• 2,400 MS-DOS PC Games are Now Free to Play Online
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[QUOTE][B]Some of the best PC games of all time are now free to download, or play in your browser. [/B]Have a hankering to play [URL="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/12027-5-PC-Games-That-Defined-the-90s"][I]Wolfenstein 3D[/I][/URL], [I]Commander Keen[/I], [I]Star Wars: Rebel Assault[/I], or [I]MechWarrior[/I], but don't have the discs or Steam files handy? The Internet Archive has you covered. The popular non-profit this week put over [URL="https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames"]2,400 MS-DOS games and demos[/URL] online, and they're all free to download and/or play in your browser. The massive library means your favorite 90's PC titles are likely included, or at the very least represented by a demo (which is the case with[URL="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/139039-John-Romero-Posts-Never-Before-Seen-Artwork-to-Honor-DOOMs-Birthday"][I]Doom[/I][/URL], and others). Today's addition of 2,400 files is part of a larger 6,000-plus item collective[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/139325-Internet-Archie-2400-Free-MS-DOS-Games-Doom-Quake-Wolfenstein[/url]
Fucking hell, yes. I'm definitely going to have to take a peek at this.
Woo! This is awesome!
Demos? We called that Shareware.
Awesome news!
Time to get the old Dos PC going
[QUOTE=pentium;46873425]Demos? We called that Shareware.[/QUOTE] Hey man, can I borrow a computer to run these?
Is there a link to download all of them?
How do you play these in browser?
Wish it was easier to see what ones were the full games.
[QUOTE=NeverGoWest;46873420]Woopity fucking doo! This is awesome![/QUOTE] Hey friend. Usually when someone says "Woopity fucking doo", they mean to say "Who cares?".
Holy shit they have Assault Rigs. Played this game as a kid and I've literally been searching for this thing for like ten years.
[QUOTE=ClarkWasHere;46873599]Hey friend. Usually when someone says "Woopity fucking doo", they mean to say "Who cares?".[/QUOTE] Oh sorry didn't know, thanks for telling. Now I know!
now where is theme hospital
They have Ravage. I played that game so much as a kid, but then never found it again. Too bad it's only shareware.
I am glad they got the Dark Seed demo but I would like to get my hand's on the whole game ( I think buying the game on Ebay is pointless since the game is won't run my pc through the disk.)
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;46873959]I am glad they got the Dark Seed demo but I would like to get my hand's on the whole game ( I think buying the game on Ebay is pointless since the game is won't run my pc through the disk.)[/QUOTE] Have you never heard of DOSBox? [URL="http://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=255&letter=D"]Because Darkseed is supported.[/URL]
[QUOTE=U-Lander;46873551]How do you play these in browser?[/QUOTE] I must be missing something, but why is this getting funnies? The thread title and the article both mention this, but I can't seem to find any way to do this. The ability to run it in a browser is pretty much the only reason I was interested in the first place, these archives have been around forever but I just never wanted to fuck around with DosBox. [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] [quote=Article]"While some of the collection can be played right in your browser of choice, "[/quote] Oooooh. [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] Which?
[QUOTE=MyAlt91;46874074]I must be missing something, but why is this getting funnies? The thread title and the article both mention this, but I can't seem to find any way to do this. The ability to run it in a browser is pretty much the only reason I was interested in the first place, these archives have been around forever but I just never wanted to fuck around with DosBox. [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] Oooooh. [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] Which?[/QUOTE] [url]https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games[/url] The link in the article doesn't go directly to the DOSBox browser emulator archive, which is actually separate from the downloads, and was linked in a News Node story thread yesterday.
None of those links are working for me here at work. Is Sentinel Worlds in that list? Anyone?
I can't seem to see any option that allows you to play these in your browser. Unless I am just blind. Or I could just download and install DOS Box to make the boring days at work go by more quickly.
[URL="http://js-dos.com/"]js-dos.com[/URL] [URL="https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox"]em-dosbox[/URL]
Over 500 downloads for Wing Commander, no surprise
So where would I be able to find the download links?
They've been free to download for a very long time now.
[QUOTE=ChronoBlade;46874619]So where would I be able to find the download links?[/QUOTE] [URL="https://archive.org/details/DukeNukem3d"]Let's take Duke 3D for example.[/URL] There are two separate download links on that page, either all of the files, or the individual files (including the zip of Duke). Left and below of the main description box.
Can't find mechwarrior, i tried looking it up using alphabetical order but it's not in the game list and for some reason their search field has a category for "videogame videos" but not actual games. Someone who knows the secrets of this site, is it actually there?
oh hey they have xcom
[QUOTE=Mattk50;46874809]Can't find mechwarrior, i tried looking it up using alphabetical order but it's not in the game list and for some reason their search field has a category for "videogame videos" but not actual games. Someone who knows the secrets of this site, is it actually there?[/QUOTE] Search is a little weird; here's how I got it to work: TL;DR if you want a shortcut, put "collection:classicpcgames" (without quotes) in the search box, a space, and then your search terms. When searching the in-browser DOSBOX collection, use "collection:softwarelibrary_msdos_games" instead. The search by itself doesn't have a category for these new collections. However, you can search the collections, as above, but it's weird how you get this. On [URL="https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames"]the top level of the category[/URL], click this link: [URL="https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aclassicpcgames&sort=-publicdate"]All items (most recently added first)[/URL] This gives you a list of 1-50 out of >6,400 results. Not that useful. Except now the search box at the top is prefilled with "collection:classicpcgames" because the all-items link is nothing more than a search query for the entire collection. Adding additional search terms means you can search within the collection. [URL="https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Aclassicpcgames%20mechwarrior"]The only Mechwarrior titles are demos.[/URL] The browser-DOSBOX library has no MW titles at all. [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Zezibesh;46875031]oh hey they have xcom[/QUOTE] I just checked; they do! Hey, people, if you [del]hate yourself[/del]like a classic challenge, download [URL="https://archive.org/details/XCOMUFODefense_1020"]XCOM: UFO Defense[/URL] and [URL="http://openxcom.org/"]OpenXcom[/URL] instead of fucking around with DOSBOX. Just be prepared to die a lot -- the aliens came prepared for war and are better than you.
Rebel assault? Heh I have that on CD, comes with both games and Yoda Stories
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