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Welcome to the GGA Project! Our aim is to preserve, document and make available original, unchanged versions of PC compatible computer games for the MS-DOS operating system.
For information on how to run these original games, please visit Support which describes how to run the programs on old and new computers.
Name | 0-9 - ABC - DEF - GHI - JKL - MNO - PQRS - TUV - WXYZ |
Genre | Action - Arcade - Platformer - Racing - Simulation - Sports |
Release year | 1984 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 |
Recommended processor | Intel 80186 and earlier - 286 - 386 - 486 - Pentium or compatible |
Graphics mode supported | Text-mode graphics Hercules or monochrome CGA (Color Graphics Adapter) EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adapter) VGA (Video Graphics Array) Super VGA |
Other Categories | Developers - Publishers |
If you want to play these games on your old PC, you will need the following:
New computers don't come with disk drives. This is a pity, but you could consider buying one off eBay. They are pretty cheap.
You should have booted up your old computer, and see the
C:\>
-prompt. If you do not see this prompt, you may be running Windows. You must shut down Windows to enter pure MS-DOS. If you are running Windows 3.x, just close the Program Manager. If you are running Windows 95 or 98, click on Start –> Shut Down –> Restart in MS-DOS mode
In this example we have downloaded Duke Nukem in a compressed archive (ZIP file format) copied it to a floppy disk. Now we are about to install it on the computer. To copy the file form the diskette onto your hard-drive:
First make a directory for the game:
C:\>md duke C:\>cd duke C:\DUKE>
Now copy the file to C:
C:\DUKE>copy a:\1duke.zip c: 1 file(s) copied
We will now proceed to unzip the archive
C:\DUKE>pkunzip 1duke.zip
After the process is done, you can see what the directory contains by typing:
C:\DUKE>dir
If you want to only see the files you can run, type:
C:\DUKE>dir *.exe Volume in drive C is MS-DOS_6 Volume Serial Number is 4647-9F76 Directory of C:\DUKE DN1 EXE 54,688 11-01-91 2:00p 4 file(s)123 54,688 bytes 6,856,704 bytes free C:\DUKE>
We can see here, that the only program that can be run DN1.
Type
DN1
to start the game!