The site says all the games offered are shareware, freeware, demo versions, or "liberated" (i.e. officially released as freeware after they became commercially unviable). Most of the currently listed games are shareware from id Software or Apogee (or both), and I recall hearing about Command & Conquer being released as freeware at one point, but I'm surprised to see Dune II and The Black Cauldron on that list — I feel like I would have heard about Dune II being released, and I can't imagine The Mouse giving up any control over intellectual property, even something as mostly-forgotten as The Black Cauldron.
Great! It's only been five minutes and I'm addicted to Dune II again.<p>I'll never understand what it was about that game that made me play it for hours on end as a kid. I suppose if I had learned more about, even rudimentary, real-time strategy games I may have ended up more of a gamer.
It's so weird how much better these games looked in my memory (e.g., Dune 2, C&C). I guess when the graphics were so primitive, your imagination filled in the rest. When I look at them now, I realize that units were just a handful of pixels. Then again, I'm looking at it on a 6k 30" LCD screen, when back then I had an 18" CRT.
See also, based on same js-dos code<p><a href="https://dos.zone/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://dos.zone/</a><p><a href="https://js-dos.com/v7/build/docs/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://js-dos.com/v7/build/docs/</a>
The name got me excited, but I'm definitely in the market for a smoother platform for DOSBox on my SteamDeck. The machine is genuinely excellent for retro gaming because it's so easy to map the mouse and various keyboard shortcuts to its many buttons, and that's increasingly become how I use it instead of more modern games out of Steam. Only issue is there is some faff involved at the moment (but faff that I'm delighted is even possible, it being a full Linux machine and all).
Lots of games can be played on archive.org too <a href="https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games</a> like <a href="https://archive.org/details/Keen4e-sw" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.org/details/Keen4e-sw</a>
Curious what the future looks like for DOS and old Win95 emulation. I cant seem to run some old games from back then with just dosbox.<p>I don't try hard and there are likely solutions, but given what has happend with AI and how that has transformed other data hording, I'm excited about the future.
Very cool! I've built a similar platform for GB, GBA and SNES at <a href="https://afterplay.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://afterplay.io</a> I've thought about adding DOS support in the future. What emulator did you end up using? Very nice implementation :)