There's WCD of course. The only problem with it is that it won't work on very old machines with limited memory. (For those there is still Norton's old NCD.)

What's a good DOS hex editor? I've been using Steve Godwin's FRED since forever, but it's kind of limited now.

Gosh, there was something I used back in the day to edit my X-COM saves but I can't remember the name for the life of me..

4DOS, XHDD/XDVD, JEMM/QEMM/UMBPCI/URAM/RDOSUMB, SHSCDUX, DOSMAX, DEVLOAD and of course Norton Commander.

emsmagic, SETMUL, HIMEMX

Errius wrote:

What's a good DOS hex editor? I've been using Steve Godwin's FRED since forever, but it's kind of limited now.

I like UHEX

I use fedit for a hex editor, since its mine 😀 for dir replacement I have 'd' which I wrote... nice colour dir with extra functions over dos dir.

... YOU wrote d? Oh man, haha... I used that religiously back in the day. 😁 How cool... years later I can finally say "thanks!"

I find Norton Utilities to be pretty helpful. The diskedit utility has a hex editor that works on files, directory entries, drives... NDOS (command.com replacement) is pretty nice, too. It gives you a lot of the creature comforts that MS-DOS finally started tacking on at 6.0, but usually still a little nicer. Things like history (doskey style) and built-in "move", etc.

SirNickity wrote:

... YOU wrote d? Oh man, haha... I used that religiously back in the day. 😁 How cool... years later I can finally say "thanks!"

probably not the one you think. 'd' is just too convenient name to use for a dir tool.

The one I used was colorized mostly brown, with some green I think ...? It's been a while. (Will have to see if I still have it. I'm sure I do.)