Emulator

Links

• My ABANDONWARE

Links to many abandonned games on Amiga, PC-DOS, etc. and to emulators (Amiga, DOSBox...)

Check the HOWTO page on how to play old games.

• Virtual CloneDrive Virtual 2nd link

A freeware (recommended by My Abandonware) to mount CD ISO/BIN image as virtual drive (a freeware, ad-free alternative to Daemon Tools Lite).

• ProtectionID

Package to scan for activate copy-protection in executables

• Game Copy World

• THE* site for backing up games / bypassing copy-protection mechanisms.

• Thread on how to bypass Secure-Rom copy protection

• Suggest to install older version of DaemenTools (typically 4.x series). For Win7, 4.35 is first version to support Win7, and 4.49 the latest 4.x version.
• Suggest to use ProtectionID to identify whether a game is using a protection mechanism.

Amiga

Links

For ROMs:

• https://www.planetemu.net/machine/amiga
• https://www.emuparadise.me/Amiga_ROMs/
• http://www.amigaforever.com/ (official ROMs)
• http://files.swos.eu/amiga/kickroms/ (lot of official kickstart ROMs -- found by searching for sha1 string in Google).

Databases:

• https://openretro.org/user/home

Emulators:

• FS-UAE (Linux, Windows).
• WinFellow (Windows).

DOSBox

• DOSbox

An emulator to play DOS games on Windows / Linux

To install on Linux:

sudo apt install dosbox

• DOSBox-X