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The DOS Games Archive blog contains interesting articles about DOS games.

Spotlight: 15 free games inspired by DOS classics

The DOS era saw many a breakthrough in game development, including the releases of Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D, or such brilliant classic strategy series as Warcraft or Command & Conquer. There is no wonder, then, that many such titles have inspired later developers to create their own games after these well-deservedly popular series.

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Spotlight: 15 lightweight free DOS games

DOS Games Archive offers a lot of exciting games for you to try, but here is a selection of very good quality free DOS games that are incredibly small, being less than 2 megabytes in size when compressed. Back in the 90s, you could fit almost any of them on a single floppy disk, and today you can just enjoy those little elegant games, because they're really good!

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Installing FreeDOS in 86Box: a step-by-step guide

86Box with FreeDOS offer an interesting alternative to DOSBox. 86Box accurately emulates x86 hardware, which may provide advantages when running certain games at a consistent speed or without glitches. Since I found no useful guide for installing FreeDOS in 86Box, I had to figure it out myself. It's generally a very simple procedure, but there are a few not very intuitive steps that you need to take in order for the installation to work.

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Spotlight: 10 excellent but obscure free DOS games

Today DOS Games Archive brings you a list of 10 excellent high-quality free DOS games that you might have never heard about.

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Spotlight: 10 worthy obscure DOS games

Today DOS Games Archive brings to you a list of 10 DOS games that may be not widely known but are nevertheless worth checking out.

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