[Glenn9999]

I said in response to someone on this thread that I would start posting a few random drivers or apps for DOS, but it would be a good opportunity for anyone to share (or even give experiences on them). The main thing, I guess would be to figure out what would be worth sharing.

I'll start by posting what I put in the other thread, and will be adding more in the coming days, along with descriptions. Of course, if there's any objections to what is being posted for warez or other reasons (newer more complete versions perhaps?), I can always pull the files from my posts. Or if there is a need for any documentation on how to load any of these, by all means ask.

AOATAPI - the AOpen CD-ROM driver, supports UDMA
CTMOUSE - an alternative mouse driver.
SHARE - the Datalight file sharing driver.
SHCDX33A - a MSCDEX replacement ver 33a.
SHCDX33C - ver 33c of a MSCDEX replacement.
UIDEXMGR - UIDE and XMGR.
UMBPCI - a UMB memory provider.
XMSDSK - I found the full package, see below:

This post has been edited by Glenn9999: 05 October 2008 - 08:28 PM

[Glenn9999]

More files I have of the category of USB drivers. YMMV, and I don't know the exact functions of some of these or whether they would work (much of my testing on these drivers were limited for lack of documentation). Please enlighten me on any particular application for these - I'm sure I'll get my original questions out on these files when I reference them and whether they are worth keeping for whatever reason.

IOMEGA-USB - some random USB drivers put out by Iomega. Also a 1394 firewire driver in this package.
Cypress-USB - the Cypress DOS USB drivers.
Motto-Hairu - the access drivers for USB (DI1000DD). Includes RAMFD.SYS, I guess related to USB floppy drives?
Ninja-USB - I don't know where I got these drivers, but one of them has the string "NinjaUSB ASPI CD-ROM Driver (ATAPI) Ver 3.09 Copyright©2000 Workbit Corporation.", so I'm guessing these are USB drivers as well.
PanasonicUSB - varying versions of the Panasonic USB drivers. Also has a USB CD driver in there.
SBP1394 - I guess this is a IEEE1394 Firewire driver that came with the Sound Blaster Pro?
OHCIUHCI- I don't know where I got these either, but I did figure out they were USB 1.1 drivers.

Download the Cypress Drivers here
Download OHCIUHCI here.

Another set of drivers soon, if people want me to keep posting.

This post has been edited by Glenn9999: 06 September 2008 - 12:25 AM

[Philco]

Glenn9999, on Sep 6 2008, 01:21 AM, said:

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PanasonicUSB - varying versions of the Panasonic USB drivers. Also has a USB CD driver in there.
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My "old" Panasonic (config.sys)

device=C:\USBASPI.SYS /v /w
device=C:\Di1000dd.SYS

Insude ZIP 4 files:
Usbaspie.sys (date and size its same original usbaspi.sys)
Usbaspia.sys (???)
Usbcd.sys (for cd)
usbspib.sys (???)

Please, info.

[Glenn9999]

Philco, on Sep 7 2008, 02:45 PM, said:

Insude ZIP 4 files:
Usbaspie.sys (date and size its same original usbaspi.sys)
Usbaspia.sys (???)
Usbcd.sys (for cd)
usbspib.sys (???)

When I was trying to sort out the different versions I was finding, I renamed them with a letter on the end and changed the CONFIG.SYS to check them on my test boot disk. I ended up storing them in the same directory as well, so I left the names alone. Those three files are differing versions of the same thing (USBASPI.SYS).

[thydreamwalker]

COOL!;thanks as we need more "Subjects related to Dos and 98SE, like this on this 'forum' as re-upgrading as this!

[expert01]

Best DOS resources:
http://ms-dos7.hit.bg/ (Archive of Wengier's DOS 7.1 page, provided by Myselg and hosted by another)
http://wiki.oldos.org/
http://www.vetusware.com/
http://www.dossoluti...ueyonder.co.uk/
http://www.freaked.org/

DOS Forums:
http://www.bttr-soft...forum/forum.php (Very active DOS Forum)
http://www.oabw.net/bbs/index.php
http://betaarchive.co.uk/ (not as much about DOS, but some good info)
http://forum.oldos.o...wforum.php?f=33


DOS PnP:
http://www.nu2.nu/utils/#pciscan
http://www.pcidatabase.com/ (large database of PCI device ID's)
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/ (another large database of PCI device ID's)
http://listing.driveragent.com/pci/ (large database of PCI device ID's with drivers)
http://developer.int...bd/gen_indx.htm (ISA Configuration Utility)

DOS USB:
http://www.computing...orum/13447.html (topic about USB 2.0 drivers for DOS)
http://www.computing...orum/10491.html (topic about USB drivers for DOS)
http://www.computing...orum/15568.html (topic about USB drivers for DOS)
http://www.computing...orum/14818.html (topic about USB drivers for DOS)
http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm (bootdisk.com topic on DOS USB drivers)
http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/ (some guides on net setup, USB info, benchmark util)
http://www.fixup.net...sbdos/index.htm (More DOS USB info)
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/new...drivers-for-dos (Inquirer USB DOS article)

DOS Drivers:
http://www.geocities...jadoxa/shsucdx/ (MSCDEX replacement as well as DOS CD virtualization tools)
http://www.google.co...h?q=dos+drivers (Google search for DOS drivers)
http://www.leinss.com/blog/?p=9 (Info about Bart's Netboot Disk)
http://www.mdgx.com/newtip18.htm#DGSBL (DOS SoundBlaster Live)
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/cdrom/ (Bart's CD Bootdisk)
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?d...TrUrl=Translate (Russian website with drivers, utilities, games - including great classics)
http://people.cs.uch...gui/netdos.html (How to set up net on dos)
http://www.nu2.nu/jo/ (jo.sys - boots from hard drive instead of CD if key not pressed)

DOS Memory:
http://www.mdgx.com/umb.htm (MDGX page with lots of UMBPCI info, also DOS video acceleration info)
http://www.mdgx.com/mem7.htm (MDGX page with memory optimization info)
http://www.programmersheaven.com/download/.../5/ZipView.aspx (Bit of info about DOSMAX)
http://panda.bg.univ...tips/memory.txt (info about memory optimization)
http://www.mdgx.com/speed.htm#BIO (really useful utilities to speed up DOS, some for compatibility and some sys utils)
http://www.knowplace.org/pages/morgue/opti..._dos_memory.php (Optimizing DOS Memory)
http://www.devedia.c...wks_w31.htm#top (Info about DOS memory and drivers)
http://smallvoid.com...os/performance/ (Couple articles about optimization)

DOS Utilities:
http://members.shaw....ada/hdutils.htm (Hard Drive Utilities)
http://www.mdgx.com/dos.htm (MDGX page with lots of DOS utilities, links to other DOS software collections)
http://www.filegate....ti-virus/avdos/ (DOS Anti-Virus Programs)
http://bootcd.narod.ru/index_e.htm (Bootable CD Utilities, good for multiple OS on one disk)
http://devedia.com/d...dos/utildos.htm (DOS util archive, has CD God Disk)
http://www.ehsco.com...060803iwc1.html (Article with info about DOS recovery and sys utils)
http://www.devedia.c...os/dos_vers.asp (Random official DOS utilities)
http://www.devedia.c.../dosnix.htm#top (Some UNIX based DOS utilities)
http://home.mnet-onl...st.muc/main.htm (DOS Batch Tools)

DOS Programs:
http://www.opus.co.t...ve/indexall.htm (Page with utilities, drivers, and lots of programs)
http://oldfiles.org....speed/main.html (Lightspeed's page with some DOS, mostly 3.1 software, links to collections)
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ (directory of LOTS of DOS programs, including batch file info, bootup/system utilities, drivers...)
http://pages.prodigy...arris/index.htm (Dale Harris's POS Cash Register Program)
http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/ (DOS CD Writing Program)
http://www.freeweb.h...ast/dvd4dos.htm (DVD playback program, 1 hour for 1 minute of playback)
http://archives.math....directory.html (DOS math software)

DOS Games:
http://www.classic-g.../list/system/1/

Windows 3.1:
http://www.mdgx.com/w31toy.htm (MDGX Win3.1 resource page)
http://www.winsite.c...ideo/index.html (Windows 3.1 Video Drivers)
http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/w...iver.video.html (Windows 3.1 Video Drivers)
http://www.winsite.c...nter/index.html (Windows 3.1 Printer Drivers)
http://garbo.uwasa.f...ws/drivers.html (Various Windows Drivers)
http://www.devedia.c...os/32bithda.asp (Windows 3.1 32-bit HD access)
http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/16bit
http://browsers.evol...navigator/16bit
http://browsers.evol...g/?/opera/win16
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/Articl...5017/15017.html (Windows 3.1 Terminal Services something or another)
http://www.smspower....16bit/index.htm (Maxim's 3.1 Resources)
http://www.gaby.de/f...odecs/index.htm (Some Windows 3.1 Codecs)
http://www.gaby.de/f...chive/index.htm (Microsoft Software Library Excerpts)
http://www.winsite.com/win3/ (Windows 3.1 Programs, Utilities, & drivers)
http://www.gaby.de/win3x/edrivers.htm (Windows 3.1 & DOS drivers
http://www.win31.de/elinks.htm (3.1 link directory)
http://www.gaby.de/win3x/esoft.htm (3.1 Software)
http://www.oldfiles....rload/win3x.htm (3.1 Software, utilities, and updates)
http://stephan.win31.de/w32slist.htm (Win32s Compatibility List)
http://home.mnet-onl...rst.muc/win.htm (3.1 Programs)

Misc:
http://etherboot.org/wiki/howtos (Network booting info)
http://web.archive.org/web/20021123235223/...s/samsung/win3/ (Archive listing of some files, including pendos)
remy.soulie15.free.fr/win3x (Slow-loading french site, lots of OS downloads, plus games, drivers)

[Glenn9999]

More stuff out of my collection (Category: General Odds and Ends). Again, I don't know the results of any of this on your system so YMMV.

SLOWDOS - a software driver to slow down games.
THROTTLE - a hardware driver to throttle back the CPU. If the chipset is supported it's the same equivalent as the old turbo button. Again useful for slowing down games.

FU_RD19I - a RAMDISK driver set. This is the package that includes XMSDSK.EXE, which I posted earlier.
SRDSK209C - another RAMDISK package.

WAIT - a wait for keypress driver, returns an error level corresponding to the key pressed.
TM - changes the textmode and keyboard repeat rate at the command-prompt.
WRITEXT - writes text at a specified position on screen in a specified color.
ZENO - a driver for faster screen writes.

ATX_SHUTDOWN - does the ATX shutdown or restart at the DOS prompt. Check the batch files first before you use them.

PERUSE - a driver which gives scrollback capability for the command prompt. After you load it, Hit "Scroll Lock" to use, and hit it again when you are done using it.
MOUSCLIP - Clipboard capability for DOS. Invoke with /H for usage instructions.
ESCAPE - press F12 to exit any program. Use with caution.

DRVINFO - a "Is Drive Ready?" util. Also has a drive types lister.

Hope these are useful to someone...

[gkar]

This has been around for a while but just in case, Dosbox. Dos emulator works great with my old Dos games.

http://www.dosbox.co...tion.php?page=0

[Multibooter]

Glenn9999, on Sep 5 2008, 10:31 PM, said:

The main thing, I guess would be to figure out what would be worth sharing.

SlowDown is a classic, ftp://bretjohnson.us...ms/slodn310.zip the author's homepage http://bretjohnson.us/ has more DOS utilties.

Here 3 DOS programs which I still use occasionally under Win98, in a full-sized DOS window, on a 700-MHz laptop:

- DCF 5.3 (=Disk Copy Fast) for archiving old floppies as dcf images, which can later on be handled with Winimage under Win98. doesn't need to be slowed down.
- VGA-Copy-pro 5.30, works fine with SlowDown, for reading/copying weak floppies (99 retries)
- DiskDupe v4.07 for cleaning a floppy head with a special cleaning floppy, needs SlowDown

[MDGx]

More DOS tools + drivers [all free(ware)]:

http://www.mdgx.com/dos.htm

http://www.mdgx.com/speed.htm

http://www.mdgx.com/drv.htm

http://www.mdgx.com/umb.htm


Enjoy.

[MDGx]

This topic pinned ["stickified"].

Good work!

[Multibooter]

I am looking for CardWizard for Windows 3.1 release 5.30.10 and for CardSoft for DOS release 5.30.10, both by SystemSoft.

These are DOS 6 drivers for 32-bit CardBus card controllers in a laptop. They were the successors to CardWizard95, which was a DOS 6 driver for 16-bit PCMCIA card controllers used in laptops until 1997.

With any of these drivers I would be able, under DOS 6, to use old SCSI devices with my CardBus laptop, via a 16-bit SCSI PCMCIA card.

[FishBowl]

Norton Ghost 7.5, for fast image backups (commercial)
XFDISK, for it's MBR boot manager (freeware)

I will not place any links to software here.

This post has been edited by FishBowl: 27 October 2008 - 04:51 PM

[kahlil88]

OptiPNG is a great little utility that losslessly recompresses PNG images (or converts GIF and BMP images to PNG).

[Glenn9999]

Some more sharing of DOS stuff. But apps this time (I posted most of my driver collection that was out of the ordinary). Though I noticed when I was setting up a DOS VM that I have no CPU idling drivers. So I'm sure there are more categories that have been missed.

Anyway to the apps:

MP3 players? Here's one that has most of the bells and whistles that you can get out of DOS, as long as you use the right command-line parms:

http://www.damp-mp3.co.uk/

There's also a link to a Media manager on the site, as well as some ID3 editing tools.

Another one. Need a CD-burning software for DOS?

http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/
http://www.goldenhawk.com/dos.htm

And a third, though I hesitate to post it for the warez rules (I'm not entirely sure of its status). Did you know that version 1.0 of the Acrobat Reader (you know PDFs?) was written as a DOS app?

[jaclaz]

Glenn9999, on Jan 24 2009, 05:48 AM, said:

Did you know that version 1.0 of the Acrobat Reader (you know PDFs?) was written as a DOS app?

FYI:
http://www.nomdo.dds.nl/psview.htm

Quote

Note: PSVIEW was designed to run in plain DOS on a 386 or better computer. It was tested with OpenDOS 7.01, DR-DOS 7.02, MS-DOS 6.20 and FreeDOS 1.0 (courtesy Edmund Swylan). Running PSVIEW in full-screen Windows 95/98 is possible as well. There is no need, however, for using PSVIEW on a Windows computer: FOXIT or Acrobat reader is more appropriate then. The reason why I programmed PSVIEW is that the latest (and last) DOS-version of Acrobat reader is completely obsolete and unable to display any modern PDF file.

PSVIEW uses PDFTOPS to decode PDF files, not GhostScript. The reason is that PDFTOPS is, unlike GhostScript for DOS, still actively maintained and therefore better equipped to handle modern PDF documents.

jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: 24 January 2009 - 05:49 AM

[MDGx]

expert01, on Oct 2 2008, 02:06 PM, said:

Best DOS resources:

...

This is one of the best repositories of free(ware) DOS software I know of:
http://www.reimagery.com/fsfd/

DOS Operating systems [free(ware) or free to try (fully functional), most are discontinued, except for DR-DOS + FreeDOS]:

* DOS Operating Systems (OSes):
- FreeDOS 1.1 FAT32 compliant [free GPL]:
http://www.freedos.org/
Direct download [7-242 MB, CD-ROM ISOs, right-click to save!]:
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/
FreeDOS Software List:
http://www.freedos.o...eedos/software/
- DRDOS DR-DOS 7.03 [trial shareware]:
http://www.drdos.com...ts/drdos703.htm
Direct download [5.97 MB]:
ftp://os2ports.com/p...S.703/dr703.exe
- IBM PC-DOS 7.0 FAT32 compliant as part of IBM ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit 1.1.01 [unsupported freeware, discontinued!]:
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/s...randind=5000008
Direct download [7.62 MB]:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/suppor...m_x/31r1035.zip
Use an unZIPping tool [most are free(ware)]:
http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#ZIP
to extract all files -> preserve directory structure -> PC-DOS files found in \sgdeploy\sgtk\DOS subdirectory.
- DataLight ROM-DOS 7.10 FAT32 compliant [single user freeware]:
http://www.datalight...roducts/romdos/
Direct download [2.42 MB, requires free subscription!]:
http://www.datalight...e/resources.php

4DOS [alternative command shell environment, opposite to COMMAND.COM] is now open source, and in active development:

* 4DOS v8.00 16-bit DOS TSR improved Microsoft COMMAND.COM + command line environment (shell) replacement for MS-DOS 3/4/5/6/7/8 + Windows 3.x/9x/ME:
http://4dos.isgreat.org/
Direct download [803 KB, free, open source]:
http://4dos.isgreat.org/download.php
OLD 4DOS 7.50 (free, open source):
http://www.jpsoft.co...wnload.htm#free
4DOS Info:
http://www.4dos.info/

* JHead [free GPL] is a JPG/JPEG image format header bloat stripping tool [Linux port to Win32]:
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
If you have loads of jpegs, this will save you disk space by reducing file size, and no prying eyes will see the file header info.
Supports LFNs + Linux style wild cards + subdirectories any level deep.
JHead works great in a DOS box [from within Windows], have not tested it from native DOS [outside Windows].
Theroretically JHead should not work from outside Windows GUI, because: (1) it is a Win32 port [incompatible with native DOS, but if some1 wants to try, feel free = just make sure DOS4GW/CWSDPMI/DOS32/DPMIONE or similar DPMI driver is found in the same dir or in the %PATH% environment statement]; and (2) native DOS does not support LFNs [without DOSLFN or similar loaded in RAM].
DPMI drivers [free(ware)]:
http://www.mdgx.com/dos.htm#DPMI
DOSLFN (free):
http://www.mdgx.com/dos.htm#LFN

HTH

[jaclaz]

Some good ol' DOS assembly programs:
http://bellsouthpwp....ch617/flist.htm

most notably IPL.COM and DTRBOOT, among lots of other ones.

More things, DASD vision worth a look:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/

jaclaz

[PROBLEMCHYLD]

Well i have a few dos games that i play and i would like to exceed maxium performance
the games are

Mortal Kombat 1
Mortal Kombat 2
Mortal Kombat 3

i'm aware of Dosbox but i prefer the true native dos instead of a emulator.
So which files would you recommend i see the list
but don't know which ones to choose from.

I also have

Mortal Kombat 4
Mortal Kombat Trilogy but they don't require dos.

What apps do I need to run the Xbox 360 controller in DOS.

This post has been edited by PROBLEMCHYLD: 19 February 2009 - 03:36 PM

[jaclaz]

Besides the Forum posted before by expert01:
http://www.bttr-soft...forum/forum.php

I'll throw in the home page too:
http://www.bttr-software.de/

Several interesting utilities for the good ol' DOS user, I will point out this one:
http://www.bttr-soft...oducts/drvexch/

Quote

Description

It is known that the way that DOS assigns drive letters to hard disk partitions at startup is not very conveniently for users, who have removable hard disks, i.e., mounted in "drawers", or just add a new hard disk to their systems.

On a two-disk system with 1 primary partition and 2 logical drives in an extended partition for each hard disk:
primary DOS partition on the first hard disk becomes drive C:
primary DOS partition on the second hard disk becomes drive D:
next drive letters are assigned to logical drives in extended partitions on the first hard disk
next drive letters are assigned to logical drives in extended partitions on the second hard disk

Therefore, if you have software installed in the extended partition of the first hard disk and you add or remove second hard disk, the drive letter changes and all paths (and maybe software configuration files) become invalid.

In addition, you can create (but not with standard DOS FDISK programs) more than one primary partition on each hard disk; this can be sometimes useful, e.g., when you want to have several versions of DOS and/or Microsoft Windows installed on your PC and want to keep them well separated.

As it is non-standard configuration, it is handled differently by different versions of DOS.

Very old DOS versions ignore the additional partitions. The MS-DOSes (including MS-DOS 7.x from Microsoft Windows 9x) and probably IBM PC-DOSes assign letters AFTER all logical drives in extended partitions on all hard disks to those primary partitions. The DR/Novell/Caldera DOSes assign letters to ALL primary partitions BEFORE all logical drives in extended partitions.

What a mess...

But now, after a long trial-and-error research, we managed to prepare a solution (or better: a partial solution) to this problem.

And several DOS ports:
http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/



jaclaz