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DOS Mouse drivers and tools |
CTMOUSE19.ZIP
an extra small mouse driver from the FreeDOS project;
Homepage: http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net,
LOGI600.ZIP
Logitech mouse driver V6.00 for DOS from 1991
LOGI650.ZIP
Logitech mouse driver V6.50 for DOS from 1995
LOGI730.ZIP
Logitech mouse driver V7.30 for DOS from 1997 with CLOAKING.EXE to load it high
MOUSE602.ZIP
MS Mousedriver V6.02 for DOS from 1987 (the oldest I have found -
who has an older one from Microsoft?), needs fewer than 10K
MOUSE610.ZIP
MS Mousedriver V6.10 for DOS from 1987, needs fewer than 10K
MOUSE624.ZIP
MS Mousedriver V6.24 for DOS from
1988, needs about 10K
MOUSE704.ZIP
MS Mousedriver V7.04 for DOS, needs
17K, supports mouse pointer acceleration
MOUSE820.ZIP
MS Mousedriver V8.20 for DOS, needs
>20K, supports Mouse within the DOS window of Win31
PP111.ZIP
Mouse driver extension for soft mousepointer
instead mouse-rectangle in DOS-Textmode (Shareware)
MRESET.ZIP
Mouse Reset; can help when the mousepointer
hangs
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DOS Disk- and File Tools, CD-ROM-Drivers |
BOOTANY.ZIP
Old boot-manager from 1984, makes a primary partition valid, the remaining invalid;
it's completely whithin the MBR; only for users who know what they do...
CDROM.ZIP
Universal ATAPI CD ROM driver
from Benq; needs only 5K
GCDROM
SATA CD ROM driver
CHANGE.ZIP
Search + replace of strings in any files; useful to modify e.g. a drive letter
or a path within a lot of batch-files
BIGFILE.ZIP
Creates a large file with desired
size; useful to force other files to the end of the disk, e.g. container
files of compressed drives and temporary fill of drives >2GB to fix problems
with install-software on very large drives with more than 2GB free space
DATEFILE.ZIP (10K)
Renames files give per pipe to the current date; e.g.
echo TODAY.ZIP | datefile
gives on 1st Feb. 1999 a 19990201.ZIP
DOSLFN.ZIP (118K)
TSR with INT 21h LFN Extensions; The best LFN tools for DOS; works with FAT32; write
access on floppies only;
Using PKZIP for DOS V2.50
you you can put files with their LFNs to ZIP files in pure DOS
DSKIMG11.ZIP
Creates a selfextracting image of a floppy disk
FINDER.ZIP
Advanced search + replace tool; a bit hard to use but powerful
FIRM.ZIP
reads and writes 1:1 floppy images; great for creating bootable CDs using floppy emulation
HTMS0208.ZIP
Perfect HTML to ASC conversion
KillDisk (HTML)
Deletes a drive completely from sector zero to the end
PRESZ134.ZIP
Partitions-Resizer, works fine with drives >8GB too; Freeware!
RANISH (HTML)
Ranish Partition Manager; Great replacement for FDISK
TOSHV218.ZIP
Toshiba CD-ROM dirver, needs 6K, supports spindown-timing
TPPATCH.ZIP
Fixes the Runtime Error 200 by patching the EXE file. If the EXE is compressed with PKLITE, LZEXE or
whatever it must be expanded before, e.g. with COMPBUST,
an universal EXE expander (works in pure DOS only, crashes in DOS-Box)
VC400SW.ZIP
Volkov-Commander V4.00; NC-Clone, very small and fast, perfect NC-look
VC401SW.ZIP
Volkov-Commander V4.01
VCPATCH.ZIP
Patch for Volkov-Commander V4.00 to disable the second confirmations on delete
Volkov Commander
Latest Version the VC; LFN in Win95's DOS-Box, archives as directory
Here are good fonts for the DOS-Box to give the VC a perfect DOS-Look:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/dosfon_e.html
VIEW.ZIP
Great Viewer for a lot of text formats, incl. Word97
WIPEFILE.ZIP
Overwrites files; works in the DOS-Box of Win95 too - other tools doens't really
overwrite anything because of too much optimazion of the Windows filecache
WIPEFREE.ZIP
Wipes the free areas of a logical drive; works with drive of each size;
overwrites up to 2000 Gigabytes (should be enough for the next years...)
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DOS Memory, Video, Misc |
430HX.ZIP
Info-tool for Intel's 430HX chipset
5IN1.ZIP
5in1 is a small TSR program with 5 functions: Screensaver, Hotkey for ' *. * ',
repeat function for the ' Insert' key, prevents that the keyboard buffer fills with PgUp/PgDn,
hard aborting of the current application with Ctrl+Alt+Ins; German Freeware
67HZCT.ZIP
Gives you 67Hz refreshrate in the standard VGA mode 12h (640x480x16 colours)
on all VGA cards; German Freeware
CFG_ECHO.ZIP
ECHO command for CONFIG.SYS with support of ANSI Escape sequeces
CONFIGX.ZIP
device driver that lets you issue commands such as PAUSE or CLS early in the boot process
EMM286.ZIP
EMS emulator without V86 mode but it doesn't support DMA transfers
FIX8x14.ZIP
Installs an 8x14 font because many graphics cards vendors removed this font from their
products for some time and a lot of software relies an that font. Current cards usally have a
larger BIOS that contain the 8x14 font again.
GETXMS.ZIP
Allocates an XMS block temporarely
HIRAM.ZIP
Hardware UMBs for 386 and 486 computers
INFORMER.ZIP
An excellent system information tool; Freeware;
MAXLLF.ZIP
Low Level formatter from Maxtor; Old version that works with foreign drives too
MEMPATCH.ZIP
Memory and file editor (German)
Sources are available too: MEMP_SRC.ZIP
MEMTEST.HTML
Very good RAM-test; I found that this one is the most reliable RAM-tester (hint: let it run overnight!
I had a bad SDRAM module with errors in 17th and 18th pass...)
New since August 2002: V2.00 runs under Windows!
MEMTEST86 (HTML)
Another great memory tester; writes a bootable disk that has no filesystem, so don't wonder
if the disk appears unreadable...
NSSI (HTML)
Navrátil Software System Information; Good system information tool; Freeware
PCISET.ZIP
Small tools to change PCI registers
RDOSUMB.ZIP
Hardware UMBs for 386 and 486 computers
SYNCTIME.ZIP
Sets the DOS-clock to the time of the CMOS-clock; some programs stops the DOS-clock while they are running,
after you end such a program you should start SYNCTIME .
UMBOPTI.ZIP
UMB-driver from the c't magazine for Opti-492 und Opti-495
UMBSIS.ZIP
UMB-driver from the c't magazine for SIS-460, 461 and 471
UNIRFRSH.ZIP
or VBEHZ.ZIP
Set the refreshrates for VESA graphicmodes on cards with VESA 3.0 BIOS
URAM.ZIP
Hardware UMBs for 386 and 486 computers
WAIT.ZIP
WAIT.COM waits n seconds - thats all
WINTEST.ZIP
Gives an ERRORLEVEL 1 if started under Windows
XMSDSK.ZIP
Perfect replacement for RAMDRIVE.SYS; no 32MB limit;
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For Windows 9x |
BinHexDez.ZIP
Small calculator for decimal / hexadecimal / binary conversion
BLA.ZIP
Bootlog-Analyzer; gives a better view of the BOOTLOG.TXT
DISKSPED.ZIP
Small but good benchmark for HD speed and CPU load; program for textmode
HIDRUN.ZIP
Starts a program hidden; Needs VB4-32 Runtimes
MB Probe (HTML)
Small and good motherboard monitor - no updates since 2002
NetDrive.ZIP
Shows the Windows-Dialog 'Connect Networkdrive' or 'Disconnect Networkdrive', when it's
started with the commandline /disconnect. Needs VB4-32 Runtimes
PowerOff.ZIP
A small program to schedule a shutdown/reboot/logoff/poweroff at a certain time.
PS2RATE.ZIP
PS/2 mouse sampling rate changer for windows 95/98 (v0.4); makes the mousepointer move smoother;
I found a NT4 version too:
PS2R_NT.ZIP; works with one special version
of I8042PRT.SYS only
UPX (HTML)
Ultimate Packer for eXecutables; Freeware-EXE-Packer incl. DOS- and Windows EXE files
VB40032.EXE
Visual Basic 4.0 32bit Runtimes
ZE11.ZIP
ZIP Eject; ejects ZIP disks and other removable media by a click on a systray icon
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