He further mentions adding a percentage of these games into the Emularity system on the Internet Archive for research, entertainment and quick online access.
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Jason notes that many of them "were released, sold some amount of copies, and then disappeared off the shelves, if not everyone’s memories." What makes this feat remarkable is how much effort of acquisition and configuration went into preserving programs that ran on very specific setups and making these available for everyone. Thanks to Project eXoDOS, the cataloging of DOS games has been enabled 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," said archivist Jason Scott.
DOS GAMES ARCHIVE UPDATE
In brief: With 2,500 playable MS-DOS titles added to the Internet Archive, it just got a lot more tempting to take a nostalgic trip back to the '80s and '90s and play your favorite games from the era, conveniently in your browser.įans of classic PC games might want to head over to this page and browse the collection of MS-DOS titles recently added to the Internet Archive, making it the biggest update to the digital library since 2015.