TPASM is "a Unix based cross assembler for 6805, 6809, 68HC11, 6502, Sunplus, 8051, Z80, PIC, AVR, and c166." Thanks to dec_hl for making a version for FreeDOS (compiling the binaries uses DJGPP, gcc version 8.2.0; see Makefile.dj2). This is otherwise a copy of the official TPASM sources from Todd Squires; Todd still maintains TPASM, so dec_hl asks that you please contact Todd for any issues regarding assembly errors or improvements. TPASM is available under the GNU GPL v2. You can download it here at the TPASM Github site. Get the binaries at TPASM releases.

Gifsicle is a command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting information about GIF images and animations. Robert Riebisch has updated Gifsicle for DOS, writing "On 31 October 2018 I finished my 32-bit DOS port of Eddie Kohler's gifsicle version 3.2 using DJGPP version 2.05." Binaries, user manuals in ASCII format, and fully configured sources plus some simple instructions on how to rebuild are available at http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/

Robert Riebisch writes: "On 31 October 2018 I finished my 32-bit DOS port of dmidecode version 3.2 using DJGPP." Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard (see a sample output). This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability depending on the manufacturer. Binaries, user manuals in ASCII format, and fully configured sources plus some simple instructions on how to rebuild are available at http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/

Robert Riebisch writes: "cabextract is Free Software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files, also called .CAB files. It is distributed under the GNU GPL license and is based on the portable LGPL libmspack library. cabextract supports all features and formats of Microsoft cabinet files and Windows CE installation files. It can also look inside other files for embedded cabinets." Binaries for version 1.8, user manuals in ASCII format, and fully configured sources plus some simple instructions on how to rebuild are available at http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/

TK Chia has been working to port the GNU C Compiler to DOS, using the ia16 instruction set. That means you can use the GNU C compiler to make 16-bit DOS programs (previously, if you wanted to use GNU C, you used the DJGPP port, but the compiled DOS programs required a 32-bit CPU; this compilers programs that run on 16-bit.) TK Chia recently uploaded a new, updated package set for the gcc-ia16 toolchain at Github. Features in this updated gcc-ia16 toolchain include: * fixes a number of bugs which was causing the compiler to produce incorrect or suboptimal code (thanks to Bart Oldeman) * adds a new experimental function calling convention, regparmcall * adds a number of features to the GCC internal runtime library (libgcc) and the C runtime library (newlib) to better detect and report program logic errors, especially memory corruption errors.