FilePro (1986) 0 Database DOS

FilePro, from The Small Computer Company, is a friendly menu-oriented database originally written for the TRS-80 in 1978 and ported to many other platforms including DOS, Xenix, and OS/2. The original version of the software was developed by software engineer Howard Wolowitz - the character by that name in the TV sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" was named after him, as he was a friend of one of the show creators.

• 16 v3.x

EZ-DOS-IT (1986) 0 Utility DOS

EZ-DOS-IT was a very low-cost low-resource multitasking program for DOS on the IBM PC and compatibles. It claimed compatibility with most popular software of the time. However, the initial 1.0 release had serious bugs, was copy protected, and was not compatible enough for many people. Although these issues were quickly fixed and copy protection removed, it earned them bad reviews.

• 4.x

Guru (1986) 0 Database DOS

Guru is an "Artificial Intelligence" system used to build expert system databases. This interactive demo provides a limited functionality version of the software, and sample applications that you can try.

• 1.x

IBM Project Assistant (1986) 0 Planning DOS

IBM Project Assistant is one of a number of office applications sold by IBM alongside their IBM Personal Computers. Project Assistant is a project management program used to create and track project schedules, costs, and resources. It supports organizing projects using a horizontal bar (Gantt) chart and maintaining files of calendars, costs, resources, and project relationships. Project Assistant also provides the tools to predict the outcome of a project when you ask "What if?" questions. It also features customizable project reports.

• 1.x

Windows 1.0 (1984) 193 Windows

Windows 1.0 was the first release of what eventually made it onto almost every desktop computer in the entire world. Many of you are probably unaware of this release from 1985; conceived from ideas found in the original Lisa/Macintosh and Xerox Star system, Windows 1.0 was Microsoft's attempt at a graphical multitasking operating environment for the IBM PC. | 1.0 | 2.x | 3.x | NT 3.x | 95 | NT 4.0 | 98 | 2000 | ME | All |

• DR 5
• Alpha
• Beta
• Premiere Edition
• Demo
• 1.01
• 1.02
• 1.03
• 1.04

Vfeature Deluxe (1987) 0 DOS

VFeature, by Golden Bow Systems, is a disk driver designed specifically for DOS 3.x (not compatible with later versions) that lets you have partitions up to 1GB, and can do other powerful things such as span hard drives.

• 2.56

GW-BASIC (1987) 9 DOS

GW-BASIC is a version of BASIC that was supplied with MS-DOS and as a replacement for IBM ROM basic. GW-BASIC replaced the earlier BASIC-86 supplied with some non-IBM OEM MS-DOS 1.x and 2.x. MS-DOS 5.0 and later replaced GW-BASIC with QBasic , a stripped down version of QuickBasic.

• 3.x

Borland Turbo Basic (1987) 25 DOS

Turbo BASIC is a version of Basic sold by Borland. It features an IDE similar to later Turbo Pascal/C products. After Borland stopped selling it, it was purchased back by the original author and continued under the name PowerBASIC. Borland also released a set of Turbo Basic Toolboxes

• 1.x

FantaVision (1987) 0 Graphics DOS

Fantavision was an animation program from Broderbund originally for the Apple II but later ported to the Amiga, IIGS, and DOS. It features animation "tweening" to create smooth movements, support for digital sound to accompany animation, object-oriented animation control, and comes with an animation library. Prior to the DOS version release, similar tools were mostly found only on the Apple Macintosh. Fantavision was marketed toward both home users and business professionals. The IBM PC version supports CGA, EGA, Tandy, and Hercules video.

• 1.x (DOS)

IBM Cobol Compiler (1982) 4 DOS

Cobol is a high level language designed for use in business that uses English-like commands. IBM Cobol was one of the standard language products that IBM provided for the IBM Personal Computer running DOS and OS/2. Other standard language products included Fortran, Pascal, and Assembler. IBM Cobol compiler 1.0 is a licensed and rebranded OEM of Microsoft Cobol.

• 1.x
• /2

DOS Plus (1986) 15 DOS

Digital Research's DOS Plus was an intermediate product between CP/M-86 and DR-DOS. It can run both CP/M-86 and MS-DOS programs, and read both disk formats. It is essentially a stripped down version of Concurrent DOS that keeps the DOS compatiblity.

• 1.x
• 2.x

ZBasic (1987) 0 DOS

ZBasic, from Zedcor, Inc., is a cross platform Basic compiler. Versions exist for MS-DOS, Apple II, Macintosh, CP/M and TRS-80.

• 4.x

Wendin DOS (1987) 0 DOS

Wendin DOS is a clone of MS/PC-DOS that runs on 8088 machines, but offers multitasking on 386+.

• 2.11

IBM Personal Decision Series Data Edition (1984) 0 Database DOS

IBM Data is a high-end flat-file database management system targeted at large corporate users. It is part of the Personal Decision Series family, and reportedly a required prerequisite for other modules or "editions". by IBM.

• 1.0
• 2.00

PC-Write (1984) 2 Word Processor DOS

PC-Write, written by Bob Wallace of Quicksoft, was an editor for the PC and along with PC-File and PC-Talk was one of the first widely distributed shareware programs.

• 2.4
• 2.7

Music Construction Set (1984) 0 DOS

Music Construction Set is a program that lets you compose "music" using a graphical user interface. It supports 3-voice sound on the IBM PCjr and Tandy 1000, and 4-voice sound via the Model 5150's cassette port!

• IBM 1984
• IBM 1987

PFS Professional Plan (1987) 1 Spreadsheet DOS

PFS: Professional Plan is a spreadsheet program that offered more features than Lotus 1-2-3. It can read and write Lotus 1-2-3 1.x and 2.0 files, has advanced formula and macro capabilities, a large choice of built in report writing options, and built in Presentation Graphics. Earlier version went by the name PFS:Plan

• 1.x

Micrografx Portfolio (1987) 10 Utility Graphics Windows

Micrografx Portfolio is a Windows 1.x preview and clipboard tool for use with Micrografx Clip art. It previews clipart on the screen and lets the user copy items to the clipboard, or export them to Micrografx Windows Draw and Micrografx In-A-Vision/Desginer. They can also be used with Micrografx Windows Graph. Clip art can be converted with Micrografx Windows Convert

• 1.0

IBM Macro Assembler (1981) 2 DOS OS2

IBM Macro Assembler is an IBM OEM rebranded release of Microsoft Macro Assembler, and was intended only for use with the IBM PC. Macro Assembler provides support for writing programs directly in the 8088/8086's native machine language.

• 1.00
• 2.00
• /2 v1.00

Home-Office Writer (1987) 0 Word Processor DOS

From Real Software: "Home-Office Writer is a word processor with the right balance of professional business features and easy to use design."

• 1987

JRAM Drivers (1985) 0 DOS

These are the drivers used with the Tall Tree Systems JRAM series Multi-I/O RAM expansion card. Includes diagnostics, ramdisk, spooler, and clock support files.

• 1985
• 4.x (1987)

Microsoft Chart (1984) 13 Presentations MacOS DOS

Microsoft Chart is a presentation graphics tool. You can use it to create line, bar, pie charts and more. It competed against titles such as PFS Graph, Chart Master, DR Graph, Harvard Presentation Graphics, and BPS Business Graphics. It was sometimes sold as a companion product to Multiplan. Microsoft later included charting functionality in Excel and PowerPoint.

• 1.0 (Mac)
• 1.x (DOS)
• 2.x (DOS)
• 3.x (DOS)

DS Recover (1987) 1 Utility DOS

DS Recover, from Design Software, is a set of file utilities for DOS that lets you unerase files and directories, and unformat disks. It competed against the Norton Utilities, PC Tools, and Mace Utilities.

• 2.x

Award Maker Plus (1987) 0 Publishing DOS

AwardMaker, from Baudville, Inc., is a tool for printing nice looking awards and certificates on a dot-matrix printer from a set of about 200 templates. It lacks any print preview, so you must have the manual to know what the templates look like. This is almost identical to Springboard Certificate Maker, however it contains a different set of templates and graphics.

• 1

Mix C (1985) 0 DOS

Mix C, from Mix Software, is a small and simple C compiler. It was sold alongside a well-written book on the C programming language. Later versions were known as Power C

• 2.0.x
• 2.5.x