=> Monday May 5, 2008 ------------------------------ rugxulo_AT_gmail_DOT_com ------------------------------ N.B. The FD 1.0++ .ISOs *only* have an updated SYSLINUX part, not \PKGS\ !! http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/ :-) Kudos to Eric Auer (everything) and Fritz Mueller (.LSMs etc.) :-) 4DOS: 7.50 (latest is Lucho's 7.62 from Apr. 25, 2008; 8086+) = http://4dos.z-bg.com/ (patches + .EXEs only) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/4dos/7.50.1/ ARACHNE: 1.90 (latest is "v193;GPL" dated Mar. 18, 2008) = http://cisnet.com/glennmcc/a193gpl/ = http://sourceforge.net/projects/arachne-browser BZIP2: 1.0.3 (latest is 1.0.5; 386+) = http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/beta/v2apps/bz2-105b.zip = ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/bz2-105s.zip CABEXT: 1.1 (latest is rr's 1.2 from May. 4, 2008) = http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=3803 = http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/cabex12b.zip = http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/cabex12s.zip = http://www.cabextract.org.uk/cabextract-1.2.tar.gz (full src) CHKDSK: 0.9 (latest is 0.91, 16-bit only; DOSFSCK is preferred) = http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/ CPULEVEL: 2004 (latest is "CPULEVEL 2007" dated Jan. 4, 2008) = http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/cpulevel2007.zip = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/cpulevel2007.zip CTMOUSE: 1.9.1 beta1 / 2.0a4 (latest is 2.1 beta 3, Eric's "VGA only" fixes) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/mouse/ = http://cutemouse.sf.net (original site for EGA-compatible versions) DEBUG: 0.98 (latest from Japheth is 1.13 dated Feb. 27, 2008) = http://www.japheth.de/dwnload4.html DEFRAG: 1.0 (latest is 1.31 from Aug. 24, 2007) = http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/ DEVLOAD: 3.16 (latest "stable" is 3.19, but 3.20 RC exists too) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/devload/ DISKCOPY: 0.94 (latest is 0.95 w/ status information) -> or use Dosius / Lucho's faster SFX14436 2k sfx hack to write 1.44 MB (only) = http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/ = http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/file/sfx14436.rar DOOM: Legacy 1.41 + Freedoom 0.4.1 (latest Freedoom is 0.6.2, Mar. 18 2008) -> Freedoom says Legacy engine license conflicts (GPL vs. Heretic/Hexen) = http://freedoom.sourceforge.net/ (BSD) = http://www.teamtnt.com/boompubl/boom2.htm (GPL) = http://doomworld.com/eternity/ (GPL) DOSFSCK: 2.10b-Eric (latest is 2.11c, works w/ .IMG files too, 386+) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/disk/dosfsck/ DOSLFN: 0.40c (latest is 0.40e; needs new maintainer) = http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/doslfn/index.html EDLIN: 2.8 (latest is 2.10c, but iBiblio only hosts old 16-bit .EXE) = www.sourceforge.net/projects/freedos-edlin = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/edlin-dl.txt (how to build it via CC386) EMM386: Devore's "final" stable was 2.26 -> (latest "stable" is Japheth's JEMM386 5.72, from Mar. 13, 2008; 386+) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/emm386/ = http://www.japheth.de/dwnload4.html FASM: 1.64 (latest is 1.67.26 from Jan. 28, 2008, w/ DOS IDE - FASMD; 386+) = http://www.flatassembler.net FDISK: 1.3.0 (also includes outdated SPFDISK: latest is dated Sep. 5, 2006) -> ?? is this version considered alpha or stable ?? = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/fdisk/ = http://www.mecronome.de/xfdisk/index.php = http://spfdisk.sourceforge.net/ FREEBASIC: 1.6 (latest is 0.18.5b from Apr. 18, 2008; 486+) -> official pages: = http://www.freebasic.net/forum/ = http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fbc FDAPM: 2005 (latest is from Dec. 20, 2007; includes IDLEDPMS screen saver) -> IDLEDPMS is only for EGA/VGA/DPMS, FDAPM equals MS POWER (APM w/ some ACPI) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/fdapm/ FIND: ? (latest was patched by Imre to support LFNs) = http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/ FREEPASCAL: ? (latest "stable" is 2.2.0, as of Sep. 10, 2007; 486+) -> no official DOS port (yet?) bessides 2.0.4, so get snapshots via FTP: -> or get Robert Riebisch's (unfinished) 2.2.0 DOS build (needs DOSLFN): = http://www.bttr-software.de/misc/fpc/ (2.2.0-pre3, Sep. 28) = ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/ = ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.2.0a/go32v2/ = ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/trunk/i386-go32v2/ (2.3.1 ??) -> (2.2.0a, Oct.2 w/ MAKEDOS.ZIP from Nov.7) = ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/snapshot/v20/i386-go32v2/ (2.0.5 ??) FDSHIELD: 2004 (latest is from Aug. 31, 2006) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/fdshield/ GRUB4DOS: 0.4.1pre22 (latest is 0.4.3) = http://sarovar.org/projects/grub4dos GSX (Ghostscript): 7.05 (386+; HX-suitable Win32 .EXE + .DLL is 8.57) -> you also need the full Win32 install to use the HX .EXE / .DLL = http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/ = http://www.milec.com/download/GSWC_DLL.ZIP -> also Michael Kostelev made a DJGPP compile of 8.55: -> http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/ (7 MB of .EXEs, fonts, patches) -> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/gs/ GZIP: 1.2.4 (1.3.12 exists for DJGPP / DOS 32-bit) = ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/gzp1312b.zip = http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/gzp1312b.zip HXRT: 2.4 (latest is 2.14 from Mar. 2, 2008; 386+, HXGUI needs VESA 2.0 + ??) = http://www.japheth.de/HX.html HIMEM: Devore's "final" stable HIMEM (no "X") was 3.26 -> (latest "stable" HIMEMX from Japheth is 3.32 from Mar. 13, 2008; 386+) -> (he also created JEMMEX, XMS + EMS in one, partially based on it) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/emm386/ = http://www.japheth.de/dwnload4.html INSIGHT: 1.10 (latest is 1.22 as of Nov. 24, 2007, now assembles via NASM) = http://www.bttr-software.de/products/insight/ INVADERS: 1.0 (latest is 1.1 dated Sep. 17, 1995) = http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/gamesrc/invadr11.zip = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/INV2FASM.ZIP (ported to build via FASM) KEEPTIME: 1.1 (latest is 1.2) = http://avb.starnet.ru/files/KEEPTM12.RAR = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/ KERNEL: 2036 (latest is 2038pre / "FAT secure" version from SVN) = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/fatsecurity-binaries.zip (439k) = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ke2007sep15-src.zip (old, sorry ... see SVN) LAME: 3.97b2 (latest is 3.97; 386+) = http://lame.sf.net = ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/sound/lame397d.zip LTOOLS: 6.9 (latest is 6.12) = http://www.it.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools.html MEM: 1.10 (latest is 1.11) = http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freedos = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/mem/mem1_11.zip MORE: 4.2 (latest is Imre's 4.3 w/ LFN support) = http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/ MPXPlay: 1.53 (latest is 1.56 alfa 3 from Mar. 10, 2008) -> needs at least a 486DX/100 Mhz w/ 8 MB RAM+ !! = http://www.freewebtown.com/mpxplay/ NANSI: 4.0a (latest is 4.0d, now responds to int 2Fh install check) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/nansi/ NASM: 0.98.39 (latest "stable" is 2.02: x86-64, Mach-O support, etc; 386+) -> 0.98.39 is the final one to be (able to be) compiled for 16-bit DOS = http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nasm/nsm09839.zip = http://nasm.sf.net = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/nasm_mak.txt (CC386 makefile for 0.98.39) = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/nasm202b.txt (.BAT make 2.02 w/ DJGPP 2.04) -> also see this fork: YASM 0.7.0 (as of Apr. 16, 2008; 386+) = http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm (faster but no .OBJ support) OPENWATCOM: 1.5 (latest is 1.7a as of Oct. 23, 2007; needs 386+ host OS) = http://www.openwatcom.org (65 MB Win32 installer .EXE is also a .ZIP sfx) -> or only download the few .ZIPs you need, not the entire thing: = http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Alternative_Open_Watcom_distribution = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/c/openwatcom/ PERUSE: ? -> (should be deleted per PC Mag / Ziff Davis' wishy-washy wishes) PRNFILE: ? -> (should be deleted per PC Mag / Ziff Davis' wishy-washy wishes) PG: 1.13 (latest is 1.16 from Oct. 10, 2007; w/ SVHEX and SVTXT plugins) -> now supports traditional Chinese (yakta?) = http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/pg.html PRINT: 1.0 (latest is Eric's 1.02) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/print/ RAREAD: 1.0 (latest is 1.1; a bit faster than DISKCOPY w/o LBACACHE/TICKLE) = http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/rawrite/raread11.zip RUNTIME: ? (Eric's tiny .ASM version's latest is from Aug. 18, 2007) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/runtime/ SHARE: (0.99 was previous version, is this one by Japheth 0.99.1 ??) = http://www.japheth.de/dwnload4.html SHSUCDX: 3.02 (latest is 3.04) = http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/shsucdx/index.html SHSUFDRV: 1.00 (latest is 1.02, and 1.11 for SHSURDRV, aka FDRV-3) = http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/shsufdrv/index.html SORT: ? (latest is Imre's patched version w/ LFN support) = http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/ SSH2DOS: 0.1.1 (latest SSHDOS is 0.95, latest SSH2DOS is 0.2.1) = http://sshdos.sourceforge.net/ TAR: 1.09 (16-bit? yet latest DJGPP port of GNU 386+ version is 1.12a) -> or use Tim S.'s (16-bit?) TAR clone w/ built-in GZip/LFN support instead = http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/tar112ab.zip = ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/tar321#4.zip (w/ src, non-commercial only!) -> "tar +gnu -c.9f blah.tgz *.*" will create a .tar.gz w/ the above non-GNU 3.21 -> P.S. "p7zip a blah.tar *", "p7zip a -mx=9 blah.tgz blah.tar" works too (386+) TERMINAL: Apr. 23, 2005 (latest is June 20, 2007) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/terminal/ UMBPCI: 3.65 (latest is 3.75 from Oct. 11, 2007; 586+) -> "source available on request" ?? -> (but srcs apparently NOT redistributable by FreeDOS, doh!) = http://www.uwe-sieber.de/umbpci_e.html UNDELETE: 19jan04 (but Eric's beta!! FAT32 tool is from Feb. 19, 2008) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/undelete/ -> beta!! w/ FAT32 support has two KNOWN bugs (else works otherwise ??): -> 1). breaks FAT32 "used space count" (DOSFSCK can fix this) -> 2). it doesn't do anything to claim raw disk access = http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name= Pine.GSO.4.60.0802201446230.7415%40troll.coli.uni-saarland.de& forum_name=freedos-devel UPX: 2.01 (latest is 3.03 "stable" from Apr. 27, 2008 w/ LZMA support; 386+) = http://upx.sf.net (also needs UCL lib to recompile) VIM: 6.3 (latest is 7.1 final, w/ limited 16-bit port and full 32-bit/DJGPP) -> latest from Vim.org is 7.1.293 (as of April 2008) = http://www.vim.org WASMX.ZIP (aka, Wolfware ASM 2.23, supports up through 286 only) = http://www.shoelesscomputers.coom/software/wasm/ (also see ../source/) XCOPY: 1.3 (latest "rxcopy" is 1.4, but still no LFN support) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/xcopy/rxcopy/ -> or get Ben Cadieux's tiny 8086+ LFN-aware XCOPY clone here (w/ NASM src): = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/xwcopy8b.7z XPDF: 3.01 (latest is 3.02pl2 from Nov. 7, 2007) = http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ XCDROM: 2.2 (IDE only; but GCDROM for SATA only, based on XCDROM, is at 2.3) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/xcdrom/ = http://marktsai0316.googlepages.com/gcdromfordos -> see below for UIDE, the "official" (but abandoned) successor to both above XDMA: 3.3 (but the final! XMGR + UIDE [aka, UDMA+UDVD] are from Nov. 1, 2007) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/udma/xdma/ = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/udma+drivers/ -> also see Japheth's JEMM386's latest plugins: XDMA32, XCDROM32 +=======+ | Misc. | +=======+ FD Update: N/A (latest is 0.53) -> "requires WGETX and an active internet connexion to work" = http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/dos/en/download.php?plik=fdupdate ClamAV (antivirus): N/A (0.92 ported by Blair, Jan. 31 2008) -> clamconf, clamscan, freshclam, and sigtool -> can scan inside .ZIPs etc.; virus database included (but nags about "old") -> CLAMAVX.ZIP (14 MB) and CLAMAVS.ZIP (1.5 MB) are here: = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/ = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClamAV (Wikipedia page) = http://www.clamav.net/ (official site) JWasm: N/A (OW is at 1.7a, Japheth's fork is "1.7pre" beta from May. 5, 2008) -> this forked version is now used to reassemble JEMM and HIMEMX = http://www.japheth.de/JWasm.html Dungeon Crawl "Stone Soup" : N/A (0.3.4, Jan. 29 2008) = http://crawl-ref.sf.net = http://crawl.akrasiac.org (or play this roguelike via telnet) Gujin: N/A (2.3, boot loader, similar to Lilo or Loadlin, needs no cfg files) = http://gujin.sourceforge.net/ SYSLINUX 3.63 (as of Apr. 10, 2008; bootloaders for floppy, network, CD-ROM) -> this includes ISOLINUX and MEMDISK used by the official FreeDOS CDs !! = http://syslinux.zytor.com/ Perl: N/A (latest DOS is 5.8.8 but Perl.org has newer 5.10.0) = http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/dos/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/perl588b.zip Python: N/A (latest DOS is 2.4.2r1 but Python.org has 2.5.2 / "alpha" 3.0a2) = http://www.caddit.net/pythond/ Ruby: N/A (latest DOS is 1.8.4 but Ruby-lang.org has "stable" 1.8.6 / "dev" 1.9.0) = ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/djgpp/1.8/ Filetype: N/A (Eric's ultra small *nix "file" id tool, Aug. 24, 2007) = http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/check-magic-filetype.zip = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/filetype.zip FDRC: N/A (latest is 0.2.1, Dec. 10, 2007) = http://sourceforge.net/projects/fdrc CC386: N/A (3.74, Jan. 29, 2008; w/ HX support, InfoPad, DOS installer; 386+) -> no longer developed! :-( = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ccdl374e.zip (DOS installer) = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/cwdl374e.zip (Win32 IDE version installer) GRDB: N/A (9.4, Jan. 4, 2008; 386+) -> no longer developed! :-( = http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/grdbdl94.zip DJGPP: 2.04 "beta" (old 2.03p2 "stable" <= Win9x; GCC 4.2.3, BinUtils 2.17) = http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ = http://short.stop.home.att.net/dl/djgpp.htm TDE: N/A (5.1v, May 1, 2007) = http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/tde/index.html RESTORE: N/A (6.3, Feb. 7, 2008) -> can restore MS- and PC-DOS diskettes from BACKUP 2.0 to 5.0 -> free w/ .ASM src "for non-military use" = http://www.mindprod.com/products4.html#RESTORE Blocek: N/A (1.33b, Nov. 3, 2007; 386+) = http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/ FoxType: N/A (0.15, Sept. 28, 2006) = http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/dos/en/foxtype.htm FoxCalc: N/A (0.92, Dec. 31, 2007; 386+) = http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/dos/en/foxcalc.htm DosZip: N/A (1.28, May 12, 2007) -> has built-in unzip support (and LFN-aware) = http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/doszip FED: N/A (2.24, May 7 2007, R. Riebisch's version w/ makehelp.exe fix; 386+) = http://www.bttr-software.de/products/fed/ FTE: N/A (0.50.1, May 26 2007; 386+) = http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fte = http://www.student.unimelb.edu.au/denisa/fte.htm VILE: N/A (9.6, Dec. 28 2007; 386+) = http://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html Exuberant Ctags: N/A (5.7, Sep. 4 2007, supports 34 languages; 386+) -> works with VIM, VILE, JED, Mined, or SETEDIT = http://ctags.sf.net UNRAR: N/A (3.71 beta 1, in URAR378D.ZIP, as of Sep. 10, 2007; 386+) = http://www.rarlabs.com/rar_add.htm OCTASM: N/A (1.67 as of Mar. 14, 2008; 486 DX+) = http://octavio.vega.fernandez.googlepages.com/octaos DX-FORTH: N/A (3.80 as of Mar. 2, 2008) = http://dxforth.webhop.org Necromancer's DOS Navigator (NDN): N/A (2.31.0954 beta, Apr. 7, 2008; 486DX+) = http://ndn.muxe.com/beta/ (32-bit, DOS/32A, no srcs) = http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/dn/ (final 16-bit 1.51 w/ srcs) = http://www.dnosp.com (abandoned in favor of DN/2; w/ srcs) 7-Zip/p7zip (4.57) = http://www.7-zip.org/ -> or try 4.58 alpha versions (e.g. 4.58a7) here: = http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=45797 -> Win32 cmdline .EXE (extras has .7z-only 7Z.EXE); use w/ HXRT (faster!) = http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ -> src only; also needs WATT-32 + pthreads = http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/ -> p7zip .EXE for DOS/DJGPP (Mar. 27, 2008 recompile; slower than Win32 + HX) = http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/7zip/ +===========+ | Emulation | +===========+ DOSBox: N/A (0.72, Aug. 26, 2007, now available in id or Sierra compilations) = http://www.dosbox.com (new URL!) DOSEMU: N/A (1.4.0, May 5, 2007) = http://www.dosemu.org BOCHS (2.3.6 as of Dec. 24, 2007) = http://bochs.sf.net -> now 25-40% faster than previous versions! VirtualBox (1.5.6 as of Feb. 19, 2008) = http://www.virtualbox.org -> supposedly based upon QEMU but improved / different enough -> no SB support (but USB support) vs. QEMU -> (quoting Japheth): "Both are unable to run v86-code natively (that's why VMware is still the best option for DOS)" QEMU (0.9.1 "stable" as of Jan. 8, 2008) = http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ (main site) = http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ (Win32 "stable") = http://www1.interq.or.jp/t-takeda/qemu/index.html (Win32 "snapshots") = http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/qemu-snapshots/ (src only "snapshots") -> Win32 + 0.9.0 "stable" (?) is from Feb. 7, 2007 -> Takeda's Dec. 13, 2007 (pre-0.9.1) and Feb. 4, 2008 (0.9.1) "snapshots" also exist -> see "Slowing down MSDOS" for various tips (including "-brake" patch): -> http://www.miroslavnovak.com/qemu-brake_en.php JPC (src dated Sep. 18, 2007; full PC emulator in Java) = http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/ Retro: N/A (0.4, as of Dec. 31, 2007; 8086/CGA-only emulator in Java) -> runs DOS, Minix, or Windows 2.0 = http://www.xs4all.nl/~rjoris/retro/ PocketDOS: N/A (1.12.2, *** non-free SHAREWARE! ***) -> for Handheld PC or Pocket PC machines -> PC/XT emulator of 186 w/ 1 MB RAM + (S)VGA running a 'real' DOS -> handles CGA/VGA/VESA 1.2, PC speaker, XMS, EMS, mouse, CompactFlash, etc. = http://www.pocketdos.com = http://www.pocketdos.com/screenshots.htm MikeOS: N/A (1.3.0, as of Apr. 8, 2008) = http://mikeos.berlios.de (tiny OS w/ minimal DOS subsystem; NASM src)