You can enter any code you want and it will let you fly, but unless the DRM has been removed (and I've seen no reference to that being the case) you'll run into trouble down the road. Furthermore, once you've overcome that hurdle, it will ask you for a launch code before you undock your ship, which is actually the game's copy protection in action. "But on the whole, you will experience some analogue of the MS-DOS program, in your browser, instantly."Ĭase in point: My beloved Starflight offers five different graphics settings (none of which you've likely ever heard of), but the only one that works-or at least, the only one that works for me-is EGA. Describes the implementation and shows some screenshots as well as online-versions of the emulator running FreeDOS and GNU/Linux. "Some of them will still fall over and die, and many of them might be weird to play in a browser window, and of course you can’t really save things off for later, and that will limit things too," he wrote. This link was provided to me by a senior MetaFilter official who asked to remain anonymous. 2,400 MS-DOS games playable in-browser, courtesy of the Internet Archive. The gigantic collection of oldies comes to us courtesy of the Internet Archive, along with a warning from curator Jason Scott that it may at times be a bumpy ride. Browser-emulated MS-DOS gamesJanu12:53 PM Subscribe.
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