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DOS Development GUI and Shell

• 3D5 - 3D wire-frame graphic demo that includes QBASIC source code
• 3D Construction Kit - Create and share 3D interactive worlds
• Adventure Game Studio - Create your own Sierra-like adventure games
• AsciiQuest - An ASCII game creation system tailored for RPG and puzzle games
• Astral Worlds - A very interesting game maker also featuring a very nice role playing/action game called Chief Dojoepa
• Computer Novel Construction Set - Create a text-based adventure game
• DIV Games Studio 2 - Game engine for creating 2D games with lots of features and editors; has a "mode 8" for creating DOOM-like games; scripting language similar to Pascal; Spanish-only | Manual
• DOSDraw Artist 1.0 - Create a drawing that can then be used in QuickBasic with 7 lines of code
• DOSDraw Artist Viewer - Quickly view files made with DOSDraw Artist
• Enhanced Draw 1.0A - A VGA paint program with QB45 source code that has native support for mode 13h "BSAVE/BLOAD" graphics
• EDV - FREEWARE font editor for the VGA text display
• FlDev - FLTK-based, integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• FontEdit - program for creating and editing fonts in a variety of formats used by several QuickBasic libraries
• Gamebuilder Professional - Create your own Sierra-like adventure game
• Game-Maker - a DOS-based suite of game design tools
• Little Game Engine for VGA - a very simple "engine" to create MS-DOS games for slow PCs; you will need to know the C programming language
• Mr. Mechanist - an easy-to-use menu driven geometry and trigonometry problem solver
• MegaZeux - A game creation system originally released in 1994 and still being developed today
• OHRRPGCE - Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine
• PCGPE - THE PC GAMES PROGRAMMERS ENCYCLOPEDIA 1.0a
• PIXELplus 256 - Bitmapped graphic editor for BASIC projects
• QBME (QBasic Mini Encyclopedia) - Collection with over 20 articles for advanced users and several sample codes
• QBPLAY - An easier way to create music for QuickBasic's PLAY function
• SPRED3 - Sprite Editor made in assembler with .PCX and .SPR support
• Tech 3 Paint BE (Buttonized Edition) - Easier way to create sprites for QBASIC
• Text-World - a text adventure game creation system
• Turbo Debugger - A machine-level debugger for DOS executables, intended mainly for debugging Borland Turbo Pascal, and later Turbo C programs
• ZZT - Overhead-view adventure game in the style of Rogue, using text-mode graphic characters with a level editor; manual

DOS Development Command-line, Libraries, and Mods

Audio

• AdlMIDI - A commandline program that plays MIDI files using software OPL3 emulation (FM synthesis)
• All AIL Version 2 - the complete Open Source release of the Miles Sound System Version 2 for DOS
• BAM (Bob's Adlib Music) - Developer kit for BAM format from OHRRPGCE
• bbssamt41 - Learn how to create ANSI music for a BBS (Bulletin Board System)
• Bells, Whistles, and Sound Boards (BWSB) - a digital sound and music programming library for use in games, demos, intros, etc.
• DOOM Editors - A huge list of DOOM editors for download with lots of DOS links
• FLI and WAV Library - Play an FLI animation and WAV audio at the same time
• horndrv2 - Text-to-speech DOS device driver
• MIDI2MUS - Convert MIDI to MUS format for Doom WADs
• MUS2MIDI - Convert MUS to MIDI
• PlayWav - Play a WAV file in DOS (source included)
• QMUS2MID - Convert MUS to MIDI; it is supposed to be quicker than MUS2MIDI and no 640K RAM limit
• Super Noah's Ark 3D (unlicensed) source code | GitHub- Includes a bunch of tools like TED5 and SNES related ones

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Compilers, Interpretors, and Assemblers

• 68K compiler - a port of an older version of the CC386 compiler
• 68K simulator - a 68K simulator that was written in X86 assembly language
• Allegro 4 + DJGPP - create MS-DOS games with DJGPP + Allegro 4
• batari Basic - A Basic Compiler for the Atari 2600
• BAT2CSH - converts DOS BATch files to UNIX C Shell scripts
• bcc (Bruce's C compiler) - a simple C compiler that produces 8086 assembler for tiny/small models
• bwBASIC - the Bywater BASIC Interpreter
• DASM - MS-DOS disassembler for 8086 .COM files. Also cross-disassembler for 8080 TDL and Z80
• DOjS - a JavaScript-able canvas with WAV and MIDI sound support for systems running DOS
• Euphoria - a general purpose procedural language
• FASM (Flat Assembler) - a fast self-assembling assembler
• FreeBASIC - a self-hosting compiler that can produce console, graphical/GUI executables, dynamic and static libraries
• FreePascal - A Pascal compiler that is almost compatible with Turbo Pascal 7.0 and recent Delphi releases

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• GW-BASIC - A BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq
• GW-BASIC games and other programs

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• JWasm - a free MASM-compatible assembler supporting 16, 32 and 64-bit code generation
• LoveDOS - A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua; this is the sound-fixed version (WAV support only).
• Lua - an embeddable scripting language
• MASM (Microsoft Macro Assembler) - An x86 assembler that uses the Intel syntax for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows
• NASM (Netwide Assembler) - An 80x86 and x86-64 assembler designed for portability and modularity
• Orange C/C++ Compiler - Support for the various C standards through C11, and full support for C++ 14
• PASTOC - raw conversion from Pascal to C
• Perl - a language combining some features of C, sed, awk and shell
• PythonD - a 32-bit, multi-threaded, networking- and OpenGL-enabled Python interpreter for DOS and Windows
• QuickBasic 4.5 - All the files of the original release including all example files and demos
• QBX - The last version of QuickBasic (QB 7.1)
• QBasic games - Some have source code and some do not
• RHINE - An all-purpose IDE for DOS
• TASM 5 - Turbo Assembler by Borland

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• VBDOS - Visual Basic for DOS
• • AABAS - Alternative BASIC lib for QB/PDS/VBDOS
  • ACDKIT - Music CD Toolkit for QB/PDS/VBDOS
  • BANSI - ANSI commands/functions lib for QB4.5 & VBDOS
  • BPP - PreProcessor for PDS/QB/VBDOS/PowerBASIC
  • MS Softlib - contains all the files from the Microsoft "Softlib" pertaining to Microsoft BASICs for DOS (QBASIC, QuickBASIC, PDS, and VBDOS)

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• Yasm - A complete rewrite of the NASM assembler

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Mouse and Keyboard

• JOYKY200 - Use joystick with any program

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Printing and Scanning

• Serial 2.02 - continuously (TSR) show the status of one of the SERIAL ports on your computer

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Modding and ROM Hacks

• ROM images and bios files - Download and use at own risk
• BBC Lives! ROM archive - Download and use at own risk
• BASENUM - integer number base conversion
• EXEC - execute machine language from a batch file
• FDUMP - sends Hex/ASCII dump or a file to standard output
• Final Fantasy 1 Improvement - Map editor for Final Fantasy I.
• Galaxy Mod Kit - Includes TED5 as well as other utilities that you will need to create and run your own levels
• Mario Improvement - Super Mario Brothers 1 level editor
• NinDraw - A very old graphic editor from the company Color Dreams
• SEE - file viewer with scroll and search functions; optional Hex display mode
• uHex - A simple and fast multiplatform hex editor
• X - eXtract byte sequences
• Zelda Improvement - Lets you move around any of the squares in Zelda and switch them around to make your own maps

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Various

• ancient-code - Vivin's GitHub repository with lots of old 90's .bas and other files to play with
• Antoni Gual QuickBasic Page - QuickBasic image viewers, 3D, utilities, games, etc. with screen shots
• BASIC Archives, The - Some HowTo's for BASIC
• BATCH - a crap-ton of BATCH file examples for DOS/Windows
• Commodore-related DOS software
• Assembly Language for Kids: Commodore 64 (1985); PDF
• CWSDPMI - free DPMI provider for DOS
• dialog - display dialog boxes in shell scripts
• DOS4GW - a 32-bit DOS extender
• Future Library - A graphics and game library for use with QB that supports high-resolution VESA graphics modes
• qbasic.com - Lots of help and examples
• Ken Silverman's QuickBasic Page - a small sampling of QuickBasic 4.5 programs
• PBClone 2.0 library - archive of demo programs and core libraries for MS BASICs
• Pete's QuickBasic Site Libraries - Various libraries for sound, graphics, and etc.
• QuickBasic and QBasic Programming Libraries - Libraries for QBasic 4.5, QBasic 7.1 and VisualBasic/DOS
• QuickBasic and QBasic Programming Libraries - Games and Graphics - Libraries for QBasic 4.5, QBasic 7.1 and VB DOS
• SVGAPV25 - A high-res, 256-color graphics library for Microsoft PDS/VBDOS
• SVGAQB25 - A high-res, 256-color graphics library for Microsoft-QBasic 4.x
• Prof. Timo Salmi BATch file examples and tricks
• Simtel.Net BASIC section
• STRING25 - DOS does not use the SET /P for user input; so, use STRINGS.COM for your batch script instead
• STRYGAME - A very simple example to show how to display a BMPv2 image with a clickable area using FreeBASIC for DOS.
• Tosh's Project Page - a collection of BASIC files
• WBAT - dialog boxes for DOS batch (BAT) files with buttons, input fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, menues, list boxes - free layout, INI file, comprehensive demo batch, mouse support in GUI box/full screen
• Whiptail - create TUI dialog boxes and forms and collect user input using libnewt; requires CWSDPMI
• ZIP - a file transfer utility for computers connected over a serial or parallel cable