| 2024.12.20 |
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Windows XP |
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New tutorial available: Installing PHP on Windows XP and using it with IIS. It may be seen as a sequel
of my Installing Internet Information Server (IIS) on Windows XP tutorial.
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| 2024.12.17 |
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Languages |
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New tutorial available: A short introduction to Node.js.
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| 2024.12.06 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Text positioning and coloring using ANSI escape sequences on DOS. The tutorial includes
sample programs in C, FORTRAN, Pascal and assembly (NASM), as well as a sample DOS batch script.
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| 2024.11.24 |
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DOS |
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Searching for a programming language to create GUI applications on DOS? With multiple windows, menus, alerts and full mouse support? Then
my new programming tutorial might be what you are searching for: Installing and running GFA-BASIC on
FreeDOS.
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| 2024.11.17 |
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DOS |
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New program download available. The "calendar" ZIP archive contains the source and executable of the DOS version of my Free Pascal command line program "Multiple
languages 3 months calendar". Accents should be displayed correctly with all Latin-1 codepages.
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| 2024.11.14 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Modern Ada development using GNAT from AdaCore.
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| 2024.11.10 |
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DOS |
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New program download available. The "today" ZIP archive contains the source and executable of a simple GFA BASIC program to display today's date, time, and day
of week (using an "alert" dialog box). The archive includes a GFA BASIC overlay file that should work with all virtualization software, as well as on all actual
hardware.
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| 2024.11.09 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Installing and running COMAL 80 on DOS.
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| 2024.11.06 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Modern Fortran development using Intel Fortran.
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| 2024.10.29 |
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Windows |
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Update of my review of BASIC programming: Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Basic. Added
information about GFA-BASIC 32.
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| 2024.10.28 |
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DOS |
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Updated my review of Free Lisp development environments for DOS. Added information about the installation of
XLisp 2.0, update 1 on MS-DOS 6.22.
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| 2024.10.27 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Exotic programming languages for DOS: MoonRock.
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| 2024.10.25 |
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Languages |
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For all those assembly beginners, who want to learn to use this programming language on Windows 64bit, my tutorial
Windows 64bit assembly programming by example might be what they are looking for. The first part of
the tutorial, Numbers and arrays, has been published. In 14 program samples (plus 3 "real world" examples) it deals with the following:
Integer and floating point arrays, arrays passed to and modified in a procedure, print-out of an array, sorting of an array, two-dimensional arrays, random
numbers.
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| 2024.10.21 |
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DOS |
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Started with the review of Free Lisp development environments for DOS. At this time, the article includes
information about the installation of XLISP-PLUS on FreeDOS.
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| 2024.10.12 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Exotic programming languages for DOS: Profan.
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| 2024.10.08 |
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OS/2 |
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New tutorial available: Installing Borland C++ on OS/2 2.11.
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| 2024.10.04 |
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Languages |
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New programming tip available: Accessing a MySQL database with Microfocus Visual COBOL.
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| 2024.10.03 |
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OS/2 |
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New tutorial available: Installing and running Gnuplot on OS/2.
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| 2024.09.26 |
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Languages |
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New tutorial available: Handling indexed-sequential files in COBOL.
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| 2024.09.21 |
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OS/2 |
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New program downloads available. The "Eigenvalues" ZIP archive contains an OS/2 command line version (source + executable) of my "Eigenvalues" Free
Pascal GUI application. The "ReadCon" ZIP archive contains the Free Pascal source code of a custom unit intended to replace Readln() on OS/2 (work-around of
the Readln related bug in the Crt unit).
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| 2024.09.15 |
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DOS |
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New program download available. The "Blackjack" ZIP archive contains the DOS version (source + executable) of my "blckjack" Free Pascal
console program.
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| 2024.09.14 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Exotic programming languages for DOS - Caml Light and OCaml. The tutorial describes the
installation and usage of Caml Light for DOS 0.7 and OCaml 1.0 for DOS on FreeDOS.
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| 2024.09.04 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Modern COBOL development using Microfocus Visual COBOL. The tutorial shows how to
install a 1-year trial version of Microfocus Visual COBOL for Visual Studio on Windows 11 and how to proceed to build native command line programs, object-oriented
command line programs, and Windows GUI applications using the COBOL programming language.
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| 2024.09.01 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Installing and running Gnuplot on FreeDOS.
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| 2024.08.23 |
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DOS |
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New program downloads available. The "Math programs" ZIP archive contains the DOS version (source + executables) of my mathematics related Free
Pascal console programs: Equation solvers, complex numbers, lines in the plane.
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| 2024.08.18 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Installing and running True BASIC on MS-DOS.
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| 2024.08.11 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Mixing Fortran and C programming with GCC. Not really a tutorial about
mixed C and Fortran programming. It's primarily a series of simple examples, that show how a GCC function can be called by a GFortran program, resp. how a GFortran
subroutine or function can be called by a GCC program.
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| 2024.07.24 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available in the DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming section:
Developing Raku applications on Windows 11.
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| 2024.07.15 |
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Languages |
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New tutorial available: Introduction to Gnuplot.
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| 2024.06.19 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Using VSCode as IDE for D development.
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| 2024.06.16 |
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DOS |
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Started with the new programming series Exotic programming languages for DOS. The first article is about a
programming language called XPL0.
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| 2024.06.11 |
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Windows |
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New text available: BASIC programming: Alternatives to Microsoft Visual Basic. It contains
information about FreeBASIC, PureBasic, thinBasic, Oxygen Basic, Small Basic, and QB64.
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| 2024.05.31 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Developing FreeBASIC applications on Windows 10. It contains details about the
installation and usage of FreeBASIC, CSED_FB (FreeBASIC IDE), FBMath (FreeBASIC mathematics library), about accessing the Windows API, and about VisualFBEditor
(FreeBASIC RAD environment). It also includes the description (GUI design, source code) of a simple project (Windows desktop application), created with
VisualFBEditor.
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| 2024.05.27 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Using VSCode as IDE for Go development.
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| 2024.05.22 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Using Sublime Text as IDE for GCC/GFortran development. It includes details about
the installation of MSYS2 (with the UCRT64 GCC and GFortran toolchains), the built of C/C++ and Fortran programs in the terminal, the installation of Sublime Text
(with the required packages for use with Fortran), the build of C/C++ programs in Sublime Text, and the creation of a new GFortran build system (as the default one
does not work correctly).
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| 2024.05.15 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Developing Tcl/Tk applications on Windows 11.
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| 2024.05.11 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Installing and running PowerBASIC on FreeDOS.
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| 2024.04.30 |
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Old Windows |
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New tutorial available: Installing and running Microsoft C Compiler on Windows 1.04.
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| 2024.04.23 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Developing Modula-2 programs on DOS. It contains information about the installation of the
Logitech Modula-2 development system (including the editor POINT), some details about the Modula-2 language (as a difference with Pascal),
and some simple sources (also available as ZIP download).
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| 2024.04.19 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Building Open Watcom C/C++ and Fortran 77 programs on FreeDOS.
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| 2024.04.14 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Using VSCode as IDE for Rust development.
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| 2024.04.10 |
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Old Windows |
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Short text added: Installing Lazarus/Free Pascal 32-bit on old Windows releases.
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| 2024.04.06 |
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Languages |
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New tutorial available: Working with Perl hashes. The tutorial contains information about simple hashes,
arrays of hashes, hashes of arrays and hashes of hashes, as well as about DB_File databases; the source code of the examples may be downloaded as ZIP archive.
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| 2024.03.30 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Using VSCode as IDE for Julia development.
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| 2024.03.28 |
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Old Windows |
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New tutorial (intended for Windows 98, 2000, or XP) available: Dev-C++ & Dev-Pascal: Developing C++ and Pascal
programs and GUI applications.
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| 2024.03.23 |
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Old Windows |
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New tutorial (intended for Windows 98, 2000, or XP) available: Dev+GNU Pascal: A full GPC programming
environment + Win32 IDE.
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| 2024.03.16 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Installing VSCode on Windows 10 (and showing how to build C and C++ programs).
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| 2024.03.08 |
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Windows |
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New tutorial available: Windows Programming: 32bit and 64bit assembly programming made easy with SASM.
Source code of some NASM and FASM example programs free to download.
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| 2024.02.26 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: DOS Programming: 32-bit assembly programming using NASM and GCC. Source code of
several example programs free to download.
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| 2024.02.14 |
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Languages |
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New tutorial available: An introduction to FORTRAN 77 (G77).
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| 2024.02.05 |
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DOS |
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New tutorial available: Developing PL/I programs on DOS.
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