Open Source MS-DOS Board Games

A console/text based chess program with XBoard/CECP and UCI API, available on all major platforms. You may need a graphical chess interface to use it. Please refer to README.md in the files section for installation instructions. The last stable release is 2.1.9 and has been released on 19/08/2025. Belofte 0.2.0 till 0.9.20 (c/c++): Xboard 1 & 2 (CECP) - Linux/Unix/(Windows) Belofte 2.1.1 and up (c++11) : UCI and Xboard 2 - Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/... For access to code, please clone the git repository. Compiles and Runs on 32/64 bit on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android (ARM/x86) and Raspberry. Released under GNU v2 license. (means free to copy, free to modify, free to use, ...) Works fine with Arena/Cutechess/BanksiaGui/Winboard/Xboard/...

SOSS - a chess pairing program. Features: enter result using bar codes, lots of configurable print outs, calculation of team competitions, administration of fees etc, adm. of leaders, multiple competitions in one event, html print outs.

A modification of the game Yacht with the rules of 1938 year. The goal is to score the maximum number of points by throwing five dice to obtain certain combinations. Player can roll up to three times per turn, either all dice or selected dice. The game consists of eighteen rounds. After each round, player can choose which scoring category to use, but you cannot choose the same category twice. Some categories are fixed, while others depend on the value of the dice.

Corners Game for dosemu (dosbox with 100% cycles).

This, my friends, is now called D20gen. It is a project designed to help GMs of D20 system based games to create session material for those times when you don't feel like rolling 4,000 sets of dice.

In "Desert Defense" you are in the future, in the desert and you have to protect yourself from enemies. You can do that with building towers to kill the incoming enemies! I'm still seaching for a new desinger! -> send me an e-mail! jan.schuettken@gmx.de

Dice endgames is a gambling and logical game with perfect information, at the same time being a variety of both variants of chess and checkers-like games, and dices. In this game, the arrangement of chess pieces depends on the values on the sides of the dice. It was conceived as teaching and training how to solve endgames, problems or random arrangements, such as Fischer's chess, in various board games of logic.

The original idea of Alexander V. Catapang Jr. in the Guess-Chess from the eGames package. Divine generator is an addition to the idea and transfer of rules to makruk, xiangqi and shogi.

Fox Oring is a variation of the sport of amateur radio direction finding. Fox Oring is a timed race in which individual competitors use a topographic map and a magnetic compass to navigate through diverse, wooded terrain while searching for radio transmitters. The term is derived from the use of the term fox hunting to describe recreational radio direction finding activity and an abbreviation of the word orienteering. It is necessary to discover 5 hidden transmitters located on a 10 × 10 field in as few moves as possible. The transmitters broadcast in all 8 directions, the number on the cell indicates the number of intersecting signals.

An implementation of the famous Snake game written for MS-DOS in Pascal. This is a project from my early days of programming which I wish to update and develop as it's a bit rough around the edges and relies on libraries more than it really should. Othe

It is a strategy based board game. It is a very inferior sub set of chess. Currently you can play this game with computer only.

A chess game, for educational purposes.

Quarters is a strategy game for two players. Although its rules are relatively simple, it still offers some of the same opportunities for skill as in chess.

A modification of the game «Simon», invented by Ralph Henry Bower and Howard J. Morrison, with a Soviet implementation called Electronics IE-01 «Ivolga». Instead of four cells, there are now between two and ten.

Simple Senet is a version of the classic board game, Senet.