| Name | Extracted | Size | Date | Description |
| 1ADAY11.ZIP | Yes | 110985 | 11/21/1993 | OneADay 1.1 allows you to execute as many as 10 commands from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file only once a day or on specified days. (John Timothy Gray) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $17) |
| 1ST_BOOT.ZIP | Yes | 2392 | 11/11/1993 | 1st Boot 1.0 determines if this is the first time you've booted your computer today. This lets your Autoexec file run certain programs only the first time you boot up. (Eric Johnson) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| 2BOOT.ZIP | Yes | 18911 | 1/21/1994 | Boot 1.0 will tell you what drive was used to boot the computer. (John De Palma) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| 2NDSHIFT.ZIP | Yes | 75929 | 3/5/1994 | 2nd Shift provides unattended operation of a computer. It will execute either at a certain time or date. It can also be used to track down problems by examining the keys typed by a user. (Transversal Design) (Reg.Fee: $49) |
| 2PENT.ZIP | Yes | 59830 | 12/13/1994 | Pentium 2.1 helps you understand what the hoopla is all about in regard to the Pentium chip floating point error controversy and demonstrates that many computer chips make same or similar errors in varying degrees. A Pentium is not required to run this test. Executable and QBASIC modules are included. (John De Palma) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| 486DLC.ZIP | Yes | 30223 | 3/10/1994 | Cyrix/TI 486-DLC Cache 1.1 will invoke Cyrix/TI chip's 1K internal cache from the boot record. This makes it compatible with DOS, OS/2, Windows NT, etc. Also included are instructions on how to upgrade a 386DX-40 to a 486-DLC-40. (Mark Thompson) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| 486T_RL.ZIP | Yes | 45246 | 7/29/1992 | 486Test 6.1 performs an intensive, diagnostic test on motherboards and system components of a 80486. All of the system's resources are tested including the Bios, CPU, NDP, cache, RAM, extended memory and display memory. (Richard Levey) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| 486TEST.ZIP | Yes | 1559 | 1/20/1992 | 486test tests the time it takes to write out 1000 dwords to main memory from cpu. Assembly source code is included. (Michael Abrash) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| 8042DI.ZIP | Yes | 124414 | 9/8/1994 | 8042 Diagnostics 1.0 is a set of 8042, keyboard, and PS/2 mouse diagnostics programs. (Newtech R&D Australia Pty.Ltd.) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| ATCLKSET.ZIP | Yes | 1005 | 8/10/1994 | ATclkset lets you set the CMOS clock from the DOS clock or vice-versa. (Tom Donnelly) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| BADNM3.ZIP | Yes | 31766 | 12/13/1994 | BadNum3.Wk2 is a Lotus-style spreadsheet template detailing the range of numbers that trigger the Pentium FDiv bug and cause loss of precision down to 5 decimal places. Requires a Pentium CPU. (Steve Whalen) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| BELL.ZIP | Yes | 434 | 8/10/1994 | Bell changes the sound of the beep your PC makes when it is displeased with your performance. Now it's more of a loving coo. |
| BELLS.ZIP | Yes | 11889 | 10/20/1989 | Bells is a collection of beeps for use with batch files. (Jerry Whiting) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| BELLSTD.ZIP | Yes | 21426 | 4/14/1990 | BellsTD 1.5 replaces your computer's BEEP with a special sound effect or tune of up to nine notes. It is easy to change the beep or tune. TSR: 1k. (Tom Donnelly) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| BIOSCKS.ZIP | Yes | 4069 | 5/29/1989 | Bioscksm 1.2 is for hackers who need to change the BIOS checksum performed during POST in order to modify BIOS (eg: the hard disk parameter table) without having the machine lock up during bootup. Assembler source is included. (Charlie Stampf) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| BM16.ZIP | Yes | 151617 | 1/29/1994 | Battery Master 1.6 is a TSR that monitors battery use of a portable computer and provides a gauge to estimate remaining power. It displays information on the battery time remaining, percent battery remaining, time elapsed since recharge, and capacity at the current usage rate. Battery Master's features include five alarms to alert you as battery power diminishes, a display of your computer's past battery performance, and a total battery discharge feature. (James M Voelker) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $34) |
| BOOT_SCK.ZIP | Yes | 24004 | 5/29/1989 | Boot-SCK 2.01 is a manager for CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. BOOT allows up to 255 different system configurations to be defined in a single text file which can be easily edited with your favorite text editor. Boot is a DESQview-aware program. (Stephen C. Kick) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| BOOTPICK.ZIP | Yes | 2573 | 5/29/1989 | BootPick allows selecting different DOS partitions on bootup, if you have a hard disk divided into more than one partition, such as DOS and UNIX. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| BOOTS.ZIP | Yes | 35008 | 4/13/1994 | Boots 2.01 allows you to select between 100 different boot configurations either during boot time or afterwards. Features include an internal editor for editing configurations, password protected boot-up, warm or cold reboot, DOS command line and batch file support, the ability to run a disk cache program to flush disk buffers before rebooting and more. (Morton Utilities) (Reg.Fee: $23) |
| BOOTSYS.ZIP | Yes | 223563 | 11/1/1994 | Boot.Sys 2.10 makes it easy to reconfigure your system's CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. It makes it possible to display one or more menus at boot-up time and to have different parts of CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT executed depending on which menu options are chosen. The program allows up to nine options per menu, a freely definable prompt area at the top of the screen, 25 consecutive menus, each defining a different aspect of your system configuration, and 25 levels of nested menus and submenus. There is only one version of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. There is a cold boot feature, a warm boot, or no boot, and an option to keep it from installing its tiny resident part to get a minimal plain-DOS setup. Individual CONFIG.SYS lines can be edited on the fly while booting up. There is also an option to come up on an external monitor on Compaq and some Toshiba laptops. BOOT.SYS uses only 160 bytes of resident DOS memory, and provides full support for DOS 6.0. and DR-DOS. NEW: password protection featu (Hans Salvisberg) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $44) |
| BOOTV1.ZIP | Yes | 19278 | 7/13/1994 | Boot 1.00 is a multiple boot configuration manager. The program lets you easily manage multiple autoexec.bat and config.sys. It also includes provisions for OS2 DualBoot systems. (David Cinege) (Reg.Fee: $3) |
| BUILDBA.ZIP | Yes | 11261 | 8/22/1987 | BuildBat makes it easy to copy the contents of a hard disk to a PS/2 computer from a regular PC. (Phil Curry) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| BURN_IN.ZIP | Yes | 108881 | 6/22/1993 | Burn-In 1.5 allows extensive testing of new computers. It is meant to run for at least 72 hours and during that time cycles through repeated tests of your disk drives, CPU, monitor, display adapter and RAM memory. Features include automatic command-line operation, automatic disabling of tests on defective disks, a convenient summary file, along with error-only logging as the default. NOTE: Once you start this program, you can only break out of it at certain points and those points may be three or four hours in coming, so don't start the burn-in unless you do not need your computer for a while. (George Campbell) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| BURNIT.ZIP | Yes | 20322 | 2/4/1992 | BURNit 5.1 will thoroughly test a computer's internal components. It checks memory, drives, CPU, video cards, serial ports, speaker and more. It will also keep track of elapsed time. (Norman Leveille) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| C_MENU.ZIP | Yes | 7200 | 2/3/1994 | DOS 6.2 Config.SYS Menu's for Dummies 1.0 is a tutorial on how to build multiple configuration files using DOS 6+. (Richard H Brown) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CAM30.ZIP | Yes | 190895 | 2/3/1994 | Config/Autoexec Manager Gold 3.0a is a menu system for creating and keeping track of various Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files. (Scott J. Miller) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| CARDGS.ZIP | Yes | 75485 | 1/5/1995 | Card Guide 1.5 is a database of helpful information about various types of I/O cards. There is information about IDE multi-I/O cards, FDC cards, serial I/O cards, cable and connector info, installation tips, and a glossary of terms. (Kevin Noble) (Reg.Fee: $0-20) |
| CCIS.ZIP | Yes | 4256 | 9/13/1993 | CCIS 2.0 tests your CPU's speed. (Sebastien Demers) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CCLOCK.ZIP | Yes | 2917 | 8/13/1990 | CClock 1.0 reads your system's CMOS clock and sets the DOS clock without having to reboot. Assembler source code is included. (Dave Angel) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CDB_10.ZIP | Yes | 175949 | 5/13/1994 | CD Benchmark (demo) 1.0 is a benchmark analyzer for CD-ROM drives. (Computer System Design Group) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| CFG241.ZIP | Yes | 76709 | 1/13/1995 | CFG 2.41 is a system device driver that provides multiple utilities for use during CONFIG.SYS execution: beep the speaker, clear the screen to specified colors, swap serial ports, swap parallel ports, display text, pause, set EGA to 43 or VGA to 43 or 50 lines, store text in inter-application communication area, conditional pause, produce a series of tones, delay execution for a specified period of time, and more. NEW: corrected display of Pentium processor stepping level, model and family. (Mark Treadwell) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| CHENV.ZIP | Yes | 6530 | 5/29/1989 | CHange ENVironment 1.0 allows for fast files for computer users who must maintain different configurations for different working purposes. (Pedro P. III Polakoff) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CHKM11.ZIP | Yes | 8144 | 3/30/1993 | Check Mouse 1.1 checks the status of the mouse driver and mouse. It will tell you if a mouse driver is installed, driver version, mouse type, the IRQ used by the mouse, and the number of buttons. (Robert Hayes) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CLARITY.ZIP | Yes | 316284 | 8/17/1994 | SILIB 1.01 provides information on your hardware, DOS, config.sys, environment, and autoexec.bat. (Clarity Software) (Reg.Fee: $84) |
| CLK20.ZIP | Yes | 7508 | 11/16/1994 | Clk 2.00 is a command timer. It displays the beginning and ending times, plus calculates the elapsed time down to the 100ths of a second. It can be used via a batch file, or you can load it, execute some command(s), then press [Ctrl]-[C] when you're finished. (Daryll Shatz) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CLKTIM42.ZIP | Yes | 11607 | 3/4/1994 | CLKTimer 4.20 is a 5k TSR for performing tasks at designated times. It can display current time/date in the upper right hand corner of the screen, sound/display an alarm in the upper left hand corner of the screen, reboot the computer, and force keystrokes into the keystroke buffer to start or terminate a program. Keystroke tasks can be performed at a set time, each hour at a specified number of minutes after the hour, or after the computer has been idle for a specified number of seconds. (Roger Brook) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| CLOCK_RS.ZIP | Yes | 111629 | 11/30/1994 | Clock (RQS) 3.70 replaces the DOS internal clock, providing automatic DST conversion, control of your BIOS clock and battery clock, adjustment for clock drift and more. NEW: added date display option to continuous display.. (Ronald Q. Smith) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| CLOCKWRK.ZIP | Yes | 73384 | 8/24/1994 | ClockWork 5.22 maintains an accurate system clock without a modem and long distance calls which some other programs require. It handles both real-time clocks and add-ons. One second per week is achievable. (Pavel Otavsky) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| CMOS_SAH.ZIP | Yes | 10753 | 1/16/1995 | CMOS (SAH) 1.0 saves and restores your CMOS memory in the event of on-board battery failure, power surges, etc. (Scott Alan Hoopes) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CMOS14.ZIP | Yes | 6202 | 11/11/1993 | CMOS 1.4 restores CMOS settings which have been wiped out by power surges, battery failure. The original CMOS configuration is saved in a file and restored when needed. (Roedy Green) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CMOSREA.ZIP | Yes | 1025 | 5/17/1987 | Cmosget & Cmosput can save and restore your computer's CMOS settings. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| CNFG4.ZIP | Yes | 87509 | 1/16/1995 | Config 6.0 allows you to create a colorful menu of up to 25 different AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files and the associated path and files. NEW: saves backups of existing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files before copying new files to root directory, improved file viewer.. (Howard Williams) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| COM_DH.ZIP | Yes | 19420 | 10/20/1994 | COMTest 1.0 reports on your COM port usage. (Don Hinds) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| COMDOG.ZIP | Yes | 33506 | 1/16/1995 | COMdog 1.0 displays the COM port number on which your modem is connected. It will also tests the modem connectivity by sending an ATZ string to the port and checking for a response. (Keith Parkansky) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| COMMCHK.ZIP | Yes | 49969 | 6/4/1990 | CommChk/CommSet 90-2 let you examine and change the settings of four serial ports. Use these utilities to save time when you are installing new serial devices. They detect changes made to transmission speed, data bits, stop bits and parity by programs designed to use a serial port. Janus Ada source code is included. (John W. Roberts) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| COMMENT.ZIP | Yes | 1841 | 5/19/1985 | Comment is a device driver which lets you display comments during loading of CONFIG.SYS. (Skip Gilbrech) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| COMPRT.ZIP | Yes | 30050 | 10/5/1993 | ComPort 2.5 allows users to manipulate and display COM and LPT Port Info. (Open Systems Resources, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| CONF_HW.ZIP | Yes | 82305 | 3/18/1994 | Config 5.40 allows you to create a colorful menu of up to 25 different AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files and the associated path and files. NEW: a warning if configuration is changed but user doesn't reboot. (Howard Williams) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CONTROL.ZIP | Yes | 40774 | 2/28/1994 | Control is a memory resident program that allows the keyboard to toggle the eight data lines on your printer port to control eight relays which in turn can control devices such as lights, heating, burglar alarms, lawn sprinkling systems, etc. Jan Schoonenberg of the Netherlands says "For the non-initiated user, this may have the flavor of a demo program. After you pay the shareware fee, you get full diagrams more more software. But the somewhat initiated can work with the program as is." (Peter E. King) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| COUNTGR.ZIP | Yes | 6275 | 2/12/1992 | Count counts the number of times your computer is booted and executes a specified program when the number of specified boots has been reached. This could be used for executing virus checkers, back-up procedures, etc., on a regular basis. (GRSoft) (Reg.Fee: $1) |
| CPU24.ZIP | Yes | 58028 | 9/26/1991 | CPU 24-Hour Burn-In Test 1.22 is a burn-in test program. Most hardware failures show up right away. But if you do not use every single part of your system in every way possible, a weakness or failure may not show up until your warranty is over. A burn-in program can bring out such problems in a new system right away. (William Ip) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| CPUGET.ZIP | Yes | 15970 | 7/28/1994 | GetCPU 1.0 returns an ERRORLEVEL indicating which Intel CPU is installed in your computer, up to 80486. (Barry St.John) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CPUTEST.ZIP | Yes | 14985 | 1/12/1994 | CPUTest measures memory moves, register-to-register operations and finally memory location to register operations. (Tony Doimeadios) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CRIT100.ZIP | Yes | 5400 | 6/22/1989 | Crit 1.00 is an intelligent critical error handler. Gives more information and options on critical errors. (Keith P. Graham) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CRON.ZIP | Yes | 65680 | 7/29/1994 | CronJR 2.55 is a batch computer job schedular. It is intended for LAN managers or others who need to set up different jobs to run at specific times at night to print, run long calculations, etc. While this is a very nice, efficient, integrated package for this particular job, it does not do anything that could not be done just about as easily with some free utilities already on our batch files disks, such as CALL-GP, for nesting batch files, even with earlier versions of DOS, CHECK (and others), for checking the date, time of day, day of week, etc. NEW: fixed 65-line entry limitation, support for network purging command to clean up temporary files, enhanced DesqView support. (Software Shorts) (Reg.Fee: $45-75) |
| CRONTAB.ZIP | Yes | 52408 | 7/25/1993 | CronTab 2.21 runs programs based on the date. Execution can be periodic such as daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly with or without a specified offset such as the third day of the month. Execution can also be day-specific such as every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or on the 15th of each month. (Thomas G. Harold) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CSM141.ZIP | Yes | 434305 | 3/21/1994 | Computer System Manager 1.41 keeps a record of all aspects of your computer system's hardware and software. It will track data for your basic system, component specs, assets, etc. Requires a hard drive. (Gary Rader) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| CSTART61.ZIP | Yes | 34089 | 10/20/1994 | CStartUp 6.1 allows you to run specified programs as a daily event, on scheduled days, or more than once per day. The program creates a hidden file from a batch file containing your instructions. It will execute your commands as scheduled, regardless of how many times you boot your computer. (Tom Duensing) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| CYCLEDTR.ZIP | Yes | 17619 | 11/5/1993 | CycleDtr 1.0 helps you to determine which serial connecter (9 pin or 25 pin) is cabled to which internal port. It cycles the DTR pin high/low allowing you to test the port with a LED test light. For use with external modems, it will flash the "TR" LED indicator. (Robert Smith) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| DAILY1.ZIP | Yes | 21498 | 10/14/1993 | Daily 1.0 allows you to run selected programs on once per day on boot-up. (Don W. Thurston) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| DATETEST.ZIP | Yes | 4894 | 9/20/1994 | DateTest 1.0 can be run from the command line or added to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to perform certain operations on specified days. For example, if the date is the 28th or greater, perform backup. (Mark Tutt) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| DAYBAT.ZIP | Yes | 15498 | 8/14/1989 | Daybat is a utility that will allow you to run a different batch file every day of the week from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file (or from DOS, if you wish). Pascal source is included. (Joseph Sheppard) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| DDATE.ZIP | Yes | 1084 | 3/2/1985 | Ddate is for people who do not have a battery powered clock in their PC. This makes it easy to set the time and date. (Hal Sampson) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| DHRYSTON.ZIP | Yes | 115711 | 3/5/1994 | Dhrystone III is a protected mode benchmark test for 80386 and 80486 based computer system. It reports the speed of your computer and displays the results from several other machines for comparison. (Richard Levey) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| DIAGCODE.ZIP | Yes | 3200 | 8/10/1994 | DiagCode is a list of diagnostic error codes and their meanings. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| DIAGNOS.ZIP | Yes | 10897 | 4/29/2023 | Diagnos is a pair of text files that tell how to interpret start-up beeps and error messages and how to locate a bad memory chip on old PCs. (Jerry Schneider) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| DMBB.ZIP | Yes | 81059 | 4/23/1993 | DMBB is an extensive system information utility. It can get over 250 pieces of information about your system, including the date, BIOS, DOS, CPU type, TSRs and more. It can set ERRORLEVEL to reflect its findings so that batch files can be made to act accordingly. (Daniel Montaron) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| DO_ONCE.ZIP | Yes | 30601 | 5/29/1989 | Do-Once 2.2 keeps a record of and allows the running of programs which you want to run only once per month or per day or on/after a specified day. It stores the information necessary to perform this function in a data file. Another similar type of program, ONBOOT, tries to use flags set in the computer's memory, but does not work on all machines. Do-Once should work on all machines. (Glenn Snow) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| DOSMAX.ZIP | Yes | 114993 | 6/10/1993 | DOSMAX 2.1 maximizes the use of low memory for DOS versions 3.1 through 6.0. DOS 5 and 6 users can load DOS into upper memory rather than the HMA, freeing up HMA space for programs that use the HMA more efficiently, such as Windows and DesqView. It can also move Buffers, Files, FCBS and the drive list high. (Philip B. Gardner) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| DRIVER.ZIP | Yes | 140848 | 6/24/1994 | Drivers 1.0 allows you to have as many configurations as you want and lets you pick the configuration and then reboots your computer for you. (CIM Systems Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| DSTIME.ZIP | Yes | 15134 | 10/1/1993 | DSTime 1.0 automatically adjusts your system's time for Daylight Savings Time changes. (Nathan Alan King) (Reg.Fee: $8) |
| DVICEMA.ZIP | Yes | 2290 | 9/7/1987 | DviceMap 2.10 shows the names, the order, addresses, attributes, strategies and interrupt locations of device drivers. (Stephen L. Jenkins) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| EA.ZIP | Yes | 15837 | 5/29/1989 | EA tells you what boot-up error number messages mean on older machines (newer machines simply tell you if the keyboard is not responding, etc.) (Timothy Trimble) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| EASYDAT.ZIP | Yes | 10857 | 2/11/1990 | EasyDate 4.5 is a quick and easy way to set the date and time for users who don't have hardware clocks. (Brian Evans) (Reg.Fee: $3) |
| EAT_MEM.ZIP | Yes | 770 | 5/29/1989 | Eat-Mem helps you locate programs that fail because of memory location. This utility eats up about 32K of memory every time it is run. Keep running EAT-MEM and your program alternately until your program quits failing. (Ward Christensen) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| ECHOB231.ZIP | Yes | 7525 | 11/15/1994 | EchoBlok 2.31 enhances DOS 6's CONFIG.SYS menu system. NEW: improved bobtailing of long lines. (Richard N. Wisan) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| EL.ZIP | Yes | 6774 | 10/3/1994 | EL 1.0 is a 5K TSR that will warn you if another program sets the DOS errorlevel. (Scott Alan Hoopes) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| EM87.ZIP | Yes | 12976 | 2/11/1990 | EM87 1.2 emulates the 8087 math coprocessor on 80286 and 80386 based computers. May not work with QEMM. (Ron Kimball) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| ENVFORM.ZIP | Yes | 52140 | 10/21/1994 | EnvForm 1.0 allows you to perform full screen input of DOS environment variables. The fields can be set to the values of DOS environment variables prior to the calling of the program, allowing you to establish desired defaults. (Steve Lundeen) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| ERRORS.ZIP | Yes | 8077 | 10/4/1989 | Error Codes is a list of about 500 error codes for the PC. This can be a big help if your computer quits working and all it tells you is a number. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| EVERY.ZIP | Yes | 2106 | 11/16/1994 | Do Once EVERY .... 1.0 is used to control daily and/or weekly jobs that must be done once only. (Horst Schaeffer) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| EXC.ZIP | Yes | 73517 | 1/5/1995 | EXC 3.8 is a simple but powerful script processor for automating DOS applications. (Gary C. Crider) (Reg.Fee: $24) |
| EZBOOTER.ZIP | Yes | 88835 | 4/5/1994 | EZBooter 2.0 allows you to create and display up to nine different AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files and select them from a graphical user interface. The program has a shareware reminder screen which displays for 30 seconds on start-up. (Dale C. Fritchen) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| FHOOK.ZIP | Yes | 3268 | 7/21/1994 | FindHook 1.0 will attempt to identify the software that has hooked Int 13h and causes the "unrecognized software loaded" message from WDCTRL and WDCDRV.386 and will identify drivers and TSRs in low and high DOS memory. It is useful when attempting to enable 32-bit disk access. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| FIXBEEP.ZIP | Yes | 1653 | 3/16/1987 | Fixbeep lets you change the frequency of the beep in DOS to a less piercing tone of your own choosing. (Mike Blaszczak) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| FPONOF.ZIP | Yes | 4527 | 12/28/1994 | FPOff/FPOn turns the Pentium's coprocessor on or off. ASM source included. It also display's the Pentiums family, model and step codes. (Alfred J. Heyman) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| GASGAUG.ZIP | Yes | 21302 | 3/24/1991 | GasGauge 5.7 loads into memory in your laptop computer and keeps track of how minutes of computer use remain before recharging is needed. (Charles Eglinton) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| GEN_HS.ZIP | Yes | 32722 | 8/23/1991 | Gen 1.5 generates test characters to a file or device. It generates files of any size from zero to twenty million bytes for building specific-sized files for printer, storage, or timing tests. (Herron Software) (Reg.Fee: $12) |
| GFRU.ZIP | Yes | 41057 | 9/8/1993 | Generalized File Replication Utilities identifies changes made to data on one computer, copies the changes and applies them to the same files on a secondary computer system. (S. Gopalakrishnan) (Reg.Fee: $35) |
| GOHOME.ZIP | Yes | 254059 | 10/21/1994 | GoHome 1.1 allows you to schedule programs to run at any time unattended. It is a complete scripting language with interactive script editor. NEW: adds a couple of new script enhancements. (John Schnurrenberger) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $93) |
| HAVE.ZIP | Yes | 32403 | 3/8/1994 | Have 1.33 will display a quick list of system information, such as DOS version, drives, active drivers, screen information, graphics card, ports, and more. (Mark Knutson) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| HIMEM_UT.ZIP | Yes | 99625 | 3/5/1994 | High Memory Utilities contains several utilities, primarily for use in working with high memory. HILoad lets you use what should be unused areas of memory. EDisk is a RAM disk which uses the 128K in the D and E blocks which will retain its contents after a warm-boot. MapMep shows what is in memory. VideoTSR shows what TSRs have been loaded into Video memory area. Several other utilities are included. (Larry Shannon) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| HITAKEY.ZIP | Yes | 2598 | 4/24/1990 | HitAKey is a dummy device driver which stops and lets you look at the screen, then hit a key to continue booting. It has no other effect on your system. Although the author has a rather ominous warning about its use on systems other than his, we tested it on different types of machines with no problems. (Raymond P. Tackett) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| HIVIDEO.ZIP | Yes | 15462 | 7/8/1993 | HiVIDEO 2.03 expands DOS memory in text video modes by 96K by using graphics memory of the VGA/EGA display adapter. Cannot be used if you are going to run graphics. Requires DOS 3.0+, EGA/VGA and 640K memory. (Chris Sitte) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| HMA.ZIP | Yes | 5950 | 12/9/1993 | HMA 1.0 reports on the amount of HMA space left over when DOS is loaded with DOS=HIGH. This space can be used by TSR's and device drivers. C source code included. (Tony Ingenoso) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| HOLDIT.ZIP | Yes | 5811 | 2/11/1993 | HoldIt! lets you insert pauses in CONFIG.SYS. It displays the name of the next device driver to be loaded. This lets you determine which driver is at fault if your system is locking up on start-up. (William Cravener) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| HOTOP.ZIP | Yes | 149827 | 2/24/1994 | Hot Operator! 1.04e runs production job schedules at the touch of a key, or at specific times or days of the week. (Joey Robichaux) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $53) |
| IFDAY.ZIP | Yes | 5795 | 11/2/1993 | IFDay 1.0 allows the user to run certain commands on pre-specified days. (Bryan Valencia) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| INTERVAL.ZIP | Yes | 59829 | 8/23/1994 | Interval 1.97 runs a DOS command or program once during a user defined period of time. It maintains logs on activity and can set errorlevel to indicate completion status. (Samual Kaplin) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| IOVIEW.ZIP | Yes | 7158 | 6/25/1990 | IOView lets you view memory mapped I/O ports in action. (Thomas Bradford) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| IP132.ZIP | Yes | 21090 | 1/20/1995 | IP 1.32 identifies serial port base addresses, IRQ assignments, register status and a variety of other serial port info. (AM Research Co.) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| LETTERJB.ZIP | Yes | 10935 | 10/26/1994 | Letters 1.5 will tell you which drive letters are assigned by DOS. (Jeff Bankston) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| LOADIT.ZIP | Yes | 23309 | 1/12/1995 | LoadIt! is a front end menu for AutoCAD. It includes utilities to make it easy to perform the following functions: create new drawings, create new drawings by prototype, edit existing drawings, pick drawings from a ZIP file, insert Blocks, erase drawings, erase BAK files, DXFin multiple drawings, DXFout multiple drawings (ASCII & Binary), printer plot drawings, plot drawings, and view drawings. Create, Edit, Erase, Execute, List, Load, View (etc...) Lisp files, Script files, Font-Shape files, Menu files, Slides, and standard dos files. LoadIt! is all menu driven. It also has Mouse support and on-line help. The author can no longer be reached at the address listed in the documentation. (Stephen V. Genusa) (Reg.Fee: $43) |
| LOGV20.ZIP | Yes | 46042 | 12/15/1993 | $20 Logic Analyzer 1.0 provides the testing software and instruction on how to build a probe assembly for testing the printer ports of your computer. (Robert G. Brown) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| LOOKMEM.ZIP | Yes | 1075 | 8/10/1994 | LookMem scrolls through memory and displays it on screen. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| LPTREAD.ZIP | Yes | 21005 | 1/14/1992 | LPTRead lets you use the LPT port for data acquisition. It is a TSR which reads the port and executes predefined keystrokes. LPTRead could be use in laboratories, for alarm systems, for automation, etc. (Rob Cosgrove) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| LPTWRIT.ZIP | Yes | 13976 | 8/26/1991 | LPTWrite lets you control external devices through the printer port. (Rob Cosgrove) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| MATHUNIT.ZIP | Yes | 845 | 8/10/1994 | MathUnit lets you turn your math coprocessor on and off. It also tests for the presence of a math coprocessor and tells you if it is enabled or disabled. (Tom Dallacqua) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MAXDOS.ZIP | Yes | 4625 | 6/22/1989 | MaxDOS extends the DOS memory map above the video buffers. (Keith P. Graham) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MBOOTUP.ZIP | Yes | 60684 | 1/16/1995 | Magic BootUp runs programs during boot-up that you're supposed to run every day. Things like CHKDSK, memory testers, virus scans, backups, defrags, and others. (It's Magic! PC Potions) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| MDMWZ304.ZIP | Yes | 36056 | 1/17/1995 | FaxModem Wizard 3.04 will tell you what, if anything, is on each of your four COM-Ports and which IRQ is connected to each. It will give you a written report about your modem. This is a handy way to fine tune your modem and resolve COM-IRQ problems. (Jon Krahmer) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MEGAFLP.ZIP | Yes | 20660 | 8/12/1991 | MegaFlop 1.0 measures the cpu speed of 80286/386/486 MS-DOS computers. An Intel compatible math coprocessor is optional. A comparative cpu speed chart is provided. We found this to be a good way to compare system speed on multiple machines. (Barrie Walker) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MEM_DW.ZIP | Yes | 7522 | 2/23/1990 | Mem 2.0 displays the size of memory, DOS environment space, extended and expanded memory. (Dave Williams) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MEM_MGT.ZIP | Yes | 137027 | 3/6/1994 | Memory Management Kit 2.02 provides memory management features DOS left out. You can load TSRs and device drivers into high DOS memory on 8088s and 286s (not just 386/486s) and convert extended memory to expanded memory on a 286. It will allow you to create 64K+ more high DOS memory on a 386/486 and up to 32 megabytes of expanded memory from disk space and create up to 736K of low DOS memory and more. 40 different chipsets are supported. (Biologic Corp.) (Reg.Fee: $50) |
| MEMHELP.ZIP | Yes | 2127 | 12/2/1994 | Memory Tips 1.0 is a set of helpful tips for freeing up conventional and upper memory. (Dean E. Percival) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MEMWALK.ZIP | Yes | 14977 | 8/10/1994 | Memwalk lets you walk through areas of memory, displaying the contents on the screen. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| MHUTIL.ZIP | Yes | 178261 | 3/17/1994 | Micro House Utilities 1.0 is a set of utilities for hard drives and networks. It includes a utility to identify the manufacturer number of your network cards, a utility to display hard drive information, such as manufacturer, model and serial numbers, capacity, and number of heads, cylinders, and sectors, a utility to copy system boot files, and utilities to save vital system information and restore it from the backup file. (Micro House International) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MHZ.ZIP | Yes | 2201 | 9/8/1994 | MHZ 1.0 displays your system clock speed and optionally writes the information to a text file. (Shawn Anderson) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| MINLOAD.ZIP | Yes | 3325 | 6/16/1994 | MinLoad 1.00 estimates the minimum amount of free memory required to load programs. This may be useful in fitting programs into small chunks of memory made available above video RAM. (Christopher J. Dunford) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MM43_AP.ZIP | Yes | 11389 | 8/24/1994 | Memory Map (AP) 4.3s displays a listing of programs resident in lower and upper memory, including sub-segment blocks. (Andrew Powell) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| MOREDOS.ZIP | Yes | 1773 | 6/22/1989 | MoreDOS checks for DOS above 640k and adjusts the DOS memory map without rebooting. (Keith P. Graham) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| MTBOOT.ZIP | Yes | 25557 | 12/2/1994 | Multi Boot 1.0 allows you to create up to four different boot configurations. (Richard Ratayczak) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| MWATCHTI.ZIP | Yes | 7706 | 12/14/1993 | MemWatch 0.1 is a 1k TSR which reports on how your system memory is being used, including the use of EMS, XMS, Int 15, DPMI, and VCPI. It will reset after each invocation. Assembly source code is included. (Tony Ingenoso) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| NBSCOM.ZIP | Yes | 40799 | 4/4/1989 | Nbscom 1.4 will allow you to accurately set the DOS date/time in your PC using the National Bureau of Standards Telephone Time Service. You simply run NBSCOM, and it dials up the NBS, reads the time, sets your DOS clock, and tells you how far your DOS clock needs to be advanced or set back. C source is included. (Franklin Antonio) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| NICAD.ZIP | Yes | 57317 | 9/4/1991 | NiCad 1.0 is a 16k TSR which monitors laptop battery use and displays a bar graph of the battery charge. Features include deep discharge of batteries, up to seven low-battery alarms, optional on-screen clock and charge indicator, and battery charge history. (KJL Software) (Reg.Fee: $29) |
| OFCNHOME.ZIP | Yes | 58714 | 1/19/1994 | Office'n'Home 1.0 makes it easier to synchronize information between two or more computers, such as a computer at work and one at home. (Michael Meron) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| ONBOOT.ZIP | Yes | 6885 | 10/9/1989 | OnBoot 1.10 allows you to have your AUTOEXEC.BAT file run selected programs only during a warm boot (Ctl-Alt-Del), a cold boot (power on), or the first boot of the day. (Christopher J. Dunford) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| ONCE_DW.ZIP | Yes | 14153 | 1/16/1995 | Once 1.0 allows you to perform timed-execution of applications from within the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Programs can be run by day of week, every other day, every specified number of day, once per month, per week, etc. (David Weber) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| ONCEDAY.ZIP | Yes | 19993 | 8/18/1989 | OnceADay 1.2 is a small batch file utility that will allow you to run a file or a group of files only once a day. This is primarily for use in AUTOEXEC.BAT files. It allows you to reboot your machine during the day without having to execute programs which you only need to run on the first start-up of the day. (Unique Software) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| OPLID.ZIP | Yes | 31345 | 7/19/1994 | OplId 1.0 will identify the type of OPL chip in your system, if any. (Francois D. Menard) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| P5BUG.ZIP | Yes | 24480 | 12/13/1994 | Pentium Floating Point Division Test 1.0 is a test to determine if your Pentium processor contains the floating point division bug reported to have been included in some chips. The test can also be used on other processors to determine if they have similar floating point division flaws. (Kevin Paul Heider) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| PARA145.ZIP | Yes | 86029 | 11/1/1994 | Parallel.Exe 1.45 displays the configuration of the parallel ports (LPT ports) in your system. NEW: mode reporting for ECP ports (Jay Lowe) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| PBDOS100.ZIP | Yes | 170021 | 1/13/1995 | Power Balance For DOS 1.00a will synchronize your data on two PCs. If you keep the same files on two PCs, such as a Laptop and Desktop, and you update one, you will need to change the other. This program does this for you, saving time and making sure both PCs are up to date. (Neil Gorin) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| PCBENCH.ZIP | Yes | 41556 | 7/14/1991 | PCBench is a PC benchmarking program with 34 tests. It checks the speed of the cpu, math coprocessor, RAM, ROM, video RAM, expanded RAM, hard drive, video BIOS, DOS output and ANSI driver. The results can be stored into a database for retrieving later for comparative analysis of machines. (Aki Korhonen) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| PCM140.ZIP | Yes | 35273 | 12/9/1994 | Post Code Master 1.40 is a menu driven database of Power On Self Test (POST) Codes generated by most major BIOS's. (These are the beeps and codes you get on boot-up if there is a problem with your system.) The two-digit code is displayed with an explanation of the code. Also included are Beep codes and their meanings. (MicroSystems Development, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $62) |
| PCSTATS.ZIP | Yes | 48098 | 6/13/1992 | PCStats 3.1 displays your system configuration info, including CPU type, DOS version, keyboard, system memory, BIOS dates, disk drives, video, default drive space, floppy types, number of parallel ports and serial ports, mouse driver, and much more. (Richard M. Rutkowski) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| PCTIME.ZIP | Yes | 93440 | 11/29/1993 | PC Time Standard 2.01 sets your system clock by calling the NIST. (Mark Bowler) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| PDB001.ZIP | Yes | 39650 | 5/24/1994 | Portable Disk Benchmark 0.01 tests disk and cache performance across different platforms. The test is divided into two parts, sequential write to create the file random read/random write with the same data, and sequential read of the entire file random read/random write of changed data. Modules for DOS, OS/2 16-bit, and OS/2 32-bit, and the C source code, are included. (Albert J. Shan) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| PE_PROC.ZIP | Yes | 112753 | 3/5/1994 | Painless Event Processor allows unattended operation of your computer. Key strokes can be captured by an accompanying pop-up utility and played back at a preset time to execute commands or programs. You can specify a delay from 1 second to 255 minutes, perform a reboot of your system, execute up to eight events at once, and much more. Only 10K of memory is required once the program is invoked. Mouse support is included. (Kendall Pierce) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $45) |
| PENT_BUG.ZIP | Yes | 48158 | 12/5/1994 | Pentium Bug Utility 1.0 detects whether your Pentium CPU has the FDIV bug. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| PHOENIX.ZIP | Yes | 844 | 8/10/1994 | Phoenix is a bulletin board program that was previously known as Collie and Colossus. DSZ, Zmodem, Ymodem, Ymodem-G are now supported. A programmable menu system is included. (The GeneSys Project, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $60) |
| PINMAP.ZIP | Yes | 1228 | 3/13/1990 | PinMap is a VGA 15-pin connection map for 9-pin monitors. Specific information for Sony and NEC monitors are given, but should cover most 9 pin monitor connectors. (Raymond P. Tackett) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| PORTEST.ZIP | Yes | 43040 | 2/11/1991 | Port Test is a complete I/O port testing and control program. It will identify ports and their technical information, modify system tables, test the ports to identify and correct problems. It will let you add additional ports and swap ports. It will also display wiring information for serial ports. (Microsystems Development) (Reg.Fee: $59) |
| PORTFND.ZIP | Yes | 37478 | 6/21/1992 | Port Finder 2.71 will let you activate COM3 and COM4; it will also let you swap COM ports, as well as parallel ports. (mcTRONic Systems) (Reg.Fee: $14) |
| PRF4PC.ZIP | Yes | 25949 | 9/7/1994 | Preferences 4 Pack 1.0 allows you to modify your Geoworks Ensemble 2.0+ environment. You can modify color of background, frame, and shadow, DOS program associations, command line arguments for DOS programs, and the association of icons to filenames. (Amtal) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| PROMPTR.ZIP | Yes | 37123 | 6/22/1989 | Promptr 1.3 controls the loading of programs in AUTOEXEC.BAT. It will prompt you for each specified program (including TSR's) so that you can decide on boot-up which programs to run. (RJ Software Ltd.) (Reg.Fee: $10-$15) |
| PTM229.ZIP | Yes | 254277 | 11/22/1994 | DOS Phantom 2.9o is a task automation utility. It records and plays back key stroke series of any length, and can be edited after recording. Recordings can be played back at high speed or with delays. Playback can be scheduled for a specified time or invoked with a hot key. Recordings can be edited to include pop-up text windows, pop-up menus, pauses for user input, and branching based on menu selection, program exit status, and appearance of a text string on the screen. DOS Phantom may be used as a software testing tool with screen and print capture, for creating self-executing demos, or for automating complex data processing tasks for novice users. (Anton R. Fleig) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $40) |
| Q387_363.ZIP | Yes | 120965 | 5/12/1994 | Q387 3.63 is a math accelerator and math coprocessor emulator. It will increase computer performance with most math intensive applications and allow you to run programs which require a math coprocessor without any additional hardware. (QuickWare) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| Q87_371.ZIP | Yes | 114035 | 12/28/1994 | Q87 3.71 is a math processor emulator. It can speed up math-intensive applications and allow you to run programs which require a math chip without the need for additional hardware. (QuickWare) (Reg.Fee: $30) |
| QICTEST.ZIP | Yes | 32448 | 6/3/1994 | QIC Driver Test 1.01 is a QIC drive controller card test. It locates, initializes and tests operation of the following cards: Archive, Colorado, Conner, Iomega, Maynard, Mountain and Summit. (Novatech Design) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| RAMTEST.ZIP | Yes | 53935 | 3/2/1994 | RamTest is used for identifying an existing fault but could be used as part of a periodic maintenance program. This program has been developed as an exhaustive test of the memory in a PC, XT, AT or any of their clones. It is much more comprehensive than self-test on boot-up. In addition to system or base memory, RamTest will also test Expanded Memory on all machines and Extended Memory on AT type machines. (Brown Bag Software) (Reg.Fee: $55) |
| RDBLOK.ZIP | Yes | 36673 | 5/5/1991 | Roadblok! is an interactive device driver trace/analyze utility with tutorial. It enables you to get a close look at your system's device drivers, helping you to better understand their function and their place in the DOS memory space. (EbSoft) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| REBOOT.ZIP | Yes | 133 | 8/10/1994 | Reboot documents the organization and software which permits a user to reboot a PC using a different CONFIG.SYS file and, optionally, a different AUTOEXEC.BAT file. (Jon R. Millen) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| REBOOT1.ZIP | Yes | 44137 | 4/6/1989 | Reboot1 2.2 allows you to change your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files on the fly. (Codeworks) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| RECON_GM.ZIP | Yes | 12523 | 5/29/1989 | Reconfig is designed to let you easily change your system configuration. This is done by having predefined different sets of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files with different filename extensions distinguishing them. RECONFIG lets you select the set that you want to invoke, copies them from the files with the distinguishing filename extensions to CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT filenames and reboots the machine to actually invoke them. (Glen F. Marshall) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| RECONFIG.ZIP | Yes | 107575 | 3/2/1994 | Reconfig lets you maintain up to 100 sets of different AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files so that you can quickly and easily change your system configuration. It includes a built-in editor and drop-down menus. Requires a hard disk. (Optimal Solutions of NH) (Reg.Fee: $35) |
| RESET1.ZIP | Yes | 2902 | 5/29/1989 | Reset 1.2 allows you to maintain several different environments on your PC via several AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. (Bruce Travers) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| REVEAL.ZIP | Yes | 40526 | 5/6/1991 | Reveal 2.0 displays a list of memory control blocks in use with information about each displayed in a window as you scroll through the list. You can select an area to view a greater level of detail. This is both a useful and educational utility for the technically inclined. (EbSoft) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| ROMBEEP.ZIP | Yes | 3957 | 8/10/1994 | RomBeep is a description of what various system beeps and error messages mean on boot-up. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| RTCLOCK.ZIP | Yes | 2178 | 3/12/1989 | Rtclock 1.30 will read the real time clock and set the DOS clock from it, or read the DOS clock and set the real time clock from it, or it will allow the user to set BOTH the real time clock and the DOS clock from the keyboard. It is intended for use on an AT class 80286 or 80386 machine. If you own the Heathkit "World's Most Accurate Clock" with a serial interface, RTCLOCK will allow you to set both your real time clock and your DOS clock from WWV, the short-wave time data service provided by the U.S. government. (Michael Conley) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| RTIME15.ZIP | Yes | 26386 | 11/10/1994 | RiteTime 1.5 will set your system clock by calling via modem for the exact time of day and date. It can operate manually or unattended. Requires a Hayes compatible modem. (Al Sharpe) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| RUNANY.ZIP | Yes | 24289 | 1/15/1992 | Run Anytime! 2.0 monitors up to 15 combinations of days, dates, and times in the background (15k) each time it is run to play back keystrokes whenever you wish just as if you typed them yourself. You could use it to automatically download files in the middle of the night when rates are low or to load and recalculate large spreadsheets and have database reports generated automatically at night, on weekends, or anytime. Run Anytime! can be run multiple times from different directories to monitor a larger combination of times, days, and dates. (Crawford Software, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| S3BENCH.ZIP | Yes | 28699 | 9/15/1993 | S3 Floating Point BenchMark 1.0 will benchmark systems based on their ability to process complex floating point math. (George Spafford) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| SCHEDTSK.ZIP | Yes | 85915 | 12/29/1993 | Task Scheduler - SIS 2.5 allows you to schedule DOS programs to run at a specified time, daily, weekly, or at other intervals. (Don Branson) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $36) |
| SCSITXT.ZIP | Yes | 36330 | 10/21/1994 | What is SCSI 0.95 is an in-depth tutorial on the SCSI parallel bus system. NEW: new and updated information. (Gerhard Islinger) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SHOEMM.ZIP | Yes | 8600 | 5/29/1989 | Shoemm is a utility designed to display the status and allocation of the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification. (Jan Smoller) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| SHOW_ME.ZIP | Yes | 24225 | 5/27/1990 | Show-Me 2.85 shows how your PC is set up: memory (conventional, extended, and expanded), video (cards and monitor), mouse, and disks. For each disk, it reports whether it's local or LAN connected, its size and free space. C and MASM source code included. Not very fancy, but provides good info and it is fast. Output scrolls off the screen, so you will need either to use a scroll-back utility or redirect output to a printer or file. Doesn't recognize a 486, but C source is included. (Crown Software Corporation) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SHOWSET.ZIP | Yes | 14745 | 12/2/1991 | ShowSet 1.74 reports the integrated chip sets used in a system. (Micro Firmware Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SIBC11.ZIP | Yes | 48615 | 6/1/1994 | SysInfo 1.1 provides over 80 C functions for accessing system information. Features include 486 and Pentium math co-processor detection, XGA video detection, a functions to return the system bus type, CPU speed, CPU mode, COM port address, LPT port address, and type of UART installed. (Paul Lapsansky) (Reg.Fee: $39) |
| SIEVE.ZIP | Yes | 7065 | 11/3/1993 | Sieve 1.0 tests the actual processor speed of your computer as compared to the IBM PC/XT. (Marc Perkel) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SILENCE.ZIP | Yes | 2371 | 8/10/1994 | Silence disables the speaker. |
| SILENCR.ZIP | Yes | 36829 | 9/8/1989 | Silencr 2.1 silences programs that insist on making a lot of loud, unwanted sounds. Unlike some utilities that work on a hardware level to silence the speaker, Silencer lets you silence one particular program without disabling the speaker for other programs. It actually creates a new program file (leaving the original unchanged) in which any calls to the speaker (OUT 61,AL) are NOP'ed out. Basic source code is included. (NOTE: This has no effect on programs which use sound cards to generate sounds, just the PC speaker.) (David L. Fallen) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SIMIIE.ZIP | Yes | 116042 | 5/20/1994 | SimSystem IIe 1.0 makes a PC compatible computer system look, sound, and act just like an Apple IIe computer. It supports all standard Apple graphics modes, so your favorite Apple games will work perfectly. Even the sound is reproduced exactly. (American Research Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $56) |
| SIR.ZIP | Yes | 43561 | 3/30/1994 | Sir! is a very sharp looking and easy to use "Rolodex-type" name, address and phone number keeper. You can see the names on about the next 10 cards; you can scroll through the cards with the cursor keys; and you can dial numbers through a modem and print lists or envelopes. (Dennis P. Todd) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| SK470S.ZIP | Yes | 321427 | 11/3/1994 | HyperDisk SpeedKit 4.70 is a set of system speed-up utilities: a disk cache program, a video speed-up utility, and a keyboard enhancer that enlarges the type-ahead buffer and lets you set the typeamatic rate. NEW: support for new IDE booster product, update for defaults when flushing disk cache, addition of HyperRAM product, deletion of support for EMS/conventional memory modules, optimized code for 386/486/Pentium processors, and addition of Windows control panel. (HyperWare) (Reg.Fee: $10-50) |
| SLOD_BN.ZIP | Yes | 8411 | 1/16/1995 | SlowDos (BN) 1.0 will slow your computer clock speed so that you can run older programs on faster machines. (Brent Noorda) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SLOW.ZIP | Yes | 291 | 7/22/1985 | Slow will slow down a fast CPU so that programs like games can be run at the intended speed. SLOW-NO reverses the affect. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| SLOWDOS.ZIP | Yes | 10472 | 5/18/1994 | SlowDos slows down the computer's cpu for running older programs. Includes source code. (Bill Seiler) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SLOWDWN.ZIP | Yes | 10076 | 9/3/1989 | SlowDwn slows down fast cpu's so that you can run programs written for slower machines. The author wrote this to aid C programmers in testing their programs, but it can be used by anyone needing to slow down their machine. You can specify the amount of slowdown on the DOS command line. TSR: 78k. (John Ruzicka) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SLOWMO.ZIP | Yes | 37664 | 4/28/1994 | SlowMo 2.0 gives you slow motion in another program at the touch of a button. (Andrew King) (Reg.Fee: $8) |
| SLOWPC.ZIP | Yes | 13015 | 2/25/1991 | SlowPC 1.0 slows down a fast PC, primarily for playing older games. (Dr. Masaaki Sawada) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SLOWTO11.ZIP | Yes | 6266 | 6/17/1994 | SlowTo 1.1 is a TSR that provides a convenient way to slow down your computer. This is primarily useful for playing older computer games on newer machines. (Kevin Solway) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| SLWDOWN.ZIP | Yes | 11452 | 1/30/1992 | SlowDown 1.10 is a TSR that slows down your computer. It features 256 different slowdown levels. This is very useful if you are trying to run games (or other programs) that were written on older computers and are too fast on newer machines. (C&S Productions) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SNOOP330.ZIP | Yes | 163304 | 8/9/1994 | Snooper 3.30 reports your computer's configuration and operating characteristics. Features: detection of 700 more MicroChannel cards, fax modem, disk caches, Sound Blaster/Adlib/Roland MPU-401, DOS Protected Mode Interface, Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI), ANSI device drivers, several VGA chipsets, virtual 86 mode, CD-ROM drives, video memory installed on VESA cards, several brands of ROM BIOS and more. (John P. Vias) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $39) |
| SOSEVD.ZIP | Yes | 16177 | 11/16/1993 | EveryDay 2.20 automates tasks at boot time, It allows you to specify what operations are performed on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. (Solid Oak Software) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SPC.ZIP | Yes | 29917 | 7/28/1994 | SPC 6.1 will do a complete multi-drive analysis. It displays information about video, BIOS, keyboard, communications including UART and modem response, Norton based CPU speed index, net/multitask, full RAM precision, and more. It also uses DOS Services to identify SUBSTed drives. It has a very compact, one-screen display. (Bob Eyer) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| SPEED.ZIP | Yes | 2717 | 6/22/1989 | Speed compares a system's cpu speed to a standard PC. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| SPEEDCPU.ZIP | Yes | 81350 | 12/23/1994 | Speed... 1.01 claims to double your system speed. In testing at PsL, we found only very slight speed-up. Your mileage may vary. There are speed testing programs in PsL which will let you measure the results you get. The speed checking built into this program showed large speed increases not shown by other utilities. (J&G Computes) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SPTEST.ZIP | Yes | 8273 | 6/29/1994 | SPTest 1.5 is a serial port diagnostic program. It is designed to test any of the four standard serial ports. It detects internal or external modems, presence of a mouse driver controlling the port to test, and more. It generates DOS errorlevel codes upon exiting that you can use to control a batch file and/or related operations. (Jeff Bankston) (Reg.Fee: $20) |
| SSE_V2.ZIP | Yes | 12235 | 6/22/1989 | SSE-V2 is a cpu speed test utility. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| STARTSYS.ZIP | Yes | 37313 | 5/19/1994 | StartSys 1.2 is a boot utility that works without resident drivers. (Oliver Wagner) (Reg.Fee: $16) |
| STOPIT.ZIP | Yes | 2930 | 8/10/1994 | StopIt stops the speaker when some program has left it beeping ceaselessly. (Rowena Moritz) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SUPRBOOT.ZIP | Yes | 5035 | 6/7/1994 | SuprBoot 1.0 allows you to boot the computer from drive A, B, or C by holding down a series of specified keys during initial booting. You will then be prompted for a drive letter to continue booting from. (Eric C. Olsen) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SWAPSYS.ZIP | Yes | 18782 | 7/15/1994 | SwapSys 1.03 is a simple system to help change or switch your autoexec.bat file and/or your config.sys file. It then gives you the option of rebooting your computer. (Gary L. Robinson) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| SYNC.ZIP | Yes | 9047 | 6/8/1994 | Sync 1.0 synchronizes files in different directories or between a floppy and hard drive. It can be useful if you often transfer work between two computers, such as a portable and a desktop, or between home and office computers. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| SYSCHK24.ZIP | Yes | 102957 | 8/9/1994 | SysChk 2.40 is one of the nicest system configuration reporting programs that we have seen. It starts with a system summary in the view window with a menu window to the side. Menu options change the view window to show detailed information about your CPUs, BIOS, I/O, hard disks, floppy disks, video, memory, TSR map, and system throughput speed. It will optionally print out the system information. (Paul Griffith) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $29) |
| SYSINF.ZIP | Yes | 22374 | 10/27/1993 | Sys Info 2.50 displays several screens of information about your computer. It will print to screen, printer or file. (Tobin Fricke) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| SYSMON30.ZIP | Yes | 50178 | 8/9/1994 | System Monitor 3.0 monitors and reports problems early, maintains performance and resolves hardware/software and MS Windows conflicts. (Doren Rosenthal) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $49) |
| TAGADAY.ZIP | Yes | 19153 | 11/30/1993 | Tagaday 1.12 selects a line at random from a text file and displays it. (Robert N. Payes) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| TASKER.ZIP | Yes | 36035 | 1/14/1994 | Tasker 1.95a will execute any program and parameters, or command line input at any prescheduled time. It uses any specified taskfile, and features LAN compatibility, logging feature, screen redirection during task execution and more. (SkinnyMan Applications) (Reg.Fee: $15) |
| TEST.ZIP | Yes | 5857 | 6/22/1989 | Test is for testing the speed of your system using Lotus 1-2-3 and this worksheet, which gives you a real-world speed test. (Al Thomas) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| TESTEXT.ZIP | Yes | 7657 | 10/25/1991 | TestExt 3.4 will test Extended (not Expanded) memory. It requires a 286 or better CPU. (J. M. Cyr) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| TIME.ZIP | Yes | 28735 | 1/11/1989 | Time contains numerous programs that relate to various aspects of time, date and timing, such as adjusting the DOS and BIOS clocks, displaying the time, a timer, hourly chimes and more. (Gunner Richwell) (Reg.Fee: $5-$15) |
| TIME_IX.ZIP | Yes | 28489 | 5/29/1989 | Time-IX is for people who do not have clocks in their computers and have to manually set the time and date on bootup. This program makes it much easier to do so. (Basil Evrenidis) (Reg.Fee: $3) |
| TIMERUN.ZIP | Yes | 39940 | 7/14/1989 | Time Runner 1.0 will execute specified BAT, COM or EXE files at up to five different specified dates and times. It is not a TSR, so you cannot set it and then go back to using the computer. Nor will it pass keystrokes to a program, so you have to be running programs that support their own scripts, such as most communications programs, or that work from the command line, such as most backup programs. (Allsoft Computer Products) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| TIMES2.ZIP | Yes | 14207 | 11/30/1991 | Times2 contains the following time related programs: SETTIME 1.4 calls the United States Naval Observatory modem, downloads one of the USNO's time strings and then sets your system time and date. DTM (DateTime) is a useful utility if you don't have a clock/calendar yet or if your battery back clock is not working. It lets you easily set the time and date. (Unique Software) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| TIMESET.ZIP | Yes | 171573 | 6/14/1993 | TimeSet 7.21 resets your computer clock by calling cesium beam atomic clocks of either the U.S. Naval Observatory or the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A modem is required. A noise detection procedure is provided to prevent spurious noise detection with certain modems. It can access atomic clock-based telephone time services in Sweden, Austria, Italy and the USNO and NIST in the U.S.A. Other features include an auto dial utility, automatic reconfiguration when the time season changes between daylight savings time and standard time, the ability to save data on your computer clock to a disk file each time you call a time service, and custom serial port configuration making it usable with serial ports up to COM8 and nonstandard IRQs and port addresses. (Peter Petrakis) (Reg.Fee: $40) |
| TMONTH.ZIP | Yes | 13296 | 11/27/1990 | TMonth allows you to execute a command or set of commands from your AUTOEXEC.BAT file once a month. This is useful when you clean up files or in dialing a time setting modem on a monthly basis. (George Kerber) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| TPSHW.ZIP | Yes | 39854 | 10/15/1993 | Time-Pro 1.0 allows unattended operation of almost any type of DOS program by scheduling routines to be performed at a pre-specified date and time. (Promedia Concepts) (Reg.Fee: $18) |
| TRAKMEM.ZIP | Yes | 11150 | 9/6/1992 | TrackMem 1.0 tells you how much memory other applications use. It always tracks conventional memory usage, and detects the presence of EMS or XMS memory in your system and sets itself up to track usage of whichever types are present. It can also provide a continuous display of memory usage on a secondary monitor. (James W. Birdsall) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| TRAN.ZIP | Yes | 31984 | 8/24/1994 | Tran is a text-to-speech program. It can read text files or take input from the keyboard, translate normal English spelling to phonemes, and sound out each phoneme through the speaker. There are several options that allow you to adjust the timing and pitch to your machine, save the phoneme translations to a file, and more. Frankly, we could not understand a word it said, but it might do better on other machines and the ability to save the phonemes could be useful for other applications. (Stephen Neely) (Reg.Fee: $$0) |
| TURBOTB.ZIP | Yes | 402 | 8/10/1994 | Turbo is a CPU speed changing utility for clones that don't allow CPU speed to be changed through the keyboard. (Terry Bohning) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| UMBDRVR.ZIP | Yes | 41560 | 3/14/1992 | UMB_DRVR 5.22 is a DOS 5.0 device driver that will use the shadow memory capability of the memory controller portion of various chip sets to force all ROM's not specifically excluded to be shadowed, and expand DOS base memory beyond 640KB if possible, and provide UMB's (Upper Memory Blocks) to DOS for loading programs and device drivers into high memory while not using any resident memory. (Christopher Blum) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| UPCSH2.ZIP | Yes | 34526 | 4/25/1994 | UpCopy 2.0 copies new files from one location to another in both directions. It asks questions, shows file information and can show file comparisons before doing this. (Joel Kurasch) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $30-45) |
| VALERT2.ZIP | Yes | 18094 | 4/28/1994 | Valert 2.0 monitors the critical DOS Vector table and alerts the operator if changes occur. (Gary M. Raymond) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| VARISLOW.ZIP | Yes | 483 | 8/10/1994 | Varislow allows you to downwardly vary the speed of your AT in order to run programs that expect to be run at a slower speed - most often, games. (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| VECTS.ZIP | Yes | 6801 | 8/10/1994 | Vects displays the interrupt vectors. |
| VGAIDT.ZIP | Yes | 35570 | 1/20/1995 | VideoID 2.0 displays your video driver type with amount of memory and tests the maximum resolution for which the driver is capable. (Bob Berry) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| VGASPD.ZIP | Yes | 14570 | 6/23/1992 | VGASpeed computes the relative speed of your VGA setup. It also tells you CPU type and speed and VGA bus type. (Peter Oliphant) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| VIDEOTST.ZIP | Yes | 15518 | 3/4/1994 | VideoTst displays dots, horizontal and vertical lines and color bars to aid in testing and aligning your monitor. (Larry Kraemer) (Reg.Fee: $40) |
| VIDSPEED.ZIP | Yes | 21748 | 2/28/1992 | VidSpeed 3.2 tests the speed of a video system. It also has a lengthy table of speeds from running the program on various kinds of systems. (John Bridges) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| VMS240.ZIP | Yes | 37316 | 5/13/1994 | VMS40 EMS 1.1b is a set of two EMS memory emulation utilities. VMS40 emulates EMS memory on your hard drive, and LMS40 uses extended memory to emulate EMS memory. (David Noakes) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| VSPEED.ZIP | Yes | 9476 | 2/11/1990 | VSpeed tests and reports your screen scrolling speed and gives your scrolling time and string write time. This is handy for comparing different video systems. (Dave Williams) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| WAITILL.ZIP | Yes | 23045 | 9/17/1993 | WaiTill lets your computer perform tasks at a specified date and time. (Phillip Scott) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| WAKEUP2.ZIP | Yes | 1205 | 8/10/1994 | WakeUp2 is primarily intended to let you leave your computer and have it start executing a program at a specific time. Actually, when WAKEUP kicks in, it will type up to 500 characters of whatever you specified on the command line. The command line looks like this: WAKEUP2 HHMMSS COMMAND. Eg: WAKEUP 174500 BACKUP C: A: would cause the computer to do a backup at 5:45 pm if you left the system in DOS. If you are in a word processor, you will see BACKUP C: A: appear on the screen in your text file. (res:1k) (Keith P. Graham) (Reg.Fee: $?) |
| WHAT_CL.ZIP | Yes | 48807 | 3/22/1992 | What 2.0 displays your system's configuration. It shows memory used, port addresses, device drivers, video type, keyboard status, drives types and more. (Chris Lowe) (Reg.Fee: $0-$5) |
| WHATFAX.ZIP | Yes | 11056 | 1/8/1993 | WhatFax 1.1 is a command line utility to determine the type of FAX modem is connected to the sytem. It will recognize CAS, Class x, and SendFax modems. (Logan Industries, Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| WHATVID.ZIP | Yes | 24878 | 3/26/1990 | What Video 2.1 tells you the kind of video adapter installed on a system and what graphics modes are available on it. (Panther Associates) (Reg.Fee: $5) |
| WHICHVGA.ZIP | Yes | 1902 | 1/20/1995 | Which VGA Do You Have? 1.0 will display your EGA/VGA video driver type and amount of video memory. (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| WORKING.ZIP | Yes | 19218 | 5/2/1990 | Working 1.0 is a 2k TSR that will tell you if your software is still running or has locked up your machine. (Dr. Masaaki Sawada) (Reg.Fee: $5-$10) |
| WRAPPER.ZIP | Yes | 18574 | 9/1/1992 | Wrapper 1.0 lets you load programs (including TSRs) in CONFIG.SYS, even though they are not device drivers themselves. For example, a programmer could load a debugger in CONFIG.SYS and trace/debug the initialization of device drivers they have written. Or you could load a TSR disk cache before Stacker in CONFIG.SYS in order to get better performance. (Philip B. Gardner) (Reg.Fee: $25) |
| XBOOT.ZIP | Yes | 94955 | 5/12/1994 | XBoot 0.9b allows you to swap between different DOS configurations. It has an integrated editor and a compare function. (Sebastian Zander) (Reg.Fee: $10) |
| XCRON.ZIP | Yes | 20788 | 6/8/1994 | DOSCron and BATCron 1.0 are designed to emulate the UNIX CRON scheduler program. Batchron will run as a batch file and will allow your computer to perform a task at the specified time and day of the week. DOSCron is the command line version of this program. (Ric Seymour) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| XFAN.ZIP | Yes | 6713 | 8/10/1994 | XFan tells you how to quieten a PC's noisy fan once and for all. (Cliff Brown) (Reg.Fee: $0) |
| XGAPMD.ZIP | Yes | 88753 | 9/12/1994 | XGA 2 for DOS and Windows 1.02 is a device driver for use with DOS 6.0+ or Windows 3.1. It saves and manages power in displays which have power management capability, such as the IBM PS/2 Energy Saving Color Monitor. (Reg.Fee: $0) |