Subj : RE: Learning to code for MS-DOS/FreeDOS
To   : Arelor
From : NuSkooler
Date : Fri Jul 03 2020 12:08:44


Arelor around Sunday, June 28th...
 Ar> Hello!I recenlty ran into an article about FreeDOS in Linux Magazine. I 
 Ar> already  knew of FreeDOS's existence but the article made me curious so I 
 Ar> did some research.I wonder if there is any recommended starting point if 
 Ar> you want to get  started developping programs or incorporating device 
 Ar> drivers to FreeDOS. Most of my coding experience is with interpretated 
 Ar> languages, but I have done some C/Cpp. I have also done some toy 
 Ar> Hellow-Wordlesque programs in "Wintel" Assembly.Any good resource for 
 Ar> getting started coding simple stuff in order to get a grasp of what 
 Ar> developing for MS-DOS was like back in the day?

A lot of the coding I did back in the day in DOS was with Turbo Pascal. Look
for the SWAG archive, etc. You can incorporate ASM very easily inline with your
 Pascal code very easily as well. 

A while back I create a small utility for 8086 machines using the modern Free
Pascal Compiler. Developed and compiled from a modern Linux machine but FPC has
 a nice cross compile toolchain for older machines/DOS.

If you wanna go even more modern-retro, people have had success using Rust to
create DOS binaries :) If you want to go older, Turbo C is also a good option,
or more limited Quick Basic (look at the stuff that is created in the DOS
competitions every year!)





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