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Internet Archive can emulate games and old software. (archive.org)

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!textfiles@mastodon.archive.org - A silly milestone we passed sometime this year: The Internet Archive now emulates (to various degrees, of course), over 250,000 pieces of software, hardware, and electronics, thanks to the effort of a dozen emulation projects and all of them running in the browser. Live again, ancient software!

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[-] M500@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I just want to play fisher price castle and Wild West games. How can this be done? I have the isos for those games.

[-] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

PCem. I took that same nostalgia trip a year or two ago and they worked fine.

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