Games

Ixian Corp currently has a side project to offer old games to the public. After reading all this page, please make your selection of the game category from the menu to the left.

What is this?

In this section you will find the old games that you have grown with, or have loved when you were younger or, perhaps, haven't ever got the chance to see and play.

The downloads presented here are mostly games that were built for the MS-DOS platform, most pre-dating Windows 95, some even incompatible with it anymore.

Is this legal? What must I know?

The distribution of these games take into consideration certain important aspects:

• Is the game "abandonware " ? If the game is abandonware, it can be hosted here. If it is not, and a copyright holder has specifically denied permissions to distribute, the game will not appear.
• Is the game "freeware" ? If the game is freeware, it can be hosted without any problem. If it is not, restrictions may apply, and therefore we have to check before including.
• Is the game "shareware" ? In that case, Ixian Corp will check what part of the game can be included.
• Did the copyright expire? In that case, the game can be distributed.

What the downloader must know is that the distribution of such games is tacitly allowed. However, should any copyright holder specifically and rightfully claim for any game to be removed, we will remove it, and we ask that you do the same.

Is there anything I need?

Yes, one thing, and one thing only: an emulator (since you will be unable to play the vast majority of these games on current computers without such).

For best emulation, we recommend DOSBox, since it is free and easy-to-use. Please refer to their website for support, questions and other information, as well as download (we have a cached version of DOSBox available for download here).

We have included DOSBox in distribution packages for your convenience.