Legacy Games

Here's what i have been using so far to play legacy games (which i owned but i lost them somehow) and how to play it under Windows. These are freeware or abandonware and you may freely download (or licensed where stated, which you can not download).

DOS Games

Abandonware Paradise - collections of thousands of old DOS games including Command and Conquer, Duke Nukem, Prince of Persia and Dune 2000.

Update: Until today (Feb 10) it seems that the website for english version is not working.

Abandonia - An alternative to old DOS games but does not contain as much as the above.

Update: There is another site which offers DOS and many other platforms available : The Old Computer

DOSBox - Ver. 0.74, a DOS emulator, required to play DOS games on today's Windows.


Console Games

Emulator Zone - Collections of hundreds of emulators including Nintendo and Sega.

ROMHustler - Collections of millions of ROMs for console games, arcade games, and many others.


DOS Games on Windows XP and Vista/7

1. Download and install DOSBox. Create a folder under system drive (eg. C:\DOSG)

2. Open dosbox-***.conf with Notepad, scroll to end and add this line mount c c:\dosg under autoexec.

Correct locations of dosbox-***.conf :

• Windows XP - %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\DOSBox\dosbox-{version}.conf
• Windows Vista / 7 - {system drive}:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\DOSBox\dosbox-{version}.conf
  

3. Download a game (eg. Prince of Persia).

4. Extract game into a sub-folder (eg. C:\DOSG\PRINCE). You must extract the file or it won't work.

5. Run DOSBox.

6. Enter folder using DOS commands (in italic fonts):

C:\CD PRINCE then C:\PRINCE\>PRINCE.EXE

More information on DOSBox can be found on DOSBoxWiki


You can also type in manually the mount command. Drive letter should always be C but also can be any letter you want.


Console Games in Windows

1. Download and install any emulator. For example, we take NES.

2. Run and configure the emulator. Take note of the ROM folder.

2. Download ROM. If it's zipped in .7z, you need 7zip to extract to folder ROM.

3. Run the emulator. From File menu, select Open. Choose the desired rom. Play!

EUL Level : LEVEL 4