As Easy As spreadsheet
TRIUS Inc released this excellent shareware spreadsheet in the 1990s, and have since made it available for free. Find it on the TRIUS Inc forums:
Run applications
You can run your favorite DOS programs on FreeDOS. Most programs should just run, but you may need to adjust your configuration such as FILES=40 or BUFFERS=40 for very large programs. If your app runs slow, try turning off FDAPM.
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Get free DOS apps
Thank you to the organizations who have released your DOS applications as freeware! Here are some great classic DOS applications you can download and run for free:
VisiCalc for DOS
Created by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston for the Apple II and later for DOS, VisiCalc was the original spreadsheet for desktop computers. Thanks to Dan for sharing a free version on his website:
Ability Plus office suite
Ability Plus 3.0 was a professional office suite for DOS, including a word processor, spreadsheet, database, and email. Get it at the Ability website:
Where to find apps
Other archives of classic DOS apps:
- Archive.org's DOS apps
- Retro archive of DOS apps
- Interesting DOS programs
- Free repo of apps
- Free software for DOS
- Mercury's collection
- DJ Delorie's GNU tools
Interesting DOS power tools: