FunnyUsername,
@FunnyUsername@lemmy.world avatar

Haven’t dos games been emulated in browsers for…decades already?

DoucheBagMcSwag, (edited )

Inb4 ESA shuts this down unfortunately

Just looking at page 1 there’s a fuckton of programs that are still officially sold on steam and GOG

And these “LOOK AT THIS OVER HERE” articles like this are just provoking these copyright holders to act

Edit: some of these appear to be demos and the freeware versions. I wonder if we can “insert” our own “legally obtained” files?

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

Do they have licenses for any of this stuff? I mean, Id/Bethesda still sells Doom 1, you can’t really call these “abandonware” by the normal definition. They’re just “really old”.

bjoern_tantau,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Is it the full game or the shareware? In another post a few days ago they said it they were only offering shareware versions. Can’t check now, I’m on mobile.

YMS,
YMS avatar

Doom is just the shareware version, just like most of the others (some already called with that fancy modern name "demo"). Some are freeware, some have been released into public domain after they went out of sale.

steeznson,

dosdeck.com is a lovely website. Usually not too fussed by UX but this web app has an amazing frontend.

be_excellent_to_each_other,
be_excellent_to_each_other avatar

They have Heretic!!

Now if they can just get Rise of the Triad...

Num10ck,

i tried lemmings and it required a passkey for the demo to start.

ABCDE,

C&C worked for me. Great stuff, really, but with things like Krunker it’s not too surprising.

PlutoniumAcid,
@PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world avatar

C&C was just the demo level…

YMS,
YMS avatar

Of the current 16 games, 11 are shareware/demos. Only Beneath a Steel Sky, One Must Fall 2097, The Black Cauldron, The Lost Vikins and Supaplex are full versions (as those games have been released to public domain at one point).

YMS,
YMS avatar

It wants a code for level selection. You get the code for level 2 once you finish level 1, and so on. So just start with level 1 (F1).

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