Packages have been reorganized in FreeDOS 1.4 so they will be easier to find: The LiveCD installs a complete user-based DOS system including standard DOS programs, Applications, Archivers, Device Drivers, Games, Networking, Sound, and basic tools. Use the BonusCD to install Development, Editors, Boot Tools, OpenGEM, and extra utilities.

DOS and the many applications and games that ran on it remained popular throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s. Jim Hall started FreeDOS while an undergraduate. He wasn't a fan of Windows 3.x, and when Microsoft announced in 1994 that the next version of Windows would replace DOS entirely, Jim announced a new development effort to create an ...

Created by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston for the Apple II and later for DOS, VisiCalc was the original spreadsheet for desktop computers. Thanks to Dan for sharing a free version on his website: Get VisiCalc Ability Plus office suite. Ability Plus 3.0 was a professional office suite for DOS, including a word processor, spreadsheet, database ...

DOS Games; CHAMP Games Archive; System tools for DOS games. DOS was and is a simple operating system. Unlike modern operating systems, DOS does not provide a "hardware abstraction layer." Instead, DOS games accessed sound cards and other hardware directly. To run DOS games on modern PC hardware, you may need one of these drivers: VSBHDA virtual ...

Ralf collected this comprehensive list of interrupt calls, IO ports, and more about DOS and the IBM PC. Divided into six parts, plus a FAQ list: Learn more 256-color VGA Programming in C. David Brackeen has assembled this five-part tutorial on VGA programming in DOS.

Apr 8, 2025 · Xcopy is a standard DOS command that copies a directory tree. Version 1.8b has a reworked recursive copy to not use as much stack space, and uses increased stack size when built on Open Watcom. [Jeremy] Move moves a file or directory from one place to another. Version 3.4 has an update to limit stack usage reducing the chance of stack overflow ...

After all, DOS was a fairly straightforward operating system compared to Unix. DOS ran one task at a time (aka single-tasking) and had a simpler memory model. It shouldn't be that hard to write our own DOS. So on June 29, 1994, I posted an announcement to comp.os.msdos.apps, on a message board network called Usenet: ANNOUNCEMENT OF PD-DOS PROJECT:

In FreeDOS, like most DOS systems, you can see your current path as part of the DOS prompt. On Linux, your prompt is probably something like $. On FreeDOS, the prompt lists the current drive, the current path within that drive, then > as the prompt (taking the place of $ on Linux). Listing and Displaying Files

Because DOS is case insensitive, you can type this command using uppercase or lowercase letters: fdimples is the same as FDIMPLES or FDImples. The FDIMPLES package manager on FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 (running in QEMU) FDIMPLES is an acronym for "FreeDOS Installer - My Package List Editor Software," and is an interactive package manager. FDIMPLES reads ...

Feb 16, 2025 · A DOS extender lets DOS programs run in a protected mode; CauseWay was originally Watcom's DOS extender, released as open source from Open Watcom. The sources are in Masm v6 syntax, but can be built with Masm/JWasm. Quite a few bugs have been fixed in this release, and DOS conventional memory footprint is significantly lower, especially in DPMI ...