Some of these have solutions that aren’t always great ( Buy faster hardware!) and in some cases the problem is currently terminal (these programs have been taken offline for a future date). For example, keyboard collision, where the input needs of the emulator are taken over by the browser itself, and the problems of a program needing a lot more horsepower to run in a browser emulator than a user’s system can handle.
#BEST MS DOS GAMES ARCHIVE#
Putting these games into the Internet Archive has, over time, brought into sharp focus particular issues with browser-based emulation. This should be all that needs to be said, but since the Archive is doing things a little strangely, there’s a lot to keep in mind before you really dive in (or to realize, when you come back with questions). You can always mail me at with questions or technical concerns. The issues that are introduced by this are mine and mine alone, and eXoDOS is not able to help with them. Separately from the eXoDOS project, I’ve been putting a percentage of these games into the Emularity system on the Internet Archive for research, entertainment and quick online access to the programs. As a result, the eXoDOS project has over 7,000 titles they’ve made work dependably and consistently. It is all these extra steps, under the hood, of acquisition and configuration, that represents the hardest work by the eXoDOS project, and I recognize that long-time and Herculean effort. They were released, sold some amount of copies, and then disappeared off the shelves, if not everyone’s memories. DOS has remained consistent in some ways over the last (nearly) 40 years, but a lot has changed under the hood and programs were sometimes only written to work on very specific hardware and a very specific setup.
#BEST MS DOS GAMES MANUAL#
Having an old executable and a scanned copy of the manual represents only the first few steps. What makes the collection more than just a pile of old, now-playable games, is how it has to take head-on the problems of software preservation and history.
#BEST MS DOS GAMES UPDATE#
The update of these MS-DOS games comes from a project called eXoDOS, which has expanded over the years in the realm of collecting DOS games for easy playability on modern systems to tracking down and capturing, as best as can be done, the full context of DOS games – from the earliest simple games in the first couple years of the IBM PC to recently created independent productions that still work in the MS-DOS environment.
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