There's no free lunch and all that jazz.īut, with very few exceptions, what I see is the same situation I went through when I downloaded games for free on abandonware sites, but now paying! DOS games are embedded together with DOSBox (an open source DOS emulator), not infrequently poorly configured. These days old games are no longer overlooked by many rights' holders, who through retrogamer culture see it's still possible to profit by selling them. Since I wasn't paying anything, it was fine if I couldn't get them to run properly - or at all. In the late 1990s and early 2000s it was common for me to go on abandonware sites, download old games (DOS and Windows) and try my luck attempting to make things work on my more modern PCs. Posts about 7th generation consoles, last generation's handhelds, or modern indie games in a retro style might best fit in one or more of the following subs: Have knowledge to share with the community?Ĭheck out the ConsoleMods Wiki! Resources
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