DOSAge

This directory contains a collection of vintage DOS games and tools that I grew up with. These can be run using DOSBox.

The following list contains the copyright and other details of all software in this directory:

• games/bricks
  • Bricks
  • Author: Vincent Bly
  • URL: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/bricks-1qf
  • URL: https://archive.org/details/Bricksa11984VinceBlyAction
  • The My Abandonware URL provided a single file:
    • Bricks_DOS_EN.zip
  • The Internet Archive URL provided three ZIP files:
    • Bricks (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip
    • Bricks [a1] (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip
    • Bricks [a2] (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip
  • The following two files were identical:
    • Bricks_DOS_EN.zip/brick.exe
    • Bricks (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip/BRICK.EXE
  • The following two files were identical:
    • Bricks (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip/BRICKS.DOC
    • Bricks [a1] (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip/BRICKS.DOC
  • The following three files were all different from each other:
    • Bricks (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip/BRICK.EXE
    • Bricks [a1] (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip/BRICKS.EXE
    • Bricks [a2] (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip/BRICKS.EXE
  • The files in this directory were obtained from:
    • Bricks (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip/BRICK.EXE
    • Bricks (1984)(Vince Bly) [Action].zip/BRICKS.DOC
  • Use the dosbox -startmapper command to map Caps Lock and Insert keys to other convenient keys like left arrow and right arrow.
• games/moon-bugs
  • Copyright (c) 1983 Windmill Software
  • Author: Windmill Software
  • URL: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/moon-bugs-2l
  • URL: http://digger.org/moonbugs.zip
• games/digger83
  • Copyright (c) 1983 Windmill Software
  • Author: Windmill Software
  • URL: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/digger-25
  • URL: http://digger.org/digrip.zip
  • Download MANUAL from the first URL and executable from the second.
  • The executable from both URLs are not identical. Download from second URL because it provides a smaller executable.
  • Download "Original PC Booter Version" from the first URL.
• games/digger86
  • Copyright (c) 1986 Windmill Software
  • Author: Windmill Software
  • URL: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/digger-25
  • Download 1986 version.
• games/digger98
  • Digger Remastered
  • Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Andrew Jenner
  • Author: Andrew Jenner
  • License: GNU General Public License version 2 or later
  • URL: http://www.digger.org/digger.zip
  • URL: http://www.digger.org/digsrc.zip
• games/inv78-02
  • Invaders 1978 v02
  • Copyright (c) 1996-2000 James Eibisch
  • Author: James Eibisch
  • License: Freeware
  • URL: http://netadelica.com/coding/inv78/inv78-02.zip
• games/mspacman
  • Ms. Pac-Man
  • Copyright (c) 1983 Atari, Inc.
  • Author: Atari, Inc.
  • URL: http://dosgamezone.com/download/ms-pacman-1615.html
• games/pc-man
  • PC-MAN
  • (c) 1982 Orion Software, Inc.
  • Author: Greg Kuperberg
  • URL: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/pc-man-14
• games/grand-prix-circuit
  • Grand Prix Circuit
  • Copyright (c) 1988 Accolade Inc.
  • Author: Accolade, Inc.
  • URL: http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/grand-prix-circuit.php
• games/dangerous-dave
  • Dangerous Dave
  • Copyright (c) 1990 Softdisk, Inc.
  • Author: John Romero
  • URL: http://www.dosgames.com/g_side2.php
• games/colossal-cave-adventure
  • Authors: Willie Crowther and Don Woods
  • URL: https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=fft6pu91j85y4acv
  • URL: http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/pc/adv350de.zip
• games/zork1, games/zork2, games/zork3
  • ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire
  • Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom, Inc. All Rights reserved.
  • ZORK II: The Wizard of Frobozz
  • Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom, Inc. All Rights reserved.
  • ZORK III: The Dungeon Master
  • Copyright (c) 1982 by Infocom, Inc. All Rights reserved.
  • URL: http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html
  • URL: http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/zork1.zip
  • URL: http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/zork2.zip
  • URL: http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/zork3.zip
  • Manuals:
  • URL: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/zork-the-great-underground-empire-1j
  • URL: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/zork-ii-the-wizard-of-frobozz-35
  • URL: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/zork-iii-the-dungeon-master-53
• langs/logo-disk
  • IBM Personal Computer Logo Version 1.00
  • (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 1983
  • (c) Copyright LCSI 1983
  • Serial Number 0767396080
  • URL: https://winworldpc.com/product/ibm-logo/100
  • URL: https://winworldpc.com/download/3de2809d-c2b3-65c3-95c6-9211c3a4efbf
• langs/logo
  • IBM Personal Computer Logo Version 1.00
  • (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 1983
  • (c) Copyright LCSI 1983
  • Serial Number 0767405259
  • URL: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/logo-2ms
• langs/gwbasic
  • GW-BASIC 3.23
  • (C) Copyright Microsoft 1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988
  • URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027112638/http://geocities.com/KindlyRat/GWBASIC.html
  • Downloads: GWBASIC.EXE.zip, gw-man.zip
  • URL: https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gwbasic.html
  • Downloads: GW-BASIC.ZIP, GW-MAN.zip
• langs/qb45
  • Microsoft (R) QuickBasic Version 4.50
  • (C) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1985-1988
  • URL: http://www.qbasic.net/en/qbasic-downloads/compiler/qbasic-compiler.htm
  • Download: QuickBasic 4.5 EN
  • URL: https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gwbasic.html
  • Download: QuickBasic 4.5
  • Notes:
    • Most files in both URLs are identical.
    • The first download contains files in HLP, INC, and LIB directory whereas the second download have these files in the top-level directory.
    • The first download have paths to HLP, INC, and LIB directories in QB.INI whereas the second download have paths to QB45 directory in QB.INI.
    • The first download contains PACKING.LST.lst but the second one does not have this file.
• langs/qb11
  • MS-DOS QBasic Version 1.1
  • Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 1987-1992
  • URL: https://www.qbasic.net/en/qbasic-downloads/compiler/qbasic-interpreter.htm
  • Download: QBasic 1.1 EN
  • URL: https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gwbasic.html
  • Download: QBasic 1.1
• langs/bascom
  • IBM Personal Computer BASIC Compiler
  • (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 Version 2.00
  • (C) Copyright Microsoft Corp. 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985
  • URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20091027112638/http://geocities.com/KindlyRat/GWBASIC.html
  • Download: COMPILER.zip
  • URL: https://hwiegman.home.xs4all.nl/gwbasic.html
  • Download: BASCOM.ZIP
  • Notes:
    • The important files are same in both downloads but there are differences as well.
    • This directory contains a subset of the content from BASCOM.ZIP downloaded from the second URL.
    • The following files have been removed from the download because they are not useful: GETCLOCK.COM, RAMDISK.COM, SAMPLE1.BAT, SAMPLE2.BAT.
  • Commands: BASCOM HELLO /O, LINK HELLO.
• tools/mips
  • MIPS v1.10 CPU Benchmark and Performance Test
  • (C) 1986 Chips and Technologies, Inc.
  • URL: https://archive.org/details/MIPS_ZIP
  • URL: https://archive.org/download/MIPS_ZIP/MIPS.ZIP
• tools/banner-mania
  • Banner Mania
  • (c) 1989 Pixellite Group
  • Authors: Christopher Schardt and Dane Bigham
  • URL: https://archive.org/details/BANNER-MANIA
  • URL: https://archive.org/download/BANNER-MANIA/BANNER.7z

Some directories have a file named run that contains the command to run the program in that directory with the right DOSBox configuration. To run this file on a macOS or Linux system, enter sh run. To run it on Windows, enter cmd < run.