Show HN: Play old DOS games on your Chromebook

Also be aware that some old DOS games have been ported to run natively on modern systems. DOSBOX will give you Descent in its original 320x200 resolution, but Descent-Retro-1.3 [0] will let you play in 1080p with native multiplayer support and stable framerate.

It's worth checking, before going way out of your way to set up an older game, to see if there's a modern port.

[0] http://descentchampions.org/new_player.php

This is another good guide for playing them on Android, although the GOG games I checked were pretty bad without a bluetooth mouse - http://www.tomdupont.net/2013/01/how-to-play-gog-games-on-an...

DOSBox is very useful on PC. Configuration tends to be a pain - it's a bit easier if you use a GUI front end. Occasionally a program needs VDMSound to work

Unfortunately Samsung Series 3 (ARM) Chromebook maps F1-F12 buttons to brightness/volume/etc. On the program I tried, the top 10% of screen cut off which without the function keys makes it impossible to use.

There's a lot of improvement that could be added to the interface of this particular extension - hopefully in future it won't be necessary to restart DOSBox after adding a local directory, and it would be nice if the configuration menu makes it clear if a save has occurred

You just brought my childhood back - Testdrive by accolade.

Thank you.

Another good option is installing Linux side-by-side ChromeOS with chrubuntu. I have DOSbox and quite a few other games installed on my Acer chromebook and they run great. No need to worry about someone making a chrome extension or app, just install/compile and run the Linux versions of stuff natively.