Checking out the latest Version 6 of eXoDOS! Over 7000 DOS games that come with a launcher and are preconfigured ready to go. If you want to try DOS games but are intimidated by configuring DOSBox, this project is for you!
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Thank you for putting together such a nice video on the project. Very appreciated!
It's nothing compared to what you put together all these years. You're an absolute legend!
Thank you RetroeXo 🙏🏼 & thank you Phil for a awesome video 👍🏼
You're an absolute legend!
Not enough of seeders is there any other way to DL this nostalgia overload?
patience. There are tons of seeders. @@L-double-J
Wow, it’s been ages since I tried an eXoDOS release and I’m damned impressed with how far it’s come! Thanks for the video Phil, I’ve gotta give this another shot now.
I still haven't played much, the magazines and books are so awesome 😅
Agreed! Monkey Island first?
We are always adding more and more. Glad to have you try it out
Clint, please retype that in the Duke Nukem voice.
O' Boy oh boy! Am I smelling some Christmas exclusive? On top of top of top?
3:49 This manual is so nostalgic. The scanning of a paper source, the 90s typesetting...it really hits the mark.
thank you!
Oh yes this gave me flashbacks to such an amazing time! I still have some big box releases for of DOS games and from time to time I just go through them and read the huge books they gave us as manuals back them. I wish we could go back to auch releases, especially the books were amazing back then!
eXoDOS has come a long way, I first grabbed it when it was 3.0. I think the launchbox incorporation makes this very user friendly for those who just want to play old games!
This is absolutely amazing and I have no idea how, but never heard about this project before. And I'm a fan.... currently building a Pentium 4 DOS/Win98SE computer and even got a 19" CRT monitor with great picture. But this collection is far more with all those books and magazines. Really happy that YT decided to pop this video in my recommendations.
An absolute insane collection for retro Dos stuff preservation, huge shoutout to the people behind the project, they are doing the lords work.
So true! Some of the best games ever made imo are DOS era releases. Specifically I’m thinking of Ultima Underworld, which might be my all time favorite game. It’s in my top 5 for sure!
@@catsooey I've been meaning to try that one...I love Daggerfall and other oldschool games like Nethack, but I'm new to anything Ultima related and I have a bit of trepidation haha. I did complete the original system shock last year and absolutely fell in love with it, so I'm sure I'll be able to manage an old clunker like Ultima Underworld...hopefully :P
@@EjectedStomach I wish I could experience it again for the first time. It might not have the same effect as playing it back in ‘92 when it was first released, but to me it still looks great. It’s funny how things that changed your life still keep their magic years later. I need to grab System Shock though - I missed out on that one the first time around. I was going to pick up the remake but someone said it wasn’t optimized very well for Steam Deck. They might have improved it since then but I haven’t checked. I have such a huge backlog of games, lol, plus I’m learning to fly as a DCS World pilot which is absolutely awesome! 🙂👍
This is phenomenal! Thank you to the people doing the work on the project and to the people seeding it!
Wow this is such a huge project with so much time and work put into it. I'm sure people can spend so much time browsing everything included. Thanks a lot to eXo for the hard work, downloading the light version now.
This is absolutely mindblowing! Thanks for showing us stuff like this! 🙏
It's been great observing Exo and the team working on this project on discord over the years. Doing everything possible to simplify and add in all the extra features. It's top top top work
wow this is awesome, so much time in organizing all this stuff. thanks for video
I've been supporting Exodos since version 3. Glad your covering it!
Thanks Phil for bringing up this fantastic project to us. It surely can be a nice Christmas present 😊
Sweet! Thanks for sharing this with us mate. Downloading it now :) Cheers.
Thanks. Going to install and support this project
This looks awesome! Downloading it now, thanks for sharing Phil!
Hell of a download, but I look forward to giving this a try. Thanks for putting a spotlight on this project.
Thank you Phil for bringing this project to my knowledge!
Thanks for the heads-up. What a stunning project.
This is incredible. I'm pleasantly surprised to see books, catalogs and magazines. Very nice interface too. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
Great video as always mate - keep em' coming!!
Great video, thank you for letting me know about exoDOS! Downloading now .
eXo is such a great guy! He and the team did such an overhaul of eXoDOS! So many great new features and changes! I love watching his channel, especially the deepdives and talking about the history, the behind the scenes, so entertaining!
Thank you :)
And all those videos on the exodos v6 playlist there have such crazy thumbnails. Haha.
This is mighty impressive. I'll definitely check the latest version. Thanks for the tip
eXoDOS is a lot of fun to play around with and brings back memories (just the good ones -- not the IRQ and DMA conflict memories) of playing DOS games. A lot of hard work went into this and it shows. Sort of the software equivalent of all the hard work you do trying to make old hardware accessible with your wonderful website full of old drivers, benchmarks, direct x, instructiions, and of course great videos. Keep up the good work yourself.
Never got your video's recommended on my random video feed. But I am glad that I did. You have interesting video's and this video totally made me remember eXoDOS. Thanks for this amazing video.
i can't thanks enough for bring us this and let we know about that project release, all msdos game lover would look for... Thank you sooo much!!
Glad you covered this! Thank you.
Awesome! Thank you so much! I'm downloading now!
Thanks Phil for a superb upload and huge thanks to eXo for this fantastic project.
Really cool project! Thanks for the deep dive video!
Great Video. Exciting as I grew up loving the mags and games as well, since I started my journey in 1971. Thank You
As a fan of retro gaming I've always been interested in the possible greatness of DOS Box and emulation. However It was easier for me to get good results running the games on older hardware. Untill I discovered eXo DOS.
Thanks! I didn't know about this project!
NICE! I had the old EXODOS packs that were seperated by Genre. There were 5 total packs and around 600gb. This is GREAT LOVE IT! NICE VIDEO! Great coverage!
There are still addon packs for example one that adds German language adventure games and a Win 3.x pack.
this is amazing, wasn't aware of this project, i have a lot of memories of DOS gaming back in the 90s, will have to check this out at some point
Thank you for this!! Can't wait to try some old dos games❤❤❤
eXo is the boss! Thank you Phil for sharing this info. More people know about this project - better for us DOS freaks 😅
I cant say think you enough for putting this together. Keep doing gods work!
Wow... never heard of this collection berfore, thanks for bringing it to our attention 😁👍💖
That’s insane! Thanks for making me discover that.
For DOS Enthusiasts, this is Christmas come early.
I completely forgot about exodos! Downloading this immediately edit: I should add - Thank you, Exo, for all the work dedicated to this project!
You are welcome!
oh boy... i didnt know such grandiose "grass-roots" type project even existed. it presents me with the dilemma of going 5GB & on demand or full on 640GB - what a cool number btw :)) the manual , the homepage... its as if today i again had logged onto the world wide web with my 33.6k modem
640gb is uncompressed, close to 800gb uncompressed with media. Plus I expect it will keep growing as more titles are added as well as more media. The next stage is updating the win3x project to match v6 of this so they work better together.
@@bionicgeekgrrlthat’s absolutely crazy, that’s like 295000 3.5” Floppies.
Amazing how much time and effort has been put into this project! I recently purchased a Intel N100 mini pc. This should work great on it... Thanks Phil!
Thanks for reminding me of eXoDOS i forgot about it a while ago and im totally back into into it now !
Merry Chistmas Phil, WOW! eXo what a Time Machine & sooooo many options of how to use it. The ability for it to be used on Period Correct or any hardware + OS up to the latest is brilliant for making it useful for any skill level. 🤔800GB torrent file I'm gonna need to shut down & swap my 1TB for a 2TB so I can keep seeding my existing Torrents
Nice, I'll have to check this out!
This project is so epic. It's like Noah's Ark of DOS games! Just need to acquire a new SSD to permanently dedicate it to it.
Definitely worth a new SSD!
Takes too much disk space. You can download every dos game and it takes less than one tenth of the space.
why do you need an SSD for dosgames?
Because its over 800GB in size @@deadbeef576
You're not experiencing the true loading times with an SSD. Stick to mechanical. It's more fun.
I've had a lot of success copying eXoDOS games over to retro PCs and just running them, no installation required.
great🤩. I have both version 5 and 6 with the media pack configured on 2 2TB hard drives. The Alexandria Library of MS-DOS Titles. I made some videos on my little channel. It's about time we talked about it seriously, that team is doing and has done a spectacular job for the fans. Thanks for the video as always😉
Wait what's the deal with version 5? I don't know much about exo here, I'm assuming version 6 has the same content as 5 just more?
dude! thanks for this!
This project is crazy. What an amazing job.
eXo and his team have done amazing work. I started following the project around v4 and it is unrecognisable now and so much better. A immense amount of work has gone on under the hood to improve the teams lives. Worth checking out the other eXo projects too.
I love eXoDOS and eXoWin3x. I used to run PCem and install all of the games, but if simply trying to play a game, this is the way to go. Where PCem allowed me to put my old DOS/Win31 computers in storage, eXoDOS and eXoWin3x has me playing most of the old games I could ever ask for by simply clicking on a mouse. If all someone wants to do is play a game and they don't want to do any configuring (which sometimes is half the fun), then this is definitely the way to go.
Been following this as a member of FB ms dos groups but had no idea it was one guy. mad. well done sir.
wow thats all my childhood right there :O Thanks for the video!
800GB!!! Wow!! I know some DOS games got pretty large towards the end there with five or six CDs worth of data, but I didn’t realize that an archive like this would be so large!
It's likely the other stuff (book scans, sound files etc....) adding to it. Most 80's/early 90's gams were only a few megabytes large.
about the same install size as CoD
@@Vebinz It's 638GB without all of that...
Yeah, wtf why so large! many games were able to fix on 1.4mb floppies.
And they have more they are working on all the time. The media is just the start and the major part of the upgrade was the scripts that make it all work. They have several other projects including eXoAppleIIgz, eXoScummvm, eXoWin3x, eXoDream and eventually there may be a eXoWin9x when the windows 9x emulation improves enough, which is probably a way off as dosbox can't really do it how eXo wants.
I love it Phil! I also love retro hardware.... it's so hard to choose. Probably just have to have both
That's really awesome! I can't count the amount of times I struggle getting my old DOS games to work, even using DOSBox or an older PC! Something like this would save me alot of time!
this is insanity and absolutely DOPE!
An immersive nostalgia experience ❤
This is amazing. You guys made my day. Thank you. I was born in 82. So many of these i played but i also missed a ton. So 7000 games is brilliant. And the content included is crazy. I might just buy an ssd just for this.
A few days ago i just did that 😅I bought an external M.2. NVMe case and got a basic 2 TB NVMe SSD ;-) Works great!
Reminds me of the time when we used to buy "1001 Games!" CDs that were just DOS games lol. That's how I found out about Dangerous Dave, Day of the Tentacle and Commander Keen.
The 1001 Games CD's tended to be either a bunch of "Shareware" versions of the games, or basic card games. They wouldn't of had 1001 FULL games.
@@lmcgregoruk Some games (the oldest) were full games while others were cut down versions without the digital tracks nor the FMV.
It's heartwarming that the community of enthusiasts is keeping this historic cultural artwork alive. Amazing and joyful; I feel renewed like a kid again by this as I am recovering from covid. I didn't know that we were winning. Truly best regards and happy holidays.
It seems like it's worth a look. Thanks for the info. Haven't seen some of those games in 30 years.
This is the most important video on the internet! 680 GB of LOVE !
This is super cool. I’m so bummed that I only starting keeping my Pentium machines (P-100) but over time peripherals have died and they are becoming prohibitively expensive in Australia to buy original keyboards etc. This looks awesome to actually play on. I think I have a spare PC & VGA monitor which may love this setup. Thanks eXo & Phil for the video.
Thanks. Downloading right now.
This video made me discover eXodos. Thank you!
brilliant, thank you
Thanks man downloading now
Amazing project and work! It made me remember the TOSAC and TOSEC projects, collections of (pirated) floppy images from Ms-DOS era, similar to the "Blast!" C64 collection and others. Like the HOTU game database back then and others. I think I have some versions of the TOSAC and TOSEC collections somewhere, but I need to set up a VM or a proper retrogaming center, because that collections were full of viruses, and you need to test things in a controlled and isolated machine, just in case. There are nasty viruses from back then that could make some damage even today, depending on the set-up and configs... So yeah, I need to make my delayed retrogaming center a freaking reality already!
THANK YOU!!
Phil, you've indirectly contributed to this project in the past and didn't know it. Thanks for the review. This is definitely a passion project of eXo and his merry bandits.
Yes I'm curious, how?
@@philscomputerlab I began following your channel years ago with the MT-32 videos. Around that time, I began acquiring more vintage hardware and building out my DOS "Dream machines". Your videos clearly showed me what I needed to find. Fast forward a few years, I have limited free time (work) and other hobbies. If I want to play DOS games, I use eXoDOS. After talking to eXo it made sense that he could use the real hardware for troubleshooting and comparissons for the project. I passed on a large part of my collection to him recently. It's my way of giving back to the project. Thanks Phil for your inspiration and not being one of those gatekeepers on the retro sites.
Amazing review ❤
Wow what a monumental achievment! Respect!
*From Brazil:* Absolutely amazed with your work, with eXo work and all those unknown heroes of preservation
Thanks for sharing this !
Sure thing!
Thanks, never knew about this! Download now.
Yup! I installed it years ago but can't afford the time to play it! Amazing!
Very interesting. I’m a big fan of the old dos games and didn’t realize that this solution to playing them was an option. Thank you!
Great news, Phil. Thx.
Damn, those tors are huge. My seedbox gently weeps. Thnx for the head’s up!
One great thing about this is that I get to try out games that I played using alternative soundcards on top of them preserving a very rare version of King's Quest 4 which is the AGI version that Sierra made few copies of because they were afraid that users couldn't play the SCI version of KQ4 on their current PCs which turned out to be false because a lot of people were able to play the SCI version of KQ4 so Sierra discontinued the AGI version shortly after. On my old Tandy 1000 286 with 768k of RAM I was able to play the SCI version of KQ4 just fine.
Last used Exo at v3, time to dive in again! LEGEND!
Wish I still had my old CGW issues. That was a fantastic magazine!
I worked at Software ETC. from 1992 - 1996, some of the best years, all of these books, games brings back some stunning memories, I may have to install this, but I value the next 10 years of my life so maybe a 20 min. youtube vid is enough :D
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I had a number of those DOS books in paperback (some are still in my storage boxes).... oh the throwback!
A throwback into the days where there is no internet but dial-up BBS sites, and your reference for hardware is the Yellow-Pages sized Computer Shopper, Byte magazine and PC Mag. You'd be playing with all kinds of tricks to get more memory above 640K DOS limit using memory managers like QEMM. Forget 3D games or GPUs, anything that gives you SVGA resolution or more than 8-bit 256 colors is a achievement in itself. Yes those glorious days of DOS. Oh how I miss those computer show / flea markets where you get to gawk at the amazing new software and hardware releases every few months.
I miss them too 😢
I loved those magazines. I especially enjoyed Computer Shopper. It was the computer geek version of the Sears Wish Book Christmas catalog from when I was a kid.
This looks amazing!! I need to make some room first...
Mind blowing project! Fantastic! My interest lies in the 3dfx games space, because I still own a working Voodoo5 AGP card. Can't wait to play some of those Glide games.
2 videos per day? What a gift!
No?
Wait what?
@@philscomputerlab exactly I got confused too when I entered your channel
@@philscomputerlab My bad, I think I opened the Cyrix 486 video page when it came out and hasn't refreshed it since, so it said "uploaded 5 minutes ago" for days. Then this played next and I naturally assumed it's 2nd video of the day.
@@harryshuman9637 Can't fault excitement for Phil's vids
Yeah, eXoDos is an epic project! I've checked it several years ago and I glad to see huge impovement to overall experience (which was excellent back then too).
I had an early version, where the contents were split into different categories. Exodos adventure, exodos strategy etc and I've wanted to update my 7+ year old version for quite a long time now, so thank you for letting me know exodos is still a thing. I consider it one of the greats of the internet alongside King Turds Beavis and Butthead-collection.
What is the B&B collection?
A volunteer called "KingTurd" has made an awesome Beavis and Butthead collection based on whatever recordings he could find of the show. It is complete and has all the episodes including the musicvideos. It took him quite some years to make the collection and it is really great if you were a fan of the show in the 90s. @@arostwocents
To be honest, this is the best way to play some games. It's all there, or can be downloaded on the fly. It's configured bas it should be, you can even use shaders that are easy to choose. It looks and plays as good as it should looks. Amazing achievement!
wow exelent project, i chek this great build :-)
Downloading it ATM. Thanks!
thank you for the video. i wish i had this collection in the 90s hahaha. I mainly had games shared with friends using floppy discs