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Woot! Sid Meier's Colonization is there. Hands down one of the best games of all time. Wing Commander II collection, but no Privateer? That game is why Star Citizen even exists.
Privateer was amazing too.
I wonder if something like this will ever happen to xbox 360, ps4, etc games. Or if they'll be long unplayable either technically or legally.
It will take a lot of effort to reverse-engineer and then emulate whatever backend these consoles have. 90's games were simple, very simple.
I wonder if something like this will ever happen to xbox 360, ps4, etc games. Or if they'll be long unplayable either technically or legally.
>Or if they'll be long unplayable either technically or legally. Technical isn't usually a problem, as cracks and emulators already exist. Legality is a problem in theory, but in practice it seems it is just ignored? Actually, what explanation does the Internet Archive have for any of this being legal?
Woot! Sid Meier's Colonization is there. Hands down one of the best games of all time. Wing Commander II collection, but no Privateer? That game is why Star Citizen even exists.
I strongly recommend Bandit Kings of Ancient China. It is a great game.
- Civilization (the original). I can literally remember waking up at noon and just starting to play the game and then looking up and it was dark outside;
- Zork
- Prince of Persia (the original); and
- ... Bandit Kings of Ancient China
I literally had 20+ hour playing sessions of BKoAC. Like I even played this multiplayer (hot chair). I can remember getting to the point where me and my friend had split the map pretty much and he decided to attack me. I basically held a defensive line along a river and used magic to break the offensive line. It was one of my earlier experience with tactics.
I have such fond memories of that game.
You could just grab an emulator and run the original and get everything for free.
Woot! Sid Meier's Colonization is there. Hands down one of the best games of all time. Wing Commander II collection, but no Privateer? That game is why Star Citizen even exists.
It was the best of the wing commander series by far.
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I saw the title and came here to post this. Here's the direct link[1]. I spent an absurd amount of time playing this game at my brother's house because he had a PC and my family had a Mac. Empire[2] was another one that got plenty of play. [1] https://archive.org/details/msdos_Bandit_Kings_of_Ancient_Ch... [2] https://archive.org/details/msdos_Empire_1985
Empire is written by our own Walter Bright, more famous these days for the D language. Small world.
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>Or if they'll be long unplayable either technically or legally. Technical isn't usually a problem, as cracks and emulators already exist. Legality is a problem in theory, but in practice it seems it is just ignored? Actually, what explanation does the Internet Archive have for any of this being legal?
Their DMCA exemption granted by the Copyright Office. https://archive.org/about/dmca.php
Copyright sucks, and I applaud them for what they are doing, but I don't see how any of this is legal.
Woot! Sid Meier's Colonization is there. Hands down one of the best games of all time. Wing Commander II collection, but no Privateer? That game is why Star Citizen even exists.