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| Thread ID: 58975 | 2005-06-17 22:58:00 | Where to find favourite old Games like Frogger.. | John W (523) | Press F1 |
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| 364780 | 2005-06-17 22:58:00 | Hi there. Im building up a PC for a retired fellow, (his 1st ever PC) wants it for email, Word etc.. thought Id give him a few games as well, like Scrabble Logger/Frogger Patience Gobman/Pacman Snakes But for the life of me I cant locate these Online. Surely ther must be a site with this stuff. Looked over the MSoft site for Window Bonus Pack (that contained this stuff years ago), cant find it either. So, if you know where this stuff reside, can you please send me a link, or send it direct to me jhw @ xtra co nz Thanks from both of us. I will keep these games on a CD for future reference. |
John W (523) | ||
| 364781 | 2005-06-17 23:31:00 | try this site. www.freeoldies.com hth |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 364782 | 2005-06-17 23:35:00 | Patience (solitaire) has been included as part of Windows since Windows 3.1 Frogger - well, Google gives 744,000 hits. If you can't find what you want in the first 10 or so, it would be surprising. Same for the rest. But without knowing what operating system you are installing, the ability of the DOS based games to run is unknown. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 364783 | 2005-06-18 01:58:00 | You could do a search in Google for Mame too. Can't specify here... | pctek (84) | ||
| 364784 | 2005-06-18 05:28:00 | if those games are DOS then try www.dosgamesarchive.com and such, or look on the internet for 'abandonware'. DC++ would probably be a good source too |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 364785 | 2005-06-18 05:51:00 | Try TUCOWS (www.tucows.com) in particular Frogger (www.tucows.com) |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 364786 | 2005-06-19 02:27:00 | Are these games only Dos based? can you get any versions of these to play on XP??? I had been down that road before, and got things downloaded and worked out XP wont play them....:( i would like to get them for kidlets ...of course...:p beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 364787 | 2005-06-19 02:37:00 | In my experience most DOS programs/games will run fine on XP with the major conflict usually something to do with sound. Forcing the game with a command line switch to run on the PC speaker or disabling sounds altogether can sometimes get games to run that would otherwise crash. dosgamesarchive.com and a couple of others have information about each game they have and let you know what you will have to do to make it run on XP if there's anything extra needed. Failing that get yourself a 386DX with MS-DOS 6 :D |
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