Miscellaneous
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- AMB - Ancient Machine Book
- An extremely lightweight file format meant to store any kind of hypertext documentation that may be comfortably viewed even on the most ancient PCs: technical manuals, books, etc.
- Think of it as a retro equivalent of a *.CHM help file.
- UPDATE: AMB will be included in FreeDOS 1.3.
- AntiVir - Virus scanner for DOS
- Boot-, VBS-, IRC-Viruses, Trojans and other malware.
- Developed and updated as recently as 2018.
- Freeware from http://rose.rult.at/
- ATI Fonts- 33 little COM programs that change your DOS screen font.
- Found on an old shareware CD-ROM with no indication of authorship or license conditions.
- MODE CO80 will revert to the normal display when you are tired of them.
- This package will install to \FDOS\BIN\SCRFONTS.
- Most of these do not carry over into text-mode applications. But some do. You will just have to experiment on your system.
- If you like these, here are eleven more.
C: CD \FDOS\BIN .\SCRFONTS\SCRIBBLE.COM EDIT ..\APPINFO\ATIFONTS.LSM
- Aview V4.8 Beta-D - The Norton Commander Archive Viewer.
- A small utility to manipulate, extract and convert ARC, ARJ, HYP, LZH, PAK, RAR, SQZ, UC2, ZIP and ZOO files.
- Lots of options, can be fully mouse-operated, very easy to use.
- This package also includes an overlayed version of AVIEW (uses a bit less memory) and two utilities to integrate it into Norton Commander.
- Can also be used as stand-alone utility.
- Requires external de/archiver utilities - please see the documentation.
- Freeware.
- Babble! - Randomize and rearrange text.
- Shareware from Korenthal Associates
- Babble! is a toy for people who love words.
- Babble! takes samples of text from various sources, analyzes them for style and content, mixes them together in varying proportions, and then…well…babbles.
- On and on. Endlessly. If you take its samples away, it still babbles. That’s what Babble! does. It babbles!
- By mixing up words and ideas, and by finding connections which are not obvious to the naked mind, Babble! is useful as a creative tool and as a cure for writer’s block.
- BigText by Kevin Solway- Create self-displaying illustrated books & manuals.
- A suite of programs that turns ordinary text files into self-contained, self- displaying executable files capable of displaying full colour illustrations in body of the text.
- This program is specifically designed to make self-displaying books, manuals, documents, and catalogues.
- The difference between Bigtext and similar programs is that it can handle genuinely BIG volumes of text (up to 700kb or more) and that it creates a single, neat and convenient executable file.
- Ignore all the shareware documentation: according to the website this is now freeware.
- Conversions by Rosewood - Converts between Metric and Imperial for a wide range of weights and measures.
- Works with mouse or keyboard and has a pop-up calculator.
- Freeware from Rosewood Software.
- A similar program is Conv-It.
- Crossword Helper - WORDFIND helps you solve crossword puzzles.
- Freeware by Dale Harris.
- Dektop Calculator - An onscreen calculator.
- Author unknown.
- Genealogical Information Manager 3.19
- Shareware (nag-free AFAICT) by D. Blaine Wasden and Brian C. Madsen
- Provides all of the basic features of traditional genealogical database managers, plus many new features not available from any other product.
- GIM is fast and powerful, yet intuitive and easy to learn.
- This archive contains executables and documentation.
- A similar program is Roots Master 2.
- GeoClock - World map with Day/Night shading
- Gopherus - A Gopher client
- UNTESTED
- Gopher is a text-based information retrieval system that predates the WWW. I’m actually surprised to hear that it is still running.
- Get DOS networking up and running before you try this.
- Collected on 15 February 2020 from Sourceforge. Sorry, this is too esoteric for me to keep checking on, but it seems to update regularly there.
- Mr Double Scan 1.13.01 - Anti Virus Scanner
- Mr2S detects more than 36.000 different viruses, including mIRC, Bat, Win, Polys VBS (VBS.Loveletter:), Macro, DOS and Boot viruses.
- Freeware from Gega Software, Andreas Haak and ROSE SWE.
- Released: 17-Sept-2000
- Usage: mr2s drive:\path2scan log.file
- PerSense - A financial calculator
- Six separate screens for loan amortization, present and future values, financial planning, IRR’s and APR’s, mortgage comparison, and construction of arbitrary loans, payment-by-payment.
- The loan facility will handle multiple balloon payments, changes in rate and payment amount, any combination of payments at different frequency from weekly to yearly, as well as interest-only loans and constant-paydown amortization.
- The present value screen allows for combinations of single payments at arbitrary times and periodic payment series.
- Payments for life and payments upon death are valued with tables of actuarial probability, which may be selected or entered as a text file by the user.
- Structured with pull-down menus and mouse support.
- You may want to check for Y2K compatibility before you base your business plan on this.
- Freeware by Josh Mitteldorf.
- Probert - Offline encyclopaedia.
- This is the FREE Probert Encyclopaedia in HTML format.
- Simply unzip the contents to C:\ and point your browser (Dillo, Arachne) or text-mode HTML viewer at \FDOS\DOCS\PROBERT\INDEX.HTM
- Freeware by Matthew Probert
- PTS Disk Editor - Advanced hex editor and partition rescue program.
- PTS DiskEditor is a program that allows you direct viewing and editing of hard drives.
- This may be useful in various situations, for example, in order to rescue important information from damaged drives or logical disks.
- A similar program is The Partition Resizer.
- Quick - A systems information viewer.
- QuickBASIC source code included
- TN Calc - A scientific Calculator
- non-TSR
- Tutordo in English and Italian - A file manager.
- All the usual features of a text-mode file manager.
- Included in this repository because it has a (partial) Italian translation.
- LFN aware.
- Freeware by Marcello Vinci.
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