MSDOS on NCoT Tech

Fixing the PC BIOS Boot Screen Recreation

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:48:31 +0000

Thanks to @hobbified on YouTube, making the EPA logo look correct was quite straight forward…

Let's recreate a 90's PC BIOS Boot Screen

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:48:31 +0000

Because why not, it looks simpler than it really is and we’ll get to fall down a rabbit hole trying to draw the Energy Star logo.

Nostalgic DOS Development Part 1 - FreeDOS, DJGPP, RHIDE and other madness.

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:06:11 +0000

Come back to a time when 640k was enough, and when a 486 DX2/66 was considered a fast computer. None of this modern multi-core rubbish or branch predicting exploitable nonsense here. Just you, me, DOS and a C compiler.

Nostalgic DOS Development Part 2 - Writing our first programs

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:00:34 +0000

This is part two, go read part 1 first.

Forcing DOS onto an unwilling ThinkPad R60e

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:54:04 +0000

I decide that doing DOS development means I need a real computer, rather than an emulator. I have an old laptop, surely making it run DOS can’t be that hard, right?

Emulation Sucks

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:49:37 +0000

… because it’s so realistic you still have to put up with the same problems you had 30 years ago…

Dodgy DOS Development

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:28:22 +0000

From the mind that brought you “let’s try to write games using just pure C” I have a new idea for making my life difficult.

Let’s write DOS software using period correct tools…