eXoDos Collection v4 retroexo@gmail.com ======================================================= ------------------------------------------------------- Contents ------------------------------------------------------- Description.......................................Sec01 Changes to 4.0....................................Sec02 Front-End.........................................Sec03 Setup.............................................Sec04 Emulators.........................................Sec05 Playing the Games.................................Sec06 Missing Games?....................................Sec07 Current & Future Volumes..........................Sec08 Troubleshooting...................................Sec09 Contact & Thanks..................................Sec10 Complete List of Added Games......................Sec11 ------------------------------------------------------- Description Sec01 ------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to eXoDOS Version 4.0! Please read eXoDOS Manual.pdf for detailed info on the new features. This pack includes 7,000 DOS games. The focus is on games that were either released in English or are fairly easy to play without a knowledge of it's native language. This is not every DOS game ever made, however it is a very high percentage of all commercial releases. There are thousands of freeware, homebrew, and shareware games that will continue to be added in future packs. The games have already been configured to run in DosBOX. Games which are supported by ScummVM will give you the option at launch as to which emulator you would like to use. Version 4.0 Adds 725 games. A Complete list of which can be found at the bottom of this text file. ------------------------------------------------------- Changes to 4.0 Sec02 ------------------------------------------------------- The list of changes & improvements this time around is massive. • All 5 volumes have been combined into a single project. • MT-32 \ SC-55 Project: Added support for 797 MT32 games, 501 Gen. Midi/Sound Canvas games. • Nuked OPL3: Added support for 22 OPL3 games to use the Nuked OPL emulator • Gravis Ultrasound: Enabled in 249 games • CMS, GameBlaster, Covox, Sound Source, and Innovation sound options added to a handful of games each (those that support them). • Enhanced Tandy Sound: 80 games with enabled Tandy 3 Voice sound. • All games from 1988-1992 checked for optimal quality sound. Dozens of games previously set to PC Speaker have been upgraded to adlib \ sound blaster. • CD \ Rip Replacement: All games marked as CD at moby games checked against eXoDOS. Rips were removed in lieu of clean CD images. • Composite Video: PC Jr and CGA games upgraded to DosBOX ECE in order to take advantage of its advanced composite modes. • CD Audio check: All games with known CD-Audio were checked to ensure they were working properly. • RPG Save Game Transfer Support: All known games that support the importing of save games from previous games have had scripts added to them to allow you to move all supported save games around to games which support them. This is all built into the games standard launcher, so it works with any front end that uses my launch files. • ScummVM Updated: All DOS games ScummVM currently supports have had ScummVM launch options added. Full screen launch options have been added to all ScummVM games as well. • 3DFX Update: All 3DFX games were checked and upgraded to DosBOX ECE, along with replaced glide drivers. This removes prior issues that forced full screen, caused flickering, and other issues with frame rates. • Pixel Perfect patch support: An alternate launch file for each game now exists in the extras folder (or the context menu in LaunchBox). This will launch the game with ECE and enable pixel perfect output. This is the most accurate, per pixel, representation of the original game image. Some games will not run properly in ECE, which is why this was built as an optional launch and not rolled into the main launch. This patch also upgrades the emulation of the PC speaker and uses the Nuked OPL emulator for all midi. • Missing Manuals project: Multiple users have trolled the computer museum, archive.org, old-games.ru, and other sites to find as many of the missing manuals as possible. To date, over 1,000 have been added, including multiple “extras”, such as maps, reference cards, etc… • Linux Support project: v4 is Linux compatible • Major bug squashing initiative: Unfortunately we don’t have an exact count of how many bugs have been squashed, but it has been thousands. • Addition of the VG Maps library to each game that had an entry there. • Patches and enhancement options for dozens of games such as Elder Scrolls, Ultima, and the like have been added. • Third party utilities such as the Dos Game Launcher have been built and included as well. The eXoDOS Manual.pdf contains details on many of these new features. 4.0 is the first team release of eXoDOS. After starting a discord server for the project, several people showed up and began to help improve the collection. This led to exponential improvements with the project, and the most stable release yet. ------------------------------------------------------- Front-End Sec03 ------------------------------------------------------- The front end used is LaunchBox from Unbroken Software. The front ends website can be found at: https://www.launchbox-app.com/ LaunchBox goes way beyond a standard frontend by supporting direct steam library imports, a cloud games database for scraping metadata, and support for every emulator I have thrown at it. I highly recommend supporting their project and upgrading to the premium edition. I have taken time to mark some of the best DOS games as 'favorites' to help give people new to DOS a place to start. ------------------------------------------------------- Setup Sec04 ------------------------------------------------------- Run SETUP.BAT. The setup file will check for required files and warn you if any are missing. The eXoDOS collection can be run from any directory, as all launch files are designed to use relative paths to each other. Running the setup.bat file will extract all of the LaunchBox assets and the games front end assets/configs. It will also give you the opportunity to customize your set. This includes the option to remove Adult games from the LaunchBox menu. This removes games with sex or nudity from the LaunchBox XML file. This also does not remove violent games. Please make use of the ratings category in LaunchBox if you would like to filter the games further. You will also be prompted as to if you would like your global defaults to be Fullscreen or Windowed and whether or not you would like to default to Aspect Ratio On or Off. If you choose windowed mode, you will have the option between 640x480 or 1280x960. Once it is complete, simply run LaunchBox.exe to dive right in. ------------------------------------------------------- Emulators Sec05 ------------------------------------------------------- This collection uses DosBOX, ScummVM, and Frotz to play the games. DosBOX and ScummVM reside in their respective folders at: \eXoDOS\ScummVM \eXoDOS\DOSBox These are *different* from the ScummVM and DOSBox folders in the root folder, which are used by LaunchBox. Multiple versions of DOSBox are used to make these games playable. This includes 0.74, ECE, SVN Daum, X, and a dozen or more custom builds built to support specific games. ------------------------------------------------------- Playing the Games Sec06 ------------------------------------------------------- After downloading the collection and running "Setup.bat", simply run the LaunchBox.exe file. You will be presented with a list of all included games. The first time you attempt to run a game it will ask if you want to install it. Subsequent runs will directly launch the game. Initial install may take some time depending on the size (a few of these games are upwards of 8 CDs!). During install you will be prompted to choose whether or not to enforce aspect ratio, full screen or windowed mode, and if you would like to apply a scaler. Scalers can smooth pixels, making older pixelated games look a bit more modern. The default setting is normal2x. If you run the install file a second time, it will ask if you would like to un-install the game. Choosing "yes" will erase the installed files from your disk, but keep the original ZIP file. You will loose any saved games, high scores, or other settings you have defined since the game was installed. If you choose not to un-install the game you will get the chance to choose full screen or windowed again and another opportunity to change the scaler. If the scaler refuses to change, you will have to rerun the Setup file in order to extract clean copies of each games conf file. To do this from LaunchBox, you may right click the game and select 'Configure'. ------------------------------------------------------- Missing Games? Sec07 ------------------------------------------------------- Yes, there are still games missing. Some may have never been released for DOS, while others may have never had an English release. A maintained list of currently known missing titles can be found at the eXoDOS Discord. We also have a game submission suggestion channel. ------------------------------------------------------- Current & Future Volumes Sec08 ------------------------------------------------------- Current: eXoDOS Version 4 eXoWin3x Version 2: The Win 3.x Collection (renamed from Win3xO) Future: ????????? It's a secret! ????????? ------------------------------------------------------- Trouble Shooting Sec09 ------------------------------------------------------- Q: When I run a game it says it is missing. A: Make sure you downloaded the !metadata.zip file. If you decided to only download a handful of games, then you probably missed this file. Q: You're missing a game! A: See the section on missing games. Q: You're missing a manual/cover/extra/etc.... A: Upload it to the LaunchBox games database, and everyone else will benefit from it. Feel free to drop by and submit it to the Discord as well so I can ensure it gets added to the next build. ------------------------------------------------------- Contact & Thanks Sec10 ------------------------------------------------------- If you have questions, media, games to add, or other concerns, you can email me at retroexo@gmail.com You can join the eXoDOS Discord server at this link: https://discord.gg/x6fjPu Special thanks to the following groups: Unbroken Software - For all the great support in getting eXoDOS into LaunchBox Hargle & his team at Total DOS Collection - These guys have located countless rare games. MobyGames - For supporting the project with both data and accessibility to that data. Old-Games.ru - They became a very valuable resource for rare DOS games during this last cycle. Pleasuredome.org.uk - For hosting eXoDOS. The-Eye.eu - For hosting eXoDOS. Archive.org - For hosting eXoDOS. Most importantly, thank you to the folks at the eXoDOS Discord who have helped shaped this release into something more than just a personal project. ------------------------------------------------------- Complete List of Added Games Sec11 ------------------------------------------------------- .386 Spys +K 2 Fast 4 You 25 3D Ball 3D Baller 3D Space Fighter 3Detris 4-Get-It 4-mok A La Carrera A Night with Beverely Across the USA Actua Soccer Adentrator Adskok Advance to Boardwalk Aftermath of the Asimovian Disaster Aftershock for Quake Air Troubles Aktie-bal Aladino Alex the Allegator Alge-Blaster Plus! Alien Alley Alien Assault Alien Assault Amado America's Cup Yacht Racing Simulator Amo del Mundo, El Ancient Sceptre, The Aqua Man Aquaphobia Arcanoid ARK… Aro and Elmi Fighting the Bacteria Gang Assault Trooper Astatin Asteroid Impact Astro Blaster Astrorock Averno B.A.D.: Blasting, Annihilation & Destruction Back to the Moon Balduin: Run for Fun Bang Bango Bank Buster BARQ: The Rise of Freedom Barren Realms Elite Batter Up Battle Fire Battle for the Ashes Battle Insects Battleship Bismarck Battlestar BattleStar BattleStar 2 Bear Stormin' Beaubourg Beerworm Beetris Beez Berenstain Bears, The: Treehouse Classroom Best Drive Beyond Wolfenstein Bianco Natale Bicycle Holiday Big Bumps Biobombers Biodomes Bionic Police Biorobot's Base Bios BipBop I BipBop III Biprolex + Black Hole Blind Maze Blinky 3 Blood Bath at Red Falls Blood on the Floor Bloxit BMF Bob the Hamster Body Slam All-Star Wrestling Boleivol Beach Bolera Bomb Jack Boom Boulder Dash Construction Kit Boxeo Brány Skeldalu Brocha Gorda BuBu Bug Hunter Bump & Bomp Buran C.R.B. Captain Fizz Captured by Pirates! Car Case 3:16 Caveman Volleyball Caverns of Bob! Cefalus Chadwick and the Sneaky Egg Thief Championship Poker Chateau Gaillard Christmas Creepers Chronicles of Galia: The First Mission Chronicles of Galia: The Shadow of Evil Circus Games (1988) Circus Games (1989) Citadel of Pershu, The Citizens: Backwater Affairs! City Beneath the Surface Claas: Der Erntespezialist Club Casino Club Football: The Manager Cobra (1989) Cobra Gunship Cocinero Color Balls Color Revolution Color Towers Columns Commander Xeen Compaq Grand Slam Cup Complete Carriers at War Conan Corridor 8: Galactic Wars Crazy Sue Creation Cross of Insanity Crosscheck Crow Cruncher Crux Cuber Curse of Ra Cyber Antero Cyber Riders Dakar 4x4 Dan Burry Dark Hour for Quake Dark Universe Darkness Darwin's Arena Darwin's Island Daughter of Serpents Dawgfight Deadline (1993) Deadly Skies Death Tower Decimation Decision at Gettysburg Deep Red Defender of the Crown CD-ROM Dem Bonz Desafio Final Descent: Levels of the World Desert Raider Desperabis Destetroyer Dia Bolo Diamond Dash Diamond Peter DIF-1 Laser Tank Diggory Dimono Dinos Dinosaur Adventure Dinosaur Detective Agency Discover Space Dodge Ball DOKA Pinball Dolphin Boating Simulator Dolphin Powerboating Simulator 3 Domino Doni's Mazes Donkey Doomdark's Revenge Doubolo Dracula's Shadow DragonFly Dragonriders of Pern Dreamworld Adventure Dschump! Duchi & Bbukku Duck Mr Duck Duff Dugsy Duke It's Zero Hour Dungeons of Noudar Durak Dyno-Quest Easy Street Edna Education Series: General Knowledge Builder Egyptian Solitaire Emerald Hunt Empire Encroaching Gloom, The Enemy Star Enigma Enterprise Equality Equality 2 Escape Europe Executioners EXP: The Excellent Potato Expediente N 906 Extreme Paintbrawl Extreme Tennis F1 Simulator F4U Secret Sortie Fact Track Fantasy 2 Far West Faraonik Fat's Tricks Federation Online Felix Fence Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest Computerized Coloring Book Fighter Fighter Command Final Soccer Challenge Flowing Waters Focsy Fokker Follow the Reader Food Fight Ford Simulator 6.0 Formula Karts Fort Apache Foxtrot Delta Frac4D Fray Luis Freetris Freezer Frenzy Friday on the Island Fripp Front Page Sports: Football Pro '95 Fun 'N Games Deluxe Fun School 2: For the Over-8s Fun School 2: For the Under-6s Fun School 3: for 5 to 7 Year Olds Fun Seeker's Guide to Eastern Madera County Funky Bubble Puzz Furcol G.O.E.M. Galactic Battle (2000) Galactic Empire Galaxian War Gambys Gaminours and the Puzzle Gaminours: Shapes and Colors Gargoyle Medieval Pack General Dryptud: Jagten Pa Johanna Geometrix 2.0 Gettysburg Ghost Gladiator (1992) Global Sorties Global War Glub Glup Gnome Alone Gold Miner Goldfields Golf's Best: St. Andrews - The Home of Golf Gondwana GP Sprint Gravtris Guerrero Solitario Guía Ciclismo 97 Hallowe'en Hansel & Gretel And the Enchanted Castle Happy Birthday Hearts Heavy Combat Hedgehog Helicopter Mission Hell Fire Henrietta's Book of Spells Hex Jump Hexagon-Kartell, Das Hieroglyph Hole-Man Hooray for Henrietta House of Cards Howitzer Hubie Humans 3: Evolution - Lost in Time Humpty's Scramble Hunt in Space 2 Hunting Game, The IceBox Imperium Romanum Info Quiz Intifada Italy '90 Soccer Jagtris Jaws Jeep War Jet Pilot Jinx Joe Snow 2 Joe Snow 4 Joe Snow III: Captured by Aliens Jumper Kalakh KaleidoKubes Kangaroo Kaos Karate King Kerker Kick Boxing Street Kidsongs: Musical Mystery Kingdom of Kroz II Klondike Moon Klondike Pro KNAX Knight Exchange Krkal 1 Kubix La Cueva del Dragon La Historia Inolvidable La Leyenda del Vikingo Labyrinth Labyrinth of Light Land Of Devastation Lapi Las Vegas Solitaire Last Laibers Late Night Sexy TV Show Lava Cap Leaper Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf Leningrad Letter Drop Letter Drop 2 Lexter Line123 Link Four Liquidator Little People Bowling Alley Little People Farm Little People Main Street Liverpool: The Computer Game Logic Master, The Lord of Destruction Part 1 - Demon Hordes of Death Lords of Midnight, The Los Tres Mosqueteros Luffe Lunar Commander 2 Luxman Machine Nation Mad Painter! MadMaze Magic Carpet Plus MagiDuck Magus: 2nd edition Main Break Make Your ADOM Man Of War Manfred Von Krashenbern's Flying Circus Maniac, The Marble Fighter Mario is Missing! Deluxe Mario Teaches Sums Mars Attacks! Masque Video Poker Master Mouse Match It! Match of the Day: Bundesliga Math Blaster Mystery Math Circus: Act 1 Math Maze Mathology Maths and English with Rayman: Volume 3 Max & Sparky Maximum Roadkill Maxtris MChess Pro MechWar Medieval Chess MegaMorph Men in War Mephisto Genius 2.0 MER Adventure Climbing Merlin Metal Saver Meteor Storm MH28 Mickey's 123's: The Big Surprise Party MicroLeague Baseball: The Manager's Challenge MicroLeague Football: The Coach's Challenge Milva Mindcube Minesweeper Minotavrs Missile Attack Mission Maze Mission Mopreme 32K Mission Pom-Bär Mission UFO Mister Fruit Joy Mister Gas Mojing Da Maoxian Mono Mountain Bike Racer Mundial de Italia Muscle Pete's Spell Off Mutanoid Math Challenge, The Mutanoid Word Challenge, The My Own Stories My Tennis Mysterious Worlds Napion 3D NashuaMan Naves NCR Golf NetHack-- NetRunner Nickelodeon Director's Lab NIRA: Intense Import Drag Racing Nitro Racers Nmongo Bongo No Future? Noddy's Playtime Numero 10 Obliterator (1996) Oilmania Old Gold Once Upon A Time... Puppet Playhouse Once Upon a Time... Volume I: Passport to Discovery Once Upon a Time... Volume II: Worlds of Enchantment Once Upon a Time... Volume III: Journey Through Time Operation AirStorm Operation Vulture Operation Vulture III: Cyber Chopper O-Pong Orbits: Voyage Through the Solar System Osarium Othello Outlaw 1997 OverHeat Ovni Oxide Pacmania Pac-Mat Paddlers Paintman Pairs Panda: Go Home! PC*Bert PCTris Pekka Kana Penguin Tower Pentix Perfect Flight Deluxe: Great Britain Perfect Worlds Peter Pan and Robin Hood Fairy Tale Factory Picture Perfect Golf PimpWars Pinball 4000 Pinball Warriors Ping & Kooky's Cuckoo Zoo Pirate Island, The Planet Siege Planet X3 Planets: The Exploration of Space Plasma Spheres II Plates Plunder & Pillage Polanie Popeye 3: WrestleCrazy Power Struggle Prison Amok Privateer PT Boat Simulator Pulsar Flux Purple Dinosaur Massacre Put Up Puzz & Brain Puzzle Storybook Pyl Python QikServe Quake Level Master V Quake: Episode 5 - Dimensions of the Past Quandaries Quest for Al-Qa'eda: The Hunt for Bin Laden Quest for Hussein Quest: The Dungeon Escape Race Rad Fighter Raiders of the Forbidden Mine Railroad Switch Challenge Rain RatMaze Realm of the Paladin: Deception's Plague Red Dwarf Red Sky at Morning Regatta Renegade II: Return to Jacob's Star Revolt of Don's Knights Richard Scarry's Busytown Ricochet Rimtrix River Run Road Fighter Rob Blanc I: Better Days of a Defender of the Universe Rob Blanc II: Planet of the Pasteurised Pestilence Rob Blanc III: The Temporal Terrorists Robomaze Robot Tank Robot Warfare 1 Robots from Hell Rock Games Rocket Duel Rol Crusaders Rostov Rubic Rubicon Trail Rumpelstiltskin's Labyrinth of the Lost Runoff Sabor Sadko Saloon Sandiegopoly Sauro Scavenger School Bus Driver Scrabble Scrabble (1987) Scramble (1990) Scramble (1991) Scrylis Secret Mission of Submarine Secret of Foody, The Seeker of Wisdom Sento Sergeant Slotte - Galaxy Janitor Seventh Sword of Mendor Sfinx Shadow of the Lost Citadel Shane Warne Cricket Shards Shortline Sigil Silly Master Blaster Sim Pizza Sinistar Sixx Skulas Sky Jaguar Smolensk to Moscow Snake Pit Snow White's Voyage So You Wanna Be A Redneck Socrates 3 Sokoball of Osaka Solar Realms Elite Soldier Boyz Sooty & Sweep Soul Magician Space Attack Space Empire Elite Space Nightmare Space Pilot Space Plumber Spacecutter Speculator Spellbound! Stanford Wong Video Poker Star Ship Command Star Trek Combat Simulator Star Trek: Borg Starship Commander's Tactical Battle Simulator, The Steel Shot Stellar Stryker Stone Mist 1 Stone Mist 2 StoneBreaker Storm in the West Story Machine Storybook Weaver Strategic Craps Strategic Video Poker Strawberry Magic Street Fighter II: The World Warrior Street Football Strike Strike Force Harrier Stroper Subterraneans Super Apocalypse Warriors Super Gem'Z Super Kid Super Trix Super Winnie the Pooh Supercopter SuperSpeed Deluxe Superstar Soccer Survival Swapper System-4: Mister Tengus Adventure Take Back Tank Wars TankWars Tee Time Tele-Hang Terra Inc. Terran Envoy TETCOLOR Tetris (1996) Tetris (1997) Tetris Gold Professional Tetris Pro Tetrolis Textmode Tetris Thai Chess THAT Love Triangle The Alchemy Game The Bard's Lore II: The Dark Tower The Bard's Lore: The Warrior & The Dragon The Bard's Quest: Dungeons of the Unknown The Battle of Kursk The Castle The Civil War The Crusade The Dragon's Power The Enforcer The Great Sage: Heaven's Equal The Jungle Book The Last Man Alive The Magnetic Scrolls Collection The Mystery of Plastic City Part II The Skateboard Kid The Solar Hockey League The Travels of Joe Rabbit in the Big City The Virtual Squadron The Worm Game Thera Thinkin Things Collection 1 Thinkin' Things Collection 2 Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends Pinball Three Fold Time Circle Time Hunters Tiny Toon Adventures: The Great Beanstalk To Serve and to Protect Tommy's Ant Farm Tommy's Mole Tony & Friends in Kellogg's Land Tony La Russa Baseball 3: 1996 Edition Topspeed 300 Torus Total Knockout - Championship Female Boxing Towers of Kublai Khan Tracer Tracksuit Manager 2 Train Engineer Transball Tremor for Quake Tribute to Tetris Trubis Trucks True Blood: The Karthanian Ultimatum Turbo Flashy Cars TV Sports: Baseball TV Sports: Boxing Type Attack U.S.S. John Young 2 UEFA Champions League Ultimate Mission Ultra Violent Worlds Universal Forces: Eardis Second Edition Unlimited Warriors Up the Wall USA Soccer '94 Usurper VGA Civil War Strategy VGA Jigsaw VGA Planets Viper Vivi - Vicious Viper Voodoo Lunch VR Slingshot WarKurre Wasteland Rebels Werewolves and Wanderers Whale's Voyage II: Die Übermacht Wilderness Survival Win, Lose, or Draw - Second Edition Win, Lose, or Draw Junior Wings Winter Supersports 92 WolfPack Enhanced World Class Rugby 95 World Cup - All Time Greats World Darts World Golf 2 Worms De Luxe Xaptron Xenoball Xerix 2: The Caverns of Mars X-Fighter XFortress Xmas Ducks 2000 XOLO XTREK Deep Space Nine XTREK Deep Space Nine - The Second Coming Xtron Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2 Yitian Fengbao Ys II Special Zmeelov Zong Zoo Keeper Zurk's Learning Safari