MS-DOS (/ˌɛmɛsˈdɒs/ em-es-doss; short for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid-1990s. IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING ANY ISSUES WITH RUNNING THESE PROGRAMS, PLEASE READ THE FAQ. Thanks to eXo for contributions and assistance with this...
Software for MS-DOS machines that represent entertainment and games. The collection includes action, strategy, adventure and other unique genres of game and entertainment software. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable. Please be aware this browser-based emulation is still in beta - contact Jason Scott , Software Curator, if there are issues or questions. Thanks to eXo for contributions and assistance with this archive. Thank you for your...
The Commodore 64, also known as the C64 or the CBM 64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, January 7–10, 1982). It has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-selling single computer model of all time, with independent estimates placing the number sold between 10 and 17 million units. Volume production started in early 1982, marketing in August for US$595 (equivalent to...
Software generally aimed towards younger audiences, ranging from education to entertainment. We recommend that you consider the date of publication and the source of the media when deciding whether it is a good resource for your child, and review everything first for age-appropriateness
Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film that is created with the Adobe Animate (formerly Flash Professional) platform or similar animation software and often distributed in the SWF file format. The term Flash animation refers to both the file format and the medium in which the animation is produced. Flash animation has enjoyed mainstream popularity since the mid-2000s, with many Flash-animated television series, television commercials, and award-winning online shorts being produced...
The Apple II series (trademarked with square brackets as "Apple ][" and rendered on later models as "Apple //") is a set of home computers, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and introduced in 1977 with the original Apple II. In terms of ease of use, features and expandability the Apple II was a major technological advancement over its predecessor, the...
The ZX Spectrum (pronounced /ˈzɛdˌɛks/ "Zed-Ex") is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. The machine was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black-and-white of its predecessor, the ZX81. The Spectrum was ultimately released as eight different models; together they sold in excess of 5 million units worldwide (not counting numerous clones). The Spectrum was...
The largest use of Flash on the World Wide Web during its heyday, games, amusements and puzzles ranged from unique expressions by one-person teams to clones and runalikes of a wide range of arcade classics.
Games and entertainment software for the ZX Spectrum. The Internet Archive Software Library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released products to public domain and hobbyist programs. Using the JSMESS emulator, users can "boot up" an emulation of the given title and use it in their browser. More titles are added frequently, and users are encouraged to donate newly found floppy disk images and programs.
A wide variety of games and entertainment software for the Commodore 64, playable in the browser.
This is a large-scale collection of cracked software for the Commodore 64: Usually containing title screens and animations by crackers, as well as modifications or cheat menus for the programs inside. They're included to allow easy access to all the variations of C64 software released, although other collections in the C64 Software Library are better focused.
To some, the heart of the Demoscene - the self-playing examples of programming and artistic prowess of the last 30 years on the underpowered but extremely flexible C64. These demos will play in the browser.
The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 and manufactured until 1992. All are based on the MOS Technology 6502 CPU running at 1.79 MHz, roughly twice that of similar designs, and were the first home computers designed with custom co-processor chips. This architecture allowed the Atari designs to offer graphics and sound capabilities that were more advanced than contemporary machines. Overall, the Atari 8-bit computer line was a commercial...
This is a collection automatically assembled of items in which the user has indicated they can run the Emularity emulation system. These are not all guaranteed to work.
Games and entertainment software for the Atari 8-bit family. The Internet Archive Software Library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released products to public domain and hobbyist programs. Using the JSMESS emulator, users can "boot up" an emulation of the given title and use it in their browser. More titles are added frequently, and users are encouraged to donate newly found floppy disk images and programs.
Windows 3.1x (codenamed Janus) is a series of 16-bit operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers. The series began with Windows 3.1, which was first sold during April 1992 as a successor to Windows 3.0. Subsequent versions were released between 1992 and 1994 until the series was superseded by Windows 95. During its lifespan, Windows 3.1 introduced several enhancements to the still MS-DOS-based platform, including improved system stability, expanded support for...
The Demoscene has created wonderful programs for all sorts of platforms, including MS-DOS machines. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, the demos in this collection are bootable and playable.
Topics: msdos demoscene, demoscene entries
A wide and varied collection of Shareware programs for the Windows 3.0/3.1/3.1.1 systems of the early 1990s. Many are written in visual Basic, utilizing the then-new programmable user interface of Windows to allow a greater amount of independent programmers to make applications.
A collection of flash animations, games and toys that were aimed for children in the 2000, ranging from cartoonish versions of standard games to small animated versions of television shows.
Games and entertainment software for the Apple II. The Internet Archive Software Library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released products to public domain and hobbyist programs. Using the JSMESS emulator, users can "boot up" an emulation of the given title and use it in their browser. More titles are added frequently, and users are encouraged to donate newly found floppy disk images and programs.
This is a collection mature or graphic titles from a variety of software library sections, grouped to give viewers a choice in browsing software history as to how graphic they wish screenshots to be.
A widely variant collection of MS-DOS compatible shareware programs, including games, utilities, demos and applications. Culled from many different sources, including CD-ROMs and FTP sites.
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Compact pre-installed Windows 95 hard disk image and AUTOEXEC.BAT file packaged for DOSBox , which runs in the browser thanks to hard work of contributors to Em-DOSBox , DOSBox , Emscripten , and web browser engines. This was originally hosted at win95.ajf.me , a site created by myself in May 2015, and inspired by the Internet Archive's DOS game emulation efforts (and using the same tech). Now it's on the Internet Archive itself. You can still go to that site if you want to know more about how...
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Topics: MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows, PC, Operating System, Windows, Windows 95, PC
A randomized collection of contributed Apple II floppy disk images - many destined for other locations, some unsure of their history or what modifications make them unique.
A collection of historical software for Apple II computers from the 1980s and early 1990s. Each item was originally copy protected (i.e. the original floppy disk could not be copied to another floppy disk), but the copy protection has been removed and documented. Most items also include a "work disk" comprising the intermediate files created during the deprotection. To send feedback, ask questions, or get notified of new releases, follow @a2_4am on Twitter.
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ZZT is an ANSI character-based video game, created in 1991 by Tim Sweeney of Potomac Computer Systems which became Epic MegaGames in 1992. It remains a popular MS-DOS game creation system. ZZT itself is not an acronym for anything; its title was chosen so it would always appear at the bottom of newsgroup listings. It was later jokingly mentioned by Sweeney as being short for Zoo of Zero Tolerance, which has mistakenly become a popular belief. Although visually outdated at the time of its...
Toys, games and animations created in Flash for support of the Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. television channels.
In 2018, the Applesauce Floppy Drive Controller was released. Utilizing custom hardware attached directly to an Apple II floppy drive, this peripheral allows for both low-level reading of all Apple II floppy disks and post-analysis of them, converting them into several formats. One of these, .WOZ, is meant to provide all intact disk information (including protection schemes) for use by emulators. This directory is a collection of contributed flux files (.a2r) generated by the...
A collection of software harvested from hundreds of floppy disks in the 1980s.
Barry Joynes aka “Derbyshire Ram” was one of the greatest and appreciated crackers on the c64 scene from the early days of the c64 commercial games , additionly he had many contacts worldwide , and considered Indisputably a real pioneer as a cracker , he gained a large comminuty of fans and mates who admire his work and his awesome personality.
Happy Tree Friends is an adult animated web series created by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, and Kenn Navarro, and developed by Montijo, Navarro, and Jeremy Viet Duong for Mondo Media. The show had achieved a cult following on Mondo Media, G4 and YouTube. Montijo, Navarro, Graff, Ankrum serving as showrunners. In premises akin to children's shows, the series features cartoon anthropomorphic forest animals, who are suddenly subjected to extreme graphic violence in every episode. Each episode...
A collection of emulated software for the early Macintosh computer, created by Apple as the successor to the Apple II series. Simple, powerful and a new path in computing, the Macintosh's graphics-based operating system changed the face of computing permanently.
Flash "Toys" are small interactive works written in the Flash environment; they generally don't have a score or even a goal other than to be fiddled with, like a toy sitting on a desktop.
This collection is a hand-picked set of selections from the MS-DOS Software Library of the Internet Archive. They've been chosen because they represent major parts of the MS-DOS story, because they are particularly impressive, and because they're fun. The intention is to eventually link these games to manuals and other materials as time goes on. Curation was done by Jason Scott, Internet Archive's Software Librarian. He can be reached at jscott@archive.org with suggestion, questions and...
This collection consists of attempts to emulate flash items that run into issues with the Ruffle emulator currently in use at Internet Archive. Ruffle (at https://ruffle.rs) is constantly being updated and improved, so these items will work more effectively over time. Eventually, they will be moved to the regular collection.
The osu! skins collection is based on a love for the rhythm game and community associated with it. From anime, to memes, to aesthetically appealing layouts, this archive serves to preserve the many unique designs the game and community has had to offer since 2007.
Topics: osu, skin, skins
Applications, Utilities and Tools for the Commodore 64.
This is the classic Oregon Trail Deluxe!
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Topics: Oregon Trail, MS-DOS, Oregon Trail Deluxe
Flash animations are primarily non-interactive animations written in Flash. Some are music videos or short films, while others are simple short loops meant to be left running. Flash emulation of Adobe / Macromedia
This is a varied collection of applications and programs written for MS-DOS. As things are emulated in the browser, there is currently no way to save the progress of your work, so please don't work too hard inside these applications! They are provided to give historical context and research into how programs and applications worked in earlier times. If you are not familiar with the in-browser emulator EM-DOSBOX being used to provide these applications, please read the FAQ . If you have...
A collection of .WOZ disk images for the 8-bit Apple II and 16-bit Apple IIgs. .WOZ disk images comprise all the data from a 5.25-inch or 3.5-inch floppy disk, including the exact bitstream of each track and the physical layout of the tracks on disk. These are not "cracked" copies; all the original code, including on-disk copy protection checks, are retained. When booted in a compatible emulator, these disk images pass their own copy protection checks.
Goth kids have shot up your school, and it's up to Pico to save the day! Originally featured on Newgrounds in 1999, I finally refactored the .FLA to accommodate faster computers. The problem with this game was that it was meant to run at 24fps, but boss battles slowed down and made things easier. As computers got faster, so did the boss battles.
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Topic: Flash
A collection of Disk Magazines (magazines presented on Floppy Disks) from various time periods and various computer platforms.
The Amstrad CPC (short for Colour Personal Computer) is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe. The series spawned a total of six distinct models: The CPC464, CPC664, and CPC6128 were highly successful...
Classic algorithm game
Topics: Flash, Flash Games
The Apple IIGS (stylized as IIgs) is the fifth and most powerful model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. The "GS" in the name stands for Graphics and Sound, referring to its enhanced multimedia capabilities, especially its state-of-the-art sound and music synthesis, which greatly surpassed previous models of the line and most contemporary machines like the Macintosh and IBM PC. The machine was a radical departure from any previous Apple II, with...
Welcome to the most complete Commodore 64 cassette archive that exists. By complete, we do not mean it's all the titles ever made, but all tapes are complete with coverscans and manuals all in one place for you to enjoy. We have used Tape Manager V1.3 (https://csdb.dk/release/?id=172213) to organize the content, so that it can easily be used with the NOVA64 front end (https://csdb.dk/release/index.php?id=172356) which also has features to run the images on both emulators and real C64s. You are...
This is a set of emulated Apple II programs, including Games, Educational Software, Utilities and Applications. Emulated in the browser using The Emularity, it allows for one-click access to the original programs. These floppy disks are imaged using the .WOZ format, which is designed to capture the full range of Apple II disk data, including copy protection efforts. From, the reference specification: Why yet another Apple II disk image format? This is probably the question many of you reading...
Commodore 64 Disk Magazines, self-contained executable issues with writings, sound and graphics, often put out monthly, and covering items of interest to various scenes. All should be executable in the browser.
Platforms DOS, Windows Released Dec 06, 2004 Genre Adventure Perspective 1st-person, 3rd-person (Other) Narrative Adult Description Play the role of Richard, who hasn't had some action for the past two years! After watching some eventful TV, the over-ambitious hero decides to go to New York and try to score with a cast member of a popular TV series. Help Richard obtain his goal! Gameplay is still similar with its predecessor and other early Sierra text-based adventures. Type in 'verbs' to...
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Topic: AGI games
A collection of Apple IIgs floppy disks, imaged by Jorma Honkanen. Includes applications, games, graphics, and other titles for the Apple IIgs (with occasional non-gs titles mixed in). This collection is from Finland, and has a strong European connection and theme.
This collection contains selected historically important software packages from the Internet Archive's software archives. Through the use of in-browser emulators, it is possible to try out these items and experiment with using them, without the additional burdens of installing emulator software or tracking down the programs. Many of these software products were the first of their kind, or utilized features and approaches that have been copied or recreated on many programs since. (historic...
Topic: historic software, software, vintage software, antique software
Also For 3DO, Game Boy Advance, Jaguar, Linux, PC-98, SEGA 32X, SNES, Windows Developed by id Software, Inc. Published by id Software, Inc. Released 1993 Gameplay Shooter Perspective 1st-person Narrative Horror Genre Action Setting Sci-Fi / Futuristic ESRB Rating Mature Description The Union Aerospace Corporation has been experimenting with teleportation technology on Mars' moons Phobos and Deimos. After early successes, something goes wrong. It seems the scientists have opened a gateway...
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The Festival Floppies are a collection of programs from a pile of floppies bought by Josh Miller at the Timonium Hamboree and Computer Festival in 2009. They consist of a large variety of 3.5" floppy disks, including a set of shareware with laser-printed directories on the labels. The pile of floppies were donated to Jason Scott, who has imaged them and has made the contents, where possible, emulated and playable from the browser. These are all from the custom-printed label disks, which...
Topics: Shareware, DOS, Windows
This is a collection of curated Windows 3.x software, meant to show the range of software products available for the 3.x Operating System in the early 1990s.
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100s of games at your fingertips, as long as your fingertips are on an Apple ][ Download Download Total Replay ( version 4.01 , released 2021-02-18 , 32 MB disk image) About Total Replay is a frontend for exploring and playing classic arcade games on an 8-bit Apple ][. Some notable features: UI for searching and browsing all games Screensaver mode includes hundreds of screenshots and dozens of self-running demos In-game protections removed (manual lookups, code wheels, &c.) Integrated game...
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Topics: apple2, 4am
Educational software for the Apple II. The Internet Archive Software Library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released products to public domain and hobbyist programs. Using the JSMESS emulator, users can "boot up" an emulation of the given title and use it in their browser. More titles are added frequently, and users are encouraged to donate newly found floppy disk images and programs.
A simple arcade game guiding a fish away from being eaten by other fish.
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Apple II Game Compilations - collections of games or programs on a single floppy disk with a menu to allow selection between them. The Internet Archive Software Library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released products to public domain and hobbyist programs. Using the JSMESS emulator, users can "boot up" an emulation of the given title and use it in their browser. More titles are added frequently, and users are encouraged to...
Commerically-released Commodore 64 disk magazines.
After clicking past the title screen, a brief message appears, warning the player not to give black licorice to any of the trick-or-treaters at the door. Once the player opens the door, three of five trick-or-treaters will be waiting for you: a boy dressed as a cowboy, a girl dressed as a bunny, a boy dressed as a fire fighter, a girl dressed as a fairy or black cat, and a baby dressed as a pumpkin or a bee. Strangely, all the trick-or-treaters have photos of real children as heads. The...
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Topics: Nickelodeon, Flash
Education and Learning programs for the Apple II family of computers. The floppy disks are encoded in the .WOZ format for inclusion of the full digital image of the original media.
A collection of floppy disk images from The Glitch's personal collection, dating to the early 1990s.
Experimental MS-DOS emulation package for games based on Sierra On-Line's AGI engine.
Topic: Emulation packages
Floppy disks from various user groups and collections, assembled on the "Pool CD-ROM" for Atari. These variant floppy disks are provided as executable examples in this set. The Internet Archive Software Library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released products to public domain and hobbyist programs. Using the JSMESS emulator, users can "boot up" an emulation of the given title and use it in their browser. More...
Educational programs for Windows 3.1.
A collection of emulated games for the Amstrad CPC.
Games and entertainment for the Apple IIgs.
Commodore 64 compilation disks are sets of (usually cracked) games or programs meant to save download time by being placed together on the same floppy disk.
Super Mario 63 is a fan-game inspired by Nintendo's Super Mario 64. Many levels and features are based upon it and other of Nintendo's games, but a variety of them are completely original. Among them include a detailed storyline, ability to play as Luigi, a highly customizable Level Designer with sharable codes, three different FLUDD Power-ups, four different power-caps, and 64 Shine Sprites & 64 Star Coins to collect. This is the final, complete version of this game. If you have seen this...
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Topic: Flash
A wide variety of educational (and "edutainment") titles for the Commodore 64, playable in the browser.
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By popular demand, complete with new items, colours, categories, and interface, a male-centric dollmaker.
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Topic: Flash
Applications, utilities and general purpose software for the Apple II. The Internet Archive Software Library is a large collection of viewable and executable software titles, ranging from commercially released products to public domain and hobbyist programs. Using the JSMESS emulator, users can "boot up" an emulation of the given title and use it in their browser. More titles are added frequently, and users are encouraged to donate newly found floppy disk images and programs.
A flash animation from a compilation of 1,100 Flash Animations. Create a continuous pipeline between the tap and the overflow pipe.
