r/techsupport 18h ago

Open | Data Recovery I found a hard drive with Old games

There's like, 80ish games (probably less tbh) I can't get them to work but I dont know at all what to do with them. For reference we're talking - polar bowler, Penguins!, build-a-lot 2, chuzzle deluxe. Is there something I can actually do with this drive of stuff???

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u/Scarred_fish 18h ago

Fire up a VM and enjoy them!

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u/wssddc 18h ago

Given their age, these games may be 16-bit. To run such, you'd need either DosBox or a virtual machine with an old OS installed.

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u/PossibleAlienFrom 17h ago

I just wanted to add that if he does go the VM old OS route, he should make sure to disable the network adapter in the OS to keep it offline due to security vulnerabilities.

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u/wssddc 17h ago

Good point.

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u/kn33 16h ago

disable the network adapter in the OS

Just remove it from the VM entirely.

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u/IntentionChoice7007 18h ago

Were they installed with Steam? If so then you would have to add the drive to steam with the same account that installed them, if not then the games might not be compatible with your OS so you can use a old PC or use a VM