I've been recording videos for the FreeDOS YouTube Channel. If you haven't checked out the channel lately, you might be interested in several gameplay videos, including Star Wars TIE Fighter + flying the TIE Defender, a demo of the Brix puzzle game, and a full playthrough of the shareware DOOM episode. You can also find lots of "how-to" videos, like how to set up FreeDOS as an embedded system, how to install FreeDOS manually, and how to make a minimal FreeDOS. And I like to explore other DOS topics and classic applications, including Borland's Mercury and WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS. If you'd like a bit of history, also check out my history of MS-DOS 1981-1995 or my recent conference talk about Why DOS Was (and Is) a Thing. I release new videos every week! You can stay up to date on new videos by subscribing to the channel, and click the bell icon to get notified when I post new videos.

You may remember Microsoft released the GW-BASIC source code on GitHub, in May this year. And since then, several developers have been updating the code to get it to assemble. One project is tkchia's GW-BASIC GitHub project to adjust GW-BASIC to assemble with JWASM or other assemblers. You can now find a new release of GW-BASIC, also on GitHub. The notes mention that this is a "pre-release" binary of GW-BASIC as rebuilt in 2020, and that support for serial port I/O is missing. Light pen input, joystick input, and printer (parallel port) output need more testing.

Japheth has released HimemSX, an extended memory manager (XMM) implementing XMS v3.5. The SX in HimemSX stands for "Super-eXtended." HimemSX is a fork of HimemX. Its main feature is that it's able to manage more than 4 GB of memory - HimemSX can manage extended memory up to 1 terrabyte. You can learn more about it by reading the Readme.txt file. Download the source code from the HimemSX GitHub project.

R.Swan has contributed A72, a 8086 assembler without bells, whistles, gongs, or macros. It's a bare-bones single-segment symbolic assembler that will take standard Intel-format assembly and turn it into a COM file executable under DOS. R.Swan writes: "I wrote it for my own sake because I wanted to write assembly without having to use a bunch of directives and extraneous garbage in order to even just start writing, and to have binary code I could fully control and predict." Released to the public domain, you can find A72 at its GitHub repo. We have also made a copy on the FreeDOS files archive at ibiblio.

Gregory Pietsch writes: "I finally fixed most of the bugs in the 0.0 version .. and got a clean compile and make using gcc, hence the need for a version 0.1." Gregory invites all developers to examine the new library and let him know of any errors or fixes. Gregory adds: "I also added the cpow() trio to it (cpow, cpowf, cpowl). It would be nice if someone who knows more about Bessel functions, the complex arctangent and complex hyperbolic arctangent functions, and anything else I missed to contribute to this." Gregory's contact info is in the README. You can download the new version in the FreeDOS files archive at ibiblio, under devel/libs/libm/