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Notes

I use sneakernet because of network instability

FreeDOS will run on dosbox-x

Managing image files for dosbox-x

System

FreeDOS

386experience

winworldpc

boot disk collection

Editors

🗜️ Calvin is a lightweight vi clone (ZIP)

VIM is a full-blown vi clone.

See also:

🗜️ List 9.0c file viewer (ZIP)

UTF8TOCP converts between UTF-8 and DOS Codepages

DOS2Unix converts between DOS and Unix text formats

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 4.2.1

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

Nethack 3.6.0

Nethack 3.1.3.3 (Run cwsdpmi.exe first)

ChrHack 2.3 (for NH 3.1.x)

🗜️ Quinta, AKA Pente, for 1-2 players (ZIP)

🗜️ Ragnarok, an epic roguelike (ZIP)

🗜️ Robot Odyssey, the epitome of awesome. (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

DOS Device Drivers, Debugging

DR-DOS System and Programmer's Guide, Chapter 6. Device Drivers

First Steps Towards System Programming Under MS-DOS7 📜 (PDF)

IBM DOS documentation

IBM PC documentation

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

📜 PC DOS 7 Technical Update, Chapter 8. Writing an Installable Device Driver (PDF)

Ralph Brown's interrupt list

📜 System BIOS for IBM PC/XT/AT Computers and Compatibles (PDF)

📜 Undocumented DOS (PDF)

📜 The Undocumented PC (PDF)

Writing MS-DOS Device Drivers

Links

386 Experience

INFO for DOS

Archive.org MS-DOS software library

Computer hope

FreeDOS forums

FreeDOS links

ftp.oldskool.org (FTP)

Garbo archive

GNUish

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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