Open Source MS-DOS System Software - Page 4

Cam is written in C++/asm for FreeDOS. It allows users to take a screen shot of the monitor in text-mode, which is saved to a file of their choice. The output file can be displayed by simply using the "type" command with the Cam file as the parameter.

Computer Manager is the first OS that takes advantage of the DOS and Linux filesystems. It also makes doing jobs easier for everyone. Once it is complete, it will be made available to everyone!

DOG is an alternative to COMMAND.COM, better and smaller.

Provides a DOS-based installation for DOS software.

DOSConf is an installer to install, update, repair, remove and create installation and patch package. It will be developed for DOS / Win32 platforms and in the future for another operating systems, like Linux.

The Delphi WDosX Project Library (DWPL) is an Open Source cross-platform library (based on FreeCLX) to make the development of 32-bit DOS programs with Delphi (using WDOSX) flawless, and to make the UI created with CLX available to DOS programs.

A utility to compare two directories (actually two: One for the command line and a version running under X-windows). This comparison can be restricted in various ways (only certain files/dirs, by time).

DirUse is a DOS command-line tool to display folders size information: # folders, # files and "human readable format" total size.

gives remote control of a PC running MS-DOS (which e.g. does not have a monitor display attached to it). The screen image (currently text mode only) is taken from the graphics card and transferred to other computer via serial link and displayed there

Here are asm source codes for parallel port dma and fifo fast transfer of data. They are command line programs for dos and Win95/98. With winio they can be used in WinNT/2000/XP. Transfer rates up to 750 kbytes/sec. Recurrences directories.

The DosUtils project is an attempt to provide many small, helpful, free utilities for easier computer administration and programming on a DOS / Win9x system.

DynamOS is a dynamic real-time operating system that can handle different quality of service levels.

FARENV is a small C library for Microsoft MS-DOS compatible operating systems that facilitates modifying the DOS master environment.

FDNPKG is an online update tool for the FreeDOS operating system. It allows to install, remove and update software on a FreeDOS installation using online (http) or local (on disk/cdrom) repositories. It is written by Mateusz Viste for the FreeDOS™ project, but can be used on other DOS systems as well. FDNPKG means "FreeDOS Network Package manager".

A simple, small and useful FreeDOS distribution on one floppy.

Utility for searching files in DOS system. Capable of running on 8086 and higher processors.

I wanted to take regular differential backups of my files, zip and password protect them, then upload them to some nice free online storage. I want it to run seamlessly, no messing with a GUI every week.

FDPM is a package manager for FreeDOS. It should replace the ZIP file format, in which FreeDOS is distributed now, in the future.

Fusion OS is a Open Source Operating System, mainly licensed under the MPL 1.1. Parts of it are licensed upder the GNU GPL or other open source licenses. Fusion OS is based on the ReactOS project, and we contribute any bugs found in ReactOS back to them

GETVER is a simple tool to display DOS version and related information (like ROM flag and OEM name), that DOS reports it to DOS application. This tool was created because output of "ver" command sometimes didn't reflect what application really knew from querying DOS system. Especially on Microsoft Windows or non-Microsoft DOS systems.

Gauvain OS is an graphical interface for MS-DOS.

Old vintage, classic, retro program written in 1990. Detects network cards and other ISA and Microchannel cards and gives the IDs of them. Has memcheck program but may not work in modern Windows machines. Was designed for DOS based 1990 systems.

This program is used as a tool to check for ASCII code and strip it out to a new file to recover documents that got corrupted or find hidden data in viruses that contain text by the virus writer or spies puting comments in images or other files.

isolabel is a program that allows you to change volume label in ISO 9660 image file after it was already created. Moreover, you can specify ISO 9660 and Joliet volume label separately, taking advantage of fancy names in Joliet together with simpler, but longer name in ISO 9660; something that tools like mkisofs/genisoimage does not allow you to do in standard compliant way. This program is written to have minimal software dependency, and work on all platforms.

Iterative Compression Algorithm: trying to prove Shannon was wrong.