How about keeping shareware games too?

[Zerg]

Hello again, I have the following suggestion:

Can you make a new section with shareware versions of DOS Games?
I like very much this site's ROM collection because they have long names (including the year of release and name of the publisher), and because of how it's organized - only one page per letter so you can easily search for a specific game.

I think it would be a good idea to add a section of PC shareware games. I think that many (or maybe the most) of the users who download an old PC game just want to have a taste of it, playing only one or two levels. Therefore for them it's very ok to play a shareware game.

Adding such an archive can only help in preserving of old games.

For example I just found a few nice shareware shooter games: DemonStar and Galactix -

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http://www.mking.com/

theoldcomputer.com doesn't have those games so they would be a nice addition.

Another idea would be to create a small wiki to maintain a list of retro games, keeping also a list of sites where the games can be downloaded from.

I found the wiki at

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http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Top_games

focused on Amstrad CPC games.
Maybe we can make a wiki for retro-games for all platforms.

[Hot Trout]

An interesting idea. The new version of the website which is due sometime in 2014 should be able to allow members to do these things.

Thanks for your input and suggestions.