Re: A little 64 byte DOS demo, MAGIXFLY.

Posted on 2025-05-08, 20:00

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orac81 wrote on 2025-05-07, 12:16: MH: Thanks for that! Some of the early DOS C compilers were really efficient If you like earlier C compilers probably Sphinx C-- may also be interesting to you. It already has nice built-in graphics capabilities.

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Re: A little 64 byte DOS demo, MAGIXFLY.

Posted on 2025-05-08, 19:51

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Have a look here, Grzibby. 😉

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Re: A little 64 byte DOS demo, MAGIXFLY.

Posted on 2025-05-03, 17:42

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Just for kicks I converted your demo to Bruce's C compiler and AS86 assembler from its package. It works! Files attached. Somehow I even saved one more byte! 😀

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Merry Easter everyone!

Posted on 2025-04-20, 07:27

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Merry Easter everyone!

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Merry Christmas everyone!

Posted on 2024-12-24, 14:34

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🎄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN0lN2S_3jE ❄️

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Re: Happy Easter!

Posted on 2024-03-30, 20:41

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Oh, yeah — for example something like this. Not bad! 😀 A few more Easter-related tunes…

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Re: Happy Easter!

Posted on 2024-03-30, 19:34

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Maybe not that specific song in particular, but somehow recently I like to explore very old recordings: from the 20s, 30s, 40s (at most 50s) — which I actually never was listening to earlier ago. I mean jazz/pop/blues music before the advent of rock'n'roll era.

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Happy Easter!

Posted on 2024-03-30, 15:41

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Easter Parade

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Re: Anyone feel like assisting with debugging a small QBasic project?

Posted on 2024-01-24, 20:13

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I'm tempted to encourage you to write this in Forth, but I'm afraid you probably don't program in Forth? 😉

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Re: Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Posted on 2023-12-24, 21:16

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Oh, it was so long ago, you know… 😉

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-12-24, 17:42

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Haven't the slightest idea how many weasels are around you — and, honestly, I don't care about „interlaced video”, neither cared the businesspeople back in 1985 . I hope Santa brings you a huge monitor — interlaced video capable — as a gift. Merry Christmas to you, and bye!

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-12-24, 16:59

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We were talking about Amiga — and why they weren't that eager to buy it back in the day — not about the sizes of computer screens.

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-12-24, 16:10

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There wasn't as much of a need I agree. But do you agree interlaced video was unsuitable for business tasks? Most businesspeople didn't care about „video” — whether interlaced, or not. XT/AT's offerings were enough for them. The only(?) business-related exceptions regarding Amiga were game …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-12-24, 15:05

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Universities had internet. …the businesspeople hadn't. And even if they had, they would have hardly any need to use it — there were no business-related WWW sites. But business people never bought Amigas. So ... ??? …so I'm trying to explain to you, why businesspeople never bought Amigas. Simple: …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-12-24, 14:42

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kant explain wrote on 2023-12-24, 14:13: Universities had internet. …the businesspeople hadn't. And even if they had, they would have hardly any need to use it — there were no business-related WWW sites.

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-12-24, 13:22

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One thing I distinctly recall is that the Amiga was wildly misunderstood by most business users, because it was just too far ahead of its time. People were used to business machines using text-only displays and working from a command prompt, running one program at a time. In 1985 there wasn't …

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Merry Christmas everyone! :)

Posted on 2023-12-24, 08:11

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Christmas Dream

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Re: CuteMouse not working properly

Posted on 2023-12-01, 20:45

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CuteMouse is — unfortunately — somewhat buggy; I recommend Genius mouse driver instead (works for me).

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Re: FreeDOS won't boot without CD

Posted on 2023-12-01, 20:36

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How can I get freedos to boot without the cd? I also had similar problem; perhaps my solution will work for you: first format your SD card in Windows using defaults for that card. No, don't select „FAT32” or anything else — just in that little window click the button described „use default values” …

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Re: Which old programming languages do you still use/play with today->

Posted on 2023-11-17, 09:51

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Someone has put plenty of interesting resources of Comal for PC on Web Archive — I mean especially Unicomal 3.11 IBM PC (and other files uploaded by „amiblitz94” user.

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