New/Updated Links (updated February 10 2023)
- DOjS 1.10.0 a Javascript coding environment for DOS featuring integrated editor, graphics and sound output, mouse/keyboard support
- DOStodon a Mastodon client for DOS which relies on DOjS to run
- Packet Drivers Collection for DOS a collection of DOS drivers and utilities for various network cards
- SHSUCDX v3.09 MSCDEX replacement ; uses only 6K resident ; can be unloaded. Now part of SHSUCD, a suite of programs dealing with the CD-ROM. Older versions here
- ZeroFill 1.09 Writes zeros on the empty disk space for the selected hard drive
- Image v3.57 Disk image backup and restore program. Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS partitions and most writable USB, IEE1394 drives, ATAPI CD/DVD drives without special drivers. Shareware
- HWiNFO v6.22 system information utility designed for detection of hardware. Last updated October 2022!
- The Costa GUI v1.7.0 a DOS GUI with built in theme and icon editor and several apps (calculator, text viewer, games). Last updated January 2023
- MinEd 2022.27 Text editor with extensive Unicode support
- UPX v4.02 powerful GPL'ed executable packer (meaning the compressed executable files can still be run directly)
- Links Web Browser 2.28 Open Source text web browser
- PPWIZARD 22.148 Free, multi-platform HTML Preprocessor. Requires free Regina REXX interpreter. I use this to generate this site
- Regina v3.9.5 a REXX interpreter that has been ported to DOS and other OSes
- MGRX 1.4.1 MGRX is a 2D graphics library derived from the GRX library
- DOSBox-X 2022.12.16 open source DOS x86 emulator for Windows, Linux. MacOS to run DOS applications and games
- mTCP 2022-07-01 a TCP/IP stack with several applications (DHCP client, FTP client, ping, HTGet, FTP Server, HTTP server, Telnet and more). Updated July 2022
New/Updated Links (updated March 13 2022)
- MGRX 1.3.5 MGRX is a 2D graphics library derived from the GRX library
- FreeDOS v1.3 A GNU GPLed version of DOS. Also has lots of DOS-related news.
- DOSBox-X 0.83.23 open source DOS x86 emulator for Windows, Linux. MacOS to run DOS applications and games
- Free Pascal v3.2.2 32 bit compiler for DOS, Linux, Win32 and other platforms. Semantically equivalent to TP 7.0
- Arachne v1.99 GPL updated GPL version of Arachne (last update Dec 23, 2021), a graphical DOS Internet suite (web browser, FTP, Email).
- Links Web Browser 2.25 Open Source text web browser
- SvarDOS Build 20220302 FreeDOS based OS which aims to collect vailable DOS software, package it and make it easy to find and install applications using a network-enabled package manager
- The Costa GUI v1.5.0 a DOS GUI with built in theme and icon editor and several apps (calculator, text viewer, games). Last updated December 2021
- DOSMid 0.9.6 DOSMid is a text mode MIDI and MUS player for DOS that can run on a 8086 CPU
- Mpxplay v1.66 MP3,OGG,WAV,AAC,FLAC, WMA, MPC,AC3 player with integrated file browser, spectrum analyser and other features.
- UMBPCI V3.90 Free hardware UMB driver (only 240 bytes) for DOS/Win9x - replaces EMM386.EXE
- HWiNFO v6.20 system information utility designed for detection of hardware. Last updated December 2021!
- Image v3.50 Disk image backup and restore program. Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS partitions and most writable USB, IEE1394 drives, ATAPI CD/DVD drives without special drivers. Shareware
- DOSLFN 0.41d TSR to provide long filename API in plain DOS. Only 12K resident. Older versions here
- WCD 6.0.4 Wherever Change Directory allows you to change to any directory by typing part of a directory name
New/Updated Links (updated March 6 2021)
- SvarDOS FreeDOS based OS which aims to collect vailable DOS software, package it and make it easy to find and install applications using a network-enabled package manager
- The Costa GUI v1.3.0 a DOS GUI with built in theme and icon editor and several apps (calculator, text viewer, games). Last updated October 2020
- DOS port of Lynx 2.9.0dev5 DJGPP port of Lynx browser. Supports IDN and access to https websites.
- DOSBox-X 0.83.11 open source DOS x86 emulator for Windows, Linux. MacOS to run DOS applications and games
- SHSUCDX v3.08 MSCDEX replacement ; uses only 6K resident ; can be unloaded. Now part of SHSUCD, a suite of programs dealing with the CD-ROM. Older versions here
- Image v3.42 Disk image backup and restore program. Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS partitions and most writable USB, IEE1394 drives, ATAPI CD/DVD drives without special drivers. Shareware
- DOSLynx v0.44b another port of text based Lynx browser with built in TCP/IP stack ; supports https
- mTCP 2020-03-07 a TCP/IP stack with several applications (DHCP client, FTP client, ping, HTGet, FTP Server, HTTP server, Telnet and more)
- Mpxplay v1.65 MP3,OGG,WAV,AAC,FLAC, WMA, MPC,AC3 player with integrated file browser, spectrum analyser and other features.
- Free FDISK v1.3.4 GNU hard disk partitioning utility. Supports FAT16/FAT32 and non DOS partitions
- UPX v3.96 powerful GPL'ed executable packer (meaning the compressed executable files can still be run directly)
- Free Pascal v3.2.0 32 bit compiler for DOS, Linux, Win32 and other platforms. Semantically equivalent to TP 7.0
- V8Power Tools for DOS v20.08.06-0 variety of tools to use in your batch files
- NewBasic v00.97.91 an x86 Assembler/Disassembler for DOS
- DOSBox 0.74-3 open source DOS x86 emulator for Windows, Linux to (primarily) play DOS games