The update of these MS-DOS games comes from a project called A recognition of eXoDOS? which has expanded over the years in the realm of collecting DOS games 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.
What makes the collection more than A recognition of
Just a pile of old? now-playable games? is how it has to take whatsapp lead head-on the problems of software preservation and history. Having an old executable and a scanned copy of the manual represents only the first few steps. DOS has remained consistent in some ways over the last (nearly) 40 years? but a lot has changed under the hood and programs were sometimes only written to work on very specific hardware and a very specific setup. They were released? sold some amount of copies? and then disappeared off the shelves? if not everyone’s memories.
It is all these extra steps? under the hood? of acquisition and configuration? that that hilarious problem with cd roms represents the hardest work by the eXoDOS project? and I recognize that long-time and Herculean effort. As a result? the eXoDOS project has over 7?000 titles they’ve made work dependably and consistently.
Separately from the eXoDOS project
I’ve been putting a percentage of these games into the Emularity the apollo link Culture system on the Internet Archive for research? entertainment and quick online access to the programs. The issues that are introduced by this are mine and mine alone? and eXoDOS is not able to help with them. You can always mail me at jscott with questions or technical concerns.
This should be all that needs to be said? but since the Archive is doing things a little strangely? there’s a lot to keep in mind before you really dive in (or to realize? when you come back with questions).