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Archive.org Adds Close To 2,400 DOS Games

Posted by Soulskill on from the right-in-the-nostalgia dept.

New submitter Bugamn writes Archive.org has added a new library of DOS games. The games are playable on the browser through EM-DOSBOX, a port of the DOS emulator. The games are provided without instructions, so some experimentation (or search for old manuals) might be necessary. The library does not mention any copyright concerns, although some of the games can be found for sale on sites such as Steam and GoG.

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  1. Re:short by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who have recovered from clicking your link, there's an actual short best-of:
    https://archive.org/details/so...

  2. based on my initial emscripten-dosbox port from ba by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    And not a single line in the crefits, source, github-page - nowhere.
    I even have mails from "dreamlayers" from 2014-01-03, when he discovered my port, and three days later his commits in his repo start...
    Would have been nice to be credited correctly... :/

  3. Re: short by Golden_Rider · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yep, sounds about right for the best of games of the DOS era. There's a reason consoles absolutely dominated gaming through the 80s and 90s.

    Did they? At least around here in Germany, everybody in the 80s had a C64/Amiga (or maybe Atari ST) for gaming (because you could trade disks at school). Anybody with a console would have been pitied as the poor kid who cannot play the latest games. And from '93 onwards (when Doom arrived and LAN parties started) gaming changed forever, anyway. Maybe it was different in the US, don't know, Nintento consoles apparently were more popular there (I actually cannot remember any of my friends EVER owning a Nintendo console).

  4. Many games are "stream" only, no download by caseih · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just a note that many games on archive.org cannot be downloaded. They can be played online only, through the uncredited javascript dosbox implementation. Not sure how that affects the legal status of these games.

  5. Re:based on my initial emscripten-dosbox port from by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is Jason Scott. If you e-mail at at jscott@archive.org, I'll be glad to sort it out.