say that the sound engine is not as good as some other U-He synths but it was more in my price range and I wanted something good enough but without DRM. U-He was (is?) one of the few ma
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
Parts 2 and 3 are password protected, with no obvious hint how to obtain a password. For patreons only or something like that?
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by 1313ed01 1y ago
That's my favourite thing about fossil though. History is what it is, not simplified to look "clean" (i.e. hide what actually happened and when) and you get a lot fewer footguns to ruin everything by accidentally rebasing thi

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