DOS Zone
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1 hour ago
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vunderba
1 minute ago
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Apparently this site is by the same person who created js-dos [1], which is an absolutely fantastic emulator for running and hosting DOS games in the browser.

I used it quite successfully for an official sequel to an old DOS game a few weeks ago, and it even got to the point where it was pretty trivial to patch the js-dos ZIP bundle on the fly to modify how the original DOS game worked.

[1] - https://github.com/caiiiycuk/js-dos

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wxw
40 seconds ago
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Pinball space cadet! Many fond memories of it on the family PC.
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xerox13ster
47 minutes ago
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First thing I did was pull up Sim City 3000 (I have so many hours of play time on this that never got recorded anywhere) to see if the simulation speed goes nutso like I remember on my old Windows ME MS-DOS Compaq back in the day. Every time I played the game on any XP or newer PC I get speed limited in Cheetah mode and it feels like it takes _forever_ for my city to develop. Not even installing WindowsME on an emulator would fix it because it was some scheduler fix at the NT kernel level or something, idr.

One thing I will say is that this so far has NAILED the experience I remember of loading the game. Thinking the PC had frozen, only to finally be greeted with that gorgeous Maxis loading screen and opening animation.

I have not yet determined if the sim speed goes nutso on Cheetah like I remember, but I will edit this when I do.

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rglover
10 minutes ago
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Found this looking for a Sim City 2000 port :)
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HeavyStorm
47 minutes ago
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What the...? Those aren't DOS games, there are plenty Windows DirectX-based games in this site.
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hungryhobbit
44 minutes ago
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Fun fact: earlier Windows OSes ran on top of DOS.
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toast0
35 minutes ago
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Well, DirectX was win95 and later right? Windows Enhanced mode and future is kind of both on top of and underneath dos. There's a kind of wild layering that happens.
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CodeWriter23
23 minutes ago
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Fun fact, Win 95, 98 and ME booted DOS and autoexec'd win for you.
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lorecore
38 minutes ago
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For those unfamiliar with it, I highly recommend eXoDOS, it's literally every DOS game ever: https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.html

You can even get an extremely cool boxed version: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RetroeXo

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vldszn
31 minutes ago
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so cool!
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