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Any cool DOS game.

You can still play those using Dosbox (an emulator) and downloading the games from various archives. There are also browser ports for several games. One of the recent ones I saw, which was also shared here, was Prince of Persia (https://princejs.com/ ).

POP has a native source port for any platform, SDLPOP.

Also, https://osgameclones.com has zillions of source port and clones for everything.

Stack ScummVM on top and lots of DOS games can be replayable today without burning zillions of cycles at DOSBox.

What would be ideal for me would be having everything set up and ready to go. It is a bit of a hassle to install dosbox, copy the files to the internal file structure of the dosbox, then install the software and configure.

I know I'm being picky but taking 25 minutes to set up a new game or an old program just isn't usually worth the hassle for me.

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