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| Brandon | How to make a DOS flash driveLast week I had some free time and wanted to do a little QBASIC development. The problem is that in modern versions of Windows and under OS X, you can't run QBASIC natively, you have to use an emulator. I prefer to develop under DOS natively, it's faster and I just like something about booting up real DOS once in a while. I found a tool called Rufus that you can download that will run on any version of Windows XP or newer, and it lets you format a flash drive with FreeDOS and make it bootable. After you do that, you'll want to copy a mouse driver to the stick as well as a copy of your favorite QBASIC version (or FB DOS) and maybe a GUI or two. Then you just boot to your development machine the flash drive and start coding. The nice thing about this method is that you can plug the stick into whatever computer you have handy and start developing, or you can plug it into a running machine (not booting to it) and copy your source files and other project files off of it. | 2013-03-07 | 12:00 PM |
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