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freedos-repo

A repository of FreeDOS-compatible freeware and OSS software. No
"abandonware".

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FreeDOS-repo
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Contents

  [3]Introduction
  [4]Installation instructions

  [5]What’s new?

  [6]My FreeDOS apps

  [7]Program launchers, file managers and environments
  [8]Productivity applications
  [9]Graphics applications
  [10]Programming languages etc.
  [11]Really simple games
  [12]Educational Programs
  [13]Screensavers and other eye candy
  [14]Command-line utilities
  [15]Miscellaneous applications
  [16]Terminate-and-stay-resident utilities
  [17]Tutorials
  [18]Example Code collections
  [19]Document collections

  [20]FreeDOS tips
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Introduction

  This is a repository of [21]FreeDOS-compatible freeware and OSS
  software. Not “abandonware”, by which I mean that you will not find
  formerly commercial software here that have not been explicitly made
  open-source or at least freeware.

  However, non-crippled shareware with a single nag screen at the
  beginning or end is fair game. Whether you are going to try to send
  money to a developer from thirty or forty years ago who could be dead
  by now is up to you.

  Having said all that, there are a lot of little utilities from a
  kinder, gentler age, when people would just make their stuff available
  without worrying about licenses. These will be regarded as public
  domain until someone informs me otherwise.

  Source code is included wherever possible.

  This is not meant to be a conclusive collection of DOS applications.
  These are apps that I have tested on FreeDOS 1.2 (on bare silicon and
  in the DOSBox emulator) and that I find useful, fun or interesting. If
  you need something more comprehensive, try [22]this site or [23]this
  one. I am not a gamer at all, so if that is what you are looking for,
  well, sorry, I only have a few of the simplest ones.

  An example: FreeDOS comes with DosZip Commander. I use it all the time.
  And if you don’t like that one, it also has DOS Navigator. There are
  dozens of Norton Commander clones out there: Directory Maven, Volkov
  Commander, you name it. But generally one is only going to end up in
  this repository if it offers a clear difference to and advantage over
  Doszip Commander.

  Since I started this site, some apps have been incorporated into the
  FreeDOS installation itself. I’ll weed them out if I see that
  happening. If in doubt, use the one that comes with FreeDOS.

  I also slip in a few little apps that [24]I wrote myself. You will know
  them by a certain primitive look and feel :-)
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To install these packages:

  Download the package, transfer it to your FreeDOS system and extract
  the zip file to the ROOT directory (C:\).
unzip packagename.zip -d c:\

  You might be tempted to use the DosZip Commander, which is bundled with
  FreeDOS and can be called up with the command dz, or similar utilities.
  I advise against this. These packages were actually created under Linux
  and you may come across weird crc errors if you use dz or similar apps.
  The command line works fine.

  It is important to extract these packages to the root directory!. There
  is an actual reason for this. Some of these very old programs are not
  relocatable: They have hardcoded paths inside them and will crash or
  refuse to load if you try to run them from a strange directory. I have
  tried really hard to stick to the FreeDOS file system and not litter
  your root with directories, but sometimes I simply can’t. Better then,
  to have a single installation procedure for all my packages.

  Programs that do not run directly from c:\FDOS\BIN will have a
  convenient batch file placed in C:\FDOS\LINKS. If a program requires
  changes to CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT, that will be documented here.

  Sorry, there is no uninstall facility. But most of these packages
  consist of a single directory in C:\FDOS\PROGS (or C:\FDOS\DEVEL), a
  batch file in C:\FDOS\LINKS and an information file in C:\FDOS\APPINFO,
  so it shouldn’t be too hard.
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What’s new?

  5 June 2021 - Added Cyril to [27]Productivity applications
  3 June 2021 - Added XST BASIC to [28]Programming languages etc.
  3 June 2021 - Added Brandy to [29]Programming languages etc.
  11 May 2021 - Added FileID to [30]Command-line utilities
  10 May 2021: Added Saget OS to [31]Productivity Applications
  8 May 2021 - Added Snarf to [32]TSR
  8 May 2021 - Added Costa to [33]Program launchers
  14 April 2021 - Added Amb-utils to [34]My FreeDOS apps
  3 April 2021 - Added Compushow to [35]Graphics Applications
  3 April 2021: Added GeoClock to [36]Miscellaneous applications
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References

  1. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/
  2. https://github.com/clasqm/freedos-repo
  3. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/#Introduction
  4. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/#Installation
  5. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/#Whatsnew
  6. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/My_apps.html
  7. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Launchers.html
  8. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Productivity.html
  9. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Graphics.html
 10. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Development.html
 11. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Games.html
 12. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Education.html
 13. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Eyecandy.html
 14. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Commandline.html
 15. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Misc.html
 16. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/TSR.html
 17. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Tutorials.html
 18. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Example.html
 19. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Documents.html
 20. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Tips.html
 21. http://www.freedos.org/
 22. http://reimagery.com/fsfd/
 23. https://www.opus.co.tt/dave/indexall.htm
 24. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/My_apps.html
 25. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/#contents
 26. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/#contents
 27. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Productivity.html
 28. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Development.html
 29. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Development.html
 30. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Commandline.html
 31. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Productivity.html
 32. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/TSR.html
 33. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Launchers.html
 34. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/My_apps.html
 35. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Graphics.html
 36. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/Misc.html
 37. https://clasqm.github.io/freedos-repo/#contents

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