Edit text with this Emacs-like editor
If you’re already familiar with GNU Emacs, you should feel right at home in Freemacs.
Automate tasks with FreeDOS BAT files
Here’s a helpful guide to batch files under FreeDOS.
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...
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.
Learning to love ‘groff -ms’
My journey with markup systems began when I was an undergraduate physics student at university. Until then, I wrote class papers using a desktop word...
Draw a Cylon eye in DOS
Have fun by writing a program to simulate a Cylon’s sweeping red eye