Reading Time: 4minutesMarkdown is what happens when someone takes everything beautiful about writing on a Mac and says, “Let’s make this look like 1982 again.” And yet, despite the aesthetic throwback, I use it constantly. It’s not pretty, but it works—and sometimes, function wins over form. Most people who write online either love Markdown or hate it. ... Read more The post Markdown Is Ugly. Here’s Why I Still Use It. appeared first on Original Mac Guy.| Original Mac Guy
In my previous article Exploring the MS-DOS Stub I stated that after experimenting, the Windows loader only cares about the e_magic and the e_lfanew members from the _IMAGE_DOS_HEADER. Because the rest of the members of the DOS header is used by MS-DOS to execute the stub program. Check it out if you have not. If […]| 🔐Blog of Osanda
A long time ago when I got my first computer, I accidentally opened a 32-bit demo with a nice chiptune inside MS-DOS and it worked. I was surprised by how this happens. I was curious to find out how this works behind the scenes. Back in the time I was a little kid and had […]| 🔐Blog of Osanda
In the mid-1990s, my dad gave me a Hewlett Packard HP 95LX he bought from a friend and never used. The HP 95LX (1991) is a really cool handheld PC that runs DOS from ROM. While looking for 95LX software around 1997 (according to the file dates, although it’s very possible I grabbed them earlier), […]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
Windows 3 is often said to be just an UI on top of DOS. This article presents some of the inner side of Windows 3.x and will show that it is more ambitious and advanced than that.| XtoF’s Lair
Techniques for timing on the IBM PC family under MS-DOS, and many related subjects. Sample functions and programs are included. This article is a repost of a piece by Kris Heidenstrom from the mid-90s.| XtoF’s Lair
A presentation of the 3D short movies I produced on PC more than twenty years ago, using 3D Studio on MS-DOS then 3DS Max on Windows NT. What was it like to model and raytrace during those early days? The videos can be watched in all their glory from the 90s.| XtoF’s Lair
In my sporadic “Do you remember…” series, I whack on some rose-tinted specs and wax lyrical about specific aspects of the classic and not-so-classic games of yesteryear. Today, it’s the intro…| caffeinated pixels