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What gfx card do you have?

 Tue Feb 01 05:46:51 +0000 2022

Are you fucking kidding me?

 Tue Feb 01 07:07:21 +0000 2022

And all the images are fucking JPEGs. Wtf. 🤦‍♂️

 Tue Feb 01 07:11:48 +0000 2022

This predates it by a few years

 Tue Feb 01 07:24:45 +0000 2022

There are other bitmap options, and all of them load fairly fast, there are plenty of examples in many games including, you know, MYST.

 Tue Feb 01 07:46:15 +0000 2022

Are you ready for some "never before seen images" from Myst, kids?

 Tue Feb 01 07:51:34 +0000 2022

Enjoy.

 Tue Feb 01 07:52:51 +0000 2022

Yes.

 Tue Feb 01 07:55:46 +0000 2022

Oh no. There are two more of these things.

 Tue Feb 01 07:56:15 +0000 2022

"Spectacular screen savers and Game Player™ based on the award-winning game, MYST®" ☹

 Tue Feb 01 08:07:32 +0000 2022

Yes. This CD-ROM is just 6 AVI 160x120 files you can use as screensavers. or play that Tetris-like fail, or a memory game. 🤷‍♂️ Total content size: 8 megabytes.

 Tue Feb 01 08:10:14 +0000 2022

At least Berkeley Systems gave me 24 megabytes of JPEGs!

 Tue Feb 01 08:11:31 +0000 2022

Is 22 "previously unseen" JPEGs worth $10 for a Myst fan?

 Tue Feb 01 08:12:40 +0000 2022

Myst needed to stream from a CD. This is an HD install. They are smaller in resolution (546x384), but in 24 bit color.

 Tue Feb 01 08:23:41 +0000 2022

The latest disc (1999) has the most basic slideshow screensaver. BUT at least it has full CD audio soundtrack you can play (Myst® branded CD player software not provided)

 Tue Feb 01 08:25:04 +0000 2022

This is definitely better than any in-game version available at the time. 🦙🔊🎵

 Tue Feb 01 08:31:25 +0000 2022

I haven't really read any books on the subject. Over the years I've listened to quite a few interviews with Ed Neumeier and Paul Verhoeven, as well as everything that was available on various digital home video releases. That's about it.

 Tue Feb 01 08:34:00 +0000 2022

RT @damgentemp: I don't know what I like more, the cute bear on the Doom floppy or the "fast-moving Virtual Reality game" description. http…

 Tue Feb 01 08:51:17 +0000 2022

No. They are all about 50 - 180 k.

 Tue Feb 01 09:29:08 +0000 2022

RT @schmitthot: Shout out to Street Rod 2, one of my all time favourites #retrogames and one of only a handful I played from start to finis…

 Tue Feb 01 09:51:51 +0000 2022

No inspiration. They were in the same competition at Breakpoint, this took 2nd place. While .kkrieger is more impressive when it comes to asset generation, it's nowhere near as fun to actually play.

 Tue Feb 01 10:09:18 +0000 2022

Yes

 Tue Feb 01 10:16:39 +0000 2022

It's video

 Tue Feb 01 16:40:13 +0000 2022

Awww. Poor baby. ❤

 Tue Feb 01 16:42:38 +0000 2022

Still more room than a room in NYC for x10 as much.

 Tue Feb 01 16:50:35 +0000 2022

If you're working minimum wage, only doing 60+ hours a week will.actually allow you to afford a room like that, so yeah, it's kind of the same.

 Tue Feb 01 17:00:16 +0000 2022

Yes, Jersey is a bit more affordable. Stay away from Long Island.

 Tue Feb 01 17:04:09 +0000 2022

25 years ago, in February of 1997 (exact date unknown), Chris Jones put the 1st version of his adventure game making toolkit that he had sitting on his hard drive since 1995 up online for the public to use.
It was called "Adventure Creator"
(Screens from ver 1.00 SR-1 from 12/98)

 Tue Feb 01 17:17:23 +0000 2022

Adventure Game Studio v2.00 (MS-DOS, 1999)
Renamed to "Adventure Game Studio" on Sept 18 1999, it spawned hundreds of games both free & commercial, left the confines of DOS, and continues to be one of the most popular game making tools for fans of the genre.

 Tue Feb 01 17:25:02 +0000 2022

Happy 25th Birthday to the one and only AGS!
🎂🎉🎈🍾🥂

 Tue Feb 01 17:28:50 +0000 2022

RT @Apogee_Ent: Released in 1992, the original Secret Agent turns 30 years old today.

 Tue Feb 01 18:02:40 +0000 2022

Seymour Papert, the co-creator of the Logo programming language

 Tue Feb 01 19:00:02 +0000 2022

RT @dosgameclub: New month, new game! In February the club is all about Jones in the Fast Lane, the 1990 virtual board game of life by Sier…

 Tue Feb 01 21:31:34 +0000 2022

RT @lazygamereviews: just browsing through an old graphics card driver disc from 1995 and CHROMOSAURUS

 Tue Feb 01 23:12:09 +0000 2022

Hugo's House of Horrors remake made in AGS:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1397380216805277696?t=3RIqM6BeoMJxdLK8kfrUhQ&s=19

 Tue Feb 01 23:19:15 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Are you fucking kidding me?

 Tue Feb 01 23:27:22 +0000 2022

Can't find system requirements anywhere. I guess it's assumed if you can run Myst, you can run the screensaver. 🤷 I uses After Dark 3 for which... I also can't seem to find minimum system requirements.

 Tue Feb 01 23:34:08 +0000 2022

It's After Dark 3, so it's Windows/Mac.

 Tue Feb 01 23:35:01 +0000 2022

About on par with the original

 Tue Feb 01 23:35:56 +0000 2022

Yes

 Tue Feb 01 23:42:43 +0000 2022

So it appears that the rights to Dune: Spice Opera, a studio album of rearranged music from Cryo's Dune (1992), are returning back to Stéphane Picq this very year?

 Wed Feb 02 00:09:44 +0000 2022

Logo Writer OnLine, an open source JavaScript re-implementation of Logo Writer (looks like it's based on Russian PC version 2.0) allegedly accurate right down to bugs. Works on mobile, supports drag & drop for sources.
https://sites.google.com/site/danilkolikov/logo-writer
GitHub: https://github.com/danilkolikov/logowriter

 Wed Feb 02 00:57:34 +0000 2022

Adventures in Math (Scott A. Harris/IBM, 1983) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Feb 02 01:09:43 +0000 2022

I might as well share a few JPEGs from the "Making of Myst" module https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1488420064537845767

 Wed Feb 02 01:20:52 +0000 2022

ScummVM begins testing the addition of the Hypno engine with the DOS adventure-action game "Marvel Comics Spider-Man: The Sinister Six"
https://www.facebook.com/ScummVM/posts/10160382660566410

 Wed Feb 02 01:34:01 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Happy 25th Birthday to the one and only AGS!
🎂🎉🎈🍾🥂

 Wed Feb 02 01:35:45 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: 25 years ago, in February of 1997 (exact date unknown), Chris Jones put the 1st version of his adventure game making tool…

 Wed Feb 02 01:35:48 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: 90s Russia was the leader in fan fiction simply because you could get any kind of shit published. That's how you got book…

 Wed Feb 02 02:00:20 +0000 2022

Gimme a drink, Spiderman.

 Wed Feb 02 02:03:47 +0000 2022

A total immersion breaking moment in The Martian for a nerd like me

 Wed Feb 02 02:21:00 +0000 2022

Why yes, I do take all my game/software screenshots myself

 Wed Feb 02 02:30:55 +0000 2022

Nothing extraordinary.

 Wed Feb 02 02:39:23 +0000 2022

 Wed Feb 02 02:50:05 +0000 2022

Pretty sure it's from one of the promo shoots for Fire Walk With Me, but I can't confirm at at this very moment.

 Wed Feb 02 02:53:59 +0000 2022

It's 12 years worth

 Wed Feb 02 03:14:47 +0000 2022

Little void

 Wed Feb 02 03:22:54 +0000 2022

RT @ATRightMovies: Martin Scorsese praising John Carpenter is a wonderful read.

 Wed Feb 02 04:32:14 +0000 2022

 Wed Feb 02 04:56:23 +0000 2022

RT @romero: Happy 31st birthday @idSoftware. I am grateful to have been there at its beginning. It's challenging to put into words what it…

 Wed Feb 02 05:05:32 +0000 2022

RT @HG_101: oh no

 Wed Feb 02 06:19:12 +0000 2022

Pencil Whipped (Windows 9x, 2001) #NotDOS

 Wed Feb 02 06:20:58 +0000 2022

What's a Paladin?

 Wed Feb 02 08:23:25 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Remember:
ACTA.
Always Check The Acronym.

 Wed Feb 02 08:37:49 +0000 2022

RT @saschasegan: From the same 1993 @PCMag feature

 Wed Feb 02 16:26:40 +0000 2022

RT @B4DC0FFEE: just Robin Williams waiting for Scandisk to finish so he could play some Max Payne with his Max Payne mouse mat https://t.co…

 Wed Feb 02 16:41:10 +0000 2022

Watch out for that first step. It's a doozy!

 Wed Feb 02 16:45:43 +0000 2022

Three nightmares back to back. Thanks, brain.

 Wed Feb 02 19:09:53 +0000 2022

TEN people co-designed this game. I previously thought it was French (It's a Cryo game with art direction by Philippe Ulrich), but it turns out it's the only game by "Cryo Studios North America".

 Wed Feb 02 22:53:30 +0000 2022

Pencil Whipped was a 2002 IGF finalist along with a bunch of other titles such as Bad Milk and Kung-Fu Chess. Things were different back then. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1488759330698637313

 Wed Feb 02 23:15:59 +0000 2022

Plague of the Moon (Rebelsoft, 1994) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Feb 02 23:41:09 +0000 2022

"Plague of the Moon" is one of the shareware games with no preserved registered version. If anyone bought it, or knows Gabe Macchia from Montgomery, Alabama, get in touch. #DOSGaming

 Wed Feb 02 23:46:57 +0000 2022

How well do you remember your 90s Windows game programming books?

 Thu Feb 03 00:26:22 +0000 2022

Does Windows 3.x make it better?

 Thu Feb 03 01:18:47 +0000 2022

Nobody is gonna buy LBA 1 again who wouldn't just buy LBA 3. If they think it's gonna be a beginning of a franchise reboot, they're kidding themselves.

 Thu Feb 03 01:50:21 +0000 2022

👆 The game is "Aztec Adventure", the example that gets developed throughout Clayton Walnum's book Dungeons of Discovery: Writing Dazzling Windows Games with WinG from 1995.

 Thu Feb 03 03:34:55 +0000 2022

Unfortunately for Walnum WinG was already being phased out by upcoming "Windows 95 Game SDK" by then, so he rewrote & retitled the book, and it got published later in the same year. Only for Windows 95 Game SDK to be officially named "DirectX" when publicly released.🤷

 Thu Feb 03 03:37:52 +0000 2022

The disc from the DirectX version of the book here:
https://archive.org/details/windows-95-game-sdkstrategy-guide

 Thu Feb 03 03:55:39 +0000 2022

This reminds me of a joke:
A pirate walks into a bar with a wheel hanging down his pants. Bartender says "Pardon me, but you’ve got a wheel hanging down your pants". The pirate responds "Yarrrrr, It's driving me nuts!"

 Thu Feb 03 04:14:36 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Thu Feb 03 04:19:57 +0000 2022

RT @GameResearch_E: Big surprise for everybody tonight.

This business proposal was the ORGINAL document which was the foundation for the g…

 Thu Feb 03 04:31:34 +0000 2022

RT @vg_history: martian memorandum, screenshot, dos (1991) https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/martian-memorandum/screenshots/gameShotId,91661/

 Thu Feb 03 04:40:45 +0000 2022

 Thu Feb 03 05:01:57 +0000 2022

Да, я тоже русскую купил.

 Thu Feb 03 07:33:32 +0000 2022

Well, released for free, that is. I'll buy it for the full price if I have to.

 Thu Feb 03 08:11:58 +0000 2022

Wordle 229 6/6

 Thu Feb 03 08:30:41 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Thu Feb 03 08:34:46 +0000 2022

Not yet. But the DirectX version is up.I
https://archive.org/details/windows-95-game-sdkstrategy-guide

 Thu Feb 03 10:19:11 +0000 2022

I'm gonna mail a letter to that address

 Thu Feb 03 10:23:27 +0000 2022

He didn't develop it. He bought an existing product (86-DOS) then hired its programmer (Tim Paterson) to port it for the 8088 architecture that IBM PC was running on. IBM handed him the deal because they just went through an anti-monopoly lawsuit that lasted years.

 Thu Feb 03 11:22:25 +0000 2022

Gates couldn't have known that ion just a couple of years Compaq was gonna get into a legal battle with a giant like IBM and win, resulting in a PC clone market explosion. His licensing deal then became the biggest win in tech history. But he couldn't have anticipated that.

 Thu Feb 03 11:24:16 +0000 2022

RT @hdex: @jmechner True, French is weird at times (ie counting beyond 60, Swiss and Belgium have it right) but can we talk about this : ht…

 Thu Feb 03 12:15:04 +0000 2022

RT @NintendoAmerica: Relive your childhood and experience the classic @HumongousEnt adventures of Pajama Sam, Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, and S…

 Thu Feb 03 18:27:04 +0000 2022

Today's Technology Connections is all about the amazing (new, but not as new as I thought) type of can openers. I picked up one of those by chance when I needed a new can opener a couple of years ago, and I was SHOCKED to discover how amazing it was.
https://youtu.be/i_mLxyIXpSY

 Thu Feb 03 19:10:56 +0000 2022

For like the next month I would pretty much talk about that can opener to anyone who would listen. Kind of surprised to find out that I haven't really tweeted about it.

 Thu Feb 03 19:12:13 +0000 2022

RT @jeffpar: This "Welcome to MSDN" CD from 2001 automatically installs Windows Media Player and then gives me... a choice? #AutoRun FTW ht…

 Thu Feb 03 19:36:40 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Thu Feb 03 20:11:23 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: EGA
#DOSGaming

 Thu Feb 03 20:36:37 +0000 2022

To be fair, only one of them would be capable of it

 Thu Feb 03 21:09:08 +0000 2022

RT @EkaBakie: Fucking finally!

 Thu Feb 03 22:37:31 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: The wonderful world of non-English videogames. #DOSGaming

 Thu Feb 03 22:57:54 +0000 2022

Flight of the Amazon Queen (MS-DOS) - Super Adventures in Gaming
https://superadventuresingaming.blogspot.com/2020/08/flight-of-amazon-queen-ms-dos.html

 Thu Feb 03 23:15:52 +0000 2022

Apparently GODS Remastered is going away soon

 Thu Feb 03 23:20:08 +0000 2022

4th picture is in that mode. Keep in mind that it's not a "64 color mode", it's still 16 colors at the same time, just out of 64 colors available.

 Fri Feb 04 00:01:01 +0000 2022

3D Hunting: Trophy Game (ManMachine Games/Macmillan Digital Publishing, 1998) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Feb 04 00:09:23 +0000 2022

Yes, it's the default palette, but it is in that mode.

 Fri Feb 04 00:14:10 +0000 2022

Available as a part of this 3D Hunting bundle:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1486484764261601281

 Fri Feb 04 00:15:06 +0000 2022

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

 Fri Feb 04 00:40:48 +0000 2022

👋

 Fri Feb 04 01:36:53 +0000 2022

We used to be a country. A proper country.

 Fri Feb 04 02:55:24 +0000 2022

I put fucking PEPSI in my bourbon

 Fri Feb 04 02:58:46 +0000 2022

Two kidneys, and a pancreas

 Fri Feb 04 03:00:52 +0000 2022

Oh no, you're in Utah 😨

 Fri Feb 04 06:06:37 +0000 2022

Beware: it's... not great.

 Fri Feb 04 11:32:24 +0000 2022

It's not an MP3, it's Redbook.

 Fri Feb 04 19:31:36 +0000 2022

RT @mikko: In 1996 there was an MS-DOS program called Multi-Pac, which could load the ROM files of Namco PAC-MAN and emulate the arcade gam…

 Fri Feb 04 19:41:38 +0000 2022

If it's Logo we're talking about, then nah, it was fine. The only thing you needed to switch for was the square brackets, and it was a single key layout switch.

 Fri Feb 04 19:45:37 +0000 2022

RT @fabynou: Here is the famous "tortue" we programmed as kids:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aXqMUJxWWWY&t=844s

You learned to draw geometric form and programmin…

 Fri Feb 04 19:45:53 +0000 2022

Are you sure it wasn't "Hard Drivin'" the arcade game instead?

 Fri Feb 04 20:18:55 +0000 2022

RT @Sierra_OffLine: Where I am, emotionally

 Fri Feb 04 21:35:38 +0000 2022

GTA 6? Pffft. Where's GTA 69?

 Fri Feb 04 23:11:19 +0000 2022

Trick question! It's on DOS! Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh! #DOSGaming

 Fri Feb 04 23:13:50 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Fri Feb 04 23:20:46 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Fri Feb 04 23:21:49 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: "All the hell-bent fury of hurricane Tiffany without the costly government cleanup."
90s ads strike again https://t.co/Sq…

 Fri Feb 04 23:27:12 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: And also

 Fri Feb 04 23:29:17 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: I ❤🧀

 Fri Feb 04 23:30:56 +0000 2022

Having one of those days when I wish I was a cat rather than a human.

 Sat Feb 05 00:05:48 +0000 2022

RT @scearley:

 Sat Feb 05 04:00:09 +0000 2022

Being a wolf sounds like too much work tbh.

 Sat Feb 05 04:02:23 +0000 2022

Exactly. Being a house cat is pretty much an instant win for life.

 Sat Feb 05 04:11:51 +0000 2022

Куплю жене NFT

 Sat Feb 05 04:14:51 +0000 2022

Ok 🤷 https://x.com/vg_history/status/1480004713504378881

 Sat Feb 05 07:54:06 +0000 2022

"This could be YOU !" https://x.com/DosTitleScreens/status/1489871429218844675

 Sat Feb 05 08:01:02 +0000 2022

So... just a Cryo game then?

 Sat Feb 05 09:24:19 +0000 2022

Also one of the first games to actually utilize VGA for something.

 Sat Feb 05 09:25:20 +0000 2022

Pssst: it's the Cryo of *always*. It was all downhill after Dune.

 Sat Feb 05 09:28:13 +0000 2022

RT @IQ_Adventures: Uhhhhhhhhh

 Sat Feb 05 11:04:41 +0000 2022

RT @simoncarless: Ultima Online is prepping in-game awards for folks who have been playing the game for 25 years - yes, a quarter of a cent…

 Sat Feb 05 18:28:17 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: This photo of 1970s Harlem y Jack Garofalo has a strong late 1990s - early 2000s strategy game vibe https://t.co/s0U2IMpM…

 Sat Feb 05 18:57:22 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Nickelodeon Director's Lab (DOS/Windows 3.x, 1994)

 Sat Feb 05 19:00:12 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: DEGAUSS

 Sat Feb 05 19:03:22 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: King's Quest 1 "look tree" response through different versions.
Original PCjr version vs at least 3 different IBM PC rele…

 Sat Feb 05 19:04:30 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Bored? Then check out this bundle of classic Russian time-wasters developed by Gamos, one of the 1st Soviet game companie…

 Sat Feb 05 19:04:52 +0000 2022

I might be reading this wrong, but it's Midnight Commander that is the clone of NC, not the other way around. On screen is actually Volkov Commander, but it's hard to tell at a glance.

 Sat Feb 05 19:10:42 +0000 2022

Dawgfight (Softdisk Publishing, 1992) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Feb 05 20:36:57 +0000 2022

I just have to share the game's title screen as well: #DOSGaming

 Sat Feb 05 20:39:21 +0000 2022

Wordle 231 4/6

🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Okay, that's just mean.

 Sat Feb 05 20:42:30 +0000 2022

Kevin Cloud is credited as a Managing Editor.

 Sat Feb 05 20:46:56 +0000 2022

It's obviously a Ш

 Sat Feb 05 20:47:47 +0000 2022

No, he officially joined id in March of 92. Here's his credit on Wolfenstein 3D.

 Sat Feb 05 20:50:01 +0000 2022

https://x.com/vectorpoem/status/1490080119548903424

 Sat Feb 05 21:50:36 +0000 2022

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

 Sat Feb 05 22:17:27 +0000 2022

I CALL THIS "NO CONTEXT" FOR A FUCKING REASON

 Sat Feb 05 22:26:16 +0000 2022

Oh, show me round your snow-peaked mountains way down south
Take me to your daddy's farm
Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out
Come and keep your comrade warm
I'm back in the USSR! ☭

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Sat Feb 05 22:47:09 +0000 2022

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107747816904551872

 Sat Feb 05 22:47:34 +0000 2022

Meme power

 Sun Feb 06 05:04:08 +0000 2022

Wordle 232 4/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ok, it's definitely giving me the finger

 Sun Feb 06 06:56:37 +0000 2022

Apparently the new Atari VCS has added support for DOS games (via DOSBox) and got two MicroProse games in the store last week. So yeah... that happened. In case you happen to own one for some ungodly reason. 🤷

 Sun Feb 06 11:49:22 +0000 2022

Sure, PCMCIA was introduced a while ago, but it lasted for while because it provided an easy & convenient way to upgrade. I remember paying out the nose for a Verizon cellular modem & service, and then watching Tourettes Guy in my friend's car on the move & dying from laughter. https://x.com/mountain_ghosts/status/1490111532671410176

 Sun Feb 06 19:08:46 +0000 2022

Oh my god, mid-2000s was actually a *long* time ago 😨

 Sun Feb 06 19:09:13 +0000 2022

The Evil Dead premiered in October 1981, but didn't find distribution till April 1983 in the US (New Line Cinema), and January 1983 in the UK (Palace Pictures). https://x.com/GroovyBruce/status/1490364756988809224

 Sun Feb 06 19:17:36 +0000 2022

RT @BuildEnginePics: Game: Duke Nukem 3D
By: 3D Realms

 Sun Feb 06 19:27:22 +0000 2022

Honestly unless you're doing it for some very specific purpose, there haven't been a reason to run DOSBox with surface renderer and in game-native resolution in over a decade.

 Sun Feb 06 19:33:01 +0000 2022

RT @banditloaf: Meatballs are one of the best foods because you can imagine you’re eating one of those floating ball guys from DOOM. https:…

 Sun Feb 06 19:36:01 +0000 2022

I actually have a PS/2 model 30 around for nostalgic purposes

 Sun Feb 06 19:39:41 +0000 2022

No, sorry. I have zero hands on modern MacOS experience.

 Sun Feb 06 19:52:35 +0000 2022

RT @dosgameclub: 💾NEW PODCAST!💾 To conclude our Year of the Adventure Game, we took a look at Sierra On-Line's SPACE QUEST in December #DOS…

 Sun Feb 06 19:53:17 +0000 2022

A renderer without filtering and stretching to your native monitor's resolution with aspect ratio correction enabled will get you covered. If you require extra accuracy, get yourself a fork of DOSBox that has integer only scaling option.

 Sun Feb 06 20:06:27 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Иван Ложкин: Цена Свободы/Ivan Lozhkin: Price of Freedom (MS-DOS, 1997) #DOSGaming #RussianVideogames
A Russian point & c…

 Sun Feb 06 20:13:40 +0000 2022

Not really

 Sun Feb 06 20:43:50 +0000 2022

Did not see this coming

 Sun Feb 06 20:47:30 +0000 2022

Maybe it's the case of platform preference? Like, there was little competition, so something won by default, even if it's like trashfire like Hopkins FBI?

 Sun Feb 06 20:53:42 +0000 2022

You know, sort of like GoldenEye 64 or Halo.

 Sun Feb 06 20:54:29 +0000 2022

I'm kidding! Well, kind of. 🤷

 Sun Feb 06 20:54:54 +0000 2022

That's why I put "new" in there

 Sun Feb 06 23:03:06 +0000 2022

Counterpoint: it's a perfect movie. ❤

 Sun Feb 06 23:15:41 +0000 2022

Giddy 3: The Retro Eggsperience (Phil Ruston, 2000) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Feb 06 23:25:27 +0000 2022

I want you back
So clean up the dish
By the way...
HOW MUCH IS THE FISH?

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Sun Feb 06 23:38:07 +0000 2022

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107753680225924201

 Sun Feb 06 23:38:31 +0000 2022

Neither RoboCop nor Starship Troopers are subtle, but I guess the biggest difference is that RoboCop's message is actually a part of the journey. From the get go it's established that corporations = bad, privatization = bad, and in the end taking humanity from man = bad. (1/2)

 Sun Feb 06 23:45:45 +0000 2022

(2/2) While in Starship Troopers everything is delivered to you as a victory of sorts. They WIN, & (in a tradition of every war propaganda movie) all the horrible sacrifices were worth it. You're supposed to work out that Man Turning Into a Cog of a War Machine = Bad by yourself.

 Sun Feb 06 23:48:25 +0000 2022

I mean you can sort of do that. While in RoboCop it's near impossible to walk away not feeling negatively about the corporate types in the film.

 Sun Feb 06 23:59:24 +0000 2022

Weirdly people still miss it even today. I don't quite understand how because it's beating you over the head with it constantly, but indeed that is a common reaction.

 Mon Feb 07 00:02:18 +0000 2022

Let me tell you about porcupine's balls

 Mon Feb 07 01:38:08 +0000 2022

During today's surprise Robocop discourse I saw a take "it's not a perfect movie by any stretch" and nearly fainted. There are few films that are as prefect as Robocop.

 Mon Feb 07 01:47:18 +0000 2022

Say what you want about Clickteam and their tools, but 32 bit stuff made with them still runs comfortably on modern Windows, and 16 bit stuff can be easily converted. Can't say the same about many other tools, including early GameMaker and Unity. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1251567884456939528

 Mon Feb 07 03:23:35 +0000 2022

Too soon

 Mon Feb 07 04:04:02 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Mon Feb 07 04:09:12 +0000 2022

And not an NFT in sight https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1240417790739218437

 Mon Feb 07 04:11:38 +0000 2022

There's a straight adaptation in the works now, so you're gonna get the Lets Fight Commie Bugs movie you wanted eventually.

 Mon Feb 07 06:54:54 +0000 2022

Ummmm.... You might wanna reread the book.

 Mon Feb 07 08:02:14 +0000 2022

"Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M. I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution;..."

 Mon Feb 07 08:03:54 +0000 2022

... the Bug commissars didn’t care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. "
It's not even subtext.

 Mon Feb 07 08:04:24 +0000 2022

Not evil, just serious.

 Mon Feb 07 08:11:20 +0000 2022

I can arrange that, but it's gonna cost extra.

 Mon Feb 07 09:17:58 +0000 2022

Only nobody is asking. The audience is supposed to be asking.

 Mon Feb 07 10:14:49 +0000 2022

is babby

 Mon Feb 07 11:17:06 +0000 2022

RT @dosgameclub: So, March is gonna be our 5th anniversary and it's also FPS month. We're planning a big Quake tournament with listeners an…

 Mon Feb 07 20:05:36 +0000 2022

 Mon Feb 07 20:20:27 +0000 2022

RT @vponamariov: Who said that you cannot print GIFs?

 Mon Feb 07 20:28:33 +0000 2022

RT @ModernVintageG: MAME is 25 years old... | MVG

Watch Here : https://youtu.be/Mse3Wo0hbLE

#MAME #Emulation

 Mon Feb 07 20:37:51 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: PC adventure game Dark Seed requires VGA, but what it actually does is run in the 640x350 EGA mode (10h), and then use VG…

 Mon Feb 07 21:06:38 +0000 2022

I don't think so. This mode would be neither practical, nor fast. It would make more sense to support the 320x200 EGA mode with some kind of a palette optimization.

 Mon Feb 07 21:20:52 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: It's interesting to see Steve Purcell's original EGA art for Cobb in Monkey Island and LOOM, and compare it to two interp…

 Mon Feb 07 21:34:36 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Mon Feb 07 21:49:16 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Most ominous version of the Virgin logo

 Mon Feb 07 21:54:22 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Microsoft ScanDisk surface scan. Real HDD + sound.

 Mon Feb 07 22:00:49 +0000 2022

Never heard of anyone blowing a stranger in a motel room for a slice of cheese https://x.com/PetroPubPolicy/status/1490768024630140929

 Mon Feb 07 22:42:15 +0000 2022

It's nice to see Muriel Tramis get more recognition in American media 👍
https://nerdist.com/article/black-innovators-gaming-industry-history/

 Tue Feb 08 01:14:22 +0000 2022

And FINALLY someone doesn't use the "Roberta Williams of France" tag.

 Tue Feb 08 01:14:54 +0000 2022

RT @pripyatbeast: It took YEARS to unravel the rights to PowerSlave and you'll finally be able to play it...in 3 days!!!

 Tue Feb 08 01:16:51 +0000 2022

Kai's Power Goo (Windows 9x/MacOS System 7, 1996) #NotDOS

 Tue Feb 08 01:57:16 +0000 2022

Wow

 Tue Feb 08 02:04:34 +0000 2022

http://CARTALK.GOO

 Tue Feb 08 02:17:23 +0000 2022

Well, the girl and the guy are part of the library, but the monkey isn't.

 Tue Feb 08 02:31:30 +0000 2022

 Tue Feb 08 02:43:34 +0000 2022

90s ads, man. #DOSGaming

 Tue Feb 08 03:47:59 +0000 2022

People don't give Alan Moore enough credit for predicting 2010s indie games.

 Tue Feb 08 03:59:39 +0000 2022

Lol. There was *plenty* of material like that in the 90s
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1420421390361108489

 Tue Feb 08 04:09:11 +0000 2022

Thanks to @SpindleyQ I just learned about projectM, an open source update of Winamp's Milkdrop visualizer!
https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm

 Tue Feb 08 04:11:28 +0000 2022

Nice

 Tue Feb 08 08:30:20 +0000 2022

Raising Dead. A shareware Windows game from 1999.

 Tue Feb 08 09:14:30 +0000 2022

It was a $15 downloadable shareware fps. I'm gonna go with a yes.

 Tue Feb 08 09:41:55 +0000 2022

We are as far away from the original Counter-Strike beta as Atari 2600 was when it came out. 🤷

 Tue Feb 08 14:20:28 +0000 2022

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: My drawing of the Dune II: Battle for Arrakis box art. Such a cool game. And spicy! 🐛

Drawn in smudgy pastels on black 8…

 Tue Feb 08 14:21:56 +0000 2022

- the bow & arrow weapon with arrows that stick out of the walls you can climb
- not a hitscanner in sight
CHECKMATE

 Tue Feb 08 14:24:33 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Kai's Power Goo (Windows 9x/MacOS System 7, 1996) #NotDOS

 Tue Feb 08 14:29:27 +0000 2022

Also it's a third game in the series that began long before Battle Chess.

 Tue Feb 08 14:49:18 +0000 2022

Archon: The Light and the Dark (Free Fall Associates/Electronic Arts, 1984)

 Tue Feb 08 17:00:37 +0000 2022

PC version of Archon was clearly meant for the composite CGA output.

 Tue Feb 08 17:01:22 +0000 2022

Смута - Ожившие Мертвецы/Подземелья Кремля II/Smuta - Living Dead/Dungeons of Kremlin II/The Times of Trouble (Windows 3.x/Windows 9x, 1996) #NotDOS #RussianVideogames

 Tue Feb 08 17:51:17 +0000 2022

I remember reading a review of "Smuta" in a magazine that went "well, Russian devs managed to make a game on par with DOOM, but not quite up to Quake's level" and I was like WTF ARE THEY SMOKING?!?! #RussianVideogames

 Tue Feb 08 18:03:55 +0000 2022

Smuta print ad. #RussianVideogames

 Tue Feb 08 18:13:10 +0000 2022

Smuta is the 3rd game in the series developed by Gelios, a company consisting entirely of Alexander and Andrey Razbakov, twin programmers from Moscow. If you're in the mood for some tedious "Slavjank" the other games are
Old Gold 3D, Dungeons of Kremlin, and Raising Dead.

 Tue Feb 08 18:17:51 +0000 2022

Still selling screensavers on their website https://www.geliosoft.com/, and released an Old Gold 3D sequel of sorts for the Android a few years ago https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geliosoft.oldgold&hl=en_US&gl=US

 Tue Feb 08 18:21:16 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Often when I tweet an #OPL3MIDI thing people ask me why I'm not playing my MIDI files using something that generates more…

 Tue Feb 08 18:55:11 +0000 2022

RT @damgentemp: Finally on Blu-ray the movie you WON'T see on Amazon Prime!

 Tue Feb 08 19:13:54 +0000 2022

Sleppy

 Tue Feb 08 19:14:08 +0000 2022

RT @lisatozzi: I will forever remember this about Peloton CEO John Foley. https://t.co/iEJd854ngM

 Tue Feb 08 19:32:35 +0000 2022

Nah, it was made by entirely different people, and was in actual 3D.

 Tue Feb 08 20:30:04 +0000 2022

No, I don't believe so.

 Tue Feb 08 20:35:03 +0000 2022

RT @a2_4am: This game is unbelievably rare, like "single digits" rare. There are exactly three (3) references to it online. First, a 1983 a…

 Tue Feb 08 20:47:12 +0000 2022

Got myself some new drink coasters

 Tue Feb 08 20:51:31 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming

 Tue Feb 08 21:03:47 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Tue Feb 08 21:04:53 +0000 2022

Why would I destroy an actual floppy like that? 😨

 Tue Feb 08 21:11:14 +0000 2022

RT @BertrandGuegan: You certainly remember how PC/DOS music sounded back in the early 90's? Often mislabelled "MIDI", this typical sound is…

 Tue Feb 08 21:15:32 +0000 2022

#DOSGaming

 Tue Feb 08 23:54:35 +0000 2022

All joking aside, it's one of #DOSGaming's hidden gems.

 Wed Feb 09 00:02:18 +0000 2022

 Wed Feb 09 00:21:29 +0000 2022

MAME v0.1 (MS-DOS, 1997) #DOSGaming

 Wed Feb 09 00:47:06 +0000 2022

Pac-Man being played in MAME v0.1 in 640x480 VESA mode

 Wed Feb 09 00:51:15 +0000 2022

Looks like v0.37b14 (0.50) from April 7th 2001.

 Wed Feb 09 01:10:12 +0000 2022

You may have noticed that the CD version of Alone in the Dark 2 has additional 3D animations not present in the floppy version. That's because they are not actually real time 3D, but large stylized 2D animations. #DOSGaming

 Wed Feb 09 01:32:04 +0000 2022

I think the floppy version is the superior one. Just because it's shorter (CD version added a new section for Grace), and you don't have to put up with overly dramatic readings.
CD version, however, added a teleport skip in the beginning (instead of fixing balance in the opening)

 Wed Feb 09 01:39:27 +0000 2022

They are way too detailed. It's easier and faster to fake them.

 Wed Feb 09 02:11:46 +0000 2022

Raising Dead (Windows 9x, 1999) #NotDOS #RussianVideogames

 Wed Feb 09 02:30:01 +0000 2022

All four 90s fps games by the Razbakov twins:
#RussianVideogames #DOSGaming #NotDOS
Старое золото/Old Gold 3D (MS-DOS, 1995)
Подземелья Кремля/Dungeons of Kremlin (MS-DOS, 1995)
Смута/Smuta (Windows 3.x/Windows 9x, 1996)
Raising Dead (Windows 9x, 1999)

 Wed Feb 09 02:33:46 +0000 2022

*Almost* selling me on it there

 Wed Feb 09 02:42:35 +0000 2022

Here's a review of the shareware version of Raising Dead from 22 years ago by then still very much alive Lowtax:
https://www.somethingawful.com/game-reviews/raising-dead/1/

 Wed Feb 09 02:51:46 +0000 2022

But so is my distaste for serialized television

 Wed Feb 09 02:52:39 +0000 2022

It is a good game.

 Wed Feb 09 02:56:55 +0000 2022

Instead of asking if something from 19xx could have been made today, ask if something from today could have been made in 19xx. You'll discover that like half of modern television couldn't exist 30 years before. It goes both ways. Things happen in their time, then times change.

 Wed Feb 09 03:00:24 +0000 2022

It is peak Sunstorm.

 Wed Feb 09 03:02:39 +0000 2022

I love those guys, but I wish they didn't make them shoot coconuts.

 Wed Feb 09 03:06:49 +0000 2022

🔊 Your sound car works perfectly

 Wed Feb 09 03:30:55 +0000 2022

There are definitely worse FPS games out there:
https://youtu.be/Z5Vi4nAoCds

 Wed Feb 09 03:39:34 +0000 2022

That person also isn't playing Raising Dead right either. Looking down via Page Down (Home to center view again) allows for easier killing of the skulls, as well as removal of mushrooms and mugs with poison. Not that it makes the game much better, but still.

 Wed Feb 09 03:42:34 +0000 2022

It's time to revisit "Exporting Raymond", one of my all time favorite documentaries. It's a doc about cultural differences, universal similarities, and stubbornness. One particular scene is top human documentary material. I recommend it highly.

 Wed Feb 09 03:55:22 +0000 2022

I only recently found out that it was a pretty expensive doc to make because Sony didn't own the show when they decided to make it. So they had to buy it, and the rights were split to begin with.

 Wed Feb 09 04:29:16 +0000 2022

Probably why the sequel print ad was about people pissing themselves instead

 Wed Feb 09 04:57:18 +0000 2022

It's a cute ad by the 90s ads standards. Vs something like this.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1490895155326746624?t=uQKlflcZ64lmQRLP1LtNng&s=19

 Wed Feb 09 05:03:08 +0000 2022

I haven't seen him in a lot of stuff, just a few interviews and maybe an occasional Curb appearance, but I find his accent hilarious.

 Wed Feb 09 05:23:29 +0000 2022

Checks out

 Wed Feb 09 05:28:51 +0000 2022

This is from a perspective of an American, so very.

 Wed Feb 09 05:42:15 +0000 2022

RT @Pixelmusement: New Shovelware Diggers video uploaded! https://youtu.be/WtjQQNwUORY

 Wed Feb 09 10:55:01 +0000 2022

No, there wasn't. Although there are different CD versions with a different closing song.

 Wed Feb 09 14:04:09 +0000 2022

I was just wondering to no one in particular "what is gonna be the dumbest thing I'll read this morning? 🤔" and lo and behold, there it was. 👍

 Wed Feb 09 16:04:39 +0000 2022

I need a refresher on some bits of Alone in the Dark 3, so I watched a longplay on YouTube instead of replaying it, and I'm glad I did because apparently it is even more awful than I remembered. (Still better than 2 just because it is more linear, but that's a really low bar.)

 Wed Feb 09 16:10:15 +0000 2022

That's what happens when producers force new teams to develop games orders of magnitude larger than the successful original in mere months.

 Wed Feb 09 16:20:08 +0000 2022

You guessed wrong, but you tried, so that's something already. Good job. 👍

 Wed Feb 09 16:43:00 +0000 2022

It's not the setting that I find poor, it's the design.

 Wed Feb 09 16:56:04 +0000 2022

RT @JoeSiegler: Remember that "Drunk Apogee Theme" that was in Raptor? (OK, they weren't really drunk, it just sounded like that to me).

h…

 Wed Feb 09 22:08:31 +0000 2022

RT @docky: Don’t inhale!

 Wed Feb 09 22:30:27 +0000 2022

 Wed Feb 09 22:38:07 +0000 2022

Ar'Kritz the Intruder (Virtual Studio/Microfolie's, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Feb 09 22:49:40 +0000 2022

Some 1995 promo images for "Ar'Kritz the Intruder" when it was still called "Parasite" and was gonna be released on PC and PlayStation by Psygnosis. #DOSGaming

 Wed Feb 09 22:54:31 +0000 2022

In this game cops are evil aliens, so it checks out.

 Wed Feb 09 22:58:13 +0000 2022

John Singleton, "Boyz n the Hood" screenplay

 Wed Feb 09 23:07:43 +0000 2022

Software Creations were known for an occasional shareware hit, but many don't know that they released *a ton* of trivia games. #DOSGaming

 Wed Feb 09 23:24:16 +0000 2022

I'm not even sure that this is a complete list!

 Wed Feb 09 23:24:41 +0000 2022

I love the idea that one could pay $21.95 (an equivalent of $42 today) for 1,000 questions about Massachusetts

 Wed Feb 09 23:27:21 +0000 2022

Software Creations want MORE trivia!

 Wed Feb 09 23:40:39 +0000 2022

What are "permanent errors" and when did he claim to be able to stop them?

 Thu Feb 10 00:03:10 +0000 2022

What are "permanent errors in MS-DOS" and when did he claim to be able to stop them?

 Thu Feb 10 00:03:37 +0000 2022

 Thu Feb 10 00:04:25 +0000 2022

I see. So it makes even less sense then.

 Thu Feb 10 00:16:32 +0000 2022

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

 Thu Feb 10 00:58:06 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Thu Feb 10 01:00:03 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: I remember seeing these screenshots for "The Real Neverending Story", an ambitious 3D adventure game, in gaming press in…

 Thu Feb 10 01:00:15 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: A few more screenshots because adgames are certainly an aesthetic:

 Thu Feb 10 01:00:52 +0000 2022

Yep. It got too much attention which resulted in a copyright strike

 Thu Feb 10 03:50:04 +0000 2022

RT @grumpygamer: Just finished Twin Peaks: The Return. @DAVID_LYNCH does not disappoint.

 Thu Feb 10 04:10:14 +0000 2022

It even incorporates the deleted scenes from the movie, The Missing Pieces. It's all important.

 Thu Feb 10 04:11:25 +0000 2022

All you beet*

 Thu Feb 10 05:24:12 +0000 2022

RT @good_faces_bot:

 Thu Feb 10 05:29:40 +0000 2022

Babby, no 😮

 Thu Feb 10 06:25:19 +0000 2022

Bill Gates
has a floppy put aside
for me
for me
FOR ME

 Thu Feb 10 07:36:36 +0000 2022

I was actually looking for a particular disk image that contained CIH yesterday for over an hour. Everyone only had a fixed version. Times change.

 Thu Feb 10 07:53:09 +0000 2022

RT @gayocats: 1154196499986

 Thu Feb 10 08:17:02 +0000 2022

RT @DominicTarason: I've mentioned it a bunch on Twitter before, but I've had a lot of new followers recently:

Did you know there's a full…

 Thu Feb 10 21:41:23 +0000 2022

RT @Apogee_Ent: The new lighting in Raptor: Remixed is looking GOOD. 🔥

Watch the developer livestreams at https://www.youtube.com/c/ScottHost/ https://…

 Thu Feb 10 21:44:09 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Jackson City-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Thu Feb 10 21:45:07 +0000 2022

RT @NightdiveStudio: PowerSlave Exhumed is finally here!

Now using the KEX engine and blending both the PlayStation & Saturn versions:

S…

 Thu Feb 10 21:52:13 +0000 2022

RT @pedrothedagger: If I had to pick a set of oldgames young designers should check out, it’d probably be Ultima 4-6. Lots of ideas in thos…

 Thu Feb 10 21:56:34 +0000 2022

Kajko i Kokosz/Příhody z Galské země (Seven Stars Multimedia, 1995) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Feb 10 23:07:45 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Bill Gates
has a floppy put aside
for me
for me
FOR ME

 Thu Feb 10 23:59:57 +0000 2022

⬛ WHAT SHALL ⬛
⬛ WE USE ⬛⬛⬛
⬛ TO FILL
⬛ THE EMPTY SPACES

 Fri Feb 11 04:02:25 +0000 2022

One ninth of the puzzle has been solved

 Fri Feb 11 11:25:51 +0000 2022

DOS editor is just QBasic being ran with an "/editor" parameter by edit(dot)com.

 Fri Feb 11 19:19:49 +0000 2022

RT @PointClickPics: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (1995)
Developed by The Dreamers' Guild

 Fri Feb 11 19:48:14 +0000 2022

RT @Foone:

 Fri Feb 11 20:07:00 +0000 2022

Now I want some corn on the cob

 Fri Feb 11 20:12:32 +0000 2022

Meow

 Fri Feb 11 20:17:05 +0000 2022

My social media life the last few years is thinking of something, then realizing I can tweet about it, then thinking I already tweeted enough today and putting it off till tomorrow, and then spending the next 3 days trying to remember what I wanted to tweet about in the 1st place

 Fri Feb 11 21:41:18 +0000 2022

RT @kryzazzy: Well, I have some questions

 Fri Feb 11 22:23:38 +0000 2022

Unofficial port by Friends Software

 Fri Feb 11 22:27:27 +0000 2022

Huh. Another unofficial port by Friends Software I had no idea about, but this time isn't directly ripped from MSX. The title tune is the music from the Spectrum version of Rampart 🤷 https://t.co/ulZOib3HIR

 Fri Feb 11 22:29:30 +0000 2022

Apparently the Polish comic the game is based on always struggled with being called an Asterix ripoff, only for the Czech company that published the game's Czech version to change the setting to Gaul and announce it as an Asterix game in the press before the release. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1491911796009148418

 Fri Feb 11 22:42:54 +0000 2022

To anyone who googled the comic and is about to tweet me that Kajko & Kokosz was created before Asterix existed: I have also stumbled upon this ridiculous statement. In reality Asterix quite obviously predates KiK by over a decade.

 Fri Feb 11 22:46:59 +0000 2022

The game was available on GOG, but got removed last month
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1464722097922613249?t=2JNzpPmajsDBMxECChPbOw&s=19

 Fri Feb 11 22:54:01 +0000 2022

Apparently there's a new animated series and a new game coming with the game creators also jumping 100% on the NFT bandwagon. 🤷

 Fri Feb 11 22:57:11 +0000 2022

Maniac Mansion model from the cover of Nintendo Power #16

 Sat Feb 12 00:07:11 +0000 2022

Yes.

 Sat Feb 12 00:09:21 +0000 2022

It was destroyed 30 years ago.

 Sat Feb 12 00:10:35 +0000 2022

I don't know much, but I know I love DOS
That may be all I need to know

 Sat Feb 12 01:49:52 +0000 2022

 Sat Feb 12 02:34:26 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Your reminder that Microsoft was responsible for the most commonly used Unix variant in the mid 80s https://t.co/AsVZqRkL…

 Sat Feb 12 02:36:37 +0000 2022

I see. So are they deliberately done in styles of different French comics each?

 Sat Feb 12 04:04:52 +0000 2022

RT @trengriffin: 5/ “I want to get in on the ground floor of the 16-bit market now with our Xenix operating system and follow it up with a…

 Sat Feb 12 04:12:01 +0000 2022

Well, that's interesting. https://x.com/stevesi/status/1492349329373204480

 Sat Feb 12 04:13:51 +0000 2022

RT @Pixelmusement: New Ancient DOS Games episode uploaded! https://youtu.be/-KoQk6e1s5I

 Sat Feb 12 07:50:04 +0000 2022

Happy lucky 13th birthday to DOS Nostalgia! 🎂🎈🎉🍾🥂
(Dear god, where does time go?)

 Sat Feb 12 18:13:47 +0000 2022

In other news, in two weeks I'll be able to return to the land of the living, and start working during the day and sleeping at night like a normal person again. Yay! https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1475594744931696645

 Sat Feb 12 18:17:09 +0000 2022

This. This is what I looked like when I started DOS Nostalgia. I thought it was okay to appear on camera like that. 🤷‍♂️

 Sat Feb 12 18:19:50 +0000 2022

Thankfully I was able to adopt a better look only 4 and a half years later, thanks to the inspiration from @ben_304

 Sat Feb 12 18:23:31 +0000 2022

Original intro I had for DOS Nostalgia videos still makes me smile. It was a simpler time back then. 😅

 Sat Feb 12 18:28:10 +0000 2022

Nah, I still have about x2 time to go thankfully.

 Sat Feb 12 18:29:41 +0000 2022

Sadly not until I return to working a day shift. (But maybe also in the beginning of the week.)

 Sat Feb 12 23:51:29 +0000 2022

DOS 5. That's was the first version of DOS to be bundled with QBasic, and Gorillas.

 Sun Feb 13 00:03:51 +0000 2022

MSAV was an existing antivirus they licensed from Central Point. By 1993 there were plenty of different antivirus products on the market. The direct & open nature of DOS (and other OSes) was the reason for viruses, and all OSes were vulnerable at the time.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/820297096930570244?t=wHy-ELHYN9VUUzogvX181w&s=19

 Sun Feb 13 00:10:25 +0000 2022

RT @SergioGrazzini0: Spellcasting 301: Spring Break | print ad (1992)
The text adventure game Spellcasting 301: Spring Break is the third a…

 Sun Feb 13 00:12:02 +0000 2022

RT @AnasAbdin: Challenge of the Ancient Empires! (1990)
with amazing music by Satie and Tchaikovsky 🥰 #RETROGAMING #dosgaming https://t.co/…

 Sun Feb 13 00:12:11 +0000 2022

Pretty sure the situation with Blood is Atari pulled the support, which is why it's not being updated anymore. So I wouldn't expect another port.

 Sun Feb 13 00:56:16 +0000 2022

Happy Birthday! 🎂

 Sun Feb 13 01:12:27 +0000 2022

RT @Foone: So relatable, right?

 Sun Feb 13 05:26:10 +0000 2022

RT @chompie1337: dentist: so, are you flossing?
me: are you using a unique password for every account?

 Sun Feb 13 05:57:11 +0000 2022

RT @qpringledev: 💾OLD SCHOOL GAME MAKER GAMES PACK💾

Here's a little freeware collection of 60+ nostalgic Game Maker games! Relive the old…

 Sun Feb 13 09:01:51 +0000 2022

RT @gordoslair: Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold (1993). I always thought this game needed more love. If you completed Wolfenstein 3D try out Bl…

 Sun Feb 13 20:55:11 +0000 2022

RT @benjedwards: My dad died in 2013. A few days ago, I found a box of his trinkets at my mom’s house

There was something wedged in a pouc…

 Sun Feb 13 21:51:04 +0000 2022

RT @damgentemp: From 1989 to 1993 Italian studio Genias released many quality titles - like Warm Up or World Cup 90 - on C64, Amiga and DOS…

 Sun Feb 13 21:52:28 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Happy SuperbOwl day!

 Sun Feb 13 22:21:37 +0000 2022

RT @AlexBlechman: When brands refer to the “Big Game” in commercials they are talking about the fan-built Discworld MUD that has 1,000,000+…

 Sun Feb 13 22:47:32 +0000 2022

No one can tell you what #DOSGaming is. You have to see it for yourself.

 Mon Feb 14 00:51:47 +0000 2022

(But just in case:)
https://youtu.be/An08DaT1Bhk

 Mon Feb 14 00:52:49 +0000 2022

RT @john_from_hr: she’s gonna be so happy 🥲

 Mon Feb 14 03:39:17 +0000 2022

Hmmm. Theoretically one could make a TSR that swaps EGA colors for these on a VGA card at a key press. 🤔 https://x.com/AdigunPolack/status/1491766779064033284

 Mon Feb 14 03:47:23 +0000 2022

I did a simple CGA randomizer, but it wasn't a TSR.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1202995536212758529?t=0fRBGK_y0roZEjesPt3LDA&s=19

 Mon Feb 14 03:49:40 +0000 2022

RIP Ivan Reitman

 Mon Feb 14 05:54:48 +0000 2022

Что за интервью? KPCS?

 Mon Feb 14 07:05:20 +0000 2022

Буржуйскую легко можно купить бумажную б/у. Сейчас ко мне как раз первый (WinG) вариант летит т.к. я увидел что диск от него не слит в сеть.

 Mon Feb 14 07:36:13 +0000 2022

RT @8bit_Maurice: GAMES I WORKED ON #13: Art for AZTEC ADVENTURE for the book Dungeons of Discovery by Clayton Walnum, QUE, 1994. I wanted…

 Mon Feb 14 07:39:31 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: How well do you remember your 90s Windows game programming books?

 Mon Feb 14 07:43:35 +0000 2022

I know a Korean DOS game when I see one. https://x.com/DosTitleScreens/status/1493132919749156865

 Mon Feb 14 09:09:20 +0000 2022

It's funny to see these regional differences. Early Korean games are in Hercules. Early Spanish games are in CGA. Early Russian games are in 640x350 EGA.

 Mon Feb 14 09:11:58 +0000 2022

If it's The Case of the Rose Tattoo you're talking about, it's supported by ScummVM, and can easily be played on pretty much on any device of your choosing.
https://www.scummvm.org/

 Mon Feb 14 09:18:26 +0000 2022

All you have to do is copy all the game's files into a folder and then point ScummVM to it in a easy to use menu. It's much easier than using an actual pc emulator, and supports hundreds of games.

 Mon Feb 14 09:24:11 +0000 2022

Is it this book?
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1270167385039929345?t=oBFvTQMczMFlTVMDTPRDBQ&s=19

 Mon Feb 14 11:11:18 +0000 2022

TIL via @Resulka that the guy who wrote King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, SimCity 2000, Zork, Lemmings, and Wizardry strategy guides also co-wrote this. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1270167385039929345

 Mon Feb 14 11:24:27 +0000 2022

Calling @buttplugio

 Mon Feb 14 11:28:25 +0000 2022

RT @CharlJohnston: 15 years ago, the greatest moment in cinema history https://t.co/ehCKgSfm1n

 Mon Feb 14 13:43:17 +0000 2022

RT @yolkfolk_com: Happy Valentine's Day from Dizzy and Daisy.

#dizzy #yolkfolk #retrogaming #ValentinesDay

 Mon Feb 14 16:34:29 +0000 2022

Haha. And how do you feel *now*, younger me? 🤣 https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/37028845613875200

 Mon Feb 14 17:25:55 +0000 2022

HP isn't even 60 yet. I suspect there would be a lot less jumping on stage if he was.

 Mon Feb 14 17:37:05 +0000 2022

RT @OldTechAdverts: Computer Language Feb 1985
https://archive.org/download/Computer_Language_Issue_06_1985-02_CL_Publications_US/Computer_Language_Issue_06_1985-02_CL_Publications_US.pdf
#retrocomputer #computerlanguage #retrocoding

 Mon Feb 14 17:42:02 +0000 2022

Not sure what you mean by "what happened"

 Mon Feb 14 18:07:21 +0000 2022

I see. Well, it was developed by an Italian developer Simulmundo who sort of invented the budget episodic gaming genre. Time Runners came near the end of their run, when the interest in the kinds of games they were developing was dwindling.

 Mon Feb 14 18:19:41 +0000 2022

There's a very detailed two part article on the history of Simulmundo:
https://genesistemple.com/once-we-were-giants-the-history-of-simulmondo-italys-first-software-house-part-i

 Mon Feb 14 18:21:28 +0000 2022

RT @gayocats: 1087824377641

 Mon Feb 14 18:22:02 +0000 2022

Don't thank me, thank @damgentemp

 Mon Feb 14 18:27:44 +0000 2022

RT @DOSSTORM: How do you guys feel about Commander Keen modding? I did a video on some cool Keen mods out there! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCflqHrARxw #A…

 Mon Feb 14 18:52:25 +0000 2022

RT @damgentemp: Yes, I will not rest until someone hires me to write a 6000 words retrospective on the 1991 Naughty Dog rpg Rings of Power.…

 Mon Feb 14 18:56:13 +0000 2022

RT @lazygamereviews: Fresh Blerb!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9LLI0sJyQY

This miniature IBM PC 5150 is SUPERB, easily one of my favorite little things c…

 Mon Feb 14 18:59:11 +0000 2022

Happy Valentine's Day from DOS Nostalgia! ❤️

 Mon Feb 14 23:53:35 +0000 2022

I started DOS Nostalgia in 2009 with a review of Alley Cat. It's a perfect game, and it's never going away.

 Tue Feb 15 00:30:21 +0000 2022

I never owned any of Software Creations trivia games

 Tue Feb 15 01:46:47 +0000 2022

Happy Valentine's Day to this cute couple ❤️

 Tue Feb 15 02:27:58 +0000 2022

Now that I finally have a chance to easily play the console version of Powerslave, I gotta say, it's pretty good. 👍

 Tue Feb 15 02:34:25 +0000 2022

The PC version is pretty good though 🤷‍♂️

 Tue Feb 15 02:38:33 +0000 2022

(This doesn't mean that the PC version isn't good. It is also pretty good.) #DOSGaming

 Tue Feb 15 02:50:09 +0000 2022

Lobotomy Software developed their own engine for the Saturn/PSX versions called "Slavedriver", which they then used to port (in actuality just completely rebuild) Duke 3D and Quake to Saturn.

 Tue Feb 15 04:21:57 +0000 2022

Pretty useless third person camera mode in Build engine games. #DOSGaming

 Tue Feb 15 04:45:59 +0000 2022

Ken Silverman's Build test game (version circa 2000).

 Tue Feb 15 04:52:59 +0000 2022

Wordle 241 5/6
This took waaay too long

 Tue Feb 15 05:03:32 +0000 2022

You can always make your Wordle results more fancy with this easy to use Wordle2Townscaper converter:
https://tarmo888.github.io/Wordle2Townscaper/

 Tue Feb 15 05:14:00 +0000 2022

 Tue Feb 15 05:26:42 +0000 2022

RT @Garrodactyl: TIRED: Villenueve did the best adaptation of Dune

WIRED: David Lynch did the best adaptation of Dune

INSPIRED: Jodorows…

 Tue Feb 15 06:13:59 +0000 2022

Or, hear me out here....
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1402765616071823361

 Tue Feb 15 06:14:54 +0000 2022

When I'm at some kind of a retro gaming thing, and everyone just keeps talking about console stuff is the same mood as Bob Dylan during We Are The World:

 Tue Feb 15 07:39:03 +0000 2022

Я помню что у Русского варианта ещё был перевод так себе. Плохо читалось.

 Tue Feb 15 07:52:16 +0000 2022

То есть как это не реализовано? Визуально на карте нет, но когда ставим или ключ или дверь, просят внести значение. Правым щелчком в редакторе это значение показываеться.

 Tue Feb 15 07:55:55 +0000 2022

Эта тест карта из главы. Полная игра вроде в корне лежит где-то на диске.

 Tue Feb 15 08:01:34 +0000 2022

В CHAP09 должна быть вроде просто AZTEC. Там показываеться полностью пример перед тем как всё объясняют.

 Tue Feb 15 08:09:51 +0000 2022

That would imply it's kind of useful in all other games as well.

 Tue Feb 15 10:33:27 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: "The genius of the hole: no matter how long you spend climbing out, you can still fall back down in an instant." https://…

 Tue Feb 15 11:16:50 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Pretty useless third person camera mode in Build engine games. #DOSGaming

 Tue Feb 15 15:48:34 +0000 2022

Yes

 Tue Feb 15 16:50:02 +0000 2022

https://x.com/AdventurersCap/status/1493613341612429312

 Tue Feb 15 16:53:35 +0000 2022

Double Agent (Flair Software, 1998) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Feb 15 17:05:00 +0000 2022

Pretty much a spiritual successor

 Tue Feb 15 17:14:23 +0000 2022

Since you've been enduring my tweets for so long, I'll do you a favor and make sure you don't have to put up with them anymore. Blocked.

 Tue Feb 15 17:16:47 +0000 2022

I Love EPSON '96 (Windows 9x, 1996) #NotDOS

 Tue Feb 15 17:39:32 +0000 2022

 Tue Feb 15 17:39:34 +0000 2022

 Tue Feb 15 17:39:48 +0000 2022

No. See, you're already supposed to have a printer. Then you just print out the photos.

 Tue Feb 15 18:03:56 +0000 2022

Why... it's a CALENDAR!

 Tue Feb 15 18:09:20 +0000 2022

Following the release of PowerSlave: Exhumed I'm seeing the return of the "PC version of Powerslave is bad" discourse. I'm here to refute that. Sure, it can't claim to be "Metroid Prime before Metroid Prime", but it is a solid (oh no, I'm gonna say it) "boomer shooter" as it is. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1493417316436094976

 Tue Feb 15 18:19:16 +0000 2022

Its shooting mechanics are simple, but satisfying. Its levels are large and interesting. There's platforming, but not to the point of being annoying. And, of course, it also shares its unique setting and presentation with its console counterparts. #DOSGaming

 Tue Feb 15 18:23:10 +0000 2022

It's not very impressive technically (it sticks to a very early version of the engine, not a sloped surface in sight,) but it still manages to be interesting.

 Tue Feb 15 18:24:27 +0000 2022

Yeah, I have a bunch of those. But I also got a couple from *very* early on:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/698306825444311040

 Tue Feb 15 18:29:43 +0000 2022

And here are the actual screenshots used in the article you linked. I have them dated 02/02/96

 Tue Feb 15 18:32:19 +0000 2022

Yeah, often my dates are a few months off because the materials are from public CD magazines.

 Tue Feb 15 18:51:26 +0000 2022

I mean, the console version is pretty short as well. And it would have been even shorter if you didn't have to fight the same enemies over and over again when re-entering levels.

 Tue Feb 15 18:53:30 +0000 2022

No context 80s Soviet music video: 🔊🎵☭

 Tue Feb 15 19:13:45 +0000 2022

В 86-м году? Не очень. Привет Михаилу Сергеевичу 👋

 Tue Feb 15 19:18:30 +0000 2022

Put all my No Context Russian Music videos into a Twitter moment:
https://x.com/i/events/1493667520968077316

 Tue Feb 15 19:47:27 +0000 2022

RT @vg_history: the seven spirits of ra, game over screen, dos (1987) https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/seven-spirits-of-ra/screenshots/gameShotId,585705/

 Tue Feb 15 20:08:43 +0000 2022

RT @DjangoDunesVT: There's something genuinely bone-chilling about old MS-DOS adventure games that have "spooky" sections. Maybe it's the f…

 Tue Feb 15 20:19:30 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: When I'm at some kind of a retro gaming thing, and everyone just keeps talking about console stuff is the same mood as Bo…

 Tue Feb 15 20:30:10 +0000 2022

PCExhumed

 Tue Feb 15 21:12:49 +0000 2022

RT @GameHistoryOrg: This 1991 arcade trade mag ad shows part of Microprose's brief & surprising foray into arcade games with a F-15 Strike…

 Tue Feb 15 22:07:17 +0000 2022

RT @benjedwards: “Maybe that’s another reason I’m okay with the web beating out Gopher,” said Mark McCahill (lead developer of Gopher). “I…

 Tue Feb 15 23:05:49 +0000 2022

Someone's reverse engineering Cryo's Dune and reimplementing it in Java:
https://github.com/kevinferrare/cryodunere

 Wed Feb 16 00:47:04 +0000 2022

 Wed Feb 16 00:51:13 +0000 2022

The reason to watch the tv cut of Army of Darkness is all the little bits that didn't make it into any of the three theatrical versions. https://x.com/portifloyd/status/1493783328721305603

 Wed Feb 16 05:24:49 +0000 2022

RT @jamesfmackenzie: I installed a 3dfx Voodoo2 in an HP t5710 Thin Client. Does it work!?

Watch here: https://youtu.be/tElwYDSPqZM

#retrogami…

 Wed Feb 16 05:34:04 +0000 2022

Глючит где-то. После убийства достаточного количества врагов начинает часто показывать что найдено оружие. И при попытке взять что-то с пола во втором уровне (возможно как раз оружие) вылетело.

 Wed Feb 16 05:53:04 +0000 2022

Love having flash storage on a ZX Spectrum

 Wed Feb 16 06:52:04 +0000 2022

Нет, точно не из за элексиров, т.к. я их использовал постоянно.

 Wed Feb 16 07:24:43 +0000 2022

Wordle accepts the word LAMER, and that's all I needed to know. 👍

 Wed Feb 16 07:26:10 +0000 2022

Tmw you thought a certain Russian Macromedia Director Quicktime Mac-targeted game was cancelled because of 1998 Russian financial crisis since there was never more than a single preview of it in the press, and then...
#RussianVideogames

 Wed Feb 16 07:39:30 +0000 2022

This is the only mention of it that I have ever seen

 Wed Feb 16 08:09:47 +0000 2022

"The long term goal is to be able to play Strike Commander with a Virtual Reality Headset (Oculus Rift)." https://x.com/fabynou/status/1493858652523929605

 Wed Feb 16 08:21:41 +0000 2022

Love the aesthetic! 😍 https://x.com/HiddenAsbestos/status/1493711196788297731

 Wed Feb 16 09:34:55 +0000 2022

- When you're Russian, but write in English in an attempt to sell shareware internationally
- When your English is finally checked by Epic MegaGames
#DOSGaming #RussianVideogames

 Wed Feb 16 10:06:11 +0000 2022

Moar #DOSGaming

 Wed Feb 16 10:10:01 +0000 2022

Sadly the final English and Russian versions have been polished up and don't include the above images, sometimes replacing them with updated art 😥

 Wed Feb 16 10:17:46 +0000 2022

It is.

 Wed Feb 16 10:33:14 +0000 2022

Sure. Look for "Highway Fighter", instead of "Highway Hunter".

 Wed Feb 16 11:15:24 +0000 2022

Призрак старого парка/Escape from the Haunted House/Old Park Ghost (Windows 3.x, Windows 9x, 1997) #NotDOS #RussianVideogames
Pretty much a Russian "The 7th Guest meets Myst".

 Wed Feb 16 23:02:22 +0000 2022

Psycho Killer (Delta 4 Interactive/On-Line, Prism Leisure, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Feb 16 23:27:04 +0000 2022

From the people who brought you "Give me a drink, bartender" comes...

 Wed Feb 16 23:28:11 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: - When you're Russian, but write in English in an attempt to sell shareware internationally
- When your English is finall…

 Wed Feb 16 23:33:38 +0000 2022

Better technology ≠ better aesthetic
#DOSGaming 💿💾

 Thu Feb 17 00:08:26 +0000 2022

RT @JayFriday6: Starting with Demoniak in preparation for playing along with the next season of @stayforeverDE's wonderful let's play forma…

 Thu Feb 17 00:20:52 +0000 2022

AirXonix (Windows 9x, 2000) #NotDOS

 Thu Feb 17 01:01:00 +0000 2022

I feel like I'd experience every human emotion while riding in an ambulance after a heart attack after eating a couple of these 😮

 Thu Feb 17 01:17:26 +0000 2022

I have a real soft spot for early 2000s shareware. This one really stands out by being
- extremely polished
- Russian

 Thu Feb 17 01:19:05 +0000 2022

I never got around to checking that one out. Maybe i should.

 Thu Feb 17 01:26:39 +0000 2022

Nothing too ancient. Both of my oldest machines are from 1987:
- ZX Spectrum +2A
- IBM PS/2 model 30 https://x.com/histoftech/status/1494123310514425856

 Thu Feb 17 02:47:16 +0000 2022

I mean, I guess I also have an NES. That's a computer. From 1986, I believe.

 Thu Feb 17 02:49:11 +0000 2022

Funniest thing is, in the year 2022 I have flash storage on ALL my devices going back 35 years.

 Thu Feb 17 02:50:57 +0000 2022

Not going to work today because of that thing where a seemingly simple injury I could have walked off in 5 minutes when I was a kid leaves me impacted for days instead.

 Thu Feb 17 02:54:10 +0000 2022

Why am I falling apart so early? 😓 Oh yeah, it's probably *because* I walked off too many things when I was younger.

 Thu Feb 17 02:55:17 +0000 2022

Yep. A fairly similar story. I was rushing on Monday and caught a couch leg with my foot. Now I'm still feeling it two days later.

 Thu Feb 17 02:56:56 +0000 2022

 Thu Feb 17 04:10:27 +0000 2022

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Feb 17 04:34:31 +0000 2022

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107811468939339691

 Thu Feb 17 04:34:49 +0000 2022

It came full circle the next year though
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1481021761995128832

 Thu Feb 17 04:49:12 +0000 2022

Wordle 243 5/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🙄

 Thu Feb 17 05:06:39 +0000 2022

👀

 Thu Feb 17 05:11:32 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Ladies of Leisure Suit Larry 6 (CD-ROM version) part 1: #DOSGaming

 Thu Feb 17 06:52:09 +0000 2022

Sure, but these are almost static pictures in game, while in 7 everything is pretty lively animated.

 Thu Feb 17 06:59:15 +0000 2022

I am not a big fan either, but I think it fits the 7th game's style of humor rather well, and its the one where it's most refined out of all Sierra games.

 Thu Feb 17 07:17:56 +0000 2022

He-hey! A bunch of old shit in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Bigbug, including a much loved in France Amstrad CPC

 Thu Feb 17 08:33:50 +0000 2022

I'm only 35 minutes into it, but I don't quite understand why the reviews are so negative. This is essentially Jeunet's return to the style of his earlier firms. Very Delicatessen.

 Thu Feb 17 08:36:54 +0000 2022

Also props to Neflix for not interfering with original French dialogue. Some of the stuff doesn't translate particularly well into English, but the subtitles do try their best.

 Thu Feb 17 08:38:32 +0000 2022

Only a French man would make a film that has an aesthetic of a colorful kids movie, but also super horny.

 Thu Feb 17 08:51:17 +0000 2022

I'm a big Jeunet fan, so I kind of know what tropes are coming just because they haven't happened yet. I'm hoping for an elaborate chain reaction sequence at some point.

 Thu Feb 17 08:58:29 +0000 2022

Oh no. Is this a dig at Pitof? 😂

 Thu Feb 17 09:00:47 +0000 2022

Ooh. In that case I'd recommend seeing at least a couple more:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1375270947083673601

 Thu Feb 17 09:56:13 +0000 2022

Shape of Water was actually a ripoff of Jeunet, which he did mention publicly, and Del Toro got upset and said they both must have been inspired by Gilliam 🤷‍♂️

 Thu Feb 17 10:12:31 +0000 2022

Well, now I want to see the play 🤔

 Thu Feb 17 10:21:50 +0000 2022

Bonbonbonbons

 Thu Feb 17 14:49:28 +0000 2022

Large Macs

 Thu Feb 17 14:53:53 +0000 2022

RT @ThatTomHall: Happy 27th Anniversary, Rise of the Triad (full release)! #rott #riseofthetriad #fps #RetroGaming

 Thu Feb 17 19:32:03 +0000 2022

RT @Civvie11: Get yer timebrains ready. I'm investigating the cult of Chasm and its strange, half-remembered, half-brilliant time-travellin…

 Thu Feb 17 19:33:08 +0000 2022

Noooo.... Wrong Vij. Gotta see the 1967 one.

 Thu Feb 17 19:34:18 +0000 2022

I guess more people are gonna try to experience Chasm after today. Good luck! (You're gonna need it.) https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1362584208045203458

 Thu Feb 17 20:19:02 +0000 2022

RT @GameHistoryOrg: This new 2-hour documentary - 'Lemmings: Can You Dig It?' talks to many of the principals - and fans - about the making…

 Thu Feb 17 20:31:35 +0000 2022

RT @GameResearch_E: A forgotten gaming event that was almost lost to time.

The newest blog post is on Gametronics, the most important meet…

 Thu Feb 17 20:31:56 +0000 2022

It's a babby!

 Thu Feb 17 20:41:22 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: He-hey! A bunch of old shit in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Bigbug, including a much loved in France Amstrad CPC https://t.co/BXd…

 Thu Feb 17 20:42:39 +0000 2022

Awww 😍

 Thu Feb 17 20:45:21 +0000 2022

RT @SiennsMHPage: #TheDailyHamill 1569: #ThrowbackThursday daily @HamillHimself with Ginger Lynn Allen and Jennifer MacDonald. 💜🐹💜 #WingCom…

 Thu Feb 17 22:59:45 +0000 2022

Well, that explains menu fonts in SimAnt on my Pentium 2 machine.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1446281111835922434?t=UIMRbJmXdD7y-n_KbOBqEQ&s=19

 Fri Feb 18 00:57:17 +0000 2022

RT @HG_101: Doukyuusei is one of the foundational dating sims, originally released on PCs in 1992, wild that's getting an English release 3…

 Fri Feb 18 04:09:47 +0000 2022

Babby slep

 Fri Feb 18 04:28:27 +0000 2022

RT @aradiogurl: Apple DOS Compatibility card adapter and the card installed in my Q700. This 68040 Mac with a 486DX2-66 inside is a combina…

 Fri Feb 18 05:30:29 +0000 2022

It had a very clear divide for me when I stopped being delighted, and started groaning: the Wal-Mart scene.

 Fri Feb 18 05:31:25 +0000 2022

Someone made Wordle for DOS, but it's... too basic. Not letter keyboard.
https://vitawrap.itch.io/wor-dos

 Fri Feb 18 06:58:12 +0000 2022

Alternatively here's a pretty cool Wordle for the ZX Spectrum
https://youtu.be/X0rRxNJyPHY

 Fri Feb 18 06:59:29 +0000 2022

RT @LuigiThirty: i am sorry

 Fri Feb 18 07:01:07 +0000 2022

You forget who you're talking to 😉
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1481334569290846208?t=3ZZPASK11In_8ymIKc90bQ&s=19

 Fri Feb 18 07:02:40 +0000 2022

I miss the 75th anniversary logo. I loved that one.

 Fri Feb 18 08:58:35 +0000 2022

That's actually what the budget for Apocalypse Now was when adjusted for inflation. Needless to say there were still quite a few constraints involved in the making of it, and the end result turned out pretty good.

 Fri Feb 18 15:23:00 +0000 2022

Somehow I've never seen these shots of MadSpace map editor before. Just about what I expected. #DOSGaming

 Fri Feb 18 15:49:09 +0000 2022

A refresher on MadSpace:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1008191108818571264

 Fri Feb 18 15:53:51 +0000 2022

First public demo version of Chasm: The Rift from July 30th 1996 (more than a year b4 release).
Features what appears to be a complete & working engine (enemy dismemberment in place), 3 weapons, 3 monsters, multiplayer support, one map with part of it NOT on a grid (!) #DOSGaming

 Fri Feb 18 16:23:00 +0000 2022

How exactly Quake-inspired was Chasm? Considering that this VERY functional version of the game was out just over a month after the Quake shareware dropped? 🤔

 Fri Feb 18 16:23:58 +0000 2022

Well, it is definitely Quake-inspired in its art direction more than anything else, and there have been plenty of screenshots of Quake at the time, as well as QTest has been out for half the year.

 Fri Feb 18 16:43:41 +0000 2022

Chasm: The Rift, MadSpace, and Z.A.R. all list a 486DX100 as their minimum specs. As someone who actually has a 486DX100 I kind of want to put that to a test.

 Fri Feb 18 16:54:34 +0000 2022

It doesn't support them particularly well though.

 Fri Feb 18 17:25:31 +0000 2022

Cindy's Lemonade Stand (Unknown, 1988) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Feb 18 17:27:24 +0000 2022

RT @frankcifaldi: I'm paraphrasing but the ESA's stance is that people might (gasp) play games for fun from a library, which is Bad. And it…

 Fri Feb 18 17:40:11 +0000 2022

That's because I believe it was actually based on a time machine Jared Hess' brother bought online.

 Fri Feb 18 17:42:05 +0000 2022

It's not that, it's just the framerate is really low and the effect is not great. If you have a beefy machine, I'd recommend trying Z.A.R. instead.

 Fri Feb 18 17:48:50 +0000 2022

🤔

 Fri Feb 18 17:49:34 +0000 2022

Not really. My recommendations are based on a personal experience.

 Fri Feb 18 17:54:26 +0000 2022

CHESS.BMP

 Fri Feb 18 18:05:08 +0000 2022

No. I also missed an opportunity to pick one up for a reasonable price a couple of years ago, and missed it. And I'm still kicking myself for that.

 Fri Feb 18 18:10:22 +0000 2022

No one's gonna drag you up
To get into the light where you belong

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Fri Feb 18 18:17:58 +0000 2022

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107820369586818936

 Fri Feb 18 18:18:17 +0000 2022

Oh please

 Fri Feb 18 18:24:28 +0000 2022

Pretty much all the attempts to paint AOB as nazis I've seen in the past have been easily disproven. As far as Ekberg's band from when he was 14-16, I mean, really now?

 Fri Feb 18 18:28:42 +0000 2022

I have a picture of me doing the same thing from around the same age. I would say that I'm not a nazi, but I'm grateful that it didn't make its way online.

 Fri Feb 18 18:33:27 +0000 2022

Granted, *my* transgressive high school band wasn't politically motivated, and I would describe our songs as generally funny, but the fact and the matter is it was problematic, and I was too young and dumb to see it.

 Fri Feb 18 18:40:05 +0000 2022

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Bigbug. It isn't one of his better films, but I found it delightfully entertaining. It is so over the top that it has more in common with Delicatessen than his later films. The setup was probably worthy of a smarter payoff, but still it was fun.

 Fri Feb 18 19:16:45 +0000 2022

For the first time in a Jeunet film, Dominique Pinon is only a non-speaking cameo 😥

 Fri Feb 18 19:17:32 +0000 2022

Now I just have to decide if I like it more than Alien: Resurrection, which will probably take a couple more viewings
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1375270947083673601

 Fri Feb 18 19:22:20 +0000 2022

Can the gaming world just go a week without a 60 fps discourse?

 Fri Feb 18 19:30:54 +0000 2022

I MUST BELIEVE

 Fri Feb 18 19:32:54 +0000 2022

Let just all go back to the good old DOS gaming on a CRT. 70 fps is obviously where it's at. 🤷‍♂️

 Fri Feb 18 19:33:50 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: All four 90s fps games by the Razbakov twins:
#RussianVideogames #DOSGaming #NotDOS
Старое золото/Old Gold 3D (MS-DOS, 19…

 Fri Feb 18 19:35:07 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Pencil Whipped (Windows 9x, 2001) #NotDOS

 Fri Feb 18 19:35:15 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Myst (Windows 10, 2021) #NotDOS
A full 3D remake of Myst in Unreal engine built for (optional) VR mode, and puzzle random…

 Fri Feb 18 19:36:20 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: The Palace of Deceit: The Dragon's Plight v2.1 (Win 3.x, 1992) #NotDOS
Bleszinski's follow up to his first shareware game…

 Fri Feb 18 19:36:49 +0000 2022

RT @BuildEnginePics: Game: Blood
By: Monolith Productions

 Fri Feb 18 23:56:46 +0000 2022

There might have been some other technical issue with them? Or maybe it was for optimization purposes? Who knows. While creative, the engine is really wonky, so I guess we won't know unless one of the devs does an interview or something.

 Sat Feb 19 01:32:02 +0000 2022

What the fuck, man

 Sat Feb 19 06:42:25 +0000 2022

The devs provided a map editor with documentation, but I personally haven't seen much of anything. The editor is grid only though.

 Sat Feb 19 10:55:50 +0000 2022

Ok, so I was WRONG. One can absolutely move wall vertices wherever one wants in the editor, and opening the official 3 addon maps, I could instantly see that stuff wasn't on a grid

 Sat Feb 19 11:39:09 +0000 2022

Now I *really* don't get why the game's levels are so boxy.

 Sat Feb 19 11:43:02 +0000 2022

Time to start a networked game of DOOM on these babies!

 Sat Feb 19 11:54:49 +0000 2022

Neither. It's Chasm: The Rift.

 Sat Feb 19 12:00:38 +0000 2022

Well, here you go then. Some Turbo Pascal + ASM black magic from Ukraine circa 1997:
https://youtu.be/5baDD6lydh8

 Sat Feb 19 12:05:20 +0000 2022

 Sat Feb 19 12:37:35 +0000 2022

PASSPORT.MID > CANYON.MID
That is all.

 Sat Feb 19 14:00:45 +0000 2022

Best part of the game is the credits at the beginning of the first level. That's what 100% of Capstone's creativity was used for in this game.

 Sat Feb 19 14:25:00 +0000 2022

fluffy helper

 Sat Feb 19 14:25:57 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Reach out and touch cat 🎶

 Sat Feb 19 14:26:56 +0000 2022

DOSBox

 Sat Feb 19 21:09:50 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Prince of Persia-01.jpg
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Sat Feb 19 21:13:08 +0000 2022

RT @vectorpoem: "SysDooM Shock" is a GZDoom remake of System Shock 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyjpNlTo9wY
I love that Zscript etc is flexible enough th…

 Sat Feb 19 21:20:20 +0000 2022

 Sat Feb 19 21:22:23 +0000 2022

Chex Quest is supported by pretty much every DOOM source port though, so it can be played fairly easily on just about anything.

 Sat Feb 19 21:34:03 +0000 2022

Current in-development builds of ScummVM allow one to replace music in LOOM with one's favorite orchestral rendition of The Swan Lake 😮
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Loom#Audio_tracks

 Sat Feb 19 21:37:40 +0000 2022

A short demonstration:
https://youtu.be/D2BSlNDHY2k

 Sat Feb 19 21:38:12 +0000 2022

If you've only played the Steam version, you might also wanna consider playing the original EGA version:
https://youtu.be/bRJD0OrGulU

 Sat Feb 19 21:44:09 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Time to start a networked game of DOOM on these babies!

 Sat Feb 19 21:44:23 +0000 2022

Since he officially abandoned the port 4 years ago, I wouldn't hold my breath.

 Sat Feb 19 21:53:32 +0000 2022

I believe they say that the current rights holder doesn't want to license anything out 🤷

 Sat Feb 19 21:56:19 +0000 2022

So I hate to be that guy, but... I'm tired of killing the same enemies over and over again when revisiting levels in console Powerslave 🤷

 Sat Feb 19 22:30:43 +0000 2022

So after all these years I've started Chasm's map editor for the first time and was SHOCKED to discover that you could actually move wall vertices wherever you want! 😮

 Sat Feb 19 23:51:48 +0000 2022

Then I really don't understand why they made all the game's levels *this* boxy. It's one of the game's biggest shortcomings imo.

 Sat Feb 19 23:53:12 +0000 2022

Nah, it's the VGA one

 Sun Feb 20 00:17:28 +0000 2022

What song is this?

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Sun Feb 20 00:17:42 +0000 2022

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107827344917323955

 Sun Feb 20 00:18:08 +0000 2022

No, maps don't become more complex on geometry. The second screenshot is from more than half way into the game. And that feature was present before they even signed the publishing deal in 1996
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1494709043209940992?t=gLxKjO-Wq0ZqpEsXwYZC8A&s=19

 Sun Feb 20 00:29:28 +0000 2022

There could be other reasons. Maybe it would increase the system requirements. Maybe it wasn't very stable. Stuff like that. 🤷

 Sun Feb 20 00:51:18 +0000 2022

That is what I'm thinking. WizardWorks were a budget publisher, so maybe low system requirements were preferred.

 Sun Feb 20 02:26:42 +0000 2022

Smol void 👀

 Sun Feb 20 07:25:23 +0000 2022

They are supposed to be playing in your head already

 Sun Feb 20 07:58:37 +0000 2022

EGA and VGA versions are in the same resolution. Same size pixels.

 Sun Feb 20 09:43:39 +0000 2022

Turns out they were condemned. And now these establishments only exist in memories of those who attended them back in the day. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1357927313321639936

 Sun Feb 20 12:36:18 +0000 2022

Deluxe Ski Jump (Jussi Koskela, 1999) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Feb 20 17:45:00 +0000 2022

Ok, forget about the graphics. The ultimate difference: were the characters talking?

 Sun Feb 20 19:14:45 +0000 2022

That's the VGA version. It's the only version with actual speech.

 Sun Feb 20 21:46:17 +0000 2022

Gobliins 5, anyone?

 Sun Feb 20 22:02:06 +0000 2022

Pierre Gilhodes is crowdfunding Gobliins 5. In 640x480 in AGS. For €3,000. 🤔
https://www.ulule.com/gobliiins5/

 Sun Feb 20 22:03:02 +0000 2022

Testing ScummVM's new feature of replacing music in the original version of LOOM with orchestral rendition of The Swan Lake:
#DOSGaming #Tchaikovsky 🔊🎵

 Sun Feb 20 22:26:13 +0000 2022

Hmmm... I'd say The Knobbly Crook fit that description too
https://store.steampowered.com/app/378300/The_Knobbly_Crook/

 Sun Feb 20 22:27:02 +0000 2022

(Swan Lake recording I own is not the recommended one, but the London Symphony Orchestra 1990 one, conducted by Michael Tilson.)

 Sun Feb 20 22:28:51 +0000 2022

Don't forget "Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth"

 Mon Feb 21 02:27:31 +0000 2022

I missed one, but I guess he should have called it Gobliiiiins.

 Mon Feb 21 07:38:09 +0000 2022

Yes, which is why Gobliiins 4 & 5 have the same amount of i's as the first game. They are direct sequels.

 Mon Feb 21 07:44:55 +0000 2022

RT @LuigiThirty: Okay, this should do: https://luigithirty.itch.io/winquest

WinQuest, the 5-letter word guessing game, now available for Windows 3.1! (…

 Mon Feb 21 11:01:12 +0000 2022

RIP Jan Pieńkowski https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1454873693973356547

 Mon Feb 21 11:04:54 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Fuck Quest 2_ Romancing the Bone-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Mon Feb 21 11:05:56 +0000 2022

RT @VariedDeadBeat:

 Mon Feb 21 13:42:39 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Woodruff and The Schnibble of Azimuth/The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble (Windows 3.x, 1994) #NotDOS ht…

 Mon Feb 21 13:55:30 +0000 2022

Upcoming Master of Magic remake has a Steam page with a devlog:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623070/Master_of_Magic/

 Mon Feb 21 14:02:43 +0000 2022

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ᵃᵐ ᴵ
ˢᵗᶦˡˡ
ᵃʷᵃᵏᵉ
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 Mon Feb 21 14:14:13 +0000 2022

RT @fesshole: I once wrote a quick basic program on a ZX spectrum in my local Tandy's asking users to enter a 3 digit number, and no matter…

 Mon Feb 21 14:21:18 +0000 2022

 Mon Feb 21 14:29:53 +0000 2022

Alright, devoted fans of #DOSGaming, which game demo will start when I click "GO TO GAME"?

 Mon Feb 21 14:45:08 +0000 2022

Well, watch this video to see if you've guessed correctly!

 Mon Feb 21 15:01:24 +0000 2022

Yes, once upon a time THAT game demo shipped with an interactive slideshow for Dodge Neon. 👀

 Mon Feb 21 15:02:09 +0000 2022

It is absolutely a thing that happened.

 Mon Feb 21 15:02:27 +0000 2022

 Mon Feb 21 15:07:46 +0000 2022

It's only a manual cover

 Mon Feb 21 15:18:41 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: You probably didn't know about a Russian pirate translation of Monolith's Blood titled "V.I. Lenin: First Blood" https://…

 Mon Feb 21 16:17:57 +0000 2022

🤔

 Mon Feb 21 16:37:03 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Well, this certainly dates itself a little

 Mon Feb 21 16:37:52 +0000 2022

(No, I'm not getting that. Don't have $ to throw around. Maybe when I'm rich and famous.)

 Mon Feb 21 16:46:44 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Mon Feb 21 16:57:21 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Wait... What?

 Mon Feb 21 17:02:55 +0000 2022

Two Windows 3.x Wordles is 24 hours? What a time to be alive! https://x.com/lazygamereviews/status/1495821466943860736

 Mon Feb 21 18:15:20 +0000 2022

RT @MobyGamer: Discovered another "smart" parallel port DAC, the ds311 (Digispeech Plus). Like the Disney Sound Source, it has a FIFO buffe…

 Mon Feb 21 18:17:58 +0000 2022

I believe DS201 is more like a Covox, and is missing SB emulation features.

 Mon Feb 21 18:22:20 +0000 2022

I don't know

 Mon Feb 21 18:22:40 +0000 2022

 Mon Feb 21 18:26:59 +0000 2022

The Alpine Encounter (Ibid/Random House, 1985) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Mon Feb 21 19:54:39 +0000 2022

RT @dosgameclub: Next month we're looking into Quake, notable at the time of its release in 1996 for being fully 3D rendered #DOSGaming

Bu…

 Mon Feb 21 23:17:57 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Remember how old first person shooter games could only render environments in straight vertical lines, and looking up or…

 Tue Feb 22 11:56:37 +0000 2022

It doesn't make space spatially, but considering how the engine displays everything, it fits better with the environment which is also rendered straight on, no matter where you're looking.

 Tue Feb 22 12:22:59 +0000 2022

RT @damgentemp: The "always random difficulty level where no 2 games are the same", so Corridor 7 can now be officially called a roguelite.…

 Tue Feb 22 13:27:14 +0000 2022

Happy birthday to my man here

 Tue Feb 22 14:18:07 +0000 2022

RT @lazygamereviews: And here's a video about it! This is the USB4VC, an open source modular platform for adapting modern USB and Bluetooth…

 Tue Feb 22 14:40:41 +0000 2022

Having a weirdly melancholy Tuesday.

 Tue Feb 22 16:05:33 +0000 2022

So needless to say
I'm odds and ends
But I'll be stumbling away
Slowly learning that life is okay
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Tue Feb 22 16:06:01 +0000 2022

Full length video on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107842375572939024

 Tue Feb 22 16:06:22 +0000 2022

THAT Love Triangle (MDickie, 2000) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Feb 22 17:00:12 +0000 2022

His Jesus game is more entertaining than any other Christian game out there.

 Tue Feb 22 17:27:49 +0000 2022

RT @thedrive: This 1989 Ford Simulator II floppy disk lets you preview 1990 Ford, Mercury and Lincoln cars. Hell yeah, MS-DOS: https://t.co…

 Tue Feb 22 21:29:05 +0000 2022

It's 22/02/2022, so a *very* appropriate day to play some DOS games!
#DOSGaming

 Wed Feb 23 01:02:45 +0000 2022

RT @cyanworlds: Sad news to report... John Keston, who played Gehn in Riven died at the age of 97 on Feb. 13, 2022.

We're grateful to have…

 Wed Feb 23 01:07:07 +0000 2022

RT @benjedwards: The parrot that united a generation

 Wed Feb 23 01:07:24 +0000 2022

I've got one as well, and I recommend it to everyone. Very creative use of pop ups. https://t.co/Pa982MPnzf

 Wed Feb 23 01:11:55 +0000 2022

RT @GarthBeagle: PRINCE.EXE

#DOSGaming

 Wed Feb 23 01:26:16 +0000 2022

As someone who has one I can say that they are equally as amazing as they are disappointing. But the specs are absolutely incredible, especially for its size and time.

 Wed Feb 23 01:34:45 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: This art is amazing

 Wed Feb 23 01:55:32 +0000 2022

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

 Wed Feb 23 01:59:00 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming

 Wed Feb 23 02:03:40 +0000 2022

Here's a cool new ZX Spectrum games written for a BASIC competition 😯
https://youtu.be/K6RfJdpxvHQ

 Wed Feb 23 02:08:37 +0000 2022

You can now grab the CD-ROM included with Clayton Walnum's 1995 book "Dungeons of Discovery: Writing Dazzling Windows Games with WinG" from the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/dungeons-wing-programming-cd

 Wed Feb 23 03:56:07 +0000 2022

As an example the disc includes a WinG version of a short dungeon crawler RPG "Aztec Adventure", which runs on Windows 10 if you have 32 bit WinG libraries installed, or in Windows 3.x if you have WinG and Win32s installed. #NotDOS

 Wed Feb 23 04:27:46 +0000 2022

If you have WinG dlls in your System directory, yes.

 Wed Feb 23 04:35:22 +0000 2022

Unused Chasm: The Rift enemy "Dino"

 Wed Feb 23 15:34:30 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: "Narcissus" aka Recruitment Theme from Cannon Fodder played on a real Roland MT-32. #DOSGaming 🎵🔊

 Wed Feb 23 16:04:24 +0000 2022

Well, there it is. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1326673040437022720

 Wed Feb 23 16:12:41 +0000 2022

Wow. Dr. Web ain't what it used to be. 😥

 Wed Feb 23 16:26:31 +0000 2022

A message from King's Quest 6 urging the players to call their local radio station to request the "Girl in the Tower" song, along with the flyer that listed said stations included with first releases of the game. #DOSGaming

 Wed Feb 23 16:34:38 +0000 2022

Not sure, but we do know that local radio stations were pissed off.

 Wed Feb 23 16:37:01 +0000 2022

Menu selection is missing from the official Spanish version from 1994.

 Wed Feb 23 16:39:26 +0000 2022

And here's Mark Seibert's love ballad itself from the CD-ROM version of King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow.

 Wed Feb 23 16:41:16 +0000 2022

Monika's Tic-tac-toe (Mateusz Viste, 2006) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Feb 23 17:22:21 +0000 2022

I'm getting whiplash looking at this selection.

 Wed Feb 23 17:32:57 +0000 2022

3D models of maps from the original Grand Theft Auto
Liberty City: https://skfb.ly/oqZNo
San Andreas: https://skfb.ly/orUJ7
Vice City: https://skfb.ly/orUJv

 Wed Feb 23 17:41:51 +0000 2022

Here you go
https://www.sierragamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/KQ6_Radio_Station_Insert.pdf

 Wed Feb 23 18:05:26 +0000 2022

You might be surprised to learn that other people like DOS as well
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1486121759321608201

 Wed Feb 23 18:08:46 +0000 2022

BLOCKED AND REPORTED

 Wed Feb 23 18:11:03 +0000 2022

Listen, still not as funny as George Broussard misspelling his own name, and then never correcting it throughout at least 3 different versions of the game.

 Wed Feb 23 18:12:01 +0000 2022

If you enjoy my tweets and other content, and would like to buy me a drink or a sandwich ☕🥪
https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic

 Wed Feb 23 18:27:58 +0000 2022

Looks like all you need to do is wait about 17979 years.

 Wed Feb 23 18:28:51 +0000 2022

You tell me

 Wed Feb 23 18:30:51 +0000 2022

No. I had to dig for a bit.

 Wed Feb 23 19:47:42 +0000 2022

I have no idea who he was until two competing documentaries about him came out. One of them was an emotional ride.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1194860564553641986

 Wed Feb 23 20:30:23 +0000 2022

TIL about "Imp", a 2001 fighting game by Idol FX (Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi, Drake of the 99 Dragons) which apparently was released on 50 (!) CDs because each disc was dedicated to a single fighter.

 Wed Feb 23 20:49:17 +0000 2022

It looks like the total size of the data from all the discs is... 191 megabytes 🤷‍♂️

 Wed Feb 23 20:52:11 +0000 2022

Man. They really though they were gonna sell their game x50 times, didn't they?

 Wed Feb 23 20:57:59 +0000 2022

You needed 50 drives. Jk, the data was loaded before the match, so only one drive was required.

 Wed Feb 23 20:59:54 +0000 2022

Obviously that didn't work out very well because those two monster disc covers are the only ones I could find, and even that required some digging.

 Wed Feb 23 21:05:44 +0000 2022

The 192 mb pirate rip from December of 2001 comes with an awkward fighter selector you're supposed to ALT+TAB into every time the game asks for another CD.

 Wed Feb 23 21:11:09 +0000 2022

Which, of course, means that some actual hero had to spend money to buy all 50 CDs of a shitty fighting game.

 Wed Feb 23 21:13:16 +0000 2022

It specifically states that nothing has been cut. A full rip.

 Wed Feb 23 21:14:17 +0000 2022

The files on discs were actually different.

 Wed Feb 23 21:18:53 +0000 2022

And now another update on the state of The Pandora Directive remake, featuring some very nice visuals.
Bonus: a love Under a Killing Moon school assignment scrapbook by @Jasyla_
https://bigfinishgames.com/its-all-about-the-style/

 Wed Feb 23 21:21:22 +0000 2022

Apart from the timing being off at times, this is not as bad as I expected.

 Wed Feb 23 21:36:50 +0000 2022

Twitter is refusing to let me have an edit button (or at the very least a delete & redraft button, which they do SELL for MONEY,) and I refuse to double check my tweets. Everyone loses, but that's okay. I think everyone knows I had no attention span whatsoever at this point.

 Wed Feb 23 21:45:49 +0000 2022

I was unable to find out the actual price,but I doubt it.

 Thu Feb 24 00:04:28 +0000 2022

Come on, please help me, Doctor Dick
I need your love, I feel so sick
I need a kick and you're so big
Oh, doctor, please, deep, deep, deeper
Help me, Doctor Dick
My fever's rising, please come quick
I know you know a little trick
Oh, doctor, please, deep, deep, deeper

#OPL3MIDI

 Thu Feb 24 00:32:37 +0000 2022

Full length video on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107849484598234744

 Thu Feb 24 00:33:02 +0000 2022

If you're not familiar with that particular horny Eurodance masterpiece, here you go.
(A bit NSFW)
https://youtu.be/G0sORVBL4kM

 Thu Feb 24 00:33:34 +0000 2022

Always
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1253769520772243456?t=6372jaV1UoW_UETp62AeoA&s=19

 Thu Feb 24 00:38:07 +0000 2022

RT @lazygamereviews: Got a couple projects being worked on at once. It's a pleasant scene.

 Thu Feb 24 00:47:11 +0000 2022

This one
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1062450411355942912?t=RWOzuMGSWBZdwIZ8HRXHtw&s=19

 Thu Feb 24 04:07:35 +0000 2022

I guess this is what it took for a lot of Americans to learn that Russia and Ukraine are two different countries. 😥

 Thu Feb 24 04:38:39 +0000 2022

Evergreen tweet about both of my presidents https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1058082825008791553

 Thu Feb 24 04:42:29 +0000 2022

YEEEEEHAAAAWWWW

 Thu Feb 24 04:46:50 +0000 2022

a full rip available here:
https://www.old-games.ru/game/download/10970.html
Not sure about modern system compatibility

 Thu Feb 24 05:24:20 +0000 2022

Not surprising tbh

 Thu Feb 24 05:33:47 +0000 2022

Babby tired

 Thu Feb 24 07:17:02 +0000 2022

RT @TheJohnPerry: Like everyone in the retro gaming community im hoping @krikzz and his family/friends stay safe and well in Ukraine,

 Thu Feb 24 16:54:45 +0000 2022

DOS games didn't have any MIDI soundfonts (unless they converted MIDI to play through AdLib/OPL), so the playback would depend entirely on your sound hardware.

 Thu Feb 24 17:17:50 +0000 2022

Crazy that it came out 5+ years ago, and there still aren't many VR games that are as good.

 Fri Feb 25 01:15:58 +0000 2022

Huh. Those feel like incredibly small numbers for Sierra. It means an average of less than 172,000 units per each of 7 games.

 Fri Feb 25 05:18:16 +0000 2022

RT @gayocats: garfield_sun

 Fri Feb 25 12:10:34 +0000 2022

ScummVM daily builds adds support and is open for testing for The 11th Hour, Clandestiny, Tender Loving Care (CD-ROM edition), and Uncle Henry's Playhouse.
Additionally each of the games (and The 7th Guest) gets an optional Easier AI mode.
https://www.scummvm.org/news/20220216

 Fri Feb 25 12:17:58 +0000 2022

Carnivores (Windows 9x, 1998) #NotDOS #UkrainianVideogames
An above average entry in the Budget Hunting Sim genre by Ukrainian developer Action Forms (Chasm: The Rift).
Full 3D, 6 maps, 3 weapons, & 10 types of dinos.
It really set itself apart from ur standard Deer Hunter clones

 Fri Feb 25 13:55:58 +0000 2022

A Carnivores print ad.
Note that it was published by GT Interactive under the WizardWorks banner, the same company that put out the genre defining hit Deer Hunter the year earlier.

 Fri Feb 25 13:57:10 +0000 2022

Are you though?

 Fri Feb 25 14:18:49 +0000 2022

RT @KevEdwardsRetro: Here are the Spider-Man sprites used in SNES 'Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge' (1992). Created in DPaint…

 Fri Feb 25 16:19:12 +0000 2022

Древние бои в Земле Колдовства/The Ancient War of Chetraney (Alex Dragon, 1995) #DOSGameScreenADay #UkrainianVideogames

 Fri Feb 25 17:00:49 +0000 2022

RT @danooct1: new Windows 3.1 virus vid, been a while since one of those: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc1kvs5ONZE

 Fri Feb 25 21:54:57 +0000 2022

RT @kobldexe: Our discord server is losing our collective minds over this license agreement. There's so much to unpack here. https://t.co/a…

 Fri Feb 25 21:56:10 +0000 2022

LoveDOS
A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua. LoveDOS provides an API based on a subset of the LÖVE API
https://github.com/rxi/lovedos

 Fri Feb 25 22:00:13 +0000 2022

KQ6 source code is out there?

 Fri Feb 25 22:11:49 +0000 2022

I have, but I was under an impression that the variable names weren't present in decompiled code.

 Fri Feb 25 22:26:20 +0000 2022

Both game and the ads did lean into it though. It's clearly the intention.

 Fri Feb 25 22:39:10 +0000 2022

Gotta love 90s marketing edgelords. There was clearly even more to that photo shoot, as this German print ad proves https://x.com/GameHistoryOrg/status/1497330569599803394

 Fri Feb 25 22:44:02 +0000 2022

Game: Leans into 90s clubbing scene with techno music and clean, colorful aesthetic

90s marketing: YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE GOES WITH CLUBBING?!?!?! 😈

 Fri Feb 25 22:45:45 +0000 2022

But I guess it turned out to be too much, so to avoid further controversy print ads for the sequel were about people pissing themselves instead 🤷‍♂️

 Fri Feb 25 22:49:45 +0000 2022

Don't you mean Garcon Virtuel?

 Fri Feb 25 22:54:20 +0000 2022

RT @gayocats: 1156648785011

 Fri Feb 25 23:10:50 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Carnivores (Windows 9x, 1998) #NotDOS #UkrainianVideogames
An above average entry in the Budget Hunting Sim genre by Ukra…

 Fri Feb 25 23:11:53 +0000 2022

Can you snipe a T-rex in the eye in Quake? Don't think so!

 Fri Feb 25 23:17:50 +0000 2022

It's not even that much of a stretch

 Fri Feb 25 23:22:04 +0000 2022

 Fri Feb 25 23:35:58 +0000 2022

RT @Pixelmusement: New Ancient DOS Games episode uploaded! https://youtu.be/tFHz3NYNkhE

 Sat Feb 26 11:19:26 +0000 2022

Best vodka is from France (although Grey Goose not owned by the French anymore), and I recommend this book
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1428881992645595139?t=294TAUq9MLBFE3uIz5rO7g&s=19

 Sat Feb 26 13:55:28 +0000 2022

Finlandia is good for cocktails, but I wouldn't drink it straight.

 Sat Feb 26 14:02:19 +0000 2022

This isn't as hilarious as some replies claim. If this really happened it's time for NVIDIA to open source their drivers. https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1497484483494354946

 Sat Feb 26 14:20:56 +0000 2022

RT @BuildEnginePics: Have you ever wanted to play Blood, but find it too difficulty to play?

There's a new gameplay mod called NotBlood,…

 Sat Feb 26 16:22:12 +0000 2022

*for you. I'm a big fan of Blood, but I'm also a fan of options. That's all they are. Options. And I think the name of the mod is appropriate. There's more in Blood to be appreciated than it's hard boiled difficulty.

 Sat Feb 26 16:37:45 +0000 2022

So how long before I have to order my salad with Freedom Dressing?

 Sat Feb 26 18:12:30 +0000 2022

Hello babby

 Sat Feb 26 18:13:41 +0000 2022

I've lived in the US long enough to know this statement not to be true, sadly

 Sat Feb 26 18:16:07 +0000 2022

Btw, all joking aside, that shit you guys call "Russian Dressing" is the least Russian thing I've ever seen in my life. Just like for most non-Americans the #1 dressing for Russians is MAYO. Put that shit into everything.

 Sat Feb 26 18:20:04 +0000 2022

That's not the statement I was questioning.

 Sat Feb 26 18:22:59 +0000 2022

RT @lazygamereviews: Annoyed to report that Computer Reset was broken into this week. Thieves made off with a number of valuables, includin…

 Sat Feb 26 18:36:23 +0000 2022

When you narrow it down like that, sure. It would be the same to ask to provide 5 more examples of republicans doing it, since they apparently do it so much more often than democrats. But I assure you, democrats play all the same stupid games. We've been here with vodka already.

 Sat Feb 26 19:13:54 +0000 2022

Ketel One is fine, but nowhere as clean as GG. Haven't tried the other one.

 Sat Feb 26 19:34:37 +0000 2022

Well, someone haven't had a good vodka, I see.

 Sat Feb 26 19:35:27 +0000 2022

Big oof on my part. Apparently Stolichnaya *is* owned by a Russian, a fact I should have remembered because I JUST READ A WHOLE FUCKING BOOK ABOUT IT 🤦 https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1428881992645595139

 Sat Feb 26 19:44:33 +0000 2022

You still shouldn't drink it because it's trash though 🤷

 Sat Feb 26 19:45:07 +0000 2022

I *wish* vodka made me forget so many things.

 Sat Feb 26 19:45:53 +0000 2022

Not really aware of any controversy about the company (not that I specifically go looking for them) but I do remember a particular social media marketing flub

 Sat Feb 26 19:50:24 +0000 2022

RT @KeyJ_trbl: "WorDOS", my own little contribution to the Wordle port/clone/tribute frenzy, has just been released.
It's a single 40k .COM…

 Sat Feb 26 23:54:23 +0000 2022

RT @banditloaf: But look at what I have gathered: EIGHTEEN (18) different Forrest Gump promotional Pogs!

 Sun Feb 27 01:25:24 +0000 2022

Today's floppy 💾: #DOSGaming

 Sun Feb 27 01:39:51 +0000 2022

Looks like ScummVM is getting Retro Wave OPL3 support 👍

 Sun Feb 27 01:48:08 +0000 2022

DOS is not, in fact, a part of Windows to this day. It hasn't been in a long time. Windows does still have a command prompt, but command prompt ≠ DOS.

 Sun Feb 27 08:31:14 +0000 2022

RT @damgentemp: One of the hardest things in writing articles on 90s software houses is finding photos of the studios and dev teams.
Here's…

 Sun Feb 27 10:51:11 +0000 2022

RT @ctflr: DOOM is a popular first-person shooter done by @idSoftware in 1993. Due to pioneering immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplay…

 Sun Feb 27 10:51:42 +0000 2022

I have that effect on people occasionally

 Sun Feb 27 13:17:40 +0000 2022

Yes, fax is still around *today*.

 Sun Feb 27 13:52:41 +0000 2022

Bruh

 Sun Feb 27 14:12:16 +0000 2022

Is 9 in the morning too early to start existential drinking? Asking for me.

 Sun Feb 27 14:16:40 +0000 2022

I think I need a glass of whiskey

 Sun Feb 27 14:22:46 +0000 2022

Na zdorovie 🥂

 Sun Feb 27 14:38:44 +0000 2022

RT @Devilish_Design: Well, I've moved on from just having a barebones MSDOS 1.25 boot disk 😀

 Sun Feb 27 14:58:21 +0000 2022

RT @w84death: Vortex Space implemented in LoveDOS (Love2D for MSDOS)

#Dos #GameDev #IndieDev

 Sun Feb 27 14:58:50 +0000 2022

Screamer Rally still looked very good, but it didn't play as well.

 Sun Feb 27 15:23:32 +0000 2022

And now back to DOS games

 Sun Feb 27 15:28:12 +0000 2022

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

 Sun Feb 27 15:28:26 +0000 2022

OH SHIT!

 Sun Feb 27 15:28:38 +0000 2022

It's melting

 Sun Feb 27 16:16:55 +0000 2022

 Sun Feb 27 17:00:34 +0000 2022

WorDOSle (Graham Downey, 2022) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Feb 27 17:05:00 +0000 2022

Currently I'm aware of four DOS implementations of Wordle: #DOSGaming
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WorDOSle: http://grahamdowney.com/software/WorDOSle/WorDOSle.htm
WOR-DOS: https://vitawrap.itch.io/wor-dos
WorDOS: https://github.com/kajott/wordos
hello DOSdl: https://ahti.space/git/nortti/hello-dosdl

 Sun Feb 27 17:17:51 +0000 2022

Less than a week later, we have at least four
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1497984336284553216

 Sun Feb 27 17:20:32 +0000 2022

My god
https://x.com/worldsofzzt/status/1497986574746673154

 Sun Feb 27 17:30:53 +0000 2022

30 years ago, in 1992, Russia's main news program Время (Time) showed a clip from Vadim Bashurov's new DOS game "The Battle on the Black Sea" (Battleship in a fictional Russian-Ukrainian conflict) and said it was "inciting a war between brotherly nations".
#RussianVideogames

 Sun Feb 27 17:38:18 +0000 2022

Is there some kind of a joke I'm not getting?

 Sun Feb 27 17:41:39 +0000 2022

The author acknowledges that, but it's because the game was made before Ukraine adopted their old flag back, and the reference for colors was taken from Bulgakov's The White Guard, where the yellow was listed first.

 Sun Feb 27 17:58:48 +0000 2022

🥂

 Sun Feb 27 18:00:03 +0000 2022

They just keep coming! And finally a graphical one
https://x.com/DosGamesCOM/status/1497991964381396998

 Sun Feb 27 18:01:58 +0000 2022

No

 Sun Feb 27 18:04:54 +0000 2022

It's pretty damn close. Both sides are not the same, of course, but the US Democrats are eternal disappointment that still play all the same games. I say that as a registered democrat.

 Sun Feb 27 18:06:37 +0000 2022

As the old saying goes...

 Sun Feb 27 18:16:14 +0000 2022

Microsoft made $500,000 in 1977 with five employees. He didn't pay the bail on the spot, in fact Paul Allen had to come bail him out.

 Sun Feb 27 18:37:19 +0000 2022

One of my favorite 3D games for DOS. Such a shame that one could only really properly play it on one configuration.

 Sun Feb 27 19:09:51 +0000 2022

Yeah, it's targeting a 386sx on which, I think, you can adjust detail level to maximum (?). It was always iffy, and it's even more iffy on a non-cycle accurate emulators.

 Sun Feb 27 19:15:01 +0000 2022

Things are getting crazier!
https://x.com/nanochess/status/1498024133354999811?t=XjUw6XrqNFushBpV0Etasw&s=19

 Sun Feb 27 20:03:30 +0000 2022

Ummmm... Any takers? https://x.com/ylitvinenko/status/1498027466685923336

 Sun Feb 27 20:24:51 +0000 2022

Huh. You really struck a nerve with somebody, eh?

 Sun Feb 27 20:40:28 +0000 2022

Actually, can someone just make Wordle in DOOM?
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1374514727867478025?t=7kZylooZbQroNPMQjDwtQA&s=19

 Sun Feb 27 21:16:56 +0000 2022

Definitely not the original, but it can be done in the modern ZDoom incarnation.

 Sun Feb 27 21:28:39 +0000 2022

Scroll up!

 Sun Feb 27 22:46:31 +0000 2022

You can, but you'd need to write your own disk reading procedures as one thing that provides that - DOS, isn't present.

 Sun Feb 27 22:50:06 +0000 2022

Apparently the best A Nightmare on Elm Street movie came out 35 years ago today. Where does time go, again?

 Sun Feb 27 23:00:57 +0000 2022

Same writer/same director

 Sun Feb 27 23:02:28 +0000 2022

 Sun Feb 27 23:56:52 +0000 2022

The remake was so poor. The guy's face in the original was actually seriously disfigured. Here it looked like they were afraid people wouldn't know it's Tom Cruise.

 Mon Feb 28 00:00:45 +0000 2022

 Mon Feb 28 00:01:31 +0000 2022

RT @nanochess: Ok, ok, everyone wants something better. So you now can download Bootle v2: It contains a loader to retrieve the full 2500 w…

 Mon Feb 28 00:01:37 +0000 2022

And it don't take money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden, it can be cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Mon Feb 28 00:07:57 +0000 2022

Full length video on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/web/@dosnostalgic/107872714562175524

 Mon Feb 28 00:10:21 +0000 2022

MOOD

 Mon Feb 28 00:23:41 +0000 2022

Be careful not to die from dysentery!

 Mon Feb 28 00:58:25 +0000 2022

😥

 Mon Feb 28 12:12:55 +0000 2022

Correct, it's just the natural flow. In the game you can only play as Russia though.

 Mon Feb 28 12:59:51 +0000 2022

"Two households different as dried plums and pears in fair Manhattan, where we lay our scene." https://x.com/JamesGunn/status/1498285903990689796

 Mon Feb 28 13:52:15 +0000 2022

Gosh, things were so different back then. I was different. Troma movies were actually shocking to some people, and a pinnacle of transgressive comedy to others. It's almost funny to think how naive that was.

 Mon Feb 28 13:55:56 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: I'm fucking old enough to remember when the Newgrounds was hosted on a TROMA website 🤣

 Mon Feb 28 14:02:08 +0000 2022

There isn't. There's never been a scan, just a collection of images of varying quality from publicly available sources. Nowhere near the whole thing.

 Mon Feb 28 16:12:50 +0000 2022

Terror Firmer is *rough*

 Mon Feb 28 16:42:12 +0000 2022

Which in turn reminds me of Batman Forever, and I rather it didn't.

 Mon Feb 28 21:46:06 +0000 2022

A message inside the executable of Tynesoft's Beverly Hills Cop DOS game.

 Tue Mar 01 01:31:19 +0000 2022

Yoo-hoo! Mr. Tentacle Guy!

 Tue Mar 01 02:13:08 +0000 2022