Historical Software Collection

[Ohio Joe]

I first saw this at Blues News:

http://www.bluesnews.com/

Which just has a link to a Slash Gear story:

The Internet Archive this weekend released a new addition to its growing collection of historical media, the Historical Software Collection. The collection lets you run old, outdated, and historically important software right inside the modern browser. This marks the first time a project of this kind has been taken on to such a large extent, and it is free to the public.

http://www.slashgear.com/internet-archives-new-historical-software-archive-lets-you-interact-with-software-as-it-was-26303183/

Which leads to the actual site itself:

https://archive.org/details/historicalsoftware

This place has a crap load of classic games for free that (in theory, I'm still browsing and have not downloaded any yet) will be playable! First one I saw was freakin Dungeon Keeper! Man, I loved that game Looks like there is tons of good stuff there though.

heh, this is awesome

[independentpiney]

1. Holy cow, there's 5060 pc games!

I wish I was familiar enough with Dosbox to try to get some of those running without breaking my pc.

[Ohio Joe]

2. That should not be a big concern...

Dosbox is just a program run to emulate a DOS environment, it is not going to mess up your computer. They have a link to a real good tutorial for getting set up with it:

http://cutefloor.wordpress.com/dosbox-tutorial/

[Ohio Joe]

3. New addition - The Console Living Room

The Archive now has several early consoles and a ton of their games that can be played in your browser. The consoles are:

The Atari 2600
The Atari 7800 ProSystem
The ColecoVision
The Magnavox Odyssey²
The Astrocade

https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom

Just click on the system to see the games... Click on the game to try... Then, over on the right is the link to play that game in your browser.