I personally know a member here on VOGONS purchased Trumpet WinSock from Peter Tattam earlier this year.

vetz wrote on 2026-06-26, 16:55:

I personally know a member here on VOGONS purchased Trumpet WinSock from Peter Tattam earlier this year.

very nice, it seems that there is a paypal purshase option here: https://www.tattsoft.com/index.php/sales
I assume the "Trumpet Winsock 3.0" refers to the win3x version that is 3.0d and 5.0 option for the win9x versions

you can still buy the "The Hugo Trilogy" and "The Nitemare-3D Trilogy" for 6$ each from the dev's website: https://www.dgray.com/ssmall.htm
the installers are 32bit windows ones but the content for both are 16bit windows and dos versions of the games

I'm not sure how much this would "count" - back in the day my company "Dunfield Development Services" made an sold a lot of DOS software. These were mostly embedded development tools (C compilers, Assembkers, Debuggers etc.) but also a lot of more general DOS tools/utilities.

Now that I've retired and closed the company, I've been working at making all of my former products(as well as some "Special purpose" and "Just for fun" tools that I created along the way) available as free software, including the (former proprietary source code) - all of which can be obtained from my site (below).

So... you can still get it legally, but you can't "buy" it or "register" it - formerly paid-for software, now free. No idea if this is any kind of thing you're looking for!

DaveDDS wrote on 2026-06-27, 18:43:

I'm not sure how much this would "count" - back in the day my company "Dunfield Development Services" made an sold a lot of DOS software. These were mostly embedded development tools (C compilers, Assembkers, Debuggers etc.) but also a lot of more general DOS tools/utilities.

Now that I've retired and closed the company, I've been working at making all of my former products(as well as some "Special purpose" and "Just for fun" tools that I created along the way) available as free software, including the (former proprietary source code) - all of which can be obtained from my site (below).

So... you can still get it legally, but you can't "buy" it or "register" it - formerly paid-for software, now free. No idea if this is any kind of thing you're looking for!

I would say everything similar counts - shareware made freeware by the authors included (just like the schitech display doctor releases)
thanks for also posting about it here!

Goldwave version 4.26 was their last version to fully support Windows 9x, but it is still available for download. I haven't tried installing it lately, but it probably uses the same licensing as the current version, so I would imagine that purchasing a license today will allow you to use the full version on Windows 9x. I'd check with them first before spending money on it though, just in case.

I purchased my license for that over 20 years ago and used the shareware version unlicensed since the late 90s before that.

All of the Windows 95 games from XLMSoft can be bought for 14.95€ in a pack:

https://www.xlmsoft.de/spiele.php

Dr. Harrison was a big part of my childhood. It's fun.

Some years ago, I ordered Operation: Inner Space, but I guess they still sell it.

It came in a DVD box with a floppy inside (another thread... is there any software still sold on floppies?), but it seems that you can only get the digital edition nowadays.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2026-06-27, 21:41:

Goldwave version 4.26 was their last version to fully support Windows 9x, but it is still available for download. I haven't tried installing it lately, but it probably uses the same licensing as the current version, so I would imagine that purchasing a license today will allow you to use the full version on Windows 9x. I'd check with them first before spending money on it though, just in case.

I purchased my license for that over 20 years ago and used the shareware version unlicensed since the late 90s before that.

thanks for this, and yes it seems to be using the same registration scheme so things work!

schmatzler wrote on 2026-06-28, 05:51:

All of the Windows 95 games from XLMSoft can be bought for 14.95€ in a pack:

https://www.xlmsoft.de/spiele.php

Dr. Harrison was a big part of my childhood. It's fun.

thanks for the addition, do you know if these also have English language or they are German only?

Zup wrote on 2026-06-28, 06:22:

Some years ago, I ordered Operation: Inner Space, but I guess they still sell it.

It came in a DVD box with a floppy inside (another thread... is there any software still sold on floppies?), but it seems that you can only get the digital edition nowadays.

this was also suggested on facebook, just checked it and you can still register it and get the win3x 16bit version of the game 😁

another suggestion was the AliveSoft DOS games: Billy The Kid Returns! , Scubaman’s Quest , Snow White’s Voyage , Animal Quest Dinosaur Predators , VGA Jigsaw , VGA Concentrate
you can still get them here: https://alivesoft.com/index.php/legacy-game-downloads/

You can still buy the registered versions of the old Oracle Software (not THAT Oracle) shareware games
https://exequor.itch.io/osp-complete-archive

leileilol wrote on 2026-06-28, 07:39:

You can still buy the registered versions of the old Oracle Software (not THAT Oracle) shareware games
https://exequor.itch.io/osp-complete-archive

awesome, thanks for the contribution!
hmmm I wonder if I should make an online google sheet or something to add stuff or just add to the 1st post...

Carr Software games (Capture the Flag, Pirate Battles, Treasure Island, Rescue, and Mix and Match) can still be bought as a bundle from the author's website: http://www.carrsoft.com/index.html

keropi wrote on 2026-06-28, 08:25:

hmmm I wonder if I should make an online google sheet or something to add stuff or just add to the 1st post...

I like the idea of the OP stuff, although vogons is not ideal to format text, maybe you can use :

• BBCode list

or an monospaced text table ? Always better than those google list that are moved around or get forked and now you dont know where they are !

PCMCIA point enablers and Card and Socket services for DOS are still sold by ApSoft
https://www.tssc.de/