This uses a community updated version of DOSBox which is probably better than the latest official release, since DOSBox hasn’t really been updates in several years. The real benefit here is having a database of DOS games complete with cover art, manual etc. and being able to download any of them using BitTorrent with one button press, or if you really want to, you can download everything in a 600+ gigabyte torrent.
DOS games were made well into the 90s and the later ones were on CD-ROMs with fancy FMVs and stuff, some were even on multiple CDs (back then it was a rule thumb that the more CDs a game used, the worse it probably was). You’re also probably underestimating just how many DOS games there were, eXoDOS even has tiny freeware games made by one person in Eastern Europe included.
Even the Atari 2600 library is something like 20 megabytes.
This uses a community updated version of DOSBox which is probably better than the latest official release, since DOSBox hasn’t really been updates in several years. The real benefit here is having a database of DOS games complete with cover art, manual etc. and being able to download any of them using BitTorrent with one button press, or if you really want to, you can download everything in a 600+ gigabyte torrent.
Cool!
…they’re DOS games; shouldn’t all of them worldwide barely amount to like a megabyte…?
DOS games were made well into the 90s and the later ones were on CD-ROMs with fancy FMVs and stuff, some were even on multiple CDs (back then it was a rule thumb that the more CDs a game used, the worse it probably was). You’re also probably underestimating just how many DOS games there were, eXoDOS even has tiny freeware games made by one person in Eastern Europe included.
Even the Atari 2600 library is something like 20 megabytes.
Ah, actually I forgot not all games were mines of titan or karateka, lol; I completely forgot the original doom was also a DOS game