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Arduino IDE for DOS soon to be released

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First post, by Jo22

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Hi everyone!

My sources have informed me that a DOS-based IDE for the popular µC board is soon to be released,
due to popular demand from the vintage computing community.

According to my sources, initial support will be limited to the serial models, such as "Wiring Lite".
Future versions will be adding support for USB ISA cards and known USB to serial converters.

Mouse support already is included.

Amazing times lay ahead of us, when the beloved micro-controller board and the IBM PC finally team up!

Stay tuned!

Attached to this news are the first pictures, taken undercover.

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In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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Reply 1 of 4, by BitWrangler

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Bear in mind that's about as efficient as a java interpreter implemented in Visual Basic, and that the little AVR chips are surprisingly grunty, low tens of MIPs, so this might be mid 486 upwards required for reasonable speed.

I don't know if it really really has a use case, apart from maybe streamlining the integration of arduino boards with DOS PCs, for any other simple stuff you're probably better sticking with QBasic or batch files (batch commands have been proven Turing complete)

Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.

Reply 2 of 4, by zyzzle

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As much as I love DOS and support any new software in DOS as a gift to the world, how will this DOS IDE help us?

Reply 3 of 4, by vstrakh

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Clarify with your source if Intel is about to release the Quartus Prime for DOS, I will definitely need it for Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 😀

Reply 4 of 4, by Jo22

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Quick update. An early preview release is estimated to be available soon. Stay tuned!

zyzzle wrote on 2023-04-02, 04:10:

As much as I love DOS and support any new software in DOS as a gift to the world, how will this DOS IDE help us?

It will attract the next generation of developers to the IBM PC platform, of course! :D
Arduino IDE for DOS will aim for support of a wide variety of PC configurations, also.
Such as 80x25 text mode or 80x43 text mode. And support for pointing devices, such as the rolling ball control device.
Also supports Microsqueak (MS) compatible devices.

vstrakh wrote on 2023-04-02, 14:52:

Clarify with your source if Intel is about to release the Quartus Prime for DOS, I will definitely need it for Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 :)

I'll see what I can do! :)

"Time, it seems, doesn't flow. For some it's fast, for some it's slow.
In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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