Guide:Internet Archive

The Internet Archive collects together all sorts of media (websites, books, games, music etc.), and, in the case of games, even allows for them to be played online via emulation.

So if you've made a game in a DOS or Windows (or System 7?) tool you can still make them accessible to others! Things don't a;ways run perfectly, but it's a nice alternative for people who won't otherwise go to the trouble of setting up emulators.

Guide

To get a game up you simple add it to a .ZIP archive and upload that. Then you tell Internet Archive to use its emulator via adding custom metadata tags (like you woud use to add keywords).

For MS-DOS

Tag	Value
emulator	dosbox
emulator_start	[game's filename inside archive].exe
emulator_ext	zip

For MS-Windows 3.x

The Windows 3.1 emulator runs from DOSBox, so the fields are the same, with one addition

Tag	Value
dosbox_drive_d	emularity_win31/win31.zip
emulator	dosbox
emulator_start	[game's filename inside archive].exe
emulator_ext	zip

See Also

• Making Software Emulate on IA on the Digitiize wiki - a perhaps more detailed tutorial.