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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    You spend enough time fine-tuning your modern systems; doing so within an arcane framework, for a single game, is not everybody’s idea of fun.

    DOS_deck seems to get this, providing the most frictionless path to playing classic DOS shareware and abandonware, like Doom, Jazz Jackrabbit, Command & Conquer, and Syndicate, with reconfigured controller support and a simplified interface benevolently looted from the Steam Deck.

    Kool writes that more games are coming and lists some of them in rough order in a post on the project’s subreddit (I will be checking back in for Descent).

    I genuinely want this service to feel like a Netflix for DOS games, and offer only the best titles and a diverse selection of genres."

    There are purchase buttons for the games, but they’re more of a tribute or convenience, as they won’t unlock full versions in DOS_deck itself.

    Tom’s Hardware, where we first read about this site, suggests using Chromium, so as to save Chrome or Edge for other uses, including browsing.


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