Bringing the classics back on stream

David Crookes looks at the Internet Archive’s ongoing effort to preserve thousands of DOS games and make them easily available to all

When it comes to nostalgia, there’s a special place in every retro gamer’s heart for that low-res C:\> prompt. It would represent the starting point for an exciting journey into a digital world, and there were certainly many titles to enjoy during the 1980s and 1990s. Most tastes were catered for, from interactive fiction and real-time strategy to point-and-click quests and first person 3D shooters, as genres were formed and techniques refined. Past names trip off the tongue: The Secret of Monkey Island, Prince of Persia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Doom and Sim City to name but five – all from an era of playing alone in a bedroom, long before online gaming became the standard. Head to the Internet Archive’s library of DOS games (pcpro.link/316dos) and you’ll find more than 7,000 of…

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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2021

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