Computing: DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming

What's new?


2024.10.21   DOS   Started with the review of Free Lisp development environments for DOS. At this time, the article includes information about the installation of XLISP-PLUS on FreeDOS.

2024.10.12   DOS   New tutorial available: Exotic programming languages for DOS: Profan.

2024.10.08   OS/2   New tutorial available: Installing Borland C++ on OS/2 2.11.

2024.10.04   Windows   New programming tip available: Accessing a MySQL database with Microfocus Visual COBOL.

2024.10.03   OS/2   New tutorial available: Installing and running Gnuplot on OS/2.

2024.09.26   Languages   New tutorial available: Handling indexed-sequential files in COBOL.

2024.09.21   OS/2   New program downloads available. The "Eigenvalues" ZIP archive contains an OS/2 command line version (source + executable) of my "Eigenvalues" Free Pascal GUI application. The "ReadCon" ZIP archive contains the Free Pascal source code of a custom unit intended to replace Readln() on OS/2 (work-around of the Readln related bug in the Crt unit).

2024.09.20   Old Windows   New tutorial available: Installing Microsoft Personal Web Server on Windows 98.

2024.09.15   DOS   New program download available. The "Blackjack" ZIP archive contains the DOS version (source + executable) of my "blckjack" Free Pascal console program.

2024.09.14   DOS   New tutorial available: Exotic programming languages for DOS - Caml Light and OCaml. The tutorial describes the installation and usage of Caml Light for DOS 0.7 and OCaml 1.0 for DOS on FreeDOS.

2024.09.04   Windows   New tutorial available: Modern COBOL development using Microfocus Visual COBOL. The tutorial shows how to install a 1-year trial version of Microfocus Visual COBOL for Visual Studio on Windows 11 and how to proceed to build native command line programs, object-oriented command line programs, and Windows GUI applications using the COBOL programming language.

2024.09.01   DOS   New tutorial available: Installing and running Gnuplot on FreeDOS.

2024.08.23   DOS   New program downloads available. The "Math programs" ZIP archive contains the DOS version (source + executables) of my mathematics related Free Pascal console programs: Equation solvers, complex numbers, lines in the plane.

2024.08.18   DOS   New tutorial available: Installing and running True BASIC on MS-DOS.

2024.08.11   Windows   New tutorial available: Mixing Fortran and C programming with GCC. Not really a tutorial about mixed C and Fortran programming. It's primarily a series of simple examples, that show how a GCC function can be called by a GFortran program, resp. how a GFortran subroutine or function can be called by a GCC program.

2024.07.24   Windows   New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section: Developing Raku applications on Windows 11.

2024.07.15   Languages   New tutorial available: Introduction to Gnuplot.

2024.06.19   Windows   New tutorial available: Using VSCode as IDE for D development.

2024.06.16   DOS   Started with the new programming series Exotic programming languages for DOS. The first article is about a programming language called XPL0.

2024.06.11   Windows   New text available: BASIC programming: Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Basic. It contains information about FreeBASIC, PureBasic, thinBasic, Oxygen Basic, Small Basic, and QB64.

2024.05.31   Windows   New tutorial available: Developing FreeBASIC applications on Windows 10. It contains details about the installation and usage of FreeBASIC, CSED_FB (FreeBASIC IDE), FBMath (FreeBASIC mathematics library), about accessing the Windows API, and about VisualFBEditor (FreeBASIC RAD environment). It also includes the description (GUI design, source code) of a simple project (Windows desktop application), created with VisualFBEditor.

2024.05.27   Windows   New tutorial available: Using VSCode as IDE for Go development.

2024.05.22   Windows   New tutorial available: Using Sublime Text as IDE for GCC/GFortran development. It includes details about the installation of MSYS2 (with the UCRT64 GCC and GFortran toolchains), the built of C/C++ and Fortran programs in the terminal, the installation of Sublime Text (with the required packages for use with Fortran), the build of C/C++ programs in Sublime Text, and the creation of a new GFortran build system (as the default one does not work correctly).

2024.05.15   Windows   New tutorial available: Developing Tcl/Tk applications on Windows 11.

2024.05.11   DOS   New tutorial available: Installing and running PowerBASIC on FreeDOS.

2024.04.30   Old Windows   New tutorial available: Installing and running Microsoft C Compiler on Windows 1.04.

2024.04.23   DOS   New tutorial available: Developing Modula-2 programs on DOS. It contains information about the installation of the Logitech Modula-2 development system (including the editor POINT), some details about the Modula-2 language (as a difference with Pascal), and some simple sources (also available as ZIP download).

2024.04.19   DOS   New tutorial available: Building Open Watcom C/C++ and Fortran 77 programs on FreeDOS.

2024.04.14   Windows   New tutorial available: Using VSCode as IDE for Rust development.

2024.04.10   Old Windows   Short text added: Installing Lazarus/Free Pascal 32-bit on old Windows releases.

2024.04.06   Languages   New tutorial available: Working with Perl hashes. The tutorial contains information about simple hashes, arrays of hashes, hashes of arrays and hashes of hashes, as well as about DB_File databases; the source code of the examples may be downloaded as ZIP archive.

2024.03.30   Windows   New tutorial available: Using VSCode as IDE for Julia development.

2024.03.28   Old Windows   New tutorial (intended for Windows 98, 2000, or XP) available: Dev-C++ & Dev-Pascal: Developing C++ and Pascal programs and GUI applications.

2024.03.23   Old Windows   New tutorial (intended for Windows 98, 2000, or XP) available: Dev+GNU Pascal: A full GPC programming environment + Win32 IDE.

2024.03.16   Windows   New tutorial available: Installing VSCode on Windows 10 (and showing how to build C and C++ programs).

2024.03.08   Windows   New tutorial available: Windows Programming: 32bit and 64bit assembly programming made easy with SASM. Source code of some NASM and FASM example programs free to download.

2024.02.26   DOS   New tutorial available: DOS Programming: 32-bit assembly programming using NASM and GCC. Source code of several example programs free to download.

2024.02.14   Languages   New tutorial available: An introduction to FORTRAN 77 (G77).

2024.02.05   DOS   New tutorial available: Developing PL/I programs on DOS.