How to play old games.

[Espionage724]

Diablo II notes (15.0, wine-devel, new WoW64)

 

[Beastie]

I want to go back in time even if i'm old. Playing.
-Heretic
-Prince of Persia
-Lemmings
Best way to do this on Freebsd.
Even Quake 2 . This might be modern

games/heretic has been available natively for ages.

The original Prince of Persia is an MS-DOS game, so definitely DOSBox.

 

[ksolowoniuk]

Retroarch is a blast. Can even play some old arcade games like Golden Axe!

 

[Maturin]

Retroarch is a blast.

G U Y Z !! (sorry for this happens at this point. But I have to place it somewhere, since it *cough*pisses me for quite a while. So sorry, ksolowoniuk, it hits you. Please don't take this meant as to be personal. It is NOT. It is meant general! It was just that this was the occasion my Stetson flew off (could have happened to anybody else) [sorry, sorry, sorry!]) ...
...Guyz,
could you PLEAZZzzzsss(!) just add some link, when you annotate something like that? 
Now of course I am interested in, what "Retroarch" is. Now I have to ddg it. Why not just - plz - make it a small link to port's or its home page, if you recommend something...
T H A N K S!

 

[dsilvio]

I've got Quake 2 running with Wine Proton. I haven't yet figured out how to get Proton to recognize that my Nvidia card actually does support ray tracing, but if I ever do I'm looking forward to Quake 2 RTX:

 

[Crivens]

The original Prince of Persia is an MS-DOS game

<Nitpick> It was Apple II, yes? </Nitpick>

 

[Zare]

Dosbox is least good choice to enjoy DOS games. It is good for occasional run, but as a high level emulator it is highly inaccurate across the board.

One that thinks this is harsh opinion, probably did not fire up a real DOS computer + game in a long long while.

Second best thing is 86Box, full machine emulator. If you have a 3 GHz modern CPU you can easily emulate a Pentium 100 with 16-bit sound card hence play all DOS games apart from the late 3D ones in VESA mode.

Now of course I am interested in, what "Retroarch" is. Now I have to ddg it. Why not just - plz - make it a small link to port's or its home page, if you recommend something...

It is a multi system emulator with 10 foot UI, available in ports under that name.

I don't like it, well I don't dislike it either, but 1000-in-1 using TV interface is not my thing. Just navigating countless flat menues in and out is annoying, it is 10 times quicker to click/enter that out in normal forms based GUI. Retroarch has introduced libretro 'standard' where existing open source emulators can pack up their business logic in a library - the benefit on FreeBSD, there are libretro 'plugins' whose original full project counterpart does not build on FreeBSD, at least they're usable through Retroarch

In any case if you do not have a ROM archive with hundreds to thousands of ROMs with multiple systems, you don't really need Retroarch.

 

[CShell]

<Nitpick> It was Apple II, yes? </Nitpick>

Ya it was ! --- I remember playing this on a friends Apple IIc back in the day

(Link Wikipedia): Prince of Persia (1989 video game)

I (also) used to play a lot of Broderbund Choplifter! back then as well: (Wikipedia Link): Choplifter!

Good times - and a lot great games were released by Broderbund Software

 

[Zare]

Isn't Apple II completely underpowered to run this game fluidly? I'm looking at YT videos and the frame rate drops significantly in combat.
Something like a 286 10 MHz with EGA was cheap budget PC in 1989, and it is able to play Prince at full frame rate all the time.