{"id":1206623,"date":"2023-11-27T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206623"},"modified":"2023-11-27T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:50:13","slug":"dos_deck-offers-free-all-timer-dos-games-in-a-browser-with-controller-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206623","title":{"rendered":"DOS_deck offers free, all-timer DOS games in a browser, with controller support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> DOS_deck is an impressive technical feat, sure. But it’s also a very keen curation of some DOS shareware classics (pun somewhat intended). (credit: DOS_deck\/Martin Kool)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Revisiting a classic game from the AUTOEXEC.BAT\/CONFIG.SYS era of MS-DOS can be a fun distraction. But the more friction and configuration between you and a playable game, the more likely you are to fall off before you ever hit the menu screen. You spend enough time fine-tuning your modern systems; doing so within an arcane framework, for a single game, is not everybody’s idea of fun.<\/p>\n

DOS_deck<\/a> seems to get this, providing the most frictionless path to playing classic DOS shareware and abandonware, like Doom<\/em>, Jazz Jackrabbit<\/em>, Command & Conquer<\/em>, and Syndicate<\/em>, with reconfigured controller support and a simplified interface benevolently looted from the Steam Deck. You can play it in a browser, right now, the one you’re using to read this post.<\/p>\n

In fact, I stopped between that last sentence and this one to play a couple levels of Doom<\/em> in a Chrome browser. And now I’ve taken another punctuation break to play the first level of Syndicate<\/em>, which moves much faster than I remember. The control schemes are clever, the interface is easy to get used to and move around, and there’s a host of little extras to appreciate, including constant game progress (game state) saving, and linking and setting certain games as favorites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Enlarge \/ DOS_deck is an impressive technical feat, sure. But it’s also a very keen curation of some DOS shareware classics (pun somewhat intended). (credit: DOS_deck\/Martin Kool) Revisiting a classic game from the AUTOEXEC.BAT\/CONFIG.SYS era of MS-DOS can be a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1206623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}