Free DOS Games on GOG.com

edmaul69

@spruce_m00se yup. i have the first one and i tested that and the 9 free games i got. They all work fine.

ExarKunIv

@edmaul69 said in Free DOS Games on GOG.com:

i play dos games on my pi more than anything else.

me too
i love being able to play the old games on my Pi. it is sweet, and most run really well

spruce_m00se

@edmaul69 in which emulator would I have to run it ? I used to play that, it came as a freebie when I bought my first home pc back in 97 or 98

edmaul69

@spruce_m00se dosbox. When you install it on your pc it has dosbox files setup for it. I can help you set it up for the pi.

spruce_m00se

@edmaul69 woudl there also be a way to run the original command and conquer windows games? maybe warcraft 2?
if you know a decent link that shows how to set it up fele free to share :)

edmaul69

@spruce_m00se as long as they are dos versions of the games you can use dosbox. There is a retropie dosbox wiki but i can help you a lot to speed up the process.

spruce_m00se

@edmaul69 i will look into this later and ask you for some help, right now im building a cabinet, and want to focus on getting that done while the mrs is away, I can play around with new games while she is here, but not use the router :)

ExarKunIv

@spruce_m00se

Red Alert works also works a little slow at times

spruce_m00se

@exarkuniv red alert and CnC went slow on original hardware and run slow on my i7 with 16gb of ram, they were just coded badly, or had coding limits, thts part of the fun of multiplayer, you storm them with so many units that it slows down, then they dont know what to do since they are used to certain reaction speeds. it throws people off

Afunnyname

Can you help a me out a little in understanding what's happening. What are DOS games? Are they old Windows games or just PC games?

spruce_m00se

@afunnyname do you know what DOS means?

ExarKunIv

@spruce_m00se

oh i know.

been rocking those games from day 1. I still like Dune 2 over C&C, dont know why maybe its the memory's that i have playing it on my dads 286 laptop.... :)

ExarKunIv

@afunnyname

look here
its the list of DOS games

Afunnyname

@spruce_m00se I do not know what DOS means

A Former User

@afunnyname said in Free DOS Games on GOG.com:

@spruce_m00se I do not know what DOS means

I just realized I'm old :D

edmaul69

@afunnyname dos means disk operating system. Ms-dos is what microsoft used before windows. When you see a command line screen, that is what dos was like. If you have windows on your computer sometimes you have to bring up the dos prompt to do something in command line. That is what dos was. No gui. Windows 3.1x is an operating system running on dos.

edmaul69

@arkive thanks for reminding me about being old... but just think about it, we will be the first generation (in any sizable numbers) to play video games through our golden years.

ExarKunIv

@edmaul69 said in Free DOS Games on GOG.com:

we will be the first generation (in any sizable numbers) to play video games through our golden years.

hell yea

edmaul69

@exarkuniv and generation z will be the generation in their golden years that just watches past generations play games. Like they do now.

A Former User

Yeah, that cracks me up. Ironically, it's called "Let's Play" :)

Getting old is not that bad, at least not that bad as it looked when I was a kid. And true, the added bonus of being the part of the videogame pioneer wave, is priceless.

I don't know what they'll be playing 100 or 1000 years from now, but I doubt it'll be any better than stuff from the incredible DOS Decade - 1985 to 1995.