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7 March 2023

• Classic DOS Games has its 18th anniversary.

7 March 2022

• Classic DOS Games has its 17th anniversary.

16 March 2021

• Added 7 games: Beavis and Butt-Head: Bunghole in One (Win9x), Guimo (DOS), Microsoft Baseball 2001 (Win9x), Microsoft Casino (Win9x), Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (Win9x), Pandora's Box (Win9x), and Thomas & Friends: The Great Festival Adventure (Win9x).
• Added DirectX 7.0a to Utilities for playing Win9x games because Microsoft Casino requires it.
• Thumbnails now have correct aspect ratios. The site had assumed that all games fill a 4:3 aspect ratio screen, but games for BeOS, OS/2, and Windows may run in windows that aren't 4:3.

7 March 2021

• Classic DOS Games has its 16th anniversary.

28 February 2021

• Added 9 games: 3D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride (Win9x), BeNibblix (BeOS), Eradicator (DOS), Freddi Fish and The Case Of The Missing Kelp Seeds (Win16, Win9x), Hellbender (Win9x), Microsoft International Soccer 2000 (Win9x), Pajama Sam in "No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside" (Win16, Win9x), Pongeroids! (BeOS), and Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo (Win16, Win9x).
• RGB Classic Games now hosts BeOS games and utilities for running BeOS games!

1 October 2020

• Added Sea School (DOS).

16 April 2020

• Added B.U.G.S. (OS/2, Win9x).
• There are now over 550 games on the site!

7 March 2020

• Classic DOS Games has its 15th anniversary.

11 May 2019

• Added Attaxx (Win16).

7 March 2019

• Classic DOS Games has its 14th anniversary.

31 December 2018

• Added Lizard (DOS).

9 September 2018

• Added 3 games: Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity (Win9x), Lemmings Paintball (Win9x), and Micro Machines (DOS).

24 August 2018

• Added 2 games: BassTour Professional (Win9x), and The Real Deal (Win9x).

7 March 2018

• Classic DOS Games has its 13th anniversary.

7 March 2017

• Classic DOS Games has its 12th anniversary.

15 August 2016

• The site now uses HTTPS, which means that it has a security certificate that marks it as trusted.

7 March 2016

• RGB Classic Games has its 11th anniversary.

18 January 2016

• Added new information for hackers and modders.
  • The site now lists games that have EXE compression using DIET, EXEPACK, LZEXE, and PKLITE.
  • The site now lists games that are built with Borland Graphics Interface, GX Effects, GX Graphics, GX Kernel, GX Text, PCX Effects, PCX Programmer's Toolkit, PCX Toolkit.
• The site is now using jsDosbox as a fallback for people who don't have Java. I still *highly* recommend using Java! jsDosbox is much slower, the sound quality is poor, and it can't run any game that requires a Pentium or more than 8 MB of RAM, but it's way better than nothing!

31 December 2015

• Added 2 games: Alien Cabal (DOS), BACKLASH (DOS).

19 July 2015

• Added Aquanoid (DOS).

30 June 2015

• Added 2 games: Laser! (Win16) and Nebula Fighter (DOS, Win9x).

30 May 2015

• Added Galactix (DOS, Win9x).
• The site is now mobile-friendly.

27 April 2015

• Added Kid Pix (Win16).
• Added an interview of Allen Pilgrim.

8 March 2015

• Added The Terminator: Future Shock (DOS).

7 March 2015

	RGB Classic Games has its 10th anniversary.
	It is RGB Classic Games Day in Ottawa, Canada's capital!

26 January 2015

• Company search will now match the former names of companies (i.e. "Silicon & Synapse" will successfully find Blizzard Software), and the names of subsidiaries (i.e. "3D Realms" will successfully find parent company Apogee Software).

26 December 2014

• Added Word Gallery (DOS).

10 August 2014

• Added Claw (Win9x).

13 July 2014

• Added 4 games: EGA Coloring Book (DOS), VGA Coloring Book (DOS), Virtual Chess (DOS, Win16, Win9x), and Windows Coloring Book (Win16, Win9x).

30 June 2014

• Major Update VII: Phase II
  • Rewrote the Search by Video Mode functions to divide games into specific video modes rather than just by resolution and color depth, as determined by taking screenshots in DOSBox. That method was error-prone, and was incapable of determining whether text mode games were Mode 0 or 1, or Mode 2 or 3, and also grouped Mode 4 and 5 together.
  • Changed review methodology to test every game using the DOSBox debugger with a breakpoint set for INT 10h where AH=00h to determine the exact video mode used by each game and capture screenshots for each mode.
  • Performed an enormous audit of all DOS games on the site to ensure that games listed the correct video mode. Paid particular attention to whether or not text mode games set a video mode or not, as those that don't can be played on systems with MDA/Hercules cards, unlike those that set a CGA mode. Since MDA/Hercules, CGA, EGA, MCGA and VGA use fonts with different pixel dimensions, took screenshots of all text games using each video standard.
  • Took dozens of new screenshots, expanded dozens of reviews, add information for dozens of companies, improved compression of every screenshot on the site.
  • Created ASCII art version of RGB Classic Games logo for the DOS theme.
  • Fixed dozens of bugs, rewrote tons of code, and generally did a ton of thankless tasks.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added The Catacomb Abyss (DOS).

7 March 2014

• RGB Classic Games has its 9th anniversary.

23 February 2014

• Major Update VII
  • It's been about a year since the last Major Update began, so it's time for another massive overhaul of the site.
  • Converted the site to HTML 5.
  • Title search will now return results for any title that a game is known by (i.e. "Out of This World" (North American name) will return in a search for "Another World" (European name) and "Outer World" (Japanese name)).
  • Purchased a Java code signing certificate for the online games now that self-signed applets are blocked by default as of Java 7u51.
  • Made massive code changes to speed up page loading.
  • Tons of bug fixes.
  • Added Russian translation.

17 November 2013

• Added 2 games: Lode Runner: The Legend Returns (Win16) and Lode Runner Online: The Mad Monks' Revenge (Win9x).

31 October 2013

• Added Grand Theft Auto (DOS).

21 September 2013

• Major Update VI: Phase III
  • Optimized server settings, and made massive changes to database structure and server-side code to improve page loading time.
  • Added lazy loading of images to prevent timeouts from preventing online games from loading.
  • Fixed screenshots and genre listings in Utilities pages
  • Otherwise spent months tweaking and optimizing every aspect of the site to make the most of the site's massive demands on our hosting plan's limited resources.
  • RGB now hosts official patches (usually upgrades, sometimes bug fixes).
  • Added themes that make the website look like DOS or Windows 3.1.
  • Rewrote localization code and dramatically simplified translating the website into other languages.
  • Recalculated site finances to only include actual income (not theoretical income that might someday get paid out from affiliate programs) on the Donations page.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 2 games: Genewars (DOS) and Evasive Maneuvers (DOS).

30 April 2013

• Major Update VI: Phase II
  • Reduced the number of database queries by about 60%, which should speed up page loading and reduce timeouts.
  • Killed a bunch of dead links. Shame on your for not reporting them!

26 March 2013

• Major Update VI
  • It's been about a year since the last Major Update began, so it's time for another massive overhaul of the site.
  • Created support for themes and added DOS and Win16 themes.
  • The site now archives official patches.
  • Fixed screenshots on the Compilation CDs and Utilities pages.
  • Made server-side optimizations to speed up page loading.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 6 games: Body Blows (DOS), Bubble Pop (DOS), D/Generation (DOS), Snake (IM) (DOS), Spit Wad Willy (DOS), and Super Ball! (DOS).

7 March 2013

• RGB Classic Games has its 8th anniversary.

3 February 2013

• Added Hoosier City (DOS).

8 January 2013

• Added Framed (DOS).

17 November 2012

• Added Cisco Heat (DOS).

15 October 2012

• Added 2 games: Project-X (DOS) and Ultimate Body Blows (DOS).
• There are now over 300 games that can be played in-browser!

8 July 2012

• Added Prospector (DOS).

11 June 2012

• Added 2 games: Get Medieval (Win9x) and MicroMan's Crazy Computers (Win9x).

13 May 2012

• Phase III, the final phase of Major Update V, is complete.
  • Replaced the old, huge sidebar dropdown menus with a new ribbon menu system
  • Optimized the database to improve site speed
  • Fixed the links on the Compilation CDs page.

19 April 2012

• Added 4 games: Desk Drop (Win16, Win9x), Lava Cap (DOS), Mice Maze (DOS), and Oilcap (DOS).

31 March 2012

• Added 2 games: Billy the Kid Returns (DOS) and Loader Larry (DOS).

7 March 2012

• RGB Classic Games has its 7th anniversary.

22 February 2012

• Major Update V: Phase II
  • Corrected six incorrect download links. Shame on you for not reporting them!
  • Fixed a bunch of bugs and broken pages. A thorough audit of the site has left no further known errors.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added Alien Rampage.
• There are now over 500 games on the site!
• There are now over 1250 versions of classic games on this site!

27 January 2012

• Added 3 games: Beetle Run (Win16, Win9x), Skunny (DOS), and Sonic & Knuckles Collection (Win9x).
• There are now over 275 games that can be played in-browser!

31 December 2011

• Major Update V
  • It's been about a year since the last Major Update began, so it's time for another massive overhaul of the site.
  • Rewrote the site code to make several tasks faster, to allow a greater diversity of content, and to allow more content to be translated into other languages.
  • In-browser games work in Internet Explorer again.
  • Visitors from France can now find links to purchase games on Amazon.fr.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added Sonic 3D Blast (Win9x).

28 November 2011

• Added 10 games: Daytona USA (Win9x), Gex (Win9x), Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection (Win9x), Microsoft Soccer (Win9x), The Neverhood (Win9x), Out of This World (DOS), Sega Rally Championship (Win9x), Virtua Fighter 2 (Win9x), Virtua Squad (Win9x), and Yoda Stories (Win9x).
• There are now over 75 Win9x games on the site!

28 October 2011

• Added 4 games: Duck Hunt (Win16), Fury3 (Win9x), Hyper 3D Pinball (DOS), and NBA Jam Extreme (Win9x).

28 September 2011

• Added 9 games: Diablo II (Win9x), Flight of the Amazon Queen (DOS), Funpack.Net for Windows (Win9x), Mad Painter! (DOS), MDK (DOS, Win9x), Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon (DOS), Putt-Putt Joins the Parade (DOS), Worms 2 (Win9x), and Zorro (DOS).
• Got permission from Peter Wansch to distribute Entertainment Pack for OS/2 and Funpack.Net for Windows as freeware, our 27th and 28th liberated games.
• Added DirectX 6.1 to Utilities for playing Win9x games because Diablo II requires it.

23 July 2011

• Added 8 games: Catacomb (DOS), CyClones (DOS), Quadnet (DOS), ShadowCaster (DOS), SinkSub Pro (Win16/Win9x), Sonic CD (Win9x), SkyNET (DOS), Zombie Wars (Win16).
• There are now over 75 Win16 games on the site! There are now over 250 games that can be played in-browser!

21 June 2011

• Added 15 games: Axia (DOS), CyberMage: Darklight Awakening (DOS), The Even More Incredible Machine (DOS), In Pursuit of Greed (DOS), The Incredible Machine (DOS), The Incredible Machine 2 (DOS), Infidel (DOS), Inner Worlds (DOS), Mah Jongg '97 (Win9x), Planetfall (DOS), Rise of the Robots (DOS), Road Rash (Win9x), Transport Tycoon (DOS), Tubular Worlds (DOS), and Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (DOS).

29 May 2011

• Completed an audit of all downloads. There are 1239 downloadable files on the site (1166 versions of games, 27 copies of source code/extras, 42 versions of utilities, 5 compliation CD ISOs), representing 4 327 635 463 bytes of data. Fixed 18 broken downloads.
• Added 10 games: The Curse of Monkey Island (Win9x), Halo: Combat Evolved (Win9x), Pheasant Hunt (Win16), Prairie Dog Hunt 2: Judgment Day (Win16), Prairie Dog Hunt for Windows (Win16), Prairie Dog Hunt PRO (Win16), Vindicator (Win16), WinFish (Win16), WinFish 2 - Deep Sea (Win16), and WinFish 3 - Fly Fishing (Win16).
• There are now over 450 games on the site! There are now over 225 games that can be played in-browser!
• Added 2 Compilation CDs: 25 Great Games for Windows and Video Arcade Classic.

30 April 2011

• Phase VI, the final phase of Major Update IV, is complete.
  • Replaced JPC with a Java version of DOSBox to make DOS games playable in browsers. Speed and compatibility are almost perfect in every game. Jump 'n Bump, Paganitzu, and Wolfenstein-3D are finally playable, and games that used to play slowly, like DOOM and Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, now play at full speed (assuming that you have a modern computer and browser). JPC's PC Speaker emulation has been replaced with full Sound Blaster sound! Now you can play Drum Blaster in your browser. And check out how awesome Duke Nukem II sounds! I'm adding new games as fast as I can (200 and counting!). Check it out!
  • Complete rewrite of the site code. The site has been converted to HTML 4.01 Strict from Transitional. Site code is much more efficient; pages should load faster.
  • The site was suffering from "feature creep". Basically, there was just too much content, which cluttered the menus and made it harder to find the most useful content. Less useful pages have been removed.
    • Removed the Petitions page. All but one of the petitions had ended successfully, so let's put this era behind us.
    • Killed the DOS Games Compatibility Wiki. It was really only a guide to playing DOS games without DOSBox, but it is impossible to run 16-bit software under Win64. Windows XP is dead. Also, I couldn't prevent the wiki from getting the crap vandalized out of it by spambots.
  • Many bugs have been squashed and typos corrected.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 7 games: BassTour (DOS), Cyberdogs (DOS), Diablo (Win9x), Expect No Mercy (Win16), Iron Blood (DOS), StarCraft (Win9x), and Tank Wars (DOS).
• Added a Compilation CD: Even More Combat Games.

31 March 2011

• Major Update IV: Phase V
  • Localization: The menus and parts of the main page have been translated into French and Spanish (pick a language from the side menu). Please check the quality of the translations, and feel free to translate the site into any other language!
  • To make the site even more universal, there are now icons for the game genres in the dropdown GAMES menu.
  • Many bugs have been squashed and typos corrected.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 3 games: Bust-A-Move 2: Arcade Edition (DOS), Pinball Dreams (DOS) and Pinball Illusions (DOS).

7 March 2011

• RGB Classic Games has its 6th anniversary.
• Added 2 games: Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings (DOS, Win9x), and X-Men: Children of the Atom (DOS).
• To avoid having an excessive number of news items, I usually consolidate all of the updates within each month. RGB Classic Games now has a Twitter account! From now on there will be a tweet whenever a new game is added to the site, and you can make a comment about it or retweet the news!

27 February 2011

• Major Update IV: Phase IV
  • Now that DOSBox has a 3Dfx patch, special APIs like WinG, Glide, and DirectX have been added to the Search by Video Mode options.
  • Fixed a number of bugs, dead links, and typos.
  • Split the Utilities page into separate pages for whatever operating system the game you want to play is for.
  • Created the infrastructure for a fundamental change to the site coming in March.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 19 games: 3D Ultra Pinball (Win16, Win9x), 3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night (Win16, Win9x), Fire Fight (Win9x), Full Tilt! Pinball (Win9x), Full Tilt! 2 Pinball (Win16, Win9x), Grand Chess (Win9x), The Lost Vikings (DOS), Microsoft Pinball Arcade (Win9x), Microsoft Return of Arcade (Win16), Monster Truck Madness (Win9x), Monster Truck Madness 2 (Win9x), Need for Speed II (Win9x), Pinball Fantasies (DOS), Prince of Persia (DOS), Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame (DOS), Sam & Max Hit the Road (DOS), Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (DOS), Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (DOS), and Zillions of Games (Win9x).
• Added a modern game: Paku Paku (DOS).
• There are now over 50 Win9x games on the site!
• Added 3 utilities: Printscreen Fix, Win32s, and WinG.

30 January 2011

• Major Update IV: Phase III
  • The site has been growing by about 1 game per week. For RGB to continue to grow and remain relevant, it will have to be a community effort. You can now contribute to RGB Classic Games by submitting games to the site! The site will not be converting to a wiki because wikis: make a lot of database accesses, which makes them very slow; track changes, which makes them very large; can be vandalized by bots and malicious editors; and are harder to style and program functionality for than a regular website. Using submission form provides a reasonable balance between the need to allow community submissions and the need to control the appearance, functionality and content of the site.
  • Added a Compilation CDs page to preserve the (somewhat controversial) legacy of shovelware. While it may have been a quick way to make a buck off of somebody else's work, these CDs are one of the best sources for preserving classic games.
  • Moved the search and site appearance to the left side of the page.
  • Added a Company Search function.
  • Added expert picks from some particularly knowledgeable retro gamers.
  • Updated the cost of making the RGB Classic Games DVD-ROM due to the new Harmonized Sales Tax and added a cost calculator.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 4 games: Chomp for Presentation Manager (OS/2), Entertainment Pack for OS/2 (OS/2), Jump 'n Bump (DOS), and MVP Solitaire (Win9x).
• The Zork Trilogy Petition has ended successfully, 4.5 years and 675 signatures later. The Zork Trilogy can be legally purchased again from GOG! Only one more petition to go before we can close this chapter in RGB Classic Games' history.

22 December 2010

• Major Update IV: Phase II
  • Added the ability to select the site's font and font size, which may be useful for visitors using smart phones or small screens. While there's always zoom, sometimes choosing a different font makes text more readable without resorting to zoom.
  • Added two important adventure sub-genres: Interactive Fiction and Graphic Adventure.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 7 games: Descent 3 (Win9x), Mortal Kombat II (DOS), Mortal Kombat 3 (DOS), NASCAR Racing (DOS), Tron 2.0 (Win9x), Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (Win9x), and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (Win9x).

30 November 2010

• Major Update IV
  • It's been about a year since the last Major Update began, so it's time for another massive overhaul of the site.
  • People are increasingly moving to widescreen and HD monitors, which often leaves a lot of empty space to the right of the Downloads/Availability/etc. sections of the game pages. Moved trivial game information to an infobox on the right side of the screen to make more efficient use of space on widescreen monitors.
  • Rewrote the Advanced DOSBox Tutorial and added better Windows 3.1x drivers to the Drivers section.
  • Added links to make it easier to find physical copies of games on Amazon if you live in the United Kingdom, Canada, or Germany.
  • Added a "Coming soon" box to list what games are queued to be added to the site. Are the latest changes to the site good or bad? Share your opinion in this thread.
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 4 games: Age of Empires (Win9x), Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (Win9x), Blackthorne (DOS), and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Win9x).
• There are now over 400 games on the site!

31 October 2010

• Added 5 games: Final Fantasy VII (Win9x), Literati Lite (Win16), The Need for Speed (DOS), Scramble (DOS), and Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D (Win9x).
• Added 3 Utilities: CHKCPU, RAR, and Volkov Commander.

28 September 2010

• Added 8 games: Blood II: The Chosen (Win9x), Descent II (DOS), Earthworm Jim (DOS), Earthworm Jim 2 (DOS), Isle Wars Pro (Win9x), Star Wars Pit Droids (Win9x), Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (Win9x), and Star Wars: The Gungan Frontier (Win9x).

31 August 2010

• Phase VI, the final phase of Major Update III, is complete.
• There is now a title search bar at the top of the screen so that you can quickly search for games by name.
• Screenshot images now appear on game pages.
• All category pages use the Thumbnail/Detailed View style now.
• Games can now belong to more than one genre. For instance, Math Rescue is an Educational Platform game, so it appears under both genres. Googolpede for Windows is an Educational game with Arcade action.
• Added an Incunabula: The Unspoken Secrets Webshrine.
• Revamped all of the webshrines and made the level maps much better.
• Fixed a number of bugs.
• Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added Incunabula: The Unspoken Secrets (DOS).
• Added 2 modern games: Snake (AM) and Sudoku.
• There are now over 300 DOS games, over 50 Win16 games, over 25 Win9x games, and over 1000 versions of classic games on the site.

18 July 2010

• Major Update III: Phase V
• Some games now have System Requirements and Cheat Codes. Post cheat codes in this thread.
• Thumbnail view has been added to the By Genre and By Year pages.
• The thumbnail view used to list games in four columns per row, which was too many for smart phones and too few for widescreen monitors. Now the number of columns adjusts to the width of your screen.
• Further recoding of HTML to support the upcoming HTML 5 standard.
• Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 3 games: Blast Chamber (DOS), Descartes Rainbow (Win9x), and Tomb Raider II (Win9x).

30 June 2010

• Added 9 games: Alive Sharks (DOS), Crazy Shuffle (DOS), Cyberboard Kid (DOS), Magic Crayon (DOS), PC-Jigsaw (DOS), Scubaman's Quest (DOS), SnowWhite's Voyage (DOS), VGA Jigsaw (DOS), and VGA Sharks (DOS).

25 May 2010

• Major Update III: Phase IV
  • Moved the navigation menu from the left side to the top of the screen. This creates more room for content, which is important for visitors who use smartphones. The new layout has been tested with every major modern browser, but may be incompatible with very old browsers. If it doesn't work in your browser, please let me know.
  • Fixed the "Search By Operating System" and company profile pages so that they work in Internet Explorer, the only browser that wasn't handling them properly. Why do people still use that browser?
  • Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 4 games: Dangerous Dave (DOS), Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (Win9x), Max Payne (Win9x), and World Empire V (Win9x).
• RGB Classic Games now has a game for every day of the year! Why not expand your knowledge of classic games by playing just one game from the site per day? Better yet, when you play each game, go to the forum and rate the game or write a review. I call it the RGB 365 Challenge!

11 April 2010

• Major Update III: Phase III
  • Game lists in the "Search by Operating Sytem" pages now feature screenshots in addition to the table with game details. The "thumbnail view" makes it easier to find a game if you only remember what it looked like, and the "detailed view" allows you to search for a game by year, genre, publisher, etc.
  • In detailed view, the table is now sortable by any column.
  • Rewrote all of the HTML on the site to remove tags that are not supported in HTML 5 in anticipation of the HTML 5 standard.
• The RGB Classic Games DVD-ROM now uses "armor plated" DVDs that have a protective coating that is scratch resisant, smear resistant, and 100× more dust resistant.

7 March 2010

RGB Classic Games has its 5th anniversary.

7 February 2010

• Added 4 games: GobMan (DOS), Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (DOS), Starfire (DOS), and Tube (DOS).

21 January 2010

• Classic DOS Games becomes RGB Classic Games! We already had Win9x versions of games that were originally DOS or Win16 games. Win9x games are in desperate need of preservation, so the site's mandate has been expanded to allow Win9x games to be included.
• Added 4 games: Balls of Steel (Win9x), Disney's Beauty and the Beast (DOS), SimCity 3000 (Win9x), and Where's Waldo? at the Circus (Win16).
• Thank you to the fellow who donated 10 cents (presumably as a New Year's gift for 2010). If everyone sent a small donation of nothing more than their pocket change to websites that they really like, it would revolutionize the Internet. Unfortunately, PayPal charges a fee of 2.9% plus $0.30 on all payments, so the fee on a donation of $0.30 or less is 100%. PayPal rejected my suggestion that they allow small donations and charge their fee on a monthly or annual basis instead of per transaction, to allow millions of dollars in small donations to be contributed to websites around the world. 100% of all small donations are kept by PayPal, and I have to refund your money to prevent PayPal from keeping it. I appreciate your willingness to donate, but I'd rather you keep your change than give it to PayPal. Please put your pocket change in a Salvation Army donation globe, or a busker's guitar case, or give it to a homeless person. PayPal has enough pennies already!

31 December 2009

• Major Update III: Phase II. Each game has its own page now! This will allow much more information to be displayed for each game, which would have been a problem on a page with dozens of games. Games now link directly to their compatibility page on the DOS Games Compatibility Wiki. Greatly expanded the information in the companies section. Most companies include a flag to indicate the country of origin. Clicking on the link for Games Developed/Published/All lists all of the games that the company developed/published/both. Improved the appearance of links. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 7 games: Alone in the Dark 2 (DOS), Atomic Tetris (DOS), Gazillionaire (Win16), Night Raid (DOS), Oxyd (DOS), Shih Dao (Win16), and Star Wars: TIE Fighter (DOS).
• There are now over 350 games on the site!
• Added an interview of Everett Kaser.

15 November 2009

• Major Update III: Phase I. It's been about a year since the last Major Update, so it's time for another massive overhaul of the site. Added greatly improved screenshot software. Redesigned the webshrines to pop-up full-size images of the thumbnails in the level maps to make it easier to follow along as you're playing. Added Arcade genre. Added a thread for recommending games to add to the site. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added a Slam! Webshrine.
• Added 4 games: Chomp for Windows (Win16), Hyperoid (Win16), Warheads for Windows (Win16), and Worm War (Win16).

31 October 2009

• Added 2 games: Robomaze II (DOS) and Robomaze III (DOS).

26 September 2009

• Added 4 games: Amazing Learning Games With Rayman (DOS), Detroit (DOS), Rayman (DOS), and Zool (DOS).

29 August 2009

• Added 4 games: Strife (DOS), Super Worms, Tomb Raider (DOS), and WinTrek (Win16).
• Visitors of Classic DOS Games have used 1.5 TB of bandwidth so far this year. It seemed like a notable milestone.

16 July 2009

• Got permission from Escape Programming to distribute Thor's Hammer as freeware, our 26th liberated game.
• Please stop sending donations of $0.01! Some people are still contributing to the long-dead Have a Penny, Donate a Penny campaign, in which I encouraged visitors to donate a bit of pocket change, or even a single penny, to websites that they appreciate. If even a small fraction of visitors donated a single penny, small websites would earn enough revenue to cover their expenses. Unfortunately, PayPal charges a fee of 1.9% to 2.9% on all payments, and they round up to the nearest cent, so the fee on a donation of $0.01 is $0.01. 100% of all pennies donated are kept by PayPal, and I have to refund your pennies to prevent PayPal from keeping them. I appreciate your willingness to donate, but I'd rather you keep the pennies than give them to PayPal. Please put your pocket change in a Salvation Army donation globe, or a busker's guitar case, or to a homeless person. PayPal has enough pennies already!

4 July 2009

• It's July 4th, which everyone knows is a special day. It's the day that Classic DOS Games allows you to play DOS games with sound in your browser!!! JPC now emulates the PC speaker for games that use it. Please read this explanation of the pros and cons of using JPC to play the games on this site. Happy Fourth of July!
• Tandy IBM-compatible games are now listed.
• Games that support more than one resolution from the same graphics mode now have a screenshot for each resolution. The resolution for all graphics modes are now listed for each game.

28 June 2009

• Added 4 games: Alone in the Dark, BrainStrain, Tetris, and WordMix.
• A new version of JPC has been added to the site. It's now possible to play Abuse, Alone in the Dark, Doom, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and Rise of the Triad in your browser! There are now more than 150 games that can be played in your browser.
• There are now screenshots for more than 200 games. Every game will have a screenshot soon.

27 May 2009

• Rewrote the Advanced DOSBox Tutorial for the release of DOSBox 0.73, which now supports proprietary SVGA chipsets.

25 April 2009

• Added 6 games: Cell War, Gold Hunt, Oil Baron, Sink'em, Wordle, and WordMax.

1 April 2009

• Classic DOS Games becomes 20th Century Games! Did you know that Windows 95, 98 and Me were technically DOS operating systems? They came with a copy of DOS 7! But why stop there? 20th Century Games covers games for all of the operating systems of the 20th Century!
• In honor of the site's new focus on operating systems other than DOS, I was able to get an interview with Steve Jobs, the man behind the Mac!

22 March 2009

• Phase III, the final phase of Major Update II, is complete. Added a ton of games to the list of games that can be played in your browser. Site code has been simplified and all known bugs have been fixed. Experimenting with small video clips for the Classic DOS Games banner. Awesome or distracting? Comments are encouraged in the forum. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added Thor's Hammer.

7 March 2009

• Classic DOS Games has its 4th anniversary.
• The Utilities, Modern, and Previously unreleased pages now display screenshots the same way as the rest of the site.
• There are now 50 Win16 games on the site. There are now 125 games that can be played directly in your browser.
• Over the years, many classic game authors have agreed to be interviewed, but never replied to the interview questions. These "unfinished interviews" are now part of the DVD Extras on the Classic DOS Games DVD-ROM.

1 February 2009

• Added previously unreleased game Tron Light Cycles.

25 January 2009

• Added 2 games: Doubolo and Talking ABC's: A Day At The Beach.
• Created a list of DOS games that can be played in your browser thanks to JPC. The site's source code is being simplified and consolidated into a lean, mean, easy to use content management machine! Visual changes are coming soon. Help with graphics and design would be greatly appreciated. Dozens of typos have been corrected (shame on you for not reporting them). The first batch of software has been cataloged and added to the list at the DOS Historical Preservation Society. The accounting page has been updated.
• Thank you to the 482 918 of you who visited Classic DOS Games in 2008. Half a million thank yous for helping to preserve and popularize DOS games!

31 December 2008

• Major Update II, Phase II. Classic DOS Games has moved to a better webhost. Screenshots now overlay on the current screen so that you don't have to press Back after viewing them. Love it or hate it? Let me know in the forum if you like. The complete game list can now be sorted by title, operating system, genre or year, ascending or descending. Added Game Creation section. Added FIX8X14 to the Utilities section. There are now over 800 versions of classic games on the site. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 2 games: Bow and Arrow - In Search of the Greatest Archer and Klik & Play.

27 November 2008

• Added 6 games: Astro3D, Holiday Lemmings 1994, Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures, The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain, Moraff's Ultra Blast, and War-8}!.

29 October 2008

• Major Update II: Phase I. It's been about a year since the original Major Update, so it's time for another massive overhaul of the site. Redesigned the website to allow games to be searched by developer, publisher, or company (whether developer or publisher). Created company information pages for every company, which will include a short overview of each company, as well as a link to their official webpage if one exists. It took 133 companies and independent authors to develop and publish the games on this site! Added a navigation menu to the About this site page.
• Went through every game on the site and updated ordering information. A great many discontinued games were found for sale on Amazon and, of course, when you use the site's links to buy them, Classic DOS Games gets a small commission.
• There are still many people who don't understand why "abandonware" is illegal to distribute. A new section has been added to the About this site section which explains why abandonware is illegal. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 10 games: Bang! Bang!, Command & Conquer, Descartes Enigma, Floyd's Bumpershoot, Honeycomb Hotel, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Kalakh, Knarly Works, Loom, and MESH: Falling Hero.

3 October 2008

• Added 3 games: Moraff's Morejongg for Windows, Moraff's Radiation, and Moraff's Spherejongg.
• There are now 300 games on the site! There are now over 750 versions of classic games on the site.

29 September 2008

• Added 18 games: The Chaos Engine, Cheezi, Magic Pockets, MVP Bridge, MVP Bridge for Windows, MVP Cribbage, MVP Euchre, MVP Hearts, NHL 96, NHL Hockey, Silverball, SimCity, SimCity 2000, Superfrog, Velcro Mind, World Rally Fever, Worms, and Z.
• Added Borland Turbo C and C++ to the Utilities section.
• Added a Pinball section.
• Removed most of the disk images for games that don't work in JPC. No sense in getting everyone's hopes up.

31 August 2008

• Got permission from Jeff Souders to distribute Gargoyle Medieval Pack as freeware.
• Got permission from Allen Pilgrim to distribute Kiloblaster and Xargon as freeware and release the source code.
• Added 17 games: 1993 Holiday Lemmings, Alien Breed: Tower Assault, The Color Wizard, Cool Spot, Disney's Aladdin, Gargoyle Medieval Pack, The Lion King, Mega Man X, MVP Backgammon, MVP Spades, MVP Word Search for Windows, Rings of the Magi for Windows, The Secret of Monkey Island, Spear of Destiny, Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Syndicate, and Xmas Lemmings: 1992 Holiday Edition.
• Games that support multiple native graphics modes now have a screenshot for each graphics mode.
• SVGA games are starting to be listed. Games that use standard VESA modes will be listed first, and games that rely on proprietary chipsets to achieve better-than-VGA graphics (such as MoraffWare games) will soon follow.
• Added maps and a walkthrough of Adventure 2: Savage Stones to The Adventures of MicroMan Webshrine.
• The first batch of Classic DOS Games DVD-ROMs since JPC was added to the site has just gone out. That means it's now possible to use the DVD to play DOS games on a computer that doesn't have internet access or a hard drive (or a hard drive without a DOS emulator). As "cloud computing" becomes more popular, small notebooks with minimal hardware and small hard drives – or no hard drive at all – can be used as DOS game machines. As long as you have an optical drive and a browser, you can play DOS games even if you can't get a wireless signal – even from the dark side of the Moon! Also, the Classic DOS Games DVD-ROM has now been shipped to three continents!
• Classic DOS Games now owns an original Dopefish mug! Apogee's Joe Siegler, who is the curator of all things related to the Dopefish, created mugs with an image of the Dopefish in 1993, and the last two that weren't given as gifts or put up for auction were recently sold on eBay, where one was purchased for our archive. See and read all about it in the forum.

23 July 2008

• Got permission from Ste Cork to distribute Overkill as freeware.
• Added 5 games: Combine 'Em, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, In Search of Dr. Riptide, Mah Jongg for Windows, and Wari: The Ancient Game of Africa.
• Made it possible to search for games by individual independent authors. Corrected and did a minor rewrite of the DOSBox Tutorial.

4 July 2008

• It's July 4th, which everyone knows is a special day. It's the day that Classic DOS Games allows you to play DOS games in your browser!!! Classic DOS Games has gotten permission to add a Java-based PC emulator called JPC to the site, and I'm busily making every DOS game on the site playable in your browser. This means that you can play DOS games in any Java-enabled browser, from PCs and Macs to handheld computers, without having to download the game or use an emulator. Happy Fourth of July!
• Please read this explanation of the pros and cons of using JPC to play the games on this site. Only 45% of the games on the site have been added so far. Other than eating and sleeping, I've done almost nothing but add games for the last 24 hours, so I ask for your patience while the remaining games are added. In the meantime, one of the games that you can play now is Duke Nukem II.

1 July 2008

• Added Hubie.
• Getting serious about preservation. When it comes to disk preservation, I've been all talk and no action. Truthfully, my collection was a mess. But no more! I set up a very wide bookcase and filled four shelves with boxes of DOS games and operating systems, and I've actually started making images of the disks. I started with operating system CD-ROMs, recording BIN/CUE images. A .BIN file is a bit-perfect copy of all of the data on a disc, like an ISO. The .CUE file records the physical details of the disc and how the data was arranged. The same can be done for floppy disks. Now that I've finally gotten organized, I'm looking forward to finally saving these disks from oblivion and turning the DOS Historical Preservation Society into a real organization. I've already had an offer of a donation of a bunch of floppy disks, and I appreciate any original disks or CDs that you can send me.
• We had a few entries to the Video Game Haiku Contest, but we can do better. Coming up with seventeen syllables is not hard. You can write about any game on the site. For example, here is a haiku about Hocus Pocus.
  
  A young wizard's quest
  To save the world from evil
  And become a man

20 June 2008

• Added 4 games: Cipher for Windows, Googolpede for Windows, Salad Scribble, and Wolfie's Music Games.
• Added a long lost question to the Qbix interview that sort of fell through the cracks.
• The Zork Trilogy Petition is on its way to Activision's corporate headquarters! It took 21 pages to include all of your signatures, which I hope will make an impressive statement about our solidarity. If you haven't signed yet, it's not too late. The URL to the petition was included in my letter, so if there are even more signatures when they check it out, so much the better.

2 June 2008

• I've always believed that anything can be explained in 17 syllables or less, so I thought that it would be nice to summarize the games on the site using haiku. I can't do it by myself, though, so I'm announcing a Video Game Haiku Contest! Contest details are in the forum. You can write about any game on the site. For example, here is a haiku about Boppin'.
  
  A triangle head
  Throws a block at other blocks
  Releasing evil

28 May 2008

• Added Ballistic.
• I felt that it was time for Classic DOS Games to provide more information about games than is possible in a short review. I've begun creating "webshrines" for a select few games, with more to come in the future. Webshrines are pages that include everything there is to know about a game: lists of enemies, power-ups and cheat codes, bugs and glitches, complete maps and walkthroughs, and even speedrun videos. The webshrines are here!
• Added drivers for Sound Blaster 16, and updated the Advanced DOSBox Tutorial to include instructions for adding MIDI sound to Windows 3.1.
• Classic DOS Games has grown in popularity a lot in 2008. In order to support new features, we've had to upgrade to Business hosting, which costs an extra $6 per month. The upside to this, in addition to the new features, is 25 times more web space and 8 times more bandwidth per month, which should be enough for years to come.

9 May 2008

• Added 5 games: Dinner With Moriarty, Duel 2000, Jigsaws Galore, Lemmings, and Tribolo.
• Added a section for previously unreleased games that have been sent to me by the authors of classic DOS games.
• Finally learned how to spell "independent" and corrected URLs and links.
• There are now 250 games on the site!
• One quarter of all games have now been rated by our visitors! For those who don't know how to do this, click on the rating under the title bar of each game to be taken to the forum thread where your vote can be recorded.

30 April 2008

• Added an interview of Jennifer Diane Reitz.
• Added an interview of Qbix.
• All site interviews now have their own thread in the forum so that visitors can discuss how it went and ask their own questions!

1 April 2008

• Added an interview of Bill Gates, the man behind MS-DOS!

31 March 2008

• Added an interview of David P. Gray.
• Made some visual updates and fulfilled a number of requests. Changed color scheme so that games are color coded by legal status, regardless of whether or not they are DOS or Win16 games (which can easily be determined in the status bar below the title), and changed public domain from yellow to red, which is easier to read. Screenshot filenames are now more browser-friendly (no spaces).
• Added an RSS feed so that visitors can be informed when there are updates.
• Completed a major Quality Assurance campaign. Dozens of typos have been corrected (shame on you for not reporting them). License filenames are now more browser-friendly (no spaces).

7 March 2008

• Classic DOS Games has its 3rd anniversary.
• Added 2 games: Dare to Dream and VGATetris.
• Donations are now optional for the Classic DOS Games DVD-ROM.

24 February 2008

• Got permission from Robert Epps to distribute Slam! as freeware.
• Got permission from Colin Garbutt to distribute Kye as freeware.
• Added 17 games: The Adventures of MicroMan, Alien Force, Castle of the Winds, Football, Kye, MESH: Hero Defiant, MESH: Hero's Hearts, MicroMan, SinkSub for Windows, SkiFree, Slam!, Space Nightmare, Star Wars: Dark Forces, World Empire II Deluxe, World Empire III, World Empire IV, and Xerix II: The Caverns of Mars.
• Added a new Advanced DOSBox Tutorial with information on running Windows 3.1 in DOSBox, and how to play Super VGA games.
• Added a Drivers section.
• Created a new guide to helping out the website: How to help the site for free.
• The Zork Trilogy Petition now has over 500 signatures, and I'm going to formally present it to Infocom. If you want your name to be included, sign it now!
• Attention Jetpack fans: Adam Pedersen has begun development of Jetpack 2, and you can help! Jetpack 2 has a development blog, and the author is hoping for donations of art, sound effects and music.

31 January 2008

• Phase V, the final phase of the major update, is complete. The site now includes Win16 games, since they also required DOS. There are now 600 versions of classic games on the site! To the best of my knowledge, Classic DOS Games has the most game downloads of any legal DOS games site in the world. Made contact with Pop Software, who are attempting to fulfill orders for the Space Bats games as soon as possible. A new interview is about to be published. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 14 games: Catch, If You Can!, Commander Keen in Aliens Ate My Babysitter!, Electranoid, Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf, Hugo's Horrific Adventure, Hugo's House of Horrors, Hugo II, Whodunit?, Hugo III, Jungle of Doom!, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Nitemare-3D, Super ZZT, World Empire, Xatax, and Xerix.

2 January 2008

• It's January 2, so it must be time for the first freeware release of the year!
• Got permission from Everett Kaser to distribute Snarf as freeware.

31 December 2007

• Added 6 games: Argo Checkers, Hero's Heart, Kosynka, Snarf, Solitile, and Teenagent.
• There are now over 200 games on the site.
• Upgraded the forum software, which adds some fun new functionality, like birthdays and the ability to change your vote if you find out that a game is much more awesome than you thought.
• Trying out new wallpaper for the site. There are no plans to redo the kitchen.

18 December 2007

• Phase IV of the major update is complete. Games can now be sorted by video mode, and there are now screenshots (categorizing games and adding screenshots is still in progress). Added a Strategy genre. Users can now rate compatibility utilities. The site has been rewritten so that all pages load instantly (on a fast internet connection). A new tutorial is almost finished. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 3 games: Gobliiins, Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon, and Goblins Quest 3.

11 December 2007

• The second batch of the Classic DOS Games DVD-ROM has gone out!
• The Classic DOS Games DVD-ROM currently has 873 MB of stuff on it, which means that there are almost 4 GB left that could be used for extras. Many gamers like to listen to music while they play, so if you have a band that could use some free publicity, please contact me about including your music. If anyone else has any suggestions for cool extras, I'd love to hear from you. Remember that it has to be your own creation so that I can legally distribute it.

2 December 2007

• The 2008 fiscal year is about to begin. Classic DOS Games will spend $47.88 on webhosting in 2008 ($3.99 per month). If anyone is able to donate one or more months, that would be really appreciated. Note: Most expenses on the Donations page are listed in US dollars because the goods and services were purchased from US companies who list prices in US dollars. Those expenses are paid for in Canadian dollars from my Canadian bank account! Now that the Canadian and US dollars have equal value, it would really help me out if donations could be made in Canadian funds to prevent me from having to pay a roughly 2.5% currency conversion fee. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far. I really didn't expect the site's 2008 webhosting expenses to be covered so quickly.
• The last time I thought up a donation campaign, the ill-fated Have a Penny, Donate a Penny campaign, in April 2006, I noted that Classic DOS Games was getting about 6000 unique visitors per month. Today Classic DOS Games averages over 14 000 unique visitors per month. Thank you to everyone for your support throughout 2007! See the chart.

24 November 2007

• Added 3 games: Keen Dreams, Heroes, and Sherlock.

17 November 2007

• Added 3 games: Hexxagon, Tubes, and Telengard.
• There are now 200 games on the site!
• Over the years, many DOS programmers have asked me to add their recent games to the site, which didn't meet the criteria to be considered "classic" DOS games. It was never my intention that DOS should stagnate or be abandoned. In the hope that DOS gaming will continue to flourish and grow, I have added a section for new DOS games.

8 November 2007

• Phase III of the major update is complete. Every game on the site now has a full review. Each game has a user rating based on votes in the Forum. Performed a long overdue update of the MoraffWare games. Shareware games list whether the game is a full game that requested registration, or a partial game, like the first episode of a series; freeware list whether they were formerly commercial software, shareware, or games that were free. Games can also be searched by those criteria. Rewrote code to make pages load significantly faster. Added glowing title bars. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 2 games: Corridor 7: Alien Invasion and Jetpack Christmas Special!.
• Added an interview of Adam Pedersen.
• Isn't momentum great? The coolest stuff is usually the hardest to implement, so the most exciting changes are still to come!

23 October 2007

• The first batch of the Classic DOS Games DVD-ROM has gone out!

21 October 2007

• Phase II of the major update is complete. Added license information to descriptions and a Licenses section to prove that freeware games are free. Added CSS to make link underlines the same color as links in Firefox. Switched to a more standard text size. Improved appearance of title graphics. Reorganized the Forum; polls can now be created in some categories. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Got permission from Larry Tipton to distribute Drum Blaster as freeware.
• Added 5 games: Abuse, Galacta, Space Chase, Vinyl Goddess From Mars, and Xmas Lemmings: 1991 Christmas Edition.

30 September 2007

• Phase I of the major update I was talking about is complete. It is now possible to search games by legal status and year released. The forum is about to get a huge interactivity upgrade. A ton of invisible upgrades have occurred to make it easier to add games and new criteria to search them with, and to make it easier to create up-to-date copies of the new Classic DOS Games DVD-ROM. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 2 games: Mah Jongg -8514- and One Must Fall.

26 August 2007

• This is it, folks! Some pages were unavailable for a few minutes this morning because I've just completed the most significant database update to the site ever. The change will soon allow games to be searched by any criteria. I can also add new games much more easily than before, and a huge update is on its way!
• Due to popular demand, Classic DOS Games is now available on DVD-R! As you hopefully have noticed, there are no ads on this website, so I depend entirely on donations to help fund the website. I tried to allow donations as small as one penny, but PayPal insisted on taking their "cut", which is 100% of donations that small. As for donations that get into actual dollars, I can appreciate that no one likes paying for something that they can just take for free, so I thought about ways that I could offer something of value in return. With the Classic DOS Games DVD-ROM, you can take more than 500 versions of the best classic games with you wherever you go (still conveniently catalogued in website form), make a donation to the website, and have something interesting to show for it. Please visit the Store for more information!

9 August 2007

• Got permission from John Pallett-Plowright to distribute Traffic Department 2192 as freeware.
• Added DOSBox v0.71 and Virtual PC 2007, and overhauled the Utilities page.

18 June 2007

• Added a DOSBox tutorial to the Tutorials page.

16 May 2007

• Added 4 games: Chinese Checkers, DND, Dungeons of the Necromancer's Domain, and Redhook's Revenge.
• Classic DOS Games was featured in a podcast on Green Ring Ethos! Originally aired on 9 November 2006, Episode 12 talks about the site from 18:39 to 21:39. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that Classic DOS Games has been mentioned in audio. If anyone is aware of any other articles about the site on websites, podcasts, newspapers or magazines, please let me know!

9 April 2007

• www.classicdosgames.com is back! After a long battle with my former ISP, I've finally been able to transfer the domain to my new registrar.

7 March 2007

• Classic DOS Games has its 2nd anniversary.
• Added source code for Jumpman Lives!
• Added DOSBox v0.70 and Mo'Slo v1.5.1 to the Utilities page.

30 January 2007

• Added 11 games: Aspetra, Banyon Wars, Battle for Atlantis, Bolo Ball, Crusher, Crusher Castle II, Dotso, Isle Wars, Numlo, Sea Run, and Spider Run.
• For a change of pace, I've been interviewed by a website called ASCII-World, which is devoted exclusively to ASCII games and art. Learn about the philosophy of this website, my feelings on a number of topics, and find out where all of the games come from! Also, learn how Classic DOS Games got its name, and the name I almost used instead. It's a long interview.

29 December 2006

• Added 6 games: Alpha Man, Ant Run, Balloon Challenge, Blind Wars, Block-man, and Block Man 2.

1 December 2006

• I moved all files to Classic DOS Games' new webhost on 20 November, and called PowWeb on 30 November to advise them to cancel my service on 1 December. This would give me the rest of the day to download things that can't be downloaded in advance: copies of the forum, wiki, and my webstats. PowWeb cancelled my service immediately, in a final example of how lousy their service is. The early cancellation caught me off guard and forced me to update the DNS servers to my new webhost, even though the transfer wasn't complete, and caused the website to be unavailable, or available in a very limited form, for most of 30 November and 1 December. I have uploaded an old backup of the forum to the new webhost, but I won't be able to restore the missing entries or transfer the wiki until PowWeb restores my hosting package on 2 December. I apologize for the further inconvenience. Learn from my mistake: stay away from PowWeb!

20 November 2006

• The site was unavailable for about 8 hours on 19 November 2006 due to scheduled server maintenance by my webhost, which exceeded the downtime allowed by their 99.9% uptime guarantee. Three days of data were never recovered following a botched server migration following their transitition to new management. They continue to force changes on me despite my protests, and they clearly don't read my emails when they respond. I've had it with PowWeb and will be switching to a new webhost on 1 December 2006. The site may be briefly unavailable while global DNS servers propagate the site's new location. I apologize for this necessary inconvenience.

6 November 2006

• Added 4 games: Arcy 2, Cargo Bay, Corncob 3D, and Rings of the Magi.

29 October 2006

• Added 2 games: Rescue Rover and Turbo.

23 September 2006

• Added Charlie II.

26 July 2006

• Got permission from Damon Hastings to distribute Duel 2000 as freeware.

9 July 2006

• Added 7 games: The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian, Blood, Charlie the Duck, Round-42, Sango Fighter, Super Angelo, and Trugg.

25 June 2006

• Got permission from xLand Software to distribute Adventures of Robbo, Electro Man, and Heartlight PC as freeware.
• Got permission from Maciej Miasik to release the unreleased shareware version of Adventures of Robbo.

28 May 2006

• Added 2 games: Crazy Eights and Heros I: The Sanguine Seven.

18 April 2006

• Got permission from Clay Hellman to distribute Cybersphere and Cybersphere Plus as freeware.
• Added 5 games: The Adventures of Captain Comic, Crates, Cybersphere, Cybersphere Plus, and Jelly Bean Factory.

11 March 2006

• Added 6 games: Skunny: Back to the Forest, Skunny: Desert Raid, Skunny: Lost in Space, Skunny: Save Our Pizzas, Skunny: Wild West, and Skunny Kart.

7 March 2006

• Classic DOS Games has its 1st anniversary.

27 February 2006

• Added 6 games: Castle Adventure, Dungeons of Grimlor, Dungeons of Grimlor 2: The Lich, General Budda's Labyrinth, Robot Crusades, and Solder Runner.
• Got permission from Richard Lang and Psion Software to distribute Psion Chess as freeware.

31 January 2006

• Added an interview of Joe Siegler.
• Added "latest news" section to the website. I had never bothered to keep a revision history, in part because I didn't think anyone cared. Someone asked for one, so I made one. I had to put all of the website's history up until now in one entry.

31 December 2005

• Purchased domain name and hand-coded website in HTML, CSS and PHP.
• Drafted mission statement and privacy policy.

• Added 130 games (341 versions) and wrote 117 reviews.
• Created a public forum.
• Created the DOS Games Compatibility Wiki.

• Got Activision's legal department to declare the legal status of the Zork Trilogy.
• Got permission from Mark Currie to distribute Chopper Commando as freeware and release the source code.
• Got permission from Ron Balewski to distribute Mah Jongg -8514-, Mah Jongg -V-G-A-, and Mah Jongg LapTop as freeware.
• Got permission from Accursed Toys to distribute the DOS version of Boppin' as freeware.
• Got Revolution Software to distribute the full CD and floppy versions of Beneath a Steel Sky and release the source code.
• Got permission from Mike Voss to distribute all of Moonlite Software's classic games as freeware (Clyde's Adventure, Clyde's Revenge, Crazy Eights, Cribbage, Taking Care of Business).

• Created 9 petitions to have discontinued games re-released for sale or as freeware, 3 of which have ended successfully.

• Interviewed John Passfield, Nels Anderson, Ken Silverman and Owen Thomas.

• Spent $186.48 on hosting and collected $0.45 in revenue.