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Drivers

CD-ROM / DVD-ROM / DVD-R Drives

This page contains a selection of device drivers for optical media. You should be able to find one to work with your hardware.

 

Product Comments Download
ASPICD.SYS Adaptec ASPI CD-ROM Driver (Supports Yamaha, Kodak, HP C4324/c4325, Plextor, Shinaken, Matshita, DEC, IBM, Teac, Compaq, Chinon, Denon, Hitachi, LMS, NEC, Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, Texel, JVC, IMS and Pioneer brands). Click
BTCDROM.SYS CDROM Driver for Buslogic Controller Cards (Supports Sony, Toshiba, Chinon, Hitachi, Texel, Matshita, NEC, IBM, Shinaken, Pioneer, Plextor, Sanyo, Teac, and Aiwa Brands). Click
ATAPICD.SYS Standard ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM Device Driver v2.12 Click
GCDROM.SYS SATA Native IDE CD/DVD-ROM driver (Supports Intel ICH6/ICH7/ICH8, JMicron 361/363/368, NVidia CK804/MCP55/MCP51...(may not work with PATA) Click
OAKCDROM.SYS Oak Technologies universal IDE CD-ROM device driver.

This driver works with the majority of CD-ROM and DVD-ROM/DVD-R drives made during the DOS era. See my topic on Adding CD-ROM Support for details on how to install.

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QCDROM.SYS UltraDMA CDROM Driver (Supports ATAPI-standard CD/DVD Drives attached to normal PC system IDE channels) Click
SBIDE.SYS Creative OTI-011 CD-ROM device driver (Marvell PATA Driver). Click
SHSUCDX.EXE A replacement for the DOS MSCDEX.EXE program. Can be used to provide CD-ROM access when using DOSLFN for long filename support under pure DOS. Click
SHSUCD The full suite of tools including SHSUCDX, including the ability the create an image file from a CD, simulate a CD-ROM from an image file, a CD-ROM tester, and a replacement for SMARTDRV that works with SHSUCDX. Click
Sony 55e Sony 55e CD-ROM Driver (IDE) v2.00 Click
USBCD1.SYS Panasonic USB CD-ROM Device Driver 1.0 Click
USBCD2.SYS TEAC USB CD-ROM Device Driver. Click
XCDROM.SYS DOS CD-ROM Disk Driver for Intel/VIA/SiS/ALi or other UltraDMA controller chip (JMicron JMB361). Click

 

Floppy Disk

Product Comments Download
3-Mode 3-Mode Floppy support utility v.1.00.

3-Mode support means the drive will support not only the standard 720 KB and 1.44 MB formats, but also the obscure Japanese 1.2 MB format for 3.5" disks.

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Hard Disk

Product Version Year of Release Comments Download
OnTrack Drive Rocket 1.13 1994 Drive Rocket is an IDE driver for DOS/Windows 3.1 that bypasses the BIOS and makes use of newer IDE features to accelerate hard disk transfer speeds.

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OnTrack Disk Manager 3.20 3.61 1987 Ontrack Disk Manager is a BIOS overlay and partitioning tool that helps you overcome various BIOS hard drive size limits. Ontrack Disk Manager 3.20 is also tool for formatting and diagnosing IBM AT hard disks. Includes Disk Manager Diagnostics 1.07 (1986)

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OnTrack Disk Manager 5.22 1993 Ontrack Disk Manager is a BIOS overlay and partitioning tool that helps you overcome various BIOS hard drive size limits. Click
OnTrack Disk Manager 6.02 6.03 1994 Ontrack Disk Manager is a BIOS overlay and partitioning tool that helps you overcome various BIOS hard drive size limits.

6.02 is the Connor OEM version.
6.03 is the Western Digital OEM version.

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OnTrack Disk Manager 7.07 1995 Ontrack Disk Manager is a BIOS overlay and partitioning tool that helps you overcome various BIOS hard drive size limits.

7.07 is the Fujitsu OEM version.
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OnTrack Disk Manager 9.43 1998 Ontrack Disk Manager is a BIOS overlay and partitioning tool that helps you overcome various BIOS hard drive size limits.

9.43 is the IBM OEM version.

Somewhat similar to FDISK in functionality, this is a bootable disk for setting up hard disks before installing the operating system. Within the application, there's also the ability to run diagnostics on the drive, install a Windows 3.1 32-bit disk access driver, and restore the drive's MBR for example should it become corrupt/infected with a virus.
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Graphics Cards

Product Version Year of Release Comments Download
Hercules Graphics Plus Drivers and RAMFont

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1986 Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Symphony, FrameWork, and Microsoft Word for DOS 3.0 drivers and utilities for the Hercules Graphics Plus video card.

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Paradise VGA Plus 16 Card Utilities v1.5 1988 Drivers for the Paradise Plus VGA card.

Released 1988 by Paradise Systems, Inc. For Windows 2.0, GEM, Ventura Publisher, AutoCAD, Wordstar, and Lotus. Two disks. The first download has the disks in separate folders. The second are true 360 KB disk images which are in .IMA format.

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Video7 VGA1024i 2.19 1990 Released in 1989 by Headland Technology, Inc, this contains video drivers and utilities for the Video 7 VGA 1024i for DOS, Windows 2.0, AutoCAD, GEM, and WordPerfect. Click

Mouse

Product Version Year of Release Comments Download
Logitech Mouseware 4.0 - Mouse driver disks specifically for Logitech mice. Includes drivers for DOS and Windows 2.x, menu overlay software, and a popupdos utility.

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Logitech Mouseware 6.12 6.30 - Mouse driver disks specifically for Logitech mice. Includes drivers for DOS and Windows 3.x, and menu overlay software.

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Microsoft Mouse v4.0 v6.10z v6.25.21 v6.26 v8.20 v9.01 1985 1987 1989 1989 1992 1993 Supplied with the serial version of the early green-eyed Microsoft mouse. Contains string of "Microsoft (R) Mouse Driver Version 6.10Z Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1983-1987" Contains string of "Microsoft (R) Mouse Driver Version 6.25.21 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1983-1989" Contains string of "Microsoft (R) Mouse Driver Version 6.26 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1983-1989" According to Microsoft, this is the version that was supplied with Windows 3.1. Contains string of "Microsoft (R) Mouse Driver Version 8.20 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1983-1992" Dated 1993.

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Network Cards

Product Version Year of Release Comments Download
IBM LAN Support Program disk 1.1 - The IBM LAN Support Program disk contains NetBIOS drivers for IBM Token Ring network cards for use with the IBM PC Local Area Network Program.

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Other

Product Version Year of Release Comments Download
Intel OverDrive Utilities 1.0 1995 Utilities and drivers for Intel OverDrive processors.

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Long Filenames 2.06 - Allows access to VFAT long file names. Click

Sound Cards

Product Version Year of Release Comments Download
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 1.0 1990 Drivers for the creative labs Sound Blaster rev 1 Click
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 1.5 1990 Drivers for the creative labs Sound Blaster rev 1.5. Contains Voxkit, Intelligent Organ, Dr Sbaitso, and Talking Parrot

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Creative Labs Sound Blaster 2.0 1992 Drivers for the Sound Blaster 2.0 sound card. Includes Voxkit, Talking Parrot, Midi Jukebox for Windows 3.0, SB Talker, and Dr. Sbaitso 2. Click
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro - 1992 1993 Driver disk images for the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro audio card.

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Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 - 1998 The final flagship product from Creative designed for the ISA interface. Drivers included support DOS 6.x, Windows 3.1, 95, and NT 4.0. Sourced from original retail CDs with the North & South America model, therefore available languages are English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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Creative Labs Sound Blaster CD-ROM drivers - - These are DOS drivers for the Creative Sound Blaster with CD-ROM support sound card. Click
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 ASP SB16-STD-01 (Revision 6) 1993 Drivers for the Sound Blaster 16 ASP series of cards. Click
Gravis Ultrasound DOS and Win 3.1 drivers 4.11 - DOS and Windows 3.1x drivers for the Gravis UltraSound sound cards based on the GF1 chip.

This includes the UltraSound Classic, UltraSound MAX, and UltraSound ACE.
PDF manuals are included in the ZIP file.

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OPL3 drivers for Win95   - Yamaha Audio Device Drivers Disk #1 for Windows 95 Click

USB Support

Product Version Year of Release Comments Download
USB DOS - - This 16-bit Panasonic-developed DOS driver will let your system boot DOS, maybe even Caldera's OpenDOS and recognize all USB devices connected to the respective controllers.

Note that it only recognises mass storage devices including external hard disks, CD-ROM/CD-RW, DVD-ROM, ZIP, JAZZ, LS-120, and flash memory.

This device driver is also known as the Novac ASPI Mass Storage Device Driver (Motto Hairu USB Mass storage Driver).

The Panasonic DOS drivers seem to work on most USB chipset implementations, including Intel and NEC, as well as NVidia, VIA, and SIS. Read the file INFO.TXT for details on how to set it up.

CONFIG.SYS usage:
device=usbaspi1.sys /V [/E (EHCI USB 2.0) /O (OHCI USB 1.1 Add-on) /U (UHCI USB 1.1 Integrated)]
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