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Links to fine DOS software
Over the years we have
collected a lot of links to fine DOS software we use regularly and so would
like to share with you. This page is intended for advanced users and software
developers. So if you are looking for end-user applications like word processors,
image manipulation software, sound players, etc., we recommend visiting 
Interesting DOS programs by Dev Anand
Teelucksingh and Short.Stop's Edition of Free Software
for DOS by Steve Adelewitz (R.I.P.) based on the original pages by Richard
L. Green. Richard continues this work on
www.reimagery.com/fsfd/.
Many more interesting development
tools, e.g., assemblers, compilers, debuggers, interpreters or linkers for various
programming languages can be found at
Dmitry Smaghin's site.
Note: List items marked
with a floppy icon (
)
link to a file directly (= "deep link").
Contents
- Antivirus software
- Assemblers, compilers
- Debuggers
- Disassemblers
- Drivers, TSRs
- Emulation
- File compressors
- File managers
- Hex editors
- Linkers
- Networking
- Operating systems
- Programming information
- Programming libraries
- Software archives
- System information, benchmarks
- Text editors, IDEs
- Virtualization
Antivirus software
F-Prot Antivirusby FRISK Software International
Assemblers, compilers
- 8086 Assembler for DOS (old SF.net mirror) by Stephen Duffy
- 8086 Assembler for DOS 2020 fork (inactive) by Robert Riebisch
- A72 by R 'swanlizard' Swan
- A86 by Eric Isaacson
- Another Newbie Assembler by Christian Neubert
- Asm/Assembler (via Google Translate) by Evmsoft
- Arrowsoft
Assembler 2.00c (mirror) by Arrowsoft Systems
- Aztec C86 by Manx Software Systems, Inc.
- BASM (look at the bottom of the page) by Kevin Diggins
- C--
0.203 by Peter Cellik
- C-- 0.238 & 0.239 beta by Mikhail (sometimes also 'Mishel' or 'Michael') Sheker
- C-- Kiril Joss' 2015 mirror of Mikhail Sheker's website (includes source code to the compiler!)
- CC386 by David Lindauer (LadSoft)
- DeSmet C by Mark DeSmet
- DiceRTE by Christian Diefer
- Digital Mars C/C++ by Walter Bright (requires HX DOS extender by Andreas 'Japheth' Grech)
- DJGPP (featuring GCC up to 9.1.0) by DJ Delorie, ...
- DPas by Dieter R. Pawelczak
- DX-Forth (mirror) by Ed Smeda
- EMX (featuring GCC 2.8.1) by Eberhard Mattes
- flat assembler (fasm) by Tomasz Grysztar
- Framework Pascal (formerly TMT Pascal) by Framework Computers
- Free Pascal (formerly FPK Pascal) by Florian Klämpfl, ...
- FreeBASIC by Andre Victor, Angelo Mottola, Daniel R. Verkamp, Mark Junker, ...
- GASM by Gareth Owen
- GNU Pascal by Jukka Virtanen, Dr. Peter Gerwinski, Frank Heckenbach
- JWasm (based on Open Watcom assembler) by Andreas 'Japheth' Grech
-
Lazy Assembler (LZASM) by Stepan Polovnikov
- LSI C-86 3.30c (English manual) by LSI Japan Corporation
- Magic Assembler by Bert Greevenbosch
- Micro-C by David F. Dunfield (Dunfield Development Services)
- mininasm (based on Tinyasm) by Peter Szabo
- ML1 by Steven D. Nichols
- MoonRock by Rowan Crowe
- MSA by Robert Östling
- MSA2 by Viacheslav 'DosWorld' Komenda
- Netwide Assembler (NASM), The by Simon Tatham, Julian Hall, ...
- NewBasic Assembler by Benjamin David Lunt
- Open Watcom C/C++ and Fortran by SciTech Software, Sybase, ...
- Orange C by David Lindauer (LadSoft)
- Pass32 by Dieter R. Pawelczak
- PowerBASIC (how to get it legally) by Robert 'Bob' Zale
- Small-C 2.2.117 (also Small-Assembler and Small-Windows) by Ron Cain, James E. Hendrix, ...
- Small-C updated version (also YLink) by Zane Wagner
- T3X Release 7 by Nils M. Holm
- Tinyasm by Oscar Toledo G.
- TMA (TMA macro assembler) by Sven Michael Klose
- TMT Pascal Lite
3.90, Lite
3.50 SP2 + DOS
IDE by TMT Development
- TPC16 / TPC32 by Igor Funa
- Turbo
C 2.01 by Borland
- Turbo
C++ 1.01 by Borland
- Turbo
Pascal 1.00A by Borland
- Turbo
Pascal 3.02A by Borland
- Turbo
Pascal 5.5 by Borland
-
Turbo Pascal 7.01 (french)by Borland - Turbo
Pascal 7.01 "Runtime Error 200" patch by TurboPower Software
- Virtual Pascal (Ning Social Network) by Vitaly Miryanov, Allan Mertner, Thomas Müller
Virtual Pascal(Veit Kannegieser's fan page) by Vitaly Miryanov, Allan Mertner, Thomas Müller- Wolfware Assembler (WASM) by Eric Tauck
- XD Pascal by Vasiliy Tereshkov
- XPL0 by Peter J. R. Boyle, Larry Fish, Loren Blaney
- Yasm, the modular assembler by Peter Johnson, Michael Urman, ...
Debuggers
- 386SWAT by Bob Smith (Qualitas, Sudley Place Software)
- D86 by Eric Isaacson
- FreeDOS DEBUG by Paul Vojta
- FreeDOS DEBUG updated version by Andreas 'Japheth' Grech
- debxxf by Andreas 'Japheth' Grech
-
Executing
Inspector (EI) by Vadim Drubetsky, Artemy Voikhansky
- Get Real Debugger (GRDB) by David Lindauer (LadSoft)
- Insight by Victor M. Gamayunov, Sergey Pimenov, Oleg O. Chukaev, Dmitry Vodyannikov
- Intercept/Interpret by Ned Konz, Russell Nelson
- Pro32 by Dieter R. Pawelczak
- ZD86 by Chris Kirmse (ZanySoft)
Disassemblers
- [D]AzmIt by Mikael Klasson
- dis/dislib/dislib32
by Henrik Nebrin
- diStorm64 by Gil Dabah
- Interactive
Disassembler (IDA), The by Ilfak Guilfanov (Datarescue)
- Netwide Disassembler (NDISASM), The by Simon Tatham, Julian Hall, ...
- Udis86 by Vivek Mohan
Drivers, TSRs
- CuteMouse Lightweight mouse driver by Nagy Daniel, Arkady V. Belousov
- DEVLOAD Command-line device driver loader by David Woodhouse
- DEVLOAD updated version by Eric Auer (AuerSoft)
- Display Doctor/UNIVBE VESA video drivers by SciTech Software
- DOSLFN Long file name support by Henrik Haftmann
- DOSLFN updated version by Jason Hood
DosUHCI/DosUSB USB host controller driver by Georg Potthast- DPMIONE DPMI 1.0 host by Bob Smith (Qualitas)
- DUSE 4.9,
4.4,
4.2
USB mass storage driver by Cypress Semiconductor
- EXTCD IDE/USB/1394 DMA CD-ROM device driver by Dell
- FreeDOS EMM386/HIMEM64
EMM386.EXE, HIMEM.SYS replacement by
Harald Albrecht,Thomas Glöckler,Till Gerken, Tom Ehlert, Michael Devore - HimemX tiny HIMEM.SYS replacement by Andreas 'Japheth' Grech (based on FreeDOS HIMEM)
- Jemm386/JemmEx tiny EMM386.EXE replacement by Andreas 'Japheth' Grech (based on FreeDOS EMM386)
- keybgr tiny German keyboard driver by Andreas 'Japheth' Grech
- KEYBW tiny German keyboard driver by Horst Schäffer
- Motto Hairu USB mass storage driver by NOVAC, Workbit
- SHSUCDX MSCDEX replacement by John H. McCoy
- SHSUCDX updated version by Jason Hood
- SHSUCDX updated version by Jack R. Ellis
- SRDISK ReSizeable RAM disk for EMS/XMS by Marko Kohtala
- UMBPCI
Upper memory manager by German
c't magazine, Uwe Sieber - USBASPI 2.27, 2.20, 2.15, 2.06, 2.00, 1.07 USB ASPI manager by Panasonic
- USBDOS DOS USB drivers by Bret Johnson
- VIDE-CDD
ATAPI CD-ROM device driver by
Acer Peripherals, BenQ - XMGR, UIDE latest driver generation by Jack R. Ellis
Emulation, Virtualization
- 8086tiny by Adrian Cable
- 8086 Tiny Plus by Adrian Cable, ..., Julian Olds
- 86Box by Miran Grca
Aeonby Greg Divis- Bochs by Kevin Lawton, ..., Volker Ruppert, Stanislav Shwartsman
- DOSBox by Peter Veenstra, ...
- DOSBox-X by Peter Veenstra, ..., Jonathan Campbell
- Fake86 by Mike Chambers
- MS-DOS Player for Win32-x64 by Toshiya Takeda
- PCE/ibmpc by Hampa Hug
- PCem by Sarah Walker
- PCEmu by David Hedley, David Given
- QEMU by Fabrice Bellard, ...
- VARCem (Virtual ARchaeological Computer EMulator) by Fred van Kempen, ...
- Virtual PC 2004 SP1, 2007 SP1 by Microsoft Corporation
- VirtualBox
by
innotek GmbH,Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corporation - VMware Player, Workstation by VMware, Inc.
File compressors
- 7-Zip by Igor Pavlov (requires HX DOS extender by Andreas 'Japheth' Grech)
- aPACK by Jørgen Ibsen (Ibsen Software)
- Intelligent
Executable Unpacker (IUP) by Frank Zago
- LZEXE by Fabrice Bellard
- PKZIP
by
Phil Katz(PKWARE) - RAR/DOS and RAR/DOS32 by Alexander Roshal (RARLAB)
- UnZip and Zip by Info-ZIP group
- Ultimate Packer for eXecutables (UPX), the by Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer, László Molnár
- UNLZEXE
by Mitugu Kurizono, ..., Vesselin Bontchev
- UnRAR
by Alexander Roshal (RARLAB),
Eike Rathke,Aliaksandr Lakhanko
File managers
- Archive
Lister by
Daniel Ivanov,Dmitry Istomin, Alexey Antonyuk (SotSoft) - CONNECT by Ian Balter, Dima Orlov
- Dos Navigator (DN) by Ritlabs
- Dos Navigator Open Source Project (DN OSP) by Max Vasilyev, Eugeny Zvyagintzev, ...
- Doszip Commander by Hjort Nidudsson
- Explorer PC by Pablo Corro
- File Maven (FM) by Kent Briggs (Briggs Softworks)
-
File Wizard (FW)by Antal Dénes Gulyás - Frounze Commander by Alexei A. Frounze
- Migo Commander by Mikhael Goikhman
- Necromancer's DOS Navigator (NDN) by Stefan Weber, Daniil V. Voronov (Muxe)
- Star Commander, The (SC) by Joe Forster/STA
- Volkov Commander (VC) by Vsevolod V. Volkov
Hex editors
Linkers
- ALINK by Anthony A.J. Williams
- Freelink
(mirror) by
hyperkinetix, Michael Devore (Devore Software & Consulting) - QLINK by Bob Smith (Qualitas, Sudley Place Software)
- VAL
'95 by
David Troendle, David F. Dunfield (Dunfield Development Services) VAL '99(OoCities archive) patch to VAL '95 by Pavel Podvoiski- VALX
by
David Troendle, David Lindauer (LadSoft) - WarpLink
by
hyperkinetix, Michael Devore (Devore Software & Consulting) - YLink by Zane Wagner
Networking
- Arachne
by
Michael Polak (Arachne Labs), Glenn McCorkle, ... - BSFlite AIM/ICQ client by Claudio Leite
- curl, lynx, wget, ... DOS ports by Doug Kaufman
- DosLynx
0.16a by
Garrett Arch Blythe (The University of Kansas), Wayne Buttles - DosLynx updated version by Fred C. Macall
- Johan's
Network Operating System (JNOS) (mirror) by
Johan K. Reinalda,James Patrick Dugal, ... - Johan's Network Operating System (JNOS) updated version by Maiko Langelaar
- leetIRC by Mike Chambers
- Mercury by Werner Scholz
Mutt 1.4.x(OoCities archive) by Michael Elkins, ..., Ulf Erikson (Win32 binaries, requires HX DOS extender by Andreas 'Japheth' Grech))- Mutt 1.5.x by Michael Elkins, ..., Ben Decker (32-bit DOS binaries)
- mTCP by Michael B. Brutman
- Networking FreeDOS by Ulrich Hansen
- Pegasus Mail by David Harris
- Pine by Laurence Lundblade, Mike Seibel (University of Washington)
- SIOUX by Georg Potthast
- Tampa Network Operating System (TNOS) by Brian A. Lantz
- TINY by Josh Levine
- WebServ by Mike Chambers
Operating systems
DESKWORKby Konstantin Koll (Mystic Bytes Software), ...- DOS-C by Pasquale J. Villani
- DR-DOS
7.03 by
Digital Research, ..., DRDOS Enhanced DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7.01.xbyDigital Research, ..., Udo Kuhnt- eRTOS by Erick Engelke
- FreeBSD by FreeBSD teams
- FreeDOS by James Hall, Pasquale J. Villani, ...
- KolibriOS by Marat Zakiyanov, Mike Semenyako, ... (based on 32-bit MenuetOS)
- MenuetOS by Ville Turjanmaa, ...
- MikeOS by Mike Saunders, ...
- MINIX 3 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull, ...
- Public Domain Operating System (PDOS) by Paul Edwards
- RDOS by Leif Ekblad
- ROM-DOS by Datalight
- RxDOS ('mixture' of 6.x and 7.x binaries, 6.x sources) by Mike Podanoffsky (Api Software)
- RxDOS (7.x binaries, 7.x sources) by Mike Podanoffsky (Api Software)
- Snowdrop OS by Sebastian Mihai
- Solar_OS by Bogdan Ontanu, Eugen Brasoveanu, ...
- SvarDOS by Mateusz Viste, ...
- ZDOS by Berth-Olof Bergman (Zebor Technology)
Programming information
- 256-Color VGA Programming in C by David Brackeen
- 86-DOS Instruction/User's/Programmer's Manuals by Tim Paterson
- Advanced
MS-DOS Programming by Ray Duncan
- Am186 and Am188 Family Instruction Set Manual (1997) by Advanced Micro Devices
- Am486 Microprocessor Software User's Manual (1994) by Advanced Micro Devices
- AMD BIOS Development Guide (1995) by Advanced Micro Devices
- AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual by Advanced Micro Devices
- Amit's Game Programming Information by Amit Patel
- Art of Assembly Language, The by Randall Hyde
- Assembly Gems page, the by John Eckerdal
- comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ by Jeffrey Carlyle
- DOS-Museum, Das (in German only) by Stefan Bion
- DR-DOS
DR-System Builder Kit Documentation by
Digital Research, ..., DRDOS - Einführung in die Assemblerprogrammierung (in German only) by Günter Born
- First
steps towards system programming under MS-DOS7 by N. G. Hitrovo
- Examples
for 'First steps towards system programming under MS-DOS7' by N. G. Hitrovo
- Forever Young Software (includes x86 Assembly Language FAQ) by Benjamin David Lunt
- Graphics Programming Black Book by Michael Abrash
- Graphics Programming Series, The by Chris Lattner
- Graphics Programming using Assembly by Ron Thomas
- HelpPC
2.10 by David Jurgens
- HelpPC 2.10 online version by "Huihoo"
- HelpPC 2.10 another online version by Stanislav Sokolov
- Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manuals by Intel
- Intel Assembler 80x86 CodeTable by Roger Jegerlehner
- Interrupt List/RBIL by Ralf Brown
- Interrupt List/RBIL online version by DJ Delorie
- Interrupt List/RBIL online version by Marc Perkel
- Inverse Reality Game Programming Tutorials by Justin Deltener
- Let's Build a Compiler by Jack W. Crenshaw
- Let's Code - MS DOS by Arne 'root42' Schmitz
- MS-DOS Programmierhandbuch (DOS 1.x-6.x), Das (in German only) by Günter Born
- Object Pascal Style Guide by Charles Calvert
- Open Source Guides by GitHub
- Operating System Development Guide by Independent Software
Operating Systems Resource Center (OSRC)by Chris Lattner- OS Development Wiki (successor to OSRC) by the OSDev community
- Pascal Starting Page by Dr J R Stockton
- PC DOS 7 Technical Update by IBM Corporation
- PC DOS Retro by Vernon Brooks
- PC Game Programmer's Encyclopedia, The (mirror) by Mark Feldman, ...
- Programmer's
Technical Reference for MSDOS and the IBM PC by Dave Williams
- PowerBasic-Programmierhandbuch (in German only) by Günter Born
- shdon.com by Steven H. Don
- SNIPPETS Archives Project, The by Bob Stout (archivist)
- Software from the old days by Alessandro Scotti
SourceWare Archival Group/SWAGby GDSoft (archivist)- SourceWare Archival Group/SWAG online version by Jim McKeeth
- VGA programming lessons by Jozsef "joco" Laszlo
-
VGADOCby Finn Thoegersen - Write your own operating system by Christopher Giese
Programming libraries
- Allegro
by
Shawn Hargreaves, ... - Assembly Wizard's Library (AsmWiz) by Thomas G. Hanlin III
- AniVGA
by Kai Rohrbacher
- Comm_TP5 by Kevin R. Bulgrien
- DOSISODE by Peter Kay
- GFX by Matthias Roth
- GrafX/GX2 by by Stefan Göhler (Crossfire Designs)
- Graphics Programming Series, The by Chris Lattner
- GraphiX by Michael Knapp
- Housemarque Audio System (formerly known as MIDAS Sound System) by Petteri Kangaslampi, Jarno Paananen
- lwIP by Adam Dunkels
- Modex by Alessandro Scotti
- ModObj by Marc J. Cox
- MS-DOS TCP/IP Programming by Dan Kegel
- DOS ports of Nano-X Window System, NXLIB, FLTK by Georg Potthast
PasJPEGby Jacques Nomssi Nzali, Independent JPEG GroupPIX Game Kernel(OoCities archive), (ReoCities archive) by Jonathan Nicholas, ...- SMIX Digital Sound Effects Library by Ethan Brodsky
- SoundLib by Stefan Göhler (Crossfire Designs)
- TinyTCP by Geoffrey H. Cooper, Cyrus Patel
- tppktip by Klaus Hartnegg
- Trumpet NTCPDRV ABI (Priidu Paomets' fan page) by Peter R. Tattam
- uIP by Adam Dunkels
- Ultra
VGA Engine 32 (UVE32) by Constantine Prouskas (InterAction studios)
- Varmint's Audio Tools (VAT) by Eric Jorgensen, Bryan Wilkins
- Waterloo TCP (WATTCP) by Erick Engelke
- Watt-32 by Erick Engelke, Gisle Vanem, ...
- XLibPas
by Tristan Tarrant, Themie Gouthas, ...
- XLib_TP
by Christian Harms, Themie Gouthas, ...
Software archives
- Academic and research network of Slovenia (ARNES) Simtel(.Net) mirror from 2001
- CD.TEXTFILES.COM: The Past on Plastic by Jason Scott
- ChatNFiles BBS by Tom Miller
- Garbo MS-DOS by Timo Salmi (University of Vaasa)
- Hornet Archive, The by Christopher Mann
- IFDC FileGate Project, the by Janis Kracht
- Metropoli BBS by Johan Ronkainen
- Network Bookcase Library by Ctrl Computer Systems
- Digital Systems Simtel(.Net) mirror from 2000
- Simtel(.Net)
(FTP server) by
Keith Petersen, Digital River - Slovak Antivirus Center (SAC) by Peter Hubinsky
- U-M Software Archives, The by Michael "Mike" Dautermann
System information, benchmarks
- AIDA16
by
Tamás Miklós - ASTRA by Sysinfo Lab
- DIAG by Dominik Marks
- Dr. Hardware Sysinfo by Peter A. Gebhard (Peter A. Gebhard Softwareentwicklung)
- HWiNFO by Martin Malík (REALiX)
- Navrátil Software System Information (NSSI) by Tomáš Navrátil
- PC
Analyser by Devid Espenschied,
Sven Bergemann(Devid Espenschied Software) - PC-Config by Michael Holin (Holin Datentechnik)
- STREAM by John D. McCalpin, Dennis Lee
- System Analyser by Hans Niekus
- System
Speed Test/SPEEDSYS by Vladimir Afanasiev
Text editors, IDEs
- ASM Edit by Olaf Krusche, Tilo Elstner
- Assembler
Laboratory (Alab) by Kurt Inge Groenbech
- Assembler Laboratory (Alab) updated version by Martin Kanich, Jan Ruzicka
- Aurora Editor, The (Kent Nassen's fan page) by Jeff Wunderlich (nuText Systems/nText Research)
- DosWorld Editor (DWED) by Viacheslav 'DosWorld' Komenda
- EDIT by Gautier de Montmollin
- EZEDIT by Craig Hessel
- Folding
text EDitor (FED) by
Shawn Hargreaves, Robert Riebisch - Folding Text Editor (FTE) by Marko Macek, Frits Jalvingh, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer, Darin McBride, ...
- JED by John E. Davis
- jupp by Thorsten Glaser
- Multi Platform Editor (mbedit) by Michael Braun
NASM-IDE(Wayback machine mirror), (v1.7 source code) by Robert Anderton- PENG by Frank Heckenbach
- Program Editor (PEDIT) by Goldshell Digital Media
- RHIDE (for DJGPP) by Robert Höhne
- RHIDE updated version by Andris Pavenis
- Sam's Little EDitor (SLED) by Sam Wilmott
- SET's Editor (SETEdit) by Salvador Eduardo Tropea
- SMARTEDIT
by Prashant TR
- Thomson-Davis Editor (TDE), the by Frank Davis, Douglas Thomson, Jason Hood
- Vi IMproved (Vim) by Bram Moolenar
Video Display Editor (VDE)(Steve Adelewitz's fan page) by Eric Meyer- Video Display Editor (VDE) (Dennis McCunney's fan page) by Eric Meyer
More DOS text editors on texteditors.org by Dennis McCunney & friends.
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