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EmuOS enables you to play the classic games on a browser for free. The classic games have been preserved thanks to the existence of emulators. If it were not for them, it would be very difficult to play them again in their original systems. Therefore, a website has set itself the goal of preserving many classic titles by emulating Windows directly on the web to run many games and apps. You can even choose the Windows interface.
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What is EmuOS?
Emu-OS is a free software that you can play old console games. It is a free emulator tool, which is open-source and Ubuntu Linux based. EmuOS supports 8 consoles/platforms and offers you a collection of emulators through an easy-to-use interface.
According to its creators, EmuOS aims to “serve as a non-profit meta-resource hub, being a center and community for those interested mainly in the preservation of video games. Its goal is to collect, archive and digitally preserve games and software to make them accessible through an easy-to-use user interface that emulates various retro operating systems for educational purposes”.
EmuOS enables you to play the classic games on a browser for free with a user-friendly UI. This video game preservation project is not the only one of its kind since, The Internet Archive hosts a multitude of games and applications such as DOS game collections, Commodore 64 emulation, Internet Arcade, etc. If you are looking for a platform to emulate dozens of consoles, RetroArch is a great option. Though EmuOS also helps archive and preserve games in a different way.
It also has an Emupedia page on GitHub where you can get more information about EmuOS.
How does EmuOS work?
EmuOS basically emulates Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows ME in the browser. These emulations include dozens of games and executable programs directly in the browser. Everything is emulated in JavaScript, running very smoothly in any browser.
As soon as you choose the operating system, you will see a desktop full of icons. All of these icons are easily identifiable. To run any app or program you just have to double click on them. The performance of each element will depend on the power of your computer but should work well with most. The important thing is to have a good processor since it is in charge of all the bulk of the emulation of virtual environments.
Some games, however, require permission to run on our computer, since they have to download some data like Quake 2. Others like Doom or Quake 3 do not require special access. Many of these games can be purchased on platforms such as GoG, although all the ports used in this site are open-source. Among them, we have titles like Minecraft, Half-Life, or Tomb Raider accessible by a user.
Which emulators can be used with EmuOS?
To this end, the team collects content from unsupported systems, abandoned software, shareware or freeware, open-source ports from old games to work in current browsers, and new games developed using new technologies, but with retro-style graphics. The emulators used are MAME, DOSBox, Em-DOSBox, emularity, and JS-DOS, allowing to emulate MS-DOS games for free.
EmuOS browser compatibility
On its GitHub page, we can find the list of all the compatible web browsers, but among the most important ones, we can find basically all the ones in the market, starting from Firefox 3 and later, Google Chrome and later, Edge 79 and later, and others like Opera or Safari.
How do I download EmuOS?
You don’t need to download it as it works on a browser, you only need to visit EmuOS website to start enjoying old games. It also has a lot of mirrors, so it will be easy to figure one another that might be faster.
