Dr Owain Kenway recently wrote about a problem he discovered with Bywater BASIC, one of the BASIC interpreters we include in the FreeDOS 1.2 distribution. Looks like we made a mistake on our end by including the Win32 version, but Owain shows how to recompile a native DOS version. You can read his how-to on his blog:
Fixing bwBASIC on FreeDOS »
While this isn't necessarily part of the FreeDOS Summer Coding Blog Challenge, I'd like to include it as such because it shows the power of open source software: you can always compile it yourself.
(We'll also update the bwBASIC package on our end. Thanks, Owain!)
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- Jim Hall
- I'm Jim Hall, the founder and Project Coordinator for the FreeDOS Project. I started FreeDOS in 1994, when I was an undergraduate physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Other developers got in touch with me, and we began work creating our own version of DOS that would be compatible with MS-DOS. I shared the extended DOS utilities that I had written for myself, as did others. We also found public domain or open source programs that replaced other DOS commands. A few months later, we released our first FreeDOS “Alpha” distribution. And from there, FreeDOS grew into what you see today!
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