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Ohio Joe

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Sun Oct 27, 2013, 01:43 PM Oct 2013

Historical Software Collection [View all]

I first saw this at Blues News:

http://www.bluesnews.com/

Which just has a link to a Slash Gear story:

The Internet Archive this weekend released a new addition to its growing collection of historical media, the Historical Software Collection. The collection lets you run old, outdated, and historically important software right inside the modern browser. This marks the first time a project of this kind has been taken on to such a large extent, and it is free to the public.

http://www.slashgear.com/internet-archives-new-historical-software-archive-lets-you-interact-with-software-as-it-was-26303183/

Which leads to the actual site itself:

https://archive.org/details/historicalsoftware

This place has a crap load of classic games for free that (in theory, I'm still browsing and have not downloaded any yet) will be playable! First one I saw was freakin Dungeon Keeper! Man, I loved that game Looks like there is tons of good stuff there though.

heh, this is awesome

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Historical Software Collection [View all] Ohio Joe Oct 2013 OP
Holy cow, there's 5060 pc games! independentpiney Oct 2013 #1
That should not be a big concern... Ohio Joe Oct 2013 #2
New addition - The Console Living Room Ohio Joe Dec 2013 #3
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