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==See Also== | |||
* [http://digitize.archiveteam.org/index.php/Making_Software_Emulate_on_IA Making Software Emulate on IA] on the Digitiize wiki - a perhaps more detailed tutorial. | |||
Latest revision as of 20:18, 13 June 2021
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.
