Notices by The FreeDOS Project (freedosproject@fosstodon.org)

From the website:

mTCP provides TCP/IP applications for DOS. Mike Brutman recently released a new version:

"Version 2024-10-20 is available. It has a few bug fixes. It also allows mTCP programs to operate at the same time NetDrive is active."

The mTCP NetDrive programs are also now included.

Details at
http://brutmanlabs.org/mTCP/mTCP.html

Sad to learn that Bruce Wayne Bastian, co-founder of WordPerfect, died recently at the age of 76.

WordPerfect was an excellent desktop word processor, and was a mainstay of DOS throughout the 1980s. During that time, having “WordPerfect” on your resume made it easier to get an office job.

I used WordPerfect as a student in high school and university, until the upgrade became too expensive.

If you're a university student, it's the end of the semester!

I teach a few university classes, and I use a spreadsheet to calculate final grades.

Here's how to do the same grade lookup and conversion in #LibreOffice Calc, #QuattroPro and #AsEasyAs

https://youtu.be/Mqgxc7BoJUQ

I wrote this Toy CPU to help teach students about machine language. It's a FreeDOS program that runs in graphics mode.

https://github.com/freedosproject/toycpu

Version 3.1 is a bug fix release. (In version 3.0, the accumulator could hold values beyond 255 but would display zero.)

FYI: In the original DOS era, you needed an add-on sound card (such as the SoundBlaster16) to get sound and digital music in games like DOOM.

But the AC97 replaced the add-on cards, and the old DOS games don't know how to talk to AC97.

SBEMU provides SoundBlaster emulation with OPL3 for AC97, and could be a way to play classic DOS games on newer PC hardware.

You can find it at SBEMU on GitHub:

https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU

It's not #opensource but still cool😎 to see people still writing DOS software. There's a new version of NDN, Necromancer's DOS Navigator:

2022-12-26 - v3.00.0008

http://www.ndn.muxe.com/download/

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