awesome-dos

32-bit compilation tutorial for Open Watcom.

Short article about getting Turbo C running on FreeDOS and moving a pixel around.

16-bit compilation tutorial for Borland/Turbo C/C++ and Open Watcom. Goes into depth of memory addressing and memory models.

DOS game programming tutorial series including a primer on C, graphics, animation, input handling and collision detection. This series contains a tutorial for making

Raymond Chen's explanation of segmented memory, including near- and far pointers.

API documentation for routines accessing BIOS operations directly (disk operations, BIOS keyboard, printer, time, memory, serial, interrupts).

Memory manager for DOS PCs with 386 or higher CPUs,

Bruce's C compiler is a simple C compiler that produces 8086 assembler for tiny/small memory models.

IDE to develop DOS games in 2d, mode 7 and 3d. Released in 1998.

DJ Delorie's complete 32-bit C/C++ development environment for Intel 80386. Used for Quake.

Sci-fi side-scrolling platform game. Regarded as an innovative cult classic by most people. Supports SVGA mode up to 1280x1024 resolution. Written in C, the architecture includes a Lisp-scripting engine.

Game development library for DOS, Windows and Linux. 4.2 version supports DOS platform.

Point-and-click adventure game set in a dystopian future. Written in assembly.

2D top-down shooter developed by Softdisk (later becoming id Software). Supports EGA and CGA graphics. Written in Turbo Pascal and assembly.

First-person shooter in fantasy setting developed by Softdisk (later becoming id Software). Features pseudo-3D graphics with raycasting technique. Supports EGA graphics. Written in C and assembly. Compiled with Borland C++ 3.1.

Non-profit book on programming in C on DOS. DOS system programming starts from Part II.

Fabien Sanglard's walkthrough on the game engine architecture of id Software's original Doom on Intel 486 system and game console ports. Contains forewords by John Carcmack, Dave Taylor and John Romero.

Fabien Sanglard's walkthrough on the game engine architecture of id Software's Wolfenstein 3D on the IBM PC's hardware. Contains forewords by John Carcmack, Tom Hall and John Romero.

Collection of Michael Abrash's Dr. Dobb's Journal graphics programming articles and his work on the graphics subsystem of Quake (

Companion book to

History and technical details about IBM's CGA system. Also describes 4-color RGBI and 16-color Composite modes.

Video about DOS executable formats including

Video about PC speaker, FM synthesizers in NES and Commodore 64, Yamaha OPL chip in AdLib and Sound Blaster sound cards, PCM samples and MOD music.

DOS programming tutorial series including VGA, SoundBlaster and VGA Mode X.

Comparison of playing the intro theme of Secret of Monkey Island through PC speaker, IBM PCjr/Tandy, AdLib, Game Blaster, Roland LAPC-1/MT-32, Gravis Ultrasound, Roland SCC-1 MIDI, SB16 Waveblaster/AWE32 and CD quality digital audio.

Former Microsoft employee David Plummer tells stories about development of MS-DOS and compiles MS-DOS 4.00 source code which has been open-sourced by Microsoft.

A TSR that emulates Sound Blaster and OPL3 in pure DOS using modern PCI-based (onboard and add-in card) sound cards. Supports both real mode and protected mode games!

A fork of SBEMU (see above), which also aims to offer Sound Blaster emulation for modern PC hardware, in both real mode and protected mode games.