Hi Martin,
> Are there any good lists of DOS software available > (or that used to be available)? I guess you mean commercial software, not just this? Or at least shareware, freeware etc.? All old stuff? https://gitlab.com/FDOS Or the up to 20 GB (?) here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/ in particular http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/ and http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/gnu/gnuish/ or all the DOS ports here: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ (do use the ZIP picker!) Hmm Chrome and Firefox no longer support FTP? What the...? http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/dlfiles.cgi/current/v2gnu/ Mirror: http://djgpp.mirror.garr.it/current/v2gnu/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/dlfiles.cgi/current/v2apps/ http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/dl/ofc/dlfiles.cgi/current/v2tk/ The FreeDOS website also has a number of links: *entry point* http://freedos.org/links/ *check this out* Many of those link to LONG lists of DOS things themselves: Dosgames.com hosts almost 1500 games and you can even play them inside the browser in an in-browser PC emulator :-) Dosgamesarchive.com has over 1000 games as well. RGB Classicdosgames.com is "small" with 500 games, but they mention GOG which originally also had commercial DOS games: At the moment, they only have Linux, Windows and OS X games? On archive.org you can find 7000 pieces of old DOS software, which seems to include a lot of abandonware? They also have that "play in a dosbox in your browser". For example this: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Bananoid_1989 There are way more than 100 CD-ROM full of DOS software on http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html And you know that a lot of DOS stuff can fit on a single CD: http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/cotc-1/index.html for example has more than 1000 ARJ packages with all sorts of stuff. Quality is VERY mixed, but I guess you understand that writing Wikipedia articles about every DOS package out there would be impossible ;-) Maybe a fun example: Speedkit 4.52 including HYPERDISK cache: http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/cotc-1/UTILITY/index.html Note that Linux does not normally come with UNARJ, but our Arachne browser package has it. You probably also remember VGACOPY diskcopy with MOD music: http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/cotc-1/DISK/index.html > I want to see if we can create a list with as much DOS software as possible > and put that on the FreeDOS wiki.> > Yes, it is going to be a big list, so I'm also asking for your help. > > A starting point may be wikipedia, but they lack a lot of DOS software of > course. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:DOS_software Those are only 160 pages ;-) On the other hand, 2300 (!) DOS games already have Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:DOS_games So... There might be chances to describe more DOS things, but you can normally assume that almost everything has been done before - the problem would be to bundle it. If you know the name of the software, you will probably find it in some old archives of shareware, freeware, abandonware and so on. But making a list of everything which exists? Sounds adventurous. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
