Here are several links to various DOS software and other DOS related websites. Most are freeware but a few are shareware and commercial programs. I welcome any comments and/or suggestions you may have about this webpage or other DOS programs for me to know about. Also, do email a thank you to the authors of any of the programs you use. If you like to see Interesting Windows and Mac programs similiar to this page, visit my computer user group, the Browse the Interesting DOS programs site with each DOS program category having its own page: After nearly 20 years, Interesting DOS programs is moving from to!
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DOSMid is a text mode MIDI and MUS player for DOS that can run on a 8086 CPU. save entire or occupied portion of a hard drive partition (FAT16/32,ext2,ext3,NTFS) into a file for easy backup and restoration. Disk image backup and restore program. Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS partitions and most writable USB, IEE1394 drives, ATAPI CD/DVD drives without special drivers. Shareware. Wherever Change Directory allows you to change to any directory by typing part of a directory name New/Updated Links (updated January 3 2018). DOSMid is a text mode MIDI and MUS player for DOS that can run on a 8086 CPU.
save entire or occupied portion of a hard drive partition (FAT16/32,ext2,ext3,NTFS) into a file for easy backup and restoration. Disk image backup and restore program. Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS partitions and most writable USB, IEE1394 drives, ATAPI CD/DVD drives without special drivers. Shareware. Wherever Change Directory allows you to change to any directory by typing part of a directory name. Simple and fast hex editor for DOS.
Free, multi-platform HTML Preprocessor. Requires free REXX interpreter. I use this to generate this site. 32 bit compiler for DOS, Linux, Win32 and other platforms. Semantically equivalent to TP 7.0.
variety of tools to use in your batch files New/Updated Links (updated July 10 2017). installable filesystem TSR to map a drive from a Linux computer to a DOS drive letter using Ethernet frames (no TCP/IP stack needed). Anatoly Shashkin's podcasts and videos about DOS games. A GNU GPLed version of DOS, 23 years in the making. Also has lots of DOS-related news. DOSMid is a text mode MIDI and MUS player for DOS that can run on a 8086 CPU. save entire or occupied portion of a hard drive partition (FAT16/32,ext2,ext3,NTFS) into a file for easy backup and restoration.
Disk image backup and restore program. Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS partitions and most writable USB, IEE1394 drives, ATAPI CD/DVD drives without special drivers.
Shareware. Wherever Change Directory allows you to change to any directory by typing part of a directory name. Text editor with extensive Unicode support. powerful GPL'ed executable packer (meaning the compressed executable files can still be run directly).
Simple and fast hex editor for DOS. 32 bit compiler for DOS, Linux, Win32 and other platforms. Semantically equivalent to TP 7.0. a TCP/IP stack with several applications (DHCP client, FTP client, ping, HTGet, FTP Server, HTTP server, Telnet and more). variety of tools to use in your batch files. (includes audio CD players). MP3,OGG,WAV,AAC,FLAC, WMA, MPC,AC3 player with integrated file browser, spectrum analyser and other features.
Plays MP3,WAV,OGG and view other graphic and video formats. DOS music player (MP3, MIDI, MOD, WAV, CD-audio) with spectrum analyser and other features. GPL. Free MP3 Player. Displays synchronised graphics when playing MP3 files.
Source code available. Graphical audio player of MP3, WAV, S3M, MOD and more from the demo group Sanction. DOSAMP is a freeware command-line MP3 player. Small, minimalist DOS MP3 player (33K exe).
Mp3/Mp2/Xm/Mod/S3m/CD-DA DOS player that tries to emulate a turntable. MP3/WAV player/recorder with several display modes during playback.
Also supports PC speaker!. DOS port of BladeEnc command line MP3 encoder; create MP3 files from WAV files. DOS port of, a GPL'd WAV to MP3 encoder. Encodes faster than real time on a PII 266. WAV to OGG (open-source replacement for MP3) converter. Read audio CD tracks directly to WAV files.
edit ID Tags of MP3s and list files with ID Tag info. Source code available. DOSMid is a text mode MIDI and MUS player for DOS that can run on a 8086 CPU.
DOS based MIDI and RMI player that works with all versions of the Sound Blaster card. Source code available. Graphical MIDI Player for DOS.
Also supports playing of Karaoke MIDI files. A freeware MIDI player. Can also play Karaoke MIDI files.
DOS-based MIDI composer; works with wavetable sound cards or internal speaker. Audio CD player which looks like the Win95 CD Player. Source code included. Easy to use freeware Audio CD Player with Lyrics and playlist for each CD.
CDPTSR is a memory resident CD Player; uses only 3.5K resident. Plays MP4(!), AVI (incl DivX), MPG, MOV (Quicktime), MP3, WAV, OGG and view other graphic formats. command line batch image processor with more than 80 commands and compatible with 500 image formats. PictureViewer can view and convert many graphic formats. Freeware. This shareware viewer/converter/image manipulator has an easy to use GUI.
Small (size of exe:20K!) yet powerful viewer of JPG, GIF, PCX, CAM and others. DOS MPEG and VideoCD player. non-realtime playback of DVD movies. Impressive shareware Photoshop-style graphics editor (supports layers, channels, Truetype fonts, etc). a.k.a Autodesk Animator is a 256 colour paint and animation program. Opensource. a shareware image editing and painting program.
opensource painting program. Fractal generator which can be used as a screensaver. Matrix like screensaver. Several impressive 4K demos (one is a Descent type engine) by the demo group Sanction.
Very good multimedia xmas card. Add your text and send it to friends. Mouse driver with wheel support for both AT and PS/2 mice; uses only 3K (!) of memory. Uses only 5K and works with many IDE CDROM drives. MSCDEX replacement; uses only 6K resident; can be unloaded.
Now part of SHSUCD, a suite of programs dealing with the CD-ROM. Older versions.
Free hardware UMB driver (only 240 bytes) for DOS/Win9x - replaces EMM386.EXE. dynamically ReSizeable RAMDisk for FreeDOS (and other DOSes) able to use over 32M of XMS and EMS memory. GPL. Freeware resizable ramdisk;can be installed/uninstalled from the command line.
Resize your FAT16/FAT32 partitions safely. Freeware. GNU hard disk partitioning utility. Supports FAT16/FAT32 and non DOS partitions. Writes zeros on the empty disk space for the selected hard drive. Destroy all data on hard and removable drives without possibility of future recovery. Free graphical boot manager to select what OS to run on startup.
Tool to check and undelete hard disk partitions. Supports FAT16/FAT32, ext2FS, NTFS and more. file data recovery software designed to recover lost files from Hard Disks and CDRom. save entire or occupied portion of a hard drive partition (FAT16/32,ext2,ext3,NTFS) into a file for easy backup and restoration. Disk image backup and restore program.
Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS partitions and most writable USB, IEE1394 drives, ATAPI CD/DVD drives without special drivers. Shareware.
powerful hard disk partitioning tool and can create, copy, and resize primary and extended partitions. freeware tool to read NTFS partitions from DOS.
3K Driver for parallel port Iomega ZIP drive; works on XTs and on 286 CPUs as well. DOS driver for MS 'Win9x only' SideWinder digital GamePad. collection of UHCI USB host controller drivers for keyboards, mice, joysticks, printers, disk drives, and hubs. From Pocketec, are USB DOS drivers for USB hard disks, CDROM drives and other USB storage devices like Zip drives.
From DAT Optic, are Firewire/IEEE 1394 DOS drivers for their external Speedzter 2.5' Firewire hard drives. Gives DOS a graphic startup screen like Win9x. Can use your own GIF file.
A patch to enable WinMe users to boot to plain DOS. Removes Internet Explorer from Win9x/Me; can install the faster Win95 GUI in Win98/Me. my batch file to create a better Win95/98 boot disk using third-party utilities. Check the.
DOS commands that can handle long filenames in plain DOS. Supports FAT32. TSR to provide long filename API in plain DOS.
Only 12K resident. Older versions.
set of DOS command line tools to read and write to Linux ext2/3 and ReiserFS filesystems (the DOS opposite of Linux MTOOLS). enchanced VESA drivers for a variety of video cards.
Now freeware. Sets user-defined refresh rates on video cards with VBE 3.0+ for DOS progs using VESA video modes. universal dos refresh rate utility for VESA 3.0+ video cards. switch between various text modes (and even graphics modes) from DOS prompt. These programs are a set of CD-R/CD-RW applications for DOS. suite of programs allows you to use IDE (and now USB and Firewire) CD-RW burners to burn CDROMS in plain DOS. DOS port of (formerly cdrecord) allows you to burn CD with your CD-RW drive.
software to play DVD with Dolby AC3 sound. Currently restricted to 1 minute (non-realtime) playback. freeware system information tool - last updated 2010. system information utility designed for detection of hardware.
Last updated in 2014. Detailed system information/benchmark tool.
Freeware, but no further development since 2000. Turn off your ATX computer system (similar to Win9x shutdown). From Blacklight , a small utility to either reboot your computer, or turn off the power (ATX systems only). updated opensource version of the powerful command line interpreter (COMMAND.COM replacement) for DOS by. Freeware DOSKEY-like program but with filename completion like Linux's Bash shell.
Autocompletes filenames at command prompt; support Win9x LFN in DOS box. Wherever Change Directory allows you to change to any directory by typing part of a directory name. Change to another directory on any drive quickly. Has Win9x LFN support. Freeware suite of eleven DOS, 4DOS and Windows 95/98 DOS utilities.
Powerful freeware replacement for the DEL (delete) command. powerful replacement XCOPY with many features. Free for personal use. Freeware programs for processing text tables and general text filtering. A set of additional text file filters from Prof. Timo Salmi (now retired).
Slows down a fast computer so you can run older programs, or as a troubleshooting aid. installable filesystem TSR to map a drive from a Linux computer to a DOS drive letter using Ethernet frames (no TCP/IP stack needed).
Excellent website about WPDOS including printing to USB printers, Euro Support, running WPDOS in Windows 10 and MUCH more. Manage your accounts. Freeware. As-Easy-As Spreadsheet program. Now freeware. Convert any PC into a cash register/Point of Sale system. Freeware.
Excellent freeware text editor.Includes spell-checker,thesaurus,word wrap and MUCH more. Freeware DOS text editor with the look and feel of Borland's IDE editor. Familiar Borland interface with syntax highlighting and background playing of MP3 files!.
Text editor with extensive Unicode support. GUI for launching programs (uses Win9x 'Start' button approach) and managing files. (formerly WinDOS) a GUI DOS file manager / shell.
Source code available. Freeware graphical DOS menu program. Supports SVGA, built-in CD player; can use Windows icons. multi-platform menu shell for DOS and Linux. DOS version is free. Small (single 39K exe), fast freeware file/directory manager.
Source code available. Freeware file manager with Laplink-style file transfers via serial or parallel cable.
PasswordBox keeps all of your passwords in a encyrpted database protected by a master password. Program where you can design and browse databases and generate reports. Address book manager; contents can be exported to HTML,RTF and ASCII delimited text. Create ZIP files, extract files from ZIP files created with PKWARE's Pkzip/Pkunzip v2.04g. An update to the 'classic' Pkzip/Pkunzip v2.04g. Supports LFN under LFNDOS or Win9x. No shareware version available for download though.
powerful GPL'ed executable packer (meaning the compressed executable files can still be run directly). Allows you to view WordPerfect, Word 97 docs and other word processor formats. Now freeware. commandline converter of MS Excel XLS files to HTML.
converts MS Word DOC files to plain text or PostScript. convert MS Word DOC files to plain text. graphical PDF viewer. ( Extract text and images from Adobe's Acrobat's PDF files.
user friendly shell program for viewing Postscript and PDF files; requires Pictview, PDFTOPs and Ghostscript. Simple and fast hex editor for DOS. DOS program that downloads images from Agfa, Olympus and Epson digital cameras.
Software for DOS and other OSes to control Epson, Agfa, Nikon digital cameras. Upload/download files to/from your Diamond Rio portable MP3 music player. Does Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis using popular sound cards; Has many other features. Free for non-commercial use.
Free, yet professional 2D CAD program. creates large ASCII characters from ordinary ASCII characters). Non-TSR program to keep track (and remind you in advance) of important dates.
updated GPL version of Arachne, a graphical DOS Internet suite (web browser, FTP, Email). The final offical release of the graphical DOS Internet suite (web browser, FTP, Email) out there. Now has preliminary CSS support. port of multi-platform web browser.
DOS port of the text based Linux browser. Can access secure (https) websites. another port of text based Lynx browser. text based internet suite (browser,email,FTP,Usenet). 32 bit compiler for DOS, Linux, Win32 and other platforms. Semantically equivalent to TP 7.0.
Complete 32-bit C/C development system for 386 (and higher) PCs running DOS. opensource C/C compiler with IDE, debugger. (Wayback Archive link) a free study guide on writing programs in the C language. opensource interpreter/compiler for 32 bit DOS, Win9x/XP, Linux and FreeBSD.
free DOS extender which contains a Win32 API emulation which allows Win32 console apps to be run in DOS. BASIC-like language with several extensions. Produces code for 8086+. Download Turbo C v2.01, Turbo Pascal v5.5, Turbo C v1.01 for free (requires login). a REXX interpreter that has been ported to DOS and other OSes.
(see for DOS versions) Interpreted language for scanning and extracting info from text files. DOS port of. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Powerful archive of tiny batch tools from the author of GPAGE and WBAT, Horst Schaeffer. Use dialog boxes (with menus, buttons, input fields, checkboxes) in your batch files.
variety of tools to use in your batch files. Set of small utilities for batch files. Good website on DOS batch file programming. A collection of useful batch files and tricks from Prof.
an x86 Assembler/Disassembler for DOS. Available in HTML and text format.
online ezine covering assembly language programming techniques. A mirror can be found at.
Graphical environment, support Truetype fonts, and includes several programs. Free graphical desktop environment for DOS and for DJGPP programs. GUI (once commercial, now open source) geared for low resource PCs, distro includes several apps. multi-platform game programming library for DJGPP in a mixture of C and assembly.
port of and, GUI toolkit to DOS. Several applications are available. multi-platform 32-bit graphics library/GUI for DOS (DJGPP), QNX and LINUX. library for making networked TCP/IP C/C 16 and 32 bit programs. develop embedded Intel 8086 (and compatible) Internet-accessible applications. Now freeware.
remotely control DOS apps with a IR remote and a DIY circuit. control DOS apps by infrared remote control and a DIY circuit. Many QuickBasic/PDS routines; also has the text to PC Mag's 'BASIC Techniques and Utilities'. provides GUI components to extend the DOS authoring software. Low-level hardware programming in Watcom C/C, Pascal and Assembly.
Excellent site with many source code in Assembly, QuickBasic and Pascal. EXCELLENT HTML ezine on DOS and DOS programming. Explains the Runtime Error 200 Startup bug for Borland Pascal EXEs on fast CPUs.
(all MSDOS compatible OSes other than MSDOS itself - including emulators). A GNU GPLed version of DOS, 23 years in the making. Also has lots of DOS-related news. Ulrich Hansen's page provides FreeDOS images for and various tips for running FreeDOS in Virtualbox.
(formerly known as Carbon) a DOS distro based on FreeDOS with long filename support. DOS distro with the oZone desktop environment, long file name support and more. FreeDOS distro with graphical SLWM desktop manager and bundled with many including web browser, email client, PDF viewer and more.
patches to enhance the capabilities of DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7.0x. open source DOS x86 emulator for Windows, Linux to (primarily) play DOS games. Last version of PC DOS offers Y2K compliance and support for Euro symbol. Only a info page from the Wayback archive.
From DeviceLogics (formerly Lineo/Caldera), has native FAT32 support. Marketed towards embedded systems. unoffical site about DR-DOS, a DOS which includes Personal Netware and has many other unique features. geared for embedded and mobile systems; supports FAT32, LFN and has integrated web, ftp, email servers. has many features including a OS boot manager, networking support and data compression. Rich Green's MUST visit site for any DOS user. Wide variety of software.
Run DOS applications in your (modern) web browser. An archive of the Simtel.net LARGE well known collection of DOS freeware, public domain and shareware programs. quite active forum with DOS news and discussions. A archive/mirror of the original 'Free Software for DOS' as maintained by Steve 'Short.Stop' Adelewitz. Steve passed away in January 2009. great list of DOS programs.
A collection of screenshots of many DOS programs. wiki documenting DOS kernels (not just DRDOS) and DOS programs. has a news section about DOS which is regularly updated. See also. Lots of information and related links about DOS. Documents all MSDOS 6.22 commands and other DOS batch files information.
Various DOS Internet programs and where to get them. Various music software for DOS (MIDI, MOD, translators, etc). Listing of many FREE Games (with descriptions) for DOS!