DOS Games Discussion

abyss · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: cga/mga 286

What will run on a 286 computer with mga/cga graphics i am looking for some free legal games that will work on a 286 with mga/cga grphics.

emmzee · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject:

Here's an old thread 'bout it:

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/about1801.html

abyss · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject:

The thread did not help me much as only about 8 games were listed as games to get.The cga machine can play cga and mga games.

2LT Worm · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject:

Say, how 'bout you use Google?

emmzee · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:41 pm Post subject:

Or you could browse through MobyGames.com's list of DOS games. Since you can browse by year, you can be pretty sure that anything, say, 1987 or older will be CGA/MGA. You can usually verify that by looking at the screenshots for the game.

http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/dos/

dosraider · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject:

Here ya go, don't think you will find that ol'archived gameslibrary for 286 PCs.
ftp://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/pc/

It's a very long list, you will be busy for some time. Happy