Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

[Chris E. <aax...@gm...>]

I still have my dos lib collection from the bbs days still online


http://digitalatoll.com/pub/DOSLIB/

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On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 12:04 PM, dmccunney <den...@gm...>wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Bob Schwier <sch...@ya...>
> wrote:
> > Is there a repository for eight bit DOS and utilities?
>
> I think you mean "16 bit".  8 bit is usually used to refer to
> predecessor micros running things like CP/M.
>
> Technically, the 8088 CPU DOS used 20 bit addressing, with a total
> address space of 1MB.  The PC reserved memory over 640KB for the
> system, resulting in the infamous 640KB RAM limit, and various
> convolut4ed methods of getting around it.
>
> There are an assortment of places you can still get old DOS software.
> A lot of open source code is collected in the FreeDOS repository, at
> http://www.freedos.org/software/
>
> Other useful DOS sites include:
>
> Klaus Meinhard's 4DOS Info site, primarily devoted to the 4DOS
> COMMAND.COM replacement bundled with FreeDOS, but with links to other
> DOS sites
> http://www.4dos.info/
>
> Doctor DOS Betamax, an attempt at a comprehensive DOS information and link
> site
> http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/DOS-Head.html
>
> Free Software for DOS - An archived version of a site originally
> created by Richard Green, and subsequently taken over and expanded by
> the late Steve Adelewitz.
> http://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/
>
> Free Software for DOS - After Steve's death, Richard Green resurrected
> his original site
> http://reimagery.com/fsfd/index.htm
>
> There are an assortment of other collections of old DOS software out
> there, and Google is your friend.  (A lot is of questionable value
> now, as it was originally issued as shareware, but can no longer be
> registered to get full working copies.)
>
> Old DOS software still runs in a console window in the virtual DOS
> session under Windows through Win XP. (and Win7 if you have a 3w2 bit
> copy of it.)  IT will not run on current 64 bit machines with 64 bit
> versions of Windows, because support was dropped for 16 bit
> applications.  To run them, you need to run a virtual machine like
> Virtual Box, and run the 16 bit apps in it. .
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