Items tagged with ms-dos

by Shane McGlaun - Tue, Oct 15, 2019

Internet Archive Uploads 2,500 Of Your Favorite MS-DOS Games To Play Online

Gamers who have been enjoying PC gaming for decades will probably have fond memories of playing classic MS-DOS games back in the day. Some of those games have been made playable on Archive.org. MS-DOS games have been added as playable in a browser since 2015 thanks to the Internet Archive, and it has announced that... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 02, 2018

Microsoft's MS-DOS Goes Open Source Three Decades After Release, Heads To GitHub

At the risk of dating myself, I cut my teeth on MS-DOS (after moving on from the Commodore 64, that is), the command-line interface operating system that predated Windows. MS-DOS first arrived in the early 1980s, nearly four decades ago, with the most recent (and final) version hitting the scene 18 years ago. For... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Thu, Jan 08, 2015

Internet Archive Resurrects Over 2300 Classic MS-DOS Games For Your Enjoyment

Ahhh, the 90s! Jean shorts, Big Johnson t-shirts, fanny packs, and of course, MS-DOS gaming. I can remember spending hours playing games like Crusader: No Remorse, Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D, Road and Track Presents: Need for Speed, and yes even the original Worms (usually in my high school drafting class when I... Read more...