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MS-DOS Open Source Games

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Whether you classify MS-DOS as retro or not, probably depends a lot on your own production and release date. However, we don't want to discriminate here, and rather draw attention to the achievement behind the following:

Open source MS-DOS Games

Open source was hardly a topic at the time when MS-DOS was the biggest kid on the block. So it is all the more pleasing that today quite a lot of games and other software are openly and freely available. 

A user named hellricer has taken a closer look at some of them, built the games from the sources and made them work on a modern machine.

A nice summary, and a classic reunion with Turbo Pascal Pro ... yeah! 

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