DOS Links

General

• Origins of MS-DOS, some articles about MS-DOS and Tim Paterson, its original author (he prefers this term over "inventor"), on the website of Paterson Technology.
• Run DOS Run!
• Batfiles: The DOS batch file programming handbook & tutorial
• DOS • the Ghost in the Machine
  • Maximum Batch File: Combine all your batch files into one, saving a lot of disk space.
• Using MS-Dos7 Commands
• Computing.Net DOS Forum
• DOS: The Alternative Operating System

Software and Programming

• Beginner's Programming Tutorial in QBasic
• DAMP is an mp3 player.
• EDIT: a DOS text editor
• Free FDISK, the official FDISK of FreeDOS, supports hard disks up to 128GB in size and non-DOS partition types.
• Net-Tamer

  Net-Tamer is a DOS PPP dial up access program, which requires no TSR packet driver. It will web browse, get/send your email, get/ send usenet messages, FTP upload/download a file, TELNET to another internet address, or check the time and date. It is a both robot and a navigator. It will get email and usenet groups, then log off so you can use the included offline reader, or you can choose to stay on and look around. It will also do a download/ upload of mail or usenet on a timer. The program is speech friendly to users of talking programs for the visually impaired.

• Pedit is a text editor, mostly for programmers. Comes with a hex editor and is optimized for a 386 or faster.
• PictView is an image viewer and converter supporting more than 40 file formats. Freeware. Unfortunately it requires a 386 minimum.

  Reads: BMI, BMP, BW, CAL, CDR, CDT, CEL, CLP, CMX, CPT, CUR, CUT, DCX, DIB, FLC, FLI, GIF, HAM, HRZ, ICN, ICO, IFF, IMG, JFF, JIF, JMX, JPE, JPG, LBM, MIL, MAC, MSP, OFX, PAN, PAT, PBM, PC2, PCD, PCT, PCX, PGM, PIC, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSD, PYX, QFX, RAS, RGB, RLE, SAM, SCx, SEP, SGI, ST, STW, SUN, TGA, TIFF, UDI, WPG, ZBR

  Writes: BMP, BW, CEL, CUT, DIB, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, JFF, JIF, JPE, JPG, LBM, PBM, PCX, PGM, PIC, PNM, PPM, RAS, RGB, RLE, SCx, SGI, SUN, TGA, TIFF

  It's a pity it cannot (yet?) write PNGs.

Games

• Games with ASCII Graphics
• CGA Games
• EGA Games
• VGA Games
• SVGA Games

Archives and Linklists

• Goldenhawk, the developers of CDRWIN, offer a number of freeware programs for burning CD-Rs under DOS:

  The freeware programs are a set of useful CD-R applications for MSDOS. They support every major CDROM recorder on the market and are continually updated to support the same recorders as our commercial disc-at-once software. These programs are offered to the Internet community at no charge. They may be freely distributed (unmodified) for non-commercial purposes. Since these programs are free, no technical support is available from Golden Hawk Technology.

  The website uses frames. You find the description under Product Information -> Freeware Programs. The 16bit version does not support IDE devices.
• C\>:DOS PAGE: A list of programs, mainly picture viewers.
• Harmony Central: Software: DOS lists music-related programs.
• Networking software for DOS and Windows 3.x
• Interesting DOS programs
• Utilities for DOS and Windows
• Cos Programs
• DOS programmer is not for programmers, it is a Danish page (programmer is Danish for programs). Some, but only a few, of the programs here are in Danish.
• DOS Command Line Tools: mainly advanced stuff. All the download links seem to be broken.

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