We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. If you have fond memories of playing games in DOS, there's a good chance you can find some of them available to play in your web browser today. The Internet Archive just added 2,500 playable DOS games to its library. The Archive first introduced DOS games back in 2015, but only a trickle of new titles have been added since then. The announcement this week easily counts as the biggest update yet and ranges from lots of old classics to very recent independently produced titles. As Internet Archive curator Jason Scott explains in a blog post, not all the DOS games available are good, and not all of them will run especially well. Their availability also belies the work required to get the games functioning as some were created for "very specific hardware and a very specific setup." Scott is keen to point out we can only play them today because of the hard work carried out by the eXoDOS project. As the eXoDOS website explains, "eXoDOS is an attempt to catalog, obtain, and make playable every game developed for the DOS and PC Booter platform. Striving to find original media rather than using scene rips." So far the project has recovered 7,000 games (a high percentage of all commercial releases), all of which are made playable using a combination of Dosbox and ScummVM. Scott also points to games shipped on CD-ROM as being quite problematic when it comes to playing them in a browser. CD-ROMs allowed for full motion video and CD audio tracks to be included, both of which mean big file sizes. If a DOS game used several hundred megabytes of CD space, it's going to take a while for your browser to load the emulated version to play. Even with a very fast internet connection, you should expect a long wait as the assets download for some of the more media-rich games. It's possible to view all the available DOS games, of which there's now 2,574, on the Internet Archive. Click any you want to play and have it load either in seconds or minutes depending on the title. Just be aware not all of them have manuals available to read. Let's hope the games that require you to find and enter words from a specific page in their manual do have them available, though.
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We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. If you have fond memories of playing games in DOS, there's a good chance you can find some of them available to play in your web browser today. The Internet Archive just added 2,500 playable DOS games to its library. The Archive first introduced DOS games back in 2015, but only a trickle of new titles have been added since then. The announcement this week easily counts as the biggest update yet and ranges from lots of old classics to very recent independently produced titles. As Internet Archive curator Jason Scott explains in a blog post, not all the DOS games available are good, and not all of them will run especially well. Their availability also belies the work required to get the games functioning as some were created for "very specific hardware and a very specific setup." Scott is keen to point out we can only play them today because of the hard work carried out by the eXoDOS project. As the eXoDOS website explains, "eXoDOS is an attempt to catalog, obtain, and make playable every game developed for the DOS and PC Booter platform. Striving to find original media rather than using scene rips." So far the project has recovered 7,000 games (a high percentage of all commercial releases), all of which are made playable using a combination of Dosbox and ScummVM. Scott also points to games shipped on CD-ROM as being quite problematic when it comes to playing them in a browser. CD-ROMs allowed for full motion video and CD audio tracks to be included, both of which mean big file sizes. If a DOS game used several hundred megabytes of CD space, it's going to take a while for your browser to load the emulated version to play. Even with a very fast internet connection, you should expect a long wait as the assets download for some of the more media-rich games. It's possible to view all the available DOS games, of which there's now 2,574, on the Internet Archive. Click any you want to play and have it load either in seconds or minutes depending on the title. Just be aware not all of them have manuals available to read. Let's hope the games that require you to find and enter words from a specific page in their manual do have them available, though.