Abandonware DOS retro gaming news

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who donated a few bucks to help me keep working on Abandonware DOS. THANK YOU, THANK YOU and again THANK YOU! 2020 will go down in history as the COVID year. I live in northern Italy, in one of the first regions ...

After a quite a few years, Abandonware DOS reached the 2000 games (and applications) milestone. I personally played each game to ensure it worked, took screenshots, wrote info and added everything to the Abandonware DOS database. The trick was to come up with a method to do this in the least ...

As you probably know, Abandonware DOS is run by one person only: here I am. I'm Italian and - lucky me! - I live in Lombardy, the Italian region where the Coronavirus is most present: almost 15000 cases so far, and rising.It's like living under curfew. I can go out ...

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who donated a few bucks to help me keep working on Abandonware DOS. THANK YOU, THANK YOU and again THANK YOU! In 2019 I changed the way that I usually add content on Abandonware DOS. This means that it takes me less ...

The night between the 30th and 31st of May (22:00 to 06:00 CEST) the service that hosts all the games on Abandonware DOS is going down for maintenance. The whole site, hosted elsewhere, will be still up and running but downloading games will be difficult or impossible.

Abandonware DOS already has a "most voted games" page and a lot of other "best games" pages. What was missing was a "most downloaded list". The page title is self explanatory: there are the games that users of Abandonware DOS downloaded the most in a year or so. Keep in ...

Another year has passed and Abandonware DOS is still here. In 2017 I mainly focused on fixing bugs, enriching features already implemented and uploading lots of games. I devised an optimal method to speed up the process of adding new (old!) games that means more games for you and less time ...

Year after year, Abandonware DOS grows, changes, becomes better and better. Lately I fixed a lot of bugs and tweaked a few "invisible" parts of html and php code. I also changed how some pages appear to the public, in order to make Abandonware DOS easier to navigate. Here are ...

Abandonware DOS is an Abandonware database website designed with the user in mind. I was inspired by sites like IMDB or Mobygames; I wanted to give you a simple interface to browse "vintage" video games and find those old gems of computer entertainment that you used to play many years ...

It depends on the game. Some games can run without problems on modern Windows systems without problems, while other games need more attention.A lot of Windows games won't run on Windows 7, 8, or even Vista. What can you do? Well, if the game is available on GOG.com, you can ...

Another year has passed and Abandonware DOS is still here. So, what's new? I worked behind the curtains and fixed a lot of crappy code. I dropped a font used to write the site name and replaced it with a jpg; the result is an increase in speed load of ...

Abandonware DOS, like a plethora of other sites, has a Facebook Page. All the news published on the Abandonware DOS are automatically published on Facebook. At the time of writing https://www.facebook.com/abandonwaredos has only 229 likes. Not much, but, with your help, that number can grow.

As you probably already noticed, Abandonware DOS wears a new dress. This brand new website comes with many advantages: - it's responsive: it will gracefully adapt to any device, cellphone, tablet, desktop pc - it's faster and better: new php code, better security, things a web developer will notice - ...

Being the only one to keep AbandonwareDOS updated is not an easy task. I have many ideas but lack the time to put them into practice. Recently I managed to add new features such as:a list of important video games awardsgames that can be played online directly in your ...