• 2,400 MS-DOS PC Games are Now Free to Play Online
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So the vast majority of these are demos, correct?
Is that site 100% legit? Either I'm missing something, or there is even Age of Empires 2 with no mention of it being a demo.
Strife: Trust Nobody's demo is up there too, I strongly suggest trying it out because it's one of the most unique doom-likes out there. Professional voice acting, an open world with a ton of characters, a great story, and if you buy the full game on steam for like 10 bucks you get a remastered port with mouse aiming, cleaned up textures and music, the works. [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Baazul;46875444]Is that site 100% legit? Either I'm missing something, or there is even Age of Empires 2 with no mention of it being a demo.[/QUOTE] archive is a strange site, its trustworthy but its power is beyond anything we can comprehend
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;46875450]cleaned up music, [/QUOTE] pfff who would want that? roland-sc55 is for nerds, OPL 4 lyfe
[QUOTE=pentium;46873425]Demos? We called that Shareware.[/QUOTE] Shareware specifically is when you make a full game with around three ready to go expansions accessible if you buy it. A demo is a cut part of a full game. The difference is small but it's still here.
[QUOTE=ZeroTimesCookie;46875532]pfff who would want that? roland-sc55 is for nerds, OPL 4 lyfe[/QUOTE] Oh don't worry, there's a setting in the menu that lets you choose between the two, the game is totally decked out for those purists [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] theres even a classic mode that removes mouse aim and stuff like that
Anyone else play Rocket Jockey? [video=youtube;6FAhnNplMSA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FAhnNplMSA[/video]
They even have the original Transport Tycoon on there, but I can't get it to run on their built-in DOS system because of some eldritch forgotten fatal error TNT.10049: Ran of Stack Buffers But luckily I have Open TTD, wish I could get the original graphic and music files though so I can use them in Open TTD.
HL:OP4 is in here :v: [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] [url]https://archive.org/details/Half-lifeOpposingForceCaptureTheFlag[/url]
Wolfenstein 3D doesnt work on 64 bit operating systems :(
[QUOTE=joshuadim;46878542]Wolfenstein 3D doesnt work on 64 bit operating systems :([/QUOTE] Use the ECWolf source port.
Anyone played Hocus Pocus? Loved that game as a kid! [img]http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue20/greviews/hocus1.gif[/img]
[URL]https://archive.org/stream/msdos_Bouncing_Babies_1984/Bouncing_Babies_1984.zip?module=dosbox&scale=2[/URL] ah, classic fucking impossible hyperspeed bouncing babies. now this is a game
[QUOTE=joshuadim;46878542]Wolfenstein 3D doesnt work on 64 bit operating systems :([/QUOTE] most of these games don't work. you need to use DOSBox or something similar to play them.
I've wanted to re-play MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries for years and years but I'm too lazy to get DOSBox working slash understand the oldworld gibberish that it speaks :(
Wait, how do I download these games? I can only play them in browser
Word rescue?[b] Fuck yes[/b] [img]http://www.redwoodgames.com/images/word.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=joshuadim;46878542]Wolfenstein 3D doesnt work on 64 bit operating systems :([/QUOTE] You do realise these are games made for operating systems from the 80's, right? Use DOSBox. [IMG]http://i1137.photobucket.com/albums/n513/mecha-neko/ChristmasCarnage/Christmas_Carnage_DOS_cc_026.png[/IMG] Going through incredibly obscure and shit DOS games is fun as hell
This is fucking epic (and probably not even 2GB worth of data)
[QUOTE=Ta16;46879391]Word rescue?[b] Fuck yes[/b] [img]http://www.redwoodgames.com/images/word.gif[/img][/QUOTE] Is that like Duke Nukem Jr?
[QUOTE=buu342;46878730]Anyone played Hocus Pocus? Loved that game as a kid! [img]http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue20/greviews/hocus1.gif[/img][/QUOTE] Amazing game. Not as good as Commander Keen though. When Steam put all the Keen games up for sale I was quite happy.
[QUOTE=doommarine23;46879673]Is that like Duke Nukem Jr?[/QUOTE] Not sure, never played it, but generally you would find pictures of the words and then find the words the pictures go to and match them. It's a puzzle platformer, and it was the shit when I was a little boy. I remember playing our family DOS rig, Commander Keen, shareware Doom, Monster Bash, Major Stryker, and Scorched Earth. [img]http://image.dosgamesarchive.com/screenshots/monsterbash2.gif[/img] [img]http://image.dosgamesarchive.com/screenshots/majorstryker9.gif[/img] [img]http://img.gamefaqs.net/screens/a/2/f/gfs_36122_2_8.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Ta16;46879936]Scorched Earth [img]http://img.gamefaqs.net/screens/a/2/f/gfs_36122_2_8.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] The Mother of all Games. I would sometimes just play Death's Head roulette with wrap borders turned on, and just fire it up at an angle into the sky at maximum power in a game with 9 bots. Usually wiped most of the level clean. Downgrading from a Death's Head to a MIRV left me a chance of surviving. I added my own quotes to the quotes file, too. One of the best features.
[QUOTE=buu342;46878730]Anyone played Hocus Pocus? Loved that game as a kid! [img]http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue20/greviews/hocus1.gif[/img][/QUOTE] Oh man, I used to watch my dad play this all the time when I was younger, but i never did know the name of the game. Thanks a lot.
Weird can't find the download for Wolf3d. It says [url=https://archive.org/details/msdos_Wolfenstein_3D_1992]download on the side[/url], but can't find where to actually download it.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;46875032]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] 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.[/QUOTE] XCom isn't working for me, at all. Every time I run OpenXCom it just tells me it failed to open directory GEOGRAPH, and I've patched it and everything.
[url]https://archive.org/details/RedneckRampageDemo[/url] Only the demo, but still... yay! [url]https://archive.org/details/WolfSPDemo[/url] Also this. This is great!
[QUOTE=matt000024;46880832]Weird can't find the download for Wolf3d. It says [url=https://archive.org/details/msdos_Wolfenstein_3D_1992]download on the side[/url], but can't find where to actually download it.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure if it wasn't posted in the first place, or if they got a DMCA/more polite takedown request, because abandonware doesn't apply [URL="http://store.steampowered.com/app/2270/"]when it's for sale on Steam[/URL].
The in-browser thing just ain't working for me.
[QUOTE=matt000024;46880832]Weird can't find the download for Wolf3d. It says [url=https://archive.org/details/msdos_Wolfenstein_3D_1992]download on the side[/url], but can't find where to actually download it.[/QUOTE] [del]there's two entries for wolfenstein (and a lot of the others) where one is the [URL="https://archive.org/details/msdos_Wolfenstein_3D_1992"]in-browser play[/URL] and the other is the [URL="https://archive.org/details/Wolfenstein3d"]download page.[/URL] not sure why they're seperated.[/del] edit: wait i'm shit that was the shareware wolf3d disregard what i said. edit2: [URL="https://ia600801.us.archive.org/8/items/msdos_Wolfenstein_3D_1992/Wolfenstein_3D_1992.zip"]looks like you can download the zipfile dosbox uses with some url fiddling.[/URL]
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