Anyone have any old shareware disks?

[jeremysart]

Im looking for some shareware disks for games like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Heretic, Hexen etc.

Anyone that has any piles of old shareware CDs from the early to mid 90s, especially ones with id, raven, apogee, epic megagames or 3d realms CD and would like to sell em to me, send me a PM.

(I got my old DOS/95 machine working, but I dont have any of my old shareware disks anymore.)

Thanks!

-Jeremy

[mbd30]

Im looking for some shareware disks for games like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Heretic, Hexen etc.

Anyone that has any piles of old shareware CDs from the early to mid 90s, especially ones with id, raven, apogee, epic megagames or 3d realms CD and would like to sell em to me, send me a PM.

(I got my old DOS/95 machine working, but I dont have any of my old shareware disks anymore.)

Thanks!

-Jeremy

 

Does your dos machine have a CD drive? I suppose you could download DOS games from an abandonware site or some such, burn them to disc, and then copy them unto your old machine.

[jeremysart]

Im looking for some shareware disks for games like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Heretic, Hexen etc.

Anyone that has any piles of old shareware CDs from the early to mid 90s, especially ones with id, raven, apogee, epic megagames or 3d realms CD and would like to sell em to me, send me a PM.

(I got my old DOS/95 machine working, but I dont have any of my old shareware disks anymore.)

Thanks!

-Jeremy

 

Does your dos machine have a CD drive? I suppose you could download DOS games from an abandonware site or some such, burn them to disc, and then copy them unto your old machine.

 

Unfortunately, the CD drive wont read CD-R disks. That was the first thing I tried. Loaded tons of DOS games to a CD, but the computer would not read the disk. I tried replacing the CD drive with a more modern re-writable drive, but the computer would not detect it :-(

[Tom-Lynx]

You can find a lot of these at http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/. This site has only legal downloads of many past games that were shareware, freeware, etc.

 

 

[jeremysart]

Sweet, got the CD drive to work. One of the IDE pins was bent is all

Woohoo, im going download crazy right now.

[jeremysart]

*EDIT* my internet connection sucks right now

Edited February 27, 2010 by jeremysart

[82-T/A]

Im looking for some shareware disks for games like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Heretic, Hexen etc.

Anyone that has any piles of old shareware CDs from the early to mid 90s, especially ones with id, raven, apogee, epic megagames or 3d realms CD and would like to sell em to me, send me a PM.

(I got my old DOS/95 machine working, but I dont have any of my old shareware disks anymore.)

Thanks!

-Jeremy

 

Does your dos machine have a CD drive? I suppose you could download DOS games from an abandonware site or some such, burn them to disc, and then copy them unto your old machine.

 

Unfortunately, the CD drive wont read CD-R disks. That was the first thing I tried. Loaded tons of DOS games to a CD, but the computer would not read the disk. I tried replacing the CD drive with a more modern re-writable drive, but the computer would not detect it :-(

 

 

If you're running DOS (even Windows 95) you'll probably need to load the CD drivers.

 

Honestly, you can use generic "Oak Technologies" drivers. It's like OAK_CD.SYS. All you do is load it in the CONFIG.SYS and then run MSCDEX.EXE in the AUTOEXEC.BAT (comes with DOS). The configuration for that is easy, you simply set the drive letter you want it, and pass the CD "name" from the CD driver.

 

You can do a search on the internet for "Generic CD DOS Driver".