What do you think? Plan on trying out any of these MS-DOS games available at the Internet Archive? Let us know down below in the comments or carry the discussion over to our Twitter or Facebook. Go and check out the collection yourself, and see what gems from the past you can unearth. The Elder Scrolls Adventures – Redguard – Yes, there was a time before Skyrim when the Elder Scrolls were only playable on MS-DOS.The Incredible Machine, 2 – a fantastic wacky puzzle game that any Rube Goldberg fan will love.Night Trap – which was famous for being the first game to use Full-Motion Video of real actors.Some particular standouts to me from the new 2,500 include:
Ill also mark its appropriate pre/post areas in green. Reading audio for your data isnt an instant on and you always have that lead-in issue.8 posts RED. All of that had to be overcome to create games playable on modern hardware, which a few orders of magnitude faster than the hardware it was written to work on. JDelekto: For the time, it actually makes sense. You see, some were written for very specific hardware, or for versions that don’t exist anymore.
Dos games archive archive#
The games playable today on the Internet Archive are thanks to the eXoDOS project, which has painstakingly kept over 7,000 MS-DOS games alive. It’s anything but, with the speed of our computers being one of the main issues. You’d think that with how powerful modern PCs are, that running MS-DOS games would be simple. There’s now another 2,500 MS-DOS games playable at the Internet Archive Journey back to the era before Windows existed and relive some classics. The Internet Archive has added another 2,500 MS-DOS games, all playable from your browser.
If you grew up playing games on MS-DOS like The Secret of Monkey Island or Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, you’re in for a treat.