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Happy New Year, fellow DOS enthusiasts! 🍾🎇🎉

 Wed Jan 01 05:01:34 +0000 2020

Prehistorik 2

 Wed Jan 01 05:55:53 +0000 2020

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RT @gayocats: 36018b

 Wed Jan 01 07:12:24 +0000 2020

RT @mikko: 𝙼𝙳 𝙲:\𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶

 Wed Jan 01 13:33:08 +0000 2020

RT @martijnfrazer: It's OK, Charles. I want to run it in DOS anyway 😎 #DOSGaming

 Wed Jan 01 14:23:52 +0000 2020

Freaking Max Payne is gonna be twenty next year. 😰

 Wed Jan 01 17:30:53 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Every New year's resolution is 320 x 200.

 Wed Jan 01 17:45:28 +0000 2020

RT @IQ_Adventures: I am happy to announce the release of v2.0 of Infamous Adventures remake of Space Quest II! This updated version has som…

 Wed Jan 01 18:11:11 +0000 2020

 Wed Jan 01 18:23:08 +0000 2020

Elf (Nirvana Systems/Ocean Software, 1992) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Jan 01 19:07:03 +0000 2020

RT @hangman3d: Best Christmas gift EVER!!! 😍

My wife surprised me with this amazing LED pixel display backpack! It took me some time but I…

 Wed Jan 01 19:24:51 +0000 2020

Meanwhile in Russia:
DOS enthusiasts translate cult classic horror acton-adventure game "Veil of Darkness"
https://www.old-games.ru/game/download/976.html

 Wed Jan 01 19:36:55 +0000 2020

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 Wed Jan 01 21:02:19 +0000 2020

Microsoft ScanDisk surface scan. Real HDD + sound.

 Wed Jan 01 21:28:23 +0000 2020

 Wed Jan 01 21:37:23 +0000 2020

Start 2020 right - by looking at computer prices from January of 1990!

 Thu Jan 02 00:24:47 +0000 2020

Now who is ready for some ads from THIRTY years ago?! Let's do it!

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 Thu Jan 02 00:41:30 +0000 2020

I haven't, but I'm gonna bet it's a phone sex line. Because that's where most abandoned phone numbers end up.

 Thu Jan 02 00:42:18 +0000 2020

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 Thu Jan 02 00:49:11 +0000 2020

Dial it. What's the worst that can happen?

 Thu Jan 02 00:50:02 +0000 2020

Well, I'll be. Microsoft hung on to that number. But I wasn't kidding about the abandoned ones.

 Thu Jan 02 00:52:03 +0000 2020

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And now finally some #DOSGaming ads from January of 1990!

 Thu Jan 02 01:03:35 +0000 2020

"Four computer hackers are about to raid you disk drive."

 Thu Jan 02 01:04:51 +0000 2020

Those aren't Verbatim. They were Maxell.

 Thu Jan 02 01:06:35 +0000 2020

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 Thu Jan 02 01:09:00 +0000 2020

Ok, I was like "this can't be the actual box art!" but nope, there it is. They just slapped a photo of two ladies right on the front of the cover art.

 Thu Jan 02 01:10:31 +0000 2020

Executive: "This box art sucks! We need this game to SELL! What you got there? A promo shot of two broads? And one of them is in a see through top?! WE'RE SAVED!"

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And that was one hour of vintage print ads from 30 years ago! All ads were from January 1990 issues of Byte, Compute, and Computer Gaming World magazines. I hope you enjoyed them.

 Thu Jan 02 01:26:50 +0000 2020

Harley-Davidson: The Road to Sturgis (Incredible Technologies/Mindscape, 1989)

 Thu Jan 02 01:38:06 +0000 2020

They are in the movie indeed, I'm just amused by the fact that this shot was placed on top of the art.

 Thu Jan 02 01:49:03 +0000 2020

Been in a terrible mental state the last few days to the point of barely being able to function. Not a great start of a year tbh.

 Thu Jan 02 03:09:24 +0000 2020

What do you mean?

 Thu Jan 02 03:12:12 +0000 2020

I've been grinding forever. I'm tired of grinding.

 Thu Jan 02 03:13:08 +0000 2020

Plasma screens work using gas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display

 Thu Jan 02 03:15:14 +0000 2020

I'm in America. No breaks.

 Thu Jan 02 03:20:55 +0000 2020

Although that was fixed in the later version.

 Thu Jan 02 03:28:16 +0000 2020

Well, I know what's gonna be over $2,000 by the time the auction is over

 Thu Jan 02 04:03:38 +0000 2020

Cat! 😍

 Thu Jan 02 06:03:29 +0000 2020

 Thu Jan 02 06:28:45 +0000 2020

She was so tiny

 Thu Jan 02 12:40:49 +0000 2020

😍

 Thu Jan 02 12:51:34 +0000 2020

Yep. This very moment.

 Thu Jan 02 21:21:33 +0000 2020

RT @fabynou: Happy first of January everyone. I am starting the year with a study of "The Polygons of Another World" (https://t.co/3Fskwem…

 Fri Jan 03 01:23:45 +0000 2020

I did post that Battlecruiser ad a few times 🤔

 Fri Jan 03 05:51:26 +0000 2020

This is a magical #DOSGaming thread full of discoveries! https://x.com/Foone/status/1212729719390523397

 Fri Jan 03 05:58:38 +0000 2020

One of the things on my New Year's resolution was being more positive on social media. Well, it's pretty fucking hard to do with all the shit that's going on right now!

 Fri Jan 03 19:03:56 +0000 2020

My sanity picked a great time to collapse, I tell ya. 💀

 Fri Jan 03 19:06:51 +0000 2020

Chickie Egg (Steve McCrea/Criterion Software, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Jan 03 19:10:36 +0000 2020

Cat! 😊

 Fri Jan 03 19:21:18 +0000 2020

RT @Pixelengineer_: I can't believe that I found this beauty at a flea market in Bricquebec. #DOSgaming #3dfx

 Fri Jan 03 20:30:27 +0000 2020

RT @DavidXNewton: Penny tried some #dosgaming. (She might need a handicap adjustment)

 Fri Jan 03 20:30:38 +0000 2020

RT @bigevilboss: Got a shuttle bus between flights, and it paused momentarily in front of some control centre, and I could see the screens…

 Fri Jan 03 20:31:38 +0000 2020

RT @franklingraves: Just had a flashback to when I was in elementary school & I'd get mad at my brother for not helping me get started with…

 Fri Jan 03 20:32:40 +0000 2020

But... it was from the PC Speaker. #RealSound

 Fri Jan 03 20:49:53 +0000 2020

The wildest part is the fact that Access managed to patent their "RealSound" system, despite instances of prior implementations already existing.

 Fri Jan 03 20:51:29 +0000 2020

Yep.

 Fri Jan 03 20:56:04 +0000 2020

RT @Denis_Loubet: Here’s an even more drastic pose for the Avatar that I sketched out for the cover to Ultima 6. This version has the Avata…

 Fri Jan 03 21:54:57 +0000 2020

RT @Macaw45: Let's explore some Russian DOS games https://www.twitch.tv/macaw45

 Sat Jan 04 00:34:56 +0000 2020

RT @lazygamereviews: Hooked up a NDLR to try out the AWE64 card's MPU-401 capabilities. Fun stuff being able to control the FM synth using…

 Sat Jan 04 04:14:59 +0000 2020

Excuse me, but WHAT THE HELL?!?! https://x.com/andrei_drexler/status/1200457226739171329

 Sat Jan 04 04:22:41 +0000 2020

Today's accomplishment: managed to successfully leave the house. Only took four days! So maybe things aren't all that bad.

 Sat Jan 04 04:24:29 +0000 2020

RT @Civvie11: THE WANG RETURNS
https://youtu.be/6oAgCRGRfLs

#ShadowWarrior #FreeCivvie

 Sat Jan 04 16:31:39 +0000 2020

RT @Pixelmusement: New Ancient DOS Games episode uploaded! https://youtu.be/D5vRBGL8VMo

 Sat Jan 04 16:47:35 +0000 2020

Harley-Davidson: The Road to Sturgis (Incredible Technologies/Mindscape, 1989) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Jan 04 17:25:26 +0000 2020

Love this game and the sequel.

 Sat Jan 04 17:53:08 +0000 2020

See, in Russia we didn't get pirated MegaMan for some reason, so my MegaMan was Darkwing Duck and other Capcom Disney games. Incredibly solid games.

 Sat Jan 04 17:54:47 +0000 2020

Russia had a "Dendy" brand of Taiwanese made Famiclones that launched in 1992. I personally had a Dendy Jr.

 Sat Jan 04 18:01:01 +0000 2020

There's an amateur documentary about the rise of Dendy in Russia on YT. It's very much in the AVGN style, but worth watching for anyone who's interested. I have to mention that there was NO console gaming prior to 92, except for some Pong variants. https://youtu.be/rJQr3tnjHlg

 Sat Jan 04 18:06:16 +0000 2020

It really captures the pain in the ass aspect of discovering semi-legal gaming industry in a developing country.

 Sat Jan 04 18:16:47 +0000 2020

RT @keebheebin: She is trapped in Deluxe Paint 2 for MS-DOS please help

 Sat Jan 04 18:45:57 +0000 2020

RT @PCMag: How to preserve your vintage electronics: https://trib.al/SGiufT7

 Sat Jan 04 18:46:35 +0000 2020

Looks like this particular game was designed for composite color though

 Sat Jan 04 19:14:21 +0000 2020

RT @fabynou: Happy fourth of January. Here is the fourth part in the "Polygons of Another World" series. This entry is about the PC DOS ver…

 Sat Jan 04 19:45:43 +0000 2020

Famiclone is an officially recognized term for a hardware clone of Famicom. You're welcome.

 Sat Jan 04 21:33:44 +0000 2020

I obviously couldn't list every French game ever, but I do know both Bargon Attack and Lost in Time. While not great games, both have interesting ideas and implementations. Both games also have excellent support in ScummVM, I suggest you try it if DosBox isn't for you.

 Sat Jan 04 22:01:33 +0000 2020

RT @dantemendes: TYRIAN (Epic Games, 1995)

The game that's always mentioned when talking about 1990s PC shmups. They were very rare on MS-…

 Sat Jan 04 22:37:05 +0000 2020

RT @winterion: Sitting with @GalexQuest in front of a 286 playing a LucasArts adventure game.

@MAGFest rules.

 Sun Jan 05 04:24:36 +0000 2020

All of those films work better on repeated viewings. You already know the story, so it's easier to appreciate all the little details.

 Sun Jan 05 05:39:58 +0000 2020

Obviously I was talking about Intolerable Cruelty.

 Sun Jan 05 05:40:20 +0000 2020

Шкалик [Shkalik] (Vadim Bashurov, 1988) #DOSGameScreenADay #RussianVideogames #SovietVideogames

 Sun Jan 05 16:03:52 +0000 2020

DOS games on #AGDQ2020:
Jan 6 - 5:24 PM Fallout
Jan 9 - 6:17 AM Mega Man 3 (DOS)

 Sun Jan 05 17:15:57 +0000 2020

I remember it.

 Sun Jan 05 17:22:08 +0000 2020

RT @ultrakillblast:

 Sun Jan 05 17:49:45 +0000 2020

#DOSGaming

 Sun Jan 05 19:58:59 +0000 2020

Oof. Latest Pathologic 2 news aren't great. https://x.com/InquisitorAles/status/1213113742319329284

 Sun Jan 05 21:12:57 +0000 2020

Pathologic is one of the better arguments we have for traditional games as meaningful art, but it's janky and Russian, and it doesn't have a peeing Norman Reedus in it, so whatever.

 Sun Jan 05 22:28:34 +0000 2020

I also backed the Kickstarter, and I would back the Kickstarter again if they asked, but I honestly think that taking the open world immersive sim aspect away from the other two stories would lessen the overall impact.

 Sun Jan 05 22:29:53 +0000 2020

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1213511770519855104

 Sun Jan 05 22:58:39 +0000 2020

Yep. Better than nothing, I guess, but still sad news. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1213931415705923585

 Sun Jan 05 23:05:29 +0000 2020

Since my body isn't trained to intake cake and ice cream when I am happy, I don't think the outcome would be the same.

 Mon Jan 06 00:00:31 +0000 2020

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 Mon Jan 06 01:32:33 +0000 2020

Vistapro

 Mon Jan 06 01:35:56 +0000 2020

RT @PiecesofKate: Happy 32nd anniversary to The Adventures of Captain Comic! One of the first scrolling platformers for the IBM PC, and amo…

 Mon Jan 06 01:58:37 +0000 2020

RT @TheMedievalNerd: The animation of the Training Grounds in MM3 is awesome!

#DOSGaming #RETROGAMING

 Mon Jan 06 01:59:17 +0000 2020

RT @gnomeslair: The Digital Antiquarian on Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space (and space-program games in general) https://www.filfre.net/2020/01/buzz-aldrins-race-into-space-and-space-program-games-in-general/ https…

 Mon Jan 06 15:03:18 +0000 2020

RT @TIME: This is what it looked like to get a computer virus in 1995 http://ti.me/2hYPjL3

 Mon Jan 06 15:04:19 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Mon Jan 06 15:18:23 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: In case some of you could also use a little bit of peace today. #DOSGaming

 Mon Jan 06 18:45:02 +0000 2020

Sadko (Doka Studios, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay #RussianVideogames

 Mon Jan 06 19:35:17 +0000 2020

VistaPro v1.01 (DOS, 1992)

 Mon Jan 06 20:21:14 +0000 2020

RT @leejacksonaudio: Now available for purchase on Bandcamp!

Goin' Down the Fast Way (2020 HQ Remaster)

https://leejackson1.bandcamp.com/track/goin-down-the-fast-way-2020-hq-remaster

#music #…

 Mon Jan 06 20:44:46 +0000 2020

So I finally watched "Under the Silver Lake", a new films from the writer & director of "It Follow" and while for the first 40 minutes or so I just wanted to be done with it, so I can hate on it, in the end the movie ended up winning me over! It was fun!

 Mon Jan 06 20:57:49 +0000 2020

I don't recall the last time I've seen a black comedy that really went for it. And David Robert Mitchell really knows how to build intriguing and incredibly tense scenes, no matter how ridiculous the context surrounding them is.

 Mon Jan 06 20:59:59 +0000 2020

A score by Disasterpeace is incredibly amazing. Very different from It Follows, this score leans very heavily into the Bernard Herrmann territory, and elevates the material even more. Last Ninja theme as a cell phone ringtone was cute too.

 Mon Jan 06 21:02:31 +0000 2020

And I usually hated ever post-Mulholland Drive attempt at satirizing life in LA (Maps to the Stars, Starry Eyes, Neon Demon, and dozens more,) but I really didn't hate it in this movie, even though it uses the same cliches. The execution made it better.

 Mon Jan 06 21:04:38 +0000 2020

Andrew Garfield gives a great performance, as does the rest of the cast. Add this to the list of other "rotten" movies that I've enjoyed.

 Mon Jan 06 21:06:43 +0000 2020

I actually thought of Scorsese's After Hours a lot.

 Mon Jan 06 21:10:24 +0000 2020

They aren't particularly similar to MD, they just share that one specific theme with it.

 Mon Jan 06 21:25:18 +0000 2020

Satirizing life in L.A.

 Mon Jan 06 21:54:36 +0000 2020

10+ after starting DOS Nostalgia I still regularly tell people to play the original EGA version of LOOM™ if they have only played the updated CD-ROM edition.

 Mon Jan 06 22:40:11 +0000 2020

One of the many things I love about Another World is the fact that the final location of the game is visible in a cutscene very early on.

 Mon Jan 06 23:32:26 +0000 2020

What do you mean? You see the remains of their society all throughout. The reason it is so sad is because they are in a middle of a civil war. Did you ever see the intro to Heart of the Alien? Eric didn't make it, but it's one of the few bits he got to approve

 Mon Jan 06 23:45:53 +0000 2020

Here it is: https://youtu.be/iF9G7bh0yIE?t=34

 Mon Jan 06 23:46:00 +0000 2020

Yeah, it's not as clean, & it's obvious that they did have a larger staff of animators, but not all of the original's animations are rotoscoped either. None of Lester's in-game animations were. And in HotA intro when Buddy is fighting a bunch of guys some bits are clearly roto'ed

 Tue Jan 07 00:05:39 +0000 2020

Yeah, and I love it like that. Even the end with an upbeat music isn't all that great. So they got away, but where are they going? And what's gonna happen to Lester? So many questions. And that's why I love the game.

 Tue Jan 07 00:10:03 +0000 2020

It ends on a hopeful note.

 Tue Jan 07 00:41:47 +0000 2020

RT @FroyoTam: Found out there's a bitmap font editor for DOS, and as you edit, it slowly replaces the current system font in memory https:/…

 Tue Jan 07 06:04:34 +0000 2020

RT @jellyscare: New range of Royal Mail stamps focussed on British games, including some Amiga classics - Sensible Soccer, Lemmings and Wor…

 Tue Jan 07 07:08:47 +0000 2020

Sega CD exclusive sequel developed by Interplay without Eric's involvement.

 Tue Jan 07 12:12:56 +0000 2020

RT @purplechrain: oomf found & is playing this ridiculous racist & orientalist MS-DOS game called ‘Conflict’ which is like the Oregon Trail…

 Tue Jan 07 17:13:40 +0000 2020

Sound Blaster for... Nintendo Switch! 🤔 https://x.com/GoNintendoTweet/status/1214293584448491520

 Tue Jan 07 17:15:57 +0000 2020

Соборъ/Sabor (Gamos, 1991) #DOSGameScreenADay #RussianVideogames

 Tue Jan 07 17:59:06 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: {\__/}
( • . •)
/ >💾 U want this?

{\__/}
( • - •)
💾< \ Let me copy it first

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(• - • )
💻 💾<…

 Tue Jan 07 18:18:54 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Ummm... Errr.... I mean, I hope so.

 Tue Jan 07 18:22:53 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Tue Jan 07 18:25:29 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: You're welcome

 Tue Jan 07 18:34:33 +0000 2020

25 years ago...

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January 1995 prices

 Tue Jan 07 19:54:12 +0000 2020

🤔🤔🤔

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FORGET READING

 Tue Jan 07 20:26:17 +0000 2020

"Rated G, so it's safe for kids, too!"

 Tue Jan 07 20:27:58 +0000 2020

 Tue Jan 07 20:29:16 +0000 2020

Play Games Worldwide On The Information Super Highway.

 Tue Jan 07 20:31:23 +0000 2020

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And some January 1995 PC prices for your entertainment

 Tue Jan 07 20:49:37 +0000 2020

$4,995 of 1995 dollars is $8,547.93 today. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1214636372281249801

 Tue Jan 07 20:50:32 +0000 2020

And that was one hour of vintage PC ads from 25 years ago! All ads were from 01/95 issues of Byte and Computer Gaming World magazines.

 Tue Jan 07 20:51:26 +0000 2020

Second link for the English version: https://www.old-games.ru/game/download/4921.html

 Tue Jan 07 20:53:29 +0000 2020

An exe patcher with a database.

 Tue Jan 07 20:54:25 +0000 2020

I think you meant to say the acting was AWESOME
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/725095930064723968

 Tue Jan 07 20:58:11 +0000 2020

Patching a program isn't illegal. At worst you're breaking terms of service.

 Tue Jan 07 21:01:08 +0000 2020

Yes

 Tue Jan 07 21:01:29 +0000 2020

We can only hope that one of these girlfriends pops up on the Internet Archive some day

 Tue Jan 07 21:05:23 +0000 2020

Oh no

 Tue Jan 07 21:13:29 +0000 2020

Oh. Oh no. OH NO. This isn't what I signed up for! Help. HELP!

 Tue Jan 07 21:19:55 +0000 2020

h e l p

 Tue Jan 07 21:28:14 +0000 2020

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RT @dosnostalgic: Tonight's 90s classic through an OPL:

 Tue Jan 07 22:12:33 +0000 2020

 Tue Jan 07 23:11:26 +0000 2020

I loved the original Adventure Island on the NES, but I have never played any other games in either the Adventure Island or Wonderboy series. 🤷‍♂️

 Tue Jan 07 23:26:04 +0000 2020

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 Wed Jan 08 02:01:09 +0000 2020

My person Tarantino films ranking from most favorite to least:
- Pulp Fiction
- Inglourious Basterds
- Death Proof
- Django Unchained
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Kill Bill: Volume 1
- Reservoir Dogs
- Kill Bill: Volume 2
- The Hateful Eight
- Jackie Brown

 Wed Jan 08 02:11:00 +0000 2020

My person semi-Tarantino films ranking from most favorite to least:
- True Romance
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- Four Rooms
- Natural Born Killers

 Wed Jan 08 02:12:10 +0000 2020

 Wed Jan 08 02:22:05 +0000 2020

It's not my fault it's so freaking boooooooooooring.

 Wed Jan 08 02:37:39 +0000 2020

Here's how that movie goes:
- Nothing happens
- She puts the bag under the door
- More of nothing happens
- The End

 Wed Jan 08 02:39:11 +0000 2020

I'm jealous

 Wed Jan 08 03:46:53 +0000 2020

The most unbelievable part of True Romance is the bit where Michael Rapaport doesn't get cast in a movie.

 Wed Jan 08 04:32:47 +0000 2020

Somewhere at the bottom of my shoe

 Wed Jan 08 04:37:47 +0000 2020

I've always aspired to be a bidet user.

 Wed Jan 08 05:05:43 +0000 2020

God, this blu-ray is awful. Hey @warnerbros, can True Romance get a new HD transfer, please? It could *really* use one.

 Wed Jan 08 05:09:07 +0000 2020

The Kremlin. No, not the one in Moscow. https://x.com/lorendotorg/status/1214621998040502272

 Wed Jan 08 16:39:51 +0000 2020

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RT @TheMedievalNerd: Quest For Glory IV - The Town of Mordavia

#DOSGaming #RETROGAMING

 Wed Jan 08 17:16:06 +0000 2020

RT @TheMedievalNerd: In the official Hintbook of Quest For Glory IV, they detail how many megabytes were used by various parts of the game.…

 Wed Jan 08 17:16:17 +0000 2020

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: Morning, and welcome to my commute 🚂

#Dosgaming

 Wed Jan 08 17:16:37 +0000 2020

Waxworks remake is now in early access on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/788670/Waxworks_Curse_of_the_Ancestors/

 Wed Jan 08 17:24:31 +0000 2020

Elvira and other Horrorsoft games

 Wed Jan 08 17:29:25 +0000 2020

I guess, but the team seems to be pretty driven. Even a failed crowdfunding campaign isn't stopping them.

 Wed Jan 08 17:30:39 +0000 2020

SpaceKids (Evryware/MicroProse Software, 1994) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Jan 08 18:22:58 +0000 2020

So far I've spent 25 min trying to connect my Galaxy S8 to a Windows machine via USB because apparently nothing works again after an update.

 Wed Jan 08 18:58:52 +0000 2020

Same developers using the same technology.

 Wed Jan 08 19:07:15 +0000 2020

An hour. It's been over an hour, and I've tried a dozen things, and nothing has helped.

 Wed Jan 08 19:40:23 +0000 2020

Si

 Wed Jan 08 19:44:02 +0000 2020

Tried a different cable. Nope.

 Wed Jan 08 19:45:19 +0000 2020

Yep. Nothing.

 Wed Jan 08 19:45:42 +0000 2020

Ok, I give up. Too much time wasted. Copying everything I need onto the microSD and taking it out to copy the files to my PC. That's it. 🤷‍♂️

 Wed Jan 08 20:01:48 +0000 2020

PCjr memories from last year's @Liretro

 Wed Jan 08 20:14:21 +0000 2020

Why? If I wanted to use proprietary software, I'd just install Samsung's.

 Wed Jan 08 20:16:36 +0000 2020

RT @dantemendes: RAPTOR: CALL OF THE SHADOWS (Apogee 1994)

The other popular MS-DOS shmup besides TYRIAN. There's a couple more, but they…

 Wed Jan 08 20:59:31 +0000 2020

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

 Wed Jan 08 21:12:43 +0000 2020

I already hate this game because my roommate plays it, and it's SO DAMN LOUD.

 Wed Jan 08 21:22:56 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Bullfrog's PowerMonger on Amiga (1990), Genesis (1992), DOS (1992), and Macintosh (1994)

 Wed Jan 08 21:29:43 +0000 2020

 Wed Jan 08 21:31:15 +0000 2020

Well, as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to play Amiga games.

 Wed Jan 08 21:42:29 +0000 2020

#DOSGaming

 Wed Jan 08 21:53:27 +0000 2020

No idea. Took that screenshot in September of 2014.

 Wed Jan 08 21:57:18 +0000 2020

A 90s Russia throwback:
Two different print ads from different issues of the same magazine from 1995. Clearly just pastes of Russian text over US ads ("NEW", "CALL", "Professional software support", etc). Different addresses, different phone numbers, different company names

 Wed Jan 08 23:17:21 +0000 2020

I'm willing to bet this was actually the same company, but they didn't stock the items in these ads, but rather their inventory was whatever was freshly stolen and shipped in cargo containers. I'm sure they did prefer dealing with US dollars rather than Rubles.

 Wed Jan 08 23:19:13 +0000 2020

Or they all could have been fronts for money laundering just as easily. 90s Russia was a shitshow. 🤷‍♂️

 Wed Jan 08 23:21:27 +0000 2020

There's a decent chance that a lot of people who were involved with that alleged business didn't make out of the 90s. Oh, the good old days. 🙃

 Wed Jan 08 23:24:19 +0000 2020

Already have it.

 Thu Jan 09 00:25:50 +0000 2020

I've got one of those Famicom pirate carts with the famous "birds" menu, which tells a story of two lovers in the menu

 Thu Jan 09 01:09:04 +0000 2020

Here it is in action:

 Thu Jan 09 01:11:13 +0000 2020

9,999,999 games? More like... six.

 Thu Jan 09 01:12:31 +0000 2020

RT @fabynou: Here is the fourth entry in the "Polygons of Another World" series. This one is about the Genesis/MegaDrive (https://t.co/HpHO…

 Thu Jan 09 01:16:50 +0000 2020

Is it? The girl leaves at the end, so there's a lot to think about.

 Thu Jan 09 01:20:59 +0000 2020

All that she wants is another baby, yeah eh. (Or maybe she killed him?)

 Thu Jan 09 01:25:52 +0000 2020

Joe Lieberman is trending?

 Thu Jan 09 01:34:22 +0000 2020

NeverLock Sping 95 (DOS Shareware)

 Thu Jan 09 01:36:56 +0000 2020

Let's crack something! #DOSGaming

 Thu Jan 09 01:37:32 +0000 2020

Straight from 1987 it's a Creative Music System demo! Enjoy the stereo sound of dual Philips SAA1099 chips! (Recorded from real hardware)

 Thu Jan 09 02:26:17 +0000 2020

Pssst: it's not midi

 Thu Jan 09 02:33:19 +0000 2020

Chip music

 Thu Jan 09 02:37:38 +0000 2020

I have all the demos here, except in that video it was all emulation:
https://youtu.be/rpnE-AH_4SI

 Thu Jan 09 02:39:01 +0000 2020

MIDI is a data transfer protocol, so unless the chip accepts midi commands directly, no, it can't be midi.

 Thu Jan 09 02:41:09 +0000 2020

The Secret of Monkey Island in CGA mode with CMS/Game Blaster as a sound option. #DOSGaming

 Thu Jan 09 02:44:02 +0000 2020

And for a good measure here's Tim Follin's "Pictionary" theme originally written for the NES APU played through a SA1099:

 Thu Jan 09 02:55:56 +0000 2020

Trying my hand at capturing console video. Here's The Adventures of Batman & Robin on Genesis featuring one of my favorite soundtracks by Jesper Kyd. (Haven't figured out how to change aspect ratio in OBS yet, and had to drop fps to 30 for Twitter.)

 Thu Jan 09 03:48:09 +0000 2020

If you've never played it, I would really recommend it. It's a very technically impressive Treasure-style action game made by several demoscene people. Hard as hell too.

 Thu Jan 09 03:53:12 +0000 2020

Watching Almost Famous. It's been at least a decade since I've seen it last. Man, Philipp Seymour Hoffman. What a loss. What a talent. Such a great performance in a small part, and knowing that he did it all while he had the flu and a fever makes it even more impressive.

 Thu Jan 09 04:36:48 +0000 2020

Oh dear home video God, pretty please with sugar on top give me a new transfer! 🤞 https://x.com/Scream_Factory/status/1214952564887703552

 Thu Jan 09 05:17:08 +0000 2020

So like 80% of them?

 Thu Jan 09 05:21:28 +0000 2020

RT @ComputerHistory: Gary Starkweather, inventor of the laser printer, passed away on Dec 26, 2019. His prototype laser printer, built at X…

 Thu Jan 09 05:24:16 +0000 2020

Escape from L.A. is one of those movies that has grown on me. I hated it originally, but after the first few times I've seen it I learned to look past its flaws, and now it makes me laugh every time I watch it. And I watch it often.

 Thu Jan 09 05:28:27 +0000 2020

But at least it's in stereo!

 Thu Jan 09 05:35:38 +0000 2020

I love the comedy/spoof angle, but the fact that it's the same movie beat by beat is imo what hurts it the most.

 Thu Jan 09 05:43:54 +0000 2020

 Thu Jan 09 06:19:24 +0000 2020

RT @gifs_bot:

 Thu Jan 09 06:21:24 +0000 2020

That's what I was implying.

 Thu Jan 09 06:40:25 +0000 2020

RT @TexTweetz: "If i take time to explain, we're both parking lot pizza..."

Love it!

 Thu Jan 09 13:09:33 +0000 2020

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1215078541223702529?s=19

 Thu Jan 09 14:17:34 +0000 2020

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: I just had a cup-a-soup for the first time in ages and was instantly transported to my room at university.

Midnight, soup…

 Thu Jan 09 14:26:06 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Straight from 1987 it's a Creative Music System demo! Enjoy the stereo sound of dual Philips SAA1099 chips! (Recorded fro…

 Thu Jan 09 16:59:39 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: And for a good measure here's Tim Follin's "Pictionary" theme originally written for the NES APU played through a SA1099:…

 Thu Jan 09 18:27:35 +0000 2020

I have fond memories of Mattel's follow up to the classic family card game UNO. https://x.com/NanoPierogi/status/1215348332090089475

 Thu Jan 09 19:12:23 +0000 2020

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 Thu Jan 09 19:27:32 +0000 2020

@Macaw45 Catching up on your Bermuda Syndrome stream. The credits for that game are fake. The whole thing was made by two people, the same two guys who made "Sobor". 3D cutscenes and music was handled by someone else. The rest of the credits are just their random friends.

 Thu Jan 09 19:42:14 +0000 2020

Biggest problem with painting cars in Nascar Racing is the fact that the black mouse pointer doesn't invert when placed on top of darker colors:

 Thu Jan 09 19:57:36 +0000 2020

Hey look, someone managed to claim they owned Alone in the Dark footage for a day.

 Thu Jan 09 20:15:04 +0000 2020

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

 Thu Jan 09 21:00:19 +0000 2020

This is a lot more technically impressive, but I think the omission of a plane shadow was a wrong artistic choice.

 Thu Jan 09 21:31:35 +0000 2020

Almost bought one last year, but then decided that I have enough LPT sound devices already.

 Thu Jan 09 21:53:55 +0000 2020

RT @Foone: mods are asleep post obscure PC sound devices

 Thu Jan 09 21:54:12 +0000 2020

I'm guessing what DigiSpeech ended up making with the DS301

 Thu Jan 09 22:00:18 +0000 2020

I've got a few of these

 Thu Jan 09 22:08:11 +0000 2020

#DOSGaming on #ADGQ2020:
Fallout 1 in 6:33 as a part of Fallout Anthology run by tomatoangus in 2:16:21:
https://youtu.be/T2SatL2mx3I

 Thu Jan 09 23:06:51 +0000 2020

No, I was sleeping. But I'll see that and Cybergenic Ranger when they'll go up on the YT channel.

 Thu Jan 09 23:10:26 +0000 2020

 Thu Jan 09 23:47:19 +0000 2020

Pyrosaurus (Evryware, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Jan 10 00:26:33 +0000 2020

If you have no intention of watching Under the Silver Lake at least do yourself a favor and watch one of the best scenes in the movie: https://youtu.be/AdE7yos6COw

 Fri Jan 10 00:57:05 +0000 2020

#CurrentMood

 Fri Jan 10 01:01:54 +0000 2020

"Bolero" by Ivan Maximov: https://youtu.be/LflNzCBWTyc

 Fri Jan 10 01:07:58 +0000 2020

1987 problems

 Fri Jan 10 01:12:35 +0000 2020

If you've ever wondered what Dr. Sbaitso looked like

 Fri Jan 10 01:35:17 +0000 2020

"I'm too sexy" as performed by Dr. Sbaitso!

 Fri Jan 10 02:11:57 +0000 2020

Another modern implementation of Powerslave/Exhumed. It's PCExhumed: http://pcex.retrohost.net/
https://youtu.be/g6HaMv6FYvE

 Fri Jan 10 02:28:04 +0000 2020

In an old interview in a Russian game magazine from when they were working on a follow up that was eventually released as an unrelated game "Tunguska: Legend of Faith".

 Fri Jan 10 02:34:47 +0000 2020

They are still kind of around, just not working together anymore. Igor Selivanov's (the programmer) most recent credit is Black Prophecy (2011), and Alexey Danilkin's (the artist) is the Giana Sisters reboot (2012).

 Fri Jan 10 02:52:39 +0000 2020

They did mention the Germans handling the cutscenes, I think, but I don't remember any other such things being mentioned. Russia was kind of crazy in the 90s, and people were hustling though. There's a lot of history that's been lost to time since.

 Fri Jan 10 02:57:40 +0000 2020

I own a Model 30 still.

 Fri Jan 10 05:01:16 +0000 2020

It's fine. A lot of old stuff runs on it quite well, even the stuff you don't expect. Prince of Persia, for example. I recently had it play an Amiga MOD file through an LPT DAC rather successfully. I was impressed.

 Fri Jan 10 05:09:57 +0000 2020

Wait, what? VGA 13h games run just fine. That's the machine that was part of the standard.

 Fri Jan 10 05:10:59 +0000 2020

Now, EGA games are the ones that don't run, but some are written cleverly enough where they detect MCGA and switch to a 16 color VGA mode instead.

 Fri Jan 10 05:12:01 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Good night

 Fri Jan 10 05:18:03 +0000 2020

It's true. I only got around to one of those machines by around 91-92, at which point VGA already took off, and most EGA games knew how to handle MCGA.

 Fri Jan 10 05:20:19 +0000 2020

Chonky girl 😊

 Fri Jan 10 07:35:58 +0000 2020

RT @lazygamereviews: Happy Friday, folks! Why not kick the weekend off with some LGR Oddware?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ErL39wqO-c

And this time we've…

 Fri Jan 10 16:43:56 +0000 2020

I liked the second half more. Certainly a film worth watching. What a shame that it got buried.

 Fri Jan 10 16:57:53 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: "I'm too sexy" as performed by Dr. Sbaitso!

 Fri Jan 10 17:07:13 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Duke canonically hates Nazi sympathizers, racists, gay-bashers, and other riffraff:

 Fri Jan 10 17:41:22 +0000 2020

A lot of people equate anarchists with terrorists, and Duke isn't the brightest.

 Fri Jan 10 17:43:46 +0000 2020

 Fri Jan 10 17:45:01 +0000 2020

Scroll the thread up

 Fri Jan 10 17:45:22 +0000 2020

Looks like Ultima games support might be eventually coming to ScummVM: https://dm-notes.blogspot.com/2020/01/post-new-years-report.html

 Fri Jan 10 18:13:45 +0000 2020

Some lunch break reading material

 Fri Jan 10 18:23:27 +0000 2020

It's a... book?

 Fri Jan 10 18:32:47 +0000 2020

Communism is a book?

 Fri Jan 10 18:33:51 +0000 2020

So tired of people bringing up how "savage" Gervais was at the Golden Globes. Again. Guys, they paid him to do this. People show up to hear it. It's the FIFTH time. He's *also* a rich Hollywood person. It's just s friendly roast. He's not threatening anything.

 Fri Jan 10 18:44:17 +0000 2020

If ISIS started a streaming service, Ricky Gervais would be the first to sell them a stand up special for $40 million.

 Fri Jan 10 18:45:24 +0000 2020

He isn't against the establishment.

 Fri Jan 10 18:46:48 +0000 2020

I used to like him. A long time ago.

 Fri Jan 10 18:47:39 +0000 2020

(I did like the jokes though, and I'm still waiting for someone to put up a compilation that isn't just the opening monologue.)

 Fri Jan 10 18:49:01 +0000 2020

People keep framing it as "he now has to sleep with one eye open for the rest of his life". No he fucking doesn't. He's gonna be sleeping even better because the check cleared.

 Fri Jan 10 18:50:13 +0000 2020

 Fri Jan 10 18:53:31 +0000 2020

I guess I can handle Gervais when he's at the Golden Globes because it's the rare occasion when his comedy is still punching up.

 Fri Jan 10 19:11:25 +0000 2020

I remember when the dude used to actually be funny. Seems like forever ago now.

 Fri Jan 10 19:30:42 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Them: How are things going today?
Me: Good.
Also me:

 Fri Jan 10 19:47:55 +0000 2020

[Turning around and driving home to look in the readme.txt]

 Fri Jan 10 20:00:01 +0000 2020

Karateka is karatEka officially, since it's a real word.

 Fri Jan 10 20:09:44 +0000 2020

*Sigh* I guess I'm deleting my tweet

 Fri Jan 10 20:37:17 +0000 2020

I want to go to a cat cafe.

 Fri Jan 10 20:40:24 +0000 2020

Stormlord (RazorSoft/Hewson Consultants, 1989) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Jan 10 20:53:36 +0000 2020

I always found Game Shark ads to be slightly horrifying

 Fri Jan 10 22:02:43 +0000 2020

Hieronymus Borscht

 Fri Jan 10 22:20:55 +0000 2020

RT @Odamex: 2 minutes and 05 seconds of oppressing #DOOM deathmatch sounds with 150 players at once.

 Sat Jan 11 02:15:43 +0000 2020

That's fine with me. I just like to be around cats.

 Sat Jan 11 07:07:09 +0000 2020

I of the Mask on the Spectrum
https://youtu.be/kueN2DMN0J4

 Sat Jan 11 15:59:29 +0000 2020

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: Finally. Justice is done. 🙃
#dosgaming

 Sat Jan 11 16:05:16 +0000 2020

RT @Pixelmusement: New Ancient DOS Games Pro video uploaded! https://youtu.be/3955YWNfi3E

 Sat Jan 11 16:56:16 +0000 2020

Thank you very much, but Asbury Park is a bit of a hike for me. I'm on Long Island. It looks like there's a few around here as well though.

 Sat Jan 11 17:20:44 +0000 2020

I second this

 Sat Jan 11 17:32:20 +0000 2020

RT @Pixelengineer_: Tomb Raider (Eidos, 1996)
Running @IntelUK Pentium 166 MMX w/ Diamond Monster 3D in 3dfx mode.

... have a nice evening…

 Sat Jan 11 17:41:34 +0000 2020

What a game!

 Sat Jan 11 17:57:48 +0000 2020

https://x.com/CBCMusic/status/1215649500813058048

 Sat Jan 11 18:39:42 +0000 2020

RT @FreyaHolmer: 📢 hold space to move selections already started

retweet to save millions of lives

 Sat Jan 11 18:40:45 +0000 2020

Re-Loaded (Gremlin Interactive/Interplay Entertainment, 1997) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Jan 11 20:22:12 +0000 2020

#DOSGaming

 Sat Jan 11 20:30:20 +0000 2020

Check out this cool NES demo: https://youtu.be/338r2BRYg3A

 Sat Jan 11 20:58:35 +0000 2020

RT @PulpLibrarian: And just time for a quick look at the papers...

 Sat Jan 11 20:58:53 +0000 2020

 Sat Jan 11 21:09:10 +0000 2020

In April 1991 BYTE magazine ran this article on the state of Soviet computer science (written by an actual Soviet researcher & professor). Only 4 months before Gorbachev's regination, and 8 months before the dissolution of the USSR

 Sat Jan 11 21:27:06 +0000 2020

You can read the article here: https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1991-04_OCR/page/n223

 Sat Jan 11 21:27:29 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. You need to play it. #DOSGaming #AdventureGames

 Sat Jan 11 21:58:00 +0000 2020

Ummm.... Nothing about Callahan's is even remotely FMV.

 Sat Jan 11 22:03:13 +0000 2020

@JayBauman1 Hello there. My friend said that I just absolutely *have to* show you this, so here it is:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1184309035551604736

 Sat Jan 11 22:31:43 +0000 2020

The graphics are based on stock photos, but they are drawn over, and then animated on their own, not based on any kind of video. It's fairly distinct look.

 Sat Jan 11 22:34:40 +0000 2020

Only the games that aren't based on existing properties have been re-released, so I wouldn't count on it. Remember how quickly "Death Gate" got yoinked?

 Sat Jan 11 22:43:45 +0000 2020

This thread will explain why it isn't worth spending money on Keen Dreams on the Switch: https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1100934501277016065

 Sat Jan 11 22:48:06 +0000 2020

Before buying Keen Dreams on Swtich consider this thread: https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1100934501277016065

 Sat Jan 11 22:50:07 +0000 2020

 Sat Jan 11 22:55:59 +0000 2020

I think I need to adopt this as my legal name https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1215760456297697286

 Sat Jan 11 23:00:31 +0000 2020

Today's floppy: #DOSGaming

 Sat Jan 11 23:05:44 +0000 2020

The most difficult level of Alley Cat! https://x.com/Mr_Meowwwgi/status/1215960132200419328

 Sun Jan 12 00:26:13 +0000 2020

All of you assholes who weren't watching @Macaw45 stream the Russian cinematic platformer "Bermuda Syndrome" have missed this amazing moment

 Sun Jan 12 02:39:00 +0000 2020

I ended up getting Happy Nation on tape, so I was good.

 Sun Jan 12 03:33:32 +0000 2020

RT @McJesse: RIP Large Marge. Died today 46 years ago. Broke the glass celling in the trucking industry. Assisted less fortunate hitchhiker…

 Sun Jan 12 04:29:01 +0000 2020

I'm partial to Derrickson's #5 Inferno.

 Sun Jan 12 05:26:30 +0000 2020

RT @gayocats: 1171780652239

 Sun Jan 12 07:56:06 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: All of you assholes who weren't watching @Macaw45 stream the Russian cinematic platformer "Bermuda Syndrome" have missed…

 Sun Jan 12 17:27:28 +0000 2020

RT @SierraChest: Hard to believe that after 30 years of collecting and with a database of over 700 Sierra titles, I still find Sierra title…

 Sun Jan 12 17:31:03 +0000 2020

God, Spaced is old enough to drink in the USA. https://x.com/edgarwright/status/1216415891489021952

 Sun Jan 12 17:52:02 +0000 2020

RT @MarshallJulius: Working alone, Ray Harryhausen spent 4½ months animating Jason and the Argonauts' blistering battle with the Children o…

 Sun Jan 12 18:50:57 +0000 2020

RT @SeriousJacob81: #dosgaming almost forgot how good privateer is.

 Sun Jan 12 19:32:45 +0000 2020

https://x.com/mattsinger/status/1216148213247414272

 Mon Jan 13 00:35:05 +0000 2020

An experiment in piracy? Or hoping that the dev's mom will buy it and it recoups the costs? Money laundering?

 Mon Jan 13 00:40:25 +0000 2020

RT @Macaw45: Streaming various DOS stuff https://www.twitch.tv/macaw45

 Mon Jan 13 00:41:02 +0000 2020

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

 Mon Jan 13 00:51:44 +0000 2020

Once you beat the big badasses and clean out the moon base you're supposed to win, aren't you? Aren't you? Where's your fat reward and ticket home? What the hell is this? It's not supposed to end this way! https://x.com/LadyDevann/status/1215772457224888320

 Mon Jan 13 01:13:11 +0000 2020

It's a lot easier when you have decided on a favorite game 25 years ago.

 Mon Jan 13 01:32:01 +0000 2020

Nothing compares with DOOM to me, so my choice is easy.

 Mon Jan 13 01:48:04 +0000 2020

When you overhear people talking about old computer games

 Mon Jan 13 03:08:56 +0000 2020

RT @suddendesu: 54% of the teens questioned didn't know what a floppy disk is. Third picture: "Is it some kind of candy?"

Time marches on.…

 Mon Jan 13 03:16:05 +0000 2020

Hey everyone, @Macaw45 is about to play a Taiwanese clone of Jones in the Fast lane! https://www.twitch.tv/macaw45

 Mon Jan 13 03:29:34 +0000 2020

Just one nomination for The Lighthouse? What a shame. But hey, at least John Williams got nominated as per tradition.

 Mon Jan 13 14:09:49 +0000 2020

Wait just a fucking second.... Joker has ELEVEN nominations? Oh boy. I'm glad I gave up on the Oscars years ago.

 Mon Jan 13 14:14:52 +0000 2020

Meow

 Mon Jan 13 15:00:16 +0000 2020

Both of them should have been nominated

 Mon Jan 13 16:25:18 +0000 2020

I still haven't seen some of 2019 films that I wanted to see, but yeah, so far The Lighthouse is on the top of my list.

 Mon Jan 13 16:28:19 +0000 2020

I'm still waiting for Parasite to get unlocked on VOD, but I'm *very* fond of quite a few Bong Joon-ho's previous works, so it has a lot of expectations to live up to.

 Mon Jan 13 16:33:29 +0000 2020

RT @IQ_Adventures: So now that I had an open ended tweet, here's a poll. Not every series could be repped here, but let's go - which Sierr…

 Mon Jan 13 16:37:30 +0000 2020

You haven't seen any?

 Mon Jan 13 16:40:50 +0000 2020

I *really* like the Host, actually, it's one of my favorites. Snowpiercer is fun, but I think his films lose a little when Western actors who aren't as used to switching tone at any given moment get involved. But watch "Mother". I think it's an amazing film.

 Mon Jan 13 16:46:55 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: When you overhear people talking about old computer games

 Mon Jan 13 17:05:22 +0000 2020

RT @_scanlines: DeAd bY DaWn!

dEad By dAwn!

#blood #retrogaming #DOSGaming

 Mon Jan 13 18:55:34 +0000 2020

Respond by making it real.

 Mon Jan 13 20:41:02 +0000 2020

RT @gogorobotendo: Inspired by those new stamps, and Wonderboy:The Dragon's Trap (and a conversation with @_Hedwyn about remakes) I thought…

 Mon Jan 13 20:42:53 +0000 2020

Super Roco Bros (Outhouse Software, 2000) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Mon Jan 13 21:29:20 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 13 21:47:59 +0000 2020

You know what? I think it's time to back to the year 1985 and check out some vintage ads!

 Mon Jan 13 21:54:55 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 13 21:56:21 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 13 21:57:06 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 13 21:58:00 +0000 2020

"Draw your own conclusions"

 Mon Jan 13 21:59:15 +0000 2020

#DOSGaming

 Mon Jan 13 22:00:52 +0000 2020

This is before Deluxe Paint, at least before it wasn't just an internal too. This is before the release of the Amiga as well.

 Mon Jan 13 22:02:54 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 13 22:03:21 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 13 22:04:01 +0000 2020

🤨

 Mon Jan 13 22:06:06 +0000 2020

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 Mon Jan 13 22:17:14 +0000 2020

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 Mon Jan 13 22:20:22 +0000 2020

You've never played Infocom games on DOS?

 Mon Jan 13 22:22:28 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 13 22:22:44 +0000 2020

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 Mon Jan 13 22:42:01 +0000 2020

And to finish things off, here are some prices from January of 1985.
Remember that you can add ":orig" to the end of Twitter image links, and view them in their original resolution, and that a 1985 US dollar is worth $2.44 today!

 Mon Jan 13 22:49:35 +0000 2020

And that's it for all the ads from 35 years ago! I hope you enjoyed them. There was some real gold in there. All the ads were from 01/85 issues of Byte and Compute! magazines.

 Mon Jan 13 22:50:43 +0000 2020

eBay.

 Mon Jan 13 22:52:20 +0000 2020

Pretty sure it's due to the font thinness, and the dirt filter that was applied to these scans.

 Mon Jan 13 22:58:13 +0000 2020

Saw "Uncut Gems" the other day. It was a fun movie, but the most surprising thing about it for me wasn't Adam Sandler's performance, but rather the use of Albertus typeface, previously a staple of John Carpenter films.

 Mon Jan 13 23:07:18 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 13 23:10:51 +0000 2020

Excuse me, but.... what?!

 Mon Jan 13 23:27:57 +0000 2020

The more I re-read this comment, the more I'm baffled by it.

 Mon Jan 13 23:31:51 +0000 2020

Lol, someone actually made the wrong move, but I'm interested in the result 😂

 Mon Jan 13 23:41:09 +0000 2020

RT @EliteSonicFan:

 Mon Jan 13 23:59:37 +0000 2020

The oldest file I have in my MIDI music collection is from 1993

 Tue Jan 14 00:04:15 +0000 2020

Dun. Dun-dun.

 Tue Jan 14 00:04:54 +0000 2020

Oh my god, you worked on that? I don't own the movie, but I own the making of documentary.

 Tue Jan 14 00:14:22 +0000 2020

Sadly I've learned years ago that a lot of gamers are just unnecessarily shitty, so I'm not surprised. Disappointed, but not surprised.

 Tue Jan 14 00:16:25 +0000 2020

Yeah, they did! I recall lots of footage of Lloyd being really pissed off.

 Tue Jan 14 00:19:47 +0000 2020

Looks like it was called "The Thin Brown Line". The only thing that's marked down with a "major disaster" color code

 Tue Jan 14 00:22:38 +0000 2020

I can't be stopped!

 Tue Jan 14 00:25:09 +0000 2020

No, it's not.

 Tue Jan 14 00:29:15 +0000 2020

I always thought grapes were overrated tbh.

 Tue Jan 14 01:00:42 +0000 2020

Anyone play Watam yet? Is it fun with just one player?

 Tue Jan 14 01:16:39 +0000 2020

Norton

 Tue Jan 14 01:40:20 +0000 2020

RT @lazygamereviews: LGR Blerb - Trying a PC Dust Cover from 1993

https://youtu.be/b6KNJ8fNO9c

 Tue Jan 14 01:42:09 +0000 2020

Midsommar is on Prime, so I guess I'll finally give it a shot. I like A24, and mostly their philosophy that you can still produce successful movies for under $10 million.

 Tue Jan 14 02:10:30 +0000 2020

Seen it
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1037577058589835264?s=19

 Tue Jan 14 02:21:47 +0000 2020

Fucking hell, it's not gonna be The Wicker Man is it?

 Tue Jan 14 02:23:43 +0000 2020

I liked the movie, I was just *really* disappointed by the final act. My personal favorite horror of the decade is It Follows, with The Witch in the second place.

 Tue Jan 14 02:25:04 +0000 2020

I meant the good one. Although I guess they are both kind of good, just in a different ways.

 Tue Jan 14 02:30:23 +0000 2020

Goddammit!

 Tue Jan 14 02:34:38 +0000 2020

RT @SQHistorian:

 Tue Jan 14 02:37:07 +0000 2020

Well, it turns out that Julie Strain is alive. Sorry for the misinformation.

 Tue Jan 14 02:41:33 +0000 2020

My source is a friend of her partner.

 Tue Jan 14 02:47:15 +0000 2020

Is anything gonna happen in this alleged horror film? I mean, I love the visuals, but things are getting kind of stale. Hereditary had me shout "Oh shit!", and pause the movie for a minute by this point.

 Tue Jan 14 03:16:31 +0000 2020

I wanna know who was the most authentic Long Islander/Floridian dude in the casino at the end. Give him the best supporting.

 Tue Jan 14 03:24:51 +0000 2020

I'm gonna go on record that Hereditary disappointed me greatly by being incredibly predictable, and so far this isn't doing any better. I don't feel any dead. The Lighthouse made me feel dread.

 Tue Jan 14 03:32:33 +0000 2020

The Witch is amazing.

 Tue Jan 14 03:37:37 +0000 2020

Okay, I'm glad this is over. I'm obviously just not fond of Ari Aster's work. I find his style visually interesting, but his material fails to engage and, most importantly, surprise me. It's not cool when I can imagine the entirety of the 2.5 hr movie 15 min in.

 Tue Jan 14 04:14:27 +0000 2020

I am incredibly disappointed.

 Tue Jan 14 04:15:28 +0000 2020

That's the movie everyone loved so much, while A24 completely buried Under the Silver Lake? Come on!

 Tue Jan 14 04:16:56 +0000 2020

I was actually laughing out loud. I have a feeling this wasn't the intended effect.

 Tue Jan 14 04:18:48 +0000 2020

When? I just finished with the credits.

 Tue Jan 14 04:20:12 +0000 2020

I wish I was actually watching Freddy vs Jason.

 Tue Jan 14 04:22:08 +0000 2020

Stop. Loudly proclaim "So long, and thanks for all the fish." Turn around, and walk out.

 Tue Jan 14 04:23:43 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Good night

 Tue Jan 14 04:46:10 +0000 2020

Almost retweeted it. Phew.

 Tue Jan 14 04:55:44 +0000 2020

RT @MobyGames: The history of video game releases in graph form.

Thanks to MobyGames contributor vedder for putting this together, per yea…

 Tue Jan 14 14:31:50 +0000 2020

RT @microtrailers: Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper - New on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1211700

 Tue Jan 14 16:25:36 +0000 2020

RT @ben_304: I looked at some SSI EGA art tonight. The way they mixed colours was bold and evocative.

 Tue Jan 14 16:49:32 +0000 2020

That's what you got out of this? Not that it was just most likely have been an animation where the character walks *behind* the pole? And there was no reason to keep the sprite when that got cut.

 Tue Jan 14 21:36:03 +0000 2020

RT @winworldpc: Software Spotlight: Wang Freestyle

An "annotation" program that operates by making screen shots of DOS applications, to wh…

 Tue Jan 14 21:43:06 +0000 2020

Nah, it was fine. It's a beloved classic, and one of the best adaptations of the source material in general.

 Tue Jan 14 21:44:28 +0000 2020

As a person who still uses MS-DOS on a nearly daily basis I couldn't care less about some version of Windows officially losing support. 🤷‍♂️

 Tue Jan 14 21:50:13 +0000 2020

Did that version of the engine support that though?

 Tue Jan 14 23:07:02 +0000 2020

I wasn't talking about walking in front of things. Just behind. Which is the situation you want to plop a sprite on top of another sprite.

 Tue Jan 14 23:07:39 +0000 2020

I know what you said We don't know if that's the case while it was work in progress, which is where these sprites come from. Which is why there is no "cut down" tree sprite. It was never there. It's just an overlay, and it's only as tall as it needs to be to block out the player.

 Tue Jan 14 23:20:33 +0000 2020

Total Knockout/Total Knockout Boxing (Digital Lobster Company/Starhill Productions, 1995) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Jan 14 23:35:17 +0000 2020

RT @Arj0n: Black Sect 2: The Cursed Crypt (PnC Remake)
https://brocantygames.itch.io/black-sect-2-the-cursed-crypt-pnc-remake
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=57703.0

 Wed Jan 15 00:22:08 +0000 2020

Not a lot, but a few.

 Wed Jan 15 01:02:07 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Cubic Player v1.5 (DOS, 1995)

 Wed Jan 15 01:32:16 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Our trip to the early 90s continues!

 Wed Jan 15 01:40:38 +0000 2020

RT @zoggins: This 386 has definitely been more of a project than I thought it was going to be. I geniunely forgot how hard computers were…

 Wed Jan 15 01:45:22 +0000 2020

Watching a Hotline Miami speedrun and this is the first ever time I'm thinking to myself that I could probably also start speedrunning the game.

 Wed Jan 15 03:01:15 +0000 2020

It really takes away from the speedrun when the runner and the entire couch constantly keep making jokes about how the game is programmed. Especially "because this game is so good." It's an action game programmed by just one person, give it a fucking break.

 Wed Jan 15 03:13:36 +0000 2020

Oh my hell, even an sarcastic "because this game is planned out *so* well." Fuck you, guy.

 Wed Jan 15 03:18:42 +0000 2020

Control run was extremely respectful. Praised the game, the devs showed up w/ encouragement in the chat. The runner pointed out that the devs patched the exploits, but provided the way for the runners to downpatch. The run was great, lots of fun was had without shitty jokes.

 Wed Jan 15 03:25:05 +0000 2020

My roommate and I just discovered Limmy's Show, and we're laughing so hard, it fucking hurts
https://youtu.be/4da2y2XKCkM

 Wed Jan 15 05:07:19 +0000 2020

 Wed Jan 15 06:00:43 +0000 2020

RT @dosgameclub: We're going to host a Worms Tournament!

This is gonna be SO GOOD. Everybody's invited to join!

https://www.dosgameclub.com/worms-tournament/…

 Wed Jan 15 13:38:39 +0000 2020

RT @ben_304: I finally played The Colonel's Bequest! It's fun! I got a ranking of "Seasoned P.I.", so there's definitely a few things I mis…

 Wed Jan 15 16:10:15 +0000 2020

RT @gnomeslair: I love each and all RPG documentaries on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIZVbcq124U

 Wed Jan 15 16:10:47 +0000 2020

RT @yolkfolk_com: Since we're now in a new decade, maybe its about time we start asking this....

WHERE IS STUART SIDLEY?

On Spellbound, h…

 Wed Jan 15 17:08:36 +0000 2020

Blindfolded two players on one controller Punch Out speedrun scares me.

 Wed Jan 15 17:22:51 +0000 2020

Enjoy https://youtu.be/lLGY_BNYLx8

 Wed Jan 15 17:47:31 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: "Welcome to the '20s!" Captured from real hardware. #DOSGaming
(Slight flickering)

 Wed Jan 15 18:12:51 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Biprolex is a local multiplayer game that combines elements of Tetris and Arkanoid from the team that went on to make Van…

 Wed Jan 15 18:20:27 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming

 Wed Jan 15 18:25:24 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming

 Wed Jan 15 18:27:10 +0000 2020

It's pronounced "LawnGuyLand" https://t.co/dozQvN3nmE

 Wed Jan 15 20:36:49 +0000 2020

Burger Blaster (COMPUTE! Publications, 1988) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Jan 15 21:50:19 +0000 2020

I wonder if anyone still has Compute's Best PC Games floppies and magazines, because despite the fact that most games have survived, the magazines and actual original floppies don't appear to have been archived yet. Raise your hand if you have some stashed away!

 Wed Jan 15 22:08:01 +0000 2020

Wow

 Wed Jan 15 22:32:55 +0000 2020

 Wed Jan 15 23:18:40 +0000 2020

If only my video capturing device that cost $210 would fucking work on occasion 😡

 Wed Jan 15 23:23:56 +0000 2020

Get it to turn on! :D

 Thu Jan 16 00:03:53 +0000 2020

It finally worked. What a piece of shit.

 Thu Jan 16 00:13:26 +0000 2020

Pretty sure she said before it's all Eric, because she barely considers it acting, since she just reads the lines normally.

 Thu Jan 16 00:21:36 +0000 2020

Update: extracted the audio files and compared them with the final release version and... they are *exactly* the same. So I guess it was all my head, since I sincerely doubt audio would be somehow processed differently in game. Oh well. 🤷‍♂️

 Thu Jan 16 00:35:08 +0000 2020

Oh, and another update that I haven't shared publicly before:
I quit drinking (for now), and I also quit my job. 🥂

 Thu Jan 16 00:37:09 +0000 2020

Startech

 Thu Jan 16 00:37:20 +0000 2020

You could say that.

 Thu Jan 16 00:39:19 +0000 2020

So yeah, so far I've been sober and unemployed for 2+ weeks. 2020 has been a weird year so far. Let's see what happens.

 Thu Jan 16 00:41:16 +0000 2020

USB3HDCAP. Last driver update fucked up some things. But even before it wasn't great. Sometimes it just doesn't turn on, you have to keep unplugging it. Sometimes it's reboot only. Often when it will turn on, it won't capture sound. Repeat all the steps again. It's annoying.

 Thu Jan 16 00:43:31 +0000 2020

Mine too. Even playing the clips simultaneously would show it, but 🤷‍♂️

 Thu Jan 16 00:54:42 +0000 2020

Tell me about it

 Thu Jan 16 00:56:36 +0000 2020

"Fantastic Adventures of Rudik & Serezha", a point & click adventure developed entirely by a teenage Russian emigrant Rudolf Lachinov in Turbo Pascal 7. #DOSGaming

 Thu Jan 16 01:05:15 +0000 2020

Rudolf was obviously quite proud of an impressive mustache he grew as an 18 year old. 👍

 Thu Jan 16 01:07:10 +0000 2020

Until the money runs out, yes.

 Thu Jan 16 01:07:40 +0000 2020

A few years later Rudolf (once again singlehandledly) produced a commercial remake of the game for Buka Entertainment. This time it was a windows game that tried to imitate a claymation aesthetic using 3D renders. Rather poorly.

 Thu Jan 16 01:16:38 +0000 2020

Rudolf did himself admit that the quality of the game suffered because the development happened during "a fantastic summer", and he spent a lot of it outside instead of polishing the game.

 Thu Jan 16 01:18:21 +0000 2020

One of these days I might stream this game, and maybe I'll even get some input from Rudolf himself. We used to be in touch briefly... 18 years ago.

 Thu Jan 16 01:25:13 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: FreeBDSM

 Thu Jan 16 01:43:26 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield (Windows 95 CD-ROM, 1997) #NotDOS

 Thu Jan 16 01:44:18 +0000 2020

#DOSGaming at #AGDQ2020:
CyberGenic Ranger: Secret of the Seventh Planet in 27:15 by NPC
https://youtu.be/XWjq_uWfITs

 Thu Jan 16 01:52:21 +0000 2020

#DOSGaming at #AGDQ2020:
Mega Man 3: The Robots are Revolting in 18:37 by Lizstar
https://youtu.be/XoqL2GUA1Dk

 Thu Jan 16 01:53:05 +0000 2020

Thanks. I have not escaped it yet. I need a job that's not retail to do that. And with my resume, it's gonna be tough getting that.

 Thu Jan 16 03:33:17 +0000 2020

It is so great to see so many Soviet films, even the ones that don't have recognition in the West, finally get proper restorations

 Thu Jan 16 04:48:19 +0000 2020

Yes, and it's "Kin Dza Dza".

 Thu Jan 16 04:49:58 +0000 2020

A lot of them are freely available on YouTube now: https://youtu.be/EYHv8eJrW2Y

 Thu Jan 16 04:54:57 +0000 2020

Good night

 Thu Jan 16 06:38:41 +0000 2020

RT @SQHistorian: I played a bit of #SpaceQuest IV last Sunday with @mrkenallen to drum up interest for the #SQ4Vinyl, talking about how the…

 Thu Jan 16 15:21:14 +0000 2020

RT @gayocats: 1155899928190

 Thu Jan 16 15:25:48 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming

 Thu Jan 16 17:21:57 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Larry being "restarted" in the original version of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987) #DOSGaming…

 Thu Jan 16 17:24:21 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Interactive opening credits sequence from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Lucasfilm Games, 1992) #DOSGaming https…

 Thu Jan 16 17:30:18 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: CGA! #DOSGaming

 Thu Jan 16 19:05:54 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Some #DOSGaming prices from May of 1995

 Thu Jan 16 19:06:57 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: LOOM™ print ad #DOSGaming

 Thu Jan 16 19:07:50 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: #CurrentMood

 Thu Jan 16 19:16:12 +0000 2020

No DLC you say?

 Thu Jan 16 19:18:09 +0000 2020

Fine. But we also have Serpent Isle and Might & Magic 5 as examples of that as well.

 Thu Jan 16 19:40:27 +0000 2020

https://x.com/Official_GDC/status/1217853978324557824

 Thu Jan 16 19:51:49 +0000 2020

NAM is a fine budget first person shooter. 🤷 https://x.com/Thafnine/status/1217490213968236544

 Thu Jan 16 20:10:00 +0000 2020

I'll be going back to that opinion a lot once that Vietnam mod for DOOM comes out and gets universally praised.

 Thu Jan 16 20:11:20 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: A store receipt for a registered copy of DOOM. Sold in Connecticut to a Bernard from Bayside, New York. #DOSGaming https:…

 Thu Jan 16 20:51:46 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: A relic of a bygone era: Might & Magic required mapping, so they gave you a mapping pad & an example in the manual https:…

 Thu Jan 16 20:54:19 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Remember

 Thu Jan 16 21:21:42 +0000 2020

No amount of advanced reviews is gonna convince me that Bad Boys 3 is worth watching.

 Thu Jan 16 21:26:40 +0000 2020

Rosebud, you piece of shit https://x.com/KimmyMonte/status/1217632533032112128

 Thu Jan 16 23:29:38 +0000 2020

It's Chinatown, you piece of shit.

 Thu Jan 16 23:32:25 +0000 2020

There's no place like home, you piece of shit.

 Thu Jan 16 23:38:43 +0000 2020

幸福人生/Xingfu Rensheng/Happy Life (IBM Taiwan, 1992) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Jan 17 00:07:42 +0000 2020

Yep

 Fri Jan 17 00:09:00 +0000 2020

"Space Quest 3" included a digital "Where am I?" sample that is supposed to play during the introduction sequence, but when the game came out in 1989 there was no way of hearing it. 🤷‍♂️#DOSGaming

 Fri Jan 17 00:27:48 +0000 2020

Yes, but I don't think Sierra's driver did. 🤷‍♂️

 Fri Jan 17 00:34:27 +0000 2020

The more advanced Tandy machines had PCM sample playback, but Sierra's internal drivers for games only supported Tandy for music, so that wasn't an option either.

 Fri Jan 17 00:36:11 +0000 2020

It plays on the Amiga version, which uses the same resources. And it plays if you copy the Sound Blaster driver from a later game.

 Fri Jan 17 00:37:50 +0000 2020

But you can hear it if you copy over the Sound Blaster driver that was included with later Sierra games. I grabbed it from the 1990 update of King's Quest. There are more digital sound effects too. You can hear a total of three in this clip:

 Fri Jan 17 00:40:09 +0000 2020

They were partners with Creative, so maybe they had a wip Sound Blaster or something by that point. Who knows.

 Fri Jan 17 00:41:08 +0000 2020

Right. The original Sound Blaster driver is only IRQ7, for obvious reasons. But @SQHistorian did forget to point out that when the game first came out, Sound Blaster wasn't a thing yet, and it wasn't officially supported.

 Fri Jan 17 00:44:31 +0000 2020

RT @Macaw45: Streaming the most obscure Prince of Persia clone ever made https://www.twitch.tv/macaw45

 Fri Jan 17 00:45:14 +0000 2020

Possibly. The sliding door sure sounds very synthesized.

 Fri Jan 17 00:45:52 +0000 2020

Did you get PCM sounds on an ST?

 Fri Jan 17 01:01:23 +0000 2020

Yes, digital sound out of PC speaker was nothing new. The thing is Sierra games didn't support that.

 Fri Jan 17 01:04:02 +0000 2020

KQ4 didn't come with SNDBLAST originally either. All added in later updates.

 Fri Jan 17 01:09:34 +0000 2020

 Fri Jan 17 01:17:13 +0000 2020

Amelie
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Army of Darkness
The Shawshank Redemption
Oldboy (2003)
Life of Brian
Y Tu Mama Tambien

Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
American Beauty
Some Like It Hot
Hellraiser
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Inglorious Basterds
Nikita https://x.com/cinefiedcom/status/1217324814857392128

 Fri Jan 17 01:28:52 +0000 2020

JAWS. I love JAWS.

 Fri Jan 17 01:41:17 +0000 2020

 Fri Jan 17 02:02:10 +0000 2020

RT @gayocats: 1083949220581

 Fri Jan 17 02:11:07 +0000 2020

All of it. Two seasons of the original, the movie, and the deleted scenes from the movie known as "The Missing Pieces". Even then can't guarantee a successful outcome. Watching the SNL skit also wouldn't hurt, I guess.

 Fri Jan 17 02:38:48 +0000 2020

But did you see David Lynch put panties in his mouth? Not sure if it'll make Season 3 more understandable, but it's kind of funny
https://youtu.be/ioKyxGkBRro

 Fri Jan 17 02:41:34 +0000 2020

It's crazy that the deleted scenes have so much near-essential material in them. I used to hate the movie, but now I feel like it's all justified, because it and the Missing Pieces set up a lot of season 3.

 Fri Jan 17 02:45:41 +0000 2020

Big cat! 😊

 Fri Jan 17 03:44:12 +0000 2020

This is what ScanDisk looked like
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1212485747607031810?s=19

 Fri Jan 17 05:35:07 +0000 2020

CMS/Game Blaster isn't the same as SB, launched in 87, and can't play digital samples, since all it is is two Phillips SAA1099 chips. You're confusing it *with* the first SB, which also included these chips for CMS compatibility.

 Fri Jan 17 12:25:10 +0000 2020

Yeah, I specifically hunted for version 1.0p floppy images to take these screenshots just to be sure.

 Fri Jan 17 12:38:05 +0000 2020

Congrats!

 Fri Jan 17 12:39:12 +0000 2020

All of the tools in that pack are fan made.

 Fri Jan 17 13:02:32 +0000 2020

Tom and Jerry are turning EIGHTY years old next month, and there's still no way of buying all of the original Hanna and Barbera shorts. I'm not even talking about having them all in HD. 😥

 Fri Jan 17 13:42:05 +0000 2020

Some time after Mickey Mouse does.

 Fri Jan 17 13:50:32 +0000 2020

Some of those episodes are only available in such shit quality, that just trying to remember them instead is a better experience.

 Fri Jan 17 13:51:54 +0000 2020

RT @TheRegister: Free work hack for every reader:

Get out of any meeting by claiming you thought the calendar invite was a phishing email.…

 Fri Jan 17 14:08:12 +0000 2020

I don't really use virtual machines, so I can't recommend any.

 Fri Jan 17 14:16:46 +0000 2020

Yes, 3 volumes + blu-ray is the best available combo currently.

 Fri Jan 17 15:29:14 +0000 2020

"Cancelled from wrongthink" is a rightwing taking point, Jonas. But I get what you're saying.

 Fri Jan 17 15:42:23 +0000 2020

It's more of a Scandisk

 Fri Jan 17 15:43:12 +0000 2020

You can easily hear it now with an updated driver in DOS, or when you play the game in ScummVM on modern systems.

 Fri Jan 17 17:04:16 +0000 2020

Death by Dark Shadows (William R. Fisher III Studios, 1994) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Jan 17 17:06:10 +0000 2020

4k 60 fps? Oh boy, now those supposed humans will REALLY look like Jello.

 Fri Jan 17 17:26:20 +0000 2020

These DOS games are turning TWENTY FIVE years old this year!

 Fri Jan 17 17:43:08 +0000 2020

Can't seem to confirm this via emulation and version 1.0p of the game. QFG2 does lock up though. 🤷‍♂️

 Fri Jan 17 17:53:32 +0000 2020

For more games that turn 25 this year see my "MS-DOS Games in 1995" video: https://youtu.be/73-S9qCBH4Q

 Fri Jan 17 17:56:05 +0000 2020

Command & Conquer

 Fri Jan 17 18:02:29 +0000 2020

Hmmmm... Okay, now it worked.

 Fri Jan 17 18:05:46 +0000 2020

UPDATE: Apparently the bundled driver for the more advanced Tandy machines did indeed support playing digital samples

 Fri Jan 17 18:08:41 +0000 2020

And here it is in action (via DosBox):

 Fri Jan 17 18:10:51 +0000 2020

That, or you had an updated version of the game from 1990 or later.

 Fri Jan 17 18:17:43 +0000 2020

The fact that there's only one Virtual Boy emulator for Oculus and its latest release is nearing it's fourth anniversary is a CRIME

 Fri Jan 17 18:44:59 +0000 2020

Yes. Yes it is.

 Fri Jan 17 18:46:12 +0000 2020

RT @pcgamer: Revisiting System Shock, and the birth of immersive sim design https://buff.ly/2uYXy6a

 Fri Jan 17 19:00:09 +0000 2020

Today's floppy, and my unemployed face: #DOSGaming

 Fri Jan 17 19:18:21 +0000 2020

Not even close. Ubisoft made dozens of games in the 80s.

 Fri Jan 17 19:19:12 +0000 2020

I guess, although they were both a developer and a publisher for several years before then, so they were kind of on a map already.

 Fri Jan 17 19:22:02 +0000 2020

We are so YOUNG, man. 🥂

 Fri Jan 17 19:30:59 +0000 2020

RT @dantemendes: 🎶GAME MUSIC: TFX (DID/Ocean 1993)

Track here is called "Fire Fight" by Barry Leitch. It's how I remember the music when I…

 Fri Jan 17 19:32:19 +0000 2020

RT @Aistarin: Up until I started playing around with these 486 machines earlier this week, I had never used MS-DOS nor Windows 3.x on real…

 Fri Jan 17 19:34:28 +0000 2020

Are you sure? The game installs even from the hard drive, as long as its in the root. Maybe something else is wrong. Have you tried this one? https://archive.org/details/the-dark-eye

 Fri Jan 17 19:54:07 +0000 2020

Something is definitely not right. How are you mounting it?

 Fri Jan 17 19:56:39 +0000 2020

Hold on. My main machine is unusable because I'm forcing a Windows update. Gimme a minute.

 Fri Jan 17 19:58:51 +0000 2020

DKYINSTALL is it

 Fri Jan 17 20:00:39 +0000 2020

Just downloaded and ran it. Works like a charm. Quit buggin'.

 Fri Jan 17 20:07:04 +0000 2020

The images going around are from the original 1995 disc. If you look at the video, the dates on files are from 1997. I have no clue wtf that is about.

 Fri Jan 17 20:09:41 +0000 2020

It's not. Pulled my box off the shelf.

 Fri Jan 17 20:14:03 +0000 2020

I mean, it's not unusual or crippled. As for the re-release, I guess asking around in the Big Box group wouldn't hurt.

 Fri Jan 17 20:14:57 +0000 2020

Yeah, except no. The addendum is the evidence to contrary:

 Fri Jan 17 20:16:23 +0000 2020

A quick search reveals this. Looks like a budget re-release to me.

 Fri Jan 17 20:20:48 +0000 2020

Virtual moire patterns. What a time to be alive.

 Fri Jan 17 20:28:12 +0000 2020

🙄

 Fri Jan 17 20:46:38 +0000 2020

Putting that image in fullscreen looks okay. Still more noticeable scanlines than what I see when I look at the CRT next to me.

 Fri Jan 17 21:28:35 +0000 2020

Oh no, I made TOO MUCH PASTA 😮

 Fri Jan 17 21:35:03 +0000 2020

That's every Quake 2 game. Kingpin just made the mistake of being late enough to have models at much higher fidelity than others, thus increasing the amount of vertexes to wobble. It's gonna look great at 4K!

 Fri Jan 17 22:03:21 +0000 2020

I remember enjoying it quite a bunch, but maybe that's because I was a teen and the game had a "Go fuck yourself!" button 🤷

 Fri Jan 17 22:06:13 +0000 2020

Seriously though, how much of the vertex wobble can be fixed by introducing proper math into the engine? Does the RTX version of Quake 2 still have the wobble?

 Fri Jan 17 22:09:30 +0000 2020

Those were the days of super high unlocked framerates, only limited by the card and the CRT. And I remember everything wobbling like crazy, even though I didn't have a powerful machine and played in 640x480.

 Fri Jan 17 22:22:47 +0000 2020

Update: I ate ALL the pasta. I cannot move. Send help. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1218285630494531584

 Fri Jan 17 22:25:21 +0000 2020

Yes

 Fri Jan 17 23:22:00 +0000 2020

Windows update broke my USB audio input 🤦‍♂️

 Fri Jan 17 23:31:25 +0000 2020

Oh, nevermind it just thought that every USB audio device is a MICROPHONE and blocked it by default for my own good.

 Fri Jan 17 23:34:35 +0000 2020

 Fri Jan 17 23:54:42 +0000 2020

It sure does

 Fri Jan 17 23:55:58 +0000 2020

Today on Mediocre Games With Great Chip Music:

 Sat Jan 18 00:08:29 +0000 2020

I like both. Too bad the Spectrum conversion wasn't particularly great https://youtu.be/CrEH3gjoFdk

 Sat Jan 18 00:15:09 +0000 2020

I'm *REALLY* enjoying my break from retail. Because of shit like this: https://x.com/David_Leavitt/status/1218263908386996227

 Sat Jan 18 00:31:58 +0000 2020

I did have the police called on the store two years ago because a customer wouldn't accept that the sign said "per LB". True story.

 Sat Jan 18 00:33:07 +0000 2020

What a cock knocker.

 Sat Jan 18 00:36:35 +0000 2020

The tag is clearly for the display fixture as it says so on the tag!

 Sat Jan 18 00:37:34 +0000 2020

Because the item scanned for its actual price, which was also most likely on the package as well. He needed the manager to make an adjustment, which she rightfully refused to do.

 Sat Jan 18 00:41:30 +0000 2020

I'm in NY, so the laws might be different over there, but here this wouldn't count as anything consumer affairs would nail you for.

 Sat Jan 18 00:42:55 +0000 2020

Man, I love checking ScummVM commits and seeing daily Director additions. It is going to be SO FREAKING AWESOME!

 Sat Jan 18 00:46:45 +0000 2020

It looks like that's exactly what they did.

 Sat Jan 18 01:31:34 +0000 2020

😍😍😍

 Sat Jan 18 01:57:50 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: The 2001 E3 trailer for Duke Nukem Forever is still one of my favorite videogame trailers. It looked like it was gonna be…

 Sat Jan 18 02:35:48 +0000 2020

Good night.

 Sat Jan 18 04:16:33 +0000 2020

RT @Pixelmusement: New Ancient DOS Games episode uploaded! https://youtu.be/CFWVv1GT4MU

 Sat Jan 18 14:16:38 +0000 2020

TIL something about The Master of Disguise

 Sat Jan 18 15:04:04 +0000 2020

Battle Cheese (Brad Boggess, 1995) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Jan 18 17:34:58 +0000 2020

No 3D glasses?

 Sat Jan 18 17:42:59 +0000 2020

😥

 Sat Jan 18 18:28:40 +0000 2020

There are vendors that'll make them for almost nothing in bulk. https://www.rainbowsymphonystore.com/products/pulfrich-3d-glasses

 Sat Jan 18 18:31:03 +0000 2020

Every time I hear stories like that from Americans I sigh heavily and feel sad.

 Sat Jan 18 18:46:41 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Sat Jan 18 20:16:40 +0000 2020

1994 for Zip, 1995 for Jaz

 Sat Jan 18 20:29:11 +0000 2020

Let's see what my legal options of seeing Horse Thief are...

 Sat Jan 18 20:50:38 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: TIL something about The Master of Disguise

 Sun Jan 19 00:43:44 +0000 2020

 Sun Jan 19 01:18:34 +0000 2020

(Made with http://eccoonline.net/ecco-generator-beta/)

 Sun Jan 19 01:18:47 +0000 2020

The Lord of the Rings movies aren't good, and they changed the film industry for the worse. https://x.com/Movies/status/1217531520786796546

 Sun Jan 19 01:34:57 +0000 2020

The financial success of the trilogy led to constantly spawning franchises with unending sequels where each movie costs $150-$200 mil and has to feel "EPIC" and appeal to as many demographics as possible.

 Sun Jan 19 01:55:09 +0000 2020

I don't particularly like either one, so this is fine.

 Sun Jan 19 01:55:36 +0000 2020

I ran out of chocolate. Do I want to just open a can of condensed milk and eat spoonfuls of it with my tea? Yes, I think I do! ☕

 Sun Jan 19 01:58:26 +0000 2020

Btw, being the caveman that I am I only recently discovered can openers that cut the top off from the outside of the can, and can't believe how great they are. It's like magic!

 Sun Jan 19 02:00:44 +0000 2020

Damn.

 Sun Jan 19 02:03:16 +0000 2020

A bit late to this, but this is who people support when they buy Keen Dreams on the Switch https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1100934501277016065

 Sun Jan 19 02:09:11 +0000 2020

I enjoy Logan quite a lot.

 Sun Jan 19 03:00:45 +0000 2020

Yeah, and that's cool, but I'll take a movie about three people in the same room just talking over them any day.

 Sun Jan 19 03:08:45 +0000 2020

An important message about nostalgia: https://youtu.be/DjikLCPeUdo

 Sun Jan 19 03:16:26 +0000 2020

Hmmm.... I mean why not, right?

 Sun Jan 19 03:52:54 +0000 2020

I remember discovering Stalker back in high school. First episode was recorded following Kin Dza Dza on a home made tape that a friend of mine let me borrow. It was the first Tarkovsky film I saw, and quite an experience. Instantly made me appreciate cinema more.

 Sun Jan 19 04:01:00 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Professor: I can't be without my backpack!
Stalker: The Room will give you anything you want.
Writer: Yeah, it'll bury yo…

 Sun Jan 19 04:11:31 +0000 2020

The Mirror is my favourite right next to Andrei Rublev. And Sculpting in Time happens to be right next to me right now! 😄

 Sun Jan 19 04:15:08 +0000 2020

I might not be a fan of every Tarkovsky film, but I can honestly say that all of them are worth watching.

 Sun Jan 19 04:18:18 +0000 2020

I always felt that Solaris was kind of overrated. I mean there are plenty of scenes that are great, but these days I can't watch it without falling asleep.

 Sun Jan 19 04:22:59 +0000 2020

 Sun Jan 19 05:29:09 +0000 2020

RT @Pixelengineer_: Good afternoon awesome #DOSgaming and #StarTrek people :)!!

 Sun Jan 19 14:18:56 +0000 2020

RT @fabynou: Here is the last entry in the "Polygons of Another World" series. There were no better machine than the legendary Super Ninten…

 Sun Jan 19 14:19:05 +0000 2020

RT @ben_304: Ever since I first played Albion as a kid - a game that grabbed my imagination and sucked me right in - I've dreamed of making…

 Sun Jan 19 14:40:56 +0000 2020

Welcome to the Dungeon!
First IBM PC virus Brain celebrates its 34th birthday today! 🦠💾🎂🎉

 Sun Jan 19 15:16:27 +0000 2020

Brain is still categorized as "severe" by Windows 10 antivirus, despite the fact that the virus is non-destructive and only spreads on floppy disks, and Win10's inability to run 16 bit or MS-DOS applications. 🤷‍♂️

 Sun Jan 19 15:21:25 +0000 2020

Have you ever played "Jim Power: The Lost Dimension"? It's an obscure French DOS (and SNES) game, and it's currently available on Steam. And it has UNCOMFORTABLE levels of parallax scrolling. Why is that?

 Sun Jan 19 17:32:04 +0000 2020

That's because the full title of the game is "Jim Power: The Lost Dimension in 3D"

 Sun Jan 19 17:32:53 +0000 2020

But where is the 3D? Is it in the options? No, it's not. And the game manual states that you can just put on the included glasses at any time and the game will turn 3D!

 Sun Jan 19 17:33:49 +0000 2020

Hey now, I'm working up to that.

 Sun Jan 19 17:34:08 +0000 2020

The included glasses are different from your usual anaglyph 3D glasses. The left lens is very dark, and the right is kind of not.

 Sun Jan 19 17:35:11 +0000 2020

That's because they use something called Pulfrich effect. It creates an illusion of 3D based on motion and the fact that the eye covered with a darker lens takes longer to process the image. It's quite an interesting solution!

 Sun Jan 19 17:36:49 +0000 2020

You don't need special lenses to view the effect at all! Just cover up your left eye with sunglasses or anything else that obscures light, and take a look at the game footage again. 🕶

 Sun Jan 19 17:38:06 +0000 2020

I'm working up to that as well, goddammit!

 Sun Jan 19 17:38:28 +0000 2020

See the rest of the thread

 Sun Jan 19 17:40:32 +0000 2020

No 3D this time around though.

 Sun Jan 19 17:41:23 +0000 2020

They are now.

 Sun Jan 19 17:42:23 +0000 2020

This is the DOS version though.

 Sun Jan 19 18:00:38 +0000 2020

The rest of the thread explains it.

 Sun Jan 19 18:14:14 +0000 2020

It's worth mentioning that @Pikointeractive are currently running a crowdfunding campaign to get Jim Power re-released, & that includes a brand new NES version of the game, finishing unfinished versions, and "fixing" the SNES one. No 3D currently though.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/retrogames/jim-power-a-nes-snes-genesis-turbografx-and-cd32-game

 Sun Jan 19 18:19:12 +0000 2020

I've heard that SNES version was made to run on a PAL system, so it runs unintentionally fast on an NTSC console.

 Sun Jan 19 18:37:52 +0000 2020

 Sun Jan 19 18:42:05 +0000 2020

It was a trick question. See the rest of the thread. 😉

 Sun Jan 19 18:51:01 +0000 2020

It was a trick question. There's more to the thread 😉

 Sun Jan 19 19:07:49 +0000 2020

The Pulfrich effect was used in one more game I know of. Orb 3D on the NES. There are very few moving object in that case, but they create a neat effect of going in front of and behind the playing field. The dark lens should be over the *right* eye
https://youtu.be/9-ADkypJMk4

 Sun Jan 19 19:37:39 +0000 2020

The effect was also used in commercials and TV, most notably in episodes of Dr. Who and 3rd Rock From The Sun.

 Sun Jan 19 19:40:59 +0000 2020

But the weirdest use of the effect comes from a German show Tutti Frutti, which is that European game show that has ladies stripping topless that some European countries licensed (Colpo Grosso, The Desire Empire, etc.) The effect was used during stripping sequences!

 Sun Jan 19 19:43:07 +0000 2020

Yes, it doesn't make sense spatially, but then its overpowered by your brain introducing actual *visible* parallax.

 Sun Jan 19 19:45:22 +0000 2020

A few episodes of Tutti Frutti are on YouTube, nudity included, but most are in such terrible resolution and so compressed that you can't observe the effect even if you try.

 Sun Jan 19 19:47:15 +0000 2020

- Make sure the darker lens is over your left eye
- Try a lens of a different color/opacity
- Try some Pulfrich effect videos on YT (lens position might vary)
- You might need your eyes checked.

 Sun Jan 19 19:49:03 +0000 2020

And that's it for today's Science + #DOSGaming thread!

 Sun Jan 19 19:52:03 +0000 2020

Wow. In early 90s Russia some local channel just put honest to god porn on TV late at night. And we also got a licensed version of that show in the late 90s.

 Sun Jan 19 20:25:59 +0000 2020

Sort of. First game for the Amiga, among other platforms. This is a remake, but it reuses a bunch of the assets.

 Sun Jan 19 20:40:18 +0000 2020

It's the same game mostly. I mean look at the footage of the first level on the Amiga. It's the same. The music too.

 Sun Jan 19 20:42:16 +0000 2020

Softcore porn I assume was commonplace in Europe in general. Now, hardcore porn? Don't think so.

 Sun Jan 19 20:43:07 +0000 2020

Both are hard as hell. On Amiga the parallax goes in the correct way. In the 3D update you can turn off the middle layer with a hotkey

 Sun Jan 19 20:53:59 +0000 2020

🤣🤣🤣

 Sun Jan 19 21:42:37 +0000 2020

Who retweeted this?!

 Sun Jan 19 21:46:34 +0000 2020

Amiga game is the prototype for this. And the parallax goes the right way in that version.

 Sun Jan 19 21:47:34 +0000 2020

Part of the reason is that you could change the palette as the CRT had finished drawing each horizontal line, and that vertical dithering allowed you to avoid the color limit within the same object.

 Sun Jan 19 21:49:17 +0000 2020

6331 - 47N

 Sun Jan 19 21:57:02 +0000 2020

Were you playing with 3D glasses?

 Sun Jan 19 22:05:50 +0000 2020

I mean, not really. I just happened to be messing around with a bunch of stuff at this very moment. But having said that, yes, all the stuff is a part of it. It's just not all on the floor at the same time normally.

 Sun Jan 19 22:21:02 +0000 2020

The rest of the thread will explain it.

 Sun Jan 19 22:21:26 +0000 2020

Oh it absolutely would. The effect is a lot more obvious when things are moving in the opposite directions though.

 Sun Jan 19 22:30:08 +0000 2020

 Sun Jan 19 23:05:15 +0000 2020

Gauntlet (Atari Games/Mindscape, 1988) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Jan 19 23:40:56 +0000 2020

Demon Stalker is essentially a Gauntlet clone.

 Sun Jan 19 23:43:00 +0000 2020

Gauntlet was originally an arcade cabinet from 1985

 Sun Jan 19 23:45:54 +0000 2020

Four players too!

 Sun Jan 19 23:47:05 +0000 2020

Yes, it's called "every Loren Bouchard show except for Bob's Burgers", with Lucy the Daughter of the Devil being my personal favorite.

 Mon Jan 20 00:41:56 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Welcome to the Dungeon!
First IBM PC virus Brain celebrates its 34th birthday today! 🦠💾🎂🎉

 Mon Jan 20 01:25:38 +0000 2020

I think I'm the only one who owns the official DVD

 Mon Jan 20 02:40:12 +0000 2020

Another fine example of 90s advertising https://x.com/decafjedi/status/1219089645813846017

 Mon Jan 20 02:53:07 +0000 2020

I miss alcohol 😥

 Mon Jan 20 03:02:13 +0000 2020

Thank you for your service. 🍻

 Mon Jan 20 03:04:22 +0000 2020

Yes, it's pretty obscure. This is technically a different game from the Amiga one. It has a different title, all new graphics, and double the levels, including flying and overhead ones.

 Mon Jan 20 04:50:18 +0000 2020

That tweet was a beginning of a thread.

 Mon Jan 20 05:41:38 +0000 2020

RT @rockpapershot: To finally set an argument, @botherer returns to Zak McKracken And The Alien Mindbenders to prove @richardcobbett wrong,…

 Mon Jan 20 13:19:27 +0000 2020

RT @Tanukitsune: I can play as a cat girl? Eradicator is looking pretty awesome! #DOSgaming

 Mon Jan 20 13:41:16 +0000 2020

RT @1PArmy: Which was your favourite DOS golf game? I spent a lot of hours playing Links 386 Pro with my friends #DOSGaming #retrogaming #g…

 Mon Jan 20 13:41:41 +0000 2020

RT @_scanlines: In a dank basement.

That costume looks familiar...

#blood #retrogaming #DOSGaming #horror

 Mon Jan 20 13:41:52 +0000 2020

RT @Pixelengineer_: Genuine boot sequence of my @IntelUK Pentium 166 MMX. #DOSgaming

 Mon Jan 20 13:42:35 +0000 2020

A thread https://x.com/MStrehovsky/status/1218966180104458240

 Mon Jan 20 13:46:30 +0000 2020

But the Amiga version is essentially a different game. DOS/SNES one has a different title, different assets, and lots of new levels, including shmup and overhead ones. The Amiga version also doesn't have the reversed parallax, and wasn't advertised as "3D".

 Mon Jan 20 13:49:22 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 20 13:53:25 +0000 2020

Shmup levels in Mutant Planet are completely different from the ones in The Lost Dimension. It is essentially more of a remake than a port. It doesn't share any of the assets, while it absolutely could have (plenty of Amiga to DOS ports), and a port to the Genesis, another...

 Mon Jan 20 14:07:12 +0000 2020

... 68000 platform, was never finished. 🤷

 Mon Jan 20 14:07:34 +0000 2020

OUCH

 Mon Jan 20 14:11:38 +0000 2020

I maintain that Monkey Island 1 > Monkey Island 2.
Oh, and Monkey Island 2 should automatically be disqualified from any Great Design Awards just four the If this is five ✌ puzzle alone.

 Mon Jan 20 14:13:49 +0000 2020

And what backs up my "remake" angle is the fact that it wasn't going to be another Jim Power game originally at all!
https://youtu.be/odLKVZEOrH8

 Mon Jan 20 14:17:02 +0000 2020

RT @rotational: I wrote about playing System Shock again, 25 years after I first experienced it. Still hate cyberspace; still love arrangin…

 Mon Jan 20 14:20:20 +0000 2020

I always found the mouse puzzle to be one of the better designed one in The Neverhood. The doors are so impossibly confusing, but the actual solution is to figure out that the mouse smells the cheese, and will face the correct entrance. Then you can solve it in 5 seconds.

 Mon Jan 20 15:37:01 +0000 2020

But so many people have told me that they spent hours and weeks on that puzzle, drawing elaborate diagrams, asking for help from friends and family memebers, etc. Even today when you look at walkthroughs, most of them have diagrams or verbal descriptions for this puzzle.

 Mon Jan 20 15:38:05 +0000 2020

I want to shout "Just follow the nose, silly!" when I see things like that, but now that I'm older I realize that maybe it's just the case of the game not telegraphing it enough as a possible solution, and the puzzle *isn't* actually well designed. 🤷‍♂️

 Mon Jan 20 15:39:22 +0000 2020

Further down the thread.

 Mon Jan 20 16:34:45 +0000 2020

RT @bbbradsmith: Did you ever want to play Mega Man on DOS but couldn't because it runs insanely fast? Well, I fixed that.

https://t.co/tL…

 Mon Jan 20 16:58:01 +0000 2020

It doesn't, but it adds more depth that way.

 Mon Jan 20 21:04:35 +0000 2020

Yeah, learned my lesson.

 Mon Jan 20 22:43:56 +0000 2020

🍻

 Mon Jan 20 22:44:15 +0000 2020

RT @GabrielPyron: The force is strong on PC side, Dark Forces still amazing to play today and still sounding better than most of star wars…

 Tue Jan 21 00:02:03 +0000 2020

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: #DosGaming

 Tue Jan 21 00:02:10 +0000 2020

Battle Arena Toshinden (Tamsoft Corporation/Playmates Interactive Entertainment, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Jan 21 00:43:43 +0000 2020

I mean it was 1996. Quake was out, among other things.

 Tue Jan 21 00:46:31 +0000 2020

Felling very bleh today. I think it's time for tea and some Rescue Rangers on the NES.

 Tue Jan 21 01:52:34 +0000 2020

That is quite a memory

 Tue Jan 21 12:34:08 +0000 2020

RT @yaxuul: Encontré esta joya. Solía jugarlo en un 8086 con Ms-Dos que mis padres adquirieron de uso. Con solo 5 niveles me acompañó un bu…

 Tue Jan 21 15:58:21 +0000 2020

RT @Vauncey: Some of the #gamedev legends from the new @RoyalMailStamps [⚽️Sensible Soccer, 🚀Worms, 🥚Dizzy, 🏛Tomb Raider, 🏎Micro Machines]…

 Tue Jan 21 17:51:55 +0000 2020

I'm gonna go to a real physical store to buy a blu-ray for the first time in AGES. And it happens to be the Best Buy I used to work at 15 years ago. The horror. 😨

 Tue Jan 21 17:55:09 +0000 2020

Mission accomplished

 Tue Jan 21 18:32:14 +0000 2020

Oof. I do miss the times when home video releases were *packed* with special features 😥

 Tue Jan 21 18:33:53 +0000 2020

RT @ben_304: Old games hells yeah.

 Tue Jan 21 18:34:47 +0000 2020

It's a new release, and they forgot to put it out today. 😔

 Tue Jan 21 18:35:42 +0000 2020

1998 was a long time ago, Richard.

 Tue Jan 21 18:37:21 +0000 2020

RT @pripyatbeast: We @NightdiveStudio are hiring for a position on our KEX Engine team! If you or someone you know may be interested please…

 Tue Jan 21 19:07:24 +0000 2020

Me too.

 Tue Jan 21 19:17:11 +0000 2020

Only 13. Apparently I'm not as picky as my mother used to claim. https://x.com/thwaacker/status/1219290663642112001

 Tue Jan 21 20:06:13 +0000 2020

RT @nostalnerd: Brand new video on the highly intriguing Sanyo MBC-555. The first "IBM PC Compatible" to break the $1k price floor.

https:…

 Tue Jan 21 20:06:48 +0000 2020

Today is one of those days when I'd gladly become a cat instead of a human.

 Tue Jan 21 20:11:26 +0000 2020

Explanation further in the thread

 Tue Jan 21 20:42:52 +0000 2020

RT @DavidXNewton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9ZNzCMO424 Stumbling Tours: Epic Games, Part 9! We're not in #dosgaming any more as this is now the start of…

 Tue Jan 21 20:43:40 +0000 2020

Pulfrich effect only works in motion. Things that move one way appear closer, while things that move the other way appear farther. Since the main play field is not static, and moves right to left, the way to enhance the effect in the background was to make it scroll the other way

 Tue Jan 21 21:19:34 +0000 2020

RT @JFrankensteiner: Kurt Russell and John Carpenter laughing their asses off watching The Thing

 Tue Jan 21 21:56:24 +0000 2020

Awwww. I ❤ Yuri.

 Tue Jan 21 22:04:22 +0000 2020

For now

 Wed Jan 22 00:16:08 +0000 2020

Anything to stand out on the shelf once their licensing deal for Buck Rogers fell through.

 Wed Jan 22 00:17:03 +0000 2020

Idk... Blade Runner? Hot Fuzz Collector's Edition? Most of David Fincher films? Fear and Loathing Criterion? Mid-2000s Anchor Bay horror releases? There's a lot of great ones.

 Wed Jan 22 00:21:04 +0000 2020

Ben Afleck scene in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is a clear indication that Kevin Smith is still very capable of writong and directing very sweet and emotional scenes.

 Wed Jan 22 02:55:41 +0000 2020

Dr. Strangelove
Witness for the Prosecution
Some Like It Hot https://x.com/RufusTSuperfly/status/1218860760287391744

 Wed Jan 22 03:00:29 +0000 2020

If we stretch how "old" those movies can be I'd also suggest
Schindler's List
Ed Wood
Clerks

 Wed Jan 22 03:01:29 +0000 2020

No, I want to be an actual cat. The kind that sleeps most of the day and doesn't have to work in tech. Preferably a soft one.

 Wed Jan 22 03:03:26 +0000 2020

You can do it!

 Wed Jan 22 03:39:36 +0000 2020

Same, but that was 13 and a half years ago.

 Wed Jan 22 04:00:38 +0000 2020

 Wed Jan 22 04:53:05 +0000 2020

Finally got around to watching the Soviet dub of original Star Wars (via Harmy's Despecialized Edition). Everything is pretty great so far, except for the guy who's doing Luke's voice. He's extremely unemotional.

 Wed Jan 22 06:00:59 +0000 2020

RIP

 Wed Jan 22 16:01:55 +0000 2020

RT @ben_304: Few things are more amusingly grotesque to me than the uncannily symmetrical portraits in some 90s games. :') https://t.co/ywo…

 Wed Jan 22 16:43:14 +0000 2020

Bank Buster (ERE Informatique/Eurosoft, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Jan 22 20:43:32 +0000 2020

Whoa. Almost 27 years after the film itself was buried by the studio that made it, and the planned release of the OST got canned, the soundtrack to cult classic "Freaked" finally escaped into the world on a brand new vinyl!
https://mondotees.com/collections/music/products/freaked-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-2xlp

 Wed Jan 22 21:06:16 +0000 2020

#DOSGaming

 Wed Jan 22 22:16:36 +0000 2020

 Wed Jan 22 22:35:10 +0000 2020

 Wed Jan 22 22:45:50 +0000 2020

A promo video for a cancelled vehicular combat game "Propaganda" from Virgin Interactive, Burst, and Barking Crew.

 Wed Jan 22 23:09:00 +0000 2020

A few promo shots of "Propaganda":

 Wed Jan 22 23:12:12 +0000 2020

Yeah, I know it's a port, but this particular version has ERE credit upfront, and the bank has been moved to Paris 🤷‍♂️

 Wed Jan 22 23:50:10 +0000 2020

RT @Macaw45: I'm streaming Flashback, finally! https://www.twitch.tv/macaw45

 Thu Jan 23 00:22:57 +0000 2020

Cryo strikes again

 Thu Jan 23 00:40:34 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: VisiCalc v1.1. DOS, 1982.

 Thu Jan 23 02:00:28 +0000 2020

This 128x96 3GP clip of the "37 dicks" scene from Clerks is all that survived from the time I tried my hand at translating cult American films into Russian. This file fits on a floppy!
🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆

 Thu Jan 23 02:32:29 +0000 2020

Army of Darkness, Assault on Precinct 13, Dawn of the Dead, The Toxic Avenger, Night of the Creeps, and From Dusk Till Dawn.

 Thu Jan 23 02:39:15 +0000 2020

Of course when I moved to the States I absolutely had to go to the actual Quick Stop. 😄

 Thu Jan 23 02:47:55 +0000 2020

Good night

 Thu Jan 23 05:09:11 +0000 2020

RT @lazygamereviews: Somehow, I never considered there might be arcade games that used Yamaha OPL2 sound chips. Plenty of other chips from…

 Thu Jan 23 18:26:21 +0000 2020

RT @benjedwards: "Hello there! I am a talking parrot. Please talk to me."

Does anyone else have fond memories of the MS-DOS Parrot program…

 Thu Jan 23 18:28:03 +0000 2020

RT @ben_304: I have a personal category for a particular set of old games whose concepts I love, worlds I adore and whose visions I admire,…

 Thu Jan 23 18:31:00 +0000 2020

RT @SpectrumTinted: Well this was lovely and unexpected. The designer of Magicland #Dizzy popped into the comment section of my review (htt…

 Thu Jan 23 18:36:47 +0000 2020

Master Miner (Funtastic, 1983) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Jan 23 18:55:13 +0000 2020

#DOSGaming

 Thu Jan 23 19:41:33 +0000 2020

If Roberta & Ken didn't make the first ever adventure game with graphics, someone else around the same time would have, and it could have been a better game 🤷 https://x.com/Thafnine/status/1217490213968236544

 Thu Jan 23 20:40:08 +0000 2020

RT @BrianFargo: We can finally announce that Wasteland Remastered will go live on Xbox and Windows (Windows store, Steam, GOG) on the 56th…

 Thu Jan 23 21:54:57 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: My favorite moment from yesterday's stream: 1 HP in Vietnam

 Thu Jan 23 22:32:40 +0000 2020

RT @PushinUpRoses: Oh? What's this? A video on King's Quest I and the design choices of Roberta Williams? Why yes, it is! I defend one of m…

 Fri Jan 24 00:47:22 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Hello, dorkness, my old friend

 Fri Jan 24 03:06:39 +0000 2020

Want https://x.com/RetroSwimAU/status/1220533230933135360

 Fri Jan 24 03:18:08 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: "Captain Bible in Dome of Darkness" is probably the most entertaining religious DOS game. Look at the Captain's heroic ru…

 Fri Jan 24 03:19:13 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Fri Jan 24 03:21:18 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: When you see it...

 Fri Jan 24 03:25:00 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Fri Jan 24 03:53:07 +0000 2020

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

 Fri Jan 24 04:02:05 +0000 2020

RT @ArthurVyater: Introducing - capitalism™
#gamedev

 Fri Jan 24 16:23:23 +0000 2020

Ah, yes, the infamous "Hitler was a socialist, you know."

 Fri Jan 24 19:40:38 +0000 2020

Bubble Pop (Software of Sweden/Webfoot Technologies, 1997) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Jan 24 20:16:16 +0000 2020

Pretty much

 Fri Jan 24 20:27:54 +0000 2020

Something tells me a bunch of demoscene people worked on this game 🤔

 Fri Jan 24 21:00:57 +0000 2020

Ummm... It's on the bottom.

 Fri Jan 24 21:07:49 +0000 2020

 Sat Jan 25 00:05:22 +0000 2020

Okay 🤷‍♂️

 Sat Jan 25 00:19:23 +0000 2020

Most ominous version of the Virgin logo

 Sat Jan 25 00:25:13 +0000 2020

Oh, cool. Did Windows update kill my scanner driver as well?

 Sat Jan 25 00:29:43 +0000 2020

You can now download Virgin Interactive Entertainment's 1995 Demo Disc called "A Really Great CD Sampler of Stuff" from The Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/virgin_cdsampler_1995

 Sat Jan 25 00:57:36 +0000 2020

Your regular reminder that the Big Blue Disk archive is currently incomplete. Still looking for issues #2, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, and 14. Check your attic/storage!
https://archive.org/details/bigbluedisk?&sort=date

 Sat Jan 25 01:10:02 +0000 2020

RT @gayocats: kitty-mouse2

 Sat Jan 25 01:10:52 +0000 2020

Fun fact: adjusted for inflation the budget of the original 1977 Star Wars film would be around $48 million today.

 Sat Jan 25 02:46:07 +0000 2020

Start making cheaper movies again, goddammit!

 Sat Jan 25 02:46:36 +0000 2020

It's most fun in multiplayer. A bit of a shame that it's so hard to get that to get that to happen these days.

 Sat Jan 25 03:33:56 +0000 2020

I'm interested in hearing more about it.

 Sat Jan 25 03:36:26 +0000 2020

Que voy a hacer je ne sais pas

 Sat Jan 25 05:40:51 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Те, что нас любят, смотрят нам вслед.
ДОС уже мёртв, а я ещё нет.

 Sat Jan 25 06:03:53 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Дети под столами
Счёт ведут бутылкам,
Мама вертит жопой,
Папа где-то пьёт.
Ты милая моя,
Я не люблю тебя,
Ты не умеешь дв…

 Sat Jan 25 07:29:52 +0000 2020

Cat! 😊

 Sat Jan 25 09:27:22 +0000 2020

На альбоме нет

 Sat Jan 25 16:29:14 +0000 2020

RT @gayocats: 1096830924732

 Sat Jan 25 16:49:08 +0000 2020

 Sat Jan 25 17:08:45 +0000 2020

RT @danak6jq: I'm not ashamed to admit that I paid the bills for a few years in my youth doing unspeakable things to MS-DOS. https://t.co/e…

 Sat Jan 25 18:08:47 +0000 2020

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0006441/

 Sat Jan 25 18:12:55 +0000 2020

While a potential epidemic is in the news currently, I'd like to remind my fellow Americans that the regular flu had already killed over 2,100 people during *this* season in the US. If you feel ill, go see a doctor. Don't let work shame you into coming in, and stay home.

 Sat Jan 25 18:28:41 +0000 2020

OH. MY. GOD. 🤮

 Sat Jan 25 18:46:12 +0000 2020

Oh my goodness, this is one of the worst vintage attempts at emulating an OPL chip I've heard in my life. My poor ears! 🤮 https://x.com/Vyothric/status/1221137099660894209

 Sat Jan 25 18:47:43 +0000 2020

Ok, maybe it's not *that* bad. A lot of the instruments are within the ballpark of where they need to be, but why does it sound like someone's attempt to fart out an AdLib tune?

 Sat Jan 25 18:51:23 +0000 2020

KGB intro, Double Dragon 3 title screen, Monkey Island 2 credits, Alone in the Dark intro.... You don't have to do *all* of those 😄

 Sat Jan 25 18:52:53 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: You can now download Virgin Interactive Entertainment's 1995 Demo Disc called "A Really Great CD Sampler of Stuff" from T…

 Sat Jan 25 18:57:52 +0000 2020

I mean, we're like at 15 year mark since that process began, but I'm very impressed by all the progress that's been made just in the last couple of years alone.

 Sat Jan 25 19:01:45 +0000 2020

😄Just saw a video on a popular Russian retro gaming channel where the music was provided entirely by my "One Hour of Sound Blaster Music" compilation. My video includes an MP3 download & was recorded using authentic OPL3. More people should use it!
https://youtu.be/hqXozDyTGOY

 Sat Jan 25 20:01:24 +0000 2020

Ohhhhhhh myyyyyyy goooooooodddd 🤣🤣🤣 This is AWFUL https://x.com/Vyothric/status/1221161771018391553

 Sat Jan 25 20:13:10 +0000 2020

Do normal sound samples play okay? Is something wrong with the DAC? I'm having such a hard time believing that this is how it was intended, and it isn't some other hardware issue getting in the way.

 Sat Jan 25 20:14:43 +0000 2020

Time Bandit (MichTron/MicroDeal, 1989) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Jan 25 20:47:20 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Jimmy says "Play a DOS game today!" He already picked one to play himself

 Sat Jan 25 21:08:44 +0000 2020

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: Check out this totally authentic and definitely, maybe not something I photoshopped, vintage 1990's magazine ad.🛀
#DosGami…

 Sat Jan 25 21:29:25 +0000 2020

Wait. Sega Saturn had a powerful FM synthesis capability that barely anyone used? What?!?!

 Sat Jan 25 23:14:56 +0000 2020

Ok, this does explain a few things

 Sat Jan 25 23:20:10 +0000 2020

Listening to it right now. A lot of it is obviously sample based though, so it's not just pure FM.

 Sat Jan 25 23:24:48 +0000 2020

Remember the Super Mario Bros remake on the Game Boy Color with its competitive multiplayer mode?
https://youtu.be/0bKC_6YeXq8

 Sun Jan 26 02:23:28 +0000 2020

RT @fabynou: I am pushing the "Polygons of Another World" series further. Here is the Game Boy Advance version: http://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons_GBA/index.html. A…

 Sun Jan 26 05:07:18 +0000 2020

If you ever write a book version that includes a breakdown of the Win3.1 ported by Oleg Maddox, you have my money 💰

 Sun Jan 26 05:09:48 +0000 2020

I don't have a way, but maybe @pripyatbeast does? I'm just a fan of obscure versions of my favorite games, out of which Win3.1 one is by far the most obscure. And it's one of the few things Oleg did for Interplay that actually saw a public release & had his credit on it.

 Sun Jan 26 05:18:05 +0000 2020

Pardon me, I guess I was mistaken. It looks like Alexander Okrug is the one, not Oleg.

 Sun Jan 26 05:33:39 +0000 2020

RT @DavidXNewton: I’ve now done over a hundred videos commenting on other people’s WADs - here are some of my own from 1997 when I was 13!…

 Sun Jan 26 15:38:41 +0000 2020

RT @ben_304: I’ve been debating whether I should play Hexx: Heresy of the Wizard at some point.

Then I remembered that I’m that guy that l…

 Sun Jan 26 15:40:33 +0000 2020

RT @retrochenta: Hoy hace 37 años que se lanzó al mercado la hoja de cálculo "Lotus 1-2-3", la aplicación que encumbró al PC. Más de uno re…

 Sun Jan 26 16:29:49 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Lotus 1-2-3 v2.01. DOS, 1986.

 Sun Jan 26 16:30:25 +0000 2020

I really wish people who brush off Alone in the Dark's influence on Resident Evil in favor of Sweet Home were the ones who have actually played Sweet Home before.

 Sun Jan 26 17:52:20 +0000 2020

RT @scienceshitpost:

 Sun Jan 26 17:53:34 +0000 2020

Does anyone here own this compilation? It appears that a bunch of games it contains haven't been archived.

 Sun Jan 26 18:38:11 +0000 2020

RT @nanochess: Relaxing video game music 😊👌🏻 #retro #retrogaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUfGyfbzl9k

 Sun Jan 26 18:44:12 +0000 2020

Fuck it. Gonna drive 45 miles to the nearest Eastern Bloc food store. 🐟 🍛 🍴☭

 Sun Jan 26 18:47:41 +0000 2020

(That's 72 kilometers for all of you who live in parts of the world that use units of measurements that don't SUCK.)

 Sun Jan 26 18:49:52 +0000 2020

American presidential candidates on the left should add adopting the metric system to their program. Just sayin'.

 Sun Jan 26 18:51:52 +0000 2020

GIVE
ME
METRIC
AND
CELSIUS
OR
GIVE
ME
DEATH

 Sun Jan 26 18:56:28 +0000 2020

I already measure fuel in MPEG1 containers.

 Sun Jan 26 19:33:08 +0000 2020

RT @JoshoMandel: I'm supporting this petition for Activision to get Jane Jensen and Robert Holmes to do Gabriel Knight 4! It's time already…

 Sun Jan 26 22:41:55 +0000 2020

To be fair, this is from 1993. Hardly the Cold War times.

 Sun Jan 26 22:47:15 +0000 2020

You mean as far as Russian food you can get in a restaurant goes? Well, everyone loves Pelmeni (dumplings). Borscht is a classic choice, as is Olivier salad. Herring under a Fur Coat, if you like fishy stuff. And Pirogi and Blini, of course. Could try Kvas the rye bread drink.

 Sun Jan 26 22:53:20 +0000 2020

This is a bit more German than what I'm used to. I go for the classics: Borscht, Olivier salad, pelmeni, blini, pirogi, and maybe shish kabob with some refreshing Kvas the rye bread drink.

 Sun Jan 26 22:56:43 +0000 2020

Pretty sure my roommate is watching "The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot" because it sounds exactly like a movie with that title would sound.

 Sun Jan 26 22:59:19 +0000 2020

RT @hennichodernich: #dosnostalgia @dosnostalgic

 Sun Jan 26 23:01:36 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: Remember: Quake is good for you #DOSGaming

 Sun Jan 26 23:09:49 +0000 2020

Finds a YT video review of a Russian DOS game 😄The "review" turns into an anti-progressive rant half way through for a reason completely unrelated to the game (or any reason, really) 🤮

 Sun Jan 26 23:11:46 +0000 2020

For people who keep making jokes about the title: It's a real movie.

 Sun Jan 26 23:13:08 +0000 2020

Unrelated to the game. Having briefly examined the youtuber's other work I concluded that it's just his thing. It doesn't matter what the video title says. It's all about censorship-crazy feminists, and people with 60 genders coming after him 🤷‍♂️

 Sun Jan 26 23:15:00 +0000 2020

Btw, if YOU happen to have a youtube video about a DOS game that doesn't devolve into screaming about feminists and people with 60 genders coming after you or some such bullshit, tweet me about it, and I'll retweet it!

 Sun Jan 26 23:17:36 +0000 2020

Whoa 😮 https://x.com/digitalfoundry/status/1221433037625397249

 Sun Jan 26 23:26:56 +0000 2020

RT @gayocats: 1114674249733

 Mon Jan 27 01:23:16 +0000 2020

As a person who speaks multiple languages, and have studied linguistics (also my mother is a linguist, but that doesn't really count towards my cred since those things aren't inherited) I can honestly say that people who bitch about "accurate" localizations are the worst. (1/2)

 Mon Jan 27 01:30:58 +0000 2020

(2/2) ESPECIALLY when it comes to swearing or idioms. That's not how languages work, that not how *anything* works in an adaptation. Defending putting in a slur in a game by pointing out that it's an "accurate" translation is just silly.

 Mon Jan 27 01:33:16 +0000 2020

Nope

 Mon Jan 27 02:23:06 +0000 2020

I'm getting such a tonal whiplash from the Intellivision trailer. Tommy is like casual gaming! play with your family! and the music is like every stock blockbuster movie trailer, and I think the got their camera operator from the 90s 🤨
https://youtu.be/TzE386pQOy4

 Mon Jan 27 02:35:12 +0000 2020

Cat! 😊

 Mon Jan 27 04:33:16 +0000 2020

"’They Live’ was my fuck you to Ronald Reagan and everybody in the ’80s loving that old wrinkled piece of shit. He fucked up everything."
- John Carpenter

 Mon Jan 27 06:03:15 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 27 07:31:08 +0000 2020

All the same. Defending it isn't the way. Updating the translation, and moving on is.

 Mon Jan 27 08:41:50 +0000 2020

Lol @ Christian background. Which version of the Bible do you prefer? Do you even know what the source language of that particular version was, and how many revisions were there? Bible translations are notoriously all over the place.

 Mon Jan 27 16:46:51 +0000 2020

Whoa. Congratulations, man! 🎉

 Mon Jan 27 16:55:28 +0000 2020

RT @benjedwards: The tragedy of the Holocaust continues to reverberate. In 2012, I visited Ralph Baer, the inventor of TV video games at ho…

 Mon Jan 27 16:56:49 +0000 2020

Oof. 🙁 Well, now I see where you're coming from.

 Mon Jan 27 17:02:11 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: "’They Live’ was my fuck you to Ronald Reagan and everybody in the ’80s loving that old wrinkled piece of shit. He fucked…

 Mon Jan 27 17:02:28 +0000 2020

It's amorphous enough that it can be misunderstood a bit. When I was a kid I thought it was about nonconformity and television. Then I grew up, discovered economics, and the movie took on a new meaning. Then I moved to the States, & around the recession it stopped being funny.

 Mon Jan 27 17:10:30 +0000 2020

 Mon Jan 27 17:11:56 +0000 2020

Tom Clancy isn't what he used to be https://x.com/GhostRecon/status/1221840529085870080

 Mon Jan 27 18:17:42 +0000 2020

RT @dosnostalgic: The Complete MAUS preview from "Voyager Presents" CD-ROM #NotDOS

 Mon Jan 27 18:25:47 +0000 2020

Half-Life opening had the same effect on me as Another World did half a decade earlier. It was amazing. https://x.com/pcgamer/status/1221548375587414017

 Mon Jan 27 19:07:10 +0000 2020

Jesus. Remember when half a decade was a like a huge chunk of time?... Fuck you, I'm YOUNG!.

 Mon Jan 27 19:08:02 +0000 2020

Pretty much. The updates are rather minor (with the exception of a additional set of levels, obviously.)

 Mon Jan 27 19:53:05 +0000 2020

Just another Monday

 Mon Jan 27 20:47:27 +0000 2020

RT @hennichodernich: @dosnostalgic

 Mon Jan 27 21:28:33 +0000 2020

This is amazing, but I just want to make some tea and eat these keys with it. 😮 https://x.com/notsoseriouss/status/1220858124069998597

 Mon Jan 27 21:57:13 +0000 2020

Having tea with zefir aka Russian marshmallow. I used to hate it when I was a kid, but these days I don't mind it because of slight nostalgia. It's weird how these things work.

 Mon Jan 27 22:12:59 +0000 2020

Yes, I have "nostalgia" in my handle, and yet I still often wonder how it works, dammit.

 Mon Jan 27 22:13:40 +0000 2020

Anaglyph 3D in #DOSGaming

 Mon Jan 27 23:17:57 +0000 2020

RT @itstheshadsy: New post on The Obscuritory:

Below the Root captures the enchanted tone of children's literature by putting kindness and…

 Mon Jan 27 23:23:26 +0000 2020

Who had a card & a monitor capable of displaying 1600x1200 in 1995???

 Mon Jan 27 23:42:11 +0000 2020

That was from a work in progress demo of Powerslave. Final release is a bit more humble

 Mon Jan 27 23:43:41 +0000 2020

It's interesting because it's essentially a completely different game using most of the same assets.

 Mon Jan 27 23:44:26 +0000 2020

Duke Nukem 3D is stuttery on a Pentium 100 in 800x600. I wonder what a higher resolution would do.

 Mon Jan 27 23:47:11 +0000 2020

RT @ben_304: Albion is going well, this man has green hands and a skull belt buckle and somehow ended up being a villain. https://t.co/CFGF…

 Tue Jan 28 00:33:06 +0000 2020

The game is 256 colors only

 Tue Jan 28 00:41:16 +0000 2020

Looks like you could even get 21" of 1600x1200 for about $1,800, which would be $3,000 in today's money. https://x.com/GalacticFurball/status/1221958652665286657

 Tue Jan 28 00:55:55 +0000 2020

Where's my IBM PC watch? https://x.com/pushsquare/status/1221793527199338497

 Tue Jan 28 01:06:04 +0000 2020

Hard Drivin' II (Domark Software, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Jan 28 01:17:40 +0000 2020

RT @GamingHistorian: you BUTTER believe it! The Gaming Historian hit 700,000 subscribers today on YouTube! To celebrate, I'm attempting to…

 Tue Jan 28 02:10:08 +0000 2020

Being a retro PC enthusiast is a lot more convenient these days than it used to be

 Tue Jan 28 06:09:35 +0000 2020

Yes, VESA was very much a thing by then, but the menu is hardcoded.

 Tue Jan 28 06:11:20 +0000 2020

Bought mine on Amazon

 Tue Jan 28 06:17:06 +0000 2020

Everything is possible. The question is did you have one?

 Tue Jan 28 16:43:20 +0000 2020

The list is hardcoded

 Tue Jan 28 16:44:04 +0000 2020

Congrats! 🎉

 Tue Jan 28 16:56:05 +0000 2020

Just a regular way to tbh. Boot off a boot disk, then fdisk, then format, then run an installer for the OS. For DOS 7 I used the China DOS Union installer.

 Tue Jan 28 17:05:26 +0000 2020

RT @ben_304: Every now and then the old DOS games were like "Here, recruit this outrageously fashionable lady to wander around on your adve…

 Tue Jan 28 17:15:48 +0000 2020

When demoscene people decided to make a licensed game for a 16 bit console:
https://youtu.be/_n_eHN-ArK8

 Tue Jan 28 17:45:26 +0000 2020

What other old games have strong demoscene vibes?
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1220813764716564486?s=19

 Tue Jan 28 17:46:34 +0000 2020

War Stories: How Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM
https://youtu.be/EWX5B6cD4_4

 Tue Jan 28 19:28:25 +0000 2020

No, Myst was not "ahead of its time". Myst was very much *exactly* at the right time at place. That's why it sold as much as it had. Things that are actually "ahead of their time" don't get recognition until that time arrives, when it's usually too late for that to pay off.

 Tue Jan 28 20:14:39 +0000 2020

"If you are ahead of your time, that's nearly just as bad as being behind the times. You still got the same problem." - Ridley Scott

 Tue Jan 28 20:16:13 +0000 2020

It's been a while since I've revisited the international cut of "Night Watch", and wow, it's worse that I remember it being. It's not a great movie to begin with, but it's pretty creative in how it handles its world building by just showing things, and hoping you get it.

 Tue Jan 28 20:21:24 +0000 2020

So what do the filmmakers do to adapt it for international audiences? Cut out 15 min of worldbuilding. Quickly shoot 3 additional scenes of people sitting around, explaining everything, cut them in with atrocious post effects & explaining it by giving the protagonist an ability..

 Tue Jan 28 20:26:08 +0000 2020

.. that never pays off. Quickly ADR a bunch of dialogue in the film to be a lot less subtle, but then also create subtitled translation that explains EVEN MORE than what's being said in the first place. 🤷‍♂️

 Tue Jan 28 20:28:18 +0000 2020

And the saddest part is that's the only version currently available. You can't get the original theatrical cut without buying an old Russian DVD. It was never even released in HD.

 Tue Jan 28 20:30:04 +0000 2020

RT @lazygamereviews: Got another LGR Blerb today. I'm taking a skeptically closer look at some retro YM OPL and OPM synth chips found in ho…

 Tue Jan 28 20:40:02 +0000 2020

Except for LOOM, of course, which came out on a CD a year prior.

 Tue Jan 28 21:04:44 +0000 2020

And also the fact that Day of the Tentacle actually predated the release of Myst by like half a year. 🤷‍♂️

 Tue Jan 28 21:08:26 +0000 2020

F-19 Stealth Fighter (MicroProse Software, 1988) in VGA, EGA, CGA, and Hercules modes. #DOSGaming

 Tue Jan 28 21:28:18 +0000 2020

It's chkdisk time!

 Tue Jan 28 21:30:40 +0000 2020

Well, time to buy OPL2s is apparently right now, before they sky rocket to SID prices as a result of this experiment 😂

 Tue Jan 28 21:34:02 +0000 2020

🤔

 Tue Jan 28 21:37:29 +0000 2020

I don't remember any particular title, but it was very early on. Because my childhood happened during the Perestroyka times the contrast between old Soviet cinema and trash that was made during those days was obvious even to a child. https://x.com/JennyENicholson/status/1222252942880673792

 Tue Jan 28 21:52:30 +0000 2020

I do recall seeing Star Wars as a kid and being bored as hell tough. 🤔

 Tue Jan 28 21:53:26 +0000 2020

Me every time I see a trailer for a new Russian movie: 🤢

 Tue Jan 28 21:54:30 +0000 2020

Mostly because I've already seen The Evil Dead at that point. What fucking kid would find shit like Star Wars entertaining after an *experience* like The Evil Dead?

 Tue Jan 28 21:55:41 +0000 2020

That's the only thing in actual 256 colors. Everything else is still in 16.

 Tue Jan 28 22:01:05 +0000 2020

It's still pretty impressive, considering that other 256 color games didn't arrive till next year.

 Tue Jan 28 22:05:49 +0000 2020

Sadly, yes.

 Tue Jan 28 22:16:38 +0000 2020

A decoder, you say?

 Tue Jan 28 23:01:31 +0000 2020

RT @Aistarin: Smokey runs on MS-COS: Microsoft Cat Operating System. It's just like MS-DOS 6.22, but it requires a mouse to run!

This is a…

 Tue Jan 28 23:21:02 +0000 2020

Plates (Maddox Games, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay #RussianVideogames

 Wed Jan 29 00:26:39 +0000 2020

Well, I know what I'm doing this evening.

 Wed Jan 29 03:00:22 +0000 2020

I think I have an idea...

 Wed Jan 29 03:04:20 +0000 2020

Are you ready, kids?

 Wed Jan 29 03:40:36 +0000 2020

The sound of data transfer!

 Wed Jan 29 03:46:34 +0000 2020

It's in the video, as I'm copying a directory. All files sound the same, because it's just data, and its being compressed before being sent over. Sadly I don't have a period appropriate printer at the moment.

 Wed Jan 29 03:59:30 +0000 2020

Ok, it's Parasite time!

 Wed Jan 29 04:45:52 +0000 2020

https://youtu.be/hgnz6tVwKVs

 Wed Jan 29 05:44:29 +0000 2020

Ok, at half way point now, and I had to pause. I don't know if I'm ready for what's coming.

 Wed Jan 29 05:46:25 +0000 2020

The Speech Thing? It's a sound DAC.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1146241259885015040?s=19

 Wed Jan 29 05:48:00 +0000 2020

It's gonna be the same. It's just data, not a player.

 Wed Jan 29 05:49:26 +0000 2020

Bong Joon-ho, you son of a bitch! *shakes fist*

 Wed Jan 29 05:52:06 +0000 2020

Don't I know it
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1116112059693969408?s=19

 Wed Jan 29 06:21:37 +0000 2020