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Thanks for that, nieldk!

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I will receive my device in few weeks from EBAY. I have left maemo at 2012-2013.

When I left emulators was working fine except X86,PSP and higher hardware requirement. Just few questions, as i am a really hardcore fan of couple of DOS games. Did dosbox or X86 emulators improved ? Actually I want to play games like master of magic and master of orion etc 4X games. Another question it is totally off for this topic. I remember were a quiet good (let's say perfect) port of jagged alliance 2. Looked into the repo and cannot see it anymore, did someone remove it?

For furthermore was reading back a few pages, and see people have trouble with having legal software. As far I know almost all dos games now avaiable and free, or if you want you can pay few bucks for almost every big names via good old games site. I don't remember exactly GBA/SNES , but i have never bought a cartrige and it was quiet easy to dl any games with a simple google search.

Where we are now is 2019, and snes games 199X , I assume copyright no longer apply for majority of the roms similar to dosgames , abandonware has a great portfolio of free old games.

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I regularly played Civilization (the first one, I did not like the sequels) and Kyrandia in DOSBox with no problems (except a bad battery drain since DOS does not know how to idle).

I tried playing Supaplex but the key mapping seemed muddled up and I could not get past the initial "enter this three-letter code" screen. I did not care enough to investigate what the problem was.

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yes indeed ...
not to wander ...
but...
civ 1 was great wasn't it?

On pc I like civ3 and one of my fav turn based in the series Alpha Centuari

Much fun

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Civ 3 was the last original "civ" game, the rest have additional extra feutarus and stupid things in it. On my surface pro I am playing CIV 6 and it extreme slow , eventually you got so much micromanagement, what should be not there. For the whole history best 4X game for me master of magic and master of orion 2. Those two had a lot of revival project, but at all all failed, and there were no port out, or limited functionality withou AI, and saw another one, which used some RP dice roll mechanism at battles, and battles took 100+ turns no comment :) I am still sit down in front of the dosbox and play the two master of games, not on daily basis but I do:)

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Masters of Orion 2 was a good game....enjoyed it immensely. One of my top 100 games...

I didn't enjoy the civ offerings after 3...at all.

I have a monsterous collection of good games...
My all time favs...though...I just can't get enough of...
masters of orion 2 ...great fun...
Dungeon Keeper 2 ..one of the best games ever.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3...just charming...
Mech Warriors 2...great adrenaline pumper..
The Compleat Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 with all additions....(there is one mod that is an infinite dungeon....for endless play..)...one of my favourites...
The compleat Elder Scrolls 3...
Fate, The Game....cute endless infinite dungeon game.
Evil Genius ...great fun being a Bond - esque evil supervillain building a secret lair...trying to dominate the world...even the soundtrack is great.
Homeworld 2 is great ...another adrenal pumper..


That is off the top of my head...first thing in the morning before a coffee...
I know there are some that aren't coming to mind...
I need a coffee first...
Then add them as I recall them...
I haven't had much opportunity to play anything the last little while...
A year or 2 now...
Been too busy....
So my skillz iz poor now.

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I believe you need to set rover keymap for the latter. I have it running pretty smooth now, quick actions which involve spacebar are still a bit tricky on the n900 keyboard.


Edit: see https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35244&page=18 for a touch in the right dorection

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Pupnik did a (crappy?) port for N8x0 http://pupnik.de/ja2_0.7_svn-2.deb but the site is down for a while now.
I don't recall if anyone did a better one.

Why would you assume the answer to a legal question when you have web-search?

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap3.html

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I am 99% sure I had done that, but cannot confirm right now as my N900 is currently parked away :(

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Well you really went through for the 1975 founded document? Did you know that microsoft paying about mill, to hold back source codes, as they must have released in order to be legal. We are talking about windows in 199X , It would be absurd if a company exist who developed dos games in 198X to 199X and would report violation, the first question would where is the published source code my friend... Well grey zone, but pretty sure what you can obtain from abandonware or GOG are completely ok, rest just ignore them or buy (if you find)... 30 years softwares , my 10 years old optical disks not readable anymore not even my orig games, what about magnetic storages from 198X-199X pretty sure they also KO..

Endo

Ur list:
I have a monsterous collection of good games...
My all time favs...though...I just can't get enough of...
masters of orion 2 ...great fun...
Dungeon Keeper 2 ..one of the best games ever.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3...just charming...
until this all fine :D But rest not
I miss names from other bullfrog or simtex games (both company RIP) like master of magic (best forewer), magic carpet, popolus 3 the begining (last game of bullfrog)

But moO2 high upward rating replayability and difficulcy and complexity of the game make it absolutely on of the best all time.
What about early westwood and blizzard games? RTS warcraft series and C&C+RA and dune 2 RTS ? and if we moving toward windows 1998 and upward with homam3 where is startcraft and warcraft 3 , I remember they were the most serious names even ms published the age of empires Starcraft is the main name on RTS hall of fame, just preordered war 3 reforged as well... just with that 2 sequel blizzard one of my favourite game publisher , even they now digging the earth under themselves with new decision and Activision merge...