New/Updated Links (updated 14 Janauary 2026)

• ASTRA 7.22 - Advanced System Information Tool for DOS. Last updated December 2025

• Mpxplay v1.68 MP3,OGG,WAV,AAC,FLAC, WMA, MPC,AC3 player with integrated file browser, spectrum analyser and other features.
• DosView v1.7 DosView is a minimal image converter/viewer of BMP, PNG, JPG, WEBP, JPEG 2000 and other image formats
• Free FDISK v1.4.4 GNU hard disk partitioning utility. Supports FAT16/FAT32 and non DOS partitions
• ZeroFill 2.06 Writes zeros on the empty disk space for the selected hard drive
• Image v4.09 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 0.4 TSR to provide long filename API in plain DOS. Only 12K resident. Older versions here
• WCD 6.0.6 Wherever Change Directory allows you to change to any directory by typing part of a directory name
• UPX v5.1.0 powerful GPL'ed executable packer (meaning the compressed executable files can still be run directly)
• mTCP 2025-01-10 a TCP/IP stack with several applications (DHCP client, FTP client, ping, HTGet, FTP Server, HTTP server, Telnet and more). Updated January 2025.
• DOjS 1.14.0 a Javascript coding environment for DOS featuring integrated editor, graphics and sound output, mouse/keyboard support
• V8Power Tools for DOS v25.11.28 variety of tools to use in your batch files
• FreeDOS v1.4 A GNU GPLed version of DOS. Also has lots of DOS-related news.
• SvarDOS Build 20250427 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
• DOSBox-X 2026.01.02 open source DOS x86 emulator for Windows, Linux. MacOS to run DOS applications and games

New/Updated Links (updated 1 Janauary 2025)

• FreeDOS v1.4 Release Candidate 1 A GNU GPLed version of DOS. Also has lots of DOS-related news.
• DOSBox-X 2025.01.01 open source DOS x86 emulator for Windows, Linux. MacOS to run DOS applications and games
• DOSMid 0.9.8 DOSMid is a text mode MIDI and MUS player for DOS that can run on a 8086 CPU
• Free FDISK v1.3.15 GNU hard disk partitioning utility. Supports FAT16/FAT32 and non DOS partitions
• Image v4.03 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 v6.26 system information utility designed for detection of hardware. Last updated December 2023!
• The Costa GUI v1.8.0 a DOS GUI with built in theme and icon editor and several apps (calculator, text viewer, games). Last updated October 2023
• Links Web Browser 2.30 Open Source text web browser
• mTCP 2024-10-20 a TCP/IP stack with several applications (DHCP client, FTP client, ping, HTGet, FTP Server, HTTP server, Telnet and more). Updated October 2024.
• DOjS 1.13.0 a Javascript coding environment for DOS featuring integrated editor, graphics and sound output, mouse/keyboard support
• NewBasic v00.98.27 an x86 Assembler/Disassembler for DOS. Last updated March 2024
• SvarDOS Build 20240915 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
• MGRX 1.5.1 MGRX is a 2D graphics library derived from the GRX library
• TestDisk v7.2 Tool to check and undelete hard disk partitions. Supports FAT16/FAT32, ext2FS, NTFS and more
• PhotoRec v7.2 file data recovery software designed to recover lost files from Hard Disks and CDRom
• UPX v4.2.4 powerful GPL'ed executable packer (meaning the compressed executable files can still be run directly)

New/Updated Links (updated January 17 2024)

• DosView v1.5 DosView is a minimal image converter/viewer of BMP, PNG, JPG, WEBP, JPEG 2000 and other image formats
• Curl 8.5.0 Curl is a commandline tool to transfer data (including files) using a variety of protocols (http, https, ftp, imap and more)

• Mpxplay v1.67 MP3,OGG,WAV,AAC,FLAC, WMA, MPC,AC3 player with integrated file browser, spectrum analyser and other features.
• DOSMid 0.9.7 DOSMid is a text mode MIDI and MUS player for DOS that can run on a 8086 CPU
• SJGPlay v1.29 Easy to use freeware Audio CD Player with Lyrics and playlist for each CD. Source code available
• Free FDISK v1.3.8 GNU hard disk partitioning utility. Supports FAT16/FAT32 and non DOS partitions
• Image v3.63 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 0.41f TSR to provide long filename API in plain DOS. Only 12K resident. Older versions here
• HWiNFO v6.23 system information utility designed for detection of hardware. Last updated December 2023!
• WCD 6.0.5 Wherever Change Directory allows you to change to any directory by typing part of a directory name
• EtherDFS v0.8.3 installable filesystem TSR to map a drive from a Linux computer to a DOS drive letter using Ethernet frames (no TCP/IP stack needed)
• The Costa GUI v1.7.4 a DOS GUI with built in theme and icon editor and several apps (calculator, text viewer, games). Last updated October 2023
• UPX v4.2.2 powerful GPL'ed executable packer (meaning the compressed executable files can still be run directly)
• Links Web Browser 2.29 Open Source text web browser
• mTCP 2023-03-31 a TCP/IP stack with several applications (DHCP client, FTP client, ping, HTGet, FTP Server, HTTP server, Telnet and more). Updated March 2023
• DOjS 1.11.0 a Javascript coding environment for DOS featuring integrated editor, graphics and sound output, mouse/keyboard support
• NewBasic v00.98.07 an x86 Assembler/Disassembler for DOS. Last updated January 2024
• SvarDOS Build 20231124 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
• V8Power Tools for DOS v23.06.24 variety of tools to use in your batch files

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Sound Programs (includes audio CD players)

• Mpxplay v1.68 MP3,OGG,WAV,AAC,FLAC, WMA, MPC,AC3 player with integrated file browser, spectrum analyser and other features.
• QuickView Pro v2.61 Plays MP3,WAV,OGG and view other graphic and video formats.
• OpenCP v2.60pre6 DOS music player (MP3, MIDI, MOD, WAV, CD-audio) with spectrum analyser and other features. GPL
• DAMP v0.97 WIP 8 Free MP3 Player. Displays synchronised graphics when playing MP3 files. Source code available
• XTCPlay v0.97c Graphical audio player of MP3, WAV, S3M, MOD and more from the demo group Sanction.
• DOSAMP v0.8 DOSAMP is a freeware command-line MP3 player.

• MPR 10/04/10 Small, minimalist DOS MP3 player (33K exe)
• JukeMp3 beta Mp3/Mp2/Xm/Mod/S3m/CD-DA DOS player that tries to emulate a turntable.
• DSS v3.-1 MP3/WAV player/recorder with several display modes during playback. Also supports PC speaker!

• BladeEnc v0.941 DOS port of BladeEnc command line MP3 encoder; create MP3 files from WAV files.
• LAME v3.92 DOS port of LAME, a GPL'd WAV to MP3 encoder. Encodes faster than real time on a PII 266.
• AudioCVD v1.20 WAV to OGG (open-source replacement for MP3) converter
• CD2WAV v1.0i Read audio CD tracks directly to WAV files
• ID3TOOLS edit ID Tags of MP3s and list files with ID Tag info. Source code available.

• DOSMid 0.9.8 DOSMid is a text mode MIDI and MUS player for DOS that can run on a 8086 CPU
• MIDIer 2.50 DOS based MIDI and RMI player that works with all versions of the Sound Blaster card. Source code available
• Megamid v1.66 Graphical MIDI Player for DOS. Also supports playing of Karaoke MIDI files
• GSPLAY v1.1 A freeware MIDI player. Can also play Karaoke MIDI files.
• Midget v2.03 DOS-based MIDI composer ; works with wavetable sound cards or internal speaker.

• CDPlayer v2.25e Audio CD player which looks like the Win95 CD Player. Source code included.
• SJGPlay v1.29 Easy to use freeware Audio CD Player with Lyrics and playlist for each CD. Source code available
• CDPTSR v0.12 CDPTSR is a memory resident CD Player; uses only 3.5K resident

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Graphics_Programs/Screensavers

• DosView v1.7 DosView is a minimal image converter/viewer of BMP, PNG, JPG, WEBP, JPEG 2000 and other image formats
• QuickView Pro v2.61 Plays MP4(!), AVI (incl DivX), MPG, MOV (Quicktime), MP3, WAV, OGG and view other graphic formats.
• NConvert v6.88 command line batch image processor with more than 80 commands and compatible with 500 image formats.
• PictureViewer 1.94 PictureViewer can view and convert many graphic formats. Freeware
• SEA v1.3 This shareware viewer/converter/image manipulator has an easy to use GUI
• LXPIC v7.3 Small (size of exe :20K!) yet powerful viewer of JPG, GIF, PCX, CAM and others
• DVD4DOS Beta 1 non-realtime playback of DVD movies

• Pixel 1.0 Beta 5 build 481 Impressive shareware Photoshop-style graphics editor (supports layers, channels, Truetype fonts, etc).
• Neopaint v3.2d a shareware image editing and painting program.
• VGA Paint 386 opensource painting program

• Acidwarp Fractal generator which can be used as a screensaver.
• DeciMatrix Matrix like screensaver
• Sanction 4K demos Several impressive 4K demos (one is a Descent type engine) by the demo group Sanction
• Christmas Card 1998 Very good multimedia xmas card. Add your text and send it to friends.

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Utilities

• Cute Mouse Driver v2.1 beta 4 Mouse driver with wheel support for both AT and PS/2 mice; uses only 3K (!) of memory
• BenQ (Acer) CDROM driver v2.14 Uses only 5K and works with many IDE CDROM drives
• 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
• UMBPCI V3.90 Free hardware UMB driver (only 240 bytes) for DOS/Win9x - replaces EMM386.EXE
• Srdisk v2.09c dynamically ReSizeable RAMDisk for FreeDOS (and other DOSes) able to use over 32M of XMS and EMS memory. GPL
• XMSDSK.EXE v1.9i Freeware resizable ramdisk;can be installed/uninstalled from the command line.

• Free FDISK v1.4.4 GNU hard disk partitioning utility. Supports FAT16/FAT32 and non DOS partitions
• Partition Resizer v1.34 Resize your FAT16/FAT32 partitions safely. Freeware
• ZeroFill 2.06 Writes zeros on the empty disk space for the selected hard drive
• Active @ KillDisk v4.1 Destroy all data on hard and removable drives without possibility of future recovery
• XOSL 1.1.5 Free graphical boot manager to select what OS to run on startup

• TestDisk v7.2 Tool to check and undelete hard disk partitions. Supports FAT16/FAT32, ext2FS, NTFS and more
• PhotoRec v7.2 file data recovery software designed to recover lost files from Hard Disks and CDRom
• Savepart v4.60 save entire or occupied portion of a hard drive partition (FAT16/32,ext2,ext3,NTFS) into a file for easy backup and restoration
• Image v4.09 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
• Ranish Partition Manager v2.44 powerful hard disk partitioning tool and can create, copy, and resize primary and extended partitions.
• NTFS Reader for DOS freeware tool to read NTFS partitions from DOS (Alternate site)

• Palmsys v1.21 3K Driver for parallel port Iomega ZIP drive; works on XTs and on 286 CPUs as well
• SDWRGMPD v1.1 DOS driver for MS "Win9x only" SideWinder digital GamePad
• USB DOS drivers collection of UHCI USB host controller drivers for keyboards, mice, joysticks, printers, disk drives, and hubs
• Duse v4.9 From Pocketec, are USB DOS drivers for USB hard disks, CDROM drives and other USB storage devices like Zip drives
• SPEEDZTER 2.5 From DAT Optic, are Firewire/IEEE 1394 DOS drivers for their external Speedzter 2.5" Firewire hard drives

• BLACKOUT Gives DOS a graphic startup screen like Win9x. Can use your own GIF file
• Real DOS mode patch for Win Me v1.3 A patch to enable WinMe users to boot to plain DOS
• 98lite 4.5 Removes Internet Explorer from Win9x/Me ;  can install the faster Win95 GUI in Win98/Me
• Bootdisk v1.0a my batch file to create a better Win95/98 boot disk using third-party utilities. Check the README.HTM

• LFN Tools v1.79 DOS commands that can handle long filenames in plain DOS. Supports FAT32
• DOSLFN 0.4 TSR to provide long filename API in plain DOS. Only 12K resident. Older versions here
• LTOOLS v6.12 set of DOS command line tools to read and write to Linux ext2/3 and ReiserFS filesystems (the DOS opposite of Linux MTOOLS)

• Scitech Univbe 6.7 and Display Doctor 6.53 enchanced VESA drivers for a variety of video cards. Now freeware.
• VBEHz v2.23 Sets user-defined refresh rates on video cards with VBE 3.0+ for DOS progs using VESA video modes
• UniRefresh v1.42 universal dos refresh rate utility for VESA 3.0+ video cards
• Vmode 1.1 switch between various text modes (and even graphics modes) from DOS prompt

• CD Recording Utilities v4.0H (download) These programs are a set of CD-R/CD-RW applications for DOS.
• DOSCDroast beta 3 (Wayback archive of DOSCdroast website) suite of programs allows you to use IDE (and now USB and Firewire) CD-RW burners to burn CDROMS in plain DOS.
• Cdrtools v2.01 DOS port of CDrTools (formerly cdrecord) allows you to burn CD with your CD-RW drive.
• DVD4DOS Beta 1 test release software to play DVD with Dolby AC3 sound. Currently restricted to 1 minute (non-realtime) playback

• HWiNFO v6.26 system information utility designed for detection of hardware. Last updated December 2023
• ASTRA 7.22 - Advanced System Information Tool for DOS. Last updated December 2025
• NSSI v0.60.45 freeware system information tool - last updated 2010
• PC-CONFIG 9.33 Detailed system information/benchmark tool. Freeware, but no further development since 2000

• ATXOff v1.3 Turn off your ATX computer system (similar to Win9x shutdown).
• Shutdown v1.2 From Blacklight (Wayback Archive link), a small utility to either reboot your computer, or turn off the power (ATX systems only)

• 4DOS v8.00 updated opensource version of the powerful command line interpreter (COMMAND.COM replacement) for DOS by JP Software
• DOSED v5.2 Freeware DOSKEY-like program but with filename completion like Linux's Bash shell
• FileC v2.0 Autocompletes filenames at command prompt ; support Win9x LFN in DOS box
• WCD 6.0.6 Wherever Change Directory allows you to change to any directory by typing part of a directory name
• ACD v3.05 Change to another directory on any drive quickly. Has Win9x LFN support
• Inkutils 1.53 Freeware suite of eleven DOS, 4DOS and Windows 95/98 DOS utilities.

• TDel v2.68 Powerful freeware replacement for the DEL (delete) command
• XXCOPY 2.93.1 powerful replacement XCOPY with many features. Free for personal use (direct download link)

• TextTools R6 (Wayback archive link) (SAC FTP link) Freeware programs for processing text tables and general text filtering
• TSFLTC R2.2 A set of additional text file filters from Prof. Timo Salmi (now retired).
• Slowdown v3.1 Slows down a fast computer so you can run older programs, or as a troubleshooting aid.

• EtherDFS v0.8.3 installable filesystem TSR to map a drive from a Linux computer to a DOS drive letter using Ethernet frames (no TCP/IP stack needed)

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Applications

• Corel WordPerfect Suite for DOS Excellent website about WPDOS including printing to USB printers, Euro Support, running WPDOS in Windows 10 and MUCH more
• Account Pro accounting software for DOS Manage your accounts. freeware
• As-Easy-As v5.7As-Easy-As Spreadsheet program. Now freeware
• Cash Register v7.1j Convert any PC into a cash register/Point of Sale system. Freeware

• PEDIT v4.0 Excellent freeware text editor.Includes spell-checker,thesaurus,word wrap and MUCH more.
• EDITV 4.1 Freeware DOS text editor with the look and feel of Borland's IDE editor
• SET's editor v0.5.4 Familiar Borland interface with syntax highlighting and background playing of MP3 files!
• MinEd 2022.27 Text editor with extensive Unicode support

• The Costa GUI v1.8.0 a DOS GUI with built in theme and icon editor and several apps (calculator, text viewer, games). Last updated October 2023
• DOSStart v1.9b build 9.2.2002 GUI for launching programs (uses Win9x "Start" button approach) and managing files.
• Spectra v1.0 (formerly WinDOS) a GUI DOS file manager / shell. Source code available
• Access v5.0RC2 Freeware graphical DOS menu program. Supports SVGA, built-in CD player; can use Windows icons
• AUMenu for DOS and Unix v1.4.3a multi-platform menu shell for DOS and Linux. DOS version is free
• Directory Freedom v4.61B Small (single 39K exe), fast freeware file/directory manager. Source code available
• File Maven v3.5a Freeware file manager with Laplink-style file transfers via serial or parallel cable

• PasswordBox 0.11 PasswordBox keeps all of your passwords in a encyrpted database protected by a master password
• Infopal v6.1 Program where you can design and browse databases and generate reports
• Dirtel v3.28 Address book manager; contents can be exported to HTML,RTF and ASCII delimited text.

• InfoZIP Create ZIP files, extract files from ZIP files created with PKWARE's Pkzip/Pkunzip v2.04g.
• Pkzip/Pkunzip v2.50 An update to the "classic" Pkzip/Pkunzip v2.04g. Supports LFN under LFNDOS or Win9x. No shareware version available for download though.
• UPX v5.1.0 powerful GPL'ed executable packer (meaning the compressed executable files can still be run directly)

• VIEW v17.2 Allows you to view WordPerfect, Word 97 docs and other word processor formats. Now freeware
• xlHtml v0.4.0 commandline converter of MS Excel XLS files to HTML
• AntiWord v0.37 converts MS Word DOC files to plain text PostScript
• Catdoc v0.94.2 convert MS Word DOC files to plain text
• MuPDF graphical PDF viewer
• Xpdf v3.03 (DOS binary and source download) Extract text and images from Adobe's Acrobat's PDF files
• PSVIEW v17.1 user friendly shell program for viewing Postscript and PDF files ; requires Pictview, PDFTOPs and Ghostscript
• uHex 1.04 Simple and fast hex editor for DOS

• CAMWORK DOS program that downloads images from Agfa, Olympus and Epson digital cameras.
• PhotoPC software Software for DOS and other OSes to control Epson, Agfa, Nikon digital cameras
• Rio v1.07 Upload/download files to/from your Diamond Rio portable MP3 music player.
• Daqarta v2.21 Does Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis using popular sound cards ; Has many other features. Free for non-commercial use

• DESI-III v8.03 Free, yet professional 2D CAD program.
• Figlet 2.2.5 creates large ASCII characters from ordinary ASCII characters)
• DATES v2002.08 Non-TSR program to keep track (and remind you in advance) of important dates

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Internet

• 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 2.30 Open Source text web browser
• DOS port of Lynx 2.9.0dev10 DJGPP port of Lynx browser. Supports IDN and access to https websites.
• Arachne v1.70 Release 3 The final offical release of the graphical DOS Internet suite (web browser, FTP, Email) out there. Now has preliminary CSS support.
• Dillo for DOS v3.0.2b port of Dillo multi-platform web browser
• Lynx 2.8.5rel.1 Wayback link) DOS port of the text based Linux browser. Can access secure (https) websites
• DOSLynx v0.44b another port of text based Lynx browser with built in TCP/IP stack ; supports https
• Net-tamer v1.13 beta text based internet suite (browser,email,FTP,Usenet). Speech friendly for talking programs

• CHASE 1.0 DOS-based POP3/SMTP e-mail client
• JOSHFTP DOS-based FTP client
• picoSNTP 0.9.1: an SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) client for DOS to synchronize the computer clock with NTP servers
• leetIRC v1.1 DOS Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client with support for mIRC colour and bold codes, DCC file transfer support and more
• Toffee IRC client v1.0 DOS IRC client ; works with any packet driver
• RockIRCd v1.0 testing Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server for DOS
• mTCP 2025-01-10 a TCP/IP stack with several applications (DHCP client, FTP client, ping, HTGet, FTP Server, HTTP server, Telnet and more). Updated January 2025.

• picoTCP picoTCP is an open source IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack ported to DOS by Mateusz Viste
• LSppp V1.0 Excellent small PPP packet driver (28K resident!) for DOS. Has built-in dialer. Released under GPL.
• PEPA v1.9 Packet Driver for PPP access over ADSL.
• Comring v1.20 Packet driver for serial ports; can be used to connect multiple computers via serial cable

• EZ-NOS 2 a http web server with Server Side Includes support, secure FTP Server with md5 authenication, DNS server and a TCP/IP access filter (firewall) and more!
• WebServ 0.9beta DOS based HTTP server in QuickBasic
• Sioux DOS web server with DYNDNS client
• Jaffa WWW server for DOS Tested on a 80286, supports CGI-BIN utilities external to the server
• Tiny TINY is a set of programs that lets you control a DOS computer from any Java-capable machine over a TCP/IP connection.
• Internet Extender v1.0b (Mirror Link is from Fred's DOS Internet Software page) Freeware DOS Gateway router which allows networked computers to access the Internet (via a modem or network card)

• Mutt 1.5.5 text-based e-mail client with modified patches for NNTP, POP and SMTP ('builtin' sendmail) and calls to external apps (i.e. 'print', 'pipe message' and 'pipe attachment')
• FLMail 0.91 Graphical email client. Supports OpenSSL.
• Curl 8.5.0 Curl is a commandline tool to transfer data (including files) using a variety of protocols (http, https, ftp, imap and more)
• Wget 1.8.2 Wayback link) Download files and entire sites for offline browsing using HTTP or FTP; can RESUME ABORTED downloads!
• SSHDOS v0.95 opensource SSH (Secure Shell) DOS client for secure telnet connections.

• ViewHTML v2.5 Freeware text based offline HTML viewer/browser.
• GPAGE v1.9 Uses a text file to generate a local page of links
• Tidy386 HTML validator and can also clean up your HTML
• Orb v2.0 HTML preprocessor designed to simplify creation and maintenance of web pages
• PPWIZARD 22.148 Free, multi-platform HTML Preprocessor. Requires free Regina REXX interpreter. I use this to generate this site

• UUDeview v0.5d Encoder and decoder for uuencoded, xxencoded, Base64 and BinHex data
• HTMSTRIP v2002.08 From Bruce Guthrie, converts HTM to text. Many other utilites there as well.
• EUMAIL v2002.08 Extract Eudora's mailboxes and nickname files into text files
• HTMCAL v2.0 Generate HTML calendars showing upcoming events or meetings. Shareware

Arachne related Websites (various sites where you can download various addons to Arachne, a DOS internet suite)

• Arachne APMs various addons for Arachne
• Ron Clarke's Arachne pages collection of unique Arachne addons including RSS reader, watch YouTube videos and more
• Dfilter v3.0 Arachne email filter for Arachne v1.47b to v1.67. Filters are saved for future use. Check the README.TXT (updated 4th November 2000)
• Dshell v2.0 Patches Arachne's v1.5 SRC "Shell to DOS" function. Included in Arachne v1.7x  (updated 6th Dec 1999)
• Mel's Arachne4dos UK Home Page

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Programming

• Free Pascal v3.2.2 32 bit compiler for DOS, Linux, Win32 and other platforms. Semantically equivalent to TP 7.0
• DJGPP C++ v2.05 Complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for 386 (and higher) PCs running DOS.
• OpenWatcom v1.9 opensource C/C++ compiler with IDE, debugger
• DOjS 1.14.0 a Javascript coding environment for DOS featuring integrated editor, graphics and sound output, mouse/keyboard support

• Introduction to C programming (Wayback Archive link) a free study guide on writing programs in the C language
• Euphoria Programming Language v3.1.1 opensource interpreter/compiler for 32 bit DOS, Win9x/XP, Linux and FreeBSD

• HX DOS Extender 2.17RC free DOS extender which contains a Win32 API emulation which allows Win32 console apps to be run in DOS
• MoonRock v0.50 BASIC-like language with several extensions. Produces code for 8086+
• Borland Community Museum Download Turbo C v2.01, Turbo Pascal v5.5, Turbo C++ v1.01 for free (requires login)
• Regina v3.9.5 a REXX interpreter that has been ported to DOS and other OSes
• Perl v5 (see Perl ports for DOS versions) Interpreted language for scanning and extracting info from text files.
• PythonD 2.4.2 r1.0 DOS port of Python v2.2.1. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.

• Pbats v3.2 Powerful archive of tiny batch tools from the author of GPAGE and WBAT, Horst Schaeffer.
• WBAT v2.50 Use dialog boxes (with menus, buttons, input fields, checkboxes) in your batch files.
• V8Power Tools for DOS v25.11.28 variety of tools to use in your batch files
• Clay's Utilities for DOS v1.3 Set of small utilities for batch files.
• Batfiles Good website on DOS batch file programming.
• TSBAT.ZIP A collection of useful batch files and tricks from Prof. Timo Salmi.

• NewBasic v00.98.27 an x86 Assembler/Disassembler for DOS. Last updated March 2024
• Assembly Language FAQ Available in HTML and text format.
• Assembly Language Journal online ezine covering assembly language programming techniques. A mirror can be found at mattst88

• The Costa GUI v1.8.0 a DOS GUI with built in theme and icon editor and several apps (calculator, text viewer, games). Last updated October 2023
• Ozone Graphical environment, support Truetype fonts, and includes several programs
• Seal 2.00.11 Free graphical desktop environment for DOS and for DJGPP programs.
• OpenGEM v6 GUI (once commercial, now open source) geared for low resource PCs, distro includes several apps.

• Allegro 5.0.10 multi-platform game programming library for DJGPP in a mixture of C and assembly.
• MGRX 1.5.1 MGRX is a 2D graphics library derived from the GRX library
• NanoX-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-DOS port of Nano-X Window System and Fast Light Toolkit, GUI toolkit to DOS. Several applications are available
• OpenGUI v5.5.14 multi-platform 32-bit graphics library/GUI for DOS (DJGPP), QNX and LINUX

• Watt-32 v2.2 dev-rel 11 library for making networked TCP/IP C/C++ 16 and 32 bit programs.
• eRTOSdevelop embedded Intel 8086 (and compatible) Internet-accessible applications. Now freeware
• ISRemote for DOS v2.53 remotely control DOS apps with a IR remote and a DIY circuit
• DOSGir v0.12 control DOS apps by infrared remote control and a DIY circuit
• Full Moon Software Many QuickBasic/PDS routines ; also has the text to PC Mag's 'BASIC Techniques and Utilities'
• NeoBasic provides GUI components to extend the DOS authoring NeoBook software
• Guenther Klaming's Homepage Low-level hardware programming in Watcom C/C++, Pascal and Assembly.

• Programming MS-DOS with Power Excellent site with many source code in Assembly, QuickBasic and Pascal.
• DOS Help Magazine EXCELLENT HTML ezine on DOS and DOS programming.
• Runtime Error 200 Page Explains the Runtime Error 200 Startup bug for Borland Pascal EXEs on fast CPUs

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Alternative DOSes (all MSDOS compatible OSes other than MSDOS itself - including emulators)

• FreeDOS v1.4 A GNU GPLed version of DOS. Also has lots of DOS-related news.
• SvarDOS Build 20250427 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
• FreeDOS images for VirtualBox Ulrich Hansen's page provides FreeDOS images for VirtualBox and various tips for running FreeDOS in Virtualbox
• Cobalt 0.1(formerly known as Carbon) a DOS distro based on FreeDOS with long filename support. Nightly builds available.
• XFDOS 2.0 FreeDOS distro with graphical SLWM desktop manager and bundled with many applications including web browser, email client, PDF viewer and more
• DR-DOS 7.01.08 WIP (21.7.2011) patches to enhance the capabilities of DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7.0x
• DOSBox 0.74-3 open source DOS x86 emulator for Windows, Linux to (primarily) play DOS games
• DOSBox-X 2026.01.02 open source DOS x86 emulator for Windows, Linux. MacOS to run DOS applications and games
• IBM PC DOS 2000 Last version of PC DOS offers Y2K compliance and support for Euro symbol. Only a info page from the Wayback archive
• DR-DOS 7.03 From DeviceLogics (formerly Lineo/Caldera), has native FAT32 support. Marketed towards embedded systems
• Lineo DR-DOS 7.03b unoffical site about DR-DOS, a DOS which includes Personal Netware and has many other unique features

• Datalight ROM-DOS v7.1 geared for embedded and mobile systems; supports FAT32, LFN and has integrated web, ftp, email servers.
• PTS-DOS 2000 (Wayback Archive link) has many features including a OS boot manager, networking support and data compression

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DOS related websites and other useful links

• Free Software for DOS Rich Green's MUST visit site for any DOS user. Wide variety of software.
• Internet Archive's DOS Applications and Programs Run DOS applications in your (modern) web browser
• Simtel.net archive An archive of the Simtel.net LARGE well known collection of DOS freeware, public domain and shareware programs
• "DOS ain't dead" forum - quite active forum with DOS news and discussions
• Free Software for DOS A archive/mirror of the original "Free Software for DOS" as maintained by Steve 'Short.Stop' Adelewitz. Steve passed away in January 2009
• MDGx DOS Power Toys - great list of DOS programs
• Daniel Rose's Legacy Computer Collections A collection of screenshots of many DOS programs
• DR-DOS wiki wiki documenting DOS kernels (not just DRDOS) and DOS programs

• FreeDOS website has a news section about DOS which is regularly updated. See also FreeDOS's Twitter feed
• DOS Solutions Lots of information and related links about DOS.
• NOTES ON MS-DOS 6.22 Documents all MSDOS 6.22 commands and other DOS batch files information
• FAQ on DOS Applications for Internet Use Various DOS Internet programs and where to get them.
• Hitsquad Various music software for DOS (MIDI, MOD, translators, etc)

• DOS Games Listing of many FREE Games (with descriptions) for DOS! Recently redesigned and with the ability to play many DOS games in your (modern) browser
• DOS Games Archive A archive of (what else?) DOS games
• GOG.com buy and download many DOS games
• Internet Archive's Software Library: MS-DOS Games Play DOS games in your (modern) browser

• WordPerfect for DOS Updated Great site for drivers, info and other resources for WordPerfect 5.x/6.x for DOS and for running WPDOS in Windows 7/8/10
• Wordstar Resource Site a help site for WordStar for DOS users, has several freeware DOS Wordstar utilites
• Bright Electronics - MS-DOS Networking howto guide on peer to peer networking with DOS
• DOS TCP/IP networking with Packet Drivers
• Packet Drivers Collection for DOS a collection of DOS drivers and utilities for various network cards
• Computing.Net DOS forum Post and answer questions about DOS
• Darkehorse.web.com archived site about USB support for DOS
• CD-ROM Drivers Collection of URL Links to DOS drivers for various CD-ROM drives

Other useful websites

• FCC's FCC ID Look up Useful for identifying hardware via its FCC code
• Driverzone's FCC ID Look-up Useful for identifying hardware via its FCC code

• Programmer's Heaven Has many programming related files and links
• Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society My computer user group webpage.

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