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This community covers DOS gaming from all angles - reviews, tips and tricks, new releases, troubleshooting, organizing multiplayer events and, of course, good ole nostalgia posts.

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eXoDOS (www.retro-exo.com)

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From the site:

eXoDOS is an attempt to catalog, obtain, and make playable every game developed for the DOS and PC Booter platform. We strive to find original media rather than using scene rips or hacks. This collection uses DOSBox to allow these older games to play on modern systems. Games supported by ScummVM give the user a choice between emulators. All required emulators are included and have been setup to run all included titles with no prior knowledge or experience required on the users part.

This pack includes 7,200 DOS games. The focus is on games that were either released in English or are fairly easy to play without a knowledge of the native language. This is not every DOS game ever made, however it is a very high percentage of all commercial releases. There are thousands of freeware, homebrew, and shareware games that will continue to be added in future packs.

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[–] parricc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This description really only scratches the surface of eXoDOS. The frontend is configured with detailed descriptions, photographs, interactive code wheels, and more. The full version also includes vintage magazines, including interactive disk magazines. Numerous games also let you choose what sound and video cards you want to emulate, and there's multiplayer support over the Internet. Every game has been hand optimized over the past 15 years to ensure it has the best possible configuration. There truly is no better way to experience DOS games.

The next version will be pushing things even further. In addition to thousands of new games, it will feature video previews, soundtracks, books, magazines, numerous original commercials, video catalogs, and game trailers. There will also be numerous game mods and unofficial levels included for numerous games.

The lite version will also be truly small in the next version. So you will be able to play eXoDOS on laptops and computers with very limited storage space. You will be able to back up your saved games on uninstall.

As always, the collection will remain completely portable and make no changes to your registry or operating system. It is made to be as WYSIWYG as possible. In addition, in the next version, the eXoDOS setup has been optimized to be much faster.

There are also German, Polish, French, and Spanish language packs in the works.

I encourage anyone that's interested to stop by the Discord and say hi.