Open Source MS-DOS Libraries

Mikmod is a module player and library supporting many formats, including mod, s3m, it, and xm. Originally a player for MS-DOS, MikMod has been ported to other platforms, such as Unix, Macintosh, BeOS, and Java(!!)

4tH is a Forth compiler with a little difference. Instead of the standard Forth engine it features a conventional compiler. 4tH is a very small compiler that can create bytecode, C-embeddable bytecode, standalone executables, but also works fine as a scripting language. It supports about 95% of the ANS Forth CORE wordset and features conditional compilation, pipes, files, assertions, forward declarations, enumerations, structures, suspended execution, recursion, include files, etc. It comes with an RPN calculator, BASIC interpreter, line editor, preprocessor, compiler, decompiler, C-source generator, a virtual machine, and a multitasking environment.

I'm preserving Japheth's MS-DOS extender. It features 16bit, and 32bit capabilities with the ability to run 16bit OS/2 program, and 32bit Win32 code on Vanilla MS-DOS.

PTCPas is a free, portable framebuffer library, written in Free Pascal. It allows low-level high-speed graphics access on multiple platforms.

A getopt unit for DOS Borland compilers and Free Pascal based on the GNU textutils 1.12 getopt implementation and Håkon Løvdal's Turbo Pascal port. Contains a friendlier interface and several bug fixes.

The goal of this project - to create a TinySCHEME binaries for some kind of platforms. Now there are binaries for DOS / DJGPP and MinGW / MSYS / Win32, working on x86 architecture.

WDMF is a collection of C libraries designed for creating games and other multimedia applications. It has mostly been designed as a project to keep the programmer occupied over several Twitch.tv streams; however, it is hoped that it may be useful to others as it is updated.

This project arose out of the I/O primitives written for the Wheefun Archiver (WFAR). It is hoped that by porting them to their own library, they will become useful elsewhere.

WFIRE is a low-level game engine which provides a portable library allowing for writing video games for multiple classic targets. Originally written for a game called the Crypts of Eldor, WFIRE aims to provide compatibility with a number of constrained environments, such as DOS and the Amiga. It also aims for "new-retro" computers such as the Commander X16 and the Neon816. Of course, modern operating environments such as Windows NT and GNU/Linux are also planned. WFIRE is meant to reduce the effort of writing your own game engine by providing a common framework for functions such as rendering, sound output, and display management.

The project aims to be the repository for commonly used routines within the FreeDOS project, to help developers make it easier to develop and reuse code that is better proved and follows the FreeDOS standards.