Interesting DOS programs

Sound Programs (includes audio CD players)

Mpxplay v1.56 MP3,OGG,WAV,AAC,FLAC, WMA, MPC,AC3 player with integrated file browser, spectrum analyser and other features.
OpenCP v2.60pre6 DOS music player (MP3, MIDI, MOD, WAV, CD-audio) with spectrum analyser and other features. GPL
DAMP v0.97 WIP 8 Free MP3 Player. Displays synchronised graphics when playing MP3 files. Source code available
XTCPlay v0.97c Graphical audio player of MP3, WAV, S3M, MOD and more from the demo group Sanction.
DOSAMP v0.8 DOSAMP is a freeware command-line MP3 player.

MPR 07/14/09 Small, minimalist DOS MP3 player (33K exe)
JukeMp3 beta Mp3/Mp2/Xm/Mod/S3m/CD-DA DOS player that tries to emulate a turntable.
DSS v3.-1 MP3/WAV player/recorder with several display modes during playback. Also supports PC speaker!

BladeEnc v0.941 DOS port of BladeEnc command line MP3 encoder; create MP3 files from WAV files.
LAME 3.97 DOS port of LAME, a GPL'd WAV to MP3 encoder
LAME v3.92 DOS port of LAME, a GPL'd WAV to MP3 encoder. Encodes faster than real time on a PII 266.
AudioCVD v1.20 WAV to OGG (open-source replacement for MP3) converter
CD2WAV v1.0i Read audio CD tracks directly to WAV files
ID3TOOLS edit ID Tags of MP3s and list files with ID Tag info. Source code available.

MIDIer 2.50 DOS based MIDI and RMI player that works with all versions of the Sound Blaster card. Source code available
Megamid v1.66 Graphical MIDI Player for DOS. Also supports playing of Karaoke MIDI files
GSPLAY v1.1 A freeware MIDI player. Can also play Karaoke MIDI files.
Midget v2.03 DOS-based MIDI composer ; works with wavetable sound cards or internal speaker.

CDPlayer v2.25e Audio CD player which looks like the Win95 CD Player. Source code included.
SJGPlay v1.29 Easy to use freeware Audio CD Player with Lyrics and playlist for each CD.
CDPTSR v0.12 CDPTSR is a memory resident CD Player; uses only 3.5K resident

Graphics_Programs/Screensavers

QuickView Pro v2.57 Plays DivX, AVI, MPG, MOV (Quicktime), MP3, WAV and view other graphic formats.
PictureViewer 1.94 PictureViewer can view and convert many graphic formats. Freeware
SEA v1.3 This shareware viewer/converter/image manipulator has an easy to use GUI
LXPIC v7.3 Small (size of exe :20K!) yet powerful viewer of JPG, GIF, PCX, CAM and others
MPEGone v1.10 DOS MPEG and VideoCD player
DVD4DOS Beta 1 non-realtime playback of DVD movies

Pixel 1.0 Beta 5 build 481 Impressive shareware Photoshop-style graphics editor (supports layers, channels, Truetype fonts, etc).
Neopaint v3.2d a shareware image editing and painting program.
VGA Paint 386 opensource painting program

Acidwarp Fractal generator which can be used as a screensaver.
Sanction 4K demos Several impressive 4K demos (one is a Descent type engine) by the demo group Sanction
Christmas Card 1998 Very good multimedia xmas card. Add your text and send it to friends.

Utilities

Cute Mouse Driver v2.1 beta 4 Mouse driver with wheel support for both AT and PS/2 mice; uses only 3K (!) of memory
BenQ (Acer) CDROM driver v2.14 Uses only 5K and works with many IDE CDROM drives
SHSUCDX v3.03E MSCDEX replacement ; uses only 11K resident ; can be unloaded. Now part of SHSUCD, a suite of programs dealing with the CD-ROM. Older versions here
UMBPCI V3.80 Free hardware UMB driver (only 240 bytes) for DOS/Win9x - replaces EMM386.EXE
Srdisk v2.09c dynamically ReSizeable RAMDisk for FreeDOS (and other DOSes) able to use over 32M of XMS and EMS memory. GPL
XMSDSK.EXE v1.9i Freeware resizable ramdisk;can be installed/uninstalled from the command line.

Partition Resizer v1.34 Resize your FAT16/FAT32 partitions safely. Freeware
Free FDISK v1.3.1 GNU hard disk partitioning utility. Supports FAT16/FAT32 and non DOS partitions
Active @ KillDisk Destroy all data on hard and removable drives without possibility of future recovery
XOSL 1.1.5 Free graphical boot manager to select what OS to run on startup

TestDisk v6.11.3 Tool to check and undelete hard disk partitions. Supports FAT16/FAT32, ext2FS, NTFS and more
PhotoRec v6.11.3 file data recovery software designed to recover lost files from Hard Disks and CDRom
Savepart v3.80 save entire or occupied portion of a hard drive partition (FAT16/32,ext2,ext3,NTFS) into a file for easy backup and restoration
Image v2.41 Disk image backup and restore program. Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS partitions and most writable USB, IEE1394 drives, ATAPI CD/DVD drives without special drivers. Shareware
Ranish Partition Manager v2.44 powerful hard disk partitioning tool and can create, copy, and resize primary and extended partitions.
NTFS Reader for DOS freeware tool to read NTFS partitions from DOS

Palmsys v1.21 3K Driver for parallel port Iomega ZIP drive; works on XTs and on 286 CPUs as well
SDWRGMPD v1.1 DOS driver for MS "Win9x only" SideWinder digital GamePad
Duse v4.9 From Pocketec, are USB DOS drivers for USB hard disks, CDROM drives and other USB storage devices like Zip drives
SPEEDZTER 2.5 From DAT Optic, are Firewire/IEEE 1394 DOS drivers for their external Speedzter 2.5" Firewire hard drives

BLACKOUT Gives DOS a graphic startup screen like Win9x. Can use your own GIF file
Real DOS mode patch for Win Me v1.3 A patch to enable WinMe users to boot to plain DOS
98lite 4.5 Removes Internet Explorer from Win9x/Me ; can install the faster Win95 GUI in Win98/Me
Bootdisk v1.0a my batch file to create a better Win95/98 boot disk using third-party utilities. Check the README.HTM

LFN Tools v1.79 DOS commands that can handle long filenames in plain DOS. Supports FAT32
DOSLFN 0.40e TSR to provide long filename API in plain DOS. Only 12K resident. Older versions here
LTOOLS v6.12 set of DOS command line tools to read and write to Linux ext2/3 and ReiserFS filesystems (the DOS opposite of Linux MTOOLS)

Scitech Univbe 6.7 and Display Doctor 6.53 enchanced VESA drivers for a variety of video cards. Now freeware.
VBEHz v2.23 Sets user-defined refresh rates on video cards with VBE 3.0+ for DOS progs using VESA video modes
UniRefresh v1.42 universal dos refresh rate utility for VESA 3.0+ video cards
Vmode 1.1 switch between various text modes (and even graphics modes) from DOS prompt

CD Recording Utilities v4.0g These programs are a set of CD-R/CD-RW applications for DOS.
DOSCDROAST beta3 suite of programs allows you to use IDE (and now USB and Firewire) CD-RW burners to burn CDROMS in plain DOS.
Cdrtools v2.01 DOS port of CDrTools (formerly cdrecord) allows you to burn CD with your CD-RW drive.
DVD4DOS Beta 1 test release software to play DVD with Dolby AC3 sound. Currently restricted to 1 minute (non-realtime) playback

PC-CONFIG 9.33 Detailed system information/benchmark tool. Freeware, but no further development
NSSI v0.60.32 freeware system information tool
HWiNFO v5.30 system information utility designed for detection of hardware. shareware
ClamAV 0.95.2 Port of ClamAV for DOS, antivirus software (look for clamavx.zip and clamavs (source))

ATXOff v1.3 Turn off your ATX computer system (similar to Win9x shutdown).
Shutdown v1.2 From Blacklight, a small utility to either reboot your computer, or turn off the power (ATX systems only)

4DOS v8.00 updated opensource version of the powerful command line interpreter (COMMAND.COM replacement) for DOS by JP Software
DOSED v5.2 Freeware DOSKEY-like program but with filename completion like Linux's Bash shell
FileC v2.0 Autocompletes filenames at command prompt ; support Win9x LFN in DOS box
ACD v3.05 Change to another directory on any drive quickly. Has Win9x LFN support

TDel v2.68 Powerful freeware replacement for the DEL (delete) command
XXCOPY 2.93.1 powerful replacement XCOPY with many features. Free for personal use
Powercopy v1.3 Shareware parallel-port transfer program between two PCs with either DOS,Win3.x,Win9x or WinNT/2000/XP installed

TextTools R6 Freeware programs for processing text tables and general text filtering
TSFLTC R2.2 A set of additional text file filters from Prof. Timo Salmi.
Slowdown v3.1 Slows down a fast computer so you can run older programs, or as a troubleshooting aid.

Applications

Corel WordPerfect Suite for DOS Excellent website about WPDOS including printing to USB printers, Euro Support and MUCH more
Account Pro accounting software for DOS Manage your accounts. freeware
Cash Register v7.03 Convert any PC into a cash register/Point of Sale system. Freeware

PEDIT v4.0 Excellent freeware text editor.Includes spell-checker,thesaurus,word wrap and MUCH more.
EDITV 4.1u Freeware DOS text editor with the look and feel of Borland's IDE editor
SET's editor v0.5.4 Familiar Borland interface with syntax highlighting and background playing of MP3 files!
Folding Text Editor (FTE) 0.50.1 for DOS Text editor with syntax highlighting

DOSStart v1.9b build 9.2.2002 GUI for launching programs (uses Win9x "Start" button approach) and managing files.
Spectra v1.0 (formerly WinDOS) a GUI DOS file manager / shell. Source code available
Access v5.0RC2 Freeware graphical DOS menu program. Supports SVGA, built-in CD player; can use Windows icons
AUMenu for DOS and Unix v1.4.3a multi-platform menu shell for DOS and Linux. DOS version is free
Directory Freedom v4.61B Small (single 39K exe), fast freeware file/directory manager. Source code available
File Maven v3.5a Freeware file manager with Laplink-style file transfers via serial or parallel cable

Infopal v6.1 Program where you can design and browse databases and generate reports
Dirtel v3.28 Address book manager; contents can be exported to HTML,RTF and ASCII delimited text.

InfoZIP Create ZIP files, extract files from ZIP files created with PKWARE's Pkzip/Pkunzip v2.04g.
Pkzip/Pkunzip v2.50 An update to the "classic" Pkzip/Pkunzip v2.04g. Supports LFN under LFNDOS or Win9x
UPX v3.03 powerful GPL'ed executable packer (meaning the compressed executable files can still be run directly)

VIEW v17.2 Allows you to view WordPerfect, Word 97 docs and other word processor formats. Now freeware
xlHtml v0.4.0 commandline converter of MS Excel XLS files to HTML
AntiWord v0.37 converts MS Word DOC files to plain text or PostScript
Catdoc v0.94.2 convert MS Word DOC files to plain text
Xpdf v3.02pl2 Extract text and images from Adobe's Acrobat's PDF files
PSVIEW v17.1 user friendly shell program for viewing Postscript and PDF files ; requires Pictview, PDFTOPs and Ghostscript

CAMWORK DOS program that downloads images from Agfa, Olympus and Epson digital cameras.
PhotoPC software Software for DOS and other OSes to control Epson, Agfa, Nikon digital cameras
Daqarta v2.21 Does Data AcQuisition And Real-Time Analysis using popular sound cards ; Has many other features. Free for non-commercial use

DESI-III v5.80 Free, yet professional 2D CAD program.
FigDOS-GUI v2.22 GUI for DOS FIGlet (the latter creates large ASCII characters from ordinary ASCII characters)
DATES v2002.08 Non-TSR program to keep track (and remind you in advance) of important dates

Arachne v1.95 GPL updated GPL version of Arachne, a graphical DOS Internet suite (web browser, FTP, Email).
Arachne v1.70 Release 3 The final offical release of the graphical DOS Internet suite (web browser, FTP, Email) out there. Now has preliminary CSS support.
Lynx 2.8.5rel.1 DOS port of the text based Linux browser. Can access secure (https) websites
DOSLynx v0.39b another port of text based Lynx browser
Net-tamer v1.13 beta text based internet suite (browser,email,FTP,Usenet). Speech friendly for talking programs
ViewHTML v2.5 Freeware text based offline HTML viewer/browser.

LSppp V1.0 Excellent small PPP packet driver (28K resident!) for DOS. Has built-in dialer. Released under GPL.
PEPA v1.9Packet Driver for PPP access over ADSL.
Comring v1.20 Packet driver for serial ports; can be used to connect multiple computers via serial cable

EZ-NOS 2 a http web server with Server Side Includes support, secure FTP Server with md5 authenication, DNS server and a TCP/IP access filter (firewall) and more!
Jaffa WWW server for DOS Tested on a 80286, supports CGI-BIN utilities external to the server
Internet Extender v1.0b Freeware DOS Gateway router which allows networked computers to access the Internet (via a modem or network card)

LSicq 1.85 DOS ICQ Clone ; send/receive messages/files instantly with other ICQ users
Toffee IRC client v1.0 DOS IRC client ; works with any packet driver

Mutt 1.5.5 text-based e-mail client with modified patches for NNTP, POP and SMTP ('builtin' sendmail) and calls to external apps (i.e. 'print', 'pipe message' and 'pipe attachment')
Wget 1.8.2 Download files and entire sites for offline browsing using HTTP or FTP; can RESUME ABORTED downloads!
SSHDOS v0.95 opensource SSH (Secure Shell) DOS client for secure telnet connections.

GPAGE v1.9 Uses a text file to generate a local page of links
Tidy386 HTML validator and can also clean up your HTML
Orb v2.0 HTML preprocessor designed to simplify creation and maintenance of web pages
PPWIZARD 08.298 Free, multi-platform HTML Preprocessor. Requires free Regina REXX interpreter.

UUDeview v0.5d Encoder and decoder for uuencoded, xxencoded, Base64 and BinHex data
HTMSTRIP v2002.08 From Bruce Guthrie, converts HTM to text. Many other utilites there as well.
EUMAIL v2002.08 Extract Eudora's mailboxes and nickname files into text files
HTMCAL v2.0 Generate HTML calendars showing upcoming events or meetings. Shareware

Arachne related Websites (various sites where you can download various addons to Arachne, a DOS internet suite)

Dfilter v3.0 Arachne email filter for Arachne v1.47b to v1.67. Filters are saved for future use. Check the README.TXT (updated 4th November 2000)
Dshell v2.0 Patches Arachne's v1.5 SRC "Shell to DOS" function. Included in Arachne v1.7x (updated 6th Dec 1999)
Arachne Help Page From Guenter Bietzig is an Arachne Help FAQ
Mel's Arachne4dos UK Home Page

Programming

Free Pascal v2.4.0 32 bit compiler for DOS, Linux, Win32 and other platforms. Semantically equivalent to TP 7.0
DJGPP C++ Complete 32-bit C/C++ development system for 386 (and higher) PCs running DOS.
OpenWatcom v6.0 special DOS only version of OpenWatcom (a c/C++ compiler)
DJGPP and related Links Large collection of DJGPP related programming links
Pacific C Compiler Pacific C is a C compiler for DOS. Includes IDE and is free for any use
Introduction to C programming a free study guide on writing programs in the C language
Euphoria Programming Language v3.0.2 opensource interpreter/compiler for 32 bit DOS, Win9x/XP, Linux and FreeBSD

HX DOS Extender free DOS extender which contains a Win32 API emulation which allows Win32 console apps to be run in DOS
MoonRock v0.50 BASIC-like language with several extensions. Produces code for 8086+
Borland Community Museum Download Turbo C v2.01, Turbo Pascal v5.5, Turbo C++ v1.01 for free (requires login)
Regina v3.2 a REXX interpreter that has been ported to DOS and other OSes
Perl v5 Interpreted language for scanning and extracting info from text files.
PythonD 2.4.2 r1.0 DOS port of Python v2.2.1. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.

Pbats v3.2 Powerful archive of tiny batch tools from the author of GPAGE and WBAT, Horst Schaeffer.
WBAT v2.50 Use dialog boxes (with menus, buttons, input fields, checkboxes) in your batch files.
Clay's Utilities for DOS v1.3 Set of small utilities for batch files.
Batfiles Good website on DOS batch file programming.
TSBAT75.ZIP A collection of useful batch files and tricks from Prof. Timo Salmi.

Assembly Language FAQ Available in HTML and text format.
Assembly Language Journal online ezine covering assembly language programming techniques.
Mystic v1.0a Enables you to create DOS screen savers with knowledge of assembly language

Ozone Graphical environment, support Truetype fonts, and includes several programs
Seal 2.00.11 Free graphical desktop environment for DOS and for DJGPP programs.
OpenGEM v5 GUI (once commercial, now open source) geared for low resource PCs, distro includes several apps.

Allegro 4.2.1 multi-platform game programming library for DJGPP in a mixture of C and assembly.
OpenGUI v3.7.0 multi-platform 32-bit graphics library/GUI for DOS (DJGPP), QNX and LINUX

Watt-32 v2.2 dev-rel 10 library for making networked TCP/IP C/C++ 16 and 32 bit programs.
eRTOSdevelop embedded Intel 8086 (and compatible) Internet-accessible applications. Now freeware
ISRemote for DOS v2.53 remotely control DOS apps with a IR remote and a DIY circuit
DOSGir v0.12 control DOS apps by infrared remote control and a DIY circuit
Full Moon Software Many QuickBasic/PDS routines ; also has the text to PC Mag's 'BASIC Techniques and Utilities'
NeoBasic provides GUI components to extend the DOS authoring NeoBook software
Guenther Klaming's Homepage Low-level hardware programming in Watcom C/C++, Pascal and Assembly.

Secrets about DOS programming Many source code programming in QuickBasic, Pascal and Assembly.
DOS Help Magazine EXCELLENT HTML ezine on DOS and DOS programming.
Runtime Error 200 Page Explains the Runtime Error 200 Startup bug for Borland Pascal EXEs on fast CPUs

Alternative DOSes (all MSDOS compatible OSes other than MSDOS itself)

FreeDOS v1.0 A GNU GPLed version of DOS. Also has lots of DOS-related news
DR-DOS 7.01.08 WIP (17.12.2006) patches to enhance the capabilities of DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7.0x
IBM PC DOS 2000 Latest version of PC DOS offers Y2K compliance and support for Euro symbol
DR-DOS 8.0 From DeviceLogics (formerly Lineo/Caldera), has native FAT32 support. Marketed towards embedded systems
Lineo DR-DOS 7.03b unoffical site about DR-DOS, a DOS which includes Personal Netware and has many other unique features

Datalight ROM-DOS v7.1 geared for embedded and mobile systems; supports FAT32, LFN and has integrated web, ftp, email servers. Free to single users. Registration required
PTS-DOS 2000 has many features including a OS boot manager, networking support and data compression
PTS DOS 2000 Pro Supports FAT32, internal UMB and CDROM support (no EMM386 or MSCDEX needed), networking support

DOS related websites and other useful links

Free Software for DOS A MUST visit site for any DOS user. Wide variety of software.
FreeDOS website has a news section about DOS which is regularly updated.
DOS Solutions Lots of information and related links about DOS.
FAQ on DOS Applications for Internet Use Various DOS Internet programs and where to get them.
Simtel LARGE well known collection of DOS freeware, public domain and shareware programs
Garbo PC collection Various DOS programs
Hitsquad Various music software for DOS (MIDI, MOD, translators, etc)

DOS Games Listing of many FREE Games (with descriptions) for DOS!
DOS Games Archive A archive of (what else?) DOS games
Harmony Central Various MIDI software for DOS
CD-ROM Drivers Collection of URL Links to DOS drivers for various CD-ROM drives
A Dinosour's Garden Great site with lots of DOS information and links.

NOTES ON MS-DOS 6.22 Documents all MSDOS 6.22 commands and other DOS batch files information
The Useful Site a selection of DOS utilities, cunning DOS tips, and a DOS links page
Understanding and Getting Around in DOS Excellent first time tutorial on DOS

WordPerfect for DOS Updated Great site for drivers, info and other resources for WordPerfect 5.x/6.x for DOS
Wordstar Resource Site a help site for WordStar for DOS users, has several freeware DOS Wordstar utilites
Bright Electronics - MS-DOS Networking howto guide on peer to peer networking with DOS
Computing.Net DOS forum Post and answer questions about DOS
Darkehorse.web.com archived site about USB support for DOS
DOS: The Alternative Operating System Great site with lots of DOS info about hardware, software, internet and DOS tutorials

Other useful websites

FCC's FCC ID Look up Useful for identifying hardware via its FCC code
Driverzone's FCC ID Look-up Useful for identifying hardware via its FCC code
Wotsit's Format The programmers resource
FreeCode Free Programming Source Code including Internet apps.

Programmer's Heaven Has many programming related files and links
Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society My computer user group webpage. Has various Trinbago links, software links for other OSes and more

Interesting DOS programs

DOS Program Categories

New/Updated Links (updated January 10, 2010)

Sound Programs (includes audio CD players)

Graphics_Programs/Screensavers

Utilities

Applications

Arachne related Websites (various sites where you can download various addons to Arachne, a DOS internet suite)

Programming

Alternative DOSes (all MSDOS compatible OSes other than MSDOS itself)

DOS related websites and other useful links

Other useful websites