Writing FreeDOS Programs in C

1. PDCurses

   1 14 1,242 5.6 C

   A curses library for environments that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model.

   

   I'm guessing that PC-Hack 1.0, the ancestor of Nethack, contains a fair subset of curses, and pdcurses is from 01987 according to the bottom of https://github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses/blob/master/docs/HISTOR.... But on the IBM, curses mostly solved the problem of porting Unix software to MS-DOS. The problems it solved on Unix, like minimizing characters transmitted to the terminal, papering over differences between terminal types, and setting cbreak mode, just didn't exist.

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3. CSMWrap

   2 8 934 9.4 C

   Get PC BIOS back on UEFI only systems.

   

   If enabling CSM in your BIOS isn't an option or isn't enough for FreeDOS, there is a translation layer that can get it to run on UEFI hardware: https://github.com/FlyGoat/CSMWrap

4. MS-DOS

   3 70 15,623 0.0 Assembly

   Discontinued The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes

   

   To the list of compiler listed I want to mention this one as well, that is my compiler of choice for 16-bit C in (Free)DOS these days (because it has a BSD license, it's very small, and it runs great inside of DOS itself so no need to mess with cross-compilation and I know if I have an environment like FreeDOS or DOSBox set up I can both compile and run my code, and I will never have to re-install or reconfigure anything when moving between different host systems):

   https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/main/v4.0/src/TOOLS

   (Not only Microsoft's C compiler in that directory, but also MASM, MAKE, and a bunch of other tools. 1-2 MB of files and you have an entire toolchain for 16-bit DOS.)

5. Compiler

   4 3 333 0.0 D

   

6. SBEMU

   5 11 776 7.7 C

   legacy sound blaster emulation for DOS

   

7. fdpp

   6 6 242 8.6 C

   FreeDOS plus-plus, 64bit DOS

   

   indeed there's something similar: https://github.com/dosemu2/fdpp

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