Djgpp – 32bit DOS Development System

delorie.com

23 points·nazgulsenpai··6 comments

This brings back old memories. Amazing how it hasn't changed in 20 years. I was learning c and c++ and this provided a free full development suite comparable to others which were way outside my budget as a teenager.

DJGPP + Allegro was great in it's time

Nowadays I think there are much more recent versions of GCC that can be made to target DOS. I don't know the work involved, but a guy named bisqwit had some tools.

Me too. DJGPP and Allegro. I love that this website hasn't changed a bit since then

Me too, When I was 10-13 years old, I had a bunch of old discarded 486 machines and I taught myself programming with DJGPP in DOS, it was an incredible time of learning for me and I have fond memories of finally, after weeks of effort, getting programs to compile and run, that enormous burst of joy is what got me hooked on programming

After fighting with MIX C compiler bugs for too long, I found out about this project. So I set out to download the C part of it with dialup. Which took ages.

So dad got a phone bill that turned him purple, and grounded me for 2 weeks. I couldn't care less as I finally had a C compiler worth using. Thanks, Delorie.

I recently installed this to do a DOS port of a new point and click adventure game my teammates are currently writing for Windows, Linux and macOS. As it has a retro aesthetic and I didn't have anything better to do, I figured that I might as well have it run on DOS.

Watcom C/C++ is much much better and is free for download.

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