Thank you for putting together such a nice video on the project. Very appreciated!
@philscomputerlab Жыл бұрын
It's nothing compared to what you put together all these years. You're an absolute legend!
@L-double-J Жыл бұрын
Thank you RetroeXo 🙏🏼 & thank you Phil for a awesome video 👍🏼
@DhinCardoso Жыл бұрын
You're an absolute legend!
@L-double-J Жыл бұрын
Not enough of seeders is there any other way to DL this nostalgia overload?
@RetroeXo Жыл бұрын
patience. There are tons of seeders. @@L-double-J
@LGR Жыл бұрын
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.
@philscomputerlab Жыл бұрын
I still haven't played much, the magazines and books are so awesome 😅
@FirstLast-we8cb Жыл бұрын
Agreed! Monkey Island first?
@RetroeXo Жыл бұрын
We are always adding more and more. Glad to have you try it out
@SireSquish Жыл бұрын
Clint, please retype that in the Duke Nukem voice.
@Monarchias Жыл бұрын
O' Boy oh boy! Am I smelling some Christmas exclusive? On top of top of top?
@goxodsgames3363 Жыл бұрын
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!
@dycedargselderbrother5353 Жыл бұрын
3:49 This manual is so nostalgic. The scanning of a paper source, the 90s typesetting...it really hits the mark.
@RetroeXo Жыл бұрын
thank you!
@rolux485311 ай бұрын
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!
@Mathias-RetroFutureTech Жыл бұрын
This is absolutely mindblowing! Thanks for showing us stuff like this! 🙏
@Digibot88 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this !
@philscomputerlab Жыл бұрын
Sure thing!
@bdhale34 Жыл бұрын
An absolute insane collection for retro Dos stuff preservation, huge shoutout to the people behind the project, they are doing the lords work.
@catsooey11 ай бұрын
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!
@EjectedStomach9 ай бұрын
@@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
@catsooey9 ай бұрын
@@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! 🙂👍
@PhazerSC Жыл бұрын
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.
@rarapas Жыл бұрын
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!
@RetroeXo Жыл бұрын
Thank you :)
@ObiKKa Жыл бұрын
And all those videos on the exodos v6 playlist there have such crazy thumbnails. Haha.
@captainwasel8377 Жыл бұрын
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.
@Fender17810 ай бұрын
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.
@rhuwyn Жыл бұрын
I've been supporting Exodos since version 3. Glad your covering it!
@TheOneRobUK Жыл бұрын
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
@catlerbatty Жыл бұрын
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.
@lmcgregoruk Жыл бұрын
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.
@Hektols Жыл бұрын
@@lmcgregoruk Some games (the oldest) were full games while others were cut down versions without the digital tracks nor the FMV.
@markstrickland438 Жыл бұрын
This is phenomenal! Thank you to the people doing the work on the project and to the people seeding it!
@a_h_adl Жыл бұрын
Thanks Phil for bringing up this fantastic project to us. It surely can be a nice Christmas present 😊
@tru3sk1ll Жыл бұрын
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
@DhinCardoso Жыл бұрын
*From Brazil:* Absolutely amazed with your work, with eXo work and all those unknown heroes of preservation
@polter5195 Жыл бұрын
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!
@easyerthanyouthink Жыл бұрын
wow this is awesome, so much time in organizing all this stuff. thanks for video
@erikmerchant567 Жыл бұрын
Hell of a download, but I look forward to giving this a try. Thanks for putting a spotlight on this project.
@BatteryPoweredBricks Жыл бұрын
This looks awesome! Downloading it now, thanks for sharing Phil!
@drfunkenstein2k Жыл бұрын
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!
@armorgeddon Жыл бұрын
There are still addon packs for example one that adds German language adventure games and a Win 3.x pack.
@hakanergen4 ай бұрын
What a nostalgia! I had so much fun watching. Gratitude to all who contributed.
@mikegage3326 Жыл бұрын
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.
@verholdt6 ай бұрын
IRQ conflicts please stop resurrecting nightmares. This is incredible and this was one of the truly great eras of computing and gaming where developers cared deeply and gave us some classics.
@kosmosyche Жыл бұрын
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.
@GreySectoid Жыл бұрын
Definitely worth a new SSD!
@darrylkinslow5613 Жыл бұрын
Takes too much disk space. You can download every dos game and it takes less than one tenth of the space.
@deadbeef576 Жыл бұрын
why do you need an SSD for dosgames?
@kinkykane0607 Жыл бұрын
Because its over 800GB in size @@deadbeef576
@Cyko.. Жыл бұрын
You're not experiencing the true loading times with an SSD. Stick to mechanical. It's more fun.
@Paradise7D5 ай бұрын
Your video was recommended to me by KZbin and now I have eXoDOS and I'm in seventh heaven (im siebten Himmel) :D Replaying all my favourite DOS games. Currently playing through Tyrian!! Thank you Phil -- I didn't know a project like eXoDOS existed!
@zord0nTV Жыл бұрын
eXo is the boss! Thank you Phil for sharing this info. More people know about this project - better for us DOS freaks 😅
@ryanbartlett672 Жыл бұрын
Thanks. Going to install and support this project
@Fridge_Worthy_Art10 ай бұрын
Great Video. Exciting as I grew up loving the mags and games as well, since I started my journey in 1971. Thank You
@SouthernMenace Жыл бұрын
This is mighty impressive. I'll definitely check the latest version. Thanks for the tip
@shaneeslick Жыл бұрын
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
@MurderMostFowl Жыл бұрын
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!
@Vebinz Жыл бұрын
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.
@Chernobylkinsman Жыл бұрын
about the same install size as CoD
@chrism374310 ай бұрын
@@Vebinz It's 638GB without all of that...
@mrdan289810 ай бұрын
Yeah, wtf why so large! many games were able to fix on 1.4mb floppies.
@bionicgeekgrrl10 ай бұрын
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.
@craigpilkington4323 Жыл бұрын
Great video as always mate - keep em' coming!!
@ChrisM54110 ай бұрын
Thanks for the heads-up. What a stunning project.
@fetus2280 Жыл бұрын
Sweet! Thanks for sharing this with us mate. Downloading it now :) Cheers.
@jeffreypeters5578 Жыл бұрын
Btw nice vid,I subbed.Turning 40 this yr and grew up playing duke,diablo,half-life all the unreal games,all the adventure games and stuff like 7th guest blah blah blah.Gonna grab this one once I get new thunderbolt SSD .Very good and cool vid my guy
@philscomputerlab Жыл бұрын
Thank you and it really is a beautiful hobby.
@jeffreypeters5578 Жыл бұрын
@@philscomputerlab Much love from Arkansas in the states.No matter what you hear we don't marry our cousins lol
@wasakawakawaka2028 Жыл бұрын
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!
@skRapKlan10 ай бұрын
Really cool project! Thanks for the deep dive video!
@PaulBeetge Жыл бұрын
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.
@F1nalspace Жыл бұрын
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!
@paulbradshawguitar Жыл бұрын
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
@KrunkTheMadMan Жыл бұрын
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.
@philscomputerlab Жыл бұрын
Yes I'm curious, how?
@KrunkTheMadMan Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@baumstamp5989 Жыл бұрын
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
@bionicgeekgrrl10 ай бұрын
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.
@broderhjalmar9 ай бұрын
@@bionicgeekgrrlthat’s absolutely crazy, that’s like 295000 3.5” Floppies.
@whosonedphone Жыл бұрын
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.
@KayDawgx Жыл бұрын
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.
@arostwocents Жыл бұрын
What is the B&B collection?
@KayDawgx Жыл бұрын
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
@ufoguy Жыл бұрын
This is the most important video on the internet! 680 GB of LOVE !
@Juanjo_Pantera Жыл бұрын
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!!
@blackvulcan3 Жыл бұрын
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.
@efpcvintageplanet3406 Жыл бұрын
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😉
@digitaldestroyerofficial Жыл бұрын
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?
@waynerowlinson6177 Жыл бұрын
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.
@teaspoon966 Жыл бұрын
Thanks! I didn't know about this project!
@ChrisM541 Жыл бұрын
Thanks Phil for a superb upload and huge thanks to eXo for this fantastic project.
@bionicgeekgrrl10 ай бұрын
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.
@COMATRON. Жыл бұрын
this is insanity and absolutely DOPE!
@WR3ND Жыл бұрын
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.
@harryshuman9637 Жыл бұрын
2 videos per day? What a gift!
@RoseQuartz692 Жыл бұрын
No?
@philscomputerlab Жыл бұрын
Wait what?
@RoseQuartz692 Жыл бұрын
@@philscomputerlab exactly I got confused too when I entered your channel
@harryshuman9637 Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@MarcoGPUtuber Жыл бұрын
@@harryshuman9637 Can't fault excitement for Phil's vids
@Florin76 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Phil for bringing this project to my knowledge!
@golvellius6855 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this!! Can't wait to try some old dos games❤❤❤
@minutemanqvs Жыл бұрын
That’s insane! Thanks for making me discover that.
@AnalogX64 Жыл бұрын
Wow... never heard of this collection berfore, thanks for bringing it to our attention 😁👍💖
@bbertram2 Жыл бұрын
Glad you covered this! Thank you.
@middle_pickup11 ай бұрын
This project is crazy. What an amazing job.
@cubeflinger10 ай бұрын
Been following this as a member of FB ms dos groups but had no idea it was one guy. mad. well done sir.
@czos9239 Жыл бұрын
Damn, those tors are huge. My seedbox gently weeps. Thnx for the head’s up!
@MelsRNRETRO Жыл бұрын
Nice find Phil.
@boilerhousegarage Жыл бұрын
Wow, this looks fantastic! I've been using D-Fend Dosbox Launcher for many years and still works perfectly with Windows 10. Maybe I will change to eXoDOS when I buy my next PC.
@Butterfingers1989 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for reminding me of eXoDOS i forgot about it a while ago and im totally back into into it now !
@ahabwolf7580 Жыл бұрын
Wish I still had my old CGW issues. That was a fantastic magazine!
@GYTCommnts Жыл бұрын
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!
@dawiekaboutereen Жыл бұрын
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.
@sinephase Жыл бұрын
WTF this is incredible! All by one dude? :O
@armorgeddon Жыл бұрын
He has help overall but the scripting under the hood is still all his own word I think.
@mjy Жыл бұрын
Very much a team effort with some very talented individuals contributing. He's still large and in charge of every aspect, and he is responsible for the lion's share of all that goes into the projects, but at this point 'eXo' is starting to become more of a brand.
@eziomorte3380 Жыл бұрын
I had no idea about exodos existenvce! I bought a new ssd just for this today and started downloading the massive 800gb! What an incredible Christmas present, all my childhood (even magazines!) in one perfect package! Thanks for the video mate!
@digitaldestroyerofficial Жыл бұрын
Wait 800gb? Mine shows 638gb on torrent. 🤔
@surfinbirdzx Жыл бұрын
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).
@blai5e730 Жыл бұрын
I had a number of those DOS books in paperback (some are still in my storage boxes).... oh the throwback!
@techdistractions Жыл бұрын
An immersive nostalgia experience ❤
@shaneeslick Жыл бұрын
Ps To all the PhilsComputerLab Family Merry Christmas from Australia 🎄🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘🛷🤶🍹🍺🎅🏖Only 4 more Sleeps. have a Wonderful Christmas & Happy New Year, please stay safe if traveling.
@LearnElectronicsRepair Жыл бұрын
I love it Phil! I also love retro hardware.... it's so hard to choose. Probably just have to have both
@mpettengill1981 Жыл бұрын
Wow - That curated library of books and magazines looks especially enticing to me. Forget the games - I want that literature!
@middle-agedclimber Жыл бұрын
Epic project.
@MVLGAMING Жыл бұрын
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!
@shadowfreak5613 Жыл бұрын
wow thats all my childhood right there :O Thanks for the video!
@jasonhamilton575610 ай бұрын
It seems like it's worth a look. Thanks for the info. Haven't seen some of those games in 30 years.
@Waltkat Жыл бұрын
This is a great collection. I still have several functional DOS computers so this would be perfect to give them purpose. I could even install it in one of my older laptops from the late 80's and have a portable gaming rig.
@5DiFika Жыл бұрын
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
@voidFutureVector Жыл бұрын
I cant say think you enough for putting this together. Keep doing gods work!
@CyberBlaed Жыл бұрын
Last used Exo at v3, time to dive in again! LEGEND!
@adaw90 Жыл бұрын
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!
@headrockbeats Жыл бұрын
7:22 HA I still have this book (physical copy). I think I got it with -Quest for Glory- _HERO'S QUEST._
@BenoitAdam2 Жыл бұрын
I'll take the lite version, can't wait to have more money to buy a hard drive to test the full version !
@SamsonScorpio11 ай бұрын
This is incredible. Years of entertainment to enjoy here.
@Ray-rt3yh Жыл бұрын
Nice, I'll have to check this out!
@HolyPire10 ай бұрын
Wow what a monumental achievment! Respect!
@fridaycaliforniaa236 Жыл бұрын
Holy Molly, I can't imagine the amount of work that has be put in this project 😱
@bionicgeekgrrl10 ай бұрын
Its immense. Exo and his team have done loads and this is just dos. They have covered win3x, scummvm, apple2gs and dream.
@salamandradehielo11 ай бұрын
This looks amazing!! I need to make some room first...
@quantomica10 ай бұрын
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.
@philscomputerlab10 ай бұрын
I miss them too 😢
@blackrock19619 ай бұрын
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.
@fluxpenguin11 ай бұрын
Thanks. Downloading right now.
@Xpun34143 ай бұрын
Knowing you can burn those games to cd & run them in a retro pc is very compelling. Thanks for such a cool video.
@slyfoxkgar Жыл бұрын
Brings back a lot of memories.. i have a LOT of those games original boxes still.. (the covers anyway) and the disks.. 5.25 and 3.5s not sure how many of those disk still work mind you.. This is amazing.
@VampireJack10 Жыл бұрын
They will probably all still work - as floppy is a great long term storage device.
@whosonedphone Жыл бұрын
Yup! I installed it years ago but can't afford the time to play it! Amazing!