MS-DOS zombying...

[Skybird]

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/v2

2400 MSDOS games on this site are offered legally. They use an in-browser version of Dos-Box. You must install nothing, just click to start.

I am aware of the legal status of abandonware and Neal'S stand on it, and that abandonware does not mean automatically that it is legal to download something, it only means that the former holder of rights does not care to enforce his rights anymore.

But this company offers to play in the browser, and in this German article in a major newspaper gives me the strong impression that it all is legal:
http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article136061691/2400-MS-DOS-Spiele-ab-sofort-im-Netz-frei-verfuegbar.html
If it were not legal, that would be as surprising as for example the Times advertising in a major article some pirated software. Unlikely.

It looks all okay to me.

[Rhodes]

Md subsim

cd subsim

md sh1

cd sh1

dir /p

sh1.exe

enter

[Nippelspanner]

Darn, doesn't work for me. After clicking "click to begin" it loads shortly then turns and stays black...

But... this page is awesome. It is like someone threw my childhood right into my face :D

[Schroeder]

It is like someone threw my childhood right into my face :D
That could have smelled funny depending on what part of your childhood it was.:O::D

[Nippelspanner]

That could have smelled funny depending on what part of your childhood it was.:O::D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI

[Fubar2Niner]

Oh my lord, what a brilliant find. Well done Skybird. Certainly brought more than a few memories flooding back. :up:

Best regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Herr-Berbunch]

Great site, not just games but texts, audiobooks and videos (information ones, not movies). :yeah:

[Herr-Berbunch]

It's got captures of websites too, including Onkel Neal's finest.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000817071255/http://www.subsim.com/

All links clickable and working, at least within the site! :up:

[CCIP]

It made it into Washington Post today as well, so if it's "clean" enough for them, it's certainly legit for Subsim posting! :D

I've been a supporter of Archive for the better part of a decade. There is a lot of fantastic stuff to be found there - from old radio archives to uploads of artist-sanctioned bootlegs of concerts to, of course, the wayback machine. The games collection is just another great addition to what's already one of the finest sites on the internet :yep:

[Onkel Neal]

It's got captures of websites too, including Onkel Neal's finest.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000817071255/http://www.subsim.com/

All links clickable and working, at least within the site! :up:

Daaang, them's olde tymes....:rock:

Good find, Sky. :)

Abandonware rules here (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/faq.php?faq=vb_faq#faq_rules2_faq_item) were modified a few years ago,

...mainly we want to be sure someone doesn't start claiming Game X is abandonware a year after release, while it is still commercially available.

[Rhodes]

Been playing Prince of Persia, so many hours spend trying to jump the titles and doors!

Stunt: loved that game, trying to get the loops with out falling.
Emmanuelle:huh: didn't know that there was a game!!!

[Matador.es]

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Das_Boot_German_U-Boat_Simulation_1990

haha, how sweet. I have "tried" to play this game so many times!!!! This is were my u Boat/ submarine gaming started :)

I remember a mission in norway, were you had to go into a fjord and pass a bridge with two bunkers on it and an underwater mine field. At the end of the fjord there was some big bunker. I never knew what the purpose was of this mission.

Will try it tonight :P

[Jimbuna]

Bookmarked :cool:

[Pisces]

Md subsim

cd subsim

md sh1

cd sh1

dir /p

sh1.exe

enter

Bad command or file name.
c:\SUBSIM\SH1>

[Rhodes]

^ you know, I had to go to wikipedia to remember one of the DOS commands, something that I remembered so well back in 90's!

[Pisces]

^ you know, I had to go to wikipedia to remember one of the DOS commands, something that I remembered so well back in 90's!The commands are correct. Except that when you created the folder, there is nothing in it to execute. :up:

[Rhodes]

I know that, but it was just something in line with subsim. What to post, ok, sh1.exe.

I should had type install.exe or .bat and after the running of the game.

format c: and star over!

[Spoon 11th]

I see they offer the original Dragon's Lair. The DVD version is available through Steam.

[razark]

haha, how sweet. I have "tried" to play this game so many times!!!! This is were my u Boat/ submarine gaming started
And my first subsim: https://archive.org/details/msdos_GATO_1984

If only I could remember how to play. It seems to run a bit fast, too.