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The Old DOS games thread
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TheMan
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Krathoon
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Yeah. I got Lemmings 1 and the expansion on Playstation disc. I had to get Lemmings 2 another way since the disks were bad. I did get the original PC big box with all the inserts though.
I also found Lemmings 3D on eBay.
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HerpDerpstreit
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Anyone ever play Betrayal at Krondor? Never finished it but that was one of my favorites back in the day.
IbizaPocholo
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Nice looking DOS games
Posted on behalf of dase211 Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers Space Quest V: The Next Mutation Sam & Max Hit the Road Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle J-Bird Lychnis The Dig Out of this World / Another World Prince of Persia Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the...
Lots of interest games there.
Krathoon
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There was a sequel too. They got both of them on gog.
Betrayal at Krondor Pack
Betrayal at Krondor: Midkemia – a realm of enchantment and ancient magic where elves, dwa
Ladioss
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Krathoon
what hardware do you use for playing old PC ? Or do you use software emulation ?What are your thoughts about the mister fpga ao486 core ?
With M&M3 and Arena it was one of those CRPGs that captivated me back in the day right before I bought my first PC. I've even bought the budget edition. Then I discovered Daggerfall, and never looked back.
anothertech
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Ladder.
Spent the better part of a year perfecting my technique and acing that shit.
Spent the better part of a year perfecting my technique and acing that shit.
LordOfChaos
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Still remember him blasting those two fuzzy critters, hah
Wow the 'cutscenes' if they were even called that still have so much more artistic charm than the remake
Why did this
become this
Even with the pixel graphics of the DOS era those scenes were artsy, adventurous, pirate vibes, mix of silly and slapstick but those cutscenes hold up even now
Wow the 'cutscenes' if they were even called that still have so much more artistic charm than the remake
Why did this
become this
Even with the pixel graphics of the DOS era those scenes were artsy, adventurous, pirate vibes, mix of silly and slapstick but those cutscenes hold up even now
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Krathoon
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I am using software emulation. I use stuff like DOSBox and Vmware. I have bought some of Analogue's stuff.
What are your thoughts about the mister fpga ao486 core ?
With M&M3 and Arena it was one of those CRPGs that captivated me back in the day right before I bought my first PC. I've even bought the budget edition. Then I discovered Daggerfall, and never looked back.
I have not messed with the Mister. I do notice that software emulation has some flaws. I have noticed some games acting weird when I run Win XP and Win 98 in VMs.
Just today I had the Win 95 version of Earthworm Jim: Special Edition run too fast on fullscreen in Win 98 on a VM for some reason.
Then I found out it was missing some effects compared to the Sega CD version.
It seems like DOSBox has the emulation pretty much licked.
Krathoon
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Yeah. They decided to make that one totally free. Some companies do that. Bethesda has been good about it. They were giving away Morrowind for a short time.
Elder Legend
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I loved this game as a kid. I think it's quite funny how some older games may seem more scary than current ones in some way. Because of the low quality sounds and weird pixelated visuals and just a different asthetic some games just made that it freakier and creepier than current gen games lol.
Blood 3D or Hexen feel quite horror imo.
Mopey bloke
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I never had DOS in my house. Always Windows. However, lately I'm always playing Quake. This is what I'm looking for this year.
Tschumi
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I will gift gold to anyone who can help me name this game:
It was a side scroller, you were a guy with a big head or wearing a beanie, 8-bit or less, you were going through a haunted school, killing ghosts with your camera flash. Or something. This was circa 1994 or thereabouts, but i think it was from the 80s.
Help me out.
It was a side scroller, you were a guy with a big head or wearing a beanie, 8-bit or less, you were going through a haunted school, killing ghosts with your camera flash. Or something. This was circa 1994 or thereabouts, but i think it was from the 80s.
Help me out.
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kanjobazooie
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Are you sure they're ghosts? Your description remind me of a similar game (2d, school, beanie, camera), but it has robots instead.
If it actually has ghosts and is a horror game, then I don't know it.
Edit: The game I'm thinking of is an educational game. It's probably not it. lmao
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Tschumi
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That's it! I think maybe it was a remake of an earlier version with black backgrounds and fewer colours but that's definitely it! Wooo
Educational doesn't surprise me, games had to have an "educational" side for my parents to give them the ok haha
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Futaleufu
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Even famous PC youtubers have had that problem with their collections. For retro systems its better to get a USB to floppy emulator and get the disk images from the web/software lists
kanjobazooie
Mouse Ball Fetishist
I totally forgot it was an educational game, so I was confused when I read that on Wikipedia and thought it wasn't your game.
Thanks for the Gold! You really didn't have to.
Now I know what being high-class feels like. lol
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Tschumi
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Haha doesn't cost much, I've been wondering about that game for decades hahaI totally forgot it was an educational game, so I was confused when I read that on Wikipedia and thought it wasn't your game.
Thanks for the Gold! You really didn't have to.
Now I know what being high-class feels like. lol
NiiloPielinen
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Dr.Morris79
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asbsolutely despised Dos back in the day, was an Amiga man myself, but.. I have to admit, Ecstatica did blow me away back then..
ReBurn
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There was a record shop in my town that had a rack of freeware and shareware on floppy disk. You pretty much just paid for the disk that the software was on to be able to try it out and if you liked it you could follow whatever instructions were available to license it. That's how I discovered one of the best early PC graphics programs VGACAD and the excellent Pac-Man clone CD-MAN. There were also so many cool concept ideas delivered that way. It was the first time I saw ray tracing on PC. There was a demo that drew spinning and bouncing, rotating spheres and cones and lit them with a ray traced light source. It was very basic but pretty cool.
Holammer
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Coming from Amiga I skipped all the purple & cyan CGA stuff and jumped straight to a 486 with all the latest stuff. So I'm not really nostalgic about the real old stuff.
Most of my gaming was on consoles, but I played a lot of stuff like Civ, adventure games and RPGs on the PC. Lands of Lore was one of those games that really wow'd me and I put in a lot hours in Master of Magic.
Day of the Tentacle made an impression too, but that goes without saying.
Most of my gaming was on consoles, but I played a lot of stuff like Civ, adventure games and RPGs on the PC. Lands of Lore was one of those games that really wow'd me and I put in a lot hours in Master of Magic.
Day of the Tentacle made an impression too, but that goes without saying.
zaanan
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Same- Jazz Jackrabbit, One Must Fall, Descent, and prob a lot more I don’t remember. Really wish demos were still widely used; just the perfect way to market games imo.
stranno
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Shareware discs were a drug back then. Here in Spain we had a magazine called pcmanía that made really cool compilations of shareware games, encyclopedias, programs, etc.
Does anyone remember a martian roving simulator made in voxels (ala Novalogic's Voxelscape)?
Edit: Some games from those CDs.
In Search of Dr. Riptide
Night Raid
Depth Dwellers
Hexxagon
Kapture (tf is going on with the shoots accuracy in this game xD)
King Arthur's Kart (no idea how this thing works, but I guess reading would actually come handy).
Puztris (when you violate the license of Tetris and Tiny Toons at the same time you MAYBE do not want to put your addresses in the program
)
Sand Storm
Silver Pinball
Sky Roads (basically the Dark Souls of the endless runner genre)
Link to the disc: https://archive.org/download/PCMCDS/PCMania CD27_2.nrg (It is in Spanish, but games are usually in English and it's fairly easy to navigate anyway).
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Platinumstorm
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ShadowNate
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Alley Cat was such a stupid fun game. Simple, with cartoon sound fx and easy to medium difficulty challenges, we spent hours as kids playing it and laughing our butts out when the other would lose in one of the many silly ways.
Morrie’s wig shop
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I really didn’t game on the computer in the 80s’. But my dad did come home one day sometime in 89’ with a used IBM PS/2 and it came with Chuck Yeager flight sim(I believe this is the first time I saw the old EA logo and an EA game) that was really it but the game was really complex for my 12 year old brain.
Then fast forward to about 92-94 every one started to get a PC and that’s when I was able to play games like Doom/wolfenstien etc.
Then fast forward to about 92-94 every one started to get a PC and that’s when I was able to play games like Doom/wolfenstien etc.
ClanOfNone
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This was my family's second pc. The first was an IBM with an 8086 processor. It was notable for a few things; came with an EGA display when CGA was still the norm, and it had a 3 1/2 disc drive instead of the 5 1/4. It was tough to find software for it at first, everything was still on 5 1/4 format. It also had a new fangled device called a hard drive, that had a whopping 20 MB of storage.
When my dad bought the 486 home, I was grounded from games because of my grades. I had a brand new copy of Wing Commander 2 WITH the speech pack to go along with our new Soundblaster. Waiting to play that game was sheer torture, I never let my grades slip again.
The Pleasure
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I remember how hard it was to get up and running in dos if that's what you meant by "playing" it and trying to get enough conventional memory while loading every driver known to man into himem.
Krathoon
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That is what makes Dosbox great. You get an optimum setup to run the game. Now, you can get it on gog and just run it.