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CylonOS

A shell written in QBASIC

This is a QBasic file that was written as a predecessor to Skylight shell. It requires QBasic 1.1 from Microsoft or a QBasic compiler.

Downloads: 1 This Week

Last Update: 2013-01-14
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JCD - Interactive directory navigator

A interactive, command-line tool to quickly and easily change current directory and view their contents in Windows' cmd.exe. Written in PowerBASIC Console Compiler 5.

Downloads: 1 This Week

Last Update: 2014-03-06
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EEShell

A few small replacement shells for 32- and 64-bit Windows. By me, for me, to you.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2023-08-01
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Gauvain OS

Gauvain OS is an graphical interface for MS-DOS.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2015-04-10
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River apps in tiny, recombinant modules

River is a group of almost two hundred tiny, recombinant programs that have successfully combined to make useful apps. The River is being moved to open source. We have 60+ proglets moved, starter application packages, directory navigation and ...

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2013-03-19
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Skylight shell

A general shell written in FreeBASIC

This OS is a command line tool written in FreeBASIC. We have put many hours into making skylight shell a good program. If you have any questions, please go to the discussion page. Please also report any bugs that you have found.

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2015-06-25
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bish-shell

BASIC Interpretative SHell

A shell loosely based on the old Commodore and Tandy BASIC interpreters, with some small updating to modern computer systems

Downloads: 0 This Week

Last Update: 2014-09-26
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