cartman414
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Recently I saw some stuff on mini retro pcs (i. e. the weeCee) using 486/Pentium level modules.
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The Old DOS games thread
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Recently I saw some stuff on mini retro pcs (i. e. the weeCee) using 486/Pentium level modules.
MachRc
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I had a alot of commodore games port too on DOS
my first, in cockpit, on ice, tank game...
god I remember having to type alot of words and dying alot, in Lancelot. Only if I had the internet back then.
Spent alot of time playing Archon too, still cant pronounce it.
Man this game was difficult
The Great Escape
And those flight simulator remind me of stunt island. I remember the flying under bridge under the barn, and making and setting up your own stunts, it had a space shuttle too if I remember correctly. It had alot of vehicles.
my first, in cockpit, on ice, tank game...
god I remember having to type alot of words and dying alot, in Lancelot. Only if I had the internet back then.
Spent alot of time playing Archon too, still cant pronounce it.
Man this game was difficult
The Great Escape
And those flight simulator remind me of stunt island. I remember the flying under bridge under the barn, and making and setting up your own stunts, it had a space shuttle too if I remember correctly. It had alot of vehicles.
Redneckerz
Those long posts don't cover that red neck boy
Does NEW DOS Games also count?
Because HacX: Twitch N Kill from 1996 and REKKR from 2020 and REKKR: Sunken Land are now DOS compatible!
Cool, so what are these?
HacX: Twitch N Kill:
A 1997 Total Conversion by Banjo Software. They paid 5.000 dollars to market the game as a commercial add-on similar in vain to Malice for Quake. Updates followed in 2010, where HacX became its own IWAD and thus standalone game.
Contents of the standalone DOS version are here.
REKKR:
A 2020 standalone game taking place in the Norse mythology.
Contents of the standalone DOS version are here.
REKKR: Sunken Land:
Same as REKKR but with a 4th episode! However! Sunken Land has its own DOS executable, but requires the Ultimate DOOM IWAD to function and is thus not a selfcontained game.
Great! So where do i get it, mate?
Here:
Because HacX: Twitch N Kill from 1996 and REKKR from 2020 and REKKR: Sunken Land are now DOS compatible!
Cool, so what are these?
HacX: Twitch N Kill:
A 1997 Total Conversion by Banjo Software. They paid 5.000 dollars to market the game as a commercial add-on similar in vain to Malice for Quake. Updates followed in 2010, where HacX became its own IWAD and thus standalone game.
Contents of the standalone DOS version are here.
REKKR:
A 2020 standalone game taking place in the Norse mythology.
Contents of the standalone DOS version are here.
REKKR: Sunken Land:
Same as REKKR but with a 4th episode! However! Sunken Land has its own DOS executable, but requires the Ultimate DOOM IWAD to function and is thus not a selfcontained game.
Great! So where do i get it, mate?
Here:
AJUMP23
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I loved and played Wing Commander 1,2 and 3 so much. I actually 4 is a very good story too, but people don't seem to like it. I felt the Betrayal, when Hobbs went to defend his home world. WC3 is inspired casting, from Mark Hamill to Maniac to porn stars.
Krathoon
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That sounds like a really well designed video game.One of my absolute favorites, and I honestly have no idea how I stumbled upon it as a kid: Coaster. You design roller coasters using some legit looking 3D CAD interface, pilot the thing yourself, and then have a cast of characters rate the ride. So much fun coming up with crazy designs to see what can get you the max points. Published by Disney of all companies. No other "gameplay" though - literally design coaster, ride coaster.
Krathoon
Gold Member
Yeah. I need to get a flight stick and play 3 and 4.
StreetsofBeige
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Late reply.Spent alot of time playing Archon too, still cant pronounce it.
But that's the Apple II version which we had. Original too as my bro bought it. Awesome box. Among my fav games back in the 80s on Apple along with Wings of Fury.
Only drawback of Archon was the cpu was too easy (bad AI that also got stuck on that bottom left bush in battle) and the Dark Side was way too OP. Just take the dragon and wipe out the left side. The Phoenix was useless.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Anyone post Lemmings yet?
How about the old C&C rip of Z (ZED)?
How about the old C&C rip of Z (ZED)?
Knightime_X
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I can't play dos games anymore.
Not sure if it was the game or dosbox-s has very chunky performance.
Not sure if it was the game or dosbox-s has very chunky performance.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
You could try some of the dosbox config options -
Performance - DOSBoxWiki
It can be per game as well e.g. some don't run or some are just terrible performance.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
A very good cribbage game I used to play. Insanely hard on the higher difficulties, or maybe it cheated. Not sure. Cribbage is one of those games where (IMO) you can only get so good as a lot of it comes to luck how good your hands are. There's only so much strategy when it comes to pegging and not letting the opponent get easy points off you. All it takes is one side to get a 16 or 24 monster hand and that will likely be enough to win assuming all else is equal quality hands.
Problem was the game didn't seem to work on Win 3.1 or 95 (I forget). My bro probably could had got it to work if he messed around with it enough but we didn't have enough interest at the time as way better games were out. At the time, there were a lot of games during that windows transition time that just wouldnt work even if you used command prompts.
en.wikipedia.org
Problem was the game didn't seem to work on Win 3.1 or 95 (I forget). My bro probably could had got it to work if he messed around with it enough but we didn't have enough interest at the time as way better games were out. At the time, there were a lot of games during that windows transition time that just wouldnt work even if you used command prompts.
Cribbage King / Gin King - Wikipedia
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hollams
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I love cribbage. The best PC cribbage game I found was Ultimate Cribbage by Keith Westley that was for Windows 95 and luckily it still works today.A very good cribbage game I used to play. Insanely hard on the higher difficulties, or maybe it cheated. Not sure. Cribbage is one of those games where (IMO) you can only get so good as a lot of it comes to luck how good your hands are. There's only so much strategy when it comes to pegging and not letting the opponent get easy points off you. All it takes is one side to get a 16 or 24 monster hand and that will likely be enough to win assuming all else is equal quality hands.
Problem was the game didn't seem to work on Win 3.1 or 95 (I forget). My bro probably could had got it to work if he messed around with it enough but we didn't have enough interest at the time as way better games were out. At the time, there were a lot of games during that windows transition time that just wouldnt work even if you used command prompts.
Cribbage King / Gin King - Wikipedia
Badlucktroll
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Hell yeah old computer games. I miss 1993….
KimDongHwan
Member
There is this game I have not been able to find for like 20 years. Giving it a shot here:
if anyone knows or remember something please let me know!
- It was a racing game (futuristic maybe?)
- It had the word Biohazard in it. Not sure if this was the name of a car or part of the name of the game.
- The car I remembered had a shape like a futuristic tank, but not really sure.
if anyone knows or remember something please let me know!
stranno
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Quarantine?There is this game I have not been able to find for like 20 years. Giving it a shot here:
That's it
- It was a racing game (futuristic maybe?)
- It had the word Biohazard in it. Not sure if this was the name of a car or part of the name of the game.
- The car I remembered had a shape like a futuristic tank, but not really sure.
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I swear the old game EPIC was the blueprint for Nintendo's Starfox later on.
Havoc2049
Member
LOL.. I played this game back in the day, although I played it on my Atari 1040ST. I always thought it was more of a Wing Commander space combat simulator type game, while Starfox was a rail shooter.
Man, the PC version looks and sounds almost too good, a little sterile even. I prefer the the grainy yet more dramatic sound and look of the ST version.
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StreetsofBeige
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Awesome game back in the day. But really hard. Ran well even on shitty PCs.
Early polygon action circa 1990 with tons of replay cam views and the best crashes. It got to a point early on my bros and I noticed we sucked at it so all we did was do giant 20 car pile ups with polygonal debris flying everywhere.
Too lazy to find a video that has big crashes, but this guy crashes on his own a bit. Now multiply that by 20x where you'd purposely hit cars and or put your car in the middle of the track waiting to be hit. Big fun.
Early polygon action circa 1990 with tons of replay cam views and the best crashes. It got to a point early on my bros and I noticed we sucked at it so all we did was do giant 20 car pile ups with polygonal debris flying everywhere.
Too lazy to find a video that has big crashes, but this guy crashes on his own a bit. Now multiply that by 20x where you'd purposely hit cars and or put your car in the middle of the track waiting to be hit. Big fun.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Great RPGs my bro played. Some reason I never got into them. Probably because they are real time. And I hate real time party based RPGs. You got 4 player parties and will be clicking attack and spell buttons fast. Monsters dont wait. If you got good reflexes, you can always cheese monsters if you got the room to by attacking and moving/strafing before they can attack you back.
Never knew they had a CD pack as my bros bought them on disks in the early 90s one at a time. Solid visuals for the time.
Biggest drawback is they are really similar games from what I remember.
Never knew they had a CD pack as my bros bought them on disks in the early 90s one at a time. Solid visuals for the time.
Biggest drawback is they are really similar games from what I remember.
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Ozzy Onya A2Z
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I think Starfox was only on rails due to the processing power restrictions. There's just so much similarity in the layouts, objects, shooting mechanics and handling etc.
hooijdonk17
Member
I actually game on DOS regularly, I have a Cx5x86-120 MS-DOS PC along with all the bells and whistles like MIDI devices etc. sitting next to my contemporary gaming rig.
Doczu
Member
My favorite Amiga game. If the term "dark souls of(...)" has any meaning then this really is the dark souls of yesteryear
hooijdonk17
Member
The Amiga version is far superior in terms of sound and music.. One of my top 5 Amiga games ever I'd say.
Doczu
Member
Yeah when i watched that posted yt vid i missed all the mood in the intro soundtrack.
It's THAT much better on the Amiga.
I higly recommend Space Crusade, a fantastic video game "port" of a board game of the same name. Great in multiplayer, many missions, nice graphics. "Old" W40k asthetics are so much better than thr new ones.
I know this is a DOS thread, but do check the Amiga version. Same game, slightly worse graphics, but the soundtrack. Man the sountrack kicks Xeno ass.
Listen to this main menu track:
cash_longfellow
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Yep! What did you have to type pre windows? Wasn’t it C:\Bananas.exe or something like that?Worth checking thread: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/nice-looking-dos-games.1502653/
My first DOS game ever.
a multicultural team of v
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My computer it was gorilla.bas in the c:\qbasic directory
nibbles.bas was also a lot of fun
edit: actually, now that I have an old PC again and have been getting DOS set up, it was definitely in the c:\dos directory since that is where qbasic is.
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RAIDEN1
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LOL.. I played this game back in the day, although I played it on my Atari 1040ST. I always thought it was more of a Wing Commander space combat simulator type game, while Starfox was a rail shooter.
Man, the PC version looks and sounds almost too good, a little sterile even. I prefer the the grainy yet more dramatic sound and look of the ST version.
What about on the Amiga?
cash_longfellow
Member
Ahhh, yep that was it .bas
Jimmy_liv
Member
Once played Lemmings on MP with two mice (mouses?? Lol, what's the plural?).
Was fantasticly funny.
Diatribe1974
Member
Man, I played the hell outta Stunts. My best frie d and I must've designed a billion tracks just to fuck with each other at times. So much fun.
The Stig
Member
I'm a bit of a dosbox (with D-Fend front end) nerd.
I have a USB stick with a portable install of d-fend with the following games installed:
All with CD images ripped and auto mounted.
Here's my go to game:
Star Trek TNG A final Unity.
Was a pig to get to work on dosbox but I got it eventually.
One game Id like to shout out is The terminator Future Shock + Skynet expansion.
It was very much overshadowed by quake that year. The game was somewhat open world and used mouse aiming before everyone else. Also with the skynet addon you can up the resolution to 640x480 and it had porn-level acting in the cutscenes for the expansion.
Also you got lots of laser guns.
Extra shout out to the command & conquer games but I play those on the new collection on W10.
I also play Discworld 1 + 2 with ScummVM
I have a USB stick with a portable install of d-fend with the following games installed:
All with CD images ripped and auto mounted.
Here's my go to game:
Star Trek TNG A final Unity.
Was a pig to get to work on dosbox but I got it eventually.
One game Id like to shout out is The terminator Future Shock + Skynet expansion.
It was very much overshadowed by quake that year. The game was somewhat open world and used mouse aiming before everyone else. Also with the skynet addon you can up the resolution to 640x480 and it had porn-level acting in the cutscenes for the expansion.
Also you got lots of laser guns.
Extra shout out to the command & conquer games but I play those on the new collection on W10.
I also play Discworld 1 + 2 with ScummVM
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The Stig
Member
First I know of. I know it wasnt fully 3d but it was still impressive.
Syphon Filter
Member
I'm a bit of a dosbox (with D-Fend front end) nerd.
I have a USB stick with a portable install of d-fend with the following games installed:
All with CD images ripped and auto mounted.
Here's my go to game:
Star Trek TNG A final Unity.
Was a pig to get to work on dosbox but I got it eventually.
One game Id like to shout out is The terminator Future Shock + Skynet expansion.
It was very much overshadowed by quake that year. The game was somewhat open world and used mouse aiming before everyone else. Also with the skynet addon you can up the resolution to 640x480 and it had porn-level acting in the cutscenes for the expansion.
Also you got lots of laser guns.
Extra shout out to the command & conquer games but I play those on the new collection on W10.
I also play Discworld 1 + 2 with ScummVM
whoa the graphics look nicer on that terminator game than what i remember.
The Stig
Member
yes. there are a fan made patch or 2 in there and with the skynet addon you can double the resolution.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I beat Wizardry 7 back in the day. Was too young to play the really old ones my bro had, but played this one. This was when I also got into Ultima Underworld and never looked back for RPGs. WRPG going forward.
Your typical turn based PC game from the early 90s before real time gaming was the trend.
Solid game, except the UI is clunky and character creation is terrible.
Those old Wiz games would seem to only allow certain classes to be created if you used certain races, because each race had starting attribute points and a Ninja or Samurai (pretty weird to have in a fantasy RPG to begin with) were only attainable (or more easily attainable) if you used lets say a Faerie or whatever. Re-rolling characters I remember was a pain in the ass. Pretty sure most Wiz gamers filled their party with specialty classes like Lords, Ninjas, etc... and this require highly rolled characters to allow it.
You could also say fuck it and go with default kinds of classes like straight up fighters and mages, but the special classes were better and more fun to use.
Your typical turn based PC game from the early 90s before real time gaming was the trend.
Solid game, except the UI is clunky and character creation is terrible.
Those old Wiz games would seem to only allow certain classes to be created if you used certain races, because each race had starting attribute points and a Ninja or Samurai (pretty weird to have in a fantasy RPG to begin with) were only attainable (or more easily attainable) if you used lets say a Faerie or whatever. Re-rolling characters I remember was a pain in the ass. Pretty sure most Wiz gamers filled their party with specialty classes like Lords, Ninjas, etc... and this require highly rolled characters to allow it.
You could also say fuck it and go with default kinds of classes like straight up fighters and mages, but the special classes were better and more fun to use.
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Krathoon
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I like the original version of Wizardry 7 more than the Gold version. They messed up the graphics and animation in the Gold version.
ResurrectedContrarian
Banned
Amazing time for gaming. I love the strangeness and boldness of the genres at that time... everything I played then felt like a genuine project made by creators with wild ideas, whereas 95% of gaming now feels like it was developed through committees and focus groups.
Laptop1991
Member
The game i remember mostly and couldnt beat lol
ResurrectedContrarian
Banned
Ah I remember this game... I think I just had the shareware version, and it was fun but so difficult to understand how to succeed, so I'd just fly and screw around aimlessly.
But I recall that it had a stereoscopic mode you could enable, and that I was able to take some standard red/blue glasses I had from another toy and use it with the game. It wasn't perfect by any means, but still amazing to see a game on my PC running in 3D for the first time.
Laptop1991
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i owned the game and got the hang of it, but it was so hard in the levels 30 and above lol, i never got past 36 or 37 i think, i thought the game was great, building your castle's collecting mana and fighting the other wizards, i had fun until it beat me.
I remember that one. Actually do I remember correctly it had a 3d dot stereogram mode too? I mean like this. Just trying it now it took me a good 30-40 seconds before I could see it. I have no idea how you'd play a game in that mode. I think the deal was you built up your base while taking down the enemy bases. (Once it was destroyed you could take out the enemy)