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Borg 608 days ago | parent | on: Short history of all Windows UI frameworks and lib...
Still, its pretty nice overview. I didnt know that there are so many (failed? haha) APIs for Windows. I myself used only Win32 and MFC. Actually, I still ocasionally use Win32 API to write simple things like this one:
http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?quickrun
Borg 608 days ago | parent | on: Previous : A NeXT Computer Emulator
Yeah, you are not alone with paranoia... I will quote famous words from System Shock 2: "Paranoia keeps us alive..."
Borg 612 days ago | parent | on: Ruby on the Apple II: Adventures in Retro Programm...
Damn, pretty amazing. Ruby is great. I personally still use good old Ruby-1.8.7 because its not bloated with Unicode and its very portable. I run it on Win32, Cygwin, Linux, FreeBSD. And I bet it can compile on more exotic platforms as well.
- bmonkey325 612 days ago
  I also carry a fondness for this version. also rare to know of rubyists outside of the Rails world. Rarer still with the tsunami that is Python. Seeing it run on a machine with less ram is quite remarkable.
Borg 614 days ago | parent | on: The Hayes Code
Ahh, those where the days.. Famous +++ATH ;)
- bmonkey325 614 days ago
  The stuggle of figuring out if you needed ATDP or ATDT was real
  - Borg 614 days ago
    I remember also some magic AT codes for my ISDN external modem for PPP multilink.
Borg 620 days ago | parent | on: A visual history of Visual C++
Ahh, the Visual C++. I used Visual C++ 6.0 for a looong time. It was decent compiler. I used it both from IDE and from cmd.exe using nmake. But, later, I found Mingw project and I moved to GCC.
Borg 621 days ago | parent | on: The Retro Web
And not to vanish later...
Borg 630 days ago | parent | on: Doom Released Under GPLv2
And do NOT forget that, you can also run DOOM inside DOOM! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6hnQ1RKhbo
- ddingus 596 days ago
  Of course you can! Should we expect anything less?
  Honestly the whole "run DOOM on it" scene is technically interesting and hilarious!
Borg 657 days ago | parent | on: The long-lost MVS/XA operating system found in Kaz...
Hmm. Thats so much different from todays UNIX environment. Having just pure BASH terminal where you slap commands looks so much more productive, compared to this. SCREEN utility itself was amazing as well.
- jgrahamc 657 days ago
  Fun fact: Two Stop Bits runs in a screen session that I detach from and leave running. When I need to do something I ssh in to the machine and re-attached. There I have access to the REPL.
Borg 664 days ago | parent | on: Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video]
Thats amazing to look how all that was stuffed into less than 24KB of memory.
Today we have GBs of RAM, CPUs clocked at 3GHz or more and software become very bloated (web and webbrowsers to the extreme).
Borg 687 days ago | parent | on: GRX Graph Lib
An old C and Borland Pascal graphic library that runs on DOS, Win32 and Linux (X11 and framebuffer).
I myself used it to port good old DOOM editor called ZETH. I also added it to my Ruby so I can do basic graph drawing from scripting language.
- jgrahamc 687 days ago
  Ah. Thanks! The site doesn't seem to work for me. All I see is a picture of space.
  - Darkstar 687 days ago
    same here, on Chrome
  - Borg 687 days ago
    Wow, what browser are you using? This site is old. It should render pretty much on anything I guess.. FF 2.x included ;)
    What about IA version? I wonder if IPv6 is a problem here:
```
  grx.gnu.de is an alias for https.gerwinski.de.
  https.gerwinski.de is an alias for mx3.gerwinski.de.
  mx3.gerwinski.de has address 88.198.170.59
  mx3.gerwinski.de has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:192:4405::170:59
```
    - jgrahamc 686 days ago
      Chrome. Maybe IPv6 is the issue.
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