Easy Abandonware: How to revive them?

Have you tried a recent game online, lost in a fraction of second and thought you were happier in the 90’ soloing through Duke Nukem, Populous or Red Alert ?

Well don’t despair, most of these old titles are still available, even free… and some or them are still really good!

Download + Install time, less than 2 minutes!

Ready to use only, no time to waste!  

The main difficulty with old games is the compatibility with newer systems. Some of you have probably tried to install old games without success.

The big news here is prepackaged games for Windows XP and Windows7 that come directly with the emulator. 

Here are my 2 favorites links for that:

DJ Old Games The one we will use in this demo

Abandonware France for my fellow French speaking gamers

 

Need a quick guide?

1. Find the game of your childhood, check that it is available for PC (See red box), click on the name (See red box).

2. Click on download (See red box), then check that an install package .exe exists (See red box)

3. Final check that you have the good package and then lets go, download.

The rest is as easy, double click on the downloaded file and follow instructions !

Last words on install:
- Alt + Tab to go in full screen
- Keybord will probably be in QWERTYfor the game… you will be fine, just click around!

For those who want to go further and customize their install or want a really obscure game to run, try DosBox the most used emulator out there.

Let’s enjoy the goodness!

	Lemmings Are you clever and quick?		Dune 2 The Father of all RTS
	Populous Still simple and efficient		Wolfenstein Shoot'em all!

Is it really free and legal?

General answer is yes, but please use good judgment. If the game isn’t more than 10 years old, it probably shouldn’t be available for download. Here are some legal information from Wikipedia

"Abandonware is a product, typically a software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, and for which no product support is available. It is differentiated from a discontinued product because the manufacturer has not issued an official notice of discontinuance, instead, the manufacturer is simply ignoring the product."

For example no game from Lucasarts (Monkey Island, Star Wars: X-Wing) is in Abandonware. They still maintain their copyrights on them. Don’t be sad, there are litteraly thousand of other good titles out there.

Did you had success reviving an old game ? Please let me know!

EuroExark