Software

Here is a list of every article for every application that is known to work or not work on DOSBox. This list is naturally incomplete, but over time, as users take the time to check on their favorite application, this list will help new users understand what they can expect to happen when they try to get their favorite application to work. Software applications are not the primary focus of DOSBox, and the needs of games tend to receive a higher degree of attention by the developers over the needs of an application. Although having said that, most applications work fine in DOSbox.

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• ACT2, Ver. 2.11 of the contact manager, has run on Linspire 4, 5, and 6 as well as FreeSpire 2; runs on Ubuntu 8.1 but cursor keys don't work.
• Adlib Composer (graphical music production tool for Adlib sound cards)
• Ashton Tate's Framework III
• Autotrax
• Borland Delphi 16-bit
• Borland Turbo Assembler 5.0 (minus tlink32)
• Borland Turbo C version 5.0
• Borland Turbo Pascal versions 3.X, 4.X, 7.0 (although limited because of missing CTRL-Break functionality)
• Central Point Software PCTools Deluxe ver. 4.23
• CMPlus (Double entry accounting software, run under Ubuntu 9.10)
• Contex PC Bank Manager (Personal Finance software) - run under Windows 7 64-bit
• Composer 669
• Dbase III+
• Deluxe Paint 2 Enhanced (versions 2.3, 2.4, 3.0)
• DJGPP C Development system and RHIDE IDE
• DVE (Vectrex Emulator for DOS)
• Fast Tracker 2 (Music production/sequencer)
• Freebase (free text database from CAT Benelux)
• Generic CADD
• ImpulseTracker (Music production/sequencer)
• Intuit Quicken (Fails with "illegal command" error. Version 8.0.)
• JuggleMaster version 1.60
• Lotus Agenda version 2.0
• Mah Jongg Rel 4.2
• MicroPro International Wordstar ver. 3.3, 4.0, Pro 4.0
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft GWBASIC (BASIC language interpreter.)
• Microsoft Powerpoint 2.0
• Microsoft QuickBASIC (BASIC compiler with IDE)
• Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0
• Microsoft Windows (versions 1.0 through Windows for Workgroups 3.11)
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Works
• Microsoft Windows 95
• Microstation 4.0 (DOS based CAD program)
• Mille Bournes v4.5
• Norton Commander 5.5

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• OpenGEM 5.0
• Pads-Logic V4.01, Pads-Work V7.01
• Paradox 4.0
• PKWare PKUnzip
• PC Write
• PMC
• Q&A Database (Version 4.0 for DOS works fine for me. I haven't tried other versions.)
• QBasic
• Schema III
• SEAL
• SharkBase
• Skyglobe
• Soundex Coder v8.02
• Spectra (Formerly known as WinDOS)
• StarTexter (a.k.a Sybex Quattro Textverarbeitung)
• STS Orbit Plus (aka STSPLUS)
• Tango PCB & SCH (PCB CAD from early 1990s) Both run, but PCB requires loading SafeSoft emulator first.
• UniComal 3.11
• Vim
• VP-Info
• WordPerfect
• Wordstar-6 for DOS
• Xtree Gold
• ZSNES