TeX82: portable, minimalistic TeX engines and tools.

This "distro" (or rather, "family of distros", if they deserve that name) are experiments in retrocomputing, providing change and source files for simple, primitive implementations of (Classic|DEK)TeX82.

As such, the TeXes produced with these sources are unable to run LaTeX2e+, which now requires eTeX and even some pdfTeX extensions, but may run several Plain based macros, such as those required to typeset the Canonical TeXmf sources.

Some old executables ported to DOS386 (djgpp cross-compiled: requires cwsdpmi.exe to run on 386 PCDOS machines; may run on other platforms with DOSBox or other emulators), Win32 (may run on Linux with the WINE compatibility layer), and Linux 386 (may run on Windows's C:\ drive with flinux) are provided in the archive branch for immediate evaluation.

The web change files in the src directory should work with any current FreePascalCompiler. See the notes in the the readme.md file in that subdirectory.

Some dvi drivers and other tools may be provided in due course in a dviware directory.

BUGS and CAVEATS

All these sources, and their respective executables, are highly experimental: try at your own risk.

Good Luck, and Happy TeXing,

J. Luis Rivera N. Universidad Panamericana Facultad de Filosofía Mexico City

May 3, 2026