I don't recall many programs that were not shareware. Can you provide
a list of the better freeware programs? As I pointed out in another
thread, my small DOS page is getting almost as many hits as my
freeware Win page. I'd like to add freeware DOS programs...
Argh! Where to start and where to stop?!! I don't like compiling such
lists. Or better said: I *hate* doing so. It's mostly a lot of work
and doesn't achieve anything at all. If I wanted to promote large lists
of freeware downloads I would set up a homepage of my own. Better ask
for a special kind of program you need. And if I come across this
request at a moment when I can afford some time, I'll try to look sth.
up. Or - as often - maybe remember one from scratch.
Anyway, I compiled a completely arbitrary snapshot representing not
even a noticeable percentage of the possible candidates. You should
not only follow the provided links to get the mentioned programs.
Often you'll find many other freeware gems of the same author listed.
I concentrated on useful tools and left the specialized programs.
That seemed a bit more appropriate for such a 'freeware broadcast'.
Because you spoke especially of lacking free DOS archivers I listed
a few more than out of the other categories. But this list *is not*
complete, by far.
And here you go:
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System:
- FreeDOS
MS-DOS compatible operating system with tools
http://www.freedos.org
SysInfo:
- NSSI v0.58.6 by Tomá¹ Navrátil
System information tool
http://www.navsoft.cz/indexen.htm
- TestDisk v5.5 by Christophe Grenier
Checks the partition and boot sectors of hard disks (Advanced Recovery)
http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html
- Tastatur suite v98-09-22 by Paul Schubert
(German, but mostly self explanatory)
Show Scancode, Ascii value,..., simulate keyboard input
http://home.t-online.de/home/andreas.killer/paul.htm
Programming:
- NASM v0.98.39 by NASM team
NetwideAssembler (80x86 assembler designed for portability / modularity)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nasm
- AS v1.41r8 by Alfred Arnold
Makroassembler
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/as/index.html
- Awk v3.20 by Rob Duff
Discontinued Awk program
http://www.rduff.com
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/awk320.zip
- GAwk v3.1.1
GNU version of Awk
http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu
- GCC
GNU Compiler Collection
http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu
- FreePascal v1.0.10 by Florian Klaempfl (et al.)
Borland compatible pascal compiler
http://www.freepascal.org
- Perl v5.6.1 by Larry Wall, Diomidis Spinellis, and Laszlo Molnar
http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu
- BREXX v2.1.0 by Vasilis Vlachoudis
REXX interpreter
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/rexx/brexx/html/rx.html
- BDiff v1.28 by Toshiyuki TANAKA
Creates a binary difference between two files
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilprog/bdiff128.zip (Japanese documentation)
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilprog/bdiff123.zip (older version)
- CMDelete v1.0? by Christian Maas
Command line delete with file masks and subdirectory support
http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/freeware.htm
Disk utilities:
- SavePart v2.91 by Damien Guibouret
Save, restore and copy hard-drive, partitions, floppy disk, DOS devices
http://www.partition-saving.com
- Part v2.4x by Mikhail Ranish and Muthu
Hard disk partitioning tool
http://www.ranish.com/part
- DOSLFN v0.40 by Henrik Haftmann and Jason Hood
Long filename (LFN) API in plain DOS
http://doslfn.adoxa.cjb.net
- NTFSDOS v3.0 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell
Read-only NTFS driver
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml
- NTFS driver package by Christophe Grenier
Access NTFS in read/write mode, change NT administrator password
http://www.cgsecurity.org/ntfs.html
- Ext2Tools v1.1 by Claus Tondering
Access of Linux ext2 drives
http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~gef/fs/oldindex.html
- iHPFS v1.29 by Marcus Better and Veit Kannegieser
HPFS Driver for DOS
http://www-user.tu-cottbus.de/~kannegv/programm/index_e.htm
- FU_RD v1.9i by Franck Uberto
XMS/EMS RAM disk (installable and resizable from command line)
http://www.geocities.com/politalk/rmdrv/fu_rd19i.htm
File utilities:
- LGAFIND v2.4 by George G.Lyapko
Recursively searches for files (within archives and SFX-files too)
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6606/utility.htm
- Pick v1.3 by J.R. Ferguson
Pop-up file list to process a DOS command
http://hello.to/ferguson ('Tools English' section)
- NDN v2.15 by Muxe Inc. (Donationware)
Necromancer's DOS Navigator (File Manager)
http://ndn.muxe.com/index.php
- DIRCOMP v2.08 by Bruce Guthrie
Updates files in one subdirectory based on files in another subdirectory
http://users.erols.com/waynesof/bruce.htm
- VC v1.54 by John R. Whitney
Visual Compare: compare 2 text files and display results
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utiltext/vc154.zip
- XGrep v1.03 by Robert Nordier
Highly-compatible with Unix 'grep'
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utiltext/xgrep103.zip
- Which v3.0 by Brian Friesen
Searches PATH variable for programs, returns the full path of first match
http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~bfriesen/software/console.shtml
Archiv utilities:
- RVS-RView Shell v1.13 by Raymond T. Kaya
Shell for ARC, ARJ, HYP, LZH, LZS, PAK, SQZ, ZIP, and ZOO
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/rvs113.zip
- LGFastView v2.10 by George G.Lyapko
Fast Archive and SFX-files viewer
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6606/lgfv.htm
(Homepage lists only v2.09?)
- Info-Zip package (Unzip v5.51 / Zip v2.3) by Info-Zip group
free, portable Zip/UnZip programs, compatible with PKZIP by PkWare
http://www.info-zip.org
- LHA v2.55b by Haruyasu Yoshizaki
Popular archiver
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/lha255b.exe
(last version before major - and not officially finished - rewrite)
- GZIP v1.2.4 by GNU project (Jean-loup Gailly, Mark Adler)
Compression utility
http://www.gzip.org
- TAR v3.21 delta by Tim V.Shaporev
DOS/UNIX backup/compressor w/hardware support
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/tar321%234.zip
- UNARJ v2.65 by ARJ Software, Inc (Robert Jung)
Free extractor program for popular Shareware archiver
http://www.arjsoftware.com/files.htm
- UnRAR v3.3.6 Eugene Roshal
Free extractor program for popular Shareware archiver
http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
- UnSit v3.0 by Brian Uechi
Free extractor program for Mac *.sit archives
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/unsit30.zip
- UNSTUFF v1.1 by Jody P. Nickel
Extract from StuffIt 1.5.1, and StuffIt Deluxe 1.0-3.0 archives
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/unsitins.exe
- FCBM v3.0 by Daniel Fandrich
View directory of Commodore 64/128 archive files
http://www.npsnet.com/danf/software (*.exe is inside the source archive)
- UPX v1.25 by Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer and László Molnár
executable packer for several different executable formats
http://upx.sourceforge.net
- DIET version 1.45f by Teddy Matsumoto
Executable and data file compressor
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/diet145f.zip
Shell tools:
- DOSED v5.20 by Sverre H. Huseby
Resident program that gives extended operations on the DOS commandline
http://shh.thathost.com/pub-dos
- XPCMOUSE v1.4 by Jürgen G. Weber and Grant B. Gustafson
Cursor positioning, copy & paste in text mode using the mouse
http://www.math.utah.edu/~gustafso/indexComputer.html
- Scancode v5,90 by Bret Johnson
Automatically "types" when you are in the middle of another program
http://members.aol.com/bretjohn
- ForAll v7.2 by Kai Uwe Rommel
Find files by wildcards and recursively execute command with these files
ftp://ftp.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/os2/systools/forall72.zip
- ASet v1.2 by Richard Breuer
Enhanced SET (Math/String functions, SysInfo,...; opt. compute-only mode)
http://www.ftp.funet.fi/index/msdos/utilities/envutil/aset12.zip
- VThief v0.07 by Andrew Aksyonoff
Utility for screen grabbing
ftp://sac-ftp.gratex.sk/graph/vthf007.zip
- TCap v3.2 by Tim D. Kannel
Text capturing utility (Console I/O is copied to a file)
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysutl/tcap32.zip
- CharWatch v1.10 by Vincent Penquerc'h
Printer & Screen Character Manipulator (replace chars on the fly)
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utiltext/charw110.zip
- R200FIX v2001.10.21 by Veit Kannegieser
Fixes runtime error 200 (of Turbo Pascal programs) on faster computers
http://www-user.tu-cottbus.de/~kannegv/programm/index_e.htm
Text/Hex Editors:
- QView v2.90 by Alexandr Gazko
Text, hex, disk, and memory editor; disassembler
http://www.agcproduct.com/rus/downloads
http://www.agcproduct.com/rus/files/qview_2_90.zip (direct link)
(*.zip contains English and Russian version)
Text Tools:
- IniFile v1.2 by Horst Schaeffer
Handles Windows type INI files with section names in square brackets
http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc
- LMod v1.3 by Horst Schaeffer
Pipe tool for line and list modification
http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc
- Edific v2.2 by DLC Distemas
Scripted changes of text files
http://www.dlcsistemas.com/html/edific.html
- Filter v4.0 by J.R. Ferguson
Multi-purpose text filter
http://hello.to/ferguson
- Justify v1.5 by Tom Almy
Reformat text files
http://almy.us/dospage.html
- TI v1.2 by Quentin J. Christensen (eMail-ware)
Text information tool (words, characters, sentences,..., FOG Index)
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utiltext/ti12.zip
- XCols v1.0? by Joao Magalhaes
Advanced column edit for text files
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utiltext/xcols0.zip
- ASCR v4.0 by Andrey Kogan
Text screen font driver for Russian characters
http://sta.c64.org/dosprg.html
Database tools:
- VFPVIEW v3.2 by Milan Kosina
DBF viewer
http://milan.jikos.cz/VFPView
- Convert v2.08 by Bruce Guthrie
Converts between data formats (dBase, ASCII-delimited, fixed field, WKS)
http://users.erols.com/waynesof/bruce.htm
Graphics:
- PictView v1.94 by Jan Patera
Multiformat image viewer and converter
http://www.pictview.com
- Ombra v7.23 by Rick Ostidich
True-color Image viewer, real-time mouse zooming / panning, color editing
http://www.enet.it/hpg/ew/rick.htm
- LxPic v7.3 by Stefan Peichl
Small viewer for JPG, GIF, PCX, BMP and ICN
http://hplx.pgdn.de
Games:
- Nethack v3.43
Best game ever created (and still under development)
http://www.nethack.org
- Comet bB.61 by Ulrich Türke
One out of many free chess programs
http://members.aol.com/utuerke/comet
- Mah Jongg Solitaire by Loren Blaney
http://www.idcomm.com/personal/lorenblaney
- Mine Mayhem Version 2.11 by Jason Hood
DOS version of Minesweeper
http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/mine/index.html
Game helper tools:
- Tea v1.02 by Ross Beresford (Bryson Limited)
'The Electronic Alveary' - Word match program for crosswords
http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~barryh/words/wprog.html
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Hope you're happy now... I myself - in any case - am tiered, now.
BeAr