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| 2025.04.24 | Programming |
Update of my review of Free Lisp development environments for DOS. Added information about the installation of
CLISP, Flisp, and PDLisp on MS-DOS 6.22. |
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| 2025.04.21 | Sysadmin |
New tutorial ready: New-DOS - A functionality and tools extension for MS-DOS. Please, note that this "DOS update"
is only available in German! |
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| 2025.04.19 | Programming |
New tutorial available: Developing Rexx applications on Windows 11. The tutorial is about Regina Rexx,
including MySQL access using Rexx/SQL and GUI development using Rexx/DW. |
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| 2025.04.15 | Old Software |
New publication available: Media Rack - Willow Pond's Legendary Classic Media Player for Windows 3.1/9x.
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| 2025.04.14 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Physics: Damped motion of a vertical spring (simplified
equation). |
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| 2025.04.11 | Sysadmin |
New help text ready: Installing audio drivers on the old Windows releases. |
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| 2025.04.07 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal programming tip available: Working with complex numbers in Free Pascal. The article
describes the unit uComplex, as well as custom functions to convert a complex number into a string and vice-versa. Also, several
complex numbers related programs have been updated, improving the display (pretty-printing) of a complex number. |
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| 2025.04.02 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal programming tip available: Date and time handling in Free Pascal (Part II). This part
of the tutorial deals with file dates and times. |
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| 2025.03.30 | Programming |
New tutorial available: Introduction to assembly macros (FASM 64-bit). |
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| 2025.03.23 | Learning |
New mathematics tutorial available in the Mathematics and Science section:
Derivatives and integrals. It focuses on the calculation and approximation of definite integrals. Intended for people with
an intermediate math knowlegde... |
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| 2025.03.21 | Old Software |
New publication available: DOS software: Mathcad - A graphical calculation program for engineering professionals.
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| 2025.03.17 | Programming |
New tutorial available: Developing COBOL 74 programs on DOS. |
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| 2025.03.16 | Programming |
New programming tip available: Running a Perl script from within another Perl script. |
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| 2025.03.14 | Sysadmin |
New tutorial ready: Using long file names on FreeDOS. |
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| 2025.03.12 | Old Software |
New publication available: Norton Commander: The famous file manager runs fine on FreeDOS. |
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| 2025.03.08 | Web/DB |
New tutorial available: Setting up a local website using Turnkey Linux LAMP Stack. |
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| 2025.03.06 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal programming tip available: Date and time handling in Free Pascal. |
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| 2025.02.28 | Programming |
New tutorial available: Installing and running Artek ADA on FreeDOS. |
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| 2025.02.27 | Web/DB |
New programming tip available in the Web and Database Development section: Perl
web programming: HTTP headers and CGI environment variables. |
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| 2025.02.24 | Programming |
New tutorial available: Developing .NET desktop applications (in Visual Studio). It includes details about
the creation of a C# WinForms application using the SDK CLI, the creation of C# and VB.NET WinForms applications using Visual Studio, and a longer part about the
creation of a C# WPF application using Visual Studio, with details concerning the XAML code used to define the window design. |
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| 2025.02.22 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Nomenclature of ionic compounds exercise generator.
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| 2025.02.20 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Exotic programming languages for DOS: NBASM. |
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| 2025.02.18 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal programming tip available: Playing a WAV file using the Windows API. |
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| 2025.02.16 | Free Pascal |
Update of my Poker game for 1 player application. Added option to play using 1 or 2 card decks. |
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| 2025.02.13 | Programming |
New tutorial available: Introduction to developing .NET applications. It includes details about the
installation of the .NET Core SDK, and the usage of the SDK CLI to build .NET Console projects using C#, VB.NET and F#. |
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| 2025.02.12 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Exotic programming languages for DOS: FAST 2.67. |
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| 2025.02.08 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal programming tip available: Creating PDF documents using fcl-pdf. The tutorial includes
information and examples about using a custom paper format, drawing lines and shapes, writing text, determining a text's width and height to put it at a precise
position on the page and drawing a border around it, drawing images. |
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| 2025.02.07 | Old Software |
New publication available: WINProbe: An amazing system information and diagnostic program for Windows 3.1.
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| 2025.02.05 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing Visual Studio 2022 on Windows 11. |
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| 2025.02.02 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 8.1. |
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| 2025.01.27 | Old Software |
New publication concerning Windows 3.1 available: Kidware: Educational software for
children. |
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| 2025.01.26 | Programming |
New Free Pascal program download available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section: Directory rename for
FreeDOS. |
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| 2025.01.25 | Programming |
New programming tip available: Including own modules in Strawberry Perl. |
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| 2025.01.23 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Text positioning and coloring using ANSI escape sequences on Windows. It includes example code for
C, FORTRAN and 64-bit assembly programs, as well as for Windows batch files. |
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| 2025.01.20 | Old Software |
New publication available: Adobe Photoshop - Version 4 of the "number one" photo application may be run on
Windows 3.1. |
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| 2025.01.18 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Developing Ruby applications on Windows 10. It includes information about IRB and Ruby command line
programming, Ruby CGI and ERB web applications, as well as an introduction to the Ruby on Rails web development framework. |
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| 2025.01.12 | Sysadmin |
New tutorial ready: Installing Haiku 64-bit. |
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| 2025.01.10 | Sysadmin |
New network related tutorial available: Installing Apache Webserver on Windows 2000. |
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| 2025.01.09 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Basic arithmetic operations hexadecimal numbers
calculator. |
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| 2025.01.08 | Computers |
New security related help text available: Windows 11 Security warning that memory integrity is turned off.
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| 2025.01.07 | Old Software |
New publication concerning Windows XP available: Roxio Photosuite - An easy to use allround
tool for digital photos. |
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| 2025.01.06 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
MySQL database development on Windows XP. It includes information about the installation and usage
of MySQL Server and MySQL GUI Tools, as well as about accessing a MySQL database with PHP and Lazarus/Free Pascal. |
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| 2025.01.03 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing Python 3 on Windows XP. |
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| 2025.01.02 | Free Pascal |
Continuation with my tutorial about the installation of Lazarus on Linux. In the document about Installing
Lazarus/Free Pascal on Debian based systems, added the information for SysLinuxOS and wattOS. |
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| 2025.01.01 | Sysadmin |
Starting the new year (a happy one to all those who deserve it!) with a new sysadmin tutorial: Installing
Solaris 10. |
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| 2024.12.27 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing Perl on Windows XP and using it with IIS. |
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| 2024.12.22 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal programming tip available: Determination of the width and height of an image from file.
The tutorial includes examples about reading the image size using FCL-Image, about using the "picslib" unit, and for PNG files, about directly reading the values
from the binary file. |
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| 2024.12.20 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing PHP on Windows XP and using it with IIS. It may be seen as a sequel of my
Installing Internet Information Server (IIS) on Windows XP tutorial. |
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| 2024.12.18 | Free Pascal |
Update of my Function Plotter application. Added "two graphs plot" functionality. |
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| 2024.12.17 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
A short introduction to Node.js. |
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| 2024.12.16 | Free Pascal |
Data update available for my game application Memory. Added a second image series to the "birds" and "fishes"
picture sets. |
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| 2024.12.13 | Old Software |
New publication concerning Windows 3.1 available: ACDSee - The famous imaging application
was originally distributed for Windows 3. |
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| 2024.12.12 | Computers |
New security related help text available: Avast Antivirus warning about tracking cookies. |
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| 2024.12.11 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal programming tip available: Working with regular expressions in Free Pascal. |
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| 2024.12.08 | Sysadmin |
Update of the tutorial An overview of installing updates on given Linux operating systems: Added
information about OpenSuSe, Regata OS. |
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| 2024.12.06 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Text positioning and coloring using ANSI escape sequences on DOS. The tutorial includes sample programs in
C, FORTRAN, Pascal and assembly (NASM), as well as a sample DOS batch script. |
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| 2024.12.02 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Memory game Christmas edition - a special release of my
classic Memory application. The download archive contains 5 Christmas related picture sets: Nativity I, Nativity II, Santa Claus, Christmas trees, and Christmas
bells. |
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| 2024.12.01 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal programming tip available: Implementing mouse support in a Free Pascal DOS program. |
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| 2024.11.29 | Sysadmin |
New tutorial available in the network section:
Installing Internet Information Server (IIS) on Windows XP. |
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| 2024.11.24 | Programming |
Searching for a programming language to create GUI applications on DOS? With multiple windows, menus, alerts and full mouse support? Then
my new programming tutorial might be what you are searching for: Installing and running GFA-BASIC on
FreeDOS. |
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| 2024.11.22 | Sysadmin |
Update of my tutorial AROS One x86: A free AmigaOS-like operating system for PC. Added the second part of
the tutorial that describes the included software, as well as some post-installation tasks. |
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| 2024.11.21 | Old Software |
New publication concerning OS/2 available: CorelDRAW! - The vector based drawing and
illustration program also existed for OS/2. |
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| 2024.11.18 | Free Pascal |
Data update available for my game application Kidspuzzle. As XMas is approaching, added four related puzzle
pictures: Christmas on the Farm (15p), Christmas in the Forest (36p), Christmas at Disney's (80p), Santa Is Coming (120p). |
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| 2024.11.17 | Programming |
New program download available in the DOS part of the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming
section. The "calendar" ZIP archive contains the source and executable of the DOS version of my Free Pascal command line program "Multiple languages 3 months
calendar". Accents should be displayed correctly with all Latin-1 codepages. |
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| 2024.11.16 | Web/DB |
New web application available: Mathematics: Quadratic equations in one variable. An exercise generator
with or without consideration of the complex roots. |
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| 2024.11.14 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Modern Ada development using GNAT from AdaCore. |
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| 2024.11.11 | Computers |
New help text available: Avast Antivirus warning that drivers are outdated. Should we update them?
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| 2024.11.10 | Programming |
New program download available in the DOS part of the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming
section. The "today" ZIP archive contains the source and executable of a simple GFA BASIC program to display today's date, time, and day of week (using an "alert"
dialog box). The archive includes a GFA BASIC overlay file that should work with all virtualization software, as well as on all actual hardware. |
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| 2024.11.09 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing and running COMAL 80 on DOS. |
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| 2024.11.06 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Modern Fortran development using Intel Fortran. |
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| 2024.11.03 | Old Software |
New publication concerning DOS available: PictView - The (probably) best picture
viewer/converter for DOS. |
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| 2024.10.31 | Sysadmin |
Update of the tutorial An overview of installing updates on given Linux operating systems. Added
information about the Debian based distributions Devuan (server), SysLinuxOS, wattOS and the Fedora based distribution
Ultramarine Linux. |
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| 2024.10.29 | Programming |
Update of my review of BASIC programming: Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Basic. Added
information about GFA-BASIC 32. |
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| 2024.10.28 | Programming |
Update of my review of Free Lisp development environments for DOS. Added information about the installation of
XLisp 2.0, update 1 on MS-DOS 6.22. |
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| 2024.10.27 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Exotic programming languages for DOS: MoonRock. |
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| 2024.10.25 | Programming |
For all those assembly beginners, who want to learn to use this programming language on Windows 64bit, my tutorial
Windows 64bit assembly programming by example might be what they are looking for. The first part of
the tutorial, Numbers and arrays, has been published. In 14 program samples (plus 3 "real world" examples) it deals with the following:
Integer and floating point arrays, arrays passed to and modified in a procedure, print-out of an array, sorting of an array, two-dimensional arrays, random
numbers. |
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| 2024.10.24 | Old Software |
New publication concerning DOS available: @Compare - A diff program for DOS. |
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| 2024.10.22 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Mathematics puzzle: The number pyramid. |
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| 2024.10.21 | Programming |
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. |
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| 2024.10.18 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Latin grammar: Usage of the grammatical cases with prepositions.
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| 2024.10.15 | Sysadmin |
New tutorial available: AROS One x86: A free AmigaOS-like operating system for PC. The first part of the
tutorial describes the installation of the OS (on a VMware Workstation 16 virtual machine). |
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| 2024.10.12 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Exotic programming languages for DOS: Profan. |
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| 2024.10.08 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing Borland C++ on OS/2 2.11. |
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| 2024.10.05 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal programming tip available: Using a function as a parameter in another function.
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| 2024.10.04 | Programming |
New programming tip available: Accessing a MySQL database with Microfocus Visual COBOL. |
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| 2024.10.03 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing and running Gnuplot on OS/2. |
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| 2024.10.01 | Old Software |
New publication concerning OS/2 available: Acrobat Reader - The free PDF reader from Adobe also
existed for OS/2. |
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| 2024.09.27 | Old Software |
New publication concerning the old Windows releases available: Windows 95 software:
Electronic Workbench Pro - A really amazing electronics application. |
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| 2024.09.26 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Handling indexed-sequential files in COBOL. |
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| 2024.09.24 | Sysadmin |
New tutorial available: Solaris 10 post-installation configuration. The tutorial shows how to
change screen resolution, how to set a hostname, and how to create a new user. |
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| 2024.09.23 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Catholic holidays: Determination of the date of Easter
and other catholic holidays. |
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| 2024.09.21 | Programming |
New program downloads available in the OS/2 part of the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming
section. 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). |
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| 2024.09.20 | Sysadmin |
New tutorial available in the network section:
Installing Microsoft Personal Web Server on Windows 98. |
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| 2024.09.17 | Web/DB |
New text available in the Web and Database Development section: Secure web
server access using HTTPS. |
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| 2024.09.15 | Programming |
New program download available in the DOS part of the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming
section. The "Blackjack" ZIP archive contains the DOS version (source + executable) of my "blckjack" Free Pascal console program. |
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| 2024.09.14 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
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. |
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| 2024.09.13 | Sysadmin |
New problems related text available: FreeDOS: "File too large for this version of EDIT" error. |
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| 2024.09.09 | Sysadmin |
Update of the tutorial An overview of installing updates on given Linux operating systems. Added
information about the Fedora based distributions: Fedora Workstation, Nobara. |
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| 2024.09.07 | Old Software |
New publication concerning DOS available in the Old Operating System Software
section: AIDA: System information tool that detects lots of (relatively recent, ca. 2004) hard- and software. |
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| 2024.09.06 | Homeless |
Judging inacceptable that an Internet service provider refuses the access to an account with a web browser using a strict privacy policy (as for example Firefox
Private Browsing Mode), I decided some days ago to abandon the guestbook of www.streetinfo.lu/sdf, hosted at the site of Bravenet,
and to use the guestbook of my main site to accept the feed-back of the visitors of my Homeless life in Luxembourg site. |
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| 2024.09.04 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
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. |
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| 2024.09.02 | Computers |
New system help text available: May we delete the Dell SARemediation folder or its content? |
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| 2024.09.01 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing and running Gnuplot on FreeDOS. |
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| 2024.08.29 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Biochemistry: Amino acids quiz. |
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| 2024.08.27 | Sysadmin |
New tutorial available: Using USB devices on FreeDOS. |
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| 2024.08.26 | Sysadmin |
New problems related article concerning Linux available: Black screen on Nobara
40 after system update. |
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| 2024.08.23 | Programming |
New program downloads available in the DOS part of the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming
section. 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. |
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| 2024.08.20 | Homeless |
Imagining to have to live for the rest of my life in a country, where begging is considered as a crime, and where the laws of Lydie Polfer and her fascist friends
in the CSV compel the police to evacuate beggars by force from the center of Luxembourg-City, makes the life of those, who were convinced that they would live in
a free country, where minorities are protected by our Constitution, to a daily nightmare, taking away all good mood to do what you liked to do before, taking
away all hope in the future. Preferring to die rather than to accept that those who have the money and the power decide about the rights of the others! The first publication since a year and a half at my Homeless life in Luxembourg site: "Quo vadis, Luxembourg?", the French translation of an apocalyptic article that I wrote in 2011... |
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| 2024.08.19 | Free Pascal |
Minor issue fix in my Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application Biorhythm cycles. |
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| 2024.08.18 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing and running True BASIC on MS-DOS. |
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| 2024.08.15 | Sysadmin |
New problems related article concerning VMware available: Fatal VM corruption
when connecting an USB disk. |
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| 2024.08.12 | Old Software |
New publication concerning BeOS available in the Old Operating System Software
section: BePDF - A multilingual PDF reader for BeOS. |
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| 2024.08.11 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
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. |
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| 2024.08.10 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Drawing of mathematical and other functions using
Gnuplot. |
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| 2024.08.07 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal tutorial available: Free Pascal console programming: Running external programs
(all that you need to know about "Exec", "DosError", "DosExitCode"). |
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| 2024.08.05 | Old Software |
New article concerning correctly working program versions on the old Windows releases available:
Viewing PDF files on old Windows releases. |
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| 2024.07.30 | Free Pascal |
Data update available for my game application Kidspuzzle. Three new puzzle pictures added, all of them for the
"little ones": Ocean (12 pieces), Penguins (16 pieces), and Elves (24 pieces). |
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| 2024.07.29 | Old Software |
New article available: Windows 3.x software: Algebra Quest - A nice linear equations in 1 variable math trainer.
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| 2024.07.28 | Computers |
New system tutorial available: Deleting temporary files on Windows 10. |
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| 2024.07.24 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Developing Raku applications on Windows 11. |
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| 2024.07.22 | Old Software |
New article available: Running Microsoft Word and Excel on OS/2 1.3. |
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| 2024.07.19 | Old Software |
New article available: Viewing PDF files on DOS with Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
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| 2024.07.18 | Web/DB |
New web application available: Chemistry: Quantitative analysis of proteins. |
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| 2024.07.15 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Introduction to Gnuplot. |
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| 2024.07.10 | Old Software |
New article available: ColorWorks - A powerful, full-featured photo editing program designed exclusively for OS/2.
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| 2024.07.09 | Web/DB |
New website programming tip available: Using Javascript to hide/show given text paragraphs. |
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| 2024.07.06 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Solo Poker: Poker game for 1 player. |
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| 2024.07.03 | Computers |
New home & office tutorial available: Searching a directory for given files or file content (using the
freeware application GrepWin). |
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| 2024.07.02 | Sysadmin |
Update of the tutorial An overview of installing updates on given Linux operating systems: Added
information about the Debian/Ubuntu based 32-bit distributions of Bodhi Linux, Bunsenlabs, Emmabuntüs. |
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| 2024.07.01 | Sysadmin |
New tutorial available: Installing OS/2 Warp 4.52 workstation. |
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| 2024.06.27 | Old Software |
New article available: Lotus SmartSuite For OS2 Warp 4 - A complete office suite for OS/2 computers. |
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| 2024.06.24 | Old Software |
New article concerning correctly working program versions on the first Windows releases available:
Paint applications for Windows 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x. |
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| 2024.06.20 | Sysadmin |
New help text available: Enabling NTFS support on CentOS. |
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| 2024.06.19 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Using VSCode as IDE for D development on Windows 10. |
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| 2024.06.18 | Free Pascal |
After a long time, a new Lazarus/Free Pascal GUI application available: Lazarus/Free Pascal Curlicue
fractal. |
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| 2024.06.16 | Programming |
Started with the new programming series Exotic programming languages for DOS. The first article is about a
programming language called XPL0. |
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| 2024.06.11 | Programming |
New text available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
BASIC programming on Windows: Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Basic. It contains information
about FreeBASIC, PureBasic, thinBasic, Oxygen Basic, Small Basic, and QB64. |
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| 2024.06.07 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal tutorial available: Building and using Free Pascal dynamic link libraries. The
tutorial shows how to create a DLL, and how to call its procedures from Pascal, C and C++ programs. |
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| 2024.06.02 | Free Pascal |
Continuation with my tutorial about the installation of Lazarus on Linux. In the document about Installing
Lazarus/Free Pascal on Debian based systems, added the information for the following three 32-bit Linux distributions: Bodhi Linux, Bunsenlabs Linux (failure),
and Emmabuntüs. |
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| 2024.05.31 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
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. |
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| 2024.05.28 | Old Software |
Updated my Correctly working program versions on old Windows releases series: Added the informational text
Installing and running Microsoft Publisher on old Windows releases. |
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| 2024.05.27 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Using VSCode as IDE for Go development. |
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| 2024.05.24 | Sysadmin |
New tutorial available: Installing a Linux-Linux multiple boot with two harddisks (BIOS boot). |
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| 2024.05.22 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Using Sublime Text as IDE for GCC/GFortran development. The tutorial 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). |
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| 2024.05.18 | Old Software |
New publication available in the Old Operating System Software section: CorelDRAW! 4 - A
complete graphics package for Windows 3.1. |
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| 2024.05.16 | Sysadmin |
New help text available: Understanding Linux file permissions. |
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| Free Pascal |
New command line program (Linux terminal program) available: Interactively change Linux file permissions. |
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| 2024.05.15 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Developing Tcl/Tk applications on Windows 11. |
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| 2024.05.13 | Sysadmin |
Two new help texts available: Connecting USB devices to a virtual machine, and
Using USB devices on the old Windows releases. |
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| 2024.05.11 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing and running PowerBASIC on FreeDOS. |
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| 2024.05.08 | Sysadmin |
Update of the tutorial An overview of installing updates on given Linux operating systems: Added
information about the Arch Linux based distributions ArcoLinux, Mabox Linux, Manjaro, Open Mandriva. |
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| 2024.05.06 | Sysadmin |
New network tutorial available: Installing FileZilla FTP Server on Windows 11. It
contains a long part concerning directory configuration, in the hope to make this somewhat complicated concept of "virtual paths" understandable to network newbies.
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| 2024.05.03 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal programming tip available: Working with DBF (dBASE) files. |
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| 2024.05.02 | Computers |
Update of my help text Dell G3 laptops and Windows 10 problems: Added a paragraphe concerning
Plugging in headphones is only detected after having rebooted the system. Not providing a solution to the problem, but showing a
work-around that spares you to have to restart the system. |
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| 2024.04.30 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing and running Microsoft C Compiler on Windows 1.04. |
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| 2024.04.29 | Old Software |
New publication concerning Windows 98/Me available in the Old Operating System Software
section: 20/20 - A professional quality image editing tool. |
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| 2024.04.26 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal tutorial available: Pointers - A beginners to intermediate overview. Including 15
elementary sample programs (available as ZIP download). |
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| 2024.04.23 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
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). |
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| 2024.04.21 | Old Software |
New publications concerning Windows 1 and 2 available in the Old Operating System Software
section. For Windows 1: Micrografx Windows Graph – Commercial application for creating business graphs and charts.
For Windows 2: WinGraph – A simple business graphing presentation program, and
ABC Flowcharter – A flowchart creation application with export to WMF functionality. |
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| 2024.04.19 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Building Open Watcom C/C++ and Fortran 77 programs on FreeDOS. |
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| Sysadmin |
Update of my tutorial: Running 32-bit applications on DOS. Added information concerning
DOS/4GW (extender used by 32-bit applications build with Open Watcom). |
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| 2024.04.17 | Web/DB |
New text available in the Web and Database Development section: Secure
phpMyAdmin installation. |
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| 2024.04.15 | Computers |
New system tutorial available: Manually updating a Dell G3 laptop (only possibility remaining if Dell
Support Assistent fails and automatic online update does not work). |
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| 2024.04.14 | Programming |
New tutorial (intended for Windows 10/11) available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Using VSCode as IDE for Rust development. |
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| 2024.04.10 | Free Pascal |
Added information concerning Lazarus 32-bit to my installation on Windows tutorial. You find some further details in a short text available in the
DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section: Installing Lazarus/Free Pascal 32-bit
on old Windows releases. |
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| 2024.04.09 | Computers |
Update of my help text Dell G3 laptops and Windows 10 problems: Added a paragraphe concerning
Dell Support Assistant failing to start/failing to update. Not providing a real solution to the problem, but showing how
to proceed to update the drivers online on the Dell website. |
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| 2024.04.06 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
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. |
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| 2024.03.30 | Programming |
New tutorial (intended for Windows 10/11) available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Using VSCode as IDE for Julia development. |
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| 2024.03.28 | Programming |
New tutorial (intended for Windows 98, 2000, or XP) available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Dev-C++ & Dev-Pascal: Developing C++ and Pascal programs and GUI applications. |
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| 2024.03.26 | Learning |
Chemistry tutorial available in the Mathematics and Science section:
A general overview of the protein structure. Intended for people with an intermediate chemistry knowlegde... |
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| 2024.03.23 | Programming |
New tutorial (intended for Windows 98, 2000, or XP) available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Dev+GNU Pascal: A full GPC programming environment + Win32 IDE. |
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| 2024.03.20 | Free Pascal |
Continuation with my tutorial about the installation of Lazarus on Linux. Rewritten Installing
Lazarus/Free Pascal on Arch Linux based systems with now the details for ArcoLinux, Mabox Linux, Manjaro, and Open Mandriva (system failure for this latter
on). |
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| 2024.03.16 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Installing VSCode on Windows 10 (and showing how to build C and C++ programs). |
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| 2024.03.15 | Sysadmin |
New help text available: Configuring the GRUB bootloader. It shows how to install and use the GUI
application GRUB Customizer to change the GRUB boot settings on Debian based Linux distributions. |
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| 2024.03.14 | Free Pascal |
With the approach of Easter, data update available for my game applications Kidspuzzle (Easter bunny and Flying
Easter eggs puzzles) and Memory (Easter bunnies and Easter eggs picture sets). |
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| 2024.03.12 | Free Pascal |
New tutorial available: Using 32-bit and 64-bit inline assembly with Free Pascal. |
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| 2024.03.08 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Windows Programming: 32bit and 64bit assembly programming made easy with SASM. Source code of some NASM and
FASM example programs free to download. |
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| 2024.03.06 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal tutorial available: Variable number of arguments in Free Pascal
functions/procedures. |
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| 2024.03.03 | Sysadmin |
New help text available: Running 32-bit applications on DOS. It shows how to use CWSDPMI.EXE to run C, NASM
and Free Pascal 32-bit programs, resp. to use EMX.EXE to run g77 32-bit programs on a standard 16-bit DOS operating system. |
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| 2024.02.28 | Old Software |
New publication concerning BeOS available in the Old Operating System Software
section: AbiWord - There was a version of the open source word processor for BeOS, too. |
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| 2024.02.26 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
DOS Programming: 32-bit assembly programming using NASM and GCC. Source code of several example
programs free to download. |
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| 2024.02.23 | Sysadmin |
Update of the tutorial An overview of installing updates on given Linux operating systems: Added
information about the Ubuntu based distribution Rhino Linux. |
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| 2024.02.21 | Web/DB |
New Web and Database Development tutorial available: Using multiple PHP versions
on Apache for Windows. |
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| 2024.02.20 | Computers |
New help text available in the Computer Basics - System & Security section:
Removing files and folders in Windows 11 Quick Access. |
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| 2024.02.14 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the Programming languages part of the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
An introduction to FORTRAN 77 (G77). |
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| 2024.02.10 | Old Software |
New publication concerning OS/2 available in the Old Operating System Software
section: Stardock Object Desktop – Amazing desktop enhancement and system utilities. |
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| 2024.02.07 | Free Pascal |
New Free Pascal tutorial available: Free Pascal functions with multiple return-values. |
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| 2024.02.05 | Programming |
New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Developing PL/I programs on DOS. |
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| 2024.01.30 | Web/DB |
New Web and Database Development tutorial available: Web development
environment setup on MS Windows: SQLite embedded databases. The tutorial includes details about the setup of the database engine, the usage of
the sqlite3 command line client and the DB Browser for SQLite and HeidiSQL GUI clients, the creation of the "world" database, as well as the access to this
database from Perl, Python and Java (for Lazarus/Free Pascal, cf. Using SQLite databases with
Lazarus/Free Pascal). |
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| 2024.01.28 | Old Software |
New publication concerning DOS available in the Old Operating System Software
section: CUPS physics simulations – A collection of professional physics programs. If you are a DOS nostalgic
and interrested in physics, these are applications that will probably like a lot! |
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| 2024.01.23 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free Pascal mathematics GUI application available: Eigenvalues and
eigenvectors of a 2x2 matrix. |
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| 2024.01.22 | Computers |
New help text available in the Computer Basics - System & Security section:
Removing files and folders in Windows 10 Quick Access. |
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| 2024.01.20 | Free Pascal |
New tutorial available: Using SQLite databases with Lazarus/Free Pascal. It describes how to connect to a
SQLite database from a Lazarus application using TSQLite3Connection, or as an alternative, using
TODBCConnection. |
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| 2024.01.15 | Old Software |
Three new publications concerning Windows 1 available in the Old Operating System Software
section: Aldus PageMaker - One of the first desktop publishing programs for Mac and Windows; Micrografx In-a-Vision - A vector based drawing program for the first Windows release; Omnis Quartz - The first database application for Microsoft Windows. |
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| 2024.01.14 | Free Pascal |
New tutorial available: Special data types: Variants, variant records, and variant arrays. |
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| 2024.01.12 | Free Pascal |
New Lazarus/Free console program available: Compare the content of two (Windows) directories. |
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| 2024.01.09 | Computers |
New help text available in the Computer Basics - System & Security section:
Removing Recent Files in Windows 11 Start menu. |
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| 2024.01.05 | General |
Rather important site reorganization, with the creation of two new sections: DOS, OS/2 & Windows
Programming, and Old Operating System Software. First, this is more appropriate than the old site structure, because the
corresponding articles do not fit into the Computer Basics section. Second, while playing around with my virtual machines, I try out
lots of applications (especially on old operating systems), and among these try-outs are lots of compilers and interpreters for lots of different programming
languages. A consequence of moving existing files to a new location is that the old links don't work any longer. I created redirects for most of them, but it will
take some time before the search engines will no more list pages with the old links (some of them leding to a "404 Not Found" error). Also, some pages (in particular
the French and German versions of "About myself", "About this site" and the site news) have not yet be updated. Sorry for this little inconvenience!
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| 2024.01.02 | Sysadmin |
New DOS related tutorial available: Using 4DOS as command line interpreter on FreeDOS.
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| 2023.02.20 | Homeless |
Resignation and desperateness: I think that my Homeless life in Luxembourg website can be considered as being definitively dead... |
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| 2022.10.24 | General | For the first time, my website reached 1,000 clicks in 28 days in Google Search! For me, a reward for my work, as well as a stimulation to continue writing programs and tutorials, hoping that the stuff on my site is as much as possible help and/or fun for others. Anyway, thanks to all those, who have visited or will visit streetinfo.lu (and if you like it, please, sign my guestbook). | ||
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| 2021.07.23 | General |
It's done (at least partially)! My website is installed on a VPS and thus will stay online during the transition phase,
where HelioHost rebuilds their servers. It was a rather hard work for a non-professional, but being hosted by HelioHost has one very big advantage: the
power of their community forum. Thanks to all those, who helped me with some advice during the last days! For the site visitors, nothing has changed. The
same address (www.streetinfo.lu) and as on Tommy a secure connection with https. |
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| 2021.05.19 | General |
Up from today, all data transfer to and from my site will be encrypted (usage of the HTTPS protocol by default). In fact, all access
via the insecure HTTP protocol is redirected to HTTPS. This ensures, that everybody, that visits the site, will have a secure connection. Thus, new URL:
https://www.streetinfo.lu. One drawback, however: The HelioHost servers use TLS 1.2 and, having a shared IP address, my webserver uses autoSSL, depending on
Server Name Indication (SNI). This means that older operating systems and older webbrowsers (e.g. Internet Explorer 6, standard browser
on Windows XP; not sure if Windows XP is able to connect with Firefox) will no longer be able to access the site. |
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| Aug 2018 | General |
Finally it has become a reality: streetinfo.lu: my own .lu domain! Big thanks to the one, who has made this possible! |
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| Jun 2018 | General |
Due to the kindness of a gentle and friendly man, I had the chance to get an account on the HelioHost "Tommy" server. I made the decision to restart my
In the street with my laptop website with a new URL: www.streetinfo.heliohost.org. |
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| Dec 2017 | General |
Creation of an account on the HelioHost test server "Johnny" and started the In the street with my laptop
website with URL www.allu62.heliohost.org, containing informatics related stuff (in particular my Lazarus/Free Pascal applications) as well as information
concerning the homeless people in Luxembourg. |
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