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RT @RussianMemesLtd: I'm so fat because of you
your hear me, asshole!?

 Mon Nov 01 13:38:36 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Carmageddon (DOS, 1997) with human pedestrians, zombie pedestrians, and robot pedestrians. All from releases from differ…

 Mon Nov 01 14:25:40 +0000 2021

RT @textfiles: When I was working on GET LAMP, some of the Infocom folks told me that some BBC crew had been through for a day to film thei…

 Mon Nov 01 14:40:07 +0000 2021

RT @DosTitleScreens: Porky_s Strip Poker-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Mon Nov 01 17:10:50 +0000 2021

Marvel Comics Spider-Man: The Sinister Six (Brooklyn Multimedia/Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Mon Nov 01 21:41:55 +0000 2021

Both of you are wrong. This is the new Dune:

 Mon Nov 01 22:08:41 +0000 2021

Less than a month since I bought a new mouse, and the scroll wheel started squeaking. 😕

 Tue Nov 02 01:34:29 +0000 2021

A quick search reveals that it isn't an uncommon issue with SteelSeries mice.

 Tue Nov 02 01:37:07 +0000 2021

I had my previous mouse for 14 years, and nothing ever squeaked in it. This is UNACCEPTABLE.

 Tue Nov 02 01:38:18 +0000 2021

 Tue Nov 02 01:39:30 +0000 2021

Not again, Mattel!

 Tue Nov 02 02:23:04 +0000 2021

Agree or disagree
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1280690136058073089?t=gOEdulhCfyZJ8WRi6sZHDA&s=19

 Tue Nov 02 16:25:25 +0000 2021

The recent explosion of toxoplasmosis coverage is dog-sponsored propaganda.

 Tue Nov 02 17:41:40 +0000 2021

RT @ACMenes: Wait for a surprise

 Tue Nov 02 18:12:02 +0000 2021

If you strike DOS down, it shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

 Tue Nov 02 18:29:10 +0000 2021

Meanwhile Project 4K80 is getting closer to competition

 Tue Nov 02 18:40:38 +0000 2021

RT @PushinUpRoses: The Dagger of Amon Ra!!!! Made by @Dominic__Noble. I’ll be painting the handle. (I hung it the wrong way but I can turn…

 Tue Nov 02 21:24:21 +0000 2021

RT @Macaw45: I'm going live with Bioforge on DOS, this game looks outta control https://www.twitch.tv/macaw45

 Wed Nov 03 00:24:29 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: I find your lack of DOS disturbing.

 Wed Nov 03 00:29:19 +0000 2021

 Wed Nov 03 00:30:49 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: BioForge motion capture demonstration #DOSGaming

 Wed Nov 03 00:50:04 +0000 2021

 Wed Nov 03 01:02:49 +0000 2021

RT @Shitty_Future:

 Wed Nov 03 01:05:13 +0000 2021

RT @vg_history: news (1993) https://archive.org/details/CGStrategyPlus_assorted/CG-StrategyPlus-30/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater

 Wed Nov 03 11:03:27 +0000 2021

RT @agistuff: Manhunter 2: San Francisco, Room 197 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra

 Wed Nov 03 11:09:10 +0000 2021

Fuck it. Going to the movies again. Really enjoyed my recent experience of having almost a whole theater to myself.

 Wed Nov 03 16:31:51 +0000 2021

Alright, Mr. Edgar Wright. Let's see what you got.

 Wed Nov 03 17:03:29 +0000 2021

Holy shit. What a film. 😯

 Wed Nov 03 19:17:17 +0000 2021

I loved it.

 Wed Nov 03 19:19:55 +0000 2021

So yeah, this movie is kind of impossible to talk about without spoiling it, so all I have to say is that I enjoyed every moment of it. And it's an Edgar Wright movie, so you already know it looks cool.

 Wed Nov 03 19:26:06 +0000 2021

More like unavailable here

 Wed Nov 03 21:08:59 +0000 2021

High Seas Trader (Impressions, 1995) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Nov 03 21:46:10 +0000 2021

Look at this pixel art intro! #DOSGaming

 Wed Nov 03 21:55:59 +0000 2021

The music is natively MIDI, but the game defaults to an OPL driver (DIGPAK, I think) to play them.

 Wed Nov 03 21:59:44 +0000 2021

Silly fans: You can't see Keith David's breath at the end of John Carpenter's The Thing, proving that Childs is the thing!
John Carpenter's The Thing:

 Wed Nov 03 22:21:58 +0000 2021

(Also you can totally see both of their breath, reflections in their eyes, etc. It's not VHS days anymore, people. Get a larger TV. Fan theories can be so stupid.)

 Wed Nov 03 22:24:02 +0000 2021

As someone who has seen "A Fistful of Fingers" I'm gonna contest the "very" part of that statement, but he certainly always strived to stand out visually.

 Wed Nov 03 22:43:46 +0000 2021

The most adorable way to say you don't enjoy "Last Tango in Paris" courtesy of Lea Seydoux

 Wed Nov 03 23:27:21 +0000 2021

My old "Twitter Word Cloud" from SIX years ago.

 Wed Nov 03 23:34:31 +0000 2021

Meow

 Wed Nov 03 23:46:19 +0000 2021

Said if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead now
And if you wanted to buy me flowers
Just go ahead now
And if you like to talk for hours
Just go ahead now

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Wed Nov 03 23:50:06 +0000 2021

Full length version on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107215809943022731

 Wed Nov 03 23:50:32 +0000 2021

Babby!

 Thu Nov 04 00:04:54 +0000 2021

A math dad joke, anyone? https://x.com/plum_perfect/status/1452399375649443841

 Thu Nov 04 00:27:47 +0000 2021

I've been rolling my eyes for a whole minute at this now.

 Thu Nov 04 00:28:15 +0000 2021

Fuck yeah, baby! Let's go! #DOSGaming

 Thu Nov 04 00:32:03 +0000 2021

(Only took 29 years)

 Thu Nov 04 00:32:39 +0000 2021

Why are you explaining the obvious joke to me?

 Thu Nov 04 00:33:19 +0000 2021

And characters moving one at a time.

 Thu Nov 04 00:33:46 +0000 2021

So am I lol 🥂

 Thu Nov 04 00:35:17 +0000 2021

On no. It's click a single soldier, CLICK COMMAND BUTTON ON A TOOLBAR ON THE SIDE, scroll scroll scroll, click destination.

 Thu Nov 04 00:36:11 +0000 2021

No

 Thu Nov 04 01:13:32 +0000 2021

For sure. But is Genesis version better than the DOS version? 🤔

 Thu Nov 04 01:30:38 +0000 2021

Current jam: 🦙🔊🎵 #DOSGaming #BitmapBros #JohnFoxx #Nation12 #GODS

 Thu Nov 04 02:04:27 +0000 2021

 Thu Nov 04 02:07:56 +0000 2021

Better tag @NightdiveStudio as well

 Thu Nov 04 02:08:40 +0000 2021

 Thu Nov 04 03:46:53 +0000 2021

RT @ben_304: Imagine being a ZX Spectrum fan and loving Chuckie Egg and Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk and Beaky and the Egg Snatchers and t…

 Thu Nov 04 11:09:00 +0000 2021

Bring back Duckman, you cowards!

 Thu Nov 04 12:26:15 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick (Windows 9x, 1997) #NotDOS

 Thu Nov 04 12:26:37 +0000 2021

RT @WholesomeMeme:

 Thu Nov 04 12:27:26 +0000 2021

Mac is shown drinking throughout the entire movie, and in the end he was about to take a swig out of the bottle right before Childs shows up. Why would he drink a molotov himself?

 Thu Nov 04 12:58:32 +0000 2021

😳

 Thu Nov 04 13:04:17 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming

 Thu Nov 04 15:17:11 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: The next kickstarter project to resurrect a 90s franchise should also include a sountrack by Fear Factory

 Thu Nov 04 16:11:54 +0000 2021

.... who Nightdive have a more direct connection with than any of us.

 Thu Nov 04 16:55:08 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Thu Nov 04 18:04:36 +0000 2021

Lol wtf https://x.com/ericadamsfornyc/status/1456311827550384129

 Thu Nov 04 20:54:15 +0000 2021

Was pretty surprised to see a very expensive crypto ad with Matt Damon when I went to the movies. It wasn't shown during the ad block, but sandwiched between actual movie trailers. 🤢

 Thu Nov 04 20:55:43 +0000 2021

https://x.com/ThatEricAlper/status/1455882694169088004

 Thu Nov 04 21:16:32 +0000 2021

I also remember the reason I couldn't play it

 Thu Nov 04 21:19:01 +0000 2021

I played a game on my phone! It was called Call a Random Number and Say Something Dumb to a Total Stranger

 Thu Nov 04 21:28:48 +0000 2021

Boris Yeltsin + Dune the band 🥂
https://youtu.be/IvOnbAUEI0w

 Thu Nov 04 21:30:22 +0000 2021

It's Danish.

 Thu Nov 04 21:30:52 +0000 2021

That's exactly what I meant.

 Thu Nov 04 21:40:59 +0000 2021

The German DOS game only has recreations of five TV levels.

 Thu Nov 04 22:00:47 +0000 2021

It's a Dutch show that got adapted in 40+ countries.

 Thu Nov 04 22:27:20 +0000 2021

(I meant Danish. It's Danish. Damn.)

 Thu Nov 04 22:29:36 +0000 2021

40+ countries had this show

 Thu Nov 04 22:52:27 +0000 2021

Yep. That's the one.

 Thu Nov 04 23:31:25 +0000 2021

RT @gayocats: 1114171395741

 Fri Nov 05 00:13:57 +0000 2021

RT @Russia_NC:

 Fri Nov 05 00:58:04 +0000 2021

We said the exact same thing in 92!

 Fri Nov 05 00:59:37 +0000 2021

Yep

 Fri Nov 05 01:59:38 +0000 2021

RT @GameHistoryOrg: The latest @DigiAntiquarian piece looks at Inscape's offkilter 1995 Edgar Allan Poe-inspired PC game The Dark Eye: http…

 Fri Nov 05 16:55:38 +0000 2021

Part 2 of Sandy Petersen playing DOOM II with his granddaughter is here:
https://youtu.be/SSOicIMfo7Q

 Fri Nov 05 20:57:49 +0000 2021

RT @Pixelengineer_: Woohoo! Another odd Wing Commander rarity to add to the collection. It's a sealed Wing Commander 1: The Secret Missions…

 Fri Nov 05 21:05:20 +0000 2021

Me: Spends 30 minutes looking for MIDI files in game resource files
Game: Has cheap MIDI music rendered as Redbook audio 🙃

 Fri Nov 05 23:05:43 +0000 2021

Who does this? Who the fuck does this???

 Fri Nov 05 23:08:10 +0000 2021

I should have fucking expected it from a game that plays its intro *like this* 🤦‍♂️

 Fri Nov 05 23:09:14 +0000 2021

Unrelated to my previous rant, but since I'm in ranting mode, here's another one:
DOS games that have Windows-only installers can GO FUCK THEMSELVES! What the hell is wrong with you?!? 🤬

 Fri Nov 05 23:11:50 +0000 2021

There are a few. Also I'd include The Last Express with them, since while it ships with a separate DOS installer, it doesn't actually work.

 Fri Nov 05 23:20:32 +0000 2021

Anyway, how's your evening going? Tell me about any MS-DOS escapades you've had recently.

 Fri Nov 05 23:21:33 +0000 2021

Meanwhile here's the MIDI tune I was hoping to extract. Get pretty good around 1:45 mark.

 Fri Nov 05 23:26:25 +0000 2021

When people who haven't experienced VR ask what's so cool about VR, this is what's playing in my head, and I absolutely can't convey it with words. https://x.com/JoeahVR/status/1456655032305295363

 Sat Nov 06 00:16:20 +0000 2021

(Even a video doesn't really do this justice tbh)

 Sat Nov 06 00:16:39 +0000 2021

When you meet someone from CD Projekt RED

 Sat Nov 06 00:32:55 +0000 2021

Well, Tetris Effect became my #1 modern game 🤷‍♂️

 Sat Nov 06 01:02:49 +0000 2021

My most played game on Steam is still Half-Life 2. Yeah, I'm not the kind of person to dump 100 hours into a single game.

 Sat Nov 06 01:03:43 +0000 2021

DONTSTOP.MID
It's the real sound

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Sat Nov 06 01:29:16 +0000 2021

Full length version on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107227524290139265

 Sat Nov 06 01:29:53 +0000 2021

Have you tried the Unity remake?

 Sat Nov 06 01:42:05 +0000 2021

Absolutely not

 Sat Nov 06 03:03:50 +0000 2021

RT @lazygamereviews: Feeling lucky to be alive at a point in time where King's Quest vapor/synthwave tribute albums just... exist. On vinyl…

 Sat Nov 06 03:16:32 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Remember, remember the fifth... oh fuck it. Good night.

 Sat Nov 06 03:17:09 +0000 2021

RT @Kevin_W_Ng: This month's issue of Custom PC (UK) has an article about the Roland MT-32 written by @KGOrphanides. Good article covering…

 Sat Nov 06 08:20:43 +0000 2021

RT @Pixelmusement: New Ancient DOS Games episode uploaded! https://youtu.be/Qmzl7daomK4

 Sat Nov 06 08:21:06 +0000 2021

Whip reads: Unemployment
Hand in pocket: rising prices

 Sat Nov 06 14:03:07 +0000 2021

Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation has been added to GOG's catalog.
https://www.gog.com/game/das_boot_german_uboat_simulation

 Sat Nov 06 14:20:12 +0000 2021

This one is intriguing as far as rights go. Can you just call anything "Das Boot"? Or did Ziggurat Interactive renegotiate the license? Original DOS game certainly made an impression of being a licensed product.

 Sat Nov 06 14:23:48 +0000 2021

Ziggurat also reissued another Artech Digital simulator Blue Max: Aces of the Great War as well.
https://www.gog.com/game/blue_max_aces_of_the_great_war

 Sat Nov 06 14:27:19 +0000 2021

Huh. So weirdly it looks like you can just get away wIth "Das Boot" is just German for "The Boat", and therefore isn't copyright infringing. And the original did just that on the back of the box. 🤷

 Sat Nov 06 14:31:16 +0000 2021

PLAY SOME DOS GAMES!

 Sat Nov 06 14:36:46 +0000 2021

RT @peterc: Bit of an upgrade by 1990 with an Amstrad PC-2286 (I think?)

 Sat Nov 06 14:40:24 +0000 2021

Been thinning about Last Night in Soho a bunch, and wondering are there other films about dangers of nostalgia and romanticizing a time and place one haven't actually experienced? We certainly could use a few more of those in our time of everything nostalgic being resurrected.

 Sat Nov 06 15:03:46 +0000 2021

I'll allow it

 Sat Nov 06 15:07:34 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: When you meet someone from CD Projekt RED

 Sat Nov 06 15:08:06 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: - Who do you want to play more DOS games?
- Everyone
- What do you mean "everyone"?
-

 Sat Nov 06 15:33:08 +0000 2021

TIL that there's a 1994 Eugene Jarvis arcade game where at end Clinton shows up in a hot bath truck with some chicks. https://x.com/vg_history/status/1426798280361484293

 Sat Nov 06 16:55:04 +0000 2021

And in the 1996 sequel he's on the Moon, obviously
https://x.com/vg_history/status/1451689908809060355?t=TGOR3ZVXrYczSzdlSOWw-Q&s=19

 Sat Nov 06 16:55:34 +0000 2021

Super Bubsy (Windows 9x, 1996) #NotDOS

 Sat Nov 06 17:44:15 +0000 2021

The most terrifying thing about the Windows 95 high resolution version of Bubsy? It comes with the 1993 cartoon produced by Taco Bell

 Sat Nov 06 17:49:22 +0000 2021

The music is redone in MIDI, so its quality depends on your sound card's MIDI capabilities.

 Sat Nov 06 17:53:07 +0000 2021

41 years ago, on November 6th 1980 Microsoft signed a contract with IBM to provide an operating system for its upcoming Personal Computer. IBM, then still in the middle of a 6 year long anti-monopoly lawsuit (974 witnesses were called,) let Microsoft keep the rights to the OS.

 Sat Nov 06 18:47:11 +0000 2021

Yeah, it's really not that big of a deal as some make it out to be. Especially people who try to frame it as something unethical. Saying "hey, you should check out my son's company, he's in computers." isn't the most unethical thing.

 Sat Nov 06 19:03:04 +0000 2021

There are plenty of unethical things that happened throughout Microsoft's history, but this isn't one of them.

 Sat Nov 06 19:12:54 +0000 2021

RT @umbshow: It’s my sister in law’s 36th birthday so I figured we should celebrate like it was 1985.

 Sat Nov 06 20:50:10 +0000 2021

RT @ZOOMPlatform: 'Tis the season, even if it doesn't quite make you as jolly as life's a beach

Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition - https://t.…

 Sat Nov 06 20:50:33 +0000 2021

nintenbelle reviews Cryo's Dune #DOSGaming
https://youtu.be/ts2YNFjLFKI

 Sat Nov 06 21:14:45 +0000 2021

Tegel's Mercenaries (Mindcraft Software, 1992) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Nov 06 21:42:51 +0000 2021

Nutella sweet tiny babby

 Sat Nov 06 22:23:36 +0000 2021

 Sat Nov 06 22:33:02 +0000 2021

I've heard some weird sexual awakening stories in my life, but I can't say I've ever expected one like that.

 Sat Nov 06 22:38:59 +0000 2021

Oh well. But props for taking a shot. 👍

 Sat Nov 06 22:45:33 +0000 2021

Pretty crazy that Robert Bronzi pretty much started the genre I feel we can safely call Bronsonsploitation by just... existing.

 Sat Nov 06 23:18:41 +0000 2021

A pretty convincing Chuck Bronson vs Not Quite Jason? Sure, why not.

 Sat Nov 06 23:21:22 +0000 2021

If you ever wanted to make a cheap movie starring Charles Bronson, you now have a chance for the first time in 20 years!

 Sat Nov 06 23:26:42 +0000 2021

Oh no. Bronsonsploitation directors, take a page from Sergio Leone's book. Don't give him that many lines.

 Sat Nov 06 23:31:37 +0000 2021

"He is currently only protected by [button]" #DOSGaming

 Sun Nov 07 00:15:46 +0000 2021

Twitter is informing me that 25,000 people have voluntarily signed up for my (somewhat) DOS-related ramblings. I love you all, good people of the Internet! ❤💾
(I also apologize for all the random bullshit you'll see on my feed.)

 Sun Nov 07 00:24:06 +0000 2021

No context 90s Soviet music video: 🔊🎵☭

 Sun Nov 07 00:42:00 +0000 2021

This was *the* breakthrough one

 Sun Nov 07 00:43:45 +0000 2021

Don't be mean to a bot. Could have just asked:
https://youtu.be/IBJJuEwnVr8

 Sun Nov 07 00:51:07 +0000 2021

Me too! 🥂

 Sun Nov 07 03:52:27 +0000 2021

 Sun Nov 07 04:58:23 +0000 2021

Ummmm.... Those are real movies

 Sun Nov 07 10:09:53 +0000 2021

Here's a sample
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1457128570082533384?t=Zi250910oDh5t7g16dbAag&s=19

 Sun Nov 07 10:28:50 +0000 2021

It's been removed from Steam for years.

 Sun Nov 07 13:06:12 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Pie In The Sky 3D Game Creation System (MS-DOS, 1995)

 Sun Nov 07 13:21:23 +0000 2021

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1457101194359345167?t=_Q9yodfrDfsIYEuDbEqGmQ&s=19

 Sun Nov 07 13:22:31 +0000 2021

Transarctica

 Sun Nov 07 13:25:10 +0000 2021

Well, that's debatable. 😉

 Sun Nov 07 13:41:34 +0000 2021

 Sun Nov 07 14:41:05 +0000 2021

My pleasure

 Sun Nov 07 14:42:46 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Sun Nov 07 15:04:35 +0000 2021

Hello 👋

 Sun Nov 07 15:36:44 +0000 2021

Neopaint

 Sun Nov 07 15:39:06 +0000 2021

That sounds pretty good. Freeform.

 Sun Nov 07 16:59:12 +0000 2021

Neopaint 😉

 Sun Nov 07 16:59:31 +0000 2021

Liquor store clerk: I’m gonna need to see some age verification

Me: Remember the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

Liquor store clerk: enjoy your purchase https://t.co/FzhHOUev8p

 Sun Nov 07 17:34:45 +0000 2021

Am I doing this right? 🤔

 Sun Nov 07 17:35:06 +0000 2021

Let me know what your picks are. I've got a 200LX myself.

 Sun Nov 07 18:05:10 +0000 2021

Hellraiser: Inferno (The 5th one) is one of the best direct to video horror films (especially considering when it was made.) Written and directed by Scott Derrickson

 Sun Nov 07 20:11:37 +0000 2021

I was always so surprised by the 2nd movie being essentially *the* fan favorite.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1395824629751721984?t=NEE1dkHE_suAdcNCijFcgA&s=19

 Sun Nov 07 20:13:40 +0000 2021

Basically starting with 2 writer Peter Atkins started putting cenobites front and center, and began turning them into monster villains more and more. By part 4 it got so ridiculous that the entire series had to go on hiatus.

 Sun Nov 07 20:25:22 +0000 2021

That's literally a standard mode

 Sun Nov 07 20:47:36 +0000 2021

RT @dosgameclub: PC-DOS?

 Sun Nov 07 21:51:42 +0000 2021

RT @RetroFaith1:

 Mon Nov 08 12:01:12 +0000 2021

Nah, Hellseeker is boring garbage full of wasted opportunities.

 Mon Nov 08 12:01:54 +0000 2021

It appears that since buying a new phone in September I haven't made any phone calls that weren't of some kind of transactional nature (take out orders, etc.) 🤷

 Mon Nov 08 13:45:30 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Start your Monday right

 Mon Nov 08 16:26:31 +0000 2021

RT @TimOfLegend: A helpful guide where @phrenopolis and I show you exactly where we are in the end of Die Hard 2. (Photo from 2010!) https:…

 Mon Nov 08 16:36:17 +0000 2021

My new phone is still a Windows phone, but thankfully it's Windows 98, so I can still reboot in MS-DOS mode.

 Mon Nov 08 17:17:56 +0000 2021

Pic of cat? 👀

 Mon Nov 08 17:25:59 +0000 2021

Awwww. ❤

 Mon Nov 08 17:33:55 +0000 2021

I like her very expressive eyes

 Mon Nov 08 17:39:05 +0000 2021

Oh absolutely.

 Mon Nov 08 18:09:19 +0000 2021

Tresh 3D (Wojciech & Magdalena Dudek, 1999) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Mon Nov 08 23:52:16 +0000 2021

A few more screenshots from "Tresh 3D" because I think it's adorable. #DOSGaming

 Mon Nov 08 23:55:43 +0000 2021

A documentary about the rise of Compaq "Silicon Cowboys" is free (with ads) on Amazon (in the US) if you also have an IMDB account
https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Cowboys-Rod-Canion/dp/B01LWU6Y1G/

 Tue Nov 09 01:15:50 +0000 2021

It's also on YouTube in its entirety with burned in Spanish subtitles
https://youtu.be/9TlIS1J7qCY

 Tue Nov 09 01:18:46 +0000 2021

Lol 🤣

 Tue Nov 09 01:58:12 +0000 2021

Total feets coverage. Prefect form.

 Tue Nov 09 02:05:04 +0000 2021

"Secret Little House" (1980) a collection of works of Tatyana Makarova, who was mainly known as the Soviet translator of Dr. Seuss's poems, who sadly passed away in 1974 at the age of 34.
I remember this book fondly.

 Tue Nov 09 02:39:00 +0000 2021

RT @romero: I think I ate a Garg for dessert... @ThatTomHall #commanderkeen

 Tue Nov 09 02:50:07 +0000 2021

Amazon video just showed me an ad for a Bluetooth to FM transmitter device. I guess it (correctly) profiled me as poor. 😆

 Tue Nov 09 03:09:55 +0000 2021

Right here, sir
https://www.dosnostalgia.com/?cat=91&paged=2
and thank you for listening

 Tue Nov 09 03:35:41 +0000 2021

I always wanted to
A) live in NYC
B) be a cat
This cat is way ahead of me https://x.com/Bodegacats_/status/1457913980752650243

 Tue Nov 09 03:37:30 +0000 2021

Yeah, sorry. I've been meaning to fix that for a while, but never got around to it.

 Tue Nov 09 03:41:36 +0000 2021

Oh, I'm familiar with your work on both this and the Windows 3.x emulator. I try to keep up with current events of everything retro PC related.

 Tue Nov 09 03:46:45 +0000 2021

That I can accomplish rather easily

 Tue Nov 09 03:52:52 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Tarkovsky on The Terminator

 Tue Nov 09 03:55:49 +0000 2021

RT @MobyGamer: Tonight: Debugging CGA graphics code like it's 1983

 Tue Nov 09 09:53:47 +0000 2021

RT @eevee: discord destroyed irc, reddit and twitter destroyed phpbb forums, facebook destroyed blogs. all are investing in cryprocurrency…

 Tue Nov 09 09:56:31 +0000 2021

And the analogy for the rest of the tweet is...?

 Tue Nov 09 10:08:01 +0000 2021

Oh wait, you're the "we're all better off wearing constant recording devices on our face that transmit everything to FB" guy. Nevermind.

 Tue Nov 09 10:19:07 +0000 2021

RT @damgentemp: Someone doing the Dark One's work has updated Quest for Glory IV restoring missing John Rhys-Davies audio, restoring cut en…

 Tue Nov 09 10:36:39 +0000 2021

RT @WadjetEyeGames: RIP Dean Stockwell. An absolute legend. :(

 Tue Nov 09 10:40:44 +0000 2021

John Chimpo, I'm told?

 Tue Nov 09 13:14:08 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each ti…

 Tue Nov 09 13:16:32 +0000 2021

I feel like a better game in this exact aesthetic is very much possible. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1457859407572869127

 Tue Nov 09 13:22:38 +0000 2021

What are some of the more interesting examples of single floor 3D action games?
For example French fps In Extremis introduced survival elements via limited oxygen, inventory, and door password system
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1300951471870050310?t=OzUG6HDDdryhJ_5RTD2SXg&s=19

 Tue Nov 09 13:25:15 +0000 2021

There's also a super obscure budget title "Wrath of Earth" which is a Wolfesteiny almost System Shock
#DOSGaming

 Tue Nov 09 13:27:51 +0000 2021

TAG's Dracula fps had heavy exploration elements
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/660093079836340224?t=S3HBZIvhRECYbFxssrquRg&s=19

 Tue Nov 09 13:29:10 +0000 2021

And this game decided to stand out among Wolfenstein clones by introducing dicks and cum!
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/800943664478490624?t=S3HBZIvhRECYbFxssrquRg&s=19

 Tue Nov 09 13:32:14 +0000 2021

Many call this game an RPG, but it's more of a metroidvania really
https://x.com/richardcobbett/status/1458064629574340613?t=S3HBZIvhRECYbFxssrquRg&s=19

 Tue Nov 09 13:33:22 +0000 2021

They aren't, but we're talking about a particular case.

 Tue Nov 09 13:35:29 +0000 2021

Ooh. Neat.

 Tue Nov 09 14:15:24 +0000 2021

RT @alecrobbins: this was way better than NFTs

 Tue Nov 09 15:06:50 +0000 2021

Dating apps need to start measuring distances in travel length instead of a radius. Just because I can see Connecticut from where I live doesn't mean I can easily directly jump the very large body of water that separates me from it.

 Tue Nov 09 15:16:01 +0000 2021

I don't have a problem with that 🤷

 Tue Nov 09 15:22:21 +0000 2021

I haven't thought about that, although given my location I don't think that would help much.

 Tue Nov 09 15:52:33 +0000 2021

 Tue Nov 09 16:08:29 +0000 2021

RT @dosgameclub: This month we're looking at TRANSPORT TYCOON!

While most people might be familiar with the (honestly must have) Deluxe u…

 Tue Nov 09 16:51:58 +0000 2021

Idk what to say when people tell me some tv show is "about them", but the character is clearly supposed to be an asshole. Like Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm. Does that you either insult people, or there are huge misunderstandings because they're used to you insulting them?

 Tue Nov 09 17:27:11 +0000 2021

What are you, fucking Mattel?

 Tue Nov 09 17:27:39 +0000 2021

See also: Rick and Morty 👀

 Tue Nov 09 17:29:47 +0000 2021

RT @DUSKdev: My cousin, who introduced me to Doom and jumpstarted my love of retro FPS, has MS and can only play games with one hand. He w…

 Tue Nov 09 17:53:59 +0000 2021

With a very special chunk that proved that Wes Anderson should have been the one making a Tintin film.

 Tue Nov 09 20:50:53 +0000 2021

Did you see the animated opening sequence that got cut?
https://youtu.be/aJGMmXdyhoA

 Tue Nov 09 20:53:53 +0000 2021

RT @richardcobbett: Unity buying Weta for $1.6B sounds impressive, but by this time next year that'll really only be worth three and a half…

 Tue Nov 09 21:37:24 +0000 2021

RT @damgentemp: "I'll have what he's having"
The Jazz Jackrabbit burger (from an unknown place in Hungary apparently) features a vegetable…

 Tue Nov 09 21:38:50 +0000 2021

Panzer Marshal, a Panzer General clone playable in browser.
https://panzermarshal.com

 Tue Nov 09 22:45:47 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming

 Tue Nov 09 23:36:29 +0000 2021

Polish point & click cartoon adventure Galador aka The Prince and the Coward has been added to GOG's catalog:
https://www.gog.com/game/galador_the_prince_and_the_coward

 Tue Nov 09 23:48:02 +0000 2021

Started its life as a DOS game. Also from the same people who brought you Teen Agent and Gorky 17
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/979160251386736645

 Tue Nov 09 23:50:21 +0000 2021

Last time I was drunk I learned that Amazon will let you flat out rebuy music, and won't throw out a message like "Hey, you already bought this. Are you sure you want to buy this again?" 😕

 Wed Nov 10 00:59:39 +0000 2021

(It will change the text of the "buy" button to something else indicating a previous purchase, but it will still be a yellow Amazon buy button, and that definitely won't help you much when you're drunk and determined to click it.)

 Wed Nov 10 01:00:53 +0000 2021

I guess what I'm saying is I now own 2 copies of the 1990 British top 10 hit Doin' The Do which you might recognize from the Bitmap Brothers game "Magic Pockets" if you weren't around for its brief chart appearance (including #1 in the U.S. dance!), so here we goooooooooo! 🦙🔊🎵

 Wed Nov 10 01:12:53 +0000 2021

For some reason I thought that GTA Trilogy is just gonna be slightly touched up old stuff with some fixes, but... it looks like a lot of it is just straight up redone

 Wed Nov 10 01:22:09 +0000 2021

I mean honestly, it looks like *most* of the assets are actually brand new, just done in low poly/lower res style.

 Wed Nov 10 01:25:01 +0000 2021

The more I stare at it the more I think that *all* graphical assets are brand new. 🤷‍♂️

 Wed Nov 10 01:29:28 +0000 2021

Yeah, that's a really weird change.

 Wed Nov 10 01:32:08 +0000 2021

Yep. Really strange. I had that kind of TV in 2003.

 Wed Nov 10 01:33:54 +0000 2021

And, as several people have pointed out, why is there a widescreen TV in 80s now?

 Wed Nov 10 01:35:22 +0000 2021

It's not just the textures though. All the meshes are new as well.

 Wed Nov 10 01:37:54 +0000 2021

The 80s of 2000s aren't the same as the 80s of now. 😥

 Wed Nov 10 01:39:18 +0000 2021

Change the font to Comic Sans, hopefully

 Wed Nov 10 01:44:17 +0000 2021

I mean, if they actually remade *all* of the graphical assets for all 3 games I can indeed understand the $60 price tag. 🤷‍♂️

 Wed Nov 10 01:47:18 +0000 2021

Yes, but it looks very specifically like the 2000s widescreen Trinitron

 Wed Nov 10 01:52:24 +0000 2021

God, I hate how the American studio cut the real ending to The Descent. 🤦‍♂️ Before that version wasn't really available outside of its theatrical run, but now it is apparently streaming on some services.

 Wed Nov 10 02:26:29 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: I like NFTs.

Nice Firm Titties.

 Wed Nov 10 03:24:51 +0000 2021

THESE FISHSTICKS ARE HARD AS TITS!

 Wed Nov 10 03:28:46 +0000 2021

Way to steal everyone's joke

 Wed Nov 10 09:52:27 +0000 2021

Linux is already on the desktop. It's called WSL. 😉

 Wed Nov 10 09:58:37 +0000 2021

I just want remasters of his pre-Heavenly Creatures films! https://x.com/AFP/status/1458289810154602496

 Wed Nov 10 10:04:03 +0000 2021

Fragile Allegiance (Cajji Software, Gremlin Interactive/Interplay Productions, 1997) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Nov 10 16:53:23 +0000 2021

I haven't played long enough to really answer this, but it plays like a typical 4X space game. I hear it is both very rewarding and very challenging if you're a fan of the genre.

 Wed Nov 10 17:41:44 +0000 2021

What are some of the early cases of using professional (voice) actors for v.o. in games, and not people from the office? I can hardly think of anything prior to CD version LOOM (1992)
(Only actual v.o. work, please, not stuff like actors coming in to record 5 lines for an arcade)

 Wed Nov 10 17:52:00 +0000 2021

Both are 1995 games, and yes, by then it wasn't uncommon to hire professionals, and even a recognizable name or two.

 Wed Nov 10 17:59:49 +0000 2021

It's not even just character models. I'm pretty sure it's actually *all* models.

 Wed Nov 10 18:27:50 +0000 2021

 Wed Nov 10 19:34:02 +0000 2021

Source for this: this bit of the interview with Alexey Danilkin from August 1998 issue of Game.EXE magazine, where he notes that "Alex Pilgrim" is just himself again. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1278458912686080000

 Wed Nov 10 19:50:00 +0000 2021

Most amusing bit of this interview that I didn't remember is the fact that in Soviet days he worked on "A Soviet life simulator called "The Line" where you stood in a line to a store, and the end goal was actually buying something." 🤣

 Wed Nov 10 19:52:20 +0000 2021

It is weird that I don't remember much of what happened to me recently, but somehow recall videogame-related trivia I've read in a interview in a magazine 23 years ago.

 Wed Nov 10 19:54:14 +0000 2021

(This thread is brought to you by a person questioning me and the Russian origin of Bermuda Syndrome on Facebook precisely because of these fake credits.)

 Wed Nov 10 19:56:15 +0000 2021

Grab it here:
https://theforceengine.github.io/downloads.html https://x.com/BuildEnginePics/status/1458548022523142148

 Wed Nov 10 21:34:02 +0000 2021

Ok, this is crossing into the Cannon Fodder territory 😂 Wtf?! https://x.com/giantpoppywatch/status/1458329829074481159

 Wed Nov 10 22:31:45 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Lost in Service:
----
JOOLS
JOPS
STOO
RJ
UBIK
CJ
CHRIS
PETE
TADGER
HECTOR
ELROY
SOFTY
MAC
BOMBER
STAN
TOSH
BRAINS
NORM
BU…

 Wed Nov 10 22:33:53 +0000 2021

Oh no it's not
https://x.com/PoppyLegion/status/1458397699456258052

 Wed Nov 10 22:34:20 +0000 2021

The resolution is like x5 larger.

 Wed Nov 10 23:06:10 +0000 2021

I've already seen the film, but I gotta say that the first trailer for Last Night in Soho is probably my second favorite movie trailer of the year right after The Matrix Resurrections. It highlights everything cool about the film without revealing much.
https://youtu.be/tB9WUIv9KH8

 Wed Nov 10 23:16:17 +0000 2021

Babby! ❤

 Thu Nov 11 00:38:44 +0000 2021

Another babby! ❤

 Thu Nov 11 00:38:59 +0000 2021

25 years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Nov 11 02:13:29 +0000 2021

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107256008726049812

 Thu Nov 11 02:13:49 +0000 2021

I did not, in fact, see the rest of the cat :( https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1453151248719417352

 Thu Nov 11 02:17:05 +0000 2021

Awwww, beautiful cat.

 Thu Nov 11 02:33:18 +0000 2021

People of New York and nearby states, here's a cool retro gaming event happening in December. Bonus: I'm gonna be there with a bunch of Holiday themed DOS games! https://x.com/Liretro/status/1458810203831480329

 Thu Nov 11 15:37:22 +0000 2021

ALL the classics

 Thu Nov 11 15:58:04 +0000 2021

Why so serious?

 Thu Nov 11 18:26:50 +0000 2021

I think Ghostbusters: Callbacks should go all out and feature an actual 35 feet long 600 pound Twinkie.

 Thu Nov 11 22:18:15 +0000 2021

Logan's Fight (Samir Alicehajic, 1998) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Nov 11 22:33:52 +0000 2021

It's a movie that has tiny Stay Puft marshmallow people and a chase through a WalMart.

 Thu Nov 11 22:39:18 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: People of New York and nearby states, here's a cool retro gaming event happening in December. Bonus: I'm gonna be there w…

 Fri Nov 12 01:54:52 +0000 2021

Aziz, light!

 Fri Nov 12 02:17:20 +0000 2021

Also: furries

 Fri Nov 12 02:52:07 +0000 2021

Physics! #DOSGaming

 Fri Nov 12 03:03:47 +0000 2021

It's pretty good still.

 Fri Nov 12 03:25:41 +0000 2021

Straight up now tell me
Do you really wanna love me forever
oh
oh
oh
Or am I caught in a hit and run?

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Fri Nov 12 03:53:23 +0000 2021

Full length version on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107262066295183451

 Fri Nov 12 03:54:29 +0000 2021

Я не знаю, как остальные,
но я чувствую жесточайшую
не по прошлому ностальгию -
ностальгию по настоящему.

 Fri Nov 12 12:17:29 +0000 2021

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: #LearnWithPeppa - #DosGaming is cool and fun!

 Fri Nov 12 13:51:56 +0000 2021

RT @Spill_Eviction: After 24 years, Blood's level editor is finally being ported to Windows. Brought to us by the creator of NBlood and the…

 Fri Nov 12 16:46:43 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: FreeBDSM

 Fri Nov 12 16:55:48 +0000 2021

RT @GameHistoryOrg: The history of Cyberdreams, Harlan Ellison & the very offkilter I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream video game: https://…

 Fri Nov 12 17:02:35 +0000 2021

Pet 👏 that 👏 interface 👏

 Fri Nov 12 17:42:52 +0000 2021

Them: why do you like cats so much?
Me: Well, I share the Greek origin of my name with ancient Anatolia where 10,000 years ago cats decided to co-exist in spaces with humans because at the time....

 Fri Nov 12 19:06:29 +0000 2021

(It's because they are adorable.)

 Fri Nov 12 19:08:49 +0000 2021

Got em

 Fri Nov 12 19:21:10 +0000 2021

RT @megakode: I spend the last year on a challenge: Create a modern genre game for a DOS PC with EGA graphics. Bit of a pain with the plana…

 Fri Nov 12 20:37:17 +0000 2021

The greatest music video of all time has finally been remastered!
https://youtu.be/wCDIYvFmgW8

 Fri Nov 12 22:30:48 +0000 2021

YouTube allows reuploads of popular videos while keeping the stats. But thanks for highlighting that date for me.

 Fri Nov 12 22:35:53 +0000 2021

 Fri Nov 12 22:40:13 +0000 2021

My guess is they had to redo all of the effects, since obviously all the editing and special effects would have been done digitally at the time, and they'd be interlaced.

 Fri Nov 12 22:50:22 +0000 2021

Apparently Ken Williams's new game is now Ken & Roberta's new game, and it keeps ballooning into a bigger project
https://kensgame.com/2021/11/12/hall-of-fame/

 Fri Nov 12 23:11:43 +0000 2021

It was made for a 2001 tv broadcast, so why would it be anything other than NTSC? I only did a brief comparison, but my theory does check out at least as far as new effects go (Walken's CG face on a double, + added blurring to the double in the finale, etc.). I bet wire removal 2

 Fri Nov 12 23:16:21 +0000 2021

Yes. It happens a bunch with HD transfers of tv shows from that time as well. Usually it's either deinterlaced upscales from SD (Firefly), or just brand new replacements (The X-Files). In this case it looks like it was just easier to redo them.

 Fri Nov 12 23:17:44 +0000 2021

Well, the effects are definitely brand new. We can only speculate as to why. Wire removal would be too, obviously, since it's not in NTSC anymore.

 Fri Nov 12 23:43:42 +0000 2021

RT @phrenopolis: The other night I unwrapped some padding in a guitar case and discovered this LucasArts towel I have apparently owned for…

 Fri Nov 12 23:50:52 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Hey look, a 2.7 GB blu-ray rip of Kevin Smith's film Dogma (1999) is on the Internet Archive!
(The film is not streaming…

 Sat Nov 13 01:45:47 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: I'm a little bit of everything all rolled into DOS.

 Sat Nov 13 03:09:25 +0000 2021

You can absolutely control the plane after ejecting on DOS. Don't know about hitting another plane, but collisions with buildings definitely still work.

 Sat Nov 13 03:14:03 +0000 2021

Comedians today: Help! Help! I'm getting cancelled!
Kevin Smith in the 90s: Goes to protest his own movie with a "Dogma is Dogshit" sign. https://x.com/ThatKevinSmith/status/1459333556237266944

 Sat Nov 13 04:53:06 +0000 2021

Obligatory
https://youtu.be/4-7dvf7EUwY

 Sat Nov 13 04:56:06 +0000 2021

This is such a wonderful machine. Unlike some other early small pocket PCs it is actually very easy and comfortable to use. https://x.com/MobyGamer/status/1459384969382477827

 Sat Nov 13 05:00:28 +0000 2021

One of my biggest disappointments is getting a Toshiba Libretto, a pocket machine with impressive specs that cost THOUSANDS of dollars at launch, and realizing that while it is very portable it's also an incredible pain in the ass to use.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1170489529427533825

 Sat Nov 13 05:05:47 +0000 2021

If I was a person in the 90s who has spent $2000-$3000 of 90s US Dollars on a computer that was this poorly laid out, I'd be so fucking pissed.

 Sat Nov 13 05:12:37 +0000 2021

RT @vectorpoem: checking out the latest build of https://theforceengine.github.io

 Sat Nov 13 05:13:12 +0000 2021

👆 It's absolutely crazy that you could have bought a PC that fit in your hand in 96/97 that you could run Quake on. But you really wouldn't want to.

 Sat Nov 13 05:15:24 +0000 2021

Don't remind me. I hope by the time Clerks 3 comes out NFTs become stigmatized enough he'll take that storyline out of the movie.

 Sat Nov 13 05:30:19 +0000 2021

RT @pcgamer: At the time, the PC was a weird, occasionally temperamental friend that you had to learn to get along with. https://t.co/l5XKa…

 Sat Nov 13 12:10:46 +0000 2021

The specs are excellent, but the built & layout of the keyboard + pointing device make it nearly unusable for me in its minimal form. Have to plug in a real mouse and keyboard.

 Sat Nov 13 14:14:52 +0000 2021

RT @dandouglas: here’s five minutes of WIP Duke Smoochem https://youtu.be/h10pd7vDytg

 Sat Nov 13 14:40:20 +0000 2021

That's not it. Weinstein company and its assets are owned by someone else now.

 Sat Nov 13 18:09:05 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Anyway, here's WONDERWL.MID

 Sat Nov 13 20:47:48 +0000 2021

 Sat Nov 13 21:15:34 +0000 2021

 Sat Nov 13 22:32:08 +0000 2021

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

 Sat Nov 13 22:35:42 +0000 2021

RT @Foone: I love old copyprotection that's now just "do you have wikipedia?"

 Sat Nov 13 22:49:45 +0000 2021

Secret Mission (Microïds/Philips Média France, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Nov 13 23:49:21 +0000 2021

In anticipation of the release of Outcast 2 GOG is giving away the enhanced version of the original Outcast (which also includes the original version as a bonus download):
https://www.gog.com/game/outcast

 Sat Nov 13 23:51:40 +0000 2021

Also how the hell did I manage to miss the fact that there's a sequel to Oucast coming?
https://youtu.be/gy14SpsCYXM

 Sat Nov 13 23:53:22 +0000 2021

RT @JonLawton10: So. 2-6-3 Bell code sent. Or possible trespassers. 33201 gets sent to investigate the mysterious goings on at Ravens tunne…

 Sun Nov 14 00:25:13 +0000 2021

No context 90s Soviet music video: 🔊🎵☭

 Sun Nov 14 01:11:09 +0000 2021

All work and no DOS makes Anatoly a dull boy

 Sun Nov 14 02:00:22 +0000 2021

The UI gets in the way *so much*. Don't remember if it's different in the sequel.

 Sun Nov 14 02:28:46 +0000 2021

RT @Foone: It's been, what, 20 hours? So obviously it's time for another generator.
This time it's Maxis's 1990 whole-planet-is-alive simul…

 Sun Nov 14 02:32:24 +0000 2021

RT @lazygamereviews: test successful

 Sun Nov 14 02:57:33 +0000 2021

RIP Tim Quill

 Sun Nov 14 02:58:01 +0000 2021

And another cat game! https://x.com/_wholesomegames/status/1459615962022432771

 Sun Nov 14 03:37:19 +0000 2021

Since there are a bunch of games where you play as a cat in development, I can make a prediction that a lot of cat games will live or die by the quality of cat animation.

 Sun Nov 14 03:39:05 +0000 2021

I've only learned now that Stan LePard, the composer of Windows XP installation music (originally written for 1996 Internet Starter Kit,) as well as Halo, Guild Wars, and Destiny, had passed away in February.
RIP. 😔

 Sun Nov 14 03:50:30 +0000 2021

Full song on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/stanlepard/1996-internet-starter-kit-velkommen-original-mix

 Sun Nov 14 03:54:38 +0000 2021

RT @agistuff: Sierra AGI Demo Pack, Room 125 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra

 Sun Nov 14 04:00:51 +0000 2021

Idk why Leonard Nimoy is trending, but I'm here to remind you that besides the couple of Star Trek games, his biggest impact on videogames was this

 Sun Nov 14 04:06:06 +0000 2021

 Sun Nov 14 04:11:57 +0000 2021

(Nobody cares about your 3rd Civilization sequel)

 Sun Nov 14 04:12:27 +0000 2021

So yeah, it looks like there's a lot more than just the wires that they had to remove

 Sun Nov 14 04:33:57 +0000 2021

I remember the Subor (RIP) ones.

 Sun Nov 14 05:34:23 +0000 2021

I don't remember a single thing from this movie except for the whole dick thing.

 Sun Nov 14 12:09:19 +0000 2021

It looks like anything post Atari 2600. I really don't find most of these games enjoyable, unless it's something that came out much later on it, like Pitfall. The golden age of arcade games also happened after 2600's launch. As was the interactive fiction boom. https://x.com/keithjohnstack/status/1459749883842375685

 Sun Nov 14 12:14:43 +0000 2021

At the same time I'm also a big fan of the ZX Spectrum, but I'll be the first to tell you that something like 95% of its ginormous library of games isn't worth playing for more than a few minutes.

 Sun Nov 14 12:18:23 +0000 2021

Evergreen tweet, I guess. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1358148303888789504

 Sun Nov 14 12:20:47 +0000 2021

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1412814560587833347

 Sun Nov 14 12:24:46 +0000 2021

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1459735830285758464?t=YcPeVlLn-GA2pC7vFq-kpQ&s=19

 Sun Nov 14 12:29:38 +0000 2021

 Sun Nov 14 14:12:47 +0000 2021

Hey, remember that in addition to the new updated DOS mode Windows 95 just flat out let you boot into your previous DOS installation?

 Sun Nov 14 16:40:09 +0000 2021

(Unless it was Windows 95 OSR 2 which apparently broke that feature.)

 Sun Nov 14 16:42:59 +0000 2021

It's in every build, even the ones where it doesn't actually work anymore.

 Sun Nov 14 16:43:16 +0000 2021

It's difficult for me to check without doing a clean install myself, but I'm pretty sure the option is there regardless.

 Sun Nov 14 16:48:26 +0000 2021

Guldkorn Expressen/Kalas Puffs Expressen (SilverRock Productions/OTA A/S, 1991) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Nov 14 17:05:00 +0000 2021

Choose the form of the Destructor

 Sun Nov 14 17:11:22 +0000 2021

 Sun Nov 14 17:18:34 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: "Welcome. Welcome to City 69."

 Sun Nov 14 17:36:29 +0000 2021

GTA Trilogy being pushed to release before it was obviously ready is not gonna do any favors for public perception of gamedev. Already seeing dumbass takes like "It's worse, it's not even a mod, it's a brand new engine". Like, buddy, wtf?

 Sun Nov 14 17:51:29 +0000 2021

Do you know what it takes to port game logic and art assets from *completely* different tech from 20 years ago?

 Sun Nov 14 17:52:26 +0000 2021

There's almost three games worth of brand new art assets, but because they weren't given enough time to check the ones that were ran through an automated process now I'm seeing tons of "they just ran the whole thing through an AI lol" takes.

 Sun Nov 14 17:57:47 +0000 2021

Yes, people are generally pretty ignorant of gamedev, but you don't have to feed their ignorance that way.

 Sun Nov 14 17:58:46 +0000 2021

FAT32 isn't a requirement for Windows 95, no matter what version.

 Sun Nov 14 18:20:18 +0000 2021

RT @F1US: What does it take to fire up the 1998 @McLarenF1 two seater? Windows NT running on this time machine! #F1

 Sun Nov 14 18:22:56 +0000 2021

That is another very good question for Rockstar management.

 Sun Nov 14 18:30:46 +0000 2021

RT @SierraChest: Gold Rush has been upgraded in the Sierra Chest with loss-less screenshots, enhanced soundtrack, new maps and more.
https:…

 Sun Nov 14 21:34:27 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: European print ad for PC version of Mortal Kombat 3. #DOSGaming

 Sun Nov 14 22:07:19 +0000 2021

Hail to the King, m'lady.

 Sun Nov 14 23:35:44 +0000 2021

Disclaimer:
NO WARRANTY https://t.co/tTxIbD0V2t

 Sun Nov 14 23:45:49 +0000 2021

That's mostly likely because you're looking at a later version of the game where the message got replaced with "You step out of the airlock and into..."

 Sun Nov 14 23:57:45 +0000 2021

Yep. All the red flags are there. I guess an incel is a proper modern term? I'm too old to keep up.

 Mon Nov 15 00:19:54 +0000 2021

RT @ohfivepro: Common knowledge says in the 80s nobody cared about copyright and Sega just ripped off Yellow Magic Orchestra's track 'Rydee…

 Mon Nov 15 00:24:13 +0000 2021

Watching "The Electrical Life of Louis Wain," and the weidest thing so far is that in real life Emily Richardson was 10 years older than Wain, but in the film Wain is played by Benedict Cumberbatch who is almost 10 years older than Claire Foy who plays Richardson.

 Mon Nov 15 01:03:28 +0000 2021

I has a sad now.

 Mon Nov 15 02:13:19 +0000 2021

RT @Macaw45: Hey guys here is a picture of a dude with platemail holding a scepter in a chariot being pulled by a dragon while a bird man,…

 Mon Nov 15 10:08:15 +0000 2021

RT @good_faces_bot:

 Mon Nov 15 10:10:39 +0000 2021

RT @thugcrowd: smoked this pack and ended up in real mode

 Mon Nov 15 10:12:00 +0000 2021

Jesus Christ only made it to 33, so you're winning already.

 Mon Nov 15 12:18:46 +0000 2021

The ellipsis are there to fit into a tweet. Which is why there's a video attached with the whole thing that everyone can watch, genius.

 Mon Nov 15 13:23:38 +0000 2021

Me personally? Me and him never met. All he's saying is that he's against language policing. That is also from the same interview where he says Dice needs to watch what he's saying because he's beginning to attract an antisemitic crowd. So yeah.

 Mon Nov 15 13:25:38 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: #CurrentMood

 Mon Nov 15 14:43:08 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: #CurrentMood

 Mon Nov 15 14:43:58 +0000 2021

Bro, your whole account is about anonymously yelling at people. I'm not the one posing here.

 Mon Nov 15 15:23:12 +0000 2021

What the fuck are you on about?

 Mon Nov 15 15:26:34 +0000 2021

RT @jcsrb: retweet if your first IDE was blue

 Mon Nov 15 15:38:01 +0000 2021

Jesus fuck. 🤦 Since when am I policing language?

 Mon Nov 15 15:55:18 +0000 2021

Exactly. If you're gonna make statements about my personal beliefs, at the very least get acquainted with them.

 Mon Nov 15 15:57:41 +0000 2021

* Sounds of a floppy drive spinning up *

 Mon Nov 15 17:17:21 +0000 2021

RT @Civvie11: There's no Star Wars content this November so I'm here to fill the void with some hot, steaming Katarn.

https://t.co/UvdHXeQ…

 Mon Nov 15 18:05:43 +0000 2021

RT @KimxxxJustice: Daren Pearcy, aka @zxspecchum, was the creator of the RZX Archive. If you've ever looked for vids of Speccy games, you'l…

 Mon Nov 15 20:35:17 +0000 2021

It's supported by ScummVM, so you can run the CD version on pretty much any device made within the last 15 years.
Pretty sure that's the version that runs by default when you buy the game from GOG
https://www.gog.com/game/kings_quest_4_5_6

 Mon Nov 15 22:07:53 +0000 2021

El Capitán Trueno (Dinamic Software, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Mon Nov 15 22:25:05 +0000 2021

RIP Bernie Drummond, the master of isomeric adventure graphics.

 Mon Nov 15 23:31:47 +0000 2021

But both girl and boy were glad
Cause one kid had it worse than that

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Mon Nov 15 23:35:53 +0000 2021

Full length version on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107283702672189779

 Mon Nov 15 23:36:44 +0000 2021

Absolutely

 Tue Nov 16 00:14:55 +0000 2021

Oof. A lot of people are now speculating that there was some kind of an "AI upscale" done with 3D meshes because of this, but that's not really a thing, right? Most likely just outsourced to some cheap foreign company with little experience/resources/time/attention. https://x.com/CombosDoodles/status/1460336983461478414

 Tue Nov 16 00:36:08 +0000 2021

Yeah, these textures are completely different. This just smacks of a non-English speaking country outsourcing.

 Tue Nov 16 00:49:01 +0000 2021

Also, does that say "Depresso"?

 Tue Nov 16 00:51:32 +0000 2021

RT @TheFantasticIan: don’t worry guys I know what putt putt’s been up to all this time

 Tue Nov 16 00:52:53 +0000 2021

They are pretty disturbing, but there's always The Shalebridge Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows

 Tue Nov 16 01:46:20 +0000 2021

That's how it should be.

 Tue Nov 16 02:16:32 +0000 2021

RT @voxel:

 Tue Nov 16 02:36:34 +0000 2021

*Nothing* will ever outdo this

 Tue Nov 16 12:19:10 +0000 2021

Ah. I missed the 25th anniversary of the MS-DOS release of Tomb Raider! #DOSGaming
Let's pretend it's still the 14th. Happy belated DOSaversary, Lara! 🎂

 Tue Nov 16 14:04:20 +0000 2021

(The date everyone was celebrating last month with mostly PlayStation artwork was, in fact, the original Sega Saturn release of the game. PlayStation and PC versions arrived in November)

 Tue Nov 16 14:05:25 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Tomb Raider level devtool.

 Tue Nov 16 14:06:10 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Four print ads for the original Tomb Raider.

 Tue Nov 16 14:07:30 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Always surprising to see how many ancient videogame cutscene formats VLC/FFMPEG support. Original Tomb Raider is one of t…

 Tue Nov 16 14:07:36 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: A few Tomb Raider promo 3D renders

 Tue Nov 16 14:07:41 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: A few Tomb Raider 1996 wallpapers for Windows

 Tue Nov 16 14:07:43 +0000 2021

This is hilarious, but here go the AI comments again. This is someone either assigning the wrong material or naming a material wrong. People need to let go of an idea that an AI can make a game for you. https://t.co/1z2UWnjry3

 Tue Nov 16 15:33:29 +0000 2021

Yeah, this is clearly a brand new texture a person only had a limited amount of time to remake based on the old one
https://x.com/Cousycousy/status/1460408832874721281?t=18Rl-_vXZImzLSqBMF61ew&s=19

 Tue Nov 16 16:02:00 +0000 2021

Yep.

 Tue Nov 16 16:11:32 +0000 2021

 Tue Nov 16 16:22:28 +0000 2021

Listen, The Game Awards peaked when The Disco Elysium people came up and promptly thanked Karl Marx. It's just not gonna get any better than that.

 Tue Nov 16 19:02:36 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Years later we will all be asking "and where were YOU when the dev team thanked Marx and Engels during an a̵d̵v̵e̵r̵t̵i̵…

 Tue Nov 16 19:11:08 +0000 2021

RT @ComChia430: For my outfit for the Free Play Florida event this weekend, I got a few retro pins. Commodore, IBM, and Atari all represent…

 Tue Nov 16 21:41:11 +0000 2021

Awww, what a beautiful all white babby. Green eyes too, so he can hear you.

 Tue Nov 16 22:22:24 +0000 2021

Putting Myst on any kind of list of hardest games is a bit silly. Myst is, in fact, less difficult than most games that ripped off Myst. https://x.com/Retrogamebrews/status/1460660058505814024

 Tue Nov 16 22:35:29 +0000 2021

Has anyone actually beat Blue Ice, for example? Last time I checked a full walkthrough didn't exist. There are also plenty of classic adventures with impossible moon logic cranked up to 150%, Discworld being a rather famous example.

 Tue Nov 16 22:37:02 +0000 2021

Riven is infuriating to me. I understand the idea, but it doesn't make it any less annoying in my eyes.

 Tue Nov 16 22:38:11 +0000 2021

The idea of essentially one giant puzzle coming together in the end to the point where you realize what you've actually been doing for the past 10 hours is kind of fun, if you're a designer. It isn't fun when you actually have to play the damn game.

 Tue Nov 16 22:40:44 +0000 2021

Like most Spanish games it's a Spectrum/CPC targeted game.

 Tue Nov 16 22:41:52 +0000 2021

Correct, do it on in ARJ instead https://x.com/0xabad1dea/status/1460576736228298762

 Tue Nov 16 22:44:54 +0000 2021

God, as someone who has to deal with vintage Mac emulation occasionally, I have to say that I hate the damn thing.

 Tue Nov 16 22:47:22 +0000 2021

And that's why my favorite Myst game is Exile. All puzzles are well telegraphed, somewhat isolated, perfectly integrated into the setting and story. Kind of the reverse of the first two games.

 Tue Nov 16 23:03:13 +0000 2021

 Tue Nov 16 23:13:30 +0000 2021

You can run "a game" through "an AI". 🤔

 Tue Nov 16 23:18:21 +0000 2021

Oleg Gazmanov - Sailor Girl (Морячка)
https://youtu.be/o_6mLOZ_JyM

 Wed Nov 17 00:31:23 +0000 2021

No context 90s Russian music video: 🔊🎵🇷🇺

 Wed Nov 17 00:43:32 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: - Coder, what is best in life?
- TO CRUSH YOUR BUGS, SEE NEW ONES APPEAR BEFORE YOU, AND TO HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THE…

 Wed Nov 17 00:51:56 +0000 2021

Once I got to the Kevin James (not that one) reveal at 0:16, yes.

 Wed Nov 17 01:05:35 +0000 2021

Videogame censorship: NO TITTY, YES GUN! https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1344338516982063105

 Wed Nov 17 01:13:42 +0000 2021

Why should we be pleasing all the politician heathens
Who would try to change the seasons if they could?
The state of the condition insults my intuition
And it only makes me crazy and a heart like wood

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Wed Nov 17 01:42:10 +0000 2021

Full length version over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107289860643676323

 Wed Nov 17 01:42:47 +0000 2021

Excellent command or file name

 Wed Nov 17 13:32:46 +0000 2021

RT @ZOOMPlatform: Have some free stuff

Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport - https://bit.ly/3ES8ySb
Pharaoh's Tomb - https://bit.ly/3lVmkuQ
Hall…

 Wed Nov 17 15:51:11 +0000 2021

Pre-tornado warning sky from a few days ago. Sadly it's not quite the same without depth perception.

 Wed Nov 17 15:55:15 +0000 2021

Trust me when I say it looked cool as fuck.

 Wed Nov 17 15:56:18 +0000 2021

RT @lazygamereviews: 🤨

 Wed Nov 17 16:03:22 +0000 2021

Not with my source file

 Wed Nov 17 16:04:23 +0000 2021

Don't forget to LOADHIGH

 Wed Nov 17 16:27:47 +0000 2021

RT @partytimeHXLNT: It was a lot of fun to chat with my lovely friends Kelsey and Frank at @GameHistoryOrg about Barbie CD-ROMs, Neopets, h…

 Wed Nov 17 17:42:41 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Death is but a DOS. Time is but a Windows. I'll be .BAT

 Wed Nov 17 18:12:57 +0000 2021

 Wed Nov 17 18:17:37 +0000 2021

I am nostalgic for my old tweets 🤷

 Wed Nov 17 18:41:32 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Do you remember this music? #DOSGaming

 Wed Nov 17 18:50:02 +0000 2021

I'm telling you right now I'm not gonna stop. Deal with this as you like, obviously.

 Wed Nov 17 18:52:56 +0000 2021

... and back on the mute list you go.

 Wed Nov 17 18:59:31 +0000 2021

I'm a grumpy old man who never ever considered getting TikTok, but this has almost sold me. ❤ Incredible positive energy. https://x.com/ravenscimaven/status/1460105346479919104

 Wed Nov 17 19:23:23 +0000 2021

Hey, baby. Would you like to see my floppy disk? #DOSGaming

 Wed Nov 17 19:32:05 +0000 2021

Oh. Did you say you wanted a bigger one?

 Wed Nov 17 19:32:37 +0000 2021

It's never enough for some people https://x.com/Oldwolf1/status/1461056683497517060

 Wed Nov 17 19:42:36 +0000 2021

This Japan-exclusive game was one of the first Genesis/Mega Drive games I've played. It's a bit weird even now that I'm an adult, but it was x5 more confusing for a Russian child.
https://youtu.be/3mTvwqERZgg

 Wed Nov 17 19:54:47 +0000 2021

I've had multiple decades to practice my photo face.

 Wed Nov 17 19:57:04 +0000 2021

RT @PureLifeEternal:

 Wed Nov 17 20:29:18 +0000 2021

The Amazing Spider-Man (Oxford Digital Enterprises/Paragon Software, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Nov 17 21:17:46 +0000 2021

Idk, I think it's a pretty cool puzzle game.

 Wed Nov 17 21:21:15 +0000 2021

This is more of a puzzle game than a platformer.

 Wed Nov 17 21:25:09 +0000 2021

I could almost agree, but it does have a web slinging mechanic which is essential to the gameplay. The game takes place inside a movie studio with Mysterio being the main villain.

 Wed Nov 17 21:26:04 +0000 2021

Just tried 3 versions, two cracked ones and one uncracked, and none of them saved. It's some kind of a glitch in the game or in dosbox.

 Wed Nov 17 22:19:21 +0000 2021

RT @WhatsOnSteam: Being Left The F*** Alone Simulator - new on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1801620 ($4.99)

 Wed Nov 17 22:25:49 +0000 2021

RT @stephentotilo: Phil Spencer calls for industry-wide support of emulation for older games to preserve the past

“If we said, ‘Hey, anyb…

 Wed Nov 17 22:28:03 +0000 2021

Apparently yesterday was the 17th anniversary of the release of Half-Life 2. That means that's how long ago I've spent $96 ($89.99 + tax) on this bad boy

 Wed Nov 17 22:46:07 +0000 2021

Inflation calculator is telling me that $96 of 2004 dollars is $139 today. Jesus.

 Wed Nov 17 22:47:01 +0000 2021

Yes. I've been wearing it since I bough it.

 Wed Nov 17 22:48:04 +0000 2021

Weeeeellll.... In this particular case the game forced you to install Steam. The beginning of the end.

 Wed Nov 17 22:49:27 +0000 2021

I still have it. It's really worn out, but I still have it.

 Wed Nov 17 22:52:13 +0000 2021

The Dark Eye (Windows 3.x/Macintosh, 1995) trailer. #NotDOS

 Wed Nov 17 23:01:17 +0000 2021

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

 Wed Nov 17 23:19:26 +0000 2021

*when they work

 Thu Nov 18 00:00:45 +0000 2021

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1461086077905772546

 Thu Nov 18 00:03:12 +0000 2021

Oh wow. Yeah, I just checked and mine is 100 gb, and I only have a handful of games installed.

 Thu Nov 18 00:15:46 +0000 2021

Nah, when they don't work I curse real loud for the whole period of time it takes for me to get them to work, and 99% of the time it's the opposite of fun.

 Thu Nov 18 00:23:50 +0000 2021

The tortoise lays on its side, its shell stuck between the impassable bars, beating its legs trying to push itself through, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. https://x.com/Randy_Shannon/status/1461004816755445770

 Thu Nov 18 00:31:19 +0000 2021

 Thu Nov 18 00:43:28 +0000 2021

The world loves wannabes
Hey, hey, do that brand new thing!

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Nov 18 01:51:34 +0000 2021

Full length version over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107295561743111034

 Thu Nov 18 01:52:39 +0000 2021

I managed to cut my finger last night... with a *fish*. 🙁

 Thu Nov 18 11:48:55 +0000 2021

I'm sad I can't help this person out, but this is just 🤷

 Thu Nov 18 11:57:07 +0000 2021

And before you guess that it's a Sierra game, please attempt to remember a Sierra game with a guitar riff on a title screen.

 Thu Nov 18 11:59:53 +0000 2021

Yeah, same with Willy Beamish.

 Thu Nov 18 12:13:30 +0000 2021

r/tipofmyjoystick

 Thu Nov 18 12:13:52 +0000 2021

Deus is a DOS game as well, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have the sparkly logo by that point.

 Thu Nov 18 12:18:25 +0000 2021

Tbh that sounds like 40% of logos from early to mid 90s. Soooo many.

 Thu Nov 18 13:44:00 +0000 2021

Точно не в Твиттере

 Thu Nov 18 14:17:14 +0000 2021

Depending on P2 you might not be able to run it without patching for runtime error 200. It's written in Turbo Pascal.

 Thu Nov 18 14:56:00 +0000 2021

Lol at all the live Ghostbusters promotions that are happening. It's like Halloween 2018 all over again. Just like John Carpenter then, Bill Murray looks like he absolutely hates being there. 😆

 Thu Nov 18 15:36:32 +0000 2021

He likes being where he decides wants to be. Sitting down for press junkets is definitely not that.

 Thu Nov 18 15:46:09 +0000 2021

So... You're been an Amiga this whole time? 😯

 Thu Nov 18 16:45:59 +0000 2021

RT @GeoffreyHuntley: 💀OMG WHO RIGHT CLICKED ALL OF THE #NFTs?☠️
🛳🏴‍☠️ https://thenftbay.org/description.html 🏴‍☠️🛳
👀

 Thu Nov 18 16:49:29 +0000 2021

 Thu Nov 18 16:51:11 +0000 2021

RT @CharlieBeatnik: In other news, this absolute weapon just arrived. A brand new, never used, @intel Pentium MMX 200MHz.

Can’t wait to ge…

 Thu Nov 18 17:08:54 +0000 2021

Here's a lullaby to close your eyes
It was always you that I despised
I don't feel enough for you to cry
Here's a lullaby to close your eyes
Goodbye

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Nov 18 23:13:05 +0000 2021

Full six minute version over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107300607043779362

 Thu Nov 18 23:15:59 +0000 2021

ESPN Extreme Games/ESPN® Espn2™ Extreme Games (Sony Interactive Studios America/Sony Electronic Publishing, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Nov 18 23:34:42 +0000 2021

RT @DominicTarason: I wrote an editorial piece for PC Gamer, about how delisting of older games is yet another major threat to game preserv…

 Fri Nov 19 00:58:00 +0000 2021

RT @SierraChest: My collection (updated). There's another closet with drawers containing the smaller boxes (Vivendi stuff, Sierra originals…

 Fri Nov 19 11:06:26 +0000 2021

RT @DosTitleScreens: Tegel_s Mercenaries-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Fri Nov 19 11:06:36 +0000 2021

RT @Finselbix: "The Magic Candle" by Mindcraft Software from 1989. Is it just me or does it remind you of another RPG? 🤔😉 #Retrogaming #DOS…

 Fri Nov 19 12:20:42 +0000 2021

Gameplay is too hot

 Fri Nov 19 12:23:48 +0000 2021

Yes. You never get the same color grading on video you did in theaters because they are different mediums. That is changing with the introduction of the HDR though, but still things get tweaked constantly.

 Fri Nov 19 12:26:07 +0000 2021

Banks don't operate in bitcoins, silly.

 Fri Nov 19 13:18:34 +0000 2021

 Fri Nov 19 13:44:58 +0000 2021

I like how drug selections change with clones of this game as times go by.

 Fri Nov 19 14:04:25 +0000 2021

RT @IQ_Adventures: One of the wildest games I played in my youth was this DOS game, Drugwar. There I was, all of 12 years old being like "…

 Fri Nov 19 14:04:29 +0000 2021

RT @ScummVM: Public testing for Sanitarium has been announced. https://www.scummvm.org/news/20211118/

 Fri Nov 19 14:07:48 +0000 2021

That's great. Btw, where's everyone's fucking money you data leaking fucks?

 Fri Nov 19 14:40:19 +0000 2021

Meanwhile in Russia:
A proposal for a robot for suppressing public disorders made via what appears to be a picture of an RTS unit from a mid 90s PC gaming manual. https://x.com/rianru/status/1461532897215660042

 Fri Nov 19 15:01:41 +0000 2021

What's up, old people! 👋

 Fri Nov 19 16:45:41 +0000 2021

Haha. Just kidding! We're all so freaking *young*. 😆😄😁😅😐😥

 Fri Nov 19 16:46:44 +0000 2021

Evergreen mood

 Fri Nov 19 18:28:10 +0000 2021

RT @lazygamereviews: New LGR!

https://youtu.be/USHvvSbYmJA

Checking out the weeCee, a new mini PC capable of running MS-DOS and Windows 9x. It…

 Fri Nov 19 18:51:36 +0000 2021

Wow. That was fast.

 Fri Nov 19 22:01:24 +0000 2021

I have so little to do tomorrow morning that I'm trying to figure out how much I'm gonna hate myself if I go see Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

 Fri Nov 19 22:03:34 +0000 2021

Going into a movie with bad expectations can be rewarding: if the movie is okay, then your expectations are exceeded, and you get a welcome & pleasant surprise. Of course, if the movie is just as, or even worse than what you've imagined, you just feel like you've wasted your life

 Fri Nov 19 22:05:37 +0000 2021

The only thing that's stopping me from doing that is a morning showtime.

 Fri Nov 19 22:14:35 +0000 2021

My biggest fear is that I'm gonna despise them equally.

 Fri Nov 19 22:17:43 +0000 2021

Surprisingly for a guy who put Nostalgia in his name, there are very few things I hate more than manufactured nostalgia.

 Fri Nov 19 22:46:36 +0000 2021

That's sort of what I expect, and I kind of hate that. I've enjoyed a bunch of Jason Reitman movies, and he didn't have to stoop to what I've seen in the trailers.

 Sat Nov 20 04:02:37 +0000 2021

RT @Sierra_OffLine: just LOOK at his tiny COMPUTER 😍

 Sat Nov 20 15:17:05 +0000 2021

RT @gayocats: 1202389943242

 Sat Nov 20 15:42:07 +0000 2021

RT @kinsie: The Force Engine has put out its Core Game Loop release! While there's still a bit to be done (UI, GL renderer, iMuse etc.), yo…

 Sat Nov 20 15:48:16 +0000 2021

It was neither the sequel, nor was it made by the same developers. Just a spiritual successor of sorts.

 Sat Nov 20 18:48:43 +0000 2021

Original version of Another World was essentially made by one person - Eric Chahi, who literally did everything on it, but the music and some sound effects which were provided by Jean-Francois Freitas.

 Sat Nov 20 19:09:37 +0000 2021

Delphine Software took on Another World for distribution, and later another team inside it developed Flashback, but the games are unrelated. Flashback even started out as a The Godfather license 🤷

 Sat Nov 20 19:11:08 +0000 2021

Things are kind of quiet on the Flashback 2 front, eh? https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1389666322993274880

 Sat Nov 20 19:15:13 +0000 2021

RT @BuildEnginePics: Game: Redneck Rampage
By: Xatrix Entertainment

 Sat Nov 20 19:49:30 +0000 2021

Muaaahaaw https://x.com/PC98_bot/status/1462088455547150344

 Sat Nov 20 20:17:19 +0000 2021

RT @ste_mega: The Motorola based Atari Mega STe vs Intel-based MS-DOS PC circa 1992. Note the use of texture mapping (such as it is) in the…

 Sat Nov 20 20:45:26 +0000 2021

RT @XwingGameSeries: The Best game award for X-Wing game - from the Electronic Entertainment magazine (March 1994).

#xwing #starwars #luca…

 Sat Nov 20 20:51:24 +0000 2021

RT @high_voltage_cz: You kids with your loud music and racing video games set in an open world environment based in a fictional representat…

 Sat Nov 20 20:51:51 +0000 2021

I decided not to go see Ghostbusters, and went to Five Guys instead. 🤷 🍔

 Sat Nov 20 21:05:42 +0000 2021

Like this tweet to give me moral support, so I can spend what I consider to be an unnecessary large sum of money on a new brand name audio mixer, so I can record & post non-emulated music from vintage hardware again.

 Sat Nov 20 21:19:39 +0000 2021

Clean audio through USB to my PC.

 Sat Nov 20 21:40:56 +0000 2021

It entirely depends on how much you enjoy dealing with extremely cramped & mazey (single floor) maps and spongy enemies.

 Sat Nov 20 22:06:02 +0000 2021

........ WHAT?! https://x.com/motherboard/status/1461551081180348417

 Sat Nov 20 22:48:33 +0000 2021

Now please excuse me while I make myself some very manly Earl Grey. Hot.

 Sat Nov 20 22:50:36 +0000 2021

🤔

 Sat Nov 20 23:51:43 +0000 2021

Powerdrome (Electronic Arts, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Nov 21 00:09:25 +0000 2021

 Sun Nov 21 00:17:59 +0000 2021

Even though I dislike Ghostbusters 2, it does have a bunch of amusing moments that still work on me 30 years later. I always chuckle at Do - Re - Egon.

 Sun Nov 21 01:06:33 +0000 2021

Nah. But I do like the "short, but pointless" line.

 Sun Nov 21 01:15:24 +0000 2021

 Sun Nov 21 01:34:52 +0000 2021

Gonna be a long night
It's gonna be all right, on the nightshift
You found another home
I know you're not alone, on the nightshift

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Sun Nov 21 02:06:43 +0000 2021

Full length version on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107312605671160547

 Sun Nov 21 02:07:11 +0000 2021

Ok, "Lady Lady God-Damn Night" is a pretty great title

 Sun Nov 21 02:29:04 +0000 2021

So "Winamp" is coming back...... as a music streaming platform?????? 🤨
"one-stop platform for audio enthusiasts, which connects creators and consumers of music, podcasts, radio stations, audiobooks, and any other peripheral content."
https://www.audiovalley.com/companies/winamp/

 Sun Nov 21 02:34:08 +0000 2021

Hey, hey. It's Saturday night during a pandemic. A perfect time to stay home & play some DOS games! (As is any other night during a pandemic tbh.)

 Sun Nov 21 02:39:36 +0000 2021

 Sun Nov 21 02:41:03 +0000 2021

LlamaCoins.

 Sun Nov 21 02:41:54 +0000 2021

No, it's just you came up the wrong math. You can just look up Jo-Ellan Dimitrius and what she does.

 Sun Nov 21 11:21:13 +0000 2021

Right back at ya, buddy.

 Sun Nov 21 11:23:26 +0000 2021

RT @dandouglas: sharing this again because it was super cool to be interviewed about something so ridiculous https://www.wired.co.uk/article/duke-smoochem-brexit-britain

 Sun Nov 21 19:00:33 +0000 2021

Watch/download:
https://archive.org/details/jack-of-all-trades-dvds

 Sun Nov 21 19:01:34 +0000 2021

RT @cabel: I leave my Quarter Arcades on all day, which leads to some interesting bugs in the original arcade ROMs: if a Galaga sits runnin…

 Sun Nov 21 19:33:46 +0000 2021

You know spies. Bunch of bitchy little girls.

 Sun Nov 21 22:15:51 +0000 2021

There are only 4 years between the original version of Leisure Suit Larry and its VGA remake. That means the "recent" remake of this game, released in 2013 is twice as old as the original game was when the first remake came out. 🤷

 Sun Nov 21 23:17:07 +0000 2021

No context 80s Soviet music video: 🔊🎵☭

 Sun Nov 21 23:52:46 +0000 2021

Did you know that Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" was first used in The Neverending Story 3 in 1994? This (German made) movie was so bad, it didn't get released in the States until 1996, and by that time the song was already made famous by being reused a tie-in for Batman Forever.

 Mon Nov 22 01:41:50 +0000 2021

And trust me, you *don't* want to watch this movie if you have any affection for the original. It's only interesting as an example of how every choice can be incredibly wrong.

 Mon Nov 22 01:50:05 +0000 2021

It's for the best, trust me.

 Mon Nov 22 01:50:11 +0000 2021

Oh, and a young Jack Black, I guess. 🤷‍♂️

 Mon Nov 22 01:57:18 +0000 2021

Whoa, footage of Adamski performing (the pre-Seal version) of his hit track "Killer" live in 1989!
https://youtu.be/TMWRudMscVM

 Mon Nov 22 02:03:30 +0000 2021

RT @gamepresintl: 🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨
The venerable Japanese i-mode service is finally shutting down in *one week.* This means a large nu…

 Mon Nov 22 03:37:00 +0000 2021

RT @DOS_Aesthetics: Game: Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity
Created By: Silmarils
#RETROGAMING #retrogames #RetroComputing #videogames h…

 Mon Nov 22 12:15:23 +0000 2021

RT @gifs_bot:

 Mon Nov 22 12:15:56 +0000 2021

Don't forget the 1986 remake either
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/795461242337062912?t=XUAI9X78IR7ryVIIL2lm4A&s=19

 Mon Nov 22 12:23:35 +0000 2021

RT @agistuff: Gold Rush!, Room 187 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra

 Mon Nov 22 14:02:34 +0000 2021

😳

 Mon Nov 22 14:06:04 +0000 2021

👆 boop

 Mon Nov 22 16:33:36 +0000 2021

RT @BuildEnginePics: Game: Witchaven
By: Capstone, The Pinnacle of Entertainment Software

 Mon Nov 22 16:35:30 +0000 2021

That's... not what I meant. But I see I might have misread the statement as well.

 Mon Nov 22 17:09:22 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: No context 80s Soviet music video: 🔊🎵☭

 Mon Nov 22 17:44:48 +0000 2021

So what you're telling me is that I should be spending my 30% off discount on the Quest version of Virtual Desktop? 🤔

 Mon Nov 22 18:49:52 +0000 2021

What battery pack are you getting for that cheap? 😯

 Mon Nov 22 18:56:19 +0000 2021

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the #DOSGaming is. You have to see it for yourself.
https://youtu.be/TE6SkrEFcoI

 Mon Nov 22 19:20:53 +0000 2021

I'm kind of a Twitter veteran, and yet I still manage to fuck up a large portion of my tweets. 🤦

 Mon Nov 22 19:23:49 +0000 2021

Ahahahahahahaha! 🤣 Wtf is this shit? 😂

 Mon Nov 22 19:57:04 +0000 2021

My #1 news source is apparently @gayocats 🤣

 Mon Nov 22 19:57:45 +0000 2021

There are also @DosTitleScreens and @DOS_Aesthetics

 Mon Nov 22 20:05:15 +0000 2021

I am willing to bet Shatner remembers Capstone a lot more than he does Lord British. https://x.com/WilliamShatner/status/1462454649466753028

 Mon Nov 22 20:22:49 +0000 2021

Mainly because of this. Oh, those dreams of MONEY that never came to pass.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1285306658214772736?t=Ip_siy7j8gZS7EqZ1HysPA&s=19

 Mon Nov 22 20:23:46 +0000 2021

"Hey, Bobby, who's that rich videogame guy who also went to space?"

 Mon Nov 22 20:26:22 +0000 2021

Why do people always voluntarily wish for the apocalypse? https://x.com/therealzomg/status/1462880066594029574

 Mon Nov 22 20:27:16 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: And here's some BTS of @WilliamShatner shooting his TekWar game segments. All in about an hour.

 Mon Nov 22 20:33:11 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: William Shatner's TekWar pre-release promo screenshots

 Mon Nov 22 20:34:51 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: So what's the earliest videogame with an X-Files reference? Not sure, but here's a contender:
Mulder talking a dump in Wi…

 Mon Nov 22 20:35:03 +0000 2021

Really? 🤣

 Mon Nov 22 20:37:04 +0000 2021

I agree with the sentiment, BUT
- Don't agree with many "lazy devs" comments. Buggy releases are publishers' fault.
- Don't agree with many "back in the day" replies. Buggy and incomplete games always existed, but good luck patching them back then or returning them to Wal-Mart. https://t.co/6flDqPN2St

 Mon Nov 22 20:51:09 +0000 2021

Seeing devs comment that basically these days the window between handing in the master, and day 1 patch basically counts towards total dev time from the beginning. Yikes. And once again, that's very much the publishers' fault.

 Mon Nov 22 20:53:08 +0000 2021

RT @Foone: It's been like 17 hours since the last generator, so it's time for a new one, obviously. This is a two-in-one: Both SSI Buck Rog…

 Mon Nov 22 22:10:11 +0000 2021

RT @mattbarton: I've heard it called many things, but "Build Bridges" is a new one to me.

 Mon Nov 22 22:46:29 +0000 2021

World of Aden: Thunderscape (Strategic Simulations/Mindscape, 1995) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Nov 23 00:24:21 +0000 2021

World of Aden: Entomorph - Plague of the Darkfall (Windows 3.x, 1995) #NotDOS

 Tue Nov 23 00:40:25 +0000 2021

The demo of Entomorph that is included with another 1995 World of Aden game - Thunderscape is dated July 9th, 1995 and is for DOS. But the final game with files from Sept 28th, 1995 is Windows only. That is some fast WinG porting.
DOS demo screenshot:

 Tue Nov 23 00:45:21 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Anaglyph 3D in #DOSGaming

 Tue Nov 23 01:26:45 +0000 2021

Definitely. Should be playing the 2021 version instead.

 Tue Nov 23 01:50:50 +0000 2021

"Modern Talking" is one of those *huge* European bands that never made even a tiny splash in the States, despite apparently putting out records here. A bit strange, but I guess Americans just weren't into this very specific version of European dance pop.
🦙🔊🎵

 Tue Nov 23 03:14:49 +0000 2021

It is sort of weird that Italo Disco did cross over, largely thanks to Giorgio Moroder, but this just slightly more reserved 80s sound didn't.

 Tue Nov 23 03:17:38 +0000 2021

If more people actually replied to my compliments of their cats on them, I'd like them more.

 Tue Nov 23 03:19:17 +0000 2021

RT @gamepresintl: For those who have brought it up, it's true that the i-mode service will continue until 2026. However, the store which se…

 Tue Nov 23 03:21:35 +0000 2021

Yes, but at least they can count as a One Hit Wonder in the UK.

 Tue Nov 23 03:23:22 +0000 2021

I wish I didn't.

 Tue Nov 23 03:23:51 +0000 2021

RT @banditloaf: 🎶 He’s a Snood operator 🎶

 Tue Nov 23 04:07:39 +0000 2021

RT @philscomputerlb: Install Windows 98 from USB with Rufus: https://youtu.be/MS-oyUZH3TY

 Tue Nov 23 14:18:17 +0000 2021

RT @BuildEnginePics: Game: World War II GI
By: TNT Team

 Tue Nov 23 15:26:54 +0000 2021

Ok, so I'm a few years late with this correction (sorry, slow day at work) but the DOS version of Captain Blood isn't in CGA only. It is, if you run it from DOS. But the program is also a booter, so if you boot from the game floppy, the game is in EGA.

 Tue Nov 23 15:36:10 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming

 Tue Nov 23 17:30:32 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Oh no

 Tue Nov 23 17:30:48 +0000 2021

Twitter dynamically adjusts its media player depending on your platform and bandwidth. As you can see my source is 320 kb/s which I think Twitter squishes down to 128 kb/s.

 Tue Nov 23 17:48:42 +0000 2021

Russian enthusiasts figure out their own Hugo the Troll set up! First live call in game tomorrow. https://x.com/Cooleach/status/1463115257728098310

 Tue Nov 23 19:02:14 +0000 2021

RT @krikzz: Black Friday sales begins! 20% off on all products. Visit http://krikzz.com, http://everdrive.me or our Amazon store.…

 Tue Nov 23 19:45:13 +0000 2021

RT @megakode: @dosnostalgic I used to work at ITE who developed Hugo in the late 90s, which was the best time of my life. It’s so cool to s…

 Tue Nov 23 20:54:38 +0000 2021

A 50ft containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River & down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges & waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island https://x.com/Vyothric/status/1463163562797547537

 Wed Nov 24 00:59:24 +0000 2021

Well, I guess I'm gonna watch the Kevin Smith documentary

 Wed Nov 24 01:03:53 +0000 2021

 Wed Nov 24 01:28:34 +0000 2021

Well, I'm 40 minutes in and I can already see what kind of film this is. It's a list, a victory lap. It's perfectly fine for that it is. But I honestly expected more from Malcolm Ingram, the man who made "Small Town Gay Bar."

 Wed Nov 24 02:05:13 +0000 2021

(In case you've never seen Small Town Gay Bar, you should.)

 Wed Nov 24 02:09:19 +0000 2021

Holy shit 😂

 Wed Nov 24 02:40:03 +0000 2021

Like that's the first controversy Smith had to face.

 Wed Nov 24 03:23:04 +0000 2021

Why I want to be a cat: exhibit A https://x.com/Bodegacats_/status/1463348558740996097

 Wed Nov 24 03:35:58 +0000 2021

"In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country..."

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Wed Nov 24 04:00:11 +0000 2021

Full length version over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107330037945460301

 Wed Nov 24 04:00:43 +0000 2021

This is from "Magicland Dizzy"

 Wed Nov 24 11:13:37 +0000 2021

RT @DosTitleScreens: Bureau 13-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Wed Nov 24 11:15:35 +0000 2021

RT @KP11Studios: I present, Pierogisaurus!

......I'm sorry.

 Wed Nov 24 11:42:57 +0000 2021

RT @Merjia_: Finally. @RichardGarriott

 Wed Nov 24 11:43:26 +0000 2021

RT @MobyGamer: Well, this is a new level of insane: An HP 200LX Palmtop connected to a mouse, Zip drive, two hard drives, and an OPT3LPT so…

 Wed Nov 24 11:44:05 +0000 2021

Oh. Oh no. 😔

 Wed Nov 24 11:45:59 +0000 2021

Just gonna have this here
https://youtu.be/q6G-YGNrWm8

 Wed Nov 24 11:48:48 +0000 2021

It's a community populated database, yes.

 Wed Nov 24 11:51:18 +0000 2021

Is this The Onion? https://x.com/pcgamer/status/1463469701707796483

 Wed Nov 24 12:39:57 +0000 2021

 Wed Nov 24 13:31:33 +0000 2021

RT @BuildEnginePics: Ken's Labyrinth (1993)

Even not being in the Build Engine, this little Wolfenstein clone made by Ken Silverman is imp…

 Wed Nov 24 17:07:02 +0000 2021

RT @GameHistoryOrg: Some interesting history on the early (pre-Sierra) On-Line game Crossfire: https://retro365.blog/2021/11/06/bits-from-my-personal-collection-crossfire-jay-sullivan-dick-sunderland/ https://t.co/xDNpxGE…

 Wed Nov 24 17:07:53 +0000 2021

RT @itstheshadsy: It was great talking with @KendraSerra about how copyright law affects game preservation... and what, legally speaking, t…

 Wed Nov 24 17:11:43 +0000 2021

Q*bert (Parker Brothers, 1984) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Nov 24 17:34:52 +0000 2021

Stonekeep (MS-DOS) - Super Adventures in Gaming:
http://superadventuresingaming.blogspot.com/2021/11/stonekeep-ms-dos.html

 Wed Nov 24 17:56:41 +0000 2021

Interesting. The screenshot fooled me though. It's a bit weird for the article to never mention that it's very specifically the Atari 2600 port.

 Wed Nov 24 18:00:55 +0000 2021

Runaway with me my love
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And I just know we'll have a good time

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Wed Nov 24 18:34:46 +0000 2021

Full length version on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107333477279657848

 Wed Nov 24 18:35:20 +0000 2021

Love all the "It's not *really* Atari" comments. That's not the important bit here.

 Wed Nov 24 18:55:42 +0000 2021

Also, Infogrames has been "Atari" for 20 years now, that's LONGER than *any* of its previous incarnations.

 Wed Nov 24 18:57:57 +0000 2021

 Wed Nov 24 19:04:41 +0000 2021

 Wed Nov 24 19:08:14 +0000 2021

Yes

 Wed Nov 24 19:13:04 +0000 2021

Oh, so Peter Jackson is still actually working on remastering his early films. Good.

 Wed Nov 24 19:31:20 +0000 2021

I think the consensus now is that it's not actually mind controlling. Not as sophisticated, but kind of worse. It cuts the brain off, and takes over muscle control directly.

 Wed Nov 24 19:41:46 +0000 2021

I think years ago he announced that it's gonna be all his pre-Heavenly Creatures films.

 Wed Nov 24 19:42:31 +0000 2021

Well, yes, but he clearly discusses that this was his approach to the Beatles project. Let's hope it's not the same for his actual films.

 Wed Nov 24 19:46:15 +0000 2021

He did definitely do that to Get Back though
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1462531704476815372

 Wed Nov 24 19:48:34 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Never forget what happened last Thanksgiving

 Wed Nov 24 20:25:14 +0000 2021

It looks like someone had access to the original tapes with live action cutscenes from Raven Software's FPS "CyClones" #DOSGaming
https://youtu.be/HGmKB0zicF0

 Wed Nov 24 21:05:13 +0000 2021

RT @gayocats: 1178282873054

 Wed Nov 24 21:10:22 +0000 2021

 Wed Nov 24 21:11:15 +0000 2021

A gag that didn't make it into the final cut of Evil Dead 2. https://x.com/BenIsLoyal/status/1463640449185423363

 Wed Nov 24 22:52:21 +0000 2021

 Wed Nov 24 23:08:51 +0000 2021

MS-DOS enthusiasts of the world, unite!

 Wed Nov 24 23:23:10 +0000 2021

What games are you talking about?

 Thu Nov 25 00:49:20 +0000 2021

I have no idea what that is

 Thu Nov 25 01:06:38 +0000 2021

Wait... Peter Jackson's Beatles documentary is 3 episodes, but EIGHT hours long??? Holy fuck, I'm in!

 Thu Nov 25 02:16:10 +0000 2021

Also they used machine learning to separate mono recordings into multiple tracks and make a new sound mix. Cool, although I'm not sure how to feel about that exactly. How much of this is The Beatles, and how much is an algorithm's impression of The Beatles?

 Thu Nov 25 02:18:20 +0000 2021

But... Karl here was German. 🤔

 Thu Nov 25 02:43:43 +0000 2021

 Thu Nov 25 03:20:51 +0000 2021

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/11/23/2340059/0/en/Atari-Announces-Strategic-Transactions.html

 Thu Nov 25 03:29:34 +0000 2021

I'm missing the 3 Bollywood ones, other than that I've seen all of them, a big chunk of those I've seen more than a dozen times. https://x.com/tiffanee_dawn/status/1461199450257321988

 Thu Nov 25 11:56:19 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Happy Turkey Day, fellow DOS enthusiasts!

 Thu Nov 25 15:19:43 +0000 2021

RT @rus_vg: 30 years ago #Hugo TV game show took over Europe. Playing a video game on television using phone was revolutionary! Today we re…

 Thu Nov 25 15:23:16 +0000 2021

RT @banditloaf: So @ballroom_blitz’s Facebook memory today is our first date while mine is the time I freed up 617K of conventional memory…

 Thu Nov 25 17:15:39 +0000 2021

What DOS games would be appropriate to play today? 🤔

 Thu Nov 25 17:26:32 +0000 2021

 Thu Nov 25 17:34:06 +0000 2021

Or how about this: what DOS games would it be NOT appropriate to play today? 🤔😳

 Thu Nov 25 17:36:06 +0000 2021

RT @frankcifaldi: Let's celebrate Turkey Day by looking at turkeys throughout video game history, courtesy of MobyGames' excellent screensh…

 Thu Nov 25 17:40:20 +0000 2021

RT @gayocats: 1102891054209

 Thu Nov 25 20:14:19 +0000 2021

This Holiday I'm thankful for the opportunity I've had to leave the world of retail behind. My drink goes out to all the long suffering retail workers of the world. If you feel like getting out, do it. Don't wait over decade to decide like I did. Here's to you! 🥂

 Thu Nov 25 23:02:18 +0000 2021

And of course I'm always grateful for you, my fellow DOS enthusiasts. For playing DOS games, for keeping the spirit of DOS alive, and for putting up with my ramblings here on Twitter. Cheers! 🥂💾

 Thu Nov 25 23:03:48 +0000 2021

Alright, Mr Peter Jackson. Let's see what you got.

 Thu Nov 25 23:22:09 +0000 2021

Ah fuck

 Thu Nov 25 23:58:10 +0000 2021

So the buttons are permanently pressed on it? 🤔

 Fri Nov 26 04:21:05 +0000 2021

 Fri Nov 26 04:28:20 +0000 2021

RT @Mattias_G: I just merged a major update to my C framework dos-like. I didn’t do any of the work for this one though, credit is all to @…

 Fri Nov 26 14:17:20 +0000 2021

RT @iequalshane: Is it too early to remind people I made a Christmas-Themed SkiFree clone for the Sega Genesis that you can download for fr…

 Fri Nov 26 14:18:05 +0000 2021

Correct

 Fri Nov 26 16:25:33 +0000 2021

RT @gifs_bot:

 Fri Nov 26 16:25:38 +0000 2021

"Special Achievement in Tutorial Design" 🤔

 Fri Nov 26 17:30:39 +0000 2021

RT @lazygamereviews: My Black Friday pickup

 Fri Nov 26 17:30:42 +0000 2021

If you had the legit copy then why didn't you use the shortcut to disable the "Russian" font, unlike the rest of us poor fuckers who only learned about this 30 years too late?

 Fri Nov 26 18:23:17 +0000 2021

Also, quite a few "firsts" in that game. One of the first VGA games to use more than 16 colors, one of the first commercial games to give instructions for a multiplayer cable, and one of the (or possibly the) first games to use a Covox speech thing to play title music & sfx.

 Fri Nov 26 18:25:53 +0000 2021

RT @algestam: A number of Elektronika clones of G&W Mickey Mouse has now been preserved in MAME (@mamedev_org). Most of these clones uses t…

 Fri Nov 26 21:39:20 +0000 2021

RT @ConvosCurtis: Wow, what a great stream. Lorelei Shannon was even more wonderful than I had hoped. Thanks, all, who joined. Link to reco…

 Fri Nov 26 21:39:48 +0000 2021

Black Friday (International PC Owners, 1983) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Nov 26 22:02:10 +0000 2021

iz babby!

 Fri Nov 26 23:12:17 +0000 2021

RT @matthew_lucas: Stellan Skarsgård giving perhaps the best answer to the ubiquitous "what do you think about superhero movies" question;…

 Fri Nov 26 23:21:54 +0000 2021

RT @Foone: because I mentioned it in another thread:
EA's 688 Attack Sub, with and without the horrible pseudo-Cyrillic font in the Russian…

 Fri Nov 26 23:45:40 +0000 2021

I'm trying not to gush over Get Back until I see all three episodes, but I just have to say one thing now: IT IS SO FUCKING *GOOD*.

 Sat Nov 27 00:09:16 +0000 2021

On a technical side it's the audio restoration work that is the most impressive. They've managed to get so much out of 1/4 inch tape.

 Sat Nov 27 00:11:12 +0000 2021

Also Ringo, the oldest, is only 28 in this. Dear god.

 Sat Nov 27 00:22:22 +0000 2021

When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, LETITBE.MID

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Sat Nov 27 01:53:18 +0000 2021

Full length version on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107346526781350395

 Sat Nov 27 01:53:42 +0000 2021

And from what I remember it's not that great. The face that it's a box quote is kind of baffling to me.

 Sat Nov 27 02:31:03 +0000 2021

WHAT

 Sat Nov 27 14:46:57 +0000 2021

Yes

 Sat Nov 27 14:47:41 +0000 2021

RT @GuunBill: Жоохон байхдаа ээжийн ажил дээр очиж MS-DOS дээр "Поле Чудес" тэгээд анхны Prince of Persia тоглодог байжуулээ 95/96 онд юм у…

 Sat Nov 27 14:48:42 +0000 2021

RT @Foone: quality box art

 Sat Nov 27 14:52:33 +0000 2021

Classic Spanish PC platformer "Risky Woods" has been added to GOG's catalog:
https://www.gog.com/game/risky_woods

 Sat Nov 27 15:01:39 +0000 2021

Nah, that's the original Sirtech box art

 Sat Nov 27 15:27:52 +0000 2021

 Sat Nov 27 16:41:40 +0000 2021

Chronicles of the Sword (Synthetic Dimensions/Psygnosis, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Nov 27 17:12:08 +0000 2021

Also, and I know it means nothing here, but there's also Latin on the US banknotes.

 Sat Nov 27 17:56:25 +0000 2021

 Sat Nov 27 18:25:58 +0000 2021

Beets of Rage

 Sat Nov 27 20:04:46 +0000 2021

It's all fun and games until a Sierra one crashes 😕

 Sat Nov 27 20:13:37 +0000 2021

RT @GameHistoryOrg: User-generated content far before everyone's Minecraft worlds, Interplay's The Bard's Tale Construction Set from 1991 l…

 Sat Nov 27 22:02:03 +0000 2021

RT @MatWBT:

 Sat Nov 27 22:02:21 +0000 2021

Apparently GOG recently added a Polish-only DOS point & click adventure game "Kajko i Kokosz"
https://www.gog.com/game/kajko_i_kokosz

 Sat Nov 27 22:25:20 +0000 2021

 Sat Nov 27 22:25:36 +0000 2021

(Although external sources seem to reveal that the game is also available in Czech!)

 Sat Nov 27 22:29:38 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Sun Nov 28 04:04:41 +0000 2021

RT @selmaleh: I'm sorry WHAT. WAT.

Babe I love Sunday as much as the next person, like LOTS, but a world in which Sondheim made games inst…

 Sun Nov 28 04:30:41 +0000 2021

Well, everything I wanted say about Get Back @benjedwards just said for me, and better. Thread: https://x.com/benjedwards/status/1464327590836068358

 Sun Nov 28 15:05:52 +0000 2021

It's snowing in New York! So you know what this means https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1339376075193913345

 Sun Nov 28 16:45:57 +0000 2021

Max Payne is 20 years old. Hovertank One is 30 years old. There are only 10 years between Hovertank and Max Payne.

 Sun Nov 28 17:00:44 +0000 2021

RT @GameHistoryOrg: Fifty years ago this winter, a young student teacher by the name of Don Rawitsch introduced his eighth grade American h…

 Sun Nov 28 17:16:11 +0000 2021

RT @internetarchive: 🎸From the history of Prince (aka "The artist formerly known as Prince") -- turns out a 30-year-old floppy can still bo…

 Sun Nov 28 17:16:33 +0000 2021

RT @ctflr: Super Star Wars is an unreleased arcade action game developed by Brain Bug in 1995. It was supposed to be an MS-DOS port of Luca…

 Sun Nov 28 18:05:17 +0000 2021

Finish this sentence: https://t.co/mHSL98wNRy

 Sun Nov 28 18:06:16 +0000 2021

Face me like a m̶a̶n̶ sprite in a 90s DOS first person shooter!

 Sun Nov 28 19:03:29 +0000 2021

I was always envious of the talent of the person responsible for the official Full Throttle strategy guide. They managed to stretch it into 250 pages! Here are the TWO pages dedicated to grabbing the bartender by his nose ring.

 Sun Nov 28 19:08:50 +0000 2021

YouTubers watching The Fifth Element: Why is this movie so quirky and weird? 😄
Me, yelling at the screen: IT'S FRENCH!

 Sun Nov 28 20:03:12 +0000 2021

And did, and still does.

 Sun Nov 28 20:07:27 +0000 2021

Listen, since everyone is resurrecting every old franchise, can someone finally finance the Killer Klowns sequel?

 Sun Nov 28 20:18:42 +0000 2021

Idk, I'm sure there's something. I just want a Killer Klowns sequel tbh.

 Sun Nov 28 20:24:27 +0000 2021

Sadly one of the Torenzi brothers has recently passed away.

 Sun Nov 28 20:25:52 +0000 2021

I fucking love the old man who didn't come down on young people's fashion.

 Sun Nov 28 23:29:57 +0000 2021

Or how about David Cage's debut?

 Mon Nov 29 00:24:30 +0000 2021

No context 90s Russian/Ukrainian music video 🔊🎵🇷🇺🇺🇦

 Mon Nov 29 02:24:55 +0000 2021

RIP Alexander Gradsky
(3 November 1949 – 28 November 2021) https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1454579711154298882

 Mon Nov 29 02:36:28 +0000 2021

Well, let's hear some 👂

 Mon Nov 29 02:47:04 +0000 2021

*EXCUSES*

 Mon Nov 29 02:49:01 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Always fight nazis

 Mon Nov 29 02:52:05 +0000 2021

God, that takes me back to my drunken high school times
https://youtu.be/inG69xYWROw

 Mon Nov 29 03:31:51 +0000 2021

Yuri Shevhuck, the lyricist and composer of this song, is the only music performer to have been critical of Putin *right to his face*. That was in 2010.

 Mon Nov 29 03:38:49 +0000 2021

My favorite song of his is "Spring, the actress". A song that he wrote for his wife after their first child was born. It was officially recorded after she died from cancer. It is sp hard to communicate what the lyrics are, because they are so abstract.
https://youtu.be/TP6RiUulf_U

 Mon Nov 29 03:42:00 +0000 2021

They are from the same town too. Putin quickly retorted with "and... what is your name again?". Shevchuck was already famous country nearly a decade before anyone knew of Putin.

 Mon Nov 29 03:48:28 +0000 2021

country wide*

 Mon Nov 29 03:51:23 +0000 2021

Mind you, in the 90s he traveled to Chechnya war zone, and is known for the tape where he interviews a brand new squad. Only *one* person from that squad had survived. Shevchuck and his band refused to perform in Yeltsin's re-election campaign, despite large sums of $ offered.

 Mon Nov 29 03:58:37 +0000 2021

And here his is now:
https://youtu.be/37n4lmOklXE

 Mon Nov 29 03:59:57 +0000 2021

I see you have another song of this in your playlist from around 1992. It's the same song as his Soviet music video here with a different arrangement. He's been around pretty much my whole life
https://youtu.be/QtQZSkia-pk

 Mon Nov 29 04:07:01 +0000 2021

Music is largely what got me through 90s Russia.

 Mon Nov 29 04:15:43 +0000 2021

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: #TillysCursedGamingTitles 💾 No. 25

 Mon Nov 29 12:15:36 +0000 2021

RT @Foone: You ever wake up at 5am and are trying to get back to sleep and think "wait I should get up and go program a DOS game"?

Or is t…

 Mon Nov 29 14:05:45 +0000 2021

The most beautiful thing about Get Back is that you actually get to see the creative process. Repeatedly.
The most important thing about Get Back is that it absolutely destroys 50 years worth of well established (and often considered canonical) Beatles myths.

 Mon Nov 29 14:54:47 +0000 2021

Such a big deal is always made of the "argument" George supposedly had with *insert Beatle here, but probably John*, but in reality it's nothing like what everyone described. That moment was absolutely crazy to see.

 Mon Nov 29 15:00:14 +0000 2021

Me when I wake up https://x.com/gayocats/status/1465337260283359232

 Mon Nov 29 15:13:07 +0000 2021

I know everyone has their own "nostalgia triggers," but for me it is the sounds of any Eurodance song. I am instantly transported back into the mid 90s.
https://youtu.be/B2TyErS0f0U

 Mon Nov 29 16:32:26 +0000 2021

(Which probably why I love this dumb and often soulless genre as much as I do.)

 Mon Nov 29 16:33:16 +0000 2021

20 years later Anachronox still remains the best game nobody played.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3nxd3/how-kindness-saved-the-cult-hit-anachronox-from-the-wreck-of-ion-storm

 Mon Nov 29 16:51:48 +0000 2021

 Mon Nov 29 17:01:37 +0000 2021

RT @parismarx: Someone paid $650,000 for a virtual mega-yacht. I repeat: the yacht does not exist beyond a virtual world called “The Sandbo…

 Mon Nov 29 17:40:08 +0000 2021

Awwwww soft babby

 Mon Nov 29 17:56:33 +0000 2021

Oh my god, the new @crdudeyoutube video is GOLD 🤣🤣🤣🤣 #DOSGaming
https://youtu.be/KtW3bdp7h8c

 Mon Nov 29 18:21:06 +0000 2021

Wtf, I had no idea that Fade to Black had a POINT & CLICK mouse control option 🤣🤣

 Mon Nov 29 18:23:55 +0000 2021

I would retweet this if not the final words

 Mon Nov 29 19:06:18 +0000 2021

B LO C K E D and R E P O R T E D

 Mon Nov 29 19:13:26 +0000 2021

RT @itstheshadsy: Dug up the first major review of SimCity from an issue of Newsweek (May 29, 1989). Will Wright and Jeff Braun have credit…

 Mon Nov 29 19:35:46 +0000 2021

The public demands CAT in every video

 Mon Nov 29 19:41:21 +0000 2021

RT @grumpygamer: Great interview with the awesome Tami Borowick, programmer on Monkey Island 2 and designer/programmer at Humongous Enterta…

 Mon Nov 29 20:32:35 +0000 2021

Deathball Incarnate (Nathan Fouts, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Mon Nov 29 22:09:58 +0000 2021

Wtf, they brought Nash Bridges back? Damn, truly *everything* is getting ressurrected.

 Mon Nov 29 22:16:27 +0000 2021

RT @Foone: The main problem with modern games is that when I install them they never pop up a text mode installer that asks if I want to in…

 Mon Nov 29 22:23:49 +0000 2021

https://youtu.be/SQMNTJfNqZE

 Mon Nov 29 22:32:52 +0000 2021

They also play the original theme music in the actual movie opening credits.

 Mon Nov 29 22:42:44 +0000 2021

The score was nominated for a Razzie 🤡😡

 Mon Nov 29 22:46:27 +0000 2021

Just the opening scene alone. Aged so well too.

 Mon Nov 29 22:48:32 +0000 2021

RT @SierraChest: A well-hidden Easter Egg in Conquests of Camelot. Ever seen this one?

 Mon Nov 29 23:18:04 +0000 2021

I'd rather Jack of All Trades tbh

 Mon Nov 29 23:58:23 +0000 2021

RT @frankcifaldi: Very cool and important project happening at the GPS right now! If you've got some cash to spare, you can help them prese…

 Tue Nov 30 00:18:55 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: French retro games: 70% impossible, but great graphics.
British retro games: 70% impossible, but great music.

 Tue Nov 30 00:26:29 +0000 2021

80s - mid 90s

 Tue Nov 30 00:39:43 +0000 2021

Attempting to watch the Nash Bridges movie, and yeah, it's a TV movie through and through. I don't watch tv, so this level of "acting" is kind of painful. Also so far it seems to be Oh God, Millennials, Amirite?: The Movie.

 Tue Nov 30 12:20:37 +0000 2021

I was wondering who they made the movie for, and so far the answer seems to be pretty obvious: old people.

 Tue Nov 30 12:21:21 +0000 2021

I usually just YouTube "Eurodance megamix" and go from there 🤷

 Tue Nov 30 13:28:42 +0000 2021

In 2018, the year Cyberpunk 2077 preorders opened, GOG actually made profits. About $7,800. One has to wonder how long it'll last. https://x.com/eurogamer/status/1465643536259371008

 Tue Nov 30 14:21:58 +0000 2021

I still refer to them as directories, and refuse to call programs "apps". Because I have principles, damn it! https://x.com/benjedwards/status/1465692636799553539

 Tue Nov 30 14:44:37 +0000 2021

Sure, if you're a WEAKLING

 Tue Nov 30 14:47:51 +0000 2021

It most certainly is.

 Tue Nov 30 15:18:34 +0000 2021

Probably, but I haven't looked at the data.

 Tue Nov 30 18:16:26 +0000 2021

800 years, and still no proper rain water diversion system. 🤷

 Tue Nov 30 18:55:05 +0000 2021

PC*Bert (JROK, 1997) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Nov 30 22:39:36 +0000 2021

"30th anniversary celebration of Another World with Eric Chahi, Jean François Freitas, Patrick Hellio, Paul Cuisset, Jacques Harbonn, Romain Tisserand and other surprise speakers.
Saturday December 11, 2021 starting at 6pm on MO5's Twitch Channel" https://x.com/assomo5/status/1465636365455003652

 Tue Nov 30 22:46:21 +0000 2021

THIRTY freaking years. Goddamn.

 Tue Nov 30 22:48:44 +0000 2021

The "15th Anniversary Edition" remake is now as old as the original game was when it came out 😅

 Tue Nov 30 22:52:43 +0000 2021

I think I still have 2 installs left!

 Tue Nov 30 22:57:37 +0000 2021

Fuck it, gonna attempt to see if the "Nash Bridges is a cool boomer" is the premise of the whole thing, or maybe there's a token ending where he learns something valuable from a modern (but too sensitive, of course) youth of today, and they learn to coexist happily. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1465657014198149122

 Tue Nov 30 23:02:18 +0000 2021

I'm surprised they didn't correct his swearing in a title called "PC Bert"!

 Tue Nov 30 23:02:51 +0000 2021

With a title like "PC Bert" I'm honestly surprised they didn't go for an obvious joke of "fixing" his swearing. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1465812785108074504

 Tue Nov 30 23:04:08 +0000 2021

And now there's an underground ring of rich people betting on videogame-like fights of real people killing each other? What?!

 Tue Nov 30 23:22:56 +0000 2021

So far the most realistic thing about this movie is that Cheech Marin's character Joe Dominguez opened a weed store.

 Tue Nov 30 23:24:02 +0000 2021

UNEXPECTED REVELATIONS a quarter of a century later https://x.com/Foone/status/1465826077574516738

 Tue Nov 30 23:36:30 +0000 2021

It *is* cool that they are still doing the thing where Johnson is actually driving the car while doing the dialogue with an obligatory turn to a different street at the end. But maybe that's the reason why they upgraded the car from a Barracuda? Easier to control maybe? 🤔

 Tue Nov 30 23:44:53 +0000 2021

Oh yes, a random set of Cyrillic letters to indicate a Russian origin. Check. 👍

 Tue Nov 30 23:57:47 +0000 2021

Nanobots. Nash and Joe are investigating nanobots now. 👀

 Wed Dec 01 00:21:06 +0000 2021

They are still shooting on location in San Francisco though. I remember back in the day the show got cancelled because it was too expensive ($2+ mil per episode) when the ratings dropped. I can't imagine how much it costs now.

 Wed Dec 01 00:25:25 +0000 2021

Nash learns nothing, it's the kids who learn... something, I guess. 🤷 The "PC" guy says "bullshit" in the end, so there's that. Seems like it's less of a victory lap movie and sort of a pilot for restarting the series. Not sure who's the audience, but it's definitely not me.

 Wed Dec 01 00:38:46 +0000 2021

The theme song is still the bomb though

 Wed Dec 01 00:41:37 +0000 2021

#DOSGaming

 Wed Dec 01 01:09:51 +0000 2021

Whoa, shareware version of ROTT v1.0 is... quite unpolished compared to the 1.2 shareware or the final version. 😮

 Wed Dec 01 01:14:19 +0000 2021

Fallout is trending! So it's time for me to remind you that the original Fallout was available for DOS!

 Wed Dec 01 01:18:24 +0000 2021

And here some WIP shots of Fallout circa end of 1996 when it was still using GURPS

 Wed Dec 01 01:20:21 +0000 2021

Fallout: a GURPS Post Nuclear Adventure.

 Wed Dec 01 01:21:07 +0000 2021

Yeah, bitch, #DOSGaming!

 Wed Dec 01 01:23:19 +0000 2021

Yeah, original Fallout is old enough to ask for port, IRQ, and DMA of your sound card! #DOSGaming

 Wed Dec 01 01:25:44 +0000 2021

Apparently The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is free on YouTube (in the US) right now, if you haven't seen this *batshit crazy* movie yet.
https://youtu.be/XbUE0uahrBE

 Wed Dec 01 03:00:35 +0000 2021

MOTHERFUCKER

 Wed Dec 01 03:20:21 +0000 2021

 Wed Dec 01 03:21:29 +0000 2021

Source on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@SpindleyQ@gamemaking.social/107369078529743766

 Wed Dec 01 03:24:24 +0000 2021

RT @dosnostalgic: Sadly Meier's book doesn't touch on the BEST thing that came out of Sid Meier's Pirates!
https://youtu.be/oMlJarpX5ME

 Wed Dec 01 03:52:44 +0000 2021