Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderDOS was a great platform for developing games. It was simple. It was constrained. We could write code in QBASIC and compile it to EXE and distribute it. It could run on any DOS machine then. Is there an equivalent like that now for game development? What I am looking for is a simple and constrained environment. Has support for graphics and audio. But in this age, I would like something that works uniformly across Windows, Linux desktop (such as…
The game I made in high school is up there. You need to hit ctrl-f12 about 4 times for it to run at a reasonable speed. https://archive.org/details/bob_and_his_amazing_journey_home
There's also a really great project called eXoDOS that has 7k+ games and launches and emulates them all. I can't access their homepage, but here it is on the wayback. It's a torrent download anyway. https://web.archive.org/web/20240126232012/https://www.retro...
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 300
- Total comments
- 117
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-09 | Oregon Trail, Wolfenstein, Prince of Persia.. ~2300 MS-DOS Games Online Free | jfdi | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-04-30 | Play MSDOS games in browser | Garbage | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-01-16 | The Internet Archive just added 2,300 MS-DOS games to their library | ceronman | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-04-17 | In-browser MS-DOS Games | joeyspn | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-10-27 | Archive.org's Msdos Web Emulator (Games) | ggurgone | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-12-12 | Software Library: MS-DOS GamesFirst breakout · Best thread | davedx | 169 | 62 |
| 2022-06-03 | Software Library: MS-DOS GamesLatest 20+ point return | Brajeshwar | 112 | 50 |
| 2024-07-12 | Software Library: MS-DOS Games | Jugurtha | 9 | 5 |