Operating systems, replacement operating system shells to let you
customise your working environment, emulators for other platforms,
and so on.
| beos5pe.exe
| BEOS 5 Personal Edition,
an operating system originally developed for the PowerPC, now
available on Intel platforms as well. This version installs
under Windows (it takes up 500M of disk space for the system
partition, so make sure you have enough space available) and
puts an icon on your desktop to reboot into BEOS. You can also
create a boot floppy to boot BEOS directly. It includes sample
applications for multimedia, networking and development. It's
everything that Windows should have been, but isn't...
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| cygwin.exe
| The Cygnus toolkit,
a Windows port of most of the GNU Unix tools, including the GCC
compiler collection 2.95.3 (covering C, C++, Objective-C, x86 assembler
Fortran 77) as well as Perl 5.6.1, Python 2.1 and Tcl/Tk 8.0.
Other tools such as make, gdb (the GNU debugger), vi, tar, gzip, grep,
sed, awk, and many more are also provided. Even Unix shells such as
bash are included, so you can have what appears to be a Unix
environment on a Windows system if you want.
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| mlinux06.zip
| Monkey Linux,
a small (10M) Linux installation which runs from within a DOS
partition. This is a nice way to try out Linux without installing
the whole thing.
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| od702.exe
| OpenDOS 7.02,
a free version of DOS (originally DR-DOS, then Novell DOS) from
Caldera, which now seems to
have reverted back to being a commercial product (DR-DOS).
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| odummies.zip
| Oberon for Dummies,
an easy-to-use version of the Oberon operating system for PCs which
uses a file in a Windows partition to act as the disk for the Oberon
file system.
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| tomsrtbt.zip
| Tom's root/boot,
a small Linux system that fits on a floppy (which it formats to
1.722M instead of the normal 1.44M!). Ideal as a recovery disk.
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| 4dos700.exe
| 4DOS 7.00,
a powerful shareware replacement for the
standard DOS command interpreter (COMMAND.COM) which works
with Windows 95/98/ME. You can use it with NT/2000 as well,
but you should really use 4NT instead (a version specifically
designed for use with NT/2000). It's completely compatible with
COMMAND.COM but with loads of extra features: new commands,
new options for existing commands, powerful batch file
utilities, command line editing (including automatic filename
completion), pop-up help, and more. It's so good it has a
mainstream Usenet newsgroup for its fans
(comp.os.msdos.4dos).
Indispensible if you ever use a command prompt.
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| 4nt400.exe
| 4NT 4.00,
a version of 4DOS for Windows NT which can be used as a replacement
for the NT command interpreter (CMD.EXE).
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| cygwin.exe
| The Cygnus toolkit,
a Windows port of most of the GNU Unix tools, including the GCC
compiler collection 2.95.3 (covering C, C++, Objective-C, x86 assembler
Fortran 77) as well as Perl 5.6.1, Python 2.1 and Tcl/Tk 8.0.
Other tools such as make, gdb (the GNU debugger), vi, tar, gzip, grep,
sed, awk, and many more are also provided. Even Unix shells such as
bash are included, so you can have what appears to be a Unix
environment on a Windows system if you want.
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| tc32300.exe
| Take Command 3.00,
a command shell for Windows from the creators of 4DOS.
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| magex251.exe
| Magellan Explorer,
an enhanced file manager which provides all the functionality of
Windows Explorer, with built-in support for compressed files (ZIP,
CAB, LHA, RAR, ARJ and ACE), history and bookmarks lists, built-in
FTP capabilities, a highly customisable user interface, and lots more.
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| mix_2_0.exe
| An X server providing X windows services under Windows.
This provides a GUI interface to X client programs running on a
remote Unix system.
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| xwp32.exe
| Another X server providing X windows services under Windows.
This provides a GUI interface to X client programs running on a
remote Unix system.
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Apr 2000.
Shareware (works for 30 minutes at a time if not registered).
Home site: http://www.labf.com/
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| VMWare,
the creators of an excellent PC emulator for either Linux or
Windows NT/2000 which can run just about any PC operating system
in a virtual machine. Ideal for testing software, checking for
viruses, or running legacy applications. You can download a 30-day
demo, but you will also need to apply for a free activation key
by email.
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| Plex86,
the home of another PC emulator which is being released as freeware.
It is still fairly unstable, but worth keeping an eye on.
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| Connectix,
the home of a commercial PC emulator which has had good reviews.
It only runs under Windows NT/2000 (although reports say that it
can be made to run under Windows 98) or on a Macintosh, but there
is no trial version for Windows available for download.
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| 68kedit4.zip
| 68K Edit,
a Motorola 68000 editor, assembler and simulator for Windows.
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| basilisk.zip
| Basilisk II,
a free Macintosh emulator for Windows. The drawback is that you have
to take a copy of a real Mac's system ROM (instructions for doing this
are included). Source
code is also available.
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| sms32v23.zip
| SMS,
an x86 simulator for students for Windows which can be run
normally or single stepped, with simulated traffic lights, seven
segment displays, a heater and thermostat, a stepper motor, a
lift and a snake in a maze (!).
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| vmac0196.exe
| VMac,
a Macintosh emulator for Windows. The drawback is that you have
to take a copy of a real Mac's system ROM (instructions for doing this
are included). Another project (see the home site, below) is working
on an open source implementation of the Mac toolkit to avoid this
problem.
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| clam.zip
| Clam,
a visual scripting system to automate tasks in Windows.
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| hhupd.exe
| Help update,
a free Microsoft update to enable older versions of Windows to use
the new compressed HTML (.CHM) help files.
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| msi_9x.exe
| Microsoft Installer for Windows 95/98,
a tool from Microsoft which is needed to install newer software
packages distributed as *.MSI files. There is a separate version for
use with Windows NT. This is supplied as standard with Windows ME
and Windows 2000, so you don't need it if you're running these systems.
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| msi_nt.exe
| Microsoft Installer for Windows NT,
a tool from Microsoft which is needed to install newer software
packages distributed as *.MSI files. There is a separate version for
use with Windows 95/98. This is supplied as standard with Windows ME
and Windows 2000, so you don't need it if you're running these systems.
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| obasic.exe
| O'Basic 95,
a scripting (batch) language for Windows.
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| wb32i00c.zip
| WinBatch,
a batch language for Windows which allows you to automate just about
any repetitive task.
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