Yes you readed right

2296 dos games

where:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

example:

MS Space Simulator:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Microsoft_Space_Simulator_1994

(i would have liked to show a thumbnail to select some examples, but it seems not to work like i would like it,

"i really hate this damned machine

it never does what i want it

it only does what i tell it" 😉 )

all games can be played from within your browser,

no download

no installation

pure fun

but that isn't all

play various classic consoles

from the "Atari2600"

to "VTech sokrates"

https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom

Still not satisfied?

ok, you can play one from a quite good selection of "arcade machines", legally and best of all you won't need a single coin.

https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

Drawbacks?

DOS games might need a mapping of keystrokes to your joystick

but else they run very well

Consoles and Arcade games are "under construction"

sound leaks heavy and sometimes it stutters or the game will hang

but MESS and the archive do their best to fix that

MESS started it together with the Archive to get experiences with the "Java script MESS"

once that works fine it would mean you could play even here a little game directly in the browser.

For DOS games that works already fine.

hurray to the Internet Archive & MESS

And there is even more!

check it out yourself

https://archive.org/details/software

Since we are here on SSC two additional links of specific interest,

https://archive.org/details/nasa

https://archive.org/details/solarsystemcollection

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space war

read below

http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

Intellivision now intelligentvision, offers a handful of unreleased or unfinished games,

some of them are reviewed and finished and legal to download for a use in a emulator,

as well as some finalized games which would be also (*have been) avaible on a cartridge.

*have been, because the editions are small, maybe some 100, but come with nice made boxes and overlays,

real collector items.

http://www.intellivision.us/roms/roms.php

Latest releases on cartridges was (but not available for download, i understand this, you don't get rich with that, ROMs are expensive to produce)

"Ms. Pac-Man"

"Ms Nightstalker" ok, a female Nightstalker, why not?

"Spina the Bee" a previously unreleased game from Intellivision

a few interesting candidates

"Space C*nt"

a "AstroSmash" for adults, "programmers proof-of-concept" as they say,

it's besides of the "hmm?" (what the heck had he in mind) somewhat harder to play.

They say "finished", of course it's fully playable, but the images on the score table aren't the same as in the game,

but maybe that's just a trick to keep us playing, because everybody excepts "they might appear - maybe on a higher level?"

Uses Intellivoice, but only to spell the title, some crazy dude put a 10min clip on YT playing back only the title screen.

"AstroSmash Competition"

has a opening screen to enter a time limit for competitions.

"Space Shuttle"

i would say the very first Shuttle Simulator, unfinished while playable, uses Intellivoice to guide your mission,

imo it would have been the most senseful use of this hardware add-on.

"Donkey Kong 1 Arcade"

enhanced graphics and added the missing two levels, additionally you can select between "Mario" "Toni" & "Bruno", each one is different to play.

i guess "Toni" can climb ladders with the hammer and "Bruno" can jump with the Hammer, or something like that.

"Super Chef Burger Time"

nothing else as "Burger Time" with more levels.

"Robot Rubble"

finished, it turned out very well, i know the prototype and played this release, it's simple but not bad.

"Same Game & Robots"

"Same Game" is a puzzle game which is know also under a different name

"Robots" is a "Berzerk" clone with Intellivoice support.

"Space Patrol Teaser"

A PD game from "Joe Zbiciak", the teaser Edition has only two shortened levels.

alternativly you could get from his SDK-1600 site "Spice Patrol", exactly the same as the teaser version only with different graphics,

instead of the "moon mobile" you "drive" a pepper shaker (or whatever that should be) UFOs have been exchanged with pumpkins i.e.

But in anyway "Joe" deserves a little fee for his continous effort he made in programming Intellivision games,

fairly one can say without him this revival of the Intellivision would have never happened.

He wrote the "CP-1600 SDK" (a assembler software development kit) and the emulator JZINTV,

which is quite good and it's used in the "Ultimate Intellivision Console" based on a "raspberry PI".

It supports the original hardware add-ons, original controllers but as well USB joysticks/pads.

He's a real hardware->software crack, but a nice person with a good sense for humor.

(somehow he reminds me of TomM)

You can find him lurking around on AtariAge forums.

When i registered to AtariAge, i criticized a few things on JZINTV, i didn't expected he is present there,

but he didn't took that in wrong way and started to explain me all kinds of hardware related stuff.

FURTHER

only available in cartridge

"Christmas Carol vs. the Ghost of Christmas Presents" (LeftTurnOnly is a small team around JZ, i guess he founded it for the release of "Space Patrol")

it's a absolutely cute game, if i got my inty in my hands it will be the next i really buy for it, it's so sweet,

i only hope one is left for me, ordering can be diffucult for me because i own no credit card neither a bank account.

My choice:

"Tag-Along Todd"

A PD demo-game (from Joe), more a developers toy as a game, but playable, marked as "unfinished" but only because it's a developers toy.

Another programmer added Intellivoice support and a lowering fence to the game as well as a advance in hardness.

If you "won" a round the next round is one step harder, it starts at "3" and i have to say "6" is already difficult.

the object of the game is to clean your frontyard from some rubbish (cans) while "Todd" the annoying boy from next door

likes to force you to play with him a Intellivision game, it starts with "Let's play..." if he catches you "Let's play... Soccer" i.e.

The ideas he implemented made out of a pure demo to show how to program in assembler a persuer a playable funny little game.

It shows it doesn't needs much to make a game, just a few crazy ideas...

BUT CRAZY THEY HAVE TO BE!

The Intellivision fonts you find exclusively here:

http://www.angelfire.com/sc/pete2049/GSpot/Fonts.htm

But even "vectronic" is a "space-age" looking one, i always liked how it appeared in "VECTRON" one letter drawn after the other with a buzzing sound.

It's funny and i don't know what we thought, text will be displayed in this way in future?

"bss bss bss bss bss bss bss put"  clear screen - next "bss bss bss bss bss bss bss put" it would take days to draw a text in this way.

But it looks cool and sounds great.

A quite similar font is used as well in a old coin-op "Exidy - Star Fire" a good "StarWars X-Wing" clone, for it's time.

You can download this "arcade machine" for free and absulute legal use from the MAME project,

since some offered MAME a licence to distribute them for private non-commercial use as a reward for keeping it alive,

which is a fine act from my pov, let's hope more copyright holders will follow this example:

http://mamedev.org/roms/

who let the smoke out? In case you didn't know, all electronic devices operate using smoke. You can prove this quite simply - if you let the smoke out of any electronic device, there is an incredibly high likelihood that it will no longer work. If it does still work, then there is still enough smoke left in it for it to continue operating.