This week on the blog: finishing up my tour of OpenWatcom by finding places its codegen struggles in the Tiny memory model. A bunch of my old DOS programs intended to ship as .COM no longer built or ran properly except as .EXE, and fixing this lets me dig much deeper into how both Borland and Watcom build their programs to conform with 16-bit DOS norms.

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/more-watcom-fixing-interrupt-handlers-in-doss-tiny-model/

#retrocomputing #dos #OpenWatcom #BorlandC

Revisiting Borland Turbo C/C++, A Great IDE back in the 90s

“Tough Developer” did this blog recently about looking back at Turbo C and Turbo C++, and also installed an old version to play around with it.

It is a reminder of how far we have come, firstly from the late 1980s and early 1990s, and secondly for those wh ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/revisiting-borland-turbo-c-c-a-great-ide-back-in-the-90s/

#BorlandC++ #coding #retro #technology

Revisiting Borland Turbo C/C++, A Great IDE back in the 90s

A DOS based menu options screen with square brackets to select options “Tough Developer” did this blog recently about looking back at Turbo C and Turbo C++, and also installed an old version to play around with it. It is a reminder of how far we have […]

https://gadgeteer.co.za/revisiting-borland-turbo-c-c-a-great-ide-back-in-the-90s/

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