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Thu Apr 30, 2015 6:10 pm
Nate says...



If you haven't yet heard, Twitter allows you to embed MS-DOS games from archive.org directly into a tweet just by sharing the url. I thought that was pretty neat, and figured there's no reason YWS can't do that too.

Unfortunately, without a lot more work, I can't make it quite as easy as it is on Twitter, but it's still fairly simple. Just go here:
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games

Pick a game, and then copy the portion of the url after details. Then when posting it on YWS, past that in between the new game bbcode. For example, here's the url for Pac-Man:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Pac-Man_1983

I copy msdos_Pac-Man_1983 from the url (the portion after details) and then place that in between the game bbcode:

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[game]msdos_Pac-Man_1983[/game]


[game]msdos_Pac-Man_1983[/game]
  





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birk says...



Nice, cause I really need more procrastination, Nate.

High score here I come...
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