13,000 hyperlinks are stored within these webpages with over 2,000 links to other servers plus a direct search of 700+ additional links at another website.

Time and effort has gone into keeping these webpages available to 16 Bit OS users.  The website is reviewed using LYNX386 a text-only DOS/*NIX clone, Arachne v1.70 rel3 DOS GUI browser, Opera v3.62, Netscape v4.08, and finally IExplorer v3.0f from my own machine.  Each page will be submitted for testing to be at the W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN level of coding for HTML pages. It is my intention that no user will be unable to access the information contained in this website.

   

NO javascript (JS) has been used in the coding of these webpages! JS appears to be the darling of retailers and is used for snooping into other people's computers, neither of which is of interest to me here. If you turn JS off you will realize that it has been adding little to nothing to your information content or even to your entertainment. I do have JS code here that is referred to as a sniffer that I may eventually allow users to access from a link if they want to see what information this type of code can collect from their machine. Many older browsers will just display garbage on the screen, stall or even lock up when confronted with JS.

The graphics animation above was created with Neopaint using DOS v3.3 then animated using a 16 BIT Windows v3.1 application. This animation and others at this website are GIF animation files that do not require you to enable scripting, install another new plugin gizmo, nor do you need to download the latest version of anyone's browser. DOS really IS the GHOST in my machine!

NOTE: If the animation is slowing your browser more than you care for just disable animation for your browser.

What's Different About this Website? Information and links to useful software at this site are based on my personal experiences of the past 15 years using 16 Bit MSDOS.  Information from other sources will include the name(s) of the source of that information. This does not mean that software not linked here is not useful.  It only means that neither I nor anyone I know has installed the software.  If there are applications or links that should be listed here email the URL to me using the link at the bottom of this page and I will try to determine the URL's usefulness for this website.

Links within text will return to where you had been reading when you executed the link if you use your browser's back-arrow (previous page) function.  This means that you can get further information without 'losing your place'.  The   button returns to the hub of the website and the  button jumps to the top of the web page you are viewing.

The blue sidebar menu located at the homepage will take you to the other pages.     buttons allow the entire website to function like a wheel with spokes.  The information is at the end of each spoke while the HOME functions as the shortcut to each of them.  At any time you can return to the 'hub' to select a new topic.  The HOME buttons will be located near the top of each page.

links are located throughout the length of each page and are set to the right margin for ease of access for those who have right side scroll bars.  The top of the typical page will have links to topics on the same page and a HOME link.  Getting to the top of each page offers the easiest navigation of the page for those who do not use windows, do not have scroll bars, and would have to move one page at a time up and down looking for a particular topic.

Contrary to normal DOS websites the author is not a Linux user who thinks DOS is cute.  This website is not a museum!  DOS and Windows v3.1 have been used by the author of this website since MSDOS v2.11, v3.1, v3.3 to a more recent install of MSDOS v6.22. The machines and software used to create, upload, and test these webpages are all using DOS and Windows v3.1 16 Bit OS and applications on an 80386 33mhz with 4 meg of memory and recently upgraded to a Pentium 5 at 60mhz and 16 meg of memory.

Internet Access began here on an XT using DOS packet drivers and DOS text-only browsers. I have installs of MSKermit, Minuet, DOSLynx, Lynx386, Arachne, FTP, PING, and POP3/SMTP DOS applications on this machine's hard drive and I do use them. I have been tweaking and testing W31 recently and will continue to use both DOS and W31 when either is the most appropriate.

Archives of DRDOS, PTSDOS, FreeDOS, and MSDOS are also here on my machines and I will be testing each one as time permits along with various applications for both DOS and Windows. I have WFWG installed and operational on one hard drive but no computer to put it in right now. Testing my way is to live with the software for awhile and give it time to become enjoyable/useful or annoying and deleted from my setups.

Caldera's DrDOS (now Lineo Division) and FreeDOS are available to those who require a free MSDOS compatible OS. There is no compelling reason to pretend that MSDOS is not copyrighted software.

DO check for updates and/or patch files for your flavor of DOS or W31 at either the Windows page or the DOS versions page. Windows 3.1 and WFWG users should, of course, check at both pages. There were several patch files offered for free by Microsoft and I have listed those files that are the most needed in my opinion and the link to a complete listing of the FTP server's contents including updates for newer 32 bit Windows and other Microsoft applications just in case I missed a few.