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DOS_deck, Easily Play DOS Games In Your Browser Without any Faff
MS-DOS is a bit before my time but I expect a lot of our readers are at the age where getting out of bed is a risk for your back and knees. Sometimes you get bored of modern games and feel like having a good hit of nostalgia although it…
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DOSBox Pure Adds New (and Exceptionally Welcome) Features
If you enjoy playing many of the classic PC gaming titles, then you’ll undoubtedly be aware of DOSBox. Largely because, through the use of this helpful application, it can allow you to play them as intended without too many of the issues brought about by more modern hardware technology. Put…
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PC Classic Will Give Your TV Access To DOS Based Goodness!
PC Classic Will Give Your TV Access To DOS Based Goodness! Over the last 5 years, we have certainly seen something of a revival in retro gaming systems. Overlooking products such as the NES/SNES classic and upcoming PS1 Classic, we’ve had versions of pretty much every major early console released.…
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Goodbye CMD.EXE: Latest Windows 10 Update Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell
PowerShell is officially replacing the CMD.EXE command prompt as the default command shell in Windows as of the next upcoming big Redstone 2 aka Creator’s Build update, as confirmed by Dona Sarkar, head of the Windows Insider program. This marks the end of the cmd.exe’s 35-year career which began in…
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MS-DOS Classic ‘Whacky Wheels’ Gets HD Release!
Ready for an epic blast from the past? The classic, and by classic, I mean freaking old, Wacky Wheels from the MS-DOS era of gaming has made a bit of a comeback. The 22-year old game from the time of floppy discs, when we were gaming on our underpowered family…
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Internet Archive’s MS-DOS Game Library Now Playable Through Twitter
Much excitement followed Internet Archive, the non-profit digital library, making over 2,300 MS-DOS games available to play for free at the turn of the year, offering such classics as Wolfenstein 3D, Prince of Persia, Oregon Trail, and Maniac Mansion to gamers young and old. The games were playable in-browser by…
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Microsoft Launches MS-DOS App for Mobile Devices
Microsoft is going old-school this April Fools’ Day has launched an MS-DOS app for mobile. The app appears to be just like the real thing, having to navigate around by typing DIR in order to list available apps and using CD to enter directories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irJQDGw8Ptk If you navigate to the…
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Internet Archive Adds Over 2,300 Free-to-Play MS-DOS Games
Non-profit digital library Internet Archive has continued its effort to conserve and share classic video games by updating its game library with a whopping 2,334 MS-DOS games, available now, free-to-play, though a standard web browser. Internet Archive curator Jason Scott, responsible for the massive haul of new games to IA,…
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iOS Gets The Original Tomb Raider port, Courtesy of Square Enix
The recent Tomb Raider reboot has been such as success that Square Enix has now released the original Tomb Raider game for iOS. The port, officially titled Tomb Raider I, is available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and has been tweaked to better suit touch controls. It also comes…
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