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Classic DOS Games: DOS and Win16 games from back in the 80's and 90's
DOS Games Archive: shareware, freeware, playable demos and full versions
3D Gamers: a large collection of games, including some DOS favorites.
Dosgames.com: Archive of great DOS freeware/shareware games.
Freshmeat MS-DOS programs: large collection of opensource programs for DOS.
OldOS.org: shareware/freeware programs for different operating systems, including DOS
Free Software for DOS: Large archive of free DOS software - well organized.
Simtel.net: The grandfather of archives. Try filtering for "MS-DOS".
Interesting DOS programs: An archive of tons of DOS software. Some is free, some is shareware.
DOS directory: an interesting ordered directory of different DOS versions and DOS GUIs.
GNUish Project: GNU/Linux command utilities ported to DOS.
Berk project: Berkeley UNIX commands ported to DOS.
Goodie Domain Service: a collection of utilities for DJGPP, mostly GNU utilities
DOS software toolkit: DOS software for the visually impaired. JAWS for DOS 2.31 is now available for free.

Unofficial DR-DOS Resources: information about DOS and especially DR-DOS
DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project: enhance the capabilities of DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7.0x and to add support for new standards
Beowulf Clusters for DOS: Distributed computing on FreeDOS.
DOS/32 Advanced DOS Extender: a replacement of the DOS Extender, DOS/4GW, which allow DOS Extended applications to run in a 32-bit flat protected mode environment.
DOSLFN: a free Long File Name (LFN) driver that works under FreeDOS.
DOS VNC: The VNC viewer for DOS. Fits comfortably on a floppy disk.
GNU GRUB: GNU's multi-OS boot loader.
Access DOS Menu: a DOS menu program, runs your applications and games.
WinRAR: archive manager that can read/write RAR, ZIP and other files. There is also a DOS version (shareware)
Unsafe: cryptosystem for DOS, uses SAFER-SK, BLOWFISH, IDEA, MD5 and QCYPHER.
DOS Power Toys: Power Tools for DOS, geared mostly for MS-DOS. Most are Freeware.

FreeDOS Networking: a great guide written by Ulrich Hansen
EZ-NOS 2: an http web server that runs on DOS, and more DOS software.
Sioux: another DOS webserver, and some network drivers.
DOS web programs: links to various DOS internet programs (mostly web related).
DOS Applications for Internet Use: An excellent resource by Michael Bernardi.
Crynwr packet drivers archive: They give away most of our packet drivers.
DOS TCP/IP: Learn more about DOS TCP/IP resources.

FreeDOS Chinese: requires gb2312 code to read the Chinese characters
DOS USB Drivers: getting your USB hard drive and other USB devices to work in DOS.
ATA/ATAPI Low Level Driver: ATADRVR is the C source code for the lowest level of an ATA/ATAPI device driver, public domain with no restrictions on how it is used.
Doctor DOS Betamax: DOS batch file examples, command line switches, and DOS tips.
EasyDOS command index: A useful reference for all commands in DOS. From the book DOS the Easy Way.
Digital Research, the Untold Story: Why Novell bought DR-DOS. One man's opinion.
Art of Assembly Programming: by Randall Hyde.
Total Hardware 1999: jumper settings for over 18,600 devices including hard drives, motherboards, ...
An inside look at DOS: Great documentation about DOS internals, by Tim Paterson.
Operating System Resource Center: partition types, plug&play, memory, drivers, sound, hard disks, ...
Fdisk information: Information on FDISK and hard disks.
Alex's disk structures page: Selected topics on disk storage structures.
DOS VESA VBE drivers: Selected VESA DOS graphics drivers and more.
DOS, en español: Página en español sobre sistemas operativos DOS (MS-DOS, FreeDOS, OpenDOS)

OpenGEM: an open source graphical user interface for DOS
SEAL: 32-bit graphical user interface for DOS (last updated 2003)
Desktop2: somewhat in the middle between Windows and Norton Commander (last updated 1998)

OpenWatcom: Home of the open-source Watcom compiler. Supports C, C++, and Fortran77
Dunfield Development Systems: Home of the DDS Micro-C C compiler.
Borland Community Museum: Borland's free versions of older compilers
Digital Mars C/C++: Compilers for Win32, Win16, DOS32 and DOS.
bugs in C compilers: mainly for compilers used to develop software for embedded systems.
FreePascal.org: the free Pascal Compiler
Alice Pascal: Syntax-directed Pascal programming environment for DOS and Atari ST, with source.
NASM: The Netwide Assembler Project
Watt-32 TCP/IP: library for making networked TCP/IP programs in C and C++ under DOS.
TurboVision: TUI (Text User Interface) that implements the well-known widgets - supports DOS
TxWin: a multi-platform textmode library offering a user interface with familiar objects (LGPL)
FreeBASIC: a completely free, open-source, 32-bit BASIC compiler, with syntax compatible with QuickBASIC
Rugxulo: Links to developer tools and compilers, including BAT files to compile without Autoconf/Configure

DOSEMU: virtual PC that FreeDOS will boot into. GNU GPL.
DOSBox: DOS emulator, emphasis has been on getting DOS games to run smoothly
JPC Project: Java emulation of an x86 PC with fully virtual peripherals
QEMU: generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer
Plex86: An open virtual PC environment for Linux & other operating systems.
Bochs: an open x86 PC emulation software package
VMWare: A commercial virtual PC environment for Linux and Windows (free version also available)
Virtual PC 2007: Free PC emulator, runs on Windows (Vista and XP)
Virtual PC 2004: (for other Windows versions)
Moka5 Engine: A virtual PC environment for Windows.
VirtualBox: Open source x86 emulator, runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh.
Dioscuri: A free x86 computer hardware emulator written in Java.

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