Notices by The FreeDOS Project (freedosproject@fosstodon.org)

Interesting article about people using floppy disks today:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240510-floppy-disks-why-some-people-are-still-in-love-with-this-obsolete-computer-storage-technology

Growing up, I used 5¼ and then 3½ floppies to store everything. They were ubiquitous. 💾💾💾

The videos are back!

https://youtu.be/3IUi8HsWxMQ

This program is simple but it made me so happy to write it! Let's write a demo program that makes a Cylon "eye" sweep back and forth on the screen. #battlestar #byyourcommand

FreeDOS will be 30 years old in June!

We announced FreeDOS on June 29, 1994 … which makes us older than Amazon, Wikipedia, and Google.

I wrote a lot of code early on, but these days I'm here to support others who write the code.

I was honored to be interviewed by My Open Source Experience podcast about supporting an open source community. Thanks for the great interview!

https://youtu.be/qYux4Q1vxJ4

Very exciting news! Dave Dunfield has decided to release the source code of over 40 years' work "in the hopes that others may find it useful or maybe learn a few things." This includes the Micro-C compiler, a very nice C compiler for DOS.

You can find everything on Dave's website.
https://dunfield.themindfactory.com/dnldsrc.htm

The source code license isn't an "OSI open source" license, but aims to release the source code for others to use. Thanks Dave!

SJGPlay is an easy to use freeware CD Audio player for DOS, written by Steve J. Gray.

It has all the features you would expect in a CD player plus lyrics capability.

Steve has now released the source code to SJGPlay for DOS as open source, under the CC0 license.

http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/software/sjgplay/sjgplay_dos.html

We need help testing SJGPlay! If you have a CD player and a sound card on your computer, please test SJGPlay with actual music CDs and let us know in the freedos-devel email list.

https://www.freedos.org/forums/