EDR-DOS and DOS related links

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There could be some links in multiple categories - this is intentional, if some developer offers several different products.

2. Dr-DOS Links

drdosprojects.de - Enhanced Dr-DOS
infoseek.co.jp - Japanese Dr-DOS User’s Group
drdos.com - DRDOS, Inc. commercial Dr-DOS, was 8.1, now 7.03
devicelogics.com - DRDOS, Inc. alternative address
drdos.net
drdos.org - No link, you are here ;-)
delorie.com/opendos/faq - Some info on OpenDOS, dating from 1997, DJ Delorie lost interest since
deltasoft.com - Deltasoft, also some info from 1997
Editor with Task Monitor under Dr-DOS
MPDOSTIPS - Dr-DOS Tipps - outdated but interesting!
Microsoft and Caldera - dispelling the myths
drdos.com/dosdoc - Original commercial DR-DOS manuals

3. Some other DOS’es

FreeDOS - See Wiki page (complete DOS project)
Datalight DOS ? - See Wiki page (complete DOS product)
GNUDOS ? - See Wiki page (DOS distribution, FreeDOS)
MultiDOS ? - See Wiki page (DOS distribution, Enhanced Dr-DOS)
uDOS - another FreeDOS distribution
FreeDOS-32 - A 32-bit version, alpha by now
DexOS - A 32-bit DOS-like OS, written in FASM, almost usable
BOS - Another 32-bit DOS-like OS, written in FASM, pre-alpha, toy
micosyen.com - M$ DOS 7.10 distro, probably not legal, use with care

4. [Multi]-Boot loader, partition manager, erasing, backup

See also PartErase for some more detail info.

SinRite - data recovery, repair and maintenance utility
osloader.com - OSL2000 Boot Manager - advanced multi boot manager
XOSL2 is an update of XOSL, which has a very good GUI (XOSL is much more stable than XOSL2)
grub4dos.sf.net - GRUB4DOS
ranish.com - Ranish Partition Manager
cutepm.com - Cute Partition Manager, a simple freeware Partition Manager (no-OS bootable CD)
zeleps.com - The Partition Resizer
METAKERN - Very tiny and simple, but working multiboot menu (FAT only)
dban.sf.net - Bootable eraser
http://beilagen.dreael.ch/QB/DISKLOES.ZIP - Eraser, DOS-based, in QuackBASIC, German only, no project page ???
gparted.sf.net - Advanced partitioner
terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe - DOS based
terabyteunlimited.com/image - Image, shareware
uneraser.com - Active@ UNERASER 3.0, also DOS version (not newest, from 2004, uses DOS4/GW), supports FAT32 and NTFS also

5. DOS GUI

Ozone, Beta Versions - full featured desktop environment
DOS Access - A very good GUI (32-bit, uses Allegro)
SEAL - Another nice free GUI (32-bit, uses Allegro)
LCARS24 - A “Star Trek”-like GUI (32-bit, uses Allegro)
strony.aster.pl/neutrino/scirus_en.htm - Scirus (no longer, “Blad 404″)
OpenGEM - maybe the smallest GUI
nevasca.co.nr - DOS GUI / GUI OS (?) based on SEAL and FreeDOS
doscore.net - FreeDOS GUI package with SEAL (?)
ikongui.freehostia.com ikongui.com - GUI, uses Allegro, by Andrew Boehringer (dead ?)
kronojunior.sf.net - “Krono Junior” GUI (abandoned)
student.unimelb.edu.au/… , hitechlabs.tk - “Spectra” GUI (was called “WinDOS” previously)
easywindow.de - A DOS GUI / GUI OS, German only (dead)

6. Compilers, programming, DOS extenders

See Development for detail info.

dos32a.narechk.net - DOS/32 Advanced Extender
https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel - HX DOS extender, see HX-DOS (now dead, try ??)
CWSDPMI - the DPMI host used by default by DGJPP, FreeBASIC and FreePASCAL
DevoreSoftware - CauseWay DOS Extender, FD EMM386 & HIMEM (now all obsolete, but base for newer stuff, historically very valuable - thanks M.D.)
sid6581.net/pmodew - PMODE/W DOS extender, closed source freeware, abandoned
Python - DOS port of interpreter
XPL0 - 16- and 32-bit compiler, similar to PASCAL
DJGPP - C/C++/Fortran 32-BIT compiler
OpenWatcom - C/C++/Fortran 32-BIT compiler
CC386 - “C” language compiler, 32 bit, also DOS
smorgasbordet.com/pellesc - Pelles C compiler, PoASM
Freepascal - Pascal 32-BIT compiler, DOS needs to be fixed
Virtual Pascal (old page) - Pascal 32-bit compiler, with some hacks also DOS target
Veit Kannegieser - Virtual Pascal DOS additional DPMI32 files (no longer ?)
frameworkpascal.com - TMT “Framework” Pascal, 32-bit compiler, also DOS, obscure license (free for uncommercial use ???)
freenet-homepage.de/dieterp - Dpas PASCAL compiler
diefer.de/dicerte - DiceRTE development system (DOS Extender, C and ASM compilers)
Webplain - Pascal compilers & infos (German only)
FreeBASIC - BASIC 32 bit compiler
ibiblio.org/…/freebasic FreeBASIC download mirror
Turbo Vision - Text User Interface library
Turbo Vision resources
Graphics Vision (dead) - Graphical User Interface library for FreePascal
Graphic Vision - Graphical User Interface library for TP & BP 7.0
MGRX - graphic library for DJGPP
SWORD - (redirect) Graphic User Interface library for C++ (DJGPP)
System 2001 (dead) - Graphical User Interface
wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) - Graphical User Interface with many features
MGUI - Graphical User Interface library
Allegro - Game and GUI library, DOS version seems dead
DUGL - The new and fast game and GUI library for DOS
Boreland museum - Download TP 5.5, TC 2.01, TC++ 1.01, no TP/BP 7.0 so far
webalice.it/turylicciardi - Some utility from Freepascal for DOS
http://www.harbour-project.org/ - cross platform compiler for the xBase superset language (Clipper)
lpjjl.net/pgm “site de LPJJl Software dédiées à la programmation” - page is in French, but most (linked and hosted) docs are in English

7. Development and user documentation

ctyme.com/rbrown - Ralf Brown’s Interrupt List view online
pobox.com/… - Ralf Brown’s Interrupt List download
Operating System Resource Center
Programming MS-DOS with Power (DOS Programming, Undocumented DOS and DOS Secrets)
wotsit.org (dead) - File formats
myfileformats.com (dead) - File formats
http://dotwhat.net - “one of the world’s largest and most detailed databases of file extension information” (some information incorrect, comment feature broken, much advertizing)
http://www.file-extensions.org - “website focused on collecting of informations about file extensions” (some information incorrect, forum requires registration)
rfc.net - RFC documents on standards and algorithms, like Deflate, MD5, OPUS, …

8. File managers

See FileManagers for details.

Necromancer DOS Navigator - File manager - 32 bit, NC clone
RIT DN - The original 16-bit version
Volkov Commander - Norton Commander clone
GVFM - graphical file manager - “Windows” style
Explorer PC - Free graphical file manager for DOS (link dead)

9. Media, audio, video

See Mediaplayers for mode info.

http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net - MPXPlay - Audio player THE BEST !!! * http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpxplay - MPXPlay files + forum
http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay - MPXPlay (dead ?)
http://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/sound/mpxplay - download mirror
http://ffmpeg.org - FFMPEG, a huge multimedia codec library, GPL & LGPL (source code, useful for developers only)
FFMPEG
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ - FFMPEG Win32 binaries (try with HX)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg-x264-dos/ - FFMPEG DGJPP binaries
FFMPEG2Theora - A commandline video transcoder (derivative of FFMPEG, runs on HX-DOS)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mplayer-win32 Win32 binaries of FFMPEG and MPLAYER (no longer updated, obsolete)
mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff - MPLAYER DOS port (link dead)
MPR.EXE - MP3 Jukebox Player for DOS, written in ASM, SB16 only
QuickView - Video player for DOS (also supports DivX)
Display - Image converter, also video player, no homepage

10. Graphics, PDF

See GraphPaintCAD for mode info.

VGA paint 386 - Painting program, 32-bit, DOS4/GW, GNU GPL
GrafX2 - Paint program (link dead ?)
GrafX2 - Try also here
OGE - Paint program, obsolete, has “Error 200″ bug, open source
Improces - Paint program
PowerPaint2 - Simple paint program for DOS, 16-bit, unfortunately buggy, open source (dead?)
NeoPaint - Quite good, abandoned, last DOS version from 1998, commercially distributed (40$) until recently but no longer, one could ask them …
nomdo.dds.nl - Ghostscript: PDF/Postscript Viewer
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ - XPDF: open source commandline tools to convert PDF to text and extract images
pdftohtml.sf.net - PDFTOHTML, converter (obsolete and abandoned)
lcdf.org/gifsicle - Gifsicle - animated GIF
pictview.com - Pictview
kanzelsberger.com/pixel.. - Pixel Image editor (dead)

11. Hardware for DOS

See Hardware for more info.

avantek Pentium 4 mainboard with ISA slots
berger-bros Parallel port card reader/writer
datafabusa Parallel port card reader/writer (no longer ?)
cmedia A sound card having native (?) DOS drivers

12. USB drivers

See USB for more info.

bretjohnson.us Page of Bret Johnson with USBDOS driver, and some old stuff
dosusb.net , georgpotthast.de/usb - DOSUSB (was “DOSUHCI” in the past) driver for DOS (new, closed, was free for personal use)
bootdisk.com - Drivers for CD-ROM, USB mouse (anyone tested ?), also warez content/links, use with care
fracassi.net - USB driver package “Dosusb.zip” (DUSE, USBASPI, …, no CATC)
CATC USB4DOS - A commercial USB driver for DOS - no longer available ?
Stefan2000 - Some DOS USB links (partially obsolete and broken)
“X-Ways” - The “Moto Hairu” USB driver (ignore all the “replica” stuff)
“hddguru” - The “Moto Hairu” USB other download (ignore obsolete “MS-DOS” stuff)
tssc.de - APSoft’s Point Enablers for DOS: USB and Firewire drivers for mass-storage devices

13. Sound drivers

See SoundCardChip for more info.

multimediaware.com/qv/snddrv - Sound drivers (also PCI) for QV player, reusable ? source ? API ?
alex-hint.narod.ru - Personal page of author of those QV drivers, main page works, download broken ?
“schneegans” - DOS (?) drivers for VIA AC97 (German only)
ESStech - Soundchips, also minimal DOS support (?)
bttr-software.de/…id=11947 and bttr-software.de/…id=6930 Discussions and links

14. Mouse drivers

See KeyboardAndMouse for more info.

coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/mixed - Eric ’s download directory with CTMOUSE 2.1xx and other products
ibiblio.org/pub/… - Mirror with latest, old and ultra-ancient versions of CTMOUSE
cutemouse.sf.net - CTMOUSE SF page - obsolete, no 2.1 versions
uwe-sieber.de - Various mouse drivers (Logitech) and other stuff

15. Misc hardware drivers

See Hardware for more info.

driverguide.com - Many drivers, also DOS
treiberupdate.de - drivers, very good, German
dosdriver.de - great site with DOS drivers (sound, graphic…)
“easymanecab” - some sound and graph drivers for DOS (?)
S3VBE - Driver for “S3″ graph cards, provides VESA 2.0
ibiblio UDMA & XDMA drivers for DOS
johnson.tmfc.net/dos - QHIMEM, QCDROM & QDMA drivers
gcdromfordos - Driver for IDE & SATA (?) CD-ROM drives

16. Internet / Networking

See Browsers for detail info.

glennmcc.org - Glenn ’s page of Arachne, Graphical Web Browser for DOS
http://glennmcc.dyndns.org “/aqccc_home/nospam.php” - Forum
sf.net/projects/arachne-browser - Arachne alternative page (dead ?)
Arachne apm page- Plug-in’s for Arachne
freelists.org - Arachne mailing list
lazybrowndog.net/freedos - DOS networking infos (very good !) * WebServ (web-server)
LeetIRC - IRC client
DOSLynx - text web browser
Lynx - another text web browser
Links - web browser
Internet tools, Wattcp
RINET32 - TCP/IP stacks (IPv4, IPv6) commercial ?
Boa - Webserver
New:Waba for DOS - Webserver
Ez-NOS - Webserver
Ez-NOS - Printerserver
w3schools.com/html/html_fonts - HTML “font” tag - Arachne related

17. Compression

See Compress for detail info.

pkware.com/index.php?option… - PKWARE, PKZIP 2.50 for DOS (no download, “useful” hints :-D )
ibsensoftware.com - Ibsen Software, compression, APACK
sac-ftp.externet.hu/pack9.html - Collection of many packers/unpackers, also IUP
compression.ru/ds/ - PPMD algorithm, Russian only, page not very good
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHarc - UHU-ARC at Wikipedia
winace.com - ACE archiver, obsolete
rarlab.com/rar_add.htm - UNRAR for DOS

18. Filesystem extensions / access non-DOS filesystems

Info mostly provided by Voskov Alexey.

DOSLFN - long file name driver (dead link)
datapol.de - Provided NTFS4DOS in the past, but no longer
open source project Ext2FSD (with XP ??)
NTFSDOS 4.03 by Mark Russinovich - effective CAPTIVE driver for DOS. “Understands” LFN and codepages other than 437 (e.g. 866). But requires some files from WinXP. Free demo version is “read only”
NTFS4DOS 1.9 - nice freeware driver, full access do hdd, NATIVE, but no LFN support
NTFS Reader 1.0 - supports LFN and codepages other than 437, but it is not driver, but stand-alone file manager. And it is slow and buggy.
LTOOLS 6.12 - console utilities for reading/writing Ext2/3 from “bare” DOS. It is working, but it is not a driver!
Paragon IFSDRV - the optimal variant. NATIVE, Ext2/NTFS (the only Ext2 driver for DOS), compact, rather reliable (with HDPMI32). Not free / not legal ?

19. Various personal / misc / DOS and also-DOS pages

sites.google.com/site/blairdude - Various FreeDOS “extra” stuff (updated 2010, still online 2016)
sites.google.com/site/pcdosretro - PC DOS Retro by Vernon Brooks (historical info, technical info, ENHDEBUG, mostly but not exclusively PCDOS)
rayer.g6.cz - Rayer’s page, some information and programs about DJGPP, CPU, VESATEST, MTRR …
volny.cz/rayer and rayer.ic.cz - Rayer’s page alternatives
mateusz.viste.free.fr/dos Page of Fox with FoxCALC, MSEDIT and more
http://linux.tu-varna.acad.bg/~lig - (dead) TU Varna page, with TUNZ and some other DOS stuff
bttr-software.de - Various DOS utils, FIX8X14, VGAPAINT, long link list, and more
Blair’s page: DOS ports of 7-ZIP, audio compressors and more
Philip Helger’s page: GT2 file format detector (use HX-DOS)
Ken’s page: Some DOS and non-DOS (use HX DOS Extender :-) ) utils, PNGOUT
rugxulo.googlepages.com - Rugxulo’s page: Mini-FreeDOS distros and more
drv.nu - DrV’s page about FreeBASIC and C language
mik.mkw.ru/dos-stuff Michael Kostylev ’s page with various DJGPP ports of MPLAYER and much more (no longer)
mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff Michael Kostylev ’s page alternative address
glennmcc.org/download/mik/ Mirror of Mik ’s downloads

20. Games

dosgames.com - DOS games
dosgamesarchive.com - DOS games
“hryprodos” - Many games and more for [MS!?]-DOS, Czech only (!?!?)

21. Viral

FDAV is an anti-virus scanner designed especially for FreeDOS and utilizes the virus-scanning engine of ClamAV.
free-av.com - Free (?) antivirus, NTFS4DOS, USB drivers (?)
free-av.de - Free (?) antivirus, NTFS4DOS, USB drivers (?)
f-prot.com/products/home_use/dos - No longer
f-prot.com/down…dos.html - F-PROT for DOS (no longer under development, was still available for some time, now says “F-PROT Antivirus for DOS is no longer available”)
glennmcc.org/fprotdef.zip - Viral database for F-PROT mirror (Direct download, almost 10 MiB, dead)

22. 4DOS

jpsoft.com JPSOFT 4DOS - best command line (now “Take Command”)
source of 4DOS (old)
4dos.info - info site about 4DOS and general DOS (also NT-based “DOS” :-( )
4dos.isgreat.org - Lucho ’s “Welcome to the Revived 4DOS!” page (dead)
4dos.zzl.org - dead
http://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/4dos/ - Download mirror

23. General DOS Links

sf.net/projects/himemx - HIMEMX (updated to 3.34 in 2015)
rayer.ic.cz/romos/romose.htm - ROMOS - for storing DOS into ROM
milec.com - MILEC “Réduisez drastiquement vos coûts grâce à nos logiciels” (was “Logiciels de Gestion pour DOS/FreeDOS”) (Business software, French)
DevoreSoftware - FreeDOS EMM386 & HIMEM, obsolete, use Japheth’s versions
https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel - HX (DOS extender), JEMM386, JEMMEX
users.telenet.be/desi-iii - DESI-III, freeware CAD
users.pandora.be/desi-iii - DESI-III alternative
holophase.com - Circad, a CAD package, also DOS (??), commercial, 400$, written in 16-bit assembly
DOS solutions - many many links and tools
chebucto.ns.ca - “DOCTOR DOS BETAMAX” - DOS links, infos, jokes, …
http://dosprograms.info.tt/ - Interesting DOS programs (still updated!) * short.stop.home.att - DOS software list
freeware-archiv.de - Some nice DOS Freeware
https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos - Breadbox Ensemble 4.13 (GUI, office package), also known as PC GEOS
SQL in DOS
httpdASM - web server (httpd), written in ASM
CDRTools - burning CD in DOS
CDRTOOLS with DVD Support
DOSCDRoast - burning cd in DOS (abandoned)
Emulator Win32/win16 for DOS…… E/OSLX 0.23
deskwork.de - “Deskwork” GUI for DOS & Scars systems
CCi Mutliuser DOS 7Gold,CCi Concurrent DOS 3.07 - Please Register on HTTP://GROUPS.YAHOO.COM & click here!!!
Real/32 v7.5
TCL for REAL/32
REAL/32 v7.60..Real-Time Multitask,MultiuserDOS - Registred on HTTP://GROUPS.YAHOO.COM & click here!
GZ-DOS
TSX-32 v6.33 32bit DOS-compatible text/Gui
VirtuOS 3.00 Multitasking DOS-compatible
CCiMDOS,CDOS - FTP Private site :(
CCI Multiuser DOS,CCI Concurrent DOS - No freeware :(
REAL/32 Private FTP - Your are control the LOGIN and PASS? :)
REAL/32 updates v7.5,7.6,7.7,7.8
PhotoRec A tool which can fix broken images on your digital camera cards, flash disc and similar
pakke - a package manager