When I was younger, I always loved heading to my local bookshop every week to look at the newest shareware games that would pour in from bedroom developers around the world. Sadly, those days are over, but, thanks to the magic powers of the internet, I and many others can re-live those days thanks to the DOS Games Archive. The Archive offers hundreds of old DOS-based games, from freeware hobby projects, to the middle-range shareware greats, to the then-mainstream classics in playable demo forms. Every game I remember loving on DOS is up there, including old playable demos from many of the absolute classics from the day, such as SimCity, Doom, Lemmings, Worms, Warcraft 1 and 2 and Ugh!
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1:22 am UTC on August 25th, 2006
Great!
Thanks!
What’s the game in the image?
10:41 am UTC on August 25th, 2006
That would be Warcraft 1 sir. Very very cool archive btw!
4:54 am UTC on January 22nd, 2008
I miss the old days of BBSes. The days when you typed DIR to look at your 40 meg hard drive stuffed full of shareware programs. Back when a bitmap imaged looked like heaven on the screen.
Why did they do this windows thing? I hate it. The internet has been bombarded with idiots who click away at their screens, and feel like they know something about the PC.
I personally believe that the only reason windows exists is because there is a huge market of idiots who want to play too.
Why can’t we go back to the days of Wildcat and Galacticomm? The old TBBS software and PCBoard. When you had to work to find what you were looking for. That made every search an adventure.
People could invest a few bucks in some software and they had a BBS of their own. Free to publish whatever they chose. Now we’re forced to pay monthly fees and pray for advertisers so we can keep our sites running. Why has it turned into this?
Not all of us want to be connected to the world. Some of us enjoyed the day when you could dial up your buddy’s PC and see what’s new. Email some local friends, post a comment, see what new files or CDs are online. Maybe even play a silly game of Trade Wars 2002.
I don’t consider myself to be an old person. But I finally understand what getting old is.
I guess it’s time to move on to the newer world. The East St. Louis of PC Communicating. Be careful what you download. Watch where you type your credit card number. Think really hard about that password.
It has all gone from honest, wholesome entertainment for a few of us nerds, to an all out battle.
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