This past Tuesday, the 16th, most of the north part of my town lost power, some
for longer than others. My power outage lasted about 3 hours. However, instead
of sitting around bored during this extended outage, I decided to do something
productive.
I’ve been trying on-and-off since 2016 to get my late 90s laptop running FreeDOS connected to the Internet, and I’ve finally done it. In this article, I show off my setup and give the steps on how it’s done.
I recently encountered a scenario in a class I’m taking where there was a big
argument about what should be done with unfair questions on an exam. The
discussion appeared to be entirely centered on intuition and emotions, so I
decided to settle the matter with mathematics. I think this information could
be useful to teachers in a similar predicament.
It’s been 3 years since I wrote this story about joining the FSF, so I
figured it was a good time to write another one of these updates to catch
anyone up who happens to care.
This all started from my interest in old hardware. I’d acquired an old 90s
laptop PC from a coworker, and I decided to install FreeDOS on it. While
browsing the available FreeDOS software, I stumbled upon PowerPaint 2, an image
editor. I decided to give it a try, and I made a very amusing doodle that I
simply had to get onto my main PC.
I’ve been writing a standard C library for the Nintendo Game Boy system over at
Delwink, and now I’ve got a working Pong prototype game. It still needs some
more features yet to be added to the library, but it’s a playable game! Check
it out on GitHub, or clone
https://github.com/2mac/gbpong.git.
I made a new program in response to a challenge, and it has turned out to be a
useful learning tool. See it on GitHub, or clone
https://github.com/2mac/ttt.git using Git to check it out. Be sure to first
read the README file before getting started.