[MDGx]

poetdowns, on 02 December 2010 - 08:20 AM, said:

I have 2 questions.

The links and drivers and programs that are being recommended here -is this stuff someone's heard about, or stuff someone's used; I.e., there's a difference between "I heard about this place", and "I've ran this program and it works"

It turns out I had an updated Univbe program, which I've installed (haven't run the game yet to see how it looks); does anyone want me to upload it here somewhere? Is it something anyone else can use?


~twf

1. I've used UniVBE, the native DOS driver, a very long time ago, back in the days when old video cards were not compatible with modern VESA standards.
Nowadays most of the video hardware doesn't need univbe anymore, unless you're using some old DOS game [can't recall which one I've read about years ago] which was programmed to use univbe [or similar tool], and crashes without, even locking up the computer.
Another bug I know of is that univbe [last native DOS version] was created before some video controller manufacturers updated their vid BIOSes, and in such cases [the Vogons forum should have some info on this issue] it is needed a fake univbe driver [*.DRV] to load in memory upon every boot from autoexec.bat or config.sys before univbe loads, in order to fool univbe into thinking the video BIOS is compatible with its driver.

2. To my knowledge each univbe driver is created custom [when you 1st run the EXE tool from native DOS] to the specific video controller BIOS in your computer, and will probably not match many other video controllers out there.
Therefore one needs to run univbe.exe on his/her particular computer, in order to create the customized driver that will load in memory from then on.
So if you'd like to post your univbe driver, please specify the exact vendor + model of your video controller, and eventually the video BIOS flash build number, so other users can have an idea what to expect, because your custom driver may not work for others.

HTH

[MDGx]

Programs for DOS, drivers for DOS, potatoes, potatos, take your pick...
The important fact is that it happened, and much sooner than some of us here at MSFN predicted it would happen... ;-)

exFAT drivers for native DOS are finally here [free, open source]...

• USBexFAT ASPI Disk Driver 1.00:
  USBEXFAT.COM [27 KB]
  
  
• Native DOS TSR exFAT/FAT64 Reader Driver 0.5:
  EXFAT.EXE [50 KB]
  Requires HX DOS extender (free)

Experiment:
Load them up [1 at a time] in your config.sys +/- autoexec.bat, reboot, and then start Windows 95/98/ME. Theoretically these drivers should provide exFAT/FAT64 support (even if limited) in Windows 9x OSes [95, 98 + ME].
An extended memory manager like HIMEMX.EXE (free) may be needed in config.sys.
Do not load them from a DOS box/session/console.
WinME users need 1 of these patches to re-enable use of autoexec.bat + config.sys [free].

Enjoy.

[TurricaN]

Real DOS 8.00 on separate HDD/partition *WITHOUT PATCHES* for first time:

Windows Me OEM bootable CD inside TOOLS\NETTOOLS\FAC\LTOOLS.DTA misnamed cabinet file contains:

IO.SYS
MSDOS.SYS
COMMAND.COM

which can be used as system files on any separate HDD/partition, *WITHOUT PATCHES* of any sort. Simply format separate HDD/partition and freshly copy these three files to main directory in given order to have DOS 8.00 working instantly.

This post has been edited by TurricaN: 04 April 2011 - 10:44 AM

[Ninho]

KBFR is an alternate DOS driver for French keyboards. Salient features :

- only 480 bytes resident memory used
- autoloads "high" if upper memory is available (can be overridden)
- *all DOS* make and version supported (please report if you find an incompatible case)
- should run on all "AT" class, 80286+ machines (i.e. anything except early PC and PC-XT & compatibles)
- driver can be enabled, disabled, removed without rebooting.
- compatible with MS-Windows and DOS multi-taskers.
- especially recommended for boot floppies (if anybody still cares) as it occupies only ~2 kilobytes on disk (no extra data file needed)

- only French keyboard supported ATM sorry. I have a German version half finished, will finalise IF voluntary testers apply (please message me)

- license : free for use, open source.

Download : attached archive 4,578 bytes

More download links (including KBFR source code)

July 27, 2011 - edit Downloadable files were refreshed (minor bugfix). The above links have been updated accordingly.
Users who downloaded earlier should update.

Attached File(s)

•  KBFR.ZIP (4.47K)
  Number of downloads: 6

This post has been edited by Ninho: 28 July 2011 - 03:43 AM

[ScrewUpgrading]

If you like Windows 3.1 and DOS games here's a cool website that is still updated.
http://www.download-central.ws/

This post has been edited by ScrewUpgrading: 01 October 2011 - 05:00 PM

[ScrewUpgrading]

Slovak Antivirus Center

"You can find here the latest shareware and freeware programs, which come from the collection of SAC FTP server maintained by Peter Hubinsky."

http://www.sac.sk/

This post has been edited by ScrewUpgrading: 01 October 2011 - 04:55 PM

[ScrewUpgrading]

--MY FAVORITE DOS STUFF--


Below is the homepage for Dvpeg, probably the fastest *freeware* image viewer for DOS that I'm aware of.

http://sca.uwaterloo...praetzel/dvpeg/
(I prefer the simplified version because it has fewer bugs, but it only supports jpeg format though.)

You can customize it to your liking. It offers a nice amount of command line switches and other tweaks you can change in the setup.

*Note* It doesn't handle progressive format jpegs. It will come up with an error for unsupported marker type. These are pretty rare files though, maybe like 1 in 100 jpegs, if that.

On my desktop I actually made a shortcut to Dvpeg. It's a very quick, no frills way of browsing through your jpegs. I made a batch file to start it the way I want every time, and I locked the resolution at 640x480 and enabled shrinking so I don't have to scroll the pictures. Works just as fast as most windows progs, but without all the bloat.

If you try out Dvpeg, remember that hitting "N" will go to the next picture, "P" the previous one. Hehe.


If I had to rank the best Freeware picture viewers for DOS:

(1) Dvpeg
http://sca.uwaterloo...praetzel/dvpeg/

(2) PictView 1.95
http://www.pictview.com/pv195prev.zip

(3) Lxpic
http://hplx.pgdn.de/

(4) PixView
http://www.cs.unibo.it/~rossi/pixview/

(5) Picem
http://www.afn.org/~...143/picem32.zip


...I might also mention that DOS had some pretty cool *shareware* image viewers. They're all fully functioning despite being shareware. In terms of quality they blow the freeware programs right out of the water.

Here's how I would rank them:

(1) QPV
http://ftp.sunet.se/...hics/qpv17a.zip

(2) Sea
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub...graph/sea13.zip

(3) QuickView Pro (plays audio, video, and mp3s)
http://www.multimediaware.com/

(4) PV
http://www.multimediaware.com/

(5) Vpic (no jpeg support)
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi...til/vpic61e.zip


...Here's a few Antivirus programs for DOS

http://www.come.to/rose_swe (RHBVS... Rose's Heuristic Based Virus Scanner)

ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub...ir/scn-322e.zip (McAfee Virus Scan for DOS)


Programming....

http://www.qbcafe.ne...ic-compiler.htm (QuickBasic 4.5)

http://www.qbcafe.ne...ws-compiler.htm (Visual Basic 1.0 for Windows 3.1)

http://www.qbcafe.ne...ic-compiler.htm (Visual Basic for DOS)

Unzipping
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub...ack/pcdezip.zip (PCdzip)

Freeware unzip utility, alternative to PKunzip

Video, Avi, Mpegs
http://www.programme...0/download.aspx (Video For DOS)

Command line motion video cross-compiler that creates and converts among FLI, FLC, AVI formats plus MPG input/decoding. Reads and extracts BMP, RLE, DIB, TGA, PCX & GIF. Resize, crop, dither, color reduction. Includes GeeWiz, the AVI player for DOS.

ftp://ftp.povray.org.../utilities/dta/ (Dave's Targa Animator)

Dave's targa animator is a program, that can animate PCX GIF and TGA- files in varying colors and resolutions. Outputs FLIC files too.

...Menus, Shells, GUIs

http://surf.to/AccessDosMenu (Access)

Archiver
http://ftp.sunet.se/...rcers/oop23.zip (Oop Archiver)

Nice GUI, password protection, disk spanning, good compression ratio, versatile.

This post has been edited by ScrewUpgrading: 07 October 2011 - 06:17 AM

[ScrewUpgrading]

From the official F-Prot forum:

Quote

The last definition files we created that were compatible with F-Prot for DOS 3.16f are from beginning of February 2009

Here's a download link to the LAST F-Prot for DOS

https://forum.f-prot...ot_dos_316f.zip

To sum it up, it detects over 672,500 viruses.

This post has been edited by ScrewUpgrading: 03 October 2011 - 04:58 PM

[FlierMate]

I am new to this message board, the first thing I would do is share with you some of my old DOS programs.

Attached are COUNTER.ZIP and ADDRBOOK.ZIP. Both run OK even in Windows XP without compatibility issues.

What is COUNTER:

Quote

Digital Counter
Version 1.0 (Release 2000.1)
Developed by Boo Khan Ming (from Malaysia)
E-mail: bookm@tm.net.my
WWW: http://www.geocities...ey/Horizon/3409

DESCRIPTION: This is a multi-purpose digital counter (capable of count up to 65535).

USAGE: To increment the counter value once, press SPACE BAR.
To open menu screen, press F1.
You have options to change the color appearance, and to reset the counter value.
Use arrow keys, ENTER and ESC to navigate through the menus.

TIPS: You can restore the previous counter value by modifying COUNTER.INI
(change 'AutomaticResetDisabled' setting from default 'no' to 'yes).

Thank you for trying out this small snippet!
Hope you find it useful.
Any feedback are welcome.

In addition to this small snippet, I have something more professional, the ADDRBOOK.ZIP

Read what reviewer said about this menu- and/or mouse-driven program.

Quote

Office address and phone database.

* * *

[added 2004-09-15, updated 2005-06-05]

Address Book is geared to office use: Data fields are ID, Name, Address, Phone, Fax, Supervisor. Features: Search on any one or more fields; Export to text file; View, Add, Edit, Remove records. Splash screen reports number of records and total size of database. Menu or dialog box operation, using mouse or keyboard. Runs in DOS box under Windows 9x. Can run with or without the included .PAL file.

Author: Boo Khan Ming, Malaysia (2003).

2005-02-04: v1.51. Package now includes PAS source.

Yes, the TP7 source code also included in the ZIP file.

Attached File(s)

•  addrbook.zip (48.23K)
  Number of downloads: 11
•  counter.zip (7.82K)
  Number of downloads: 8

[FlierMate]

These little .COM program are useful in your batch file.

PRESS.COM - Wait until user press any key to continue (Another version)

CLICK.COM - You may have well heard "Press any key to continue", but this one offers "Press left mouse button to continue..."

BEEP.COM - As its name implies...

BIOSDATE.COM - Print on the screen BIOS manufacture date.

Attached File(s)

•  Ltautils.zip (1.15K)
  Number of downloads: 14

[_Smoker]

DOS Widgets page by Dave Dunfield

DOS Lives! Rumors of the death of DOS are greatly exaggerated.

This post has been edited by _Smoker: 10 April 2012 - 04:40 AM

[xrayer]

MPlayer 1.0rc4 SVN-r34587 DOS port by Khusraw - also supports AC'97 and HD Audio soundcards!
MPlayer sample config file - place in mplayer subdir in exec directory
WSS Audio Library used in MPlayer
LAME MP3 encoder 3.99.3 DOS port by me
FFMPEG video/audio encoder 0.10 DOS port by me
x264 video encoder 0.120 DOS port by me
Dillo web browser DOS port by Georg Potthast
FlWriter DOS port by Georg Potthast

This post has been edited by xrayer: 15 February 2012 - 08:03 AM

[FlierMate]

I am back!

Specifically designed for my company, it remains portable and generic. Why? With a text file for input, this program can be yours!

NTMON.EXE is just 75KB, no add-ons needed. It is intended as a shell of PING results up to 500 URLs/IPs in a scrollable listbox with ONLINE/OFFLINE tag next to all items.

Well. You might come up with the text file (NTMON.TXT) in this 2-line format:

DESCRIPTION
URL/IP
DESCRIPTION
URL/IP
...
...
...
(up to 500 pairs)

Then, just start the program, wait for the dialog to appear while it is pinging the list in the background (or foreground, depending on your OS).

It is simply useful to keep track a list of regular URLs/IPs (to ping) and show it in a scrollable+searchable+sorted listbox with ONLINE/OFFLINE results.

Now, things to consider.

It has been tested on Windows XP SP3, and Windows 7 32-bit (various editions).

Under your Windows, besides a NTMON.TXT for input, NTMON.EXE requires a third-party executable from Microsoft to act as the engine.
Please copy from your Windows' SYSTEM32 folder, the PING.EXE, to the same folder as NTMON.EXE.

The attached NTMON.ZIP already included the Windows 7 32-bit version of PING.EXE. Using incorrect version of PING.EXE may resulting in incorrect ONLINE/OFFLINE status.
When ONLINE and when OFFLINE? OFFLINE is shown either when PING.EXE is not in the application path, URL/IP naming convention is incorrect, or no Internet access on both ends.
When ONLINE then is very clear. NTMON.EXE ping twice to confirm at least a reply is received.

If you need this program, please feel free to use it. Unlike prior MS-DOS programs, I haven't include the TP7 source in the compressed package.

Thanks!

ADDITIONAL NOTE: Please set the properties of this MS-DOS program to run in 80x50 text mode.

 NTMON.zip (43.36K)
Number of downloads: 14

This post has been edited by FlierMate: 01 August 2012 - 07:53 AM

[jaclaz]

FlierMate, on 01 August 2012 - 07:46 AM, said:

It has been tested on Windows XP SP3, and Windows 7 32-bit (various editions).

Under your Windows, besides a NTMON.TXT for input, NTMON.EXE requires a third-party executable from Microsoft to act as the engine.

I would have sweared that we are in :

Quote

MSFN Forum
> Microsoft Software Products
> Windows 95/98/98SE/ME

on a thread titled:

Quote

DOS Programs
Share interesting drivers or apps

Dos does not mean "command line", nor CLI, it means DOS.
XP and 7, last time I checked, were part of the NT family of OS and not of the 9x/Me one (DOS based).

So, nice tool , but maybe posted in the "wrong" place

jaclaz

[FlierMate]

jaclaz, on 01 August 2012 - 10:03 AM, said:

FlierMate, on 01 August 2012 - 07:46 AM, said:

It has been tested on Windows XP SP3, and Windows 7 32-bit (various editions).

Under your Windows, besides a NTMON.TXT for input, NTMON.EXE requires a third-party executable from Microsoft to act as the engine.

I would have sweared that we are in :

Quote

MSFN Forum
> Microsoft Software Products
> Windows 95/98/98SE/ME

on a thread titled:

Quote

DOS Programs
Share interesting drivers or apps

Dos does not mean "command line", nor CLI, it means DOS.
XP and 7, last time I checked, were part of the NT family of OS and not of the 9x/Me one (DOS based).

So, nice tool , but maybe posted in the "wrong" place

jaclaz

My mind had been dizzy as the Windows family keeps emerging (or I am the one to blame for not catching up the technology )

Truly, but sadly, I have blurred the line between CMD.EXE (or COMMAND.EXE) and the real MS-DOS. Thank you for your correction, really!

I can't find better place to share this program. While my program fits the thread, it was the descriptions that misled many.
I even doubt that there is a PING.EXE provided by earlier version of Windows, or MS-DOS itself.

Glad that you like the program. (You've actually downloaded and tried it, haven't you?)

[jaclaz]

FlierMate, on 01 August 2012 - 10:40 AM, said:

Glad that you like the program. (You've actually downloaded and tried it, haven't you?)

Sure I did , but by "nice", I meant "nice" , not that I personally liked it

I mean, no offence intended, but to do similar things in NT based systems I have always used a few lines in one of my half@§§ed batches, example:

@ECHO OFF
CLS
SET to_ping=8.8.8.8
SET Today=%Date%
SET Today=%Today:/=_%
:loop
FOR /F "tokens=5 delims==, " %%A IN ('ping -n 1 %to_ping% ^|FIND "Pacchetti"') DO (
ECHO.
IF %%A.==0. (
ECHO %Date%-%time% NO_PING %to_ping%
REM Optional log
REM ECHO %Date%-%time% NO_PING %to_ping%>>%Today%.log
)
::Poorman's WAIT
::Very roughly 60 second intervals
::it would be much beeter to use AT, SCHTASKS or any of the n third party "WAIT" tools
FOR /L %%B in (0,1,4100) DO PING -n 1 127.0.1.1>nul
GOTO :loop

JFYI, Win9x/Me have the PING command allright :
http://www.computerh...com/pinghlp.htm

"real" DOS misses alltogether the TCP/IP stack , BUT :
http://wisdomtree.in...cpip.htm#Kernel
http://web.archive.o....com/wattcp.asp
http://www.bootablec...rk/msclient.htm
http://sourceforge.n...DOS_-_MS_Client
http://www.jacco2.dd.../samba/dos.html

jaclaz

[FlierMate]

jaclaz, on 01 August 2012 - 12:45 PM, said:

FlierMate, on 01 August 2012 - 10:40 AM, said:

Glad that you like the program. (You've actually downloaded and tried it, haven't you?)

Sure I did , but by "nice", I meant "nice" , not that I personally liked it

I mean, no offence intended, but to do similar things in NT based systems I have always used a few lines in one of my half@§§ed batches, example:

@ECHO OFF
CLS
SET to_ping=8.8.8.8
SET Today=%Date%
SET Today=%Today:/=_%
:loop
FOR /F "tokens=5 delims==, " %%A IN ('ping -n 1 %to_ping% ^|FIND "Pacchetti"') DO (
ECHO.
IF %%A.==0. (
ECHO %Date%-%time% NO_PING %to_ping%
REM Optional log
REM ECHO %Date%-%time% NO_PING %to_ping%>>%Today%.log
)
::Poorman's WAIT
::Very roughly 60 second intervals
::it would be much beeter to use AT, SCHTASKS or any of the n third party "WAIT" tools
FOR /L %%B in (0,1,4100) DO PING -n 1 127.0.1.1>nul
GOTO :loop

What I can say. The difference between yours (a batch scripts) and mine (a ping shell) is the latter is more **presentable**.
It was not difficult to create the menu and dialog UI as I managed to accomplish in one working day in office.

However, in most cases, a batch script is more than enough.

jaclaz, on 01 August 2012 - 12:45 PM, said:

JFYI, Win9x/Me have the PING command allright :
http://www.computerh...com/pinghlp.htm

"real" DOS misses alltogether the TCP/IP stack , BUT :
http://wisdomtree.in...cpip.htm#Kernel
http://web.archive.o....com/wattcp.asp
http://www.bootablec...rk/msclient.htm
http://sourceforge.n...DOS_-_MS_Client
http://www.jacco2.dd.../samba/dos.html

jaclaz

Thank you very much for your plenty of resources.
I have tried the Windows 95 (or WFW 3.2?)'s PING.EXE but was not working under my Windows 7 32-bit.
Also have had a look at MS Client.

To make this clear, the NTMON.EXE was intended to run in command-line subject to the availability of PING.EXE in your Windows (from Win95 up to Win7, although the program wasn't tested in earlier versions of the OS), even though the program itself was entirely a pure MS-DOS program (written using Turbo Pascal 7.0 dated 1992).

[Drugwash]

In Win9x, the PING window will not run hidden; therefore, a series of calls to PING.EXE will result in a very disturbing flashing of a DOS window. For this reason, two years ago I have written a utility that can ping only one IP or address repeatedly and notify through message box (and speech, if enabled) when the ping failed. It uses IcmpCreateFile(), IcmpSendEcho(), IcmpCloseHandle() plus WSAStartup(), WSACleanup() and a couple other functions, which makes PING.EXE unnecessary. However, the utility only runs under Windows (definitely 9x/XP, not sure about Vista/7/8). If I remembered what I did back then, I could probably modify it to loop through a list of IPs/addresses, but I'm not sure what the usefulness of such tool would be and neither do I feel like coding right now. If anyone thinks it'd be needed as is, say so and I'll try attaching it here.

[LostInSpace2012]

Metropoli BBS is back up, was down for a few years.

lots of old stuff burried in there.

http://files.mpoli.fi/

http://files.mpoli.fi/software/DOS/

This post has been edited by LostInSpace2012: 22 February 2013 - 03:30 AM

[Steven W]

As-Easy-As Spreadsheet for DOS version 5.7 is available for free.

From the TRIUS forums:

Quote

TRIUS no longer supports or answers questions regarding this program, but other users visiting these forums might.

You will need a serial number during installation, it and more info can be found here:

http://www.triusinc....ic.php?f=9&t=10