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DOS Software Archives
- Classic DOS Games
- DOS and Win16 games from back in the 80's and 90's
- DOS Games Archive
- shareware, freeware, playable demos and full versions
- 3D Gamers
- a large collection of games, including some DOS favorites.
- Dosgames.com
- Archive of great DOS freeware/shareware games.
- Freshmeat MS-DOS programs
- large collection of opensource programs for DOS.
- OldOS.org
- shareware/freeware programs for different operating systems, including DOS
- Free Software for DOS
- Large archive of free DOS software - well organized.
- Simtel.net
- The grandfather of archives. Try filtering for "MS-DOS".
- Interesting DOS programs
- An archive of tons of DOS software. Some is free, some is shareware.
- DOS directory
- an interesting ordered directory of different DOS versions and DOS GUIs.
- GNUish Project
- GNU/Linux command utilities ported to DOS.
- Berk project
- Berkeley UNIX commands ported to DOS.
- Goodie Domain Service
- a collection of utilities for DJGPP, mostly GNU utilities
- DOS software toolkit
- DOS software for the visually impaired. JAWS for DOS 2.31 is now available for free.
DOS Powertools
- Unofficial DR-DOS Resources
- information about DOS and especially DR-DOS
- DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project
- enhance the capabilities of DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7.0x and to add support for new standards
- Beowulf Clusters for DOS
- Distributed computing on FreeDOS.
- DOS/32 Advanced DOS Extender
- a replacement of the DOS Extender, DOS/4GW, which allow DOS Extended applications to run in a 32-bit flat protected mode environment.
- DOSLFN
- a free Long File Name (LFN) driver that works under FreeDOS.
- DOS VNC
- The VNC viewer for DOS. Fits comfortably on a floppy disk.
- GNU GRUB
- GNU's multi-OS boot loader.
- Access DOS Menu
- a DOS menu program, runs your applications and games.
- WinRAR
- archive manager that can read/write RAR, ZIP and other files. There is also a DOS version (shareware)
- Unsafe
- cryptosystem for DOS, uses SAFER-SK, BLOWFISH, IDEA, MD5 and QCYPHER.
- DOS Power Toys
- Power Tools for DOS, geared mostly for MS-DOS. Most are Freeware.
DOS Internet
- FreeDOS Networking
- a great guide written by Ulrich Hansen
- EZ-NOS 2
- an http web server that runs on DOS, and more DOS software.
- Sioux
- another DOS webserver, and some network drivers.
- DOS web programs
- links to various DOS internet programs (mostly web related).
- DOS Applications for Internet Use
- An excellent resource by Michael Bernardi.
- Crynwr packet drivers archive
- They give away most of our packet drivers.
- Avaya Wi-Fi drivers (DOS)
- Other places to find Wi-Fi drivers for DOS.
- DOS TCP/IP
- Learn more about DOS TCP/IP resources.
DOS Information
- Club Dr-DOS Wiki
- Very informative wiki about Dr-DOS, Novell DOS, FreeDOS, and DOS in general.
- FreeDOS Chinese
- requires gb2312 code to read the Chinese characters
- DOS USB Drivers
- getting your USB hard drive and other USB devices to work in DOS.
- Upgrading the BIOS with FreeDOS
- Article that describes how to update the BIOS of your PC, when the manufacturer of the motherboard announces some improvement of BIOS software. The installer program usually offered is an application to run MS-DOS.
- How to flash motherboard BIOS from Linux
- Article about how to create a BIOS update floppy using FreeDOS, from Linux.
- ATA/ATAPI Low Level Driver
- ATADRVR is the C source code for the lowest level of an ATA/ATAPI device driver, public domain with no restrictions on how it is used.
- Doctor DOS Betamax
- DOS batch file examples, command line switches, and DOS tips.
- EasyDOS command index
- A useful reference for all commands in DOS. From the book DOS the Easy Way.
- Digital Research, the Untold Story
- Why Novell bought DR-DOS. One man's opinion.
- Art of Assembly Programming
- by Randall Hyde.
- Total Hardware 1999
- jumper settings for over 18,600 devices including hard drives, motherboards, ...
- An inside look at DOS
- Great documentation about DOS internals, by Tim Paterson.
- Operating System Resource Center
- partition types, plug&play, memory, drivers, sound, hard disks, ...
- Fdisk information
- Information on FDISK and hard disks.
- Alex's disk structures page
- Selected topics on disk storage structures.
- DOS VESA VBE drivers
- Selected VESA DOS graphics drivers and more.
- DOS, en español
- Página en español sobre sistemas operativos DOS (MS-DOS, FreeDOS, OpenDOS)
- FreeDOS, en español
- Sitio web sobre el sistema operativo FreeDOS en español
DOS Graphical User Interfaces
- OpenGEM
- an open source graphical user interface for DOS
- SEAL
- 32-bit graphical user interface for DOS (last updated 2003)
- Desktop2
- somewhat in the middle between Windows and Norton Commander (last updated 1998)
DOS Programming
- OpenWatcom
- Home of the open-source Watcom compiler. Supports C, C++, and Fortran77
- Dunfield Development Systems
- Home of the DDS Micro-C C compiler.
- Borland Community Museum
- Borland's free versions of older compilers
- Digital Mars C/C++
- Compilers for Win32, Win16, DOS32 and DOS.
- bugs in C compilers
- mainly for compilers used to develop software for embedded systems.
- FreePascal.org
- the free Pascal Compiler
- Alice Pascal
- Syntax-directed Pascal programming environment for DOS and Atari ST, with source.
- NASM
- The Netwide Assembler Project
- Watt-32 TCP/IP
- library for making networked TCP/IP programs in C and C++ under DOS.
- TurboVision
- TUI (Text User Interface) that implements the well-known widgets - supports DOS
- TxWin
- a multi-platform textmode library offering a user interface with familiar objects (LGPL)
- FreeBASIC
- a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with syntax compatible with QuickBASIC
- Rugxulo
- Links to developer tools and compilers, including BAT files to compile without Autoconf/Configure
Emulators
- DOSEMU
- virtual PC that FreeDOS will boot into. GNU GPL.
- DOSBox
- DOS emulator, emphasis has been on getting DOS games to run smoothly
- JPC Project
- Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals
- QEMU
- generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer
- Plex86
- An open virtual PC environment for Linux & other operating systems.
- Bochs
- an open x86 PC emulation software package
- VMWare
- A commercial virtual PC environment for Linux and Windows (free version also available)
- Virtual PC 2007
- Free PC emulator, runs on Windows (Vista and XP)
- Virtual PC 2004
- (for other Windows versions)
- Moka5 Engine
- A virtual PC environment for Windows.
- VirtualBox
- Open source x86 emulator, runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh.
- Dioscuri
- A free x86 computer hardware emulator written in Java.