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FreeDOS Provided Programs
A listing of FreeDOS Applications Available on CD-ROM from FDIMPLES
CATEGORY TITLE+DETAILS DESCRIPTION
APPLICATIONS DN2 - DOS Navigator 2 File and Directory Manager with a host of features
APPLICATIONS FDSHELL - DOSSHELL Basically a FreeDOS Version of the popular Microsoft "DOSShell" Program included with Microsoft DOS 4.0 and Above, though a bit different
APPLICATIONS FDTUI - Text User Interface Shell
APPLICATIONS ImgEDIT A simple pixel editor mostly for creating graphics and fonts for the "Danger Engine" based programs and games. It has limited support for non-native graphics formats like BMP. At present, some options (like image size) can only be set from the command-line. Also, it includes a simple viewer called IMGVIEW. Requires a 386+, VGA, and a Mouse.
APPLICATIONS PGME - Program Manager Eternity A fully customizable multi-menu application launcher for DOS. It also includes Font Designer and several other utilities (requires Mouse)
APPLICATIONS SQLite An Embeddable SQL Database Engine for DOS
ARCHIVERS 7ZDEC Standalone Decompressor for 7-Zip file archives
ARCHIVERS ARJ OpenSource ARJ File Archiver
ARCHIVERS CABEXT - CABExtract Can extract files from a variety of Microsoft CAB file formats
ARCHIVERS LPQ1 A File compressor and archiver
ARCHIVERS LZIP A data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm
ARCHIVERS LZMA Works with .lzma compressed files (different from 7-Zip)
ARCHIVERS LZOP A compressor similiar to gzip, that favors speed over compression ratio
ARCHIVERS P7ZIP P7ZIP is a quick port of 7za.exe (command line version of 7zip). 7-zip is a file archiver with the highest compression ratios.
ARCHIVERS SLICER - File Slicer A simple archive utility to categorize and pslit large files and directories across smaller media. It requires an 8086 with EGA or better graphics. (UPX Compressed)
ARCHIVERS ZOO Works with ZOO Archives
FREEDOS BASE O/S HTMLHELP - FreeDOS Help (HTML) FreeDOS Help Files in HTML Format that can be viewed using a Web Browser (such as Lynx/Links/Dillo/Arachne)
FREEDOS BASE O/S SAMCFG - Sample Configuration Files Basically, sample configuration files for FreeDOS for creating C:\CONFIG.SYS and C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT from previous versions of FreeDOS
BOOT TOOLS ROMDSK ROM Disk toolkit to allow DOS Kernel boot off ROM (EEPROM, Flash)
BOOT TOOLS ROMOS Boot from external ROM or system BIOS without disks
BOOT TOOLS SYSLNX - SysLinux SysLinux Bootloader Collection, bascially bootloaders and boot managers for multi-boot configurations from DOS
DEVELOPMENT BCC Simple C Compiler that produces 8086 assembler for tiny/small models
DEVELOPMENT BWBASIC - The Bywater BASIC INterpreter The Bywater BASIC Interpreter (bwBASIC) impliements a large superset of the ANSI Standard for Minimal BASIC (X3.60-1978) and a significan subset of the ANSI Standard for Full BASIC (X3.113-1987), and many classic BASIC dialects in C. (Using Public Domain CauseWay DOS Extender)
DEVELOPMENT CPP2CCMT A C++ to C Comment Converter Program
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP DJGPP Environment
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_BN - DJGPP BinTools DJGPP Binary Tools: linker, assembler, etc...
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_BS - DJGPP Bison A parser generator that is compatible with YACC
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_DB - DJGPP Debugger A Debugger Application for DJGPP
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_FQ - DJGPP FAQ Documentation Documentation for DJGPP
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_FX - DJGPP Flex Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_GC - DJGPP GCC C Compiler
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_GP - DJGPP GPP C++ Compiler
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_MK - DJGPP Make Make
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_OB - DJGPP Objective-C Compiler Objective-C code compiler
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_RH - DJGPP RHIDE Editor RHIDE Editor
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_TX - DJGPP Texinfo Text Information File Viewer
DEVELOPMENT DJGPP_FX - DOjS D0jS is a JavaScript canvas with WAV and MIDI Sound Support. If you run DOjS on real hardware, you need at least an 80386 with 4MB of RAM. For better performance, use a Pentium class machine (<= 100MHz) with at least 32MB of RAM.
DEVELOPMENT EUPHORIA The Euphoria Interpreter/Compiler
DEVELOPMENT FASM - Flat Assembler Fast self-assembling assembler for DOS, Windows, and Linxu Operating Systems. Supports x86 and x86-64 instruction sets with MMX, 3DNow!, SSE up to SSE4, AVX, AVX2, XOP, and AVX-512 extentions and can produce output in plain binary, MZ, PE, COFF, or ELF format. It includes the powervful but easy to use macroinstruction support and does multiple passes to optimize the size of instruction codes.
DEVELOPMENT FBC - FreeBASIC 320-bit BASIC Compiler
DEVELOPMENT FBC_HELP - FreeBASIC Help Help System for FreeBASIC Compiler
DEVELOPMENT FPC - FreePASCAL A self-hosting 32-/64-bit Pascal compiler supporting Turbo and Delphi dialects (portions require LFN Support)
DEVELOPMENT 16BUDOC - IA-16 GNU Binutils Documentation Documentation for GNU Binary Utilities for ia16-elf target
DEVELOPMENT 16BUTIL - IA-16 GNU Binutils GNU Binary Utilities for ia16-elf target (on DJGPP host)
DEVELOPMENT 16ELKLC Native libc for ELKS OS for Cross Compiling with GCC IA-16
DEVELOPMENT 16GCC GNU C Compiler for A-16-ELF target (on 32-bit DJGPP host)
DEVELOPMENT 16GCDOC Documentation for GNU C Compiler for ia16-elf target
DEVELOPMENT 16LBI86 Non-standard C library routines, for use with IA-16 GCC
DEVELOPMENT 16NEWLI C Library and math library, for IA16-ELF target
DEVELOPMENT 16NLELK Libraries to build ELKS OS programs with GCC IA-16 and Newlib
DEVELOPMENT 16SRC IA-16 GCC toolchain sources
DEVELOPMENT INSIGHT REal-mode DOS 16-bit debugger
DEVELOPMENT JWASM - JWasm Free MASM-compatible assembler supporting 13, 32, and 64-bit code generation
DEVELOPMENT KITTENC Catgets/Kittengets compatible resource compiler
DEVELOPMENT LUA Embeddable Scripting Language (LUAscript)
DEVELOPMENT MSA x86 Assember that supports all 8086 instructions and most of the 80186/80286 instructions. MSA outputs flat binary output (.COM) files.
DEVELOPMENT NASM Netwide Assembler is an 80x86 and x86-64 assember designed for poratbility and modularity. It supports a reange of object file formats, including Linux and *BSD a.out, ELF, COFF, Mach-O, 16-bit, and 32-bit OBJ (OMF) format, Win32 and Win64. It will also output plain binary files. Intel hex and Motorola S-Record format. It's syntax is designed to be simple and easy to understand, simliar to the syntax in the Intel Software Developer Manual with minimal complexity. It support all currently known x86 architectural extensions.
DEVELOPMENT PERL PERL is a language combining some features of C, sed, awk, and Shell.
DEVELOPMENT REGINA - Regina REXX Port of the Regina Rexx interpreter with SAA Rexx API support.
DEVELOPMENT RUNTIME Times the execution of a program
DEVELOPMENT SUPPLS - SUPPL library And entire library of useful functions, including: syslog subsystem, command line parser, NLS information profider
DEVELOPMENT TINYASM - TinyASM A small assembler for 8086/8088 programs and it can work over a real PC/XT machine. It requires at least 128K RAM
DEVELOPMENT UPX a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats
DEVELOPMENT WATCOMC Open Watcom C/C++ Compiler
DEVELOPMENT WATCOMF Open Watcom Fortran Compiler
DEVICE DRIVERS GCDROM SATA native IDE CD/DVD-ROM driver that supports all SATA Native IDE controllers, such as Intel ICH6/ICH7/ICH8, Jmicron 363/368, Nvidia CK804/MCP55/MCP51 etc.
DEVICE DRIVERS HIMEMSX A fork of HimemX, with a primary feature of being able to access more than 4GB of Memory
DEVICE DRIVERS HIRAM Upper Memory (UMB) Extender for 80286, 80386, and 80486 CPUs
DEVICE DRIVERS LPTDRV A tool to control LPT-attached devices manually or on a time basis (aka Parallel Port)
DEVICE DRIVERS NTFS Enables access to NTFS partitions from DOS
DEVICE DRIVERS RDISK A driver which creates a RAM-disk from up to 2GB of XMS Memory
DEVICE DRIVERS UDVD2 CD/DVD UltraDMA Device Driver
DEVICE DRIVERS UHDD Hard Disk/SSD Caching driver for up to 10 BIOS disks on up to 4 UltraDMA Controllers. It will also provide caching to disks handled by UDVD2, if it is loaded ofter UHDD
DEVICE DRIVERS UIDE A general-purpose caching driver for DOS drives, Floppy, CD/DVD, SATA, and UltraDMA Disks
EDITORS BIEW - Beye Biew is a binary/hexadecimal viewer/editor (requires i686+)
EDITORS BLOCEK A graphical text editor with Unicode and picture formats support
EDITORS DOSHEXED Hex editor and viewer
EDITORS E3 A mini text editor that comes in both 32 and 16-bit versions
EDITORS ELVIS A version of vi/ex, the standard Unix editor. Supports nearly all vi/ex commands
EDITORS FED A folding text editor with color syntax highlighting and more
EDITORS FREEMACS An emacs-like editor for DOS (like GNU Emacs)
EDITORS MBEDIT a full screen text editor with macro option, online calculator, command history buffer, hex editor, and many other features
EDITORS MINED Text editor with extensive Unicode and CJK support. Convenient and efficient features for editing of plain text documents, programs, HTML etc. User-Friendly interface, mouse control and menus.
EDITORS MSEDIT Mateusz' Saucy Editor
EDITORS OSPEDIT - OSPlus Text Editor A friendly text editor for DOS. includes Real mode and Protected mode (DJGPP) versions
EDITORS PICO A simple text editor in the style of the Pine Composer
EDITORS SETEDIT A programmers' editor for DJGPP, similiar to BC++ IDE and RHIDE. (Note: setedit will not run under DOSBox)
EDITORS TDE (Thomson-Davis Editor) TDE is a simple, public domain, multi-file/multi-window binary and text file editor written for IBM PCs and close compatibles running DOS, Win32 (console)
EDITORS UHEX - uHex uHex is a simple and fast Hex editor
EDITORS VIM - Vi IMproved Improved version of the "vi" editor, one of the standard text editors on UNIX Syhstems. These are the runtime files for VIM. (GPL-Comatpbile, but asks that if you find it useful you make a donation to help children in Uganda through the ICCF. The full licences text can be found in README.txt) DOS 32-bit only (since 7.1)
GAMES BLKDROP - BlockDrop A falling block game
GAMES BOLITARE - Bolitaire A Freecell card game
GAMES BOOM a GPL Port of the DOOM Source code. Packaged with Freedoom for a complete game playing experience.
GAMES DOSDEF - DOS Defender x86 Real Mode 2D Shooter.
GAMES ELIZA One of the earliest Chatterbots AI
GAMES EMPONG - Emeritus Pong Emeritus Pong is a clone of the good old "Pong" game
GAMES EV4DE "Evade" Is a game about flying a ship through space and avoiding Asteroids. Play three different game modes, unlock additional ships, and get a high score! EV4DE can be played with a keyboard, but I reccommend a Joystick or Gamepad.
GAMES EWSNAKE - Ew... Snake! A version of the classic Snake Game for DOS
GAMES FLPYBIRD - Floppy Bird DOS Clone of the old Flappy Birds mobile game - fly a bird through obstacles by tapping the spacebar
GAMES FMINES - FancyMines A minesweeper clone with some nice graphical themes
GAMES FREEDOOM - FreeDOOM A Doom source port derived from MBF and Boom. This version is packaged with Freedoom Phase 1 with 4 chapters containing 9 levels each and Phase 2 consititing of a single large, 32-chapter level.
GAMES GNUCHESS - GNU Chess GNU Chess is a communal chess program. Requires NANSI.SYS to display correctly
GAMES HANGMAN Multi-Lingual Hangman game
GAMES IVAN - Iter Vehems ad Necem A graphical Rogue-Like Game
GAMES KRAPTOR - KRaptor An open-source Raptor-like game complete with several levels
GAMES LIQUIWAR - Liquid War A unique multiplayer wargame
GAMES MIRMAGIC - Mirror Magic An arcade style game like "Deflektor" (Commodore 64) or "Mindbender" (Amiga)
GAMES MISTRAL - The Mistral Report: Invisible Affairs An espionage-themed turn-based retro role-playing game. Requires 386SX or better. Sound options include Adlib, PCSpeaker, and OPL2LPT
GAMES NETHACK - NetHack A single player dungeon exploration game
GAMES NGE Nibbles A graphical version of the classic snake game for DOS
GAMES NOUDAR - Dungeons of Noudar 3D A first person 3.5D dungeon-crawler for Protected-Mode, written in C++14(ish) as a love letter to 90's RPGs. Sound options include Adlib, PCSpeaker, and OPL2LPT
GAMES QTETRIS - Tetris QUEEN A clone of tetris, and a tribute to the rock band Queen at the same time
GAMES SAYSWHO - SaysWho A simple, classic, memory game (Req 386+)
GAMES SENET Senet is a very old game, dating back to ancient Egypt. Because it is so old, and no one in ancient Egypt preserved the rules for later generations, the exact rules are somewhat of a mystery. Historians have tried to figure out the rules of Senet, but they disagree in the details.
GAMES SMILEY A simple Pong-style game (VGA, 386+) mostly for testing various aspects of the Danger Engine. Requires VGA and a 386, mouse is highly reccommended.
GAMES SUDOKU86 A 16-bit Sudoku game for 8 086/8088 CPUs
GAMES VERTIGO - A flight simulator that focuses on the realism of the flight model
GAMES VITETRIS A Terminal Based Tetris Clone
GAMES WING A Galaga-like space shooter
GAMES ZMIY A snake game (like Nibbles) for DOS and 8086
GRAPHICAL DESKTOPS OPENGEM Non-Multitasking 16-bit Graphical User Interface (UI) for DOS. It is an extended distreibution of FreeGEM that includes features of the original Digital Research GEM
GRAPHICAL DESKTOPS OZONEGUI oZone Desktop Environment
GRAPHICAL DESKTOPS SEAL A 32-bit Graphical Uder interface (GUI) for DOS. It supports many advanced features, such as dynamic linking system (XDL), sound and other multimedia functions (SFA), multilingual support, and more!
NETWORKING ARACHNE
NETWORKING CRYNWR
NETWORKING CURL
NETWORKING DILLO
NETWORKING DWOL
NETWORKING E1000PKT
NETWORKING E100PKT
NETWORKING ETHERDFS
NETWORKING ETHTOOLS
NETWORKING FDNET
NETWORKING GOPHERUS
NETWORKING HTGET
NETWORKING LINKS
NETWORKING LSPPP
NETWORKING LYNX
NETWORKING M2WAT
NETWORKING MSKERMIT
NETWORKING MTCP
NETWORKING NEWSNUZ
NETWORKING NTOOL
NETWORKING PICOSNTP
NETWORKING PING
NETWORKING RSYNC
NETWORKING SSH2DOS
NETWORKING SSHDOS
NETWORKING TERMINAL
NETWORKING VMSMOUNT
NETWORKING VNCVIEW
NETWORKING WATTCP
NETWORKING WGET
SOUND TOOLS ADPLAY Multiple Format Music Player using OPL2/3 Audio
SOUND TOOLS BLADEENC Generarte MP3 files from WAV/AIFF/RAW data
SOUND TOOLS CDP The command line driven audio CD player
SOUND TOOLS DOSMID MIDI and MUS player for many synthesizers (AWE, MPU-401, OPL...) It's a real mode application designed to run on very modelst hardware configurations. It plays standard MIDI files, as well as MIDI in RIFF (ie , RMID), and MUS tunes (as used by ID Software in numerous games like Doom, Heretic, Hexen, etc.)
SOUND TOOLS LAME Utilities for manipulating MP3 music files, including conversion to other formats and uncompression to .WAV.
SOUND TOOLS MPLAYER Movie Player Ported from Linux
SOUND TOOLS OPENCP A multi-format (mp3,wav,mid...) Music player
UNIX LIKE TOOLS CAL Calendar program, similar to UNIX 'cal" program
UNIX LIKE TOOLS GNUSED GNU Sed is the GNU Implementation of the POSIX Stream editor 'sed'
UNIX LIKE TOOLS MINIBOX Small Linux commands for resource limited systems
UNIX LIKE TOOLS UPTIME REpots the system uptime by automatically detecting when it was first booted. It replaces the *NIX uptime, one of the basic UNIX commands which allows you to quickly confirm how long your system has been up and running since it was last rebooted or powered on.
UTILITIES AEFDISK
UTILITIES ANSIMAT
UTILITIES B64
UTILITIES BSUM
UTILITIES CDROM2UI
UTILITIES CLAMAV
UTILITIES CLAMDB
UTILITIES DAA2ISO
UTILITIES DIALOG
UTILITIES DOG
UTILITIES D2EMM
UTILITIES EDICT
UTILITIES FDBANNER
UTILITIES FDISRC
UTILITIES FDSHIELD
UTILITIES FINDDISK
UTILITIES FLASHROM
UTILITIES GIFSICLE
UTILITIES GNUFONTS EGA/VGA bitmap fonts for text modes
UTILITIES HEXCOMP Graphicall compares bianary files
UTILITIES HIP Hide in Picture is a steganography program that hides files inside pictures
UTILITIES LISTPCI Displays data on PCI devices. It scans the PCI bus and lists all PCI devices it finds. Can provide verbose data.
UTILITIES LISTVESA Utility eto report which VESA video modes are supported by the system's hardware.
UTILITIES LOCALCFG Locales preferences and configuration tool
UTILITIES MEMTESTE Memory Tester program of PC-Comaptible computers built on intel 386 or higher
UTILITIES OSPIMG Read and create floppy disk images. Lets' you write back to floppy as well.
UTILITIES PASSWORD Password program that protects your computer from stranger's access
UTILITIES PBOX A console mode password manager
UTILITIES PDTREE Graphically displays the folder structure of a drive or path. Supports long files names if LFN api is presetnt, support for message catalogs (different languages) using cats, and supports both Windows NT/9x and DOS.
UTILITIES PKGTOOLS Utilities to create and display information about installed packages for FreeDOS. Eventually, utilities to relocate, delete, and perform other general package maintenance on packages may be added.
UTILITIES PNGCRUSH PNG image compression/optimization tool
UTILITIES RAREAD Creates Disk Image Files from Floppy Diskettes
UTILITIES RAWRITE Writes Disk Images to Floppy Diskettes
UTILITIES RCAL A big-numbers calculator with floating point that mimics the "paper rolling" calculators;. 8086+
UTILITIES SEARCH Locates files on your computer
UTILITIES TESTDISK Testdisk checks partition/boot sector of disks: Photorec recovery many types of data
UTILITIES TP7P5FIX TSR to fix runtime error 200 in Turbo Pascal programs at runtime without patching needing to patch the executable
UTILITIES UNRTF Convert RTF documents to other formats (html, latex, txt..)
UTILITIES UTF8TOCP Convert UTF-8 files to codepage files
UTILITIES WCD Wherever Change Directory
UTILITIES WDE Disk Editor Software
UTILITIES WHICHFAT FAT32 Kernel Support detection and per-drive FAT (12-32) type detection
UTILITIES WPTAIL Create TUI dialog boxes and forms and collect user input using libnewt. (Requies CWSDPMI)
UTILITIES XFDISK F-disk like software used to partition disks
UTILITIES ZDIR Zdir is a tiny DOS directory lister. Zdir automatically determines how many columns to display, it can display a full tree, the colors are completley configuratble, and it works in any text mode, and it's lightning fast (written in ASsembly)