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🖮 DOS nostalgia

Contents

Notes

I use sneakernet because of network instability

VirtualBox audio does not work in FreeDOS, so use dosbox-x or qemu for that

FreeDOS will run on dosbox-x

Managing image files for dosbox-x

System

FreeDOS

386experience

winworldpc

boot disk collection

Editors

VIM is a full-blown vi clone. For DOS you will need both:

🗜️ VIM distribution (ZIP)

🗜️ VIM runtime (ZIP)

See also:

foxtype file viewer with UTF-8

🗜️ List 9.0c file viewer (ZIP)

Development

📜 Debug tutorial (PDF)

DeSmet C, tiny, fast, well-documented C compiler

DJGPP

DOjS (JavaScript for DOS)

🛠 Qbasic (EXE)

Tcl

Winworld DOS dev tools library

Games

Angband

🗜️ Magus, turn-based D&D style roguelike (ZIP)

Nethack 3.6

🗜️ Ragnarok, an epic roguelike (ZIP)

🗜️ Robot Odyssey, the epitome of awesome. (ZIP)

🗜️ Wanderer 3.30, like boulderdash (ZIP)

🗜️ Wanderer 4.01 (ZIP)

Applications

Microsoft Works 3.0 seems to be the easiest office app for DOS.

It works well under various ports of DOSBox.

It can export in formats compatible with LibreOffice.

It includes a vt100 terminal emulator with file transfer.

Below are other programs of interest.

🛠 Microsoft Word 5.5 (EXE)

SQLite

MealMaster

Remind, a calendar and reminder app

MOD Music

Fast Tracker 2.11

Impulse Tracker 2.14v5

OpenCP 2.6.0pre6

OpenMPT123 0.6.2

Hardware Info

🗜️ Microsoft Diagnostics (ZIP)

PCISleep, usage: pcisleep L

AIDA

Astra

HWInfo, NSSI, and PC-Config

Documentation

DOS Beyond 640K

Inside DOS magazine

Microsoft Programmer's Library

MS-DOS 6 User Guide

MS-DOS Bible

MS-DOS for Beginners

MS-DOS References from the Microsoft Programmer's Library

Ralph Brown's interrupt list

Links

386 Experience

INFO for DOS

Archive.org MS-DOS software library

Computer hope

FreeDOS forums

FreeDOS links

ftp.oldskool.org (FTP)

Garbo archive

Scovetta archives

Shareware CD collections

Svardos repo

Winworld DOS application library

Note: A 2005 copy of simtelnet exists on ftp.oldskool.org and in the

Scovetta archives.

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