Share this story In 2013, the Internet Archive kicked off for free play via your Web browser, and after, the site's Software Library exploded over the final week of 2014 with its biggest update yet: 2,334 MS-DOS games, all playable through a standard browser. 'Some of [the games] will still fall over and die,' longtime IA curator Jason Scott when announcing the new game selection on Monday, but our cursory tests have shown off remarkably functional MS-DOS games in our web browser; they all run via the Em-DOSBOX emulator, an offshoot of the same emulator that powers many antiques sold at archival games sites like GOG.com. Keep that mute button handy, as we encountered some awful sound emulation quirks in classics like Jazz Jackrabbit, but thankfully, the games' speed and functionality remained intact. Scott also took the opportunity to ask gamers to try out the Internet Archive's brand-new beta design, complete with screenshots for every entry and an endless-scroll feature; click to give the beta a shot. You'll want the improved design while sifting, because the selection, quite frankly, is insane. Have an urge to find Carmen Sandiego? Now you can across the USA, the world, Europe, space, or even time. ![]() Sure, your SLI-equipped rig can do gajillions of polygons running that first person shooter at 500 frames per second, and at high-def resolutions at that. Jan 07, 2015 You no longer need a floppy disk drive to play old school computer games. Nearly 2,400 MS-DOS games are now available online thanks to Internet Archive. Internet Archive unveiled its collection of more than 2,300 games. The best part? You can play classic DOS games in your browser for free. Jan 05, 2015 The Internet Archive is turning into one hell of a games repository. After adding early console emulation back in 2013, then adding 900 arcade games to the. Got pinball on your mind? Welcome back to EA's incredible classic, the. Curious about the French version of the really awful Smurfs game?. Really, you could lose hours to nothing other than the MS-DOS subgenre of erotic adventures, including the hilariously titled. (Which makes us wonder, where the hell is the original?!) We were curious how long some of these titles will remain available, including DOS ports of famed series such as Street Fighter II, Donkey Kong, and Pac-Man. As we were preparing this report, in fact, the number of playable games dipped from an original count of over 2,370. In, reporter Alex Navarro pointed to, which has been applied to much of this hosted software—even if it represents playable games that are still on sale—due to that specific code's rarity and need for preservation. Thus, we figure games have mostly been removed for not meeting the standards Scott established for the playable collection, a fact he hinted at in the aforementioned blog post. Latest Ars Video. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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