I remember GW-Basic being in one of the first IBM XT machines on rom. Doom originally was released on MSDOS :)
-Ed On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, 07:30 Rugxulo via Freedos-user, < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 10:34 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS. > > I sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you really > do *work* with DOS?" > > And the answer is of course you can, that happened every day. > > > > So I'm collecting a list of things you'd do in the 80s and 90s with DOS > to do work. > > Sure, I'll put a game it two in there, but I'm focusing on getting work > done. > > > > What programs or types of programs would you like to see? > > If you insist on a game, I suggest something ASCII-based like a > roguelike, maybe UMoria? > > * > http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/gamesrc/mor55src.zip > > (Although Doom did just turn 30, and its source code release in late > 1997 got a very quick DOS port with DJGPP.) > > While I'm the last person to suggest "UNIX is the answer to life, the > universe, and everything!", they did have some useful tools that had > DOS ports. Sed and AWK come to mind. > > * http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/pc/garbo/pc/unix/sed15x.zip (HHsed, compiled > by Turbo C, circa 1991) > * > http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/stmsdos9709/disk2/DISC2/GNU/GNUISH/MAWK122X.ZIP > (dual DOS + OS/2, circa 1996) > > Text editors were also good, e.g. DJGPP's GNU Emacs or RHIDE or (real > mode) TDE: > > * > http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel9703/disk1/DISC2/DJGPP/V2GNU/00_INDEX.TXT > * http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel9703/disk1/DISC2/DJGPP/V2APPS/ > * http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/pc/garbo/pc/goldies/tde40.zip (circa 1994) > > Another cool hex editor / viewer / assembler that everyone loved was HIEW: > * http://ftp.lanet.lv/ftp/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming/utils/hiew44.zip > (but I only remember 6.x or such) > > Simtel also had NASM 0.97, which I used to write a really simple > utility (public domain) and uploaded back in 1999. > > * http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel0101/simtel/asmutl/nasm097.zip > > (A86/D86 was also very good for shareware, last updated in 2000.) > > In summary: Simtel, Garbo, x2ftp, DJGPP > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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