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Building for DOS, OS/2, and DOS on a Macbook Apple Silicon.

Feb 10, 2024 · 3 min read · 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...

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The 90s Developer Starter Pack

Nov 5, 2022 · 8 min read · I 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...

Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API.

Nov 2, 2022 · 6 min read · 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...

OpenWatcom, Gateway to Ancient World of x86

May 21, 2022 · 3 min read · In 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...

Secure Oldies V: Windows 3.x and Winsock 1.1

May 21, 2022 · 3 min read · Despite 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 ...