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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 5:24:14 PM No.11817009
Msdos
Msdos
md5: dc8386225fecc05d24e6501152f5bc80🔍
I want to download every single MSDOS game ever in a single go, not having to go one by one.
Does such a collection even exist somewhere? I didnt find anything good on archive dot org
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 5:29:05 PM No.11817017
>>11817009 (OP)
No, as not every game ever made for DOS has been archived (nor will they ever be). Nothing quite like computer software sets to kill your digital hoarding habits.

You can settle for eXoDOS though.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 5:31:40 PM No.11817021
>>11817017
Oh, I thought some autist somewhere might had taken on the ordeal.
>eXoDOS
Looks cool, Ill get into that
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 5:33:01 PM No.11817026
There's the Total DOS Collection that attempts to find and provide install disks for everything and every single revision of it. The goal is to try and be the no-intro/redump of DOS games. I dunno what version it's up to these days, but V18 is the most recent one to be easily and publicly available, it's on internet archive.
eXoDOS attempts to make every single DOS game playable in DOSbox, and includes config files for DOSbox for use with the games. The goal is to make DOS games easy to play. It's currently up to version 6.04, and you can grab torrents for it off it's official website.
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 5:42:40 PM No.11817038
>>11817009 (OP)
>>11817021
there is no official list because it's an open platform, unlike consoles

i have DOS games you never will
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Anonymous
6/22/2025, 11:04:10 PM No.11817681
>>11817038
>i have DOS games you never will
Like what
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 12:00:40 AM No.11817770
>eXoDOS
Damn this thing is awesome, how did I not know about it already.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 2:25:31 AM No.11818096
>>11817681
Like some shareware version of slot machines, or solitaire, or maybe if we are really lucky it will be a clone of the old Star Trek game programmed by some 16 year old in his bedroom!
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:47:41 AM No.11820732
>>11817770
Wait until you realize eXo aka the guy behind it also did a full set for Windows 3.1 and the Apple II.

Dude is a national treasure.

Not necessarily related but I'll throw these out there too in case you like old school computers and just general "Gimme everything there is" packs:
- Amiga Game Selector
- Amigavision
- C64 Dreams
- TOSEC, for all other computers
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:20:01 AM No.11821204
DOSBox-X or Staging?
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 9:40:57 AM No.11821227
>>11817026
>The goal is to try and be the no-intro/redump of DOS games
That's just straight up impossible. Windows 95 writes some shit to every single floppy you insert into your computer, which means that a significant amount of floppy-based games out there have been contaminated by it.
A lot of game installers themselves also write on the floppies, and so do many ancient antivirus packages.
So the best you can have is the files themselves and hope they've not been modified but there's no way to actually tell if that's the case.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:07:43 PM No.11821603
So while we are at it, is there an update to the 4chan vr dospack?
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 4:23:53 PM No.11821625
>>11817026
the latest release, TDC 22 is on rutracker
https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6400135
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:50:10 PM No.11821759
>>11817026
TDC doesn't provide disk images, only collects the pre-installed files, or in some cases the installer files as an option. It's still the biggest collection out there.

There are efforts to collect floppy images but they aren't as complete (TOSEC, Good Ol Days, Digitoxin)
For CD games, Redump is good.

>>11821227
This is the sad truth, these guys have no choice but to try and clean up the files themselves, though they also try to find untouched floppies if it can be helped (i.e. if a game came in 3 inch and 5 inch versions, one of them is likely to be untouched)
I've heard legends of the original version of Wizardry (for the Apple II) contained some once-per-floppy events, so that's the sort of stuff they're dealing with.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:53:56 PM No.11821773
>>11817017
eXoDOS uses some own weird custom format, so you can't just use your own dosbox install with it.
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 5:54:22 PM No.11821775
>>11821759
>TDC doesn't provide disk images, only collects the pre-installed files, or in some cases the installer files as an option
I am a huge faggot cause apparently they do have floppy images as well, looking at the torrent above my post. Good stuff.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 6:24:21 PM No.11821868
>>11821773
You can just grab the actual games files that are included in it. Maybe even check their differential config file if the game is particularly uppity.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:14:25 PM No.11822663
>>11821773
>so you can't just use your own dosbox install with it.
I did, I just extracted the exodos games into my drive and off I went.
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:22:28 PM No.11822692
>>11817009 (OP)

I would like to download a torrent of all porn from 1995 to 2005. Does such a collection exist and where can I find it
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Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:25:44 PM No.11822697
>>11822692
Well I hear anything is possible at zombo.com
Anonymous
6/24/2025, 11:50:06 PM No.11822759
tomoko
tomoko
md5: 57cdff0ece42bd819d33b4925217483f🔍
DOS-ROMs, you say?
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:00:38 AM No.11822803
There is nothing worth playing that runs on DOS.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:18:08 AM No.11822865
>>11822803
C&C
Carmageddon
Quake
Doom
Dave
6/25/2025, 12:20:44 AM No.11822874
>>11822803
>There is nothing worth playing that runs on DOS.

Shame on you.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 12:22:11 AM No.11822883
>>11822803
Apogee's platformers are mostly solid and are admirable alternatives to 8 and 16-bit console platformers given the inherent limitations of DOS for the genre. Monster Bash is particularly good. I also really like the first episode of Crystal Caves (the other two are very phoned in) and the Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure series (which along with Monster Bash has some very cool sprite art). The original 2D Duke Nukem games are neat too.
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Anonymous
6/25/2025, 6:40:37 AM No.11823779
>>11821603
I'm actually kind of working on another one, but it's not quite the same. While the existing pack gets points for being dead simple to use (just double click, choose a game, and it works), it's also rather inflexible. For one, it gets rid of Setup executables, so if you wanna make configuration changes on some games, you're kinda out of luck unless you know exactly how to work with each game's config file. The startup menu also depends entirely on DOSBox commands, so you can't load it on actual DOS on a PCem machine or whatever. My pack will be agnostic to all that, and should work on anything. For its menu system, it will use LaunchBox for MS-DOS, which will still make it pretty easy to load games, while also allowing you to use it on both DOSBox and PCem forks.
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 6:43:08 AM No.11823784
>>11822874
>>11822883
>taking the blatantly obvious bait
Anonymous
6/25/2025, 2:32:48 PM No.11824320
>>11817026
Yes I was slightly annoyed at spending the time and hard drive space to download exodos and finding a lot of the games don't have all the files. Every single dos game upto about 1989 fits in something like 4gb so I tried to write to a bootable sd card but writing that many files to a fat 12 files system just damaged the card permanently, too many writes to be the fat table I guess being less efficient than later systems. I did it again but only to 1gb and it was fine and runs great on real hardware.
Not to be ungrateful, it is still super cool being able to get all that stuff at once as well as the magazines and advertisements and there are a lot of cool almost hidden gems from the early 80's, even those early basic games can be fun.