DOS Games Discussion

Software 2000
o Swing: swing.exe, swingmov.exe

Here's a snapshot of the game download pages of the French shareware publisher TLK Games:
http://www.tlk.fr/jeux.php

Many downloads seem intact, but most use a Win16 installer so you might need to use otvdm to run them.

I just came across a freeware German game called Twinland by browsing this website. I haven't figured out how exactly it plays, but from the manual, it looks like the goal is to unite two separately controlled characters, but before that you need to find character-specific items.

The same source provided links to a neat German shareware developer with two nice looking games:
Baller! And Forget
Space Destruction

Adventure

• Twinland

Arcade

• Biprolex+
• Cosmic Ambush
• Greedy
• Pebbles
• Tecnoball Z

Fighting

• Fostiator

First-Person Shooter

• Absence
• Freaks
• Lord of Lightning [download]
• The Orb of Dilaaria
• Resistance

Platform

• Akiko and Minami
• Bert the Barbarian
• Indian Commander in Robot Confrontation

Puzzle

• Blupimania
• Bref 2.0
• Bubble Puzzle
• The Continued Adventures of Cyberbox
• Flynn Sprint

Racing

• Maximum Overdrive
• Overheat
• Topspeed 300

Real-Time Strategy

• Future Conflict [download]

Role-Playing

• Aleshar: The World of Ice
• Gene Splicing
• Gladius

Shooter

• Alien Assault II
• Baller! And Forget
• Frenetic Plus

Simulation

• Combat Flight Simulator [v0.2]
• Eagles
• FGFly [v.01c]
• Space Glider
• Vertigo

Turn-Based Strategy

• Ata - Extracts from the American Civil War [v1.00] [patch to v.15]

Prototype / incomplete

• Acrophy [RTS]
• Valkin II [RPG]
• Fenix Blade [RPG]

A demo of an obscure wargame called Dragons in the Mist is available here:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990218035 ... dragon.htm

Page with links to free or shareware DOS chess games:
http://webhome.globalserve.net/chess/chesprgs.htm

Nice collection of QBasic games:
http://games.qbasic.com/

Here's a nice listing of downloadable games from the 90s:
http://www.pcgame.com/demoland/dla.htm

Thanks to the updated Hallfiry's catalogue, I was able to track down the original Italian demo of Screamer Rally and the newer English version as well:
The Games Machine CD-ROM 34 - contains the Italian demo w/ installer
(Czech) Level 35 (1997-12) CD - contains srdemo.zip (installed English demo)

.HHC. ~Software~/Random '64 downloads
Carl Erikson's games

Also here's a list of free games that might come in useful (Wayback Machine).

More sites with free games via the Wayback Machine:
InterAction Studios
Nephewsoft
Fractile Games
New Games for DOS
Radian Entertainment
Binary Spells

No Future? -- German environmentalist edutainment/awareness campaign game (MobyGames page)
Manick Manschion -- a German "parody" of the LucasArts classic adventure
Hero -- adventure game
BRICKS -- puzzle game(s)
Laser Tank -- another puzzle game

A selection of modern DOS games made for a competition:
https://www.high-voltage.cz/2017/soutez ... 17-anketa/

A few more modern DOS titles at itch.io (part of DOS Game Jam):
https://itch.io/c/443894/modern-dos-games

A couple more small DOS games:
https://wej.k.vu/games/dos-games/

Haven't checked them out yet but these racing games seem nice (found at Reloaded.org):
Victory Road
Road Fighter Remake

A few more findings, these are for DOS:
Jumpball
Final Soccer Challenge
WackyBrit Pong
Top Hat Willy
Raymond Fait Du Kart

Here are the original downloads of liberated games by the Polish developer L.K. Avalon:
http://www.lkavalon.info/lka/index.php3?dzial=dow
http://lkavalon.com:80/download.html

Alternate downloads (also Wayback Machine):
Sfinx
Soltys
Skaut Kwatermaster

Here's another batch of completely random finds, resulting from chaotic dips into the Wayback Machine.

• BlockOut OpenGL & WinBlock -- two BlockOut clones/remakes
• Deluxe Snake -- very neat Nibbles variant made with Allegro
• Halflight -- good quality vertical-scrolling shmup made with Allegro
• CRTetris -- Tetris variant with an option to create your own themes (Allegro)
• Rally Cross -- freeware top-down racing
• Maruni Land -- some kind of platform game
• AtroriX -- breakout clone
• Airpro -- airline management simulation (text only)

Nice find on that Shareware 2000 CD set. If you look up "Shovelware Diggers" on Youtube, Kris Asick (aka Ancient Dos Games or Pixelmusement) has a 300 (!) video series on many of those 2000 games, including the Windows ones. Great if you're randomly searching for something fun and want a sneak preview.

EDIT: Sorry, I assumed "Software 2000" referred to this. But I may as well post the link in case it hasn't been mentioned yet: https://archive.org/details/SoftkeyShareware2000games

butterburp1 wrote: ↑ EDIT: Sorry, I assumed "Software 2000" referred to this. But I may as well post the link in case it hasn't been mentioned yet: https://archive.org/details/SoftkeyShareware2000games

Yes, that's quite alright to post this here (although indeed the Software 2000 that I mentioned was a German developer/publisher).

There are indeed quite a few shovelware CDs available from archive.org. I've found some interesting stuff on these:
https://archive.org/details/pegasusgames
https://archive.org/details/cdrom-205games-3-95
https://archive.org/search?query=creato ... +CD-ROM%22