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🖮 DOS nostalgia

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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

VIM is a full-blown vi clone

Utilities

Clipboard support for FreeDOS

DOS2Unix converts between DOS and Unix text formats

List 9.0c file viewer

pr - NetBSD pr command

snarf - screen shots

UTF8TOCP converts between UTF-8 and DOS Codepages

Development

Bruce's (K&R) C Compiler

Debug tutorial

DeSmet C, documented, fast, tiny (K&R) C compiler

DJGPP GCC

PC ASM Book by Paul Carter

Tcl

Games

Angband 4.2.4

Magus, turn-based D&D style roguelike

Nethack 3.6.6

Pente for 1-2 players

Ragnarok, an epic roguelike

Robot Odyssey, the epitome of awesome

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

SQLite

Meal-Master

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

Utilities for hardware diagnostic information

Documentation

🗜️ Advanced MSDOS Programming (ZIP)

Art of Assembly Language

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

Inside the IBM PC

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 Assembly Language

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

🗜️ Programmer's Technical Reference for MSDOS and the IBM PC (ZIP)

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

Winworld DOS application library

Abandonware for DOS

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

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