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Re:The History of Djgpp by the_af on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:05PM (#50420519)
Ditto.

I'm surprised that DJGPP is sometimes mentioned here, but (my impression at least) Shawn Hargreaves and Allegro seldom are. To my young self, Allegro was a huge deal.

Re:The History of Djgpp by oso2k on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:12PM (#50420984)
DJ’s still at Red Hat. I talked to him in our (RH’s) retro slack channel occasionally. PDPs, DECs, VAXes, Commodore, Amiga, SUN, and DOS are frequently discussed there.
Re:The History of Djgpp by bacon_waffle on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:14PM (#50420999)
I fondly remember DJGPP and Allegro from my youth as well, it turns out that DJ has just recently opened a few bugs against FreeCAD, which I used to contribute a bit of time to :)
Re:The History of Djgpp by djdelorie on Monday November 09, 2026 @08:33AM (#50425374)
I'm still around. Some parts of my site get updates when I want to share what I'm working on, which is mostly woodworking, CNC and 3D printing these days, plus technology updates for my house. I can mostly be found on the glibc mailing lists and a few cnc forums.

DJGPP itself doesn't get updated much these days because there's no need to ;-)

Re:The History of Djgpp by the_af on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:00AM (#50466498)
Great to hear you're still around.

I'm sure you get this a lot, but a lot of us started writing software (usually games) and experimenting with DJGPP, it meant a ton to a lot of people. You rock.