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As promised: PartUtil a limited partition editor that makes dual booting DOS and Win 9x without a boot manager easier.

Hide, unhide and make partitions active. Save and restore MBRs to files. And a few extra tricks that help with initial setup. Runs on any PC compatible and any version of DOS. Source code included.

(I've been using an earlier version of this for years on a PCjr. This is a complete rewrite that is finally worth sharing.)

brutman.com/PartUtil/PartUtil.

A few weeks ago I wondered what it takes to turn a small LISP-1 into a LISP-2. Turns out it takes just a few hours to get most things right, then some days to iron out a few subtleties, and then a couple of weeks to polish it into a piece of art.
MICRO COMMON LISP is a tiny, purely symbolic, microscopic subset of #CommonLISP. It runs in less than 64K bytes of memory, even on #DOS (tiny model) or CP/M. Here it is:
t3x.org/mcl/
#CPM #LISP

t3x.orgT3X.ORG mcl/index

Coming soon ... a utility to make swapping active partitions easier.

On my PCjr I like to switch between DOS 3.3 and DOS 5, while keeping the drive letters in the extended partition the same. To do that you have to mark the new partition active, but also hide the old partition. FDISK doesn't allow that.

Other tools exist but they are often not small machine friendly. I wrote a similar utility years ago but I lost the source code, so here it is recreated and enhanced.

youtu.be/rX8QcfpKdOE?t=344

CyClones, an interesting shooter from 1994, it is a bit different from its peers in that the design is more akin to that of a pure dungeon crawler.

Love the soundtrack and setting. An interesting fact, this was the first game to have independent mouse aim, a fully movable crosshair in all axes. Mouselook came to gaming later; still interesting to see such pioneering - and of course, this was made by Raven Software.

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#games#gaming#dos

There are loads of videos about MS-DOS, DOS games and DOS PCs on PeerTube, here's a playlist:

:ms_dos: fedi.video/w/p/uEorJj9vYsrdmih

- Watching on a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist

- Watching on a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen

- Watching embedded: Click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in playlist

cc @msdos

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GNOME 2.x has something that the other Gnome's have never had. Full configurability almost like KDE has

That was the period where I would gladly use both Gnome and KDE on my desktops.

When the Gnome programmers started to think for me, is when I Departed.

I am however glad that the Gnome project exists and thrives, because there are hundreds of thousands of people who like the way that the Gnome programmers work. Without Gnome we would have lost those people to Macintosh

Get back to subject please take your time to go to Amber monitors, to the time when you had to run Sidekick, the time when you had to run DOS 3.3

I'm almost certain, no I am certain that you can't argue, that what sidekick did there for a crude and rudimentary user interface was advanced.

I love the way SideKick used the interrupt timer, interrupt the whole system inserted stuff do whatever it wants to do, then tell DOS how to save the files, and then when you got out of SideKick, it was almost magical, that you could use a single tasking operating system and pause it do one of the tasks and then resume it without the operating system ever getting screwed up

#GNOME#KDE#UI

Heute hab ich mal wieder was für die Retro-Sammlung getan und das deutsche Handbuch, sowie ein Set von mehreren 5 1/4 Zoll Disketten für das PC-Spiel "The Humans" ins Internet Archive geladen. Das Handbuch - für PC & Amiga - hatte ich bisher quasi noch gar nirgends im Netz gesehen.

Das Handbuch:
archive.org/details/the-humans
Die Disketten:
archive.org/details/the-humans

Viel Spaß! 😜