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I'm Stephan, a Linux user with a passion for open-source, UI/UX design, and exploring what makes fiction work.
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- Retrocomputing (mostly DOS)
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- The odd bit of UI/UX design or literary theory
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Category Archives: Retrocomputing
Learning Materials for getting into C programming for MS-DOS/PC-DOS/DR-DOS/FreeDOS
For a while now, I’ve been wanting to get into some DOS hobby programming using Open Watcom C/C++ (or maybe gcc-ia16), but, given that DOS programming was on the wane before the Internet came around, and my childhood programming stuff … Continue reading
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Automated Testing for Open Watcom C/C++ and DOS
UPDATE 2022-10-21: Added update on 86Box’s porting status One of the hobby projects I’ve been poking at again is written for DOS using Open Watcom C/C++ (v2 fork), and, being as averse to drudgework (and spoiled by modern tooling) as … Continue reading
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Retrocomputing Category Announcement
While working on an upcoming post (a run-down of C unit test frameworks that are easy to use under Open Watcom C/C++), I realized that I’m getting enough of these retrocomputing resource posts that mentioning them from each other is … Continue reading
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Retrocomputing Advice: Linksys ProConnect KVM2KIT
If you have a retrocomputing hobby, and you don’t have a lot of room (like most of us), it can be difficult to leave your stuff set up so you can enjoy it when you need to take a break. … Continue reading
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Embedding the DPMI Extender for your Open Watcom C/C++ EXE (And Related Knowledge)
NOTE: Scroll to the appendix at the bottom If you’re using DJGPP, Free Pascal, or Free Basic. They use a different and incompatible DPMI host. Sooner or later, everyone who plays around with 32-bit DOS programming using Open Watcom C/C++ … Continue reading
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Resources for Reverse-Engineering 16-bit Applications
See Also: My list of tips and resources for writing new DOS and Win16 apps While offering some advice, I got a little caught up in the research I was doing, so here’s a list of the resources I found … Continue reading
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A Blueprint for Creating FLOSS-Safe Replacements for BWCC.DLL Stock Icons
TL;DR: Here’s a detailed description that should be sufficient to design knock-offs of the most iconic of Borland OWL’s stock icons for use Windows 3.1 hobby projects intended to be compiled with non-Borland compilers. In the name making my planned … Continue reading
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