Jim Hall
Enjoy the holidays by writing a 'fire' program in ASCII text.
FreeDOS
Sharing knowledge with others is often a great way to refresh and update your own expertise.
Setting up an embedded system with FreeDOS requires defining a minimal DOS environment that runs just a...
Here's how to install FreeDOS the old-fashioned way, with every step done by hand.
Explore retrocomputing with this open source operating system that recently turned 30 years old.
Generate colorful ASCII art from a C program using FreeDOS.
Sometimes it's easier to define your API to hide the platform-specific code
Jim shares this follow-up to an earlier article about programming across platforms.
Using these C compiler preprocessor directives to detect the operating system can make it easier to support...
Edlin is a classic editor from the early DOS days, but it’s still a fun and useful...
FreeDOS is a great example of the open source model: developers working together to create new programs
With QEMU and FreeDOS, you can run your favorite DOS applications and games.
Here’s how I boot FreeDOS on my Linux desktop machine using QEMU.
Have you ever wondered why DOS text only comes in 16 colors and 8 background colors?
How I installed FreeDOS on a 386-SX micro laptop called the Pocket386.
Why it’s important that Microsoft released this old version of MS-DOS.