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RT @ben_304: Tonight in Might & Magic the last of my party reached level 10! Here's a photo of our world and town maps so far, laid out on…

 Tue Nov 01 12:10:28 +0000 2022

RT @SierraOnLineUni: 📆📅

November

The Girls of Leisure Suit Larry

Calendar (1994)

#November #Calendar #LeisureSuitLarry #SierraOnLine #S…

 Tue Nov 01 12:23:46 +0000 2022

But you get an ASS cam!

 Tue Nov 01 12:24:46 +0000 2022

I am so sorry. ❤

 Tue Nov 01 16:21:59 +0000 2022

So did any of you folks play any spooky DOS games this spooky season? 🎃 #DOSGaming

 Tue Nov 01 16:36:15 +0000 2022

I'd be interested in a comparison. I also have the old MT-32 and love the Tempest 2000 soundtrack, and the YouTube recording sounds right to me.

 Tue Nov 01 17:18:02 +0000 2022

Halloween is a state of mind

 Tue Nov 01 17:53:48 +0000 2022

Wtf, there's a Will Vinton documentary that's been out for months, and I didn't know?!

 Tue Nov 01 23:44:16 +0000 2022

This was a great doc. Because it doesn't shy away from the negative stuff from the get go, instead of saving it for a dramatic climax. The opening instantly lets you know that the framing is gonna be Vinton v Knight stuff, but there's more throughout.

 Wed Nov 02 02:08:07 +0000 2022

The doc doesn't really bring up the fact that Travis Knight had lost more money with Laika than Will Vinton ever had.

 Wed Nov 02 02:10:03 +0000 2022

Jack of All Trades is absolutely a real show that existed, not unlike The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. In fact, they both got cancelled mid season.
Brisco only lasted 5 episodes more than Jack
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1323774054655033349

 Wed Nov 02 02:19:34 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Jack looking through a freshly chopped hole in the door: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Weekend!"

 Wed Nov 02 03:10:31 +0000 2022

Meow

 Wed Nov 02 04:19:11 +0000 2022

RT @phrenopolis: Aieee! I haven't seen DOTT costumes this good since the LucasArts Halloween party in 1993.

 Wed Nov 02 08:07:50 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Bert_s Dinosaurs-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Wed Nov 02 08:45:21 +0000 2022

RT @GallaraDragon: My costume this year is the lesser-known Origin Systems game Windwalker!

 Wed Nov 02 14:45:13 +0000 2022

Time to bring back intermissions. https://x.com/ricardoTHH/status/1585809341252513792

 Wed Nov 02 15:17:43 +0000 2022

RT @chrisoconnoriv: What's your favorite #PCGame from the days of ye olde #MSDOS ???

Trying to find something new/old to kill time on.

#D…

 Wed Nov 02 15:40:49 +0000 2022

RT @the8bitboyz: Ahhh my old friend, QEMM! I feel good as QEMM only recovered an additional 22K memory over my manual configuration of the…

 Wed Nov 02 15:43:07 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: "I'm Paul Page. From Papyrus, this is IndyCar Racing 2." #DOSGaming

 Wed Nov 02 16:03:44 +0000 2022

RT @GameHistoryOrg: "When Crusader: No Remorse was released, exclusively on CD-ROM, in 1995 it became one of the most action-packed and tec…

 Wed Nov 02 16:04:13 +0000 2022

Alone in the Dark (MS-DOS) - Super Adventures in Gaming.
http://superadventuresingaming.blogspot.com/2022/10/alone-in-dark-ms-dos-part-1.html
#DOSGaming

 Wed Nov 02 16:47:20 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: A bit of Erana's Peace on a Roland MT-32 for all of those who need it. #DOSGaming
(Real hardware)

 Wed Nov 02 17:13:48 +0000 2022

Oh yeah. I totally forgot to ask if any of you good people of Twitter dressed up as #DOSGaming characters this past Halloween. If you did, show me some photos!

 Wed Nov 02 17:30:44 +0000 2022

Years ago I was wishing for 90s style fps games to become en vogue again. I didn't realize that my wish would come true, BUT
- there would be so many, it's gonna be difficult to keep track of all of them.
- the "term" for the genre is gonna be lame & make me feel old & tired. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/584373517031968768

 Wed Nov 02 17:58:03 +0000 2022

Every fucking time I hear/read "boomer shooter" I die inside. It is absolutely the most unfunny meme in videogames. You all should be ashamed.

 Wed Nov 02 17:59:36 +0000 2022

It's just an incredibly unfunny Gen X joke. God, we should be better than this.

 Wed Nov 02 18:04:36 +0000 2022

I'm dying not because of anyone being referred to as a "boomer," but because of how painfully unfunny it is.

 Wed Nov 02 18:05:39 +0000 2022

OH MY GOD
https://x.com/MiiyaUwU_EN/status/1587882784831733760

 Wed Nov 02 19:09:48 +0000 2022

RT @Gamrok: 30 years ago, a game redefined the survival horror genre 🧟‍♂️

Happy Anniversary to Alone in the Dark! 🎂 (released in November…

 Wed Nov 02 19:12:24 +0000 2022

 Wed Nov 02 19:41:18 +0000 2022

 Wed Nov 02 20:12:00 +0000 2022

RT @FPSDOC: Blood (1997), What is your most dreaded level or moment in this legendary FPS? What part was the hardest for you to overcome?
#…

 Wed Nov 02 20:22:38 +0000 2022

RT @DaveOshry: Scientists at Princeton University have reconstructed this 3D model of how Adam, the first human being created by God, might…

 Wed Nov 02 20:24:27 +0000 2022

The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga (Attention to Detail, Silicon Dreams Studio/Eidos, 1997) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Nov 02 20:47:56 +0000 2022

Definitely DUSK. And play past the first episode. The game actually becomes more and more inventive as it progresses.

 Wed Nov 02 21:19:11 +0000 2022

Arena shooters, traditionally, refers to a slightly different subset of games.

 Wed Nov 02 21:33:09 +0000 2022

A few 3D models from FX Fighter: #DOSGaming

 Wed Nov 02 21:49:20 +0000 2022

What does that have to do with anything?

 Wed Nov 02 21:49:59 +0000 2022

No, that's not the case. We can just continue bending and inventing definitions, as we always have.

 Wed Nov 02 21:55:19 +0000 2022

Yes, that's what I hate the most.

 Wed Nov 02 22:30:41 +0000 2022

What a weird documentary. First, it's the framing device of the narrator being an actor doing research for the role of Fulci in a fictional biopic. Then it's the fact that's it's aimed only at people who already know Fulci's work well.

 Wed Nov 02 22:36:25 +0000 2022

So much so that when multiple films of his are discussed, not even once did you get to see footage of them. At best you get scans of promotional photos from magazines of scenes that have little to do with a scene that's being discussed.

 Wed Nov 02 22:37:56 +0000 2022

The doc focuses mostly on Fulci's previously somewhat mysterious personal life. It attempts to dispel a few popular myths about him, and also draws parallels from his life to his films. Some of the friends, colleagues & family are interviewed for the first time ever.

 Wed Nov 02 22:40:18 +0000 2022

 Wed Nov 02 22:45:54 +0000 2022

 Wed Nov 02 22:50:20 +0000 2022

During the 2 most recent interviews Carpenter let a couple of things slip through, unusually for himself, that made me think that he's still bitter about critical reception of his films, and the tail end of his career. Made me sad.

 Wed Nov 02 22:54:08 +0000 2022

Found the quotes. 😥

 Wed Nov 02 22:58:01 +0000 2022

I'm honestly surprised that Carpenter's case isn't a cornerstone of every filmmaking course. In every aspect. Up to and including examining how a man who managed to create & break through the system every time for so long was eventually beaten down by it.

 Wed Nov 02 23:06:43 +0000 2022

Same. When I was young and still realizing that I love cinema, he very directly showed me what an authorial ownership meant simply by putting his name in the title. It's his films that made me realize how different & creative one can be while still having a fairly strict style.

 Wed Nov 02 23:16:05 +0000 2022

Which is why when I was a bit older watching some of his final films was so painful. He was working for paycheck, now pigeonholed into being a "horror guy", and the only time he managed to escape it with Escape from LA he got eaten alive.

 Wed Nov 02 23:17:35 +0000 2022

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 Thu Nov 03 02:39:51 +0000 2022

Reach out and touch cat

 Thu Nov 03 04:35:36 +0000 2022

RT @cooperx86: 🙉 TIL you can buy and install a "HDD clicker" device in your PC to reproduce the racket that hard drives used to make back i…

 Thu Nov 03 14:18:40 +0000 2022

RT @games_kini: Want some detective work mixed in with your #pointandclick #adventure? Check out the new, free, one-hour-plus demo of Signa…

 Thu Nov 03 14:22:51 +0000 2022

 Thu Nov 03 14:35:41 +0000 2022

RT @gnomeslair: Reminder: this still exists https://gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/

 Thu Nov 03 16:18:59 +0000 2022

X68000 owner

 Thu Nov 03 16:48:11 +0000 2022

TIL that Windows version of Star Wars Chess is in 256 colors, as opposed to the DOS version, which runs in standard 640x480 16 color VGA:
(There are other differences as well)

 Thu Nov 03 17:02:36 +0000 2022

On YouTube videos keep appearing that depict Star Wars Chess at half the intended frame rate. I'm not sure why that keeps happening, but here's your regular reminder that the game is not *that* slow:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/727919390612672513

 Thu Nov 03 17:07:50 +0000 2022

Wow. Discovered yet another fully 2D game with tank controls and 3D movement!
Team Innocent on PC-FX:
https://youtu.be/dewqpqSD9SY?t=498 https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1410365520050860039

 Thu Nov 03 17:16:49 +0000 2022

And look, once again the game is very clearly inspired by Alone in the Dark. "Pick up HAMMER? Yes/No".
Turns out Resident Evil wasn't even the first to rip it off.

 Thu Nov 03 17:21:07 +0000 2022

Well, does it not run, or does it not install?

 Thu Nov 03 17:33:01 +0000 2022

Actually, who cares. Grab the "Full-Rip" from here. Unpack in a folder, run the BUNG.REG once, and then you can run the game. Just tested it on my Win 10 64 bit machine. Works.
https://www.old-games.ru/game/download/11082.html

 Thu Nov 03 17:34:57 +0000 2022

RT @ConvosCurtis: We've reached 1K views on the previous side-by-side comparison video, so it's time to release another one!

Have you ever…

 Thu Nov 03 17:48:53 +0000 2022

 Thu Nov 03 18:05:40 +0000 2022

Graphic ports of the mainframe classic Rogue (1980):
Amiga - 1986
Atari ST - 1986
Macintosh - 1985
ZX Spectrum - 1988

 Thu Nov 03 18:17:39 +0000 2022

Pretty sure Larn was another mainframe game that got a DOS port first, before Amiga even existed.

 Thu Nov 03 20:12:17 +0000 2022

Yep, just checked. DOS Larn is called "PC Larn" as was ported very shortly after the original version.

 Thu Nov 03 20:15:04 +0000 2022

Angst: Rahz's Revenge (ManMachineGames/The Learning Company, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Nov 03 20:18:08 +0000 2022

How not to make a videogame.

 Thu Nov 03 20:49:30 +0000 2022

RT @HorrorGaMuseum: Cosmology of Kyoto for MS-DOS, a horror adventure game set in Heian period Japan, based on Buddhist philosophy and trad…

 Thu Nov 03 21:07:00 +0000 2022

RT @DOSBros_Vamonos: "Epic Pinball" Demo Epic MegaGames 1993
#retrocomputing #RetroGaming #MSDOS #dosgaming #epicgames https://t.co/UAqkIaw…

 Thu Nov 03 21:07:56 +0000 2022

RT @lazygamereviews: Blerb!

https://youtu.be/cA-ZAbHQS44

Checking out the AWE64 Legacy: A Premium New ISA Sound Card in 2022

 Thu Nov 03 21:20:00 +0000 2022

RT @BuildEnginePics: A new mod for Duke Nukem 3D has just been released

"Duke Nukem 3D: Legacy Edition"

This mod rebalances the game and…

 Thu Nov 03 22:30:07 +0000 2022

A small correction: It's Macintosh game originally that was then ported to Windows (it's made in Macromedia Director). Not a DOS game.

 Thu Nov 03 22:51:42 +0000 2022

 Thu Nov 03 23:45:29 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Purple Saturn Day-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Fri Nov 04 12:49:06 +0000 2022

RT @ben_304: Any sufficiently archaic technology is indistinguishable from magic.

 Fri Nov 04 12:58:55 +0000 2022

RT @gordoslair: Circuit’s Edge (1990) Westwood Associates, MSDOS. Based on the book “When Gravity Falls” by George Alec Effinger. Supports…

 Fri Nov 04 16:53:28 +0000 2022

RT @ostonox: @elonmusk first company that isnt propped up by federal contracts huh

 Fri Nov 04 17:08:18 +0000 2022

The biggest drawback of the Mac version is that mouse is the only control option.

 Fri Nov 04 18:06:08 +0000 2022

I gained a couple of hundred followers last week after dunking on Musk. All of them are gone after suffering a week of my normal tweets. 🤣 Looks like Musk bashing is a way to fame now.

 Fri Nov 04 18:14:37 +0000 2022

Idk, it's a bit generic for my liking. But yes, it is literally the only thing this so called game has going for it. Without a doubt one of the worst retail fps games I've ever played in my life.

 Fri Nov 04 18:19:44 +0000 2022

This is by far the worst retail first person shooter I've ever played. It is so bad it honestly can barely be called a game. I can't believe this was a big box product on store shelves being sold for real money. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1588264285800910848

 Fri Nov 04 18:29:30 +0000 2022

Extreme Paintbrawl is actually more satisfying to play that this. Yep.

 Fri Nov 04 18:30:13 +0000 2022

About 1 minute should be enough. In all honesty the fact that someone dared to call this a "game" is offensive. It's a just barely functioning mess.

 Fri Nov 04 18:33:13 +0000 2022

Oh wow. Someone actually compiled a pretty comprehensive list of why it sucks.
https://crappygames.miraheze.org/wiki/Angst:_Rhaz%27s_Revenge

 Fri Nov 04 18:40:05 +0000 2022

One of my favorites

 Fri Nov 04 18:42:14 +0000 2022

Listen, I already feel bad because I've exposed him to Capstone's Zorro. This is actually worse.

 Fri Nov 04 18:43:23 +0000 2022

It's one of the first games made with ACKNEX engine, so it would make sense.

 Fri Nov 04 18:54:54 +0000 2022

RT @hmemcpy: This video from @babylonian never fails to make me smile. Such a great discovery of an early piece of internet history! https:…

 Fri Nov 04 19:31:15 +0000 2022

No. Both of those are more functioning than this so-called game.

 Fri Nov 04 19:44:02 +0000 2022

TekWar is a SIGNIFICANTLY better game than this. Just on a technical level alone.

 Fri Nov 04 21:02:00 +0000 2022

Listen, while all these streaming services still throwing money at sequels to niche things, can we please finally get a Crank 3?

 Fri Nov 04 21:06:16 +0000 2022

RT @BasicInteger: @benjedwards The original Quake (along with Doom) was developed on Steve Job's NeXT computers. In tribute, let's play Qu…

 Fri Nov 04 22:07:07 +0000 2022

On this site? How about REAL FUCKING LIFE too

 Fri Nov 04 22:27:45 +0000 2022

Nope. This is legitimately worse.

 Fri Nov 04 22:58:25 +0000 2022

Dating app I'm on just introduced video and is pushing for everyone to use it. Well, I know what I'm uploading. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1311439901813071872

 Fri Nov 04 23:12:20 +0000 2022

God, dating apps are so fucking dumb. I don't know how people use them.

 Fri Nov 04 23:17:59 +0000 2022

Obviously should be asking about these exotic panties instead

 Fri Nov 04 23:21:43 +0000 2022

It is less functional.

 Sat Nov 05 00:33:05 +0000 2022

Yes

 Sat Nov 05 01:13:53 +0000 2022

Ok, that was pretty funny. I was smiling all the way through. 😄
Digs at the existing biopics were appreciated.

 Sat Nov 05 01:49:01 +0000 2022

I do wonder if it would have been funnier if it was played just a bit more straight.

 Sat Nov 05 01:50:03 +0000 2022

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1576680801663524864?t=CG8GpJaEbK883Ex-sPeIJQ&s=19

 Sat Nov 05 13:07:09 +0000 2022

When I was your age Windows was called DOS.

 Sat Nov 05 13:13:54 +0000 2022

RT @gayocats: 1134112726639

 Sat Nov 05 13:14:01 +0000 2022

Some days I feel like I'm 100

 Sat Nov 05 14:14:00 +0000 2022

You just select it from the menu.

 Sat Nov 05 15:03:28 +0000 2022

Since a lot of people seem to be registering on Mastodon here's your regular reminder that I am there too.
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic

 Sat Nov 05 15:11:26 +0000 2022

That's after the SoftKey hostile takeover.

 Sat Nov 05 15:33:45 +0000 2022

Yes

 Sat Nov 05 15:45:35 +0000 2022

It was made by multiple dudes using ACKNEX

 Sat Nov 05 16:02:59 +0000 2022

My question exactly

 Sat Nov 05 16:03:14 +0000 2022

Remember remember the... Ah, fuck it.

 Sat Nov 05 16:06:47 +0000 2022

Nah, that's next Saturday.

 Sat Nov 05 16:41:42 +0000 2022

 Sat Nov 05 16:50:25 +0000 2022

A Christmas Story 2? But there already was A Christmas Story 2 ten years ago!

 Sat Nov 05 16:59:01 +0000 2022

Why so serious?

 Sat Nov 05 17:27:55 +0000 2022

Bill Paxton tells a story about how James Cameron pulled up to his place and went "Get in. We're gonna see Evil Dead 2"

 Sat Nov 05 17:40:40 +0000 2022

That's so weird. Does the player have to tell an emotional story at the end of each battle?

 Sat Nov 05 18:32:11 +0000 2022

Lol. Apparently Troma put out a "Toxie stands with Ukraine" message a few months ago, and it inevitably resulted in "It sucks that Troma got political" massages. Bruh. BRUH. Let me tell you something about Troma's signature films. 😂

 Sat Nov 05 22:30:59 +0000 2022

Every time shit like this happens, I prefer to think that these people are in deep denial instead of just being fundamentally dumb.

 Sat Nov 05 22:32:18 +0000 2022

Oh, while I'm let me remark on the weird "Robocop is copaganda" discourse.
It's a film where all the cops open fire on Murphy at the behest of their corporate overlords.
Thank you. Next.

 Sat Nov 05 22:34:32 +0000 2022

 Sat Nov 05 22:38:14 +0000 2022

They claim they have. 🤷

 Sat Nov 05 22:39:01 +0000 2022

Updated list of Paul Verhoeven's films
most favorite to least:
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RoboCop
Basic Instinct
Starship Troopers
Turkish Delight
Total Recall
Soldier of Orange
Hollow Man
Black Book
Flesh + Blood
Benedetta
Elle
Spetters
The 4th Man
Showgirls
Katie Tippel
Business is Business
Tricked

 Sat Nov 05 23:00:54 +0000 2022

RT @dosgameclub: 💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 We checked out our very first dungeon crawler with EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (Westwood / SSI, 1991) #DOSGaming…

 Sat Nov 05 23:08:12 +0000 2022

 Sat Nov 05 23:16:22 +0000 2022

The power of Christ compels you!

 Sat Nov 05 23:55:11 +0000 2022

RT @dosgameclub: Our game of the month is ONE MUST FALL 2097 #DOSGaming

https://dosgame.club/web/@dosgameclub/109294016401447708

 Sun Nov 06 01:22:43 +0000 2022

Yeah, Starship Troopers is Verhoeven's most subtle movie, which is saying something because it's about as subtle as a kick in the nuts. People are strange.

 Sun Nov 06 01:49:49 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: The later CD version of Mortal Kombat for DOS was about as close to arcade perfect as you could get at home at the time.…

 Sun Nov 06 02:16:06 +0000 2022

I think all ports by Probe were using big chunks of original code. For consoles as well.

 Sun Nov 06 02:24:57 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: It's Sunday. Play some DOS games!

 Sun Nov 06 14:06:08 +0000 2022

RT @AbeGoldfarb: Weird Al, proletarian polka king

 Sun Nov 06 15:30:57 +0000 2022

Ossuary (Damian Gareth Walker, 2020) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Nov 06 16:52:59 +0000 2022

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. https://x.com/Vyothric/status/1589300983146090497

 Sun Nov 06 17:00:00 +0000 2022

Some PC prices from November of 1992.
$1 is about $2.09 today.

 Sun Nov 06 18:46:09 +0000 2022

10 years ago my roommate and I were *incredibly* bored while our entire town was still without power after hurricane Sandy. We had two flashlights, two laser pointers, and two phones.

 Sun Nov 06 19:20:27 +0000 2022

Holy hell, 72 degrees in November? Surely a sign that we're all gonna be burning alive all year long soon, but for now I'll take it.

 Sun Nov 06 20:20:43 +0000 2022

 Sun Nov 06 20:46:49 +0000 2022

ScummVM merged in support for Freescape engine.
Driller for DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST is already supported. C64, Amstrad, and Spectrum version support coming soon.
Options for 4K and OpenGL rendering.
https://www.facebook.com/ScummVM/posts/pfbid0pvDvyuPpdd3joqYmBHWUH2mvz2ccF9ZCPp5CH16Pq3HKEnYA9RkPcJ4uFpux4U1gl

 Sun Nov 06 22:11:54 +0000 2022

At least it's not...

 Sun Nov 06 22:21:53 +0000 2022

See the last screenshot

 Sun Nov 06 22:23:07 +0000 2022

RT @TMThrustmaster: #Flyday

Flight simulation has changed since the 80’s! 🛫

Who here played Microsoft Flight Simulator 3, released in 198…

 Sun Nov 06 22:27:51 +0000 2022

RT @DayTechHistory: On this day in 1980, Microsoft signed the historic deal with IBM to create an operating system for the upcoming IBM PC.…

 Sun Nov 06 22:44:14 +0000 2022

Didn't know that someone did a paper in 2014 comparing early versions of MS-DOS binaries with CP/M in an attempt to find out if any code was actually lifted from it:

A Code Correlation Comparison of the DOS and CP/M Operating Systems
https://www.scirp.org/html/4-9301871_46362.htm

 Sun Nov 06 22:50:08 +0000 2022

And in 2016 further research was done, this time based on source code of both:
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=71259

 Sun Nov 06 22:50:38 +0000 2022

I feel like the findings confirm what everyone should have already known, but it's good to have actual research papers to refer to when needed.

 Sun Nov 06 22:52:22 +0000 2022

RIP Andrey "KranK" Kuzmin, founder of Russian studio K-D Lab and a designer/programmer behind Biprolex, Vangers, and Perimeter.

 Sun Nov 06 23:11:46 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Вангеры/Vangers (Windows 9x, 1998) #NotDOS #RussianVideogames
A surreal 3D open world racing-trading-vehicular combat gam…

 Sun Nov 06 23:15:59 +0000 2022

A rather unknown game of KranK's was a zany 3D arcade racer СамоГонки/Moonshine Runners. It was originally envisioned as a Vangers spinoff, but eventually mutated into something original.
It is apparently now open source, just like Vangers & Perimeter.
https://youtu.be/kjd3RM71YBw?t=605

 Sun Nov 06 23:28:52 +0000 2022

Btw, it's an arcade racing game... with an optional turn based mode. Yep.

 Sun Nov 06 23:32:08 +0000 2022

Not yet, but it will eventually.

 Sun Nov 06 23:57:57 +0000 2022

#CurrentMood

 Mon Nov 07 02:39:39 +0000 2022

RT @shirtsthtgohard:

 Mon Nov 07 02:46:15 +0000 2022

Oh well. The papers are written by a person who's involved in research of copyright infringement even today, so it all checks out.

 Mon Nov 07 03:02:58 +0000 2022

RT @JordanCup777: Today's the day the hacker woke up

 Mon Nov 07 09:49:57 +0000 2022

Meow

 Mon Nov 07 09:58:40 +0000 2022

Oooookay. Misplaced my glasses last night, so now I'm going to work *blind*. Pray to the holy CONFIG.SYS for me. 🙏

 Mon Nov 07 13:07:29 +0000 2022

Oh man, this sucks

 Mon Nov 07 13:29:26 +0000 2022

Same. Now I get to find out if I need to actually see to do my job.

 Mon Nov 07 14:28:18 +0000 2022

show

me

cat!

 Mon Nov 07 14:51:03 +0000 2022

I am Elon Musk, and I thank you for playing Twisted Metal.

 Mon Nov 07 15:21:33 +0000 2022

So many beautiful babbies ❤

 Mon Nov 07 17:55:39 +0000 2022

This might surprise you, but people create games for retro platforms all the time. There are DOS games made this year as well.

 Mon Nov 07 18:17:21 +0000 2022

Well, all remaining secrets of Monkey Island are about to be discovered https://t.co/5Jn77Tfimm

 Mon Nov 07 18:21:39 +0000 2022

I believe a complete Freescape implementation is planned, so that would include support for 3D Correction Kit games.

 Mon Nov 07 19:52:39 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Japanese covers of Kyrandia games are the best!

 Mon Nov 07 21:59:50 +0000 2022

RT @stevekrenzel: With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was aske…

 Mon Nov 07 22:09:51 +0000 2022

RT @gordoslair: Haven’t played this game in a while…and it shows. #MSDOS @dosnostalgic

 Mon Nov 07 22:41:20 +0000 2022

You know when's the worst time to be almost blind? At night. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1589605460323074049

 Tue Nov 08 01:01:34 +0000 2022

Мобл/Mobl (Workshop Of Success, 1998) #DOSGameScreenADay #RussianVideogames

 Tue Nov 08 01:39:03 +0000 2022

Original version of Mobl, now seemingly lost to time, was developed in 5 days in 1997, and received first prize at the Enix Game Software Contest II in Japan.
Two online implementations followed in 1998 and 2002.
#RussianVideogames

 Tue Nov 08 01:43:16 +0000 2022

The game itself is like what if the Game of Life was also a puzzle game. Because it was programmed and designed by Andrey "KranK" Kuzmin.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1589395144356155392

 Tue Nov 08 01:45:40 +0000 2022

Correction: Mobl won the GRAND PRIZE ($200,000), not first prize.

 Tue Nov 08 02:10:36 +0000 2022

It was MOBL
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1589795657870516224

 Tue Nov 08 02:11:49 +0000 2022

Whoa. Had no idea that Vangers got an official web port. Seems to work perfectly fine even on my phone!
https://gamepix.com/play/vangers https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1424068700584529922

 Tue Nov 08 13:28:36 +0000 2022

RT @ForateiS: Did you know you can save a game while watching the game demos and play them?

Game : Duke Nukem 3D

#DOSGaming https://t.co/…

 Tue Nov 08 13:59:54 +0000 2022

RT @furry_moments: The opening of Ultima VI prominently features a pixelized recreation of a Keith Berdak illustration of a zebra centaur p…

 Tue Nov 08 16:07:12 +0000 2022

It's *good*.

 Tue Nov 08 20:44:19 +0000 2022

It is such good old fashioned indie filmmaking. The whole thing for less than $2 mil.

 Tue Nov 08 20:49:50 +0000 2022

PDP-11? Pfft. Wake me up when it's PDP-69!

 Tue Nov 08 21:44:56 +0000 2022

Cooper, meet the long lost Phillip Jeffries

 Wed Nov 09 00:15:03 +0000 2022

Words can not describe how much I despise the director's cut of "Donnie Darko".

 Wed Nov 09 01:00:45 +0000 2022

I could maybe live with the music changes, but I can't stop yelling at the screen every time pages from the Philosophy of Time Travel show up. 😡

 Wed Nov 09 01:10:03 +0000 2022

It's like how do you undercut the best thing about your own movie in the LEAST CINEMATIC WAY POSSIBLE 😡

 Wed Nov 09 01:10:56 +0000 2022

OMG is this heaven?

 Wed Nov 09 01:31:00 +0000 2022

Yes, but it's more of the case of seeing the film for the first time. The original version doesn't show you any pages from the Philosophy of Time Travel, so you don't really get to know what's happening. Yet it still works emotionally, making it one of the most unique films.

 Wed Nov 09 01:47:21 +0000 2022

There's really *nothing* about the director's cut that's superior. Extra scenes add nothing, it's like Amadeus. They are fine, but unnecessary. Music changes are for the worse. There's ONE trim of a scenes that I do agree with. But everything else makes the movie worse.

 Wed Nov 09 01:50:22 +0000 2022

Like, imagine if The Sixth Sense flashed pages of Ghost Behavior Rules every 15 minutes at you. That's the difference.

 Wed Nov 09 01:53:09 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Limmy reminds everyone that Grand Theft Auto was made in Scotland, and why it's important to remember that. https://t.co/…

 Wed Nov 09 04:57:05 +0000 2022

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: Name a RPG with a more detailed and interactive living world than Ultima 7 (1992).

You can't.

 Wed Nov 09 12:32:17 +0000 2022

 Wed Nov 09 12:34:45 +0000 2022

Idk. At the very least it's a very bold film. And maybe it would have been better if he was allowed to make the entire thing, instead of just the second half. We'll never know, I guess. I would really like to see Kelly write & direct more films.

 Wed Nov 09 13:08:10 +0000 2022

Wolfenstein 3D was not the first fps by id Software
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/815694053207580672?t=n-a3DFESjSu2pZjunipBHw&s=19

 Wed Nov 09 13:15:12 +0000 2022

Ever since 2016 I've had a long running tradition of getting absolutely trashed on Election Day. Thank goodness for Pedialyte®.

 Wed Nov 09 14:57:56 +0000 2022

RT @ben_304: I love Might & Magic 1.

 Wed Nov 09 15:07:34 +0000 2022

Another AAA gamedev "war story" just dropped. 😯
https://medium.com/@mickgordon/my-full-statement-regarding-doom-eternal-5f98266b27ce

 Wed Nov 09 15:46:27 +0000 2022

The fuck you on about? This concerns everyone who's pursuing a career in videogames and/or considering id Software as a potential employer.

 Wed Nov 09 16:38:15 +0000 2022

RT @OldTechAdverts: Computer Nov 1988
https://archive.org/download/1988-11-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_102_1988_Nov.pdf
#retrocomputing #80scomputing

 Wed Nov 09 16:46:57 +0000 2022

The sheer amount of receipts is pretty damn convincing. These aren't the kinds of claims to be made lightly because one would be in danger of some heavy legal action otherwise.

 Wed Nov 09 17:07:21 +0000 2022

38 years ago today audiences experienced this amazing scene for the first time.

 Wed Nov 09 18:14:19 +0000 2022

It somehow keeps looking worse with each paragraph.

 Wed Nov 09 18:15:12 +0000 2022

If this movie came out today there'd be no end to reddit threads & YouTube videos. "69 things wrong with A Nightmare on Elm Street". The movie has massive "flaws", but none of them matter because the concept alone is SO FUCKING COOL already, and it gets so many things just right.

 Wed Nov 09 18:19:48 +0000 2022

How did you manage to avoid it for so long? Especially during the pre-streaming era.

 Wed Nov 09 18:23:48 +0000 2022

Is it even possible to describe how BIG Freddy Krueger was for like a decade? It felt like literally every person of every age was aware of him.

 Wed Nov 09 18:29:12 +0000 2022

Damn, that's cool. You're yet to see the sequels then I assume?

 Wed Nov 09 18:32:22 +0000 2022

I actually have a poster of this doc on my wall.

 Wed Nov 09 18:36:17 +0000 2022

Don't let anyone tell you the second one isn't fun, because it *absolutely* is.

 Wed Nov 09 18:38:15 +0000 2022

This is so different from my experience of when I was in the 2nd grade and my mom walked on me watching the 2nd film during the scene of teenagers making out by a pool and went "What is this?!" only to go "Oh, okay" when I assured her it's only A Nightmare on Elm Street 2. 😄

 Wed Nov 09 18:56:45 +0000 2022

I'll get around to it eventually.

 Wed Nov 09 18:57:33 +0000 2022

I don't recall what was the first horror movie I ever saw, but I saw The Evil Dead around 7 and it both solidified my love of horror and raised my bar of sensitivity to film violence pretty much for the rest of my life.

 Wed Nov 09 19:08:35 +0000 2022

Listen, in 80s and 90s Russia we watched horror movies to feel happy & safe, if only for a short while.

 Wed Nov 09 19:15:03 +0000 2022

Yes

 Thu Nov 10 02:14:16 +0000 2022

RT @OldTechAdverts: Byte 1983 November
https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/80s/Byte-1983-11.pdf
#bytemagazine #retrocomputing #IBMPC

 Thu Nov 10 09:23:56 +0000 2022

RT @Liretro: It’s the most wonderful time of the year! @CradleAviation, @CradleCon and @liretro are proud to present the new holiday gaming…

 Thu Nov 10 14:43:08 +0000 2022

39 years ago today Microsoft announced its graphical operating system - Windows.
The actual release happened two years later, in November of 1985. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/772213622508519425

 Thu Nov 10 14:59:49 +0000 2022

RT @Waveshaper_SWE: Let me present to you the peak of 90s PC era 🍔🐭. I’m the cool kid in town now.

 Thu Nov 10 16:39:06 +0000 2022

RT @DwarvenSaboteur: Every so often I like to go back and replay the Catacomb Adventure Series. It is a classic adventure and a very import…

 Thu Nov 10 16:45:52 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Maybe the most 90s thing you'll see today

 Thu Nov 10 16:55:50 +0000 2022

Sound Blaster 16? Pfft. Wake me up when it's Sound Blaster 69!

 Thu Nov 10 17:10:49 +0000 2022

I've decided to determine this scientifically. Here's my first pass with my subjective opinion about current relevancy of each of the lines.
Reply with your suggested changes *and* reasoning for them. Everything will be considered. We'll figure it out. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1575818415809343488

 Thu Nov 10 17:37:20 +0000 2022

I believe the reference itself to be too dated.

 Thu Nov 10 17:41:39 +0000 2022

Last time I've seen Sarah Michelle Gellas (which was about a month ago) it was in a film that made $674,330 in its opening weekend. The only ones who know who she is are people our age.

 Thu Nov 10 17:43:07 +0000 2022

Nobody outside of people who already follow me on Twitter has uttered the words "286" in at least 20 years.

 Thu Nov 10 17:59:06 +0000 2022

Not when it comes to computers. You can still be using a PC from a decade ago today fairly comfortably.

 Thu Nov 10 18:01:10 +0000 2022

I am also strongly considering separating lines about technology from all the fluff lines. In the end, I think, I'll give a tally of both versions.

 Thu Nov 10 18:04:11 +0000 2022

Nobody has said the word "chatroom" in a years at this point.

 Thu Nov 10 18:04:45 +0000 2022

Whoops. That was a mistake on my part. Correcting. ✅

 Thu Nov 10 18:07:11 +0000 2022

I agree. Although I'm more likely to negate the Helen Keller line than Bill Gate's.

 Thu Nov 10 18:14:36 +0000 2022

Kinda same. Need more input.

 Thu Nov 10 18:17:25 +0000 2022

I mean, I have witnessed white-out being used in offices in 2010s. Need more diverse data.

 Thu Nov 10 18:22:41 +0000 2022

You can't insult someone if they won't understand the insult.

 Thu Nov 10 18:42:04 +0000 2022

I get a crash when I attempt to open any sound bank

 Thu Nov 10 19:19:02 +0000 2022

That's already Myst on the DS/3DS.

 Thu Nov 10 19:45:01 +0000 2022

Nobody knows what a 286 is anymore, so you can't use it as an insult because then you'd also have to provide context.
https://youtu.be/Rp81S0W0F7E

 Thu Nov 10 20:01:53 +0000 2022

A mouse is not a mizouse, which is a reference as old as time now
Ctrl-alt-delete was my mistake,
and regard Sarah Michelle Gellar, I have some bad news for you:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1590761986018934794

 Thu Nov 10 20:04:54 +0000 2022

Computers are no longer obsolete within a very short time, that's just not a thing that's applied to computers anymore. One could be very comfortably using a PC from a decade ago today.
Obsolescence is now relegated to gadgets, but that's not what the song is about.

 Thu Nov 10 20:06:59 +0000 2022

RT @ThatSamWinkler: I'm fully losing my gourd

 Thu Nov 10 20:09:44 +0000 2022

Well, the song doesn't say Discord, so 🤷‍♂️

 Thu Nov 10 20:10:09 +0000 2022

Getting a lot of input which is essentially "well, it would still work if you've replaced X with Y." Yeah, the entire song would still work if you *rewrote it*. This is literally the opposite of what I'm trying to do. Anything can be undated to be modern:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1451287972427542531

 Thu Nov 10 20:13:50 +0000 2022

Yes, yes. I've corrected it already. My mistake.

 Thu Nov 10 20:16:50 +0000 2022

RT @Ox4d5a: #infosec #TwitterBlue

 Thu Nov 10 20:22:59 +0000 2022

Champions of Zulula (Oracle Software, 1994) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Nov 10 20:37:55 +0000 2022

Different Oracle (which is why they renamed themselves to OSP shortly after)

 Thu Nov 10 20:40:05 +0000 2022

It is flavor. A very distinct 90s flavor. A flavor that's lost to time because it's not in use anymore (thank goodness).

 Thu Nov 10 20:49:33 +0000 2022

It's like if I released a song today and featured a "fo shizzle" in it. Would just leave people shrugging.

 Thu Nov 10 20:50:55 +0000 2022

I gave up on this tweet half way through, but hey, AGI is pretty cool 🤷‍♂️ https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1590816470845771777

 Thu Nov 10 21:25:57 +0000 2022

Guess what else still exists? Usenet. I personally just got a deal coupon for a service in my email because I signed up 2 years ago to retrieve some files from it. That's not an indication of relevancy.

 Thu Nov 10 21:57:11 +0000 2022

"The Windows version" 😥

 Thu Nov 10 22:01:27 +0000 2022

 Thu Nov 10 22:31:32 +0000 2022

Moments in MIDI

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Nov 10 23:35:31 +0000 2022

This one really needs to be heard in all its entirety. So head over to Mastodon for the full video:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109322127650106035

 Thu Nov 10 23:36:06 +0000 2022

Not gonna lie, this is happening much faster than I anticipated. Oh well, it was a good run. I've put in a good decade on Twitter doing what at the time was called "microblogging". The impermanence & briefness of Twitter made a perfect fit for my personality.

 Thu Nov 10 23:51:28 +0000 2022

All I ever wanted was to interact with people and talk about a very limited amount of subjects I'm interested in. Twitter allowed me to do just that. It connected me with thousands of people all around the world. I even met many of you in the real world.

 Thu Nov 10 23:54:57 +0000 2022

Despite the fact that occasionally Twitter became a source of major annoyance, obsession, and even depression, I feel like it affected my life positively in a way no other social network has. And I'm very grateful for that. Because I'm just a guy on the Internet.

 Thu Nov 10 23:56:42 +0000 2022

I am grateful for all the connections I've made on here. For all your kind words, DOS gaming memories, and photos of cats. ♥
I know that I'm gonna be here till the bitter end. It looks like it's gonna be here soon.

 Thu Nov 10 23:59:08 +0000 2022

I'm there
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic

 Fri Nov 11 00:06:20 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: I've decided to determine this scientifically. Here's my first pass with my subjective opinion about current relevancy of…

 Fri Nov 11 00:10:23 +0000 2022

Yep. And an enhanced version of it in 1995.

 Fri Nov 11 00:12:09 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Shadow Ape-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Fri Nov 11 00:46:47 +0000 2022

A3: We're taking everything as is
A14/15: Still the richest person associated with tech. (In press constantly, just for different reasons today)
A21: Nobody apart from people seeing this tweet has said "286" in at least a decade
D3: News search for "cyberspace" reveals otherwise

 Fri Nov 11 02:15:32 +0000 2022

D7-11: See A3

 Fri Nov 11 02:15:42 +0000 2022

How does that relate to them being obsolete in a short amount of time exactly?

 Fri Nov 11 02:16:31 +0000 2022

The whole thing is subjective. But you can absolutely very comfortably use a nice PC from 5 years ago today, even for something demanding like current gaming. You absolutely could NOT use a 1994 computer for 1999 gaming.

 Fri Nov 11 02:25:10 +0000 2022

That because home computer adoption was growing, and companies selling 286 and 386 based machine well into 486 & even Pentium era in reality was just a couple of years apart.

 Fri Nov 11 02:32:41 +0000 2022

I felt like this part of the song referred to a very specific time in technology development, that I absolutely don't believe is happening anymore.

 Fri Nov 11 02:33:18 +0000 2022

Oh those halcyon days https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/89138135526678528

 Fri Nov 11 03:11:37 +0000 2022

I'm shocked to learn that it lasted longer than a lifespan of an average Google product
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1052747990203535360?t=SGstp3VcnaRF8bd6qpqb3g&s=19

 Fri Nov 11 03:16:06 +0000 2022

And not from anyone, but from Seattle Computer. The home of what would become MS-DOS.

 Fri Nov 11 04:08:11 +0000 2022

I didn't say I was leaving, so that's exactly what I'm doing.

 Fri Nov 11 13:04:46 +0000 2022

Yes. Yes I did.

 Fri Nov 11 13:07:00 +0000 2022

RT @RobZacny: Read @DuncanFyfe talking to Ken and Roberta Williams about their decision to return to game development. https://t.co/TXMYnKV…

 Fri Nov 11 13:14:16 +0000 2022

RT @OldTechAdverts: Might and Magic is a fantasy adventure set in the middle ages. Knights and dragons and princess.
https://t.co/oWchv4h8…

 Fri Nov 11 13:17:25 +0000 2022

RT @gnomeslair: [via https://www.reddit.com/r/MonkeyIsland/comments/yrrew6/been_busy_upgrading_a_classic_machine_to_play/]

 Fri Nov 11 13:18:24 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Karting Grand Prix-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Fri Nov 11 13:20:37 +0000 2022

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1590761986018934794?s=19

 Fri Nov 11 14:29:16 +0000 2022

"Extremely relevant", such as her friendship with... Freddie Prinze Jr., another person I've seen in that movie 😂

 Fri Nov 11 14:30:49 +0000 2022

I didn't say I was leaving.

 Fri Nov 11 14:47:43 +0000 2022

All the rights issues are with the original publisher, who essentially ripped off the devs by not paying them a fair share, transferring all the rights to themselves, and then dissolving the company.

 Fri Nov 11 15:19:05 +0000 2022

RIP to the *legend*. 😥 https://t.co/Ic6UB3bMPA

 Fri Nov 11 15:54:05 +0000 2022

 Fri Nov 11 16:28:38 +0000 2022

This is my final current relevancy chart of Weird Al's "It's All About the Pentiums". A couple of changes. Some are not clear cut, but these are my conclusions. I also identified 6 lines that have little to do with the topic. Still, the song is predominantly REVEVANT imo! 🎉

 Fri Nov 11 17:37:16 +0000 2022

That's why it's marked as irrelevant.

 Fri Nov 11 17:48:08 +0000 2022

Like I said, some of these are on the verge of tipping. But I felt that these days more people are generally aware of "modems" existing than in 1999. And some of them even learned to turn them on and off before calling an ISP. So I've decided that it's still relevant somewhat.

 Fri Nov 11 17:52:10 +0000 2022

Because the original tweet is being retweeted again instead of the final, I have prepared the following statement:
No further proposals for changes will be accepted. All decisions are final. 😎

 Fri Nov 11 17:54:25 +0000 2022

It's irrelevant because it's not a concern or topic of discussion anymore. IRQs still exist, but discussions of IRQs aren't relevant in today's word. Nobody even thought of an IRQ for 25 years outside of [vintage] hardware enthusiasts.

 Fri Nov 11 17:59:15 +0000 2022

I had someone argue the opposite with me yesterday, and I just couldn't stop facepalming. Their whole argument was that it is not all that different today and back then, and I almost began questioning if we were living on the same planet.

 Fri Nov 11 18:00:33 +0000 2022

Airball (MicroDeal, 1987) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Nov 11 19:53:49 +0000 2022

Ooh. I didn't even notice that. The game defaults to the PC speaker, and I assumed that's all it was, since it's a 1987 game. But indeed, you can start it with different parameters to change devices.

 Fri Nov 11 20:12:38 +0000 2022

To my ears CMS has the best sound effects. It looks like the game is supposed to have some music (there are MUS files in the data directory with names like TITLE, MAIN, & DEATH) but at no point can I hear it.

 Fri Nov 11 20:27:21 +0000 2022

Well, this is interesting. It looks like the game actually came out in 1988 according to the data files, which explains a couple of things (16 color VGA support). It supports Creative Music System (SAA1099 PSG) and Innovation SSI-2001 (SID chip) cards for music & sound. (1/2)... https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1591157265524207617

 Fri Nov 11 20:34:54 +0000 2022

... (2/2) Both are enabled by using /CMS or /INV parameter respectively. But I can only hear the sound effects, not the music. The game credits a composer, & it has MUS files in its data directory with obvious names (TITLE, MAIN, DEATH, etc.) Tried 3 cracked versions. No luck.🤷‍♂️

 Fri Nov 11 20:37:22 +0000 2022

The game is actually on Steam for $3.99 courtesy of Pixel Games UK. Judging by the trailer, CMS sound option is used. And judging by one of the user reviews, no music is available in game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1804370/Airball/

 Fri Nov 11 20:47:40 +0000 2022

Actually, wait. If it supports the Innovation card the game couldn't have come out till after April 1989! The dates on my cracked EXEs are June 9th 1989 and September 3rd 1989. As always an important lesson: always triple/quadruple check all sources about videogame history.

 Fri Nov 11 20:55:37 +0000 2022

I didn't even notice that Mastodon actually introduced an edit option. In addition to the "delete & redraft" option that was always there.

 Fri Nov 11 21:12:01 +0000 2022

More like 8British!

 Fri Nov 11 21:26:15 +0000 2022

Yep. I had the same thing happen earlier today.

 Fri Nov 11 22:00:58 +0000 2022

RT @benjedwards: We have LORD

 Fri Nov 11 22:32:55 +0000 2022

Ok, how does Tempest 2000 play? Does it have console-accurate low framerate, or is it unlocked? Because I'll pay $40 just for that port.

 Fri Nov 11 23:19:57 +0000 2022

A bit weird that Atari had released an official collection of "over 100 games", and there is not official list of what the games are. 🤷‍♂️

 Fri Nov 11 23:26:18 +0000 2022

Fine, whatever. It has Tempest 2000 and a whole bunch of behind the scenes stuff. That's already enough for me.

 Fri Nov 11 23:29:12 +0000 2022

Weird. While you're here, the music in Tempest 2000 seems to be broken for me as well. Stops randomly. Then restarts.

 Fri Nov 11 23:57:15 +0000 2022

Well, now everything works. I tasked out of the game to get a screen recorder going, and now everything is fine. But I swear the music was broken even on the title screen.

 Sat Nov 12 00:03:05 +0000 2022

Yeah, I'm on PC. No, it wasn't the shift. I may have pressed it once, but I wouldn't be pressing it repeatedly. And I played the game with a controller paired up because I apparently couldn't see the keyboard mappings. Anyway, it's fine now. I'll report if I'm able to replicate.

 Sat Nov 12 00:07:06 +0000 2022

Yeah, I bought it 5 minutes after the tweet anyway.

 Sat Nov 12 00:37:53 +0000 2022

Boy, it sure is raining cats and dogs

 Sat Nov 12 01:14:39 +0000 2022

Lies. It's obviously a cloud.

 Sat Nov 12 01:16:53 +0000 2022

The most successful and probably one of the most expensive effects shots in "The Crow" (1994) is about 3 seconds long. An inside of the set was composited behind Brandon Lee because this sequence was completed after his death.

 Sat Nov 12 01:44:21 +0000 2022

This shot was done by Dream Quest Images, along with another shot, all totaling about 6 seconds of CG effects. The rest of the effects in the film are much more lo-fi because of its small budget.

 Sat Nov 12 01:46:34 +0000 2022

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1591127219661066240

 Sat Nov 12 03:21:28 +0000 2022

Is Tempest 2000 the most satisfying game ever or what? #Atari50

 Sat Nov 12 04:00:39 +0000 2022

And don't forget that the DOS port has an optional MIDI soundtrack arrangement *only* for Roland MT-32, and it puts your $700 synthesizer from 1987 to amazing use!
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1230945271380692994

 Sat Nov 12 04:07:51 +0000 2022

And also the Windows 95 version. The highest resolution port from the 90s
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1103544704363384834

 Sat Nov 12 04:10:31 +0000 2022

RT @itstheshadsy: Thumbing through Atari 50 and this is the hardest I've laughed in a while. A+ edit

 Sat Nov 12 04:17:55 +0000 2022

RT @lazygamereviews: holy crap not only did they add Meigs Field back to Flight Simulator for the anniversary update, but… you can now play…

 Sat Nov 12 05:41:29 +0000 2022

Lucky

 Sat Nov 12 06:15:19 +0000 2022

RT @SierraOnLineUni: 🗺🇺🇸

Brooklyn Heights, NY (USA)

In...

Gold Rush! (1988)

#BrooklynHeights #NY #USA #GoldRush #SierraOnLine #SierraGa…

 Sat Nov 12 13:20:10 +0000 2022

Yes, and it's good.

 Sat Nov 12 13:30:51 +0000 2022

"Ты что, моего Христа в евреи записываешь?!"

 Sat Nov 12 16:06:37 +0000 2022

Yeah, it should be a NO, BITCH, GET UP NOW! button instead.

 Sat Nov 12 16:27:40 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: When exploring 2/3rds of every DOS shareware collection

 Sat Nov 12 17:22:12 +0000 2022

Is Atrus the world's worst friend then? I've been helping him sort his shit out for years, and he hasn't even bothered to learn my name!

 Sat Nov 12 18:31:46 +0000 2022

RT @Macaw45: Stream is live, we're playin' HEXEN https://www.twitch.tv/macaw45

 Sun Nov 13 01:09:12 +0000 2022

Remember: Don't be a dick.

 Sun Nov 13 04:21:03 +0000 2022

APAB

 Sun Nov 13 04:26:27 +0000 2022

There's like 8 ports of this game, which was originally a Dragon 32 title. A bunch have different music. It's not a fact that these files contain anything relating to the ST version.

 Sun Nov 13 15:22:42 +0000 2022

I don't normally enjoy this framing of the topic, but I'm having a weird day, so here goes:
What were some of the worst *retail* DOS games that you have played? And I specifically mean games that one would buy in a big box in a store for $40-60 back in the day.
#DOSGaming

 Sun Nov 13 19:24:29 +0000 2022

RT @ID_AA_Carmack: It is hard for people today to comprehend how slow an original IBM PC was. By some measures, a 4090 is a billion times f…

 Sun Nov 13 19:51:37 +0000 2022

What discussion? It's not a competition. I'm polling data from personal experiences.

 Sun Nov 13 19:58:59 +0000 2022

Yeah, I've recently discovered my new "worst of all time" retail game contender. It is honestly offensive to even call it a game. Sure, it has enemies, and guns, and you can (sort of) control it, but it's a barely functional mess.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1588264285800910848

 Sun Nov 13 20:04:44 +0000 2022

You *really* don't. Few things in gaming make me upset, but this one very much did.

 Sun Nov 13 20:08:17 +0000 2022

Oh my god yes. One of my biggest gaming disappointments. But I do not put all the blame on GT. While it's clearly unfinished and broken, there are choices in it that aren't a result of time/budget. Starting with the extremely bland futuristic setting.

 Sun Nov 13 20:12:02 +0000 2022

Wolfenstein*, and this game is actually not that bad.

 Sun Nov 13 20:12:23 +0000 2022

Even more surprising was reading the reviews that were mostly positive. 😅 It was literally one of the worst AAA fps games of that time. 🤷‍♂️

 Sun Nov 13 20:15:28 +0000 2022

I can't understand liking it. It was indeed the heyday of FPS, so I had plenty of other games to compare it to, and woof, it never stood a chance. And yes, because I also played the first Blood, my disappointment was significantly increased.

 Sun Nov 13 20:39:06 +0000 2022

SHOGO is a much better game, although it still has some fundamental design missteps. But at least it's functional & finished, unlike Blood 2.

 Sun Nov 13 20:39:55 +0000 2022

I still need to attempt to properly play through this game. It is pretty fascinating to me.

 Sun Nov 13 20:40:53 +0000 2022

Off. Screen from the Sega CD version.

 Sun Nov 13 21:17:49 +0000 2022

RT @hackaday: Emulate Any ISA Card With A Raspberry Pi and an FPGA https://hackaday.com/2022/11/13/emulate-any-isa-card-with-a-raspberry-pi-and-an-fpga/

 Sun Nov 13 22:44:25 +0000 2022

FastDoom continues to not only improve the performance of the game, but also adding support for all kinds of video and sound devices.
Digitized audio on a PC speaker or AdLib? Sure. DOOM on EGA or CGA? Of course. DOOM in text mode? Sure.
https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom

 Sun Nov 13 23:52:23 +0000 2022

I mean just look at this. 😮 Composite CGA and CGA 160x100 exploit is supported.

 Sun Nov 13 23:53:28 +0000 2022

FastDoom in CGA with CMS for music, and 1bit PC Speaker sound samples. (emulated)

 Mon Nov 14 00:09:52 +0000 2022

Software emulation.

 Mon Nov 14 00:13:47 +0000 2022

More FastDoom in CGA:
- Composite output
- 160x100 16 colors
- 80x100 122 pseudocolors
- "ANSI from Hell" (320x100, 16 colors)

 Mon Nov 14 00:18:59 +0000 2022

FastDoom in Hercules and MDA modes.

 Mon Nov 14 00:25:49 +0000 2022

286 is not supported, but Hercules very much is.

 Mon Nov 14 00:37:37 +0000 2022

That's when it was time to whip out VGA Copy
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1483951817419538437?t=csVTOViq-iq_bmjF6_kktg&s=19

 Mon Nov 14 01:19:03 +0000 2022

I love being a nerd because few things are more satisfying than deep dives into some rabbit hole u don't know existed five minutes ago.
And I guess I love being a public nerd because it feels validating to share results of such deep dives, & seeing others react positively to them

 Mon Nov 14 02:25:57 +0000 2022

One can now run DOOM on computers that previously weren't able to run DOOM. It's a good thing.

 Mon Nov 14 03:34:03 +0000 2022

 Mon Nov 14 04:46:00 +0000 2022

At the very least the author did
https://youtube.com/c/viti95

 Mon Nov 14 13:12:57 +0000 2022

Yeah, it looks like on a real card you get around 12-14 fps average, which is not as smooth, but very playable.

 Mon Nov 14 13:17:14 +0000 2022

It's higher because of conversion, plus the card itself would be a bottleneck. You'd never get frame rates this good. But FastDoom runs decently on a 386sx in its default "potato quality" mode.

 Mon Nov 14 13:21:41 +0000 2022

You're lucky I'm not at home right now

 Mon Nov 14 14:28:36 +0000 2022

Nah, it's gonna be fine. I bitbanged worse on it.

 Mon Nov 14 15:59:22 +0000 2022

More screens:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1566490521400496130?t=Nne-nTSoEXMW_RQRoAc25A&s=19

 Mon Nov 14 17:05:50 +0000 2022

Roberta Williams is on the front page of https://en.wikipedia.org/ today

 Mon Nov 14 19:19:38 +0000 2022

I didn't know that after all these years the original Tim Curry's voice for Joker in Batman: The Animated Series can finally be heard by everyone.
https://youtu.be/mgnbbiENLbQ

 Mon Nov 14 20:33:01 +0000 2022

RT @ScottApogee: As promised here's the historic letter sent to me in 1990 by Id Software (before they adopted that name) that kicked off C…

 Mon Nov 14 22:45:23 +0000 2022

On lowest possible settings it'll run on the most basic 386sx, as long as you have 4 mb of ram.

 Mon Nov 14 22:56:31 +0000 2022

DOOM will run on any 386, but it's completely unplayable on the lowest speeds, and somewhat okay on higher ones *if* low quality mode is enabled and/or the screen area is reduced from full screen.
https://youtu.be/L6U8fyEgRH4

 Mon Nov 14 23:37:25 +0000 2022

Interesting language change. YouTube did away with Rent/Buy, and now it's "Pay to Watch".

 Tue Nov 15 01:29:04 +0000 2022

Only in suggestions though. It's still Buy or Rent everywhere else.

 Tue Nov 15 01:30:13 +0000 2022

I somehow managed to amass 4,000 followers over on Mastodon. 🤷‍♂️Feel free to join the other poor people who voluntarily chose to subject themselves to my bullshit at @dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic

 Tue Nov 15 01:33:24 +0000 2022

An algorithm suggested it to me not knowing that I own 3 physical versions already.

 Tue Nov 15 03:27:07 +0000 2022

I also own 11 versions of Army of Darkness.

 Tue Nov 15 04:11:52 +0000 2022

RT @philscomputerlb: Bought a few of these unsuspecting PCI Sound Cards and they surprised me when testing DOS: https://youtu.be/T2ZQoWkKMiw

 Tue Nov 15 13:15:16 +0000 2022

I would like to remind everyone that you never know what kind of state a public figure is in. You might have been concerned, but you also could be the 50th person to ask today. What kind of reaction do you expect? Especially if you already knew the person is going through shit.

 Tue Nov 15 13:58:09 +0000 2022

Also remember that emotions *do not* come across in text. I also need to remember that. I know a lot of people think that I'm some kind of an angry asshole because of how I phrase my tweets/YT replies, but in reality I'm the opposite when there's no char limit & I can use my face

 Tue Nov 15 14:03:58 +0000 2022

Jesus fucking Christ, man

 Tue Nov 15 14:11:24 +0000 2022

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: The original Xbox (2001) is now as old as the Mattel Intellivision (1980) was when the Xbox was released. https://t.co/aXm…

 Tue Nov 15 16:49:30 +0000 2022

Possibly because she didn't have anything to do with it. 🤷

 Tue Nov 15 17:19:27 +0000 2022

TIL that Matt Damon declined being in a Jason Bourne videogame because he didn't want the game to be a regular fps, and instead wanted something "more like Myst".

 Tue Nov 15 18:27:36 +0000 2022

(Anyone who replies to this with a Team America reference of any kind gets instantly blocked.)

 Tue Nov 15 18:29:08 +0000 2022

I know what meant, but the phrasing made me 🤢

 Tue Nov 15 19:35:46 +0000 2022

Because of the world we live in, a lot of people online exist only to troll you. If you're not a public figure, you don't get exposed to it, so it can be hard to comprehend how annoying it can be, and on what scale it exists. If a person with a *history* of not being well... >>

 Tue Nov 15 21:14:20 +0000 2022

>> for a good decade publicly gets a question "you look tired, are you okay?" it comes off extremely insensitive. Ask your friends if they are okay, not strangers with documented struggles with mental health.

 Tue Nov 15 21:15:52 +0000 2022

Blocking someone isn't in ANY WAY similar to physically assaulting a person.
It wasn't a hello. If 500 people in a day came up to you and asked you if you were okay, and you didn't feel like discussing it, I'd wager around 100th one you'd begin to be affected in some way.

 Tue Nov 15 23:32:42 +0000 2022

RT @DOSBros_Vamonos: "Sea Graphics Viewer" by H. De Laat & B.Wakkee was one of the best image viewers ever under MS-DOS. 🌹😍
#retrocomputing…

 Wed Nov 16 00:46:14 +0000 2022

Stalker 1: Path of Fire (MM Software Productions, 1994) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Nov 16 01:48:29 +0000 2022

What the fuck is happening?! https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1592328797734735873

 Wed Nov 16 01:55:04 +0000 2022

A $30 remake of The Oregon Trail by Gameloft is on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2013360/The_Oregon_Trail/

 Wed Nov 16 13:21:04 +0000 2022

Is there a reason you're playing in CGA on that particular machine? You're getting a performance hit because of gfx conversion at runtime.

 Wed Nov 16 13:25:40 +0000 2022

RT @GibbonAnimation: Shitty City 4
by Aggelos

 Wed Nov 16 15:50:41 +0000 2022

I didn't mind the fridge because it's
A) Funny
B) No more ridiculous than jumping out of plane in an inflatable raft
I do not like the film overall though. There are scenes that I enjoy, but most of it just doesn't work for me. Don't like the visuals either.

 Wed Nov 16 16:50:52 +0000 2022

RT @rob_sheridan: This is - and I am not kidding - a screenshot of the Goth Target store in Mark Zuckerberg’s ten billion dollar Metaverse,…

 Wed Nov 16 19:38:51 +0000 2022

RT @AdamZwakk: I've updated my Big Box PC Game list on my website https://www.adamzwakk.com/collections/bigbox/ and I'm up to 320 now! I culled a bunch of less d…

 Wed Nov 16 20:05:43 +0000 2022

I honestly think this must be a miscommunication of sorts. He said he painted it based on faxes of game sprites. That doesn't really mean that the DOS version of DOOM didn't exist then, as this port was handled by completely different companies so much later.

 Thu Nov 17 04:00:00 +0000 2022

Apparently this art was originally intended for DOOM 32x, so eventual PSX port was still a year away, but also very obviously released way after the PC original.

 Thu Nov 17 04:08:09 +0000 2022

And the shots are in different aspects ratios, which enhances the effect.

 Thu Nov 17 04:15:27 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: The California Raisins-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Thu Nov 17 08:02:05 +0000 2022

RT @WillSysRefDoc: I played the 1994 Strahd video game for Spooktober!
https://youtu.be/wjupYiRY7xY

 Thu Nov 17 16:21:56 +0000 2022

Pinball Dreams II (Spidersoft Limited/21st Century Entertainment, 1994) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Nov 17 17:05:25 +0000 2022

Superplexed - An all-round editor for Supaplex
https://github.com/kaimitai/superplexed/

 Thu Nov 17 18:41:34 +0000 2022

Supaplex

 Thu Nov 17 18:47:25 +0000 2022

QB Chess (Jim MacDonald, 1998) #QBasicFTW

 Thu Nov 17 19:54:32 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Locman I-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Thu Nov 17 20:00:18 +0000 2022

If you wanna be with me
Baby, there's a price to pay
I'm a MIDI in a bottle
You gotta play me the right way

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Nov 17 20:27:33 +0000 2022

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109361027237885834

 Thu Nov 17 20:27:50 +0000 2022

We live in such crazy times that Todd in the Shadows went insane and made a video about Top 10 '90s... BUSES!
https://youtu.be/CHdEceiqBAQ

 Thu Nov 17 21:07:26 +0000 2022

Well.... this... goes places. 😯 https://x.com/Hbomberguy/status/1593347725591994371

 Thu Nov 17 21:51:54 +0000 2022

An iso of 1996 Windows/Mac CD-ROM game "Bible Sleuth - The Case Of The Purloined Pendant" is now on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/bible-sleuth

 Thu Nov 17 22:09:43 +0000 2022

It is so strange to me that this was the logo they've had for the shortest time ever (less than 2 years).

 Thu Nov 17 23:51:08 +0000 2022

Music from the CD version of "Alone in the Dark 2", a *horror* game about PIRATE GANGSTERS... and Christmas.
🦙🔊🎵

 Fri Nov 18 00:12:03 +0000 2022

👆 I couldn't tell you who the composer was, because despite the music being the same, a different composer is credited for each of the different versions (DOS, Saturn, 3DO, PSX) 🤷‍♂️

 Fri Nov 18 00:18:19 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: This fucker again

 Fri Nov 18 00:37:51 +0000 2022

Too soon

 Fri Nov 18 00:51:20 +0000 2022

 Fri Nov 18 01:19:07 +0000 2022

cc @VGAdvisor

 Fri Nov 18 01:35:03 +0000 2022

Good night.

 Fri Nov 18 03:29:35 +0000 2022

RT @TubeTimeUS: the legendary IBM butterfly keyboard

 Fri Nov 18 04:25:14 +0000 2022

It is honestly a bit sad to read that the man who was so instrumental to Sanitarium's design & narrative went on to do UX work for over a decade.

 Fri Nov 18 13:19:49 +0000 2022

Since we're getting so much closer to 2029, here's a message for the future:
Dear Kyle Reese, just keep a laser gun in your ass. It's for the greater good.

 Fri Nov 18 16:38:06 +0000 2022

You just gotta push through the first couple of levels. Also if you're playing the DOS version don't save and load during gameplay. There's a glitch that makes the game harder if you load. 🤷

 Fri Nov 18 17:57:03 +0000 2022

It's a game for fps masters, so you also have to actually develop skills that are underused in other shooters of the time: like jumping and crouching actually throws off hitscanning enemies. Play it like it's Doom 2016, constantly moving.

 Fri Nov 18 17:59:26 +0000 2022

Mastodon is experiencing mass slowdowns because of mass user influx. In your case it would make sense to join/move to a gamedev instance.

 Fri Nov 18 18:31:00 +0000 2022

I want to experience Atari 50 properly, but I just end up going to Tempest 2000 after 2 minutes every time. 🤷

 Fri Nov 18 18:36:45 +0000 2022

RT @shirtsthtgohard:

 Fri Nov 18 20:03:17 +0000 2022

It gets a lot easier when you get used to the physics and amass an arsenal. Most of the weapons are actually useful, and it helps to actually switch between them, and use different modes. Like bouncing dynamite off walls and around corners.

 Fri Nov 18 21:50:31 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: A Day for Soft Food-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Fri Nov 18 23:51:38 +0000 2022

It is *such* a good game. It's the best Build engine game imo.

 Sat Nov 19 00:17:30 +0000 2022

And kids (cubs?). At least they left the cat.

 Sat Nov 19 00:58:53 +0000 2022

Baldies (Creative Edge Software/Panasonic Interactive Media, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Nov 19 00:59:07 +0000 2022

RT @GameHistoryOrg: The Digital Antiquarian takes on The Pandora Directive, continuing the '90s Tex Murphy series with "a marked new source…

 Sat Nov 19 01:12:11 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Yo listen up, here's the story
About a little guy that lives in the DOS world
And all day and all night
And everything he…

 Sat Nov 19 01:28:48 +0000 2022

RT @gayocats: 1178282873054

 Sat Nov 19 02:10:37 +0000 2022

Duke is a fine game, but looking at it now, a lot of it is sloppy design wise. And yeah, its "comedy" is like 6 lines repeated over and over. Caleb, on the other hand says dozens of different things. Have you tried doing nothing? After a while he starts singing old show tunes.

 Sat Nov 19 02:28:07 +0000 2022

And also THIS
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1110934641421287425

 Sat Nov 19 02:33:25 +0000 2022

Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn for Sega.

 Sat Nov 19 02:56:01 +0000 2022

Updated list of Kevin Smith films ranked from my most favorite to least. Feature films only
--------
Dogma
Clerks
Chasing Amy
Clerks II
Red State
Tusk
Jersey Girl
Jay & Silent Bob Reboot
Clerks III
Zack & Miri Make a Porno
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Mallrats
Cop Out
Yoga Hosers

 Sat Nov 19 03:07:01 +0000 2022

I *really* dislike Mallrats.

 Sat Nov 19 03:08:59 +0000 2022

I'll let you know when I see it.

 Sat Nov 19 03:09:13 +0000 2022

And also, not for nothing, Clerks 3 maybe isn't the best movie, but it made me emotional AND it made me cry. The only thing Mallrats ever did was it made wish for it to be over.

 Sat Nov 19 03:14:05 +0000 2022

 Sat Nov 19 03:14:43 +0000 2022

I don't know what any of this means, and I don't much care to find out.

 Sat Nov 19 03:17:13 +0000 2022

Dogma legitimately changed my life. 🤷‍♂️

 Sat Nov 19 03:17:57 +0000 2022

Clerks 3 is not a great movie, but I've also seen it several times now, and I feel like its shortcomings are easier to overlook on repeats. Every time I watch Mallrats it hurts. Except once a very long time ago I watched it high, & instantly understood why it was a stoner classic

 Sat Nov 19 03:23:13 +0000 2022

Lol. I just scrolled through your feed for 15 seconds, and 🤣

 Sat Nov 19 03:42:36 +0000 2022

Crypto people are so fucking weird, man. And by "weird" I mean LAME.

 Sat Nov 19 03:44:18 +0000 2022

 Sat Nov 19 03:47:02 +0000 2022

Good night.

 Sat Nov 19 06:07:11 +0000 2022

Holy shit. 😦

 Sat Nov 19 14:29:28 +0000 2022

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

 Sat Nov 19 15:06:40 +0000 2022

https://youtu.be/nKK9r2Ct0D8

 Sat Nov 19 15:07:13 +0000 2022

Remeber, the oldest gamedev Mastodon instance isn't the only one. https://x.com/esdin/status/1593300577634684937

 Sat Nov 19 15:09:24 +0000 2022

I think that PoP 2 is a *major* downgrade compared to the first game. I feel this is mostly because Jordan Mechner wrote a design bible in Paris, & faxed it over to Broderbund where others made the game according to it, so it didn't go through enough iterations & refinements.

 Sat Nov 19 16:05:19 +0000 2022

RT @Lord_Arse: I wrote and published the Atari ST game Evilution back in 1991. Now, after 29 years it's back in the public domain!
If you h…

 Sat Nov 19 16:40:09 +0000 2022

RT @Scarfulhu: 🩸 NEW VIDEO! 🩸

Blood 2 can't really be that bad, can it? Oh no.

(Link below)

 Sat Nov 19 18:08:25 +0000 2022

If it's published in Russia I can assure you that quite a few copies must exist.

 Sat Nov 19 20:37:46 +0000 2022

RT @dosgameclub: 💾 NEW PODCAST💾 Back in September we took a look at SimAnt, the 1991 ant colony simulator by Maxis #DOSGaming

Do you wan…

 Sat Nov 19 20:39:49 +0000 2022

Flashing lights warning, but yeah, this is pretty awesome https://x.com/DOSBros_Vamonos/status/1594042832406224896

 Sat Nov 19 20:46:28 +0000 2022

RT @MorningToast: They say keep the stuff that brings you joy. I smile every time I grab this mug out of the cupboard. #msdos #mugs #Goodti…

 Sat Nov 19 20:46:58 +0000 2022

Here, but a time machine might be required

 Sat Nov 19 20:50:51 +0000 2022

RT @AndrewHulshult: Just let me exit please

 Sun Nov 20 00:16:27 +0000 2022

Gates Of Integrity (Tarjan, 2022) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Nov 20 00:49:31 +0000 2022

Watch_Quake - a Quake port for the Apple Watch
https://github.com/ByteOverlord/Watch_Quake
https://youtu.be/89TAt72eYt4

 Sun Nov 20 00:53:26 +0000 2022

 Sun Nov 20 01:47:20 +0000 2022

Хуелон

 Sun Nov 20 01:50:32 +0000 2022

RT @BuildEnginePics: Game: Blood
By: Monolith Productions

 Sun Nov 20 17:22:01 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Do you believe that, my being stronger or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place?

 Mon Nov 21 00:56:17 +0000 2022

It's better to be the last one at a wedding than the fist one at a funeral.

 Mon Nov 21 02:29:18 +0000 2022

RT @cgallaty: @ON4LPF I meant the sound() function. For those that have no clue, this was in the app:

 Mon Nov 21 07:47:20 +0000 2022

RT @iris_frs: 10/10 videography work by channel 4, literally no notes. This is modern British art

 Mon Nov 21 09:50:33 +0000 2022

Hive be like

 Mon Nov 21 13:09:41 +0000 2022

(Yeah, it's not for me.)

 Mon Nov 21 13:09:57 +0000 2022

RT @RetroTechChris: Just for fun, now with dialup speed issues sorted, I was able to dial up a BBS using Bananacom in MS-DOS! Using a Comp…

 Mon Nov 21 13:13:21 +0000 2022

This is gonna be an evergreen tweet, isn't it? https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1594145334959034368

 Mon Nov 21 13:25:19 +0000 2022

RT @arstechnica: “Just a bunch of idiots having fun”—a photo history of the LAN party https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/11/just-a-bunch-of-idiots-having-fun-a-photo-history-of-the-lan-party/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social

 Mon Nov 21 13:40:42 +0000 2022

I aspire to be as comfortable as this babby

 Mon Nov 21 14:50:36 +0000 2022

Do you put on a special voice though?

 Mon Nov 21 15:00:52 +0000 2022

RT @BuildEnginePics:

 Mon Nov 21 17:45:01 +0000 2022

RT @shirtsthtgohard:

 Mon Nov 21 18:55:54 +0000 2022

RT @pripyatbeast: Found a seller on eBay who came across some NOS of the famous "Tootsietoy Pump Action Shotgun" used to create the Shotgun…

 Mon Nov 21 20:42:10 +0000 2022

RT @liliputingnews: Tinyllama is a DIY open-hardware project that lets you build a pocket-sized 486/Pentium-class, DOS-compatible PC with a…

 Mon Nov 21 22:45:39 +0000 2022

Robod (mar, 2022) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Nov 22 01:11:29 +0000 2022

Here https://www.high-voltage.cz/2022/anketa-soutez-hvdosdev-2022/

 Tue Nov 22 01:14:00 +0000 2022

RT @textfiles: Putting out the word for this collection Nullsleep remembered dropped a 1gb .zip file of 3.5 gigabytes of 130,000 MIDI files…

 Tue Nov 22 01:14:45 +0000 2022

I believe so.

 Tue Nov 22 01:32:54 +0000 2022

1994, huh 🤔

 Tue Nov 22 13:24:21 +0000 2022

RT @CharlesHawn66: Eye of the Beholder was 1st released for Amiga & MS-DOS in 1991. In 2006 a team started porting it to the #C64 and #C128…

 Tue Nov 22 16:02:34 +0000 2022

I mean let's face it, I think we can make a fairly certain assumption about how that would've turned out.

 Tue Nov 22 19:54:49 +0000 2022

RT @disturbingshirt:

 Tue Nov 22 20:24:29 +0000 2022

I figured I'll save it for a more appropriate moment.

 Tue Nov 22 20:53:56 +0000 2022

I want to buy The House of the Dead Remake, but... Idk, I've played the original a million times, do I really need to play the *exact* same game again just because all the assets are new?

 Tue Nov 22 21:49:34 +0000 2022

I don't have a Switch. PC is the only option for me.

 Tue Nov 22 22:11:58 +0000 2022

Yeah, I guess I just have to wait longer.

 Wed Nov 23 00:24:03 +0000 2022

That's House of the Dead 2.

 Wed Nov 23 01:01:50 +0000 2022

"Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening."

 Wed Nov 23 02:42:46 +0000 2022

Fun fact:
The opening sample is from the 1990 record
Fatal Morgana - Lifeblood
https://youtu.be/u2vbVJ_kGRU

 Wed Nov 23 02:52:57 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Cobra Mission-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Wed Nov 23 10:11:58 +0000 2022

🤦

 Wed Nov 23 10:21:54 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: EA's FIFA games for DOS. 1994 - 1996
#DOSGaming

 Wed Nov 23 13:10:12 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: FIFA 96 had the most 90s aesthetic

 Wed Nov 23 13:10:51 +0000 2022

RT @davepl1968: I'm so old that I helped write this. MS-DOS for the win!

 Wed Nov 23 15:01:02 +0000 2022

TIL https://t.co/0pikkWM5Xo

 Wed Nov 23 15:02:08 +0000 2022

👆 I love this. I love learning new things about *the thing* I've been into my whole life. And it happens pretty often. That means there's enough stuff that happened during this "brief" period in computing to last me my entire life.

 Wed Nov 23 15:04:32 +0000 2022

RT @DOSBros_Vamonos: WOW moments of the #MSDOS #Demoscene. Today: Verses (1994) by EMF. Technically, certainly not the best part of the dem…

 Wed Nov 23 16:10:46 +0000 2022

I honestly don't recall why exactly I registered on Twitter. Because back then nobody knew what to make of it. My first two years of tweets is almost exclusively boring nothingness. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/5525369102

 Wed Nov 23 16:30:37 +0000 2022

It really feels like everyone, myself included, figured out Twitter around 2012. That's when I started putting a lot of content on here, and was constantly engaging with lots of people, but it also felt like everyone was doing the same.

 Wed Nov 23 16:34:45 +0000 2022

Speaking of dumb tweets, here's one:
I want a fucking hamburger, and I'm gonna go get one for myself *right now*. 🍔
(Getting a hamburger will involve getting on a train, because a hamburger tastes better when it's a part of an adventure.)

 Wed Nov 23 16:43:00 +0000 2022

 Wed Nov 23 16:45:55 +0000 2022

RT @shanselman: This is MASSIVE. The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11! Wi…

 Wed Nov 23 17:12:08 +0000 2022

I'm already running OtVDM on my 64 bit Windows 10 machine for Win16 compatibility, but WSL means you can natively run Wine in Windows and also get 16 bit compatibility. 🤷‍♂️

 Wed Nov 23 17:17:45 +0000 2022

I don't believe this was the case, but even if it was, it isn't anymore
https://x.com/shanselman/status/1595177845093183488?t=tW5oQ6lEcZKm9vZa2WcDnw&s=19

 Wed Nov 23 17:23:15 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: The Redneck Rampage Cuss Pack™
A few megabytes of replacement audio for Redneck Rampage that adds swearing to the game. I…

 Wed Nov 23 18:24:08 +0000 2022

 Wed Nov 23 20:09:09 +0000 2022

Okay

 Wed Nov 23 20:10:34 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Alter Ego-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Wed Nov 23 20:40:01 +0000 2022

RT @wolf3dnews: Have you seen Wolfenstein 3D Second Encounter Deluxe Edition?

A new LZWolf mod that ports levels from Mac Wolf3D (and more…

 Thu Nov 24 00:06:09 +0000 2022

 Thu Nov 24 01:15:13 +0000 2022

RT @JwlarYT: You can watch my new video on Alone in the Dark here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5hwt-BdSd4

 Thu Nov 24 01:45:52 +0000 2022

Alright, fine. I'll get the Evil Dead game. (For free on Epic store.)

 Thu Nov 24 01:48:15 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Every time you go away
You take a piece of meat with you 🥩

 Thu Nov 24 02:56:05 +0000 2022

Ok, The House of the Dead Remake:
- Took me THREE tries just for it to run. Various glitches throughout, such as loading in new enemies breaking often on level 3
- Easier than the original on normal difficulty, inconsistent damage
- Many glass/wood objects DON'T BREAK when shot

 Thu Nov 24 03:40:16 +0000 2022

Also there are stylistic decisions that I just don't like. The animations have a very cartoon-like quality. Every lead-in to a motion is super fast.
And the music. Oh man. Did not enjoy those remixes at all.
Other than that it's The House of the Dead. 🤷‍♂️

 Thu Nov 24 03:42:15 +0000 2022

Oh, and no 3D walking back through the house during the credits.

 Thu Nov 24 03:42:42 +0000 2022

I have no idea. Played the PC version.

 Thu Nov 24 04:17:00 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Never forget what happened last Thanksgiving

 Thu Nov 24 14:21:50 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: #Thanksgiving #DOSGaming

 Thu Nov 24 14:31:18 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Some holiday fun in several versions of Print Shop

 Thu Nov 24 14:32:49 +0000 2022

First ever print ad for Tim Paterson's 86-DOS from August 1980.
Main advertised feature is easy conversion of Z80 CP/M programs to 8086 based systems (which Seattle Computer Products was also selling).
$1 back then = $3.58 today.

 Thu Nov 24 15:27:23 +0000 2022

You can see the list of included utilities here:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1329570193140555777

 Thu Nov 24 15:32:29 +0000 2022

Happy Thanksgiving, people of Twitter! 🦃
I've been handed a collection of hardcore pornography clips for MS-DOS, so of course I just had to put it up on the Internet Archive.
Ummm, enjoy. 🤷‍♂️
https://archive.org/details/FantasyAfterDark

 Thu Nov 24 19:16:07 +0000 2022

Every time you go away
You take a piece of MIDI with you

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Nov 24 19:19:52 +0000 2022

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109400383813733974

 Thu Nov 24 19:20:22 +0000 2022

RT @jaytholen: https://t.co/qWMCJoB0CE

 Thu Nov 24 19:38:42 +0000 2022

Menahem is rocking that 70s look.

 Thu Nov 24 20:24:39 +0000 2022

RT @ScottApogee: Last post today and this one is a 1991-era doozy. @TimSweeneyEpic hopefully remembers the first newsletter he wrote (& mai…

 Thu Nov 24 21:30:22 +0000 2022

This game is terrible, but at least they finally added new features to the engine after 3/4 years.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1438257951517597699

 Thu Nov 24 22:05:57 +0000 2022

And I really fucking hate that there's a far right politician with the same name as a computer game designer.

 Thu Nov 24 22:10:06 +0000 2022

After the first Alone in the Dark these games are just different degrees of awful. The fact that we had more time on our hands, and weren't as jaded, so we could somewhat enjoy them more doesn't change the fact that these were incredibly poorly designed games.

 Thu Nov 24 22:24:37 +0000 2022

RT @OldTechAdverts: Byte Magazine 1987 December
https://archive.org/details/byte-1987-12
#retrocomputing #80scomputing

 Thu Nov 24 22:45:55 +0000 2022

 Fri Nov 25 00:44:21 +0000 2022

Happy holiday, my fellow DOS enthusiasts. I am most thankful for you. 🥂

 Fri Nov 25 01:45:54 +0000 2022

"Where we must go...
we who wander this Wasteland
in search of our better selves?"
- The First History Man

 Fri Nov 25 02:27:35 +0000 2022

Yes, only I can't afford to pay you anymore.

 Fri Nov 25 10:13:08 +0000 2022

Also, it's not *the platform* that's an issue for me.

 Fri Nov 25 10:14:11 +0000 2022

RT @damgentemp: The original PC gaming experience from the 80s/90s (src: Facebook)

 Fri Nov 25 10:14:55 +0000 2022

That is *exactly* how one's supposed to play Alley Cat.

 Fri Nov 25 10:15:26 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: 😥

 Fri Nov 25 10:33:51 +0000 2022

RT @DosTitleScreens: Animal Quest-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Fri Nov 25 17:25:06 +0000 2022

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is... what it is. It's not for me. Something is missing. The songs are top notch though.

 Fri Nov 25 20:28:05 +0000 2022

There was something special in the original Guardians that somehow often made you forget that you're watching a $200 mil Hollywood studio movie. Something honest. Holiday special is just a studio reverse engineering adorable.

 Fri Nov 25 20:30:32 +0000 2022

Drak (Enypsox, 1995) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Nov 25 22:28:12 +0000 2022

👆 If you ever wanted Tetris, but mixed with confusing rules and LORE then Drak is for you.
I played for 20 minutes, and still couldn't figure it out. May I remind you that this is a Tetris clone. So yeah, French videogames strike again!

 Fri Nov 25 22:33:26 +0000 2022

H E L P

 Fri Nov 25 22:43:21 +0000 2022

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞
𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩

 Sat Nov 26 01:49:15 +0000 2022

Try it.

 Sat Nov 26 01:57:48 +0000 2022

John Carpenter, the ABSOLUTE KING.

 Sat Nov 26 02:06:41 +0000 2022

Good night.

 Sat Nov 26 06:15:20 +0000 2022

RT @lukhash: Have a cracking weekend boys and girls!

 Sat Nov 26 11:46:26 +0000 2022

RT @gordoslair: Early morning #MSDOS action. Tongue of the Fatman (1989) and Bad Blood (1990). #VGA #Adlib @dosnostalgic https://t.co/UJ7ZE…

 Sat Nov 26 12:26:37 +0000 2022

RT @BondHunterBond: DOS gamers rise up. What am I missing from my list?

 Sat Nov 26 13:50:41 +0000 2022

Watching a pretty cool video about how considerable effort and modern technology were applied to make Quake look terrible.

 Sat Nov 26 14:07:43 +0000 2022

Jesus wept

 Sat Nov 26 14:11:05 +0000 2022

Everyone who still for some reason calls original Quake ugly after 25 years definitely owes it an apology now
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/994293836447932416?t=N2c6oyOsj6ssqWKCQOJ5wg&s=19

 Sat Nov 26 14:13:20 +0000 2022

I would have picked a different linoleum 🤷

 Sat Nov 26 14:18:23 +0000 2022

Oh no, please, don't give them more ideas.

 Sat Nov 26 14:27:20 +0000 2022

 Sat Nov 26 16:19:26 +0000 2022

John Romero on Duke Nukem 3D.
(Featuring pre-release footage of the game for some reason.)

 Sat Nov 26 16:54:20 +0000 2022

RT @GameHistoryOrg: A history of gaming piracy in Europe in the '80s and '90s: https://genesistemple.com/the-european-bucaneers-gaming-piracy-in-the-eu-between-the-80s-and-90s

 Sat Nov 26 17:00:23 +0000 2022

RT @XwingGameSeries: Wow! Another cool find!
Short footage from the early version of the X-Wing game featuring early cockpit and eject cut…

 Sat Nov 26 17:10:32 +0000 2022

Yes, Quake is predominantly in shades of blue.

 Sat Nov 26 18:54:29 +0000 2022

Take your passion
And make it happen
Pictures come alive
You can dance right through your life

𝓡𝓘𝓟

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Sat Nov 26 18:59:12 +0000 2022

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109411640373692122

 Sat Nov 26 18:59:38 +0000 2022

Mine too:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1380970144080494603

 Sat Nov 26 19:05:46 +0000 2022

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1579507399219900418

 Sat Nov 26 20:25:37 +0000 2022

"On the seventh day the Lord said: 'I'm pooped. You build the theme park.'"
#DOSGaming

 Sat Nov 26 21:01:02 +0000 2022

RT @pripyatbeast: Look kid, after tracking the smuggler’s ship you’ll follow it to the Robotics Facility at Ice Station Beta on Anteevy.
Be…

 Sat Nov 26 21:11:57 +0000 2022

𝒮𝒫𝑅𝐸𝒜𝒟
𝒯𝐻𝒜𝒯
𝕊ℍ𝔸ℝ𝔼𝕎𝔸ℝ𝔼

 Sat Nov 26 22:16:56 +0000 2022

https://youtu.be/vW_GjXzFwCs

 Sun Nov 27 00:04:34 +0000 2022

RT @kenshirriff: The Intel 8086 was released in 1978, starting the x86 line that still dominates computing. I'm reverse-engineering the chi…

 Sun Nov 27 00:24:09 +0000 2022

The tech is great, and if new stuff pops up using it, it will be judged on its own merit of course. But currently all the demos are shown with vanilla Quake assets, and as it is, it makes them look pretty terrible. Nobody is up in arms about this.

 Sun Nov 27 02:04:27 +0000 2022

8 year olds, dude. (In my replies)

 Sun Nov 27 11:04:34 +0000 2022

Uh huh, let's stop that right here. I absolutely *do not* think this shouldn't exist. All I was conveying that the way this tech looks with original assets is rather terrible. That is all.

 Sun Nov 27 11:06:55 +0000 2022

Here's an internet/social media pro-tip: you see a stupid & non-constructive comment, just move on. Usually everyone is better off.

 Sun Nov 27 11:10:33 +0000 2022

https://youtu.be/IhhLcZQ2zD0

 Sun Nov 27 11:11:21 +0000 2022

*Garriot didn't really have much to do with BioForge besides run the company. The actual producer on it was Eric Hyman, the director was Ken Demarest, and it was written by Jack Herman.

 Sun Nov 27 17:19:14 +0000 2022

Fixed to reflect what I actually said. No need to expand on it for me.

 Sun Nov 27 17:24:23 +0000 2022

I guess I might as well double down:
Tech being cool & exciting isn't mutually exclusive with poor aesthetics. Surely a better application of it than just somewhat sloppily attaching it to 25 year old low poly resources is in our future.

 Sun Nov 27 17:42:31 +0000 2022

See also: jDoom.
I don't find ideas of dynamic lighting, special effects, or 3D models offensive on their own. These are very much integral part of many games. But they way all of those were applied in this particular case is a big NO for me.

 Sun Nov 27 17:45:29 +0000 2022

I really enjoyed it. These days I'm more likely to run it if I just want to play the game for a bit than any other port.

 Sun Nov 27 17:46:35 +0000 2022

RIP Albert Pyun.

 Sun Nov 27 18:01:30 +0000 2022

I didn't say that it was destroying the original game (although it is certainly destroying original aesthetics), and obviously nobody is forcing me to play it. All I'm saying is i think this tech applied to particular game in this way makes is look bad. That's the extent of it.

 Sun Nov 27 20:02:58 +0000 2022

What *really* needs to happen is new creators coming up with maps & designs that specifically target this tech. Trying to bolt it onto a 25 year old game assets will never work 100%.

 Sun Nov 27 20:43:45 +0000 2022

In addition to my apparently bad Quake take from yesterday, have a good Quake take:
Quake's single player is really good. You should try playing through the entire thing, if you haven't. It is just SO DAMN GOOD.

 Sun Nov 27 21:03:13 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Today in #DOSGaming gifs you can hear: 👂

 Sun Nov 27 21:05:12 +0000 2022

 Sun Nov 27 21:10:01 +0000 2022

Have you tried Dusk? It's more than just a throwback. It's an incredible fps in its own right, and unlike many shareware games, the levels actually keep getting better and more interesting the further in the game you get.

 Sun Nov 27 22:27:35 +0000 2022

I normally don't care for game achievement or anything like that, but somehow I managed to get "harder" achievements on every last new game I played recently

 Mon Nov 28 02:33:11 +0000 2022

https://x.com/Nulak_Twitt/status/1596875415741550593?t=HUTNmHi172IyTCSmrs81iQ&s=19

 Mon Nov 28 13:04:15 +0000 2022

It's babby!

 Mon Nov 28 13:53:53 +0000 2022

RT @GalexQuest: Winter is Coming...

 Mon Nov 28 14:28:41 +0000 2022

Happy 25th to the original Grand Theft Auto game! https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1521672714410463232

 Mon Nov 28 16:27:28 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: October 21st 1997 is what a bunch of sources cite as the release date of the original Grand Theft Auto game. Idk where th…

 Mon Nov 28 16:28:50 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Some in-development Grand Theft Auto 1 screenshots #DOSGaming

 Mon Nov 28 16:28:53 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: A little bit of GTA 1 for DOS in its lowest graphical settings (320x200, 8 bit color) #DOSGaming

 Mon Nov 28 16:29:02 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: Grand Theft Auto in 320x200 8 bit mode, 640x480 16 bit software mode, and 640x480 3dfx mode #DOSGaming https://t.co/6JLKz…

 Mon Nov 28 16:29:05 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: A 1995 mockup of Race 'n Chase, a project that would become Grand Theft Auto

 Mon Nov 28 16:29:14 +0000 2022

Me when I see a tiny bit of a cat appear in a frame of a YouTube video:

 Mon Nov 28 18:32:21 +0000 2022

 Mon Nov 28 19:53:34 +0000 2022

Didn't realize that Quentin Tarantino had a Red Letter Media-style podcast, but both hosts are basically Jay.

 Mon Nov 28 21:14:27 +0000 2022

Yep. This actually happened in the only episode I've listened to do far.

 Mon Nov 28 21:34:39 +0000 2022

New tech good. This application of this tech bad.

 Mon Nov 28 22:55:17 +0000 2022

No, haven't watched that one yet, but now I'm excited.

 Mon Nov 28 23:22:03 +0000 2022

So adorable ❤

 Mon Nov 28 23:22:30 +0000 2022

I was gonna make a DOS launcher/front end for it to make it more accessible for today's users........ but then I didn't.

 Mon Nov 28 23:40:02 +0000 2022

RT @BuildEnginePics: Just installed Extreme Paintbrawl and played to see what's up with It. I can confidently say that it's one of the game…

 Mon Nov 28 23:40:44 +0000 2022

The Windows front end just dumps all the settings (team mates, their weapons, selected map, user's budget, etc.) and then the game reads that. All one needs is just figure out the format (it's mostly strings, but just in sequence). The rest wouldn't be hard because most of the...

 Mon Nov 28 23:58:16 +0000 2022

... launcher stuff can be omitted. No real need for limited money, team management, or ads for real world branded items, and such. Just let people play selected maps in either single or multi player.

 Tue Nov 29 00:00:02 +0000 2022

64-bit? Pfft. Wake me up when it's 69-bit!

 Tue Nov 29 00:16:48 +0000 2022

For all my indifference to Guardians Holiday Special, its opening song is so good, I've been listening to it for *days* now.

 Tue Nov 29 01:05:27 +0000 2022

RT @lazygamereviews: new office shelves

 Tue Nov 29 02:31:38 +0000 2022

Whoa. A game that's available on every major computer of the 80s *except* IBM PC. 😯

 Tue Nov 29 16:49:35 +0000 2022

I ain't afraid of no DOS

 Tue Nov 29 16:55:55 +0000 2022

A bunch of DOS games have been added to GOG's catalog https://x.com/GOGcom/status/1597591798683254786

 Tue Nov 29 16:58:10 +0000 2022

RT @DOSBros_Vamonos: Fritz was almost a revolution in 1991. It looked a bit like grandma's feet, but the AI was good and there were a lot o…

 Tue Nov 29 16:59:21 +0000 2022

RT @benjedwards: Yes, I should note that Nov 29 is the apocryphal "release date," since we don't know exactly when it launched, as Ethan Jo…

 Tue Nov 29 22:53:20 +0000 2022

I was a guest on Long Island Retro Gaming Expo's podcast. Check it out. 🔊
https://youtu.be/VCtiQqqaRRQ

 Tue Nov 29 23:38:30 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: You
WOULDN'T
Download
your DAD

 Tue Nov 29 23:51:29 +0000 2022

RT @dosnostalgic: This absolutely is THE BEST sketch from that show though. No matter how many times I've seen it, it's still amazingly hil…

 Wed Nov 30 00:16:25 +0000 2022

I never played any videogames later on like the ones I played when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?

 Wed Nov 30 01:35:45 +0000 2022

RT @2point21: Have you ever wondered how Twinsen was born? Today we bring you an exclusive trip in the past with the original creators of T…

 Wed Nov 30 14:04:04 +0000 2022

Ok, now that I'm several episodes in I have experienced Tarantino switching into Mike mode. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1597338153412853760

 Wed Nov 30 15:41:42 +0000 2022

Also I *never* wanna hear that I'm supposedly too obsessed with my super niche hobbies. THAT guy is super obsessed, and he's doing just fine. I hope I have as much energy talking about DOS games when I'm 60.

 Wed Nov 30 15:57:26 +0000 2022

Will you still boot DOS
Will you still use DOS
When I'm sixty four?

 Wed Nov 30 16:06:37 +0000 2022

FUCK

 Wed Nov 30 16:08:09 +0000 2022

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it was a reference to a song that's about 45 years older than the one you're thinking of.

 Wed Nov 30 16:10:14 +0000 2022

It was RIGHT THERE 😭 https://x.com/luzhkove/status/1597985797713858561

 Wed Nov 30 16:10:45 +0000 2022

Is..... is there a EDuke32 port for DOS? 😯

 Wed Nov 30 16:19:54 +0000 2022

Well, it looks like if you have a *really* fast DOS PC with an ungodly amount of RAM, you too can be playing Ion Fury with single digit frame rate. https://x.com/BuildEnginePics/status/1597988048540962818

 Wed Nov 30 16:23:00 +0000 2022

 Wed Nov 30 16:24:50 +0000 2022

Hmmm... It's not *too* bad, I guess.

 Wed Nov 30 16:26:45 +0000 2022

If this isn't in the Mario movie then I'm not interested. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/713367515389362177

 Wed Nov 30 16:36:33 +0000 2022

Bob Hoskins would have pulled it off. Just saying.

 Wed Nov 30 16:37:44 +0000 2022

Ok, so an important question was raised in this podcast:
If you're outside of USA, when did you become aware of The Oregon Trail game, and when did you actually play it?
POLL BELOW https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1597736792546897921

 Wed Nov 30 18:01:13 +0000 2022

The Oregon Trail awareness poll for non-Americans:
Did you know of the game during the pre-internet era, and have you played it back then?

 Wed Nov 30 18:01:14 +0000 2022

So that would be post-internet.

 Wed Nov 30 18:05:58 +0000 2022

👍

 Wed Nov 30 18:11:37 +0000 2022

You're weren't in America then?

 Wed Nov 30 18:17:28 +0000 2022

Yeah chew on that Fido Dido!

 Wed Nov 30 18:18:36 +0000 2022

Where are you from?

 Wed Nov 30 18:45:59 +0000 2022

Lol

 Wed Nov 30 18:46:15 +0000 2022

Pfft. It's like the easiest thing in the world to do (when you're also the bank & can increase your finances when no one is looking.)

 Wed Nov 30 21:38:25 +0000 2022

RT @dosgameclub: 💾NEW PODCAST!💾 For sp0o0ky October we took a look at SHADOW OF THE COMET (Infogrames, 1993) #DOSGaming

It's a French-mad…

 Wed Nov 30 23:26:31 +0000 2022

RT @JFrankensteiner: 1980s: You're laying the satire on a little thick, don't you think, Paul Verhoeven?

2022:

 Wed Nov 30 23:35:33 +0000 2022

Yes and yes.

 Thu Dec 01 01:01:55 +0000 2022

Slam 'N Jam '96 featuring Magic & Kareem (Left Field Productions/Crystal Dynamics, 1997) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Dec 01 01:29:55 +0000 2022

I was gonna mention Q2DOS, but I see someone already beat me to it. 🤷‍♂️

 Thu Dec 01 01:46:30 +0000 2022