Building for DOS, OS/2, and DOS on a Macbook Apple Silicon.I've previously written about OpenWatcom as a gateway to the ancient world. However, at that time, I focused on installing it using Docker, as OpenWatcom 1.9 only works on Windows and Linux. I'm not a full-time Windows or Linux user, so when I discov...Feb 10, 2024 · 3 min readretrocoding.net
The 90s Developer Starter PackI recently found a 386 emulator called 86Box, a fork of the earlier version of PCEm. Because I'm a real programmer™, I build the master branch from its Git source on a macOS Ventura. How I build it from sources will be the subject of a new article. B...2LMNov 5, 2022 · 8 min readretrocoding.net
Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API.You might find the title a little bit odd. Hold your thought for a moment and hear me out. I'm a big believer that in technology, and life, something that comes from consensus from a big, top-down standardisation body usually fails. The internet is a...1ANov 2, 2022 · 6 min readretrocoding.net
OpenWatcom, Gateway to Ancient World of x86In my articles in this retrocoding.net I use OpenWatcom compiler extensively. This is because this is the only compiler which allows me to program back into the ancient world. By ancient, I meant, the world of 8088, where the first PC was made. I exp...May 21, 2022 · 3 min readretrocoding.net
Secure Oldies V: Windows 3.x and Winsock 1.1Despite the version numbering, Windows NT 3.1 is the first Windows NT released at 1993. Windows NT was the first 32-bit platform that Microsoft has free of legacy things like MS-DOS. It was complete rewrite rather than a refactor of the Windows they ...May 21, 2022 · 3 min readretrocoding.net
