r/DOS

I built this Markdown editor (and a viewer as well) for DOS. I've been using it a lot for writing and its getting pretty solid now....there's something about typing documents in DOS that is so cathartic.

There's split screen editing with live "formatting" of text, a focus mode (strong WordPerfect vibes), and a graphical show mode that renders the document with fonts and styles -- both with customizable color schemes. And of course you can print.

There's a Tidy function that can cleanup documents coming from modern machines (tidying up Unicode, HTML tags, etc).

https://github.com/therenegar/launch/wiki/!MD.EXE

Here’s a story: I’d long had the idea of ​​creating authentic DOS era UIs that would actually work properly in a browser. The stack was Rust + WebAssembly.

After finishing that, I wondered: what if I compiled the Rust code for DOS? And it actually worked...

Then I thought, well, there’s DOSBox-JS - why not just launch DOS in the browser example and run that same example inside DOS?

And that worked too...

BTW you can even play Duke over the network, though that’s just a side effect :)

Live demo: https://kirindenis.github.io/OWLOSUI/Examples/Web/JavaScript/05-Demo/

Source code: https://github.com/KirinDenis/OWLOSUI