2 ways to listen to music on FreeDOS
Two great programs to let you listen to music and audio files on DOS.
Old-school programming with BW BASIC
Install Bywater BASIC on your FreeDOS system and start experimenting with BASIC programming.
How to add and remove packages on FreeDOS
Learn how to use FDIMPLES, the FreeDOS package manager.
The FreeDOS editor makes it easy
FreeDOS provides a user-friendly text editor called FreeDOS Edit.
4 cool facts about FreeDOS for #DOScember
It’s December, and that means it’s #DOScember – so let’s celebrate with a weeklong series about FreeDOS.
My start with BASIC programming
Here’s how I wrote my first BASIC programs on the Apple II.
Viewing PDF documents in console mode
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 that’s sat unused for the last few years. I used to run the Raspberry Pi as a personal “home...
Loving the command line with the Raspberry Pi
I’m going to show my age when I share that my first Unix system was a Sun 3/50 workstation in our campus computer lab, when...
Code like it’s the 1980s
Our computers are so powerful today that it’s hard for younger developers to understand what early desktop computing was like. Even more experienced folks can...
It should be fun
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun...
Calculate pi by counting pixels
This is a very simple way to measure pi, but it was a fun exercise and I wanted to share it.
Print a spooky greeting in ASCII art
Generate colorful ASCII art from a C program using FreeDOS.
Calculate letter frequency in gawk
Write a gawk script to determine the most (and least) common letters in a set of words.
Write a guessing game in ncurses
Use the flexibility of ncurses to create a guess-the-number game on Linux.
Random numbers from the Linux kernel
Let the kernel generate random numbers for you using ‘getrandom.’