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Repórter Retro 122

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/02/25/reporter-retro-122/

#ReprterRetro #DOScember #6800 #8BitGuy #Amiga3000 #AMXProject #AtariSt #BASIC #Casemod #Centurion #Clabretro #CoCoTown #Commodore128 #Commodore1541 #Commodore64 #Commodore64Ultimate #CommodoreKIM1 #CommodorePET #Compaq #CP500 #CP400 #CulturaHacker #DanielCampos #DBASEIII #DEC #DESQView #diagnstico #ElectricAdventures #emulao #FbioNMI #fita #IMSAI8080 #JanBeta #Japo #Jogos #JogosDeGuerra #JuanCastro #KevinNoki #LAN

Repórter Retro 122 - Retrópolis

Este é o Repórter Retro 122, produzido pela A.R.N.O. (Agência Retropolitana de Notícias)! MP3 para ouvir offline Escute no YouTube Do que falamos? 40 anos do dBase III+ 40 anos do Commodore 128D 40 anos do Manifesto Hacker (clique no HACKERMAN pra ler) 50 anos do computador de Jogos de Guerra 90 anos da TDK

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vga256 Feb 14

just think of what we could have had 🥲

#geoworks #desqview #unix #msdos

Dave Pearson Dec 11

Okay, #term39 is giving me some serious #DESQview (with a side order of #TurboVision) vibes and I like it. #msdos #dos #terminal

Dave Pearson Dec 11

Okay, #term39 is giving me some serious #DESQview (with a side order of #TurboVision) vibes and I like it. #msdos #dos #terminal

Todd A. Jacobs | Rubyist Nov 15

@postmodern I don’t think it’s well maintained, but the TTY Toolkit was trying to fill that niche for a long time. Ruby dropped meaningful support for Tk a long time ago, and it’s often easier to throw a Sinatra front end up than wrestle with ncurses or glue UI systems together.

I prefer CLI & TUI tools, but I might be a product of the #DESQview era. I don’t even know any #programmers who still prefer byobu, vim, ctags, ack, awk/sed, direnv, and guard for a basic #RubyLang stack anymore.

Aviancer Nov 7

Alright! After quite an ordeal including replacing memory modules in my 486 and eventually building a lab vm, I got to show off true multitasking on top of DOS! This was accomplished using a fairly obscure piece of software called DesqView originating all the way back from 1985, while the version I used was from 1996 and built to work with the QEMM8 memory manager.

We had a lot of fun exploration on stream seeing what would work and even ran graphical programs side be side by text mode things, with the full ability to swap between them. There was some palette corruption during the swapping that kinda just adds a neat look to it all. Also some truly memorable midi crimes occurred :)

#Retro #RetroComputing #retrogaming #DOS #Desqview #enVTuber #vtuberen

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Aviancer Oct 17

DESQView unfortunately still exhibits some significant memory corruption. I went as far as replacing the RAM in the system with a configuration the motherboard explicitly supports (32MB from 16+16), as well as disabling all CPU caching incase it was a timing problem - but it does not seem to help. Part of actually working with real retro hardware I guess!

I will have to dump the systems drive and see about getting things from there imported under a VM instead, it looks promising on both counts initially but I don’t know how true to hardware 86Box is on this level - so we’ll see. Still very much want to get to explore multitasking on DOS.

#Retro #RetroComputing #DOS #DesqView #Multitasking

Retrópolis Aug 29, 2025

Repórter Retro 117

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/08/29/reporter-retro-117/

#ReprterRetro #ActionRetro #AdemirCarchano #AlanTuring #Altair8800 #Amiga #Atari8bits #BancoDeDados #BASIC #Baudot #Clone #ClubeMSX #CoCoTown #CommanderX16 #Commodore #Commodore64 #DavePlummer #DavesGarage #DESQView #Disquetes #epcom #EscapeFromColditz #gradiente #Hackaday #HDMI #Homebrew #IBM #KazuhikoNishi #KonradZuse #MquinaDeTuring #MarioCavalcanti #matemtica #microsoft #MiSTer #MITS #MSDOS #NeoGeo #NetBSD #Nin

Repórter Retro 117 - Retrópolis

Este é o Repórter Retro 117, produzido pela A.R.N.O. (Agência Retropolitana de Notícias)! MP3 para ouvir offline Escute no YouTube Do que falamos? Aulas de Março 30 anos do Virtual Boy 40 anos do DesqView 40 anos do Amiga Andy Warhol e Debbie Harry O computador que era bom demais para seu tempo Aliás, vocês

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