Nice Abandonware Site

[lavayn]

For those of you who dont know. Abandonware is old PC games, DOS games, that the copywrite has expired on them. I really enjoyed this site when i was looking for an old game that i used to play as a kid, Dune 2 .

Abandonware games download - SquakeNet.Com

In order to play the games you are going to need an DOS emulator called dosbox.

DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS

Dosbox can be rather strange to use since it doesnt run like the command line. So heres a little tutorial on how to use it.

1. Download the game
2. Extract the game into a folder somewhere in your computer (when nameing the folders avoid spaces other wise it wont work)
3. Start up dosbox
4. type
mount <ANY LETTER FOR THE DRIVE> <THE PATH OF THE GAMES EXE>
(ex. mount a C:\dune2\)
5. type the drives lettter followed by a colon (ex. A: (it should say A:\> now)
6. now type the name of the game (ex. dune2)
7. now the game should run fine enjoy .

Note: if you dont want to type `mount a C:\dune2` every time go into dosbox.conf with notepad and scroll all the way down and you should see

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

under this type in what you want to mount just like you do in the program. Now when the program starts up it should already mount the game for you.

Another Note: If the game is slow and choppy (elder scroll arena is like this) press CTRL+F12 and it will speed up the emulation. To slow down press CTRL+F11.