4DOS (2004) 2 Utility DOS

4DOS is a command line interpreter replacement for command.com that adds many new features.

• 7.50

Adaptec EZ-SCSI (1992) 9 DOS Windows

EZ-SCSI, from Adaptec, is a convenient all-in-one set of drivers for Adaptec SCSI cards.

• 4.x
• 5.x

Adobe Acrobat Reader (1994) 12 Document Windows OS2 Other

Acrobat Reader is the free software from Adobe used to read, view, and print documents created by the commercial Adobe Acrobat product. Its primary strength is that documents appear and print identically across differing systems.

• 3.x
• Mobile (2002)

AST Advanced Diagnostics (1995) 0 DOS

AST Advanced Diagnostics, from AST Research, is a systems diagnostic tool designed primarily for use on AST computers.

• 2.x

BackMaster (1995) 0 Utility OS2

BackMaster is a backup program for IBM OS/2 that features support for a large number of tape drives. It offers an easy-to-use graphical user interface, and enables a variety of backup configurations including unattended backup. It supports full system restore by creating a set of disaster recovery boot disks.

• 2.x

Backpack Drivers (2002) 1 DOS Windows

This CD contains device drivers for all Micro Solutions Backpack hard drives, CD-ROM drives, and disk drives as of 2002. Backpack drives were mostly external parallel port connected, and very useful on systems that could not be expanded otherwise.

• 2002

Backup Exec (1993) 2 Utility DOS

Backup Exec is an easy to use backup program. It can back up files to floppy disks or certain tape drives. companies including Maynard Electronics, Archive Corp, Quest Development Corporation, Conner Peripherals, Arcada Software, Seagate Technology, Veritas Software, and Symantec. On top of that, Microsoft bundled a version with MS-DOS 6.

• 2.x (DOS)

BeOS (1995) 29 Other

BeOS was an OS developed to run on the BeBox hardware, a PowerPC based machine. The OS was first released in October 1995 for use on the AT&T Hobbit, and later moved over to the PowerPC platform the next year. A Intel x86 port of the OS began in March 1998 with version R3. The last version released was R5.1 in November 2001 for x86 only. This OS was meant to be used for multimedia applications. It is POSIX compatible but is not a UNIX derived operating system (Windows is actually POSIX complient also).

• Developer Release 1
• 3.x
• 4.x
• 5

Borland Turbo Assembler (1989) 46 DOS Windows

Turbo Assembler is an x86 16-bit assembler from Borland. It competed against, and was often cited as faster than Microsoft Macro Assembler.

• 5.x

Breadbox Ensemble (2001) 10 DOS

First released in 2002, Breadbox Ensemble from Breadbox Computer Company, was a commercial office application suite for DOS that was based on GEOS/Geoworks and New Deal Office.

• 4.x

Clarion (1989) 5 Database DOS

Clarion is an advanced user friendly 4GL DBMS and programming environment for DOS and Windows. It boasted the ability to greatly reduce application development time, featured highly integrated visual creation tools, and a powerful set of program functions.

• 3.1 (DOS)

Clarion DOS Extender (1996) 0 DOS

The Clarion DOS extender is a tool that enables you to create 386 Protected mode applications for the Clarion Database.

• 3.x

CodeBase (1993) 3 DOS

CodeBase, from Sequiter Software Inc., is a fast database engine for C and C++ programmers. CodeBase comes with it's own report engine, which allows distribution, in which the user can create their own reports. CodeBase is portable across all major platforms.

• 6.x

Colorado Backup (1996) 6 Utility DOS Windows

Colorado Backup is the software provided with HP Colorado tape drives.

• Set
• 4.x for DOS

ColorWorks (1996) 0 Graphics OS2

ColorWorks is a powerful, full-featured, photo editing program designed exclusively for OS/2. It is a native 32-bit OS/2 application and makes use of OS/2 multitasking, multithreading, and SMP capabilities. It has many features and tools that make it comparable to most other image editors.

• 2.x

Corel Presentations (1995) 0 Presentations DOS

Corel Presentations (which is often referred to simply as Presentations) is a presentation program akin to Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress.

• 2.x

Death Rally (1996) 1 DOS

Death Rally is a top-down view racing game. The object of the game is to stop your opponents winning by shooting them. To progress through the game weapons and enhancements for the cars are needed.

• 1

Derive (1994) 2 Mathematics DOS

Derive was a computer algebra and graphing system, developed as a successor to muMATH by Soft Warehouse, Inc. in Honolulu, Hawaii, now owned by Texas Instruments. Derive was implemented in muLISP, also by Soft Warehouse. The first release was in 1988 for DOS. It was discontinued on June 29, 2007 in favor of the TI-Nspire CAS. The last and final version is Derive 6.1 for Windows.

• 3.x

DeScribe (1991) 2 Word Processor Windows OS2

DeScribe is a word processor with some advanced features primarily for OS/2. Later, it was made available for Windows 3.1, 95, and NT.

• 5.0

Deskman/2 (1995) 2 Utility OS2

DevTech's Deskman/2 is a set of desktop and system management tools for OS/2. It contains data compression tools, networking tools, performance monitoring tools, and desktop management tools.

• 1995

DESQView (1984) 7 Utility DOS

DESQView, from Quarterdeck, was a DOS application multi-tasker and in later versions functioned as an X client for applications on remote UNIX systems. It competed against IBM Topview. The original DESQ was just a task switcher, but subsequent versions offered preemptive multitasking of well behaved DOS programs on real-mode 8088 PCs. It gained popularity when DESQView 386 added virtual x86 support. This enabled the ability to multi task many poorly behaved programs, and was often used on BBSes due to its excellent COM port handling. It was later overtaken by OS/2 and Windows.

• DESQView X 2.x

DiskClone (1998) 5 Utility DOS

DiskClone, from Quarterdeck, is a simple, professional, small, powerful, and easy to use hard disk cloning tool. It can copy a drive to another internal or external drive of different sizes. It can be used as a backup, or a migration tool to a new drive. It all fits on a single floppy disk. "Corporate" editions.

• 1.0

DIV Games Studio (2000) 8 DOS

DIV Games Studio, from Hammer Technologies, is an all-in-one software program for DOS for creating your own (DOS) games, using a programming language similar to C or Pascal. The software includes an integrated development environment with code editor, graphics editor and sound editor.

• 1.x

DOS USB Support (2001) 5 DOS

Yes, there are USB drivers for DOS... Miracle-driver from Panasonic Japan does the unthinkable Before you start scratching your head, let me repeat that this is not related to your favorite linux distro's or Windows XP/W2K/98/ME's USB support, this has to do with people like me, booting some flavor of DOS to copy files around or using DOS-based partition back-up software.

• 1.x

DR DOS (1990) 76 DOS

DR DOS is an MS-DOS compatible operating system from Digital Research that evolved from their earlier CP/M-86 based products Concurrent DOS and DOS Plus.

• 8.x