About This Archive
There once was a time when 0MHz had lived on the servers of the Internet Archive in peace and harmony... Some pages are still available there today, but for how long? We don't know.
Hi, I'm MiSTerTea. If you have a MiSTer FPGA and are into retro DOS stuff, then you may have seen some of my posts on the MiSTer FPGA Forum. I've been interested in 0MHz games since Emubastard and limi had created the project. I had a chance to work with Emubastard on some 0MHz games and after his passing, I decided to continue supporting 0MHz for the MiSTer community.
This website was created due to changes with how the Internet Archive started to operate. Sometime around mid 2025 the Internet Archive (archive.org) added a malware scanner to check all uploads. Sadly it was broken and flagged every 0MHz upload as malware, then automatically deleted the page. This also affected pages that already existed but were modified after an update. When an update was made, the scanner looked through the ZIP/VHD file and determined it was malware and the action taken was to delete the entire archive page. I asked support to get various pages restored after having made such an update and it took between 2-3 weeks to restore one page. This made updates to existing 0MHz pages a real pain to deal with. It was not a workable situation.
To make matters worse, the Internet Archive deleted a page that already existed without any notice. This made me uneasy about using their system for more pages.
0MHz software is meant only for personal use, and is provided free (no charge) to the community. The retro PC software is generally over 30 (with some closer to 40) years old. Preservation of historical and culturally significant software is what this site is about.
We've have had help from those in the MiSTer community such as Bas who has graciously provided hosting for the website you're viewing. Thank you to all those in the MiSTer community that care about retro PCs and are spreading the word about MiSTer FPGA.
More than ever before aging retro hardware is in danger of dying due to leaking capacitors, corrosion and failed parts. FPGA has become one of the best ways to protect and preserve these old systems as they existed before. With the MiSTer FPGA project we may again enjoy the software running on those systems and also share those experiences with others.
If you're new to 0MHz software, the first thing you will need is a MiSTer FPGA and to have it setup with the FPGA cores that can run the software such as ao486, z486 and PCXT-EGA. Check out the MiSTer FPGA Forum for details.
