=> Monday, August 11, 2008
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rugxulo_AT_gmail_DOT_com
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N.B. The FD 1.0++ .ISOs *only* have an updated SYSLINUX part, not \PKGS\ !!
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/
:-) Kudos to Eric Auer (everything) and Fritz Mueller (.LSMs etc.) :-)
4DOS: 7.50 (latest is Lucho's 7.72 from July 15, 2008; 8086+)
= http://4dos.z-bg.com/ (patches + .EXEs only; see below for original srcs)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/4dos/7.50.1/
ARACHNE: 1.90 (latest is "v193;GPL" dated Mar. 18, 2008)
= http://www.glennmcc.org (new URL)
= http://sourceforge.net/projects/arachne-browser
BZIP2: 1.0.3 (latest is 1.0.5 is from Mar. 31, 2008; 386+)
= http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-105b.zip
= ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-105s.zip
CABEXT: 1.1 (latest is rr's 1.2 from May. 4, 2008)
= http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=3803
= http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/cabex12b.zip
= http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/cabex12s.zip
CHKDSK: 0.9 (latest is 0.91, 16-bit only; DOSFSCK is preferred)
= http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/
CPULEVEL: 2004 (latest is "CPULEVEL 2007" dated Jan. 4, 2008)
= http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/cpulevel2007.zip
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/cpulevel2007.zip
CUTEMOUSE: 1.9.1 beta1 / 2.0a4 (latest is 2.1 beta 4 from July 13, 2008)
-> this is Eric Auer's "VGA only" version (he's the new maintainer)
-> mouse wheel is off by default (compatibility issues) but can be enabled
-> now uses JWasm to reassemble (instead of TASM)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/mouse/
= http://cutemouse.sf.net (original site for EGA-compatible versions)
DEBUG: 0.98 (latest from Japheth is 1.13 dated Feb. 27, 2008)
= http://www.japheth.de/dwnload4.html
DEFRAG: 1.0 (latest is 1.31 from Aug. 24, 2007)
= http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/
DEVLOAD: 3.16 (latest "stable" is 3.21 from June 27 2008)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/devload/
DISKCOPY: 0.94 (latest is 0.95 w/ status information)
-> or use Dosius / Lucho's faster SFX14436 22k sfx hack to write 1.44 MB (only)
= http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/
= http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/file/sfx14436.rar
DOOM: Legacy 1.41 + Freedoom 0.4.1 (latest Freedoom is 0.6.2, Mar. 18 2008)
-> Freedoom says Legacy engine license confllicts (GPL vs. Heretic/Hexen)
= http://freedoom.sourceforge.net/ (BSD)
= http://www.teamtnt.com/boompubl/boom2.htm (GPL)
= http://doomworld.com/eternity/ (GPL)
DOSFSCK: 2.10b-Eric (latest is 2.11c, works w/ .IMG files too, 386+)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/disk/dosfsck/
DOSLFN: 0.40c (latest is 0.40e; needs new maintainer)
= http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/doslfn/index.html
EDLIN: 2.8 (latest is 2.10c, but iBiblio only hosts old 16-bit .EXE)
= www.sourceforge.net/projects/freedos-edlin
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/edlin-dl.txt (how to build it via CC386)
EMM386: Devore's "final" stable was 2.26
-> (latest "stable" is Japheth's JEMM386 5.772, from Mar. 13, 2008; 386+)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/emm386/
= http://www.japheth.de/dwnload4.html
FASM: 1.64 (latest is 1.67.27 from July 13 2008, w/ DOS IDE - FASMD; 386+)
= http://www.flatassembler.net
FDISK: 1.3.0 (also includes outdated SPFDISK: latest is dated Sep. 5, 2006)
-> ?? is this version considered alpha or sttable ??
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/fdisk/
= http://www.mecronome.de/xfdisk/index.php
= http://spfdisk.sourceforge.net/
FREEBASIC: 1.6 (latest is 0.18.5b from Apr. 18, 2008; 486+)
= http://www.freebasic.net/forum/
= http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fbc
FDAPM: 2005 (latest is from Dec. 20, 2007; includes IDLEDPMS screen saver)
-> IDLEDPMS is only for EGA/VGA/DPMS, FDAPM equals MS POWER (APM w/ some ACPI)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/fdapm/
FIND: ? (latest is 3.0 "LFN" from Sep. 24 2007)
= http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/
FREEPASCAL: ? (latest "stable" is 2.2.0, as of Sep. 10, 2007; 486+)
-> NEW! 2.2.2 rc2: ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal..org/fpc/beta/2.2.2rc2/i386-go32v2/
-> no official DOS port (yet?) bessides 2.0..4, so get snapshots via FTP:
-> or get Robert Riebisch's (unfinished) 2.22.0 DOS build (needs DOSLFN):
= http://www.bttr-software.de/misc/fpc/ (2.2.0-pre3, Sep. 28)
= ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/
= ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.2.0a/go32v2/
= ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/trunk/i386-go32v2/ (2.3.1 ??)
-> (2.2.0a, Oct.2 w/ MAKEDOS.ZIP from Nov.7))
= ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/snapshot/v20/i386-go32v2/ (2.0.5 ??)
FDSHIELD: 2004 (latest is from Aug. 31, 2006)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/fdshield/
GRAPHICS: ? (latest is WIP from July 14 2008)
= http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/mixed/
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/graphics.zip
GRUB4DOS: 0.4.1pre22 (latest is 0.4.3)
= http://sarovar.org/projects/grub4dos
= http://download.gna.org/grub4dos/
GSX (Ghostscript): 7.05 (386+; HX-suitable Win32 .EXE + .DLL is 8.57)
-> you also need the full Win32 install to uuse the HX .EXE / .DLL
= http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/
= http://www.milec.com/download/GSWC_DLL.ZIP
-> also Michael Kostelev made a DJGPP compille of 8.55:
-> http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/ (7 MB of .EXEs, fonts, patches)
-> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/gs/
GZIP: 1.2.4 (1.3.12 exists for DJGPP / DOS 32-bit as of Apr. 22, 2007)
= ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/gzp1312b.zip
= http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/gzp1312b.zip
HXRT: 2.4 (latest is 2.14 from Mar. 2, 2008; 386+, HXGUI needs VESA 2.0 + ??)
-> (June '08 beta): http://www.japheth.de/Doownload/HXRTD.ZIP
= http://www.japheth.de/HX.html (latest stable)
HIMEM: Devore's "final" stable HIMEM (no "X") was 3.26
-> (latest "stable" HIMEMX from Japheth is 33.32 from Mar. 13, 2008; 386+)
-> (he also created JEMMEX, XMS + EMS in onee, partially based on it)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/emm386/
= http://www.japheth.de/dwnload4.html
INSIGHT: 1.10 (latest is 1.22 as of Nov. 24, 2007, now assembles via NASM)
= http://www.bttr-software.de/products/insight/
INVADERS: 1.0 (latest is 1.1 dated Sep. 17, 1995)
= http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/gamesrc/invadr11.zip
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/INV2FASM.ZIP (ported to build via FASM)
KEEPTIME: 1.1 (latest is 1.2)
= http://avb.starnet.ru/files/KEEPTM12.RAR
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/
KERNEL: 2036 (latest is 2038pre / "FAT secure" Mar. 9, 2008 version from SVN)
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/fatsecurity-binaries.zip (439k)
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ke2007sep15-src.zip (old, sorry ... see SVN)
LAME: 3.97b2 (latest is 3.97; 386+)
= http://lame.sf.net
= ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/sound/lame397d.zip
LBACACHE: Aug. 31 2006 (latest is from Apr. 7 2008)
= http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/lbacache.zip
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/lbacache.zip
LTOOLS: 6.9 (latest is 6.12)
= http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools.html
MEM: 1.10 (latest is 1.11)
= http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freedos
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/mem/mem1_11.zip
MORE: 4.2 (latest is Imre's 4.3 w/ LFN support)
= http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/
MPXPlay: 1.53 (latest is 1.56 beta2 from July 18, 2008)
-> needs at least a 486DX/100 Mhz w/ 8 MB RAAM+ !!
= http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay/
NANSI: 4.0a (latest is 4.0d, now responds to int 2Fh install check)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/nansi/
NASM: 0.98.39 (latest "stable" is 2.03.01 from June 17, 2008 ; 386+)
-> 0.98.39 is the final one to be (able to bbe) compiled for 16-bit DOS
= http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nasm/nsm09839.zip
= http://nasm.sf.net
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/nasm_mak.txt (CC386 makefile for 0.98.39)
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/nasm202b.txt (.BAT make 2.02 w/ DJGPP 2.04)
-> also see this fork: YASM 0.7.1 (as of May 14, 2008; 386+)
= http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm (faster but no .OBJ support)
-> use OBJCONV (1.11) to convert to/from PE/COFF, ELF, OBJ, MACHO:
= http://www.agner.org/optimize/#objconv (w/ srcs and HX-able Win32 .EXE)
OPENWATCOM: 1.5 (latest is 1.7a as of Oct. 23, 2007; needs 386+ host OS)
= http://www.openwatcom.org (65 MB Win32 installer .EXE is also a .ZIP sfx)
-> or only download the few .ZIPs you need, not the entire thing:
= http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Alternative_Open_Watcom_distribution
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/c/openwatcom/
PERUSE: ?
-> (should be deleted per PC Mag / Ziff Daviis' wishy-washy wishes)
PRNFILE: ?
-> (should be deleted per PC Mag / Ziff Daviis' wishy-washy wishes)
PG: 1.13 (latest is 1.16 from Oct. 10, 2007; w/ SVHEX and SVTXT plugins)
-> now supports traditional Chinese (yakta?))
= http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/pg.html
PRINT: 1.0 (latest is Eric's 1.02)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/print/
RAREAD: 1.0 (latest is 1.1; a bit faster than DISKCOPY w/o LBACACHE/TICKLE)
= http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/rawrite/raread11.zip
RUNTIME: ? (Eric's tiny .ASM version's latest is from Aug. 18, 2007)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/runtime/
SHARE: (0.99 was previous version, is this one by Japheth 0.99.1 ??)
= http://www.japheth.de/dwnload4.html
SHSUCDX: 3.02 (latest is 3.04)
= http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/shsucdx/index.html
SHSUFDRV: 1.00 (latest is 1.02, and 1.11 for SHSURDRV, aka FDRV-3)
= http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/shsufdrv/index.html
SORT: ? (latest is Imre's patched version w/ LFN support)
= http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/
SSH2DOS: 0.1.1 (latest SSHDOS is 0.95, latest SSH2DOS is 0.2.1)
= http://sshdos.sourceforge.net/
TAR: 1.09 (16-bit? yet latest DJGPP port of GNU 386+ version is 1.12a)
-> or use Tim S.'s (16-bit?) TAR clone w/ buuilt-in GZip/LFN support instead
= http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/tar112ab.zip
= ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/tar321#4.zip (w/ src, non-commercial only!)
-> "tar +gnu -c.9f blah.tgz *.*" will createe a .tar.gz w/ the above non-GNU 3.21
-> P.S. "p7zip a blah.tar *", "p7zip a -mx=99 blah.tgz blah.tar" works too (386+)
TEE: 1.0 (latest is 2.03 from July 31, 2008)
= http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~amaloz/FreeDOS/TEE
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/tee/
TERMINAL: Apr. 23, 2005 (latest is June 20, 2007)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/terminal/
UMBPCI: 3.65 (latest is 3.76 from June 12, 2008; 586+)
-> "source available on request" ??
-> (but srcs apparently NOT redistributable by FreeDOS, doh!)
= http://www.uwe-sieber.de/umbpci_e.html
UNDELETE: Jan. 6, 2004 (but Eric's beta!! FAT32 tool is from Feb. 19 2008)
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/undelete.zip
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/undelf32.zip
-> beta!! w/ FAT32 support has two KNOWN buggs (else works otherwise ??):
-> 1). breaks FAT32 "used space count" (DOSFSCK can fix this)
-> 2). it doesn't do anything to claim raw disk access
= http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=
Pine.GSO.4.60.0802201446230.7415%40troll.coli.uni-saarland.de&
forum_name=freedos-devel
UPX: 2.01 (latest is 3.03 "stable" from Apr. 27, 2008 w/ LZMA support; 386+)
= http://upx.sf.net (also needs UCL lib to recompile)
VIM: 6.3 (latest is 7.2 final, 386+)
-> no 16-bit port, so you have to use the DJJGPP .EXE or older 7.1 instead
= http://www.vim.org
WASMX.ZIP (aka, Wolfware ASM 2.23, supports up through 286 only)
= http://www.shoelesscomputers.coom/software/wasm/ (also see ../source/)
XCOPY: 1.3 (latest "rxcopy" is 1.4, but still no LFN support)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/xcopy/rxcopy/
-> or get Ben Cadieux's tiny 8086+ LFN-awaree XCOPY clone here (w/ NASM src):
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/xwcopy8b.7z
-> neither of these uses XMS to pre-read several files at once (a la MS)
XPDF: 3.01 (latest is 3.02pl2 from Nov. 7, 2007)
= http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
XCDROM: 2.2 (IDE only; but GCDROM for SATA only, based on XCDROM, is at 2.3)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/xcdrom/
= http://marktsai0316.googlepages.com/gcdromfordos
-> see below for UIDE, the "official" (but aabandoned) successor to both above
XDMA: 3.3 (but the final! XMGR + UIDE [aka, UDMA+UDVD] are from Nov. 1, 2007)
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/udma/xdma/
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/udma+drivers/
-> also see Japheth's JEMM386's latest plugiins: XDMA32, XCDROM32
(based on older XDMA + XCDROM, not on newer/more compatible UIDE)
ZIP: 2.32 (latest is 3.0 from July 7, 2008; 386+ ???)
-> src only (for now), but unofficial binariies are here:
- http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/zip30dj.zip (DJGPP w/ Bzip2 support)
- http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/zip30wat.zip (PMODE/W, Win32, zip16 "low mem")
= ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/
= http://www.info-zip.org
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| Misc. |
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FD Update: N/A (latest is 0.53)
-> "requires WGETX and an active internet coonnexion to work"
= http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/dos/en/download.php?plik=fdupdate
ClamAV (antivirus): N/A (0.92 ported by Blair, Jan. 31 2008)
-> clamconf, clamscan, freshclam, and sigtoool
-> can scan inside .ZIPs etc.; virus databasse included (but nags about "old")
-> CLAMAVX.ZIP (14 MB) and CLAMAVS.ZIP (1.5 MB) are here:
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/
= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClamAV (Wikipedia page)
= http://www.clamav.net/ (official site)
JWasm: N/A (OW is at 1.7a [Oct. 2007], Japheth's is 1.9 from July 24, 2008)
-> this forked version is now used to reasseemble JEMM, HIMEMX, most of HX
= http://www.japheth.de/JWasm.html
GNU Emacs: N/A (latest DJGPP port is 20.5 but smaller 19.34 also exists)
-> latest for other OSes is 22.2 "stable" (ffrom Mar. 26, 2008)
-> supposedly can still? be built from srcs for DJGPP ?? (needs tons of space)
= http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/current/v2gnu/emacs.README
= http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/current/v2gnu/emacs19.README
Dungeon Crawl "Stone Soup" : N/A (latest is 0.4.3 from Aug. 1 2008)
-> DOS port is ASCII only (unlike other "tilles" ports)
-> try NetHack or SLASH 'EM if you want gfx in DOS ;-)
= http://crawl-ref.sf.net
= http://crawl.akrasiac.org (to play this roguelike via telnet)
Gujin: N/A (2.3, boot loader, similar to Lilo or Loadlin, needs no cfg files)
= http://gujin.sourceforge.net/
SYSLINUX: ? (3.70 as of June 30, 2008; bootloaders for floppy, network, CD-ROM)
-> this includes ISOLINUX and MEMDISK used bby the official FreeDOS CDs !!
= http://syslinux.zytor.com/
TESTDISK: N/A (6.10 as of July 17 2008)
-> "recover lost partitions and/or make non--booting disks bootable again"
= http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
LILO: N/A (very popular boot loader; latest is 22.8 from Feb. 19, 2007)
= http://lilo.go.dyndns.org/
Perl: N/A (latest DOS is 5.8.8 but Perl.org has newer 5.10.0)
= http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/perl588b.zip (13 MB)
= http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/current/v2gnu/perl588s.zip (14 MB)
-> older but smaller version (if you don't need all the new stuff)
= http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/perl561b.zip (6.3 MB)
= http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/current/v2gnu/perl561s.zip (6.5 MB)
Python: N/A (latest DOS is 2.4.2r1 but Python.org has 2.5.2 / "alpha" 3.0a5)
= http://www.caddit.net/pythond/
Ruby: N/A (latest DOS is 1.8.4 but otherwise is "stable" 1.8.6 / "dev" 1.9.0)
= ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/djgpp/1.8/
Filetype: N/A (Eric's ultra small *nix "file" id tool, Aug. 24, 2007)
= http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/check-magic-filetype.zip
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/filetype.zip
FDRC: N/A (latest is 0.2.1, Dec. 10, 2007)
= http://sourceforge.net/projects/fdrc
CC386: N/A (3.74, Jan. 29, 2008; w/ HX support, InfoPad, DOS installer; 386+)
-> no longer developed; original site is htttp://ladsoft.tripod.com/cc386.htm
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ccdl374e.zip (DOS installer)
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/cwdl374e.zip (Win32 IDE version installer)
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/cxdl374e.zip (DOS + Win manual install)
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/cwdl374s.zip (compiler sources)
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/cwdl374l.zip (library sources)
GRDB: N/A (9.4, Jan. 4, 2008; 386+)
-> can debug FPU or MMX apps, DPMI or "flat real"
-> no longer developed; original site is htttp://ladsoft.tripod.com/grdb.htm
= http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/grdbdl94.zip (w/ TASM srcs)
DJGPP: 2.04 "beta" (or 2.03p2 "stable"; GCC 4.2.3, /current/BNU217B.ZIP)
-> don't use /beta/'s BNU217B.ZIP or BNU217BBR2.ZIP (686+ only!!)
= http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
= http://short.stop.home.att.net/dl/djgpp.htm
= http://www.delorie.com/bin/cvsweb.cgi/djgpp/
TDE: N/A (5.1v, May 1, 2007)
= http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/tde/index.html
= ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utiltext/tde51vb.zip , tde51vs.zip
RESTORE: N/A (6.3, Feb. 7, 2008)
-> can restore MS- and PC-DOS diskettes fromm BACKUP 2.0 to 5.0
-> free w/ .ASM src "for non-military use"
= http://www.mindprod.com/products4.html#RESTORE
Blocek: N/A (1.33b, Nov. 3, 2007; 386+)
= http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/
FoxType: N/A (0.15, Sept. 28, 2006)
= http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/dos/en/foxtype.htm
FoxCalc: N/A (0.92, Dec. 31, 2007; 386+)
= http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/dos/en/foxcalc.htm
DosZip: N/A (1.29, May 6, 2008)
-> LFN-aware with built-in UNZIP support
= http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/doszip
FED: N/A (2.24, May 7 2007, R. Riebisch's version w/ makehelp.exe fix; 386+)
= http://www.bttr-software.de/products/fed/
FTE: N/A (0.50.1, May 26 2007; 386+)
= http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fte
= http://www.student.unimelb.edu.au/denisa/fte.htm
VILE: N/A (9.7, June 14 2008; 386+)
= http://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html
Exuberant Ctags: N/A (5.7, Sep. 4 2007, supports 34 languages; 386+)
-> works with VIM, VILE, JED, Mined, or SETEEDIT
= http://ctags.sf.net
UNRAR: N/A (3.71 beta 1, in URAR378D.ZIP, as of Sep. 10, 2007; 386+)
= http://www.rarlabs.com/rar_add.htm
OCTASM: N/A (1.68 as of May 23, 2008; 486 DX+)
= http://octavio.vega.fernandez.googlepages.com/octaos
DX-FORTH: N/A (3.80 as of Mar. 2, 2008)
= http://dxforth.webhop.org
Necromancer's DOS Navigator (NDN): N/A (2.31.1279 beta, June 1, 2008; 486DX+)
= http://ndn.muxe.com/beta/ (32-bit, DOS/32A, no srcs)
= http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/dn/ (final 16-bit 1.51 w/ srcs)
= http://www.dnosp.com (abandoned in favor of DN/2; w/ srcs)
-> see here for latest betas (Feb. 16, 2007):
-> = http://beta.dnosp.com/dnosp.html
7-Zip: 4.58 "beta" (May 5, 2008) / p7zip 4.58 "beta" (June 21, 2008)
= http://www.7-zip.org/
-> Win32 cmdline 7ZA.EXE ; use w/ HXRT (fastter than p7zip!)
= http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
-> p7zip needs FSU pthreads?? (else GNU pthrreads + WATT-32) to recompile
= http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/
= http://moss.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/pthreads/
-> p7zip .EXE for DOS/DJGPP (although 4.57 sseems to work better than 4.58)
= http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/
= http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/7zip/
ELinks: N/A (0.13-04252008 is from June 25, 2008)
Links2: N/A (2.1pre36 is from June 22, 2008)
Wget: N/A (1.11.2 is from June 7, 2008)
-> all of these are by Michael Kostylev
= http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/
EMSMAGIC: N/A (final version: "1.1 complete" is from Apr. 9, 2008)
-> (DOS/Win9x/WinNT) TSR adds EMS 4.0, XMS 22.0 -> 3.0, adjustable page frame
-> runs in real mode, doesn't need V86 !
= http://www.phatcode.net/projects.php?id=102 (no srcs)
= http://www.phatcode.net/downloads.php?id=102&action=get&file=emsmagic11.zip
NTOLDAPP: N/A (0.96, latest is from Jan. 18 1998)
-> TSR/DLL to make DOS apps access clipboardd in WinNT as in Win9x
= http://www.phatcode.net/downloads.php?id=188 (w/ .ASM / .CPP src)
= http://www.phatcode.net/downloads.php?id=188&action=get&file=ntold096b.zip
HXNTVDM: N/A (Japheth's latest is from May 21,2008)
-> TSR/DLL that improves the DPMI server in WinXP
-> also helps overcome 32 MB DPMI limit in WWindows Vista !!
-> apparently, there's an undocumented Vista registry setting (dword), but
it supposedly only works w/ SP1 (I set it to "128000000"):
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Wow\DpmiLimit
= http://www.japheth.de/Download/HXNTVDM.zip (w/ src, needs JWasm + Win32inc)
= http://www.japheth.de/Win32Inc.html
+===========+
| Emulation |
+===========+
DOSBox: N/A (0.72, Aug. 26, 2007, now available in id or Sierra compilations)
-> slow b/c of FULL cpu emulation (486 DX2),, needs 1 Ghz just for 486 speed!!
-> set mem=64 in DOSBOX.CONF if 16 MB isn't enough
= http://www.dosbox.com (new URL!)
DOSEMU: N/A (1.4.0 as of May 5, 2007)
-> cp /conf/dosemurc ~/.dosemurc (then incrrease "$_dpmi" if necessary)
= http://www.dosemu.org (binary packages available)
MTOOLS: N/A (3.9.11 as of Apr. 12, 2007)
-> access DOS disks from *nix (including LFNNs, OS/2 XDF and 2m disks)
= http://mtools.linux.lu
BOCHS (2.3.7 as of June 3, 2008)
-> faster than previous versions!
= http://bochs.sf.net
VirtualBox (1.6.4 as of July 30, 2008)
-> runs on Win32, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris
= http://www.virtualbox.org
-> supposedly based upon QEMU but improved // different enough
-> no SB support (but USB support) vs. QEMU
-> (quoting Japheth): "Both are unable to run v86-code natively (that's
why VMware is still the best option for DOS)"
VMware Player (last is 2.03, build 80004, from March 14, 2008)
-> USB 2.0 + SMP + x64 support, share data bb/w host and guest, etc.
= http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
QEMU (0.9.1 "stable" as of Jan. 8, 2008)
= http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ (main site)
= http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ (Win32 "stable")
= http://www1.interq.or.jp/t-takeda/qemu/index.html (Win32 "snapshots")
= http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/qemu-snapshots/ (src only "snapshots")
-> Win32 + 0.9.0 "stable" (?) is from Feb. 77, 2007
-> Takeda's Dec. 13, 2007 (pre-0.9.1) and Feb. 4, 2008 (0.9.1) "snapshots"
also exist
-> see "Slowing down MSDOS" for various tipss (including "-brake" patch):
-> http://www.miroslavnovak.com/qemu-brake_en.php
JPC (src dated Sep. 18, 2007; full PC emulator in Java)
= http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/
Retro: N/A (0.4, as of Dec. 31, 2007; 8086/CGA-only emulator in Java)
-> runs DOS, Minix, or Windows 2.0
= http://www.xs4all.nl/~rjoris/retro/
MikeOS: N/A (1.3.1, as of May 14, 2008)
= http://mikeos.berlios.de (tiny OS w/ minimal DOS subsystem; NASM src)
PocketDOS: N/A (1.12.2, *** non-free SHAREWARE! ***)
-> for Handheld PC or Pocket PC machines
-> PC/XT emulator of 186 w/ 1 MB RAM + (S)VGGA running a 'real' DOS
-> handles CGA/VGA/VESA 1.2, PC speaker, XMSS, EMS, mouse, CompactFlash, etc.
= http://www.pocketdos.com
= http://www.pocketdos.com/screenshots.htm