How to play some of your favorite games from the 1980s and 1990s for free. Users can now play The Oregon Trail Deluxe by MECC on the Internet Archive. The Oregon Trail Deluxe is one of over 2,000 MS-DOS games that are now available to play at Archive.org.

The PC has been one of the most powerful gaming platforms for as long as it has existed, continually providing the best graphics and most advanced features. In its early days, players were impressed by raw text, ASCII art, and pixels the size of small ...

It’s not entirely free, unlike some of the other games on the platform. The version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City being used is a reverse-engineered open source port of the game, reVC, which almost landed the developers in hot water with Take Two.

Before there was Steam, there was MS-DOS. A chunky, no-nonsense platform that ran some of the most unforgettable games of all time — games that shaped not just genres, but the entire medium. This was the golden age, where everything felt raw, wild, and ...

Well I know NT Compatible has a list of compatible games, but they don't partition their list out by original OS and it isn't very complete. After the troubles many people have had with getting DOS games to work in 2000 and XP I figured that those of us ...

We don’t miss the days of DOS. Maybe we’re a bit lazy these days, but we’d sooner click an icon to launch an application or open a document than faff about with the command line. But we do miss some of the games — classic titles infused with ...

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As advanced as today’s gaming titles are, they just don’t have the appeal that simple games of the DOS era had. After all, who can forget the good old days of Bio Menace, Dangerous Dave and SkyRoads. As advanced as today’s gaming titles are, they ...

Ever felt like getting back to the era when we used to play games on our computer system? Back in the eighties and nineties, when there were no PlayStations and gaming consoles around, the only entertainment on the PCs was the MS-DOS games. Once served as ...

The evolution of games have been staggeringly amazing in the wake of new developments in technology and software. A decade ago, could you even imagine the precision and the in-depth gameplay in GTA 5? However, let’s not forget our humble roots and ...