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Releasing some of my old DOS stuff

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First post, by BloodyCactus

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So I thought its time to release some of my old stuff, I wrapped it in an installer.

Inside my installer;

https://bloodycactus.com/files/bcactus_install.zip

so the installer doesnt install the zips (I grabbed my 00index.txt off my local ftp), it installs the utils/apps etc.
(This version of the installer is output to stick on 360kb disks if you want to do a physical media install, or just unzip it into a directory and run install.exe)

Lots of this is really old, and I still use a lot of it today on my machines (my uansi driver, umb driver on my tandy, my packer, sickview etc).
Some of this I recompiled with newer open watcom but made no code changes, a couple of things I tweaked but didnt change
anything else (versions/dates etc its not worth tracking).

Some things (like amber) I had like 50 copies laying around in various states, so I dont know if the one in here is the last/most recent
or not but it seems ok. Some things are still missing (my spreadsheet uCalc and programmers text editor and some other stuff).

Some things in here are designed for 8088/XT, a lot of 386+ etc.

28line.zip       Sets screen into 28 lines mode
2pack.zip        2Pack is a small txt packer for development
50line.zip       Sets screen into 50 line mode
amber.zip        CPU emulator extractor (like unp).
av.zip           ArchiveViewer v0.3c
bfhook.zip       bios font hook. Made for emags that use unreadable dos fonts.
biowar.zip       E-Mag: Biowar
bitops.zip       Simple bitops tool for modifying bytes in a file
com2exe.zip      Convert a COM file into an EXE file.
d.zip            D - Dos directory lister tool
dc.zip           disk clean. basically a 'fast format', clears the FAT entries on disks.
dekript.zip      Unscrambles a 'kript'ed file.
dkd32.zip        DeKompress DOS32 v0.4 by Dark Fiber, Entropic Coders '96.
dmg103d.zip      Disk Magazine Generator v1.03d
dram_chk.zip     Tests the DRAM banks on a VIA VT82C496G chipset.
e820.zip         This is a fake E820 bios extended memory map driver
e820lst.zip      Dumps the E820 memory tables if your BIOS supports them.
fedit.zip        HEX File Editor (Does not play nice under dosbox, works fine on real machine)
iff_copy.zip     Copys a named chunk from an IFF file
iff_list.zip     Lists all the named chunks in an IFF file
iff_wad.zip      Creats a simple 'WAD' file as an IFF, with ... files!
ilfs202b.zip     ILFS v2.02b - Internal Library File System
info-le.zip      dumps info on LE executables
infod32.zip      Dumps info on DOS32 executables
ipcrypt.zip      Simple COM encryptor
kript.zip        KRIPT com scambler
libfile1.zip     ILFS v1 tool
libfile2.zip     ILFS v2 tool
mcbexp.zip       Memory Control Block tool
mempak.zip       Packs DOS memory into contiguous blocks. works with UMB as well.
mm401.zip        Dumps revision + irq of Miniman MPU 401 cards.
now.zip          Now - Prints current date/time with some parameters
once.zip         Use in autoexec.bat to run things only once a day when booted.
oni.zip          ONI Encryption/Hashing tool
polyenc.zip      EXE encryption program
post_msg.zip     post_msg stamps a message to the end of an exe file as code.
rdf2d32.zip      RDF2D32 converts an RDF object into a DOS32 object
relopt.zip       Optimise and sort relications in an EXE
relpack.zip      Pack relocations so EXE has none.
rembss.zip       RemBSS - remove bss data from end of exe
sauce.zip        SAUCE - Add/Edit/Remove SAUCE from a file.
sbdsp.zip        Displays DSP info on a SoundBlaster.
scheck.zip       Adds a self-check routine to COM file to check for tampering.
scinfo.zip       Prints sound card environment info out so its easily usable
si103.zip        Simple Installer v1.03
sickview.zip     SiCKVieW ANSI Viewer
tandy1k.zip      Bunch of utils for Tandy 1000, 1000SX for ram
tandyram.zip     Tandy 1000 RAM Adjuster v0.1 - Bloody Cactus.
todo.zip         ToDo cli tool
txt2exe.zip      Text2Exec v1.2 - Dark Fiber [NuKE]
uansi.zip        uANSI micro ansi driver
umb.zip          UMB driver for XT machines
unvac.zip        Decompresses Vacuum 0.x programs
uxp-01.zip       E-Mag: Unexlplained Expose 01
uxp-02.zip       E-Mag: Unexlplained Expose 02
vac2.zip         Vacuum/2 SYS/COM/EXE/DOS32 compressor
vacuum.zip       Crappy COM compressor, Vacuum 0.02a

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Reply 1 of 6, by gerry

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looks like lots of interesting utilities! nice to release them 😀

Reply 2 of 6, by BloodyCactus

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thanks. Its amazing the things that accumulate heh.

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Reply 3 of 6, by Jo22

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gerry wrote on 2021-07-13, 08:57:

looks like lots of interesting utilities! nice to release them 😀

+1

Totally agree. 😎 👍

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Reply 5 of 6, by zyzzle

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Thanks very much for releasing these. There is some real gold, and it might have been lost for all time if you had not shared it with us. Truly appreciated.

Reply 6 of 6, by BloodyCactus

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zyzzle wrote on 2021-08-02, 00:36:

Thanks very much for releasing these. There is some real gold, and it might have been lost for all time if you had not shared it with us. Truly appreciated.

thanks. most are just little utilities and stuff, so if you find some cool stuff or stuff you like, thats cool with me 😀

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