I love working with open source systems, especially those that give you compilers and other resources to...
Programming
With a bit of programming, you'll never get bored.
Most software development I’ve done has been utilities for highly specific workflows. I’ve written code to ensure...
Install Bywater BASIC on your FreeDOS system and start experimenting with BASIC programming.
If you're new to C programming, here are a few tips to improve reading and writing files.
Use strtok to parse a string using 'tokens' in your next C program.
Learn how to write your first C program on FreeDOS with this example.
Write text anywhere on the screen using conio.
Here's how I wrote my first BASIC programs on the Apple II.
Getline offers a more flexible way to read user data into your program without breaking the system.
You can make your program much more flexible if it can respond to the user every time...
As I mentioned in my introductory article to this mini-series, GNU Algol 68 is in development, and...
Generate your own random placeholder text by writing a few lines in Bash.
If you're getting started with FORTRAN, add this pretty printer to your programming toolkit.
In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 In the...
Explore old-style FORTRAN programming with Arithmetic IF, Computed GOTO, and Assigned GOTO.