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About — Dead Software Club

Dead Software Club is a small personal archive of experiments with forgotten programming systems, old languages, and abandoned codebases.

This blog is not about nostalgia. It’s about trying to run, understand, and sometimes rebuild software that no one maintains anymore.

I work with old and unusual systems such as MS-DOS environments, early programming languages like SNOBOL, and classic tools like Turbo Pascal and BASIC. Some of them are well-known, others are almost forgotten — but all of them have one thing in common: they still work in their own strange way, even if the world has moved on.

Sometimes I try to revive old projects. Sometimes I explore how something was built. And sometimes I experiment with ideas that modern languages already solved — but in a very different form.

This is not a tutorial site and not a museum. It’s more like a lab notebook for software that refuses to disappear.

What you’ll find here

• Experiments with legacy languages (BASIC, Pascal, FORTH, SNOBOL, COBOL and others)

• Low-level programming tricks and system-level behavior

• Attempts to revive or run abandoned software projects

• Notes on unusual or forgotten programming ideas

Why “Dead Software Club”?

Because this is a place for software that is no longer actively alive — but still interesting enough to study, rebuild, or reinterpret.

That’s it. No grand claims, no over-explaining — just a clear identity.