Links

Links to Web sites I consider interesting, sorted by title.

• Bret Johnson's Home Page
  Contains the USBDOS package of USB drivers for DOS and several other useful TSR programs.
• Brutman.com
  Web site of Michael Brutman, featuring projects such as mTCP, a small and efficient TCP/IP stack for DOS.
• Coding 2 Learn
  Education and technology ramblings with a little politics for good measure. Recommended articles (unordered):
  • Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you
  • It's our own fault... Deal with it
  • How we were trained to lower the drawbridge
  • The Myth of Mobile Computing
  • Precrime
• commodorejohn.com
  Web site of musician and retrocomputing enthusiast John Ames.
• Countercomplex
  Blog by Ville-Matias Heikkilä on computers, civilization, aesthetics, and more. Recommended articles (unordered):
  • The resource leak bug of our civilization
  • Slower Moore's law wouldn't be that bad
  • On electronic wastefulness
  • Past tense is evil
• Dadhacker
  Instant Wisdom Worth What You Paid; blog by ex-Atari, ex-Apple programmer Landon Dyer. Recommended articles (unordered):
  • Taggin' - on surveillance
  • Who'da thunk'a dat? - on the X Window System
  • make or break - on makefiles
  • The busy work of __saving US from OurSelves - on the abuse of typedefs in C
  • Curmudgeon Alert - on makefiles
  • syntax doesn't matter? - on the syntax of programming languages and XML
  • Coding style - on leading underscores in C
  • Style - on the format of source code at the character level
  • Naming - on the naming of variables
  • Planning for Debugging - on the importance of debuggers
  • Atari Stuff - Time to boot tripled!
  • Fairy Trubba - on fantasy novels
  • Flipping Bits and Twisting Knobs - on error handling
  • Building a mystery - on makefiles and other "build systems"
  • Compiler Pragmas We'd Like To See - self-explanatory
  • We dinna take no simian ticks, nossir - on unclear explanations in books about mathematics
  • Game Boy Advance SP
  • newt talk
• Floodgap
  Web site of retrocomputing enthusiast Cameron Kaiser.
• Fun with virtualization
  Exactly what it says.
• Haiku
  A modern, fast, powerful desktop operating system inspired by BeOS.
• MikeOS
  A simple 16-bit operating system for x86 PCs, written in assembly language and intended for educational use. I learned x86 assembly by studying its code, so I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn x86 assembly.
• Nathan's Toasty Technology Page
  The Web site of Nathan Lineback, famous for its GUI gallery. Check out his Windows 8 review.
• OS/2 Museum
  Blog by Michael Necasek on the history of OS/2 and random aspects of PC software and hardware history, with emphasis on the 1987-1997 period.
• pagetable.com
  Interesting bits of computing history.
• Planet Virtual Boy
  A Web site dedicated to a unique yet obscure 3D video game console, the Nintendo Virtual Boy.
• Programming in the 21st century
  Blog by James Hague. Recommended articles (unordered):
  • A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible
  • Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology
  • Optimizing for Fan Noise
  • Things to Optimize Besides Speed and Memory
  • Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
  • The Pace of Technology is Slower than You Think
  • Lost Lessons from 8-Bit BASIC
  • Programming Modern Systems Like It Was 1984
  • Dynamic Everything Else
• Rob Braun
  Web site of retrocomputing enthusiast Rob Braun. Contains interesting projects and software for 680x0-based Macintoshes.
• rubbermallet.org
  Web site of emulator developer and QuickBASIC programmer Mike Chambers.
• Smaller C
  A small and simple C compiler by Alexey Frunze.
• Sol
  Web site of programmer Jari Komppa.
• Telcontar.net
  Nothing to say here.
• The Old New Thing
  Blog by Microsoft programmer Raymond Chen on Win32 programming. Contains many interesting stories on the history of Windows.
• Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks
  Operating system horror.