Old PC Games for free !

Emp_Fab

A bit of nostalgia for anyone who used to play games on the PC (in the 80's & 90's etc).

http://www.myabandonware.com/

All free now....  Wolfenstein, Doom, Sid Meier's Civilisation, The Incredible Machine, Lemmings, etc etc....  4000 titles.

stickyfiddle

Lemmings is still basically the best PC game ever. Apart from Theme Hospital and Age of Empires, obviously.

TTony

Have you seen some of the sizes of those games ... 250kb, 400kb ... those were the days when programmers were efficient!!

chillidoggy

I used to crap my pants playing 'Doom'! Nice find, now I can crap them all over again!

viz

TTony said:

Have you seen some of the sizes of those games ... 250kb, 400kb ... those were the days when programmers were efficient!!

Out of interest, what's the size of gta5 etc nowadays?

Emp_Fab

TTony said:

Have you seen some of the sizes of those games ... 250kb, 400kb ... those were the days when programmers were efficient!!

I take it you know about the 4k Demo / Intro contests ?

Check these out....  all done in no more than 4Kb - yes, that's 4096 BYTES !!  (Here's one, Google for many more !)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB0vBmiTr6o&list=PLA5E2FF8E143DA58C

fretmeister

I've been playing theme hospital again for a couple of months. It's still brilliant!

Myranda

Always remember with abandonware websites - you are committing piracy, so advertising them on public forums *could* be seen as naughty.

Emp_Fab

viz said:

TTony said:

Have you seen some of the sizes of those games ... 250kb, 400kb ... those were the days when programmers were efficient!!

Out of interest, what's the size of gta5 etc nowadays?

Apparently it's roughly 16GB over two discs.

Emp_Fab

Myranda said:

Always remember with abandonware websites - you are committing piracy, so advertising them on public forums *could* be seen as naughty.

Eh ?  I thought it meant the companies had relinquished the licences or something ?  Have I got that wrong then ?

Myranda

Emp_Fab said:

Myranda said:

Always remember with abandonware websites - you are committing piracy, so advertising them on public forums *could* be seen as naughty.

Eh ?  I thought it meant the companies had relinquished the licences or something ?  Have I got that wrong then ?

You have

It's still in copyright, but the games are old enough for the most part that publishers are unlikely to care enough to try and get you prosecuted.

Now the caveat here would be any publisher re-releasing a game on some nostalgia collection WILL care if the £30 selection of retro games they just released is freely available on a website and peeps keep downloading them.

TTony

I'd been looking for this, on-and-off, for ages!!

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-sentry-109

Myranda

I had it on the Amiga - it crashed 30s into the game every time... which after the loading time made it not worth playing.

Might not have been a wholely ligit copy so no tech support

guitargeek62

This is the part of being a Mac user that I hate most

holnrew

Oooh, Sim City 2000, Settlers 2, Simon the Sorcerer!

Myranda

guitargeek62 said:

This is the part of being a Mac user that I hate most

But macs are x86 machines now, so should be able to run some form of dosbox that can run these old titles shouldn't they?