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 Sun Jan 01 05:01:41 +0000 2023

Out with the old, in with the new. Oh wait. No. I still like old things!
Anyway, happy New Year, fellow DOS enthusiasts! 🥂 🎆

 Sun Jan 01 05:04:08 +0000 2023

Bourbon +soda

 Sun Jan 01 05:53:54 +0000 2023

RT @OldTechAdverts: I guess the message is your productivity will go hockey stick when you insert a 5.25" floppy into your stomach. :-)
htt…

 Sun Jan 01 17:34:42 +0000 2023

RT @BuildEnginePics: First tweet of the year

Game: Duke Nukem 3D
By: Apogee Software (3D Realms)

 Sun Jan 01 17:59:47 +0000 2023

Babbies! ❤

 Sun Jan 01 18:00:05 +0000 2023

Holy shit 😯

 Sun Jan 01 18:02:36 +0000 2023

Good morning/afternoon. Ouch.

 Sun Jan 01 18:47:21 +0000 2023

Happy 2023, fellow DOS enthusiasts! #DOSGaming

 Sun Jan 01 18:52:52 +0000 2023

 Sun Jan 01 18:55:09 +0000 2023

Elon unplugged that server rack again

 Sun Jan 01 18:58:51 +0000 2023

The one in Moktar/Titus Is slightly different, and I don't like the wording.

 Sun Jan 01 19:02:45 +0000 2023

I undeniably drank way too much last night. I can't move. Can someone please come over and feed me?

 Sun Jan 01 19:19:00 +0000 2023

Meow

 Sun Jan 01 19:23:52 +0000 2023

RT @HDoomguy: i was setting up a dosbox thing of an obscue thing nobody's ever streamed for an art vtubey friend and it occurred to me like…

 Sun Jan 01 20:27:17 +0000 2023

RT @SierraOnLineUni: 📆📅

January

The Girls of Leisure Suit Larry

Calendar (1994)

#January #Calendar #LeisureSuitLarry #SierraOnLine #Sie…

 Sun Jan 01 21:30:43 +0000 2023

The exact moment when I crossed over into 2023 https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1609414536171520000

 Sun Jan 01 21:44:18 +0000 2023

Possibly. 👀

 Mon Jan 02 00:06:03 +0000 2023

Shit https://x.com/chrfrde/status/1609698721104642049

 Mon Jan 02 00:17:00 +0000 2023

RT @castigious: every now and then i remember that most ppl who played original tomb raider on ps1 never finished it, so here's a reminder…

 Mon Jan 02 15:12:46 +0000 2023

Lucasfilm Computer Division's (later Pixar) "1984".
A 3d rendered image done for the paper "Distributed Ray Tracing" by Robert Cook, Thomas Porter, and Loren Carpenter from July 1984.

 Mon Jan 02 16:50:00 +0000 2023

Original image was rendered at 4096 x 3550 x 32 bits in 200 hours on a DEC VAX-11/750.

 Mon Jan 02 16:55:37 +0000 2023

While on my Cannon Fodder kick the other day I have discovered, to my surprise, that a work-in-progress version of the PC port of Cannon Fodder was somehow pirated & preserved.
- 450 resource files are just dumped into a directory
- 640kb ram required vs 580 of final

 Mon Jan 02 17:28:07 +0000 2023

It has no title theme, although the rest of the music is present.
Just like with some other graphics in the port I assume this was an attempt to spruce up the title screen with VGA graphics, but thankfully they reverted back for the final.
Photos are in 32 colors vs 256 in final

 Mon Jan 02 17:33:21 +0000 2023

The game still has Amiga's Royal British Legion disclaimer. It's missing MIDI files for MT-32, so if you select it, the game crashes. However, there's a PC Speaker music option that was excluded from the final. For a good reason: #DOSGaming

 Mon Jan 02 17:39:06 +0000 2023

MIDI-to-AdLib FM synth player hasn't been tweaked yet, so the music sounds all kinds of messed up. Here's Narcissus, for example:

 Mon Jan 02 17:45:18 +0000 2023

The game is also missing credits for the PC porting team which are present in the final, BUT as a bonus it comes with 24 saves! One for each mission in the game.

 Mon Jan 02 17:50:27 +0000 2023

WHAT?!?!

 Mon Jan 02 18:06:44 +0000 2023

Ok, so just downloaded a demo dated 03/09/94, and it has just the actual sampled version of the theme. No fm. No mixing either. Just bits of the song saved as 8 bit mono samples, and it plays them in sequence.

 Mon Jan 02 18:11:58 +0000 2023

And now it's been pointed out to me that the PC demo of Cannon Fodder actually has sampled version of the theme song that didn't make it into the final build.
No tracker player, sadly. The song is broken up into mono samples that play in sequence. It sort of works.

 Mon Jan 02 18:16:09 +0000 2023

Why can't I stare at a bunch of cabinets and have a cat appear? https://x.com/JenMsft/status/1609991761182720001

 Mon Jan 02 19:42:30 +0000 2023

Last year a couple of Russians released a localization kit for The Neverhood. It added subtitles during game & cutscenes. Looks like ScummVM just integrated support for it.
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/97b500643e6760e9e2c30c20dbc3c3ab1424f112

 Mon Jan 02 20:06:40 +0000 2023

Doug won't see it because I have him blocked.

 Mon Jan 02 20:09:27 +0000 2023

Yep, it works.

 Mon Jan 02 20:24:42 +0000 2023

Russian subs are also included. It's a translation kit, so the point is to let everyone make their own translations.

 Mon Jan 02 20:36:53 +0000 2023

King's Quest V 16 Color Version Playthrough
https://youtu.be/ufPB78V3nHA

 Mon Jan 02 21:50:12 +0000 2023

Giorgio Moroder's version of Metropolis is pretty damn good.

 Mon Jan 02 22:37:55 +0000 2023

Brix 2 Deluxe (MicroLeague Interactive Software/Epic MegaGames, 1992) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Mon Jan 02 23:53:34 +0000 2023

RT @dosgameclub: 💾NEW PODCAST💾 We checked out One Must Fall: 2097, the iconic fighting game by Diversion Entertainment, published as sharew…

 Tue Jan 03 00:13:49 +0000 2023

Big babby ♥

 Tue Jan 03 00:30:06 +0000 2023

Btw, the translation kit supports editing of all the graphics, so the complexity of translation can be whatever you want it to be. Japanese PC release of the game is also supported.

 Tue Jan 03 00:51:43 +0000 2023

Спасибо товарищу Глинко за наше счастливое детство! 🫡

 Tue Jan 03 01:01:29 +0000 2023

Five months of peace is just what I want.

 Tue Jan 03 02:17:58 +0000 2023

Great party, isn't it?

 Tue Jan 03 02:57:51 +0000 2023

No, but you can read the paper here:
https://graphics.pixar.com/library/DistributedRayTracing/paper.pdf

 Tue Jan 03 03:11:36 +0000 2023

Actual render, although just a quarter size: https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1609955175921229826

 Tue Jan 03 03:13:26 +0000 2023

Good night.

 Tue Jan 03 04:34:31 +0000 2023

Oh. Oh no.

 Tue Jan 03 05:03:00 +0000 2023

I still remember seeing in a packed theater. Everyone was silent during the final scene, and I was sweating it was so intense.

 Tue Jan 03 13:24:08 +0000 2023

40 is the new 21! 🎉🥂

 Tue Jan 03 13:40:58 +0000 2023

RT @OldTechAdverts: Byte 1987 November
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1987-11
#retrocomputing #bytemagazine #vintagecomputing

 Tue Jan 03 13:46:14 +0000 2023

c a t

 Tue Jan 03 14:12:28 +0000 2023

It's not "as if," it is.

 Tue Jan 03 20:35:45 +0000 2023

RT @textfiles: Again, for the next 20 YEARS no copyrighted item in Canada will lapse into public domain. An entire human generation.

 Tue Jan 03 20:43:02 +0000 2023

Truly we have entered the Duke Nukemaissance https://x.com/2Plissken/status/1610336590500450304

 Tue Jan 03 20:45:48 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Shard of Inovar-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Tue Jan 03 23:28:46 +0000 2023

MicroProse were just a publisher though. The game was developed by Mythos Games, which was essentially just two brothers - Julian and Nick Gollop who pretty much made 90% of the entire hand.

 Tue Jan 03 23:32:12 +0000 2023

RT @nanochess: New game for my PC gaming collection: Dig-Dug. I thought it come in cardboard but all of it is simply paper. Anyway pretty h…

 Tue Jan 03 23:32:51 +0000 2023

(:

 Wed Jan 04 01:10:00 +0000 2023

Mélodie d'amour chante le cur d'Emmanuelle
Qui bat cur à corps perdu
Mélodie d'amour chante le cur d'Emmanuelle
Qui vit corps à cur déçu

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Wed Jan 04 01:23:57 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109628321015950067

 Wed Jan 04 01:25:34 +0000 2023

RT @Apogee_Ent: Nearly all of our big games had a strategy guide, starting with 1995's Rise of the Triad. (Ludicrous Edition coming SOON™)…

 Wed Jan 04 13:11:50 +0000 2023

RT @gnomeslair: 🤨🧐🔎
https://www.pcgamesn.com/fallout-2-a-post-nuclear-role-playing-game/remake-fps-game-free

 Wed Jan 04 13:15:15 +0000 2023

Me, walking by a car with a "Save the Manuals" sticker: Oh, cool, an archivist!
*5 seconds later*: Wait, it's about cars, isn't it?

 Wed Jan 04 13:34:10 +0000 2023

Interesting. This code is from 5 months after the alpha code leak, so I'm guessing this would be the final snapshot before Qteam moved from 3D Realms to Monolith. https://x.com/BuildEnginePics/status/1610626880297701376

 Wed Jan 04 13:40:41 +0000 2023

If anyone is interested in the kinds of disagreements Q Studios was having with Apogee, internal notes got leaked together with the feb 96 alpha. Specifically GEORGE.TXT and EPIC.TXT:
https://tcrf.net/Proto:Blood/Alpha_Demo/Developer_Notes

 Wed Jan 04 13:55:40 +0000 2023

Timberwolf - Rescuing an Old QBasic Game
https://youtu.be/N5gXkLOZyQU

 Wed Jan 04 15:20:53 +0000 2023

If you're on Twitter and you make a DOS-related YouTube video, in the name of everything that is Good and Holy, please TWEET ABOUT IT.

 Wed Jan 04 15:24:10 +0000 2023

RT @PoorlyAgedStuff:

 Wed Jan 04 16:47:10 +0000 2023

Looks like VGA only, sadly.

 Wed Jan 04 19:15:49 +0000 2023

Yep

 Wed Jan 04 19:24:35 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Barney Bear Goes to Space-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Wed Jan 04 20:09:14 +0000 2023

Original version didn't support them either, originally.

 Wed Jan 04 20:36:40 +0000 2023

This is just sad. 😥

 Wed Jan 04 21:17:17 +0000 2023

RT @lucasartsfans: In celebration of today's news, I retweet this one again

 Wed Jan 04 22:18:39 +0000 2023

What I don't get is why the original version of the game isn't included.

 Wed Jan 04 22:32:10 +0000 2023

I will not stand for such slander. This is obviously how Mac/Windows 3.x games were!
https://youtu.be/jib5iCmH1Lg?t=03m25s

 Wed Jan 04 23:16:18 +0000 2023

 Wed Jan 04 23:17:47 +0000 2023

Screenshots are all from the VGA version, which is the only version currently officially re-released.

 Wed Jan 04 23:33:52 +0000 2023

My favorite piece of trivia about Hell Cab is the guy playing the cabbie is Vincent Carrella. He wrote the story for Iron Helix, and co-designed Bad Mojo.

 Thu Jan 05 00:20:39 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Bad Mojo is pretty much a master class in environmental storytelling

 Thu Jan 05 00:22:45 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Btw, the documentary that was included on a DVD with the 2004 version of "Bad Mojo" is really worth checking out. These a…

 Thu Jan 05 00:28:25 +0000 2023

 Thu Jan 05 01:03:06 +0000 2023

Gimme, gimme, gimme a MIDI after midnight
Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Jan 05 01:19:54 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109633967338852610

 Thu Jan 05 01:20:13 +0000 2023

ScummVM officially announces support for the 1997 DOS Faery Tale Adventure sequel! https://x.com/ScummVM/status/1610775349704409090

 Thu Jan 05 01:27:31 +0000 2023

👆 This might be an interesting one, since the original game was released unfinished. There's a lot of room for potential improvements.

 Thu Jan 05 01:29:16 +0000 2023

2023 is also the year Doc and Marty travel to in Back to the Future Part II!

 Thu Jan 05 01:44:39 +0000 2023

Well, here were are nearly 6 year later. 🤷‍♂️😅😬

 Thu Jan 05 02:15:04 +0000 2023

🤷‍♂️

 Thu Jan 05 05:47:37 +0000 2023

Sim Wong Hoo, the founder of Creative Technology/Creative Labs had passed away. RIP
https://www.theedgesingapore.com/news/company-news/creative-technologys-sim-wong-hoo-dies

 Thu Jan 05 14:13:33 +0000 2023

Yes I DO

 Thu Jan 05 14:14:17 +0000 2023

There's nothing I hate more than identifying games for people, because an average description is "a guy who shoots enemies, viewed from top down." The rest I then have to drag out of them in multiple steps because I know for a fact the image in their memory has more info in it.

 Thu Jan 05 14:58:28 +0000 2023

Brain was not the first computer virus, far from it. It was the first virus specifically for IBM PC compatible systems running MS-DOS.

 Thu Jan 05 16:04:57 +0000 2023

RT @TubeTimeUS: in honor of Sim Wong Hoo, here's a quick historical review of the Sound Blaster! 🧵

 Thu Jan 05 16:36:42 +0000 2023

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

 Thu Jan 05 16:37:33 +0000 2023

A bit weird that Simon Pegg managed to unite so many people in their hatred of math, but it's also a bit sad to see so many people come out with "math is more important in life than arts."

 Fri Jan 06 00:12:12 +0000 2023

And if you are about to reply "but math IS more important in life than arts" to my tweet, please stop for a second. Take a deep breath. Think about a happy moment in your life. Relax. Not everything in life has to be about cold hard direct application of skill, you fuck.

 Fri Jan 06 00:14:19 +0000 2023

Update on LRG's LOOM™ re-release: https://x.com/LimitedRunGames/status/1611094984278659079

 Fri Jan 06 00:24:12 +0000 2023

RT @JFrankensteiner: Reading about how Don DeLillo was able to quit his job to write full time because rent in NYC was "only $60 a month ba…

 Fri Jan 06 04:03:48 +0000 2023

RT @RetroGameGeeks: DUNE: In 1992 MS-DOS PC gamers went to the desert planet Arrakis in order to mine a precious substance. A fantastic adv…

 Fri Jan 06 13:08:20 +0000 2023

It's an amazing game. I highly suggest playing the original 16 color EGA version.

 Fri Jan 06 13:10:16 +0000 2023

🤔 https://x.com/TheCGDL/status/1611216531618238465

 Fri Jan 06 13:11:42 +0000 2023

Glad to be of service.

 Fri Jan 06 13:30:14 +0000 2023

Spectrum Analyzer, a set of tools for reverse engineering ZX Spectrum programs
https://colourclash.co.uk/spectrum-analyser/

 Fri Jan 06 13:42:41 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Starglider-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Fri Jan 06 13:51:43 +0000 2023

RT @PiecesofKate: Happy 35th anniversary to The Adventures of Captain Comic! 🎉🐦🛡️

One of the first scrolling platformers for the IBM PC, a…

 Fri Jan 06 13:52:25 +0000 2023

RT @Myartbytes1: crossing #pixelart

 Fri Jan 06 18:22:14 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: 🎶 I know all there is to know about some dumb old game 🎶

 Fri Jan 06 20:15:25 +0000 2023

RT @Variety: Earl Boen, Actor in ‘The Terminator’ Movies, Dies at 81 https://variety.com/2023/film/news/earl-boen-the-terminator-actor-dies-1235480866/

 Fri Jan 06 20:54:17 +0000 2023

This doesn't look like the Lincoln Tunnel, Sam.

 Fri Jan 06 21:03:30 +0000 2023

RT @qfgbook: A story in four acts

 Fri Jan 06 22:26:05 +0000 2023

RT @ChrystalWRox: Hasbro: “ok so hear me out….what if we make the new Clue cast completely and utterly fuckable?”

 Fri Jan 06 22:31:42 +0000 2023

DOS games that turn 30 years old this year:
-
DOOM
Space Quest 5
Sam & Max
Betrayal at Krondor
Day of the Tentacle
The Lost Vikings
Fury of the Furries
Simon the Sorcerer
The 7th Guest
The Incredible Machine
Gabriel Knight
X-Wing
SimCity 2000
Quest for Glory 4
Privateer
Syndicate

 Sat Jan 07 01:01:13 +0000 2023

Right next to 1998.

 Sat Jan 07 01:02:37 +0000 2023

Also the compilations videos of MS-DOS games from 1993 I've made are turning TEN years old. 🤷‍♂️
Part 1: https://youtu.be/qUnKBRkPvGg
Part 2: https://youtu.be/vLzFE-rxuJA
#DOSGaming

 Sat Jan 07 01:05:30 +0000 2023

Oh come on. Everyone knows the best first person RPG

 Sat Jan 07 01:20:14 +0000 2023

Maniac Mansion is from 1987, so yes, it is quite a bit older.

 Sat Jan 07 02:14:53 +0000 2023

What was the other OS?

 Sat Jan 07 03:18:57 +0000 2023

When's the last time you chose to play most of this list for fun? Especially something like the original Street Fighter? Also I would swap LSL for Maniac Mansion.

 Sat Jan 07 07:47:38 +0000 2023

Series. When was the last time you've played the ones from 1987?

 Sat Jan 07 08:15:21 +0000 2023

Except The 7th Guest, of course

 Sat Jan 07 12:44:40 +0000 2023

This screenshot is from the 1992 CD-ROM version. It has less verbs and a graphical inventory, unlike the 1990 versions.

 Sat Jan 07 12:52:05 +0000 2023

Not originally in 1993, no.

 Sat Jan 07 12:53:20 +0000 2023

That's a weird list. It certainly is a list of first *popular* CD-ROM games, but definitely not the list of firsts, which begin in 1989.

 Sat Jan 07 13:06:59 +0000 2023

No, I mean PC specifically.

 Sat Jan 07 13:11:52 +0000 2023

RT @Pixelmusement: New Ancient DOS Games episode uploaded! https://youtu.be/GkbeVB3K34I

 Sat Jan 07 13:16:05 +0000 2023

RT @MrTalida: More of the original full-res, full-color, untouched photos used in filming the cinematics from the 1996 PC claymation classi…

 Sat Jan 07 13:24:53 +0000 2023

RT @PiecesofKate: I've just realised that the mummy in each timeline is kind of like an in-game hint system, or checklist, that gently remi…

 Sat Jan 07 13:26:38 +0000 2023

Furries mostly

 Sat Jan 07 14:23:32 +0000 2023

As someone who actually played Pathways to Darkness, 😂😂😂😂😂😂

 Sat Jan 07 16:33:07 +0000 2023

I hate to break that to you, but that's T2: Judgement Day.

 Sat Jan 07 20:47:42 +0000 2023

The Terminator is one of my favorite American films, but Robocop is a one of the very few perfect films that keeps ageing like fine wine, so there's no competition for me.
ROBOCOP. https://x.com/MASKEDMANIACXXX/status/1611758158388817928

 Sat Jan 07 20:50:08 +0000 2023

As much as I love The Terminator, I absolutely adore RoboCop more.

 Sat Jan 07 20:52:02 +0000 2023

... turns 30 in 2025.

 Sat Jan 07 21:51:17 +0000 2023

If the games were so great, people would still be playing them today. A lot of games from 1993 are being both replayed & experienced for the first time by many today. Not so much a lot of the 1987 list you've mentioned.

 Sat Jan 07 23:56:32 +0000 2023

I know you're referring to one of the games from 1993, but if you look closely at the tweet, you'll realize there are, in fact, 16 games listed. So I can't possibly know which one you're talking about.

 Sun Jan 08 00:49:32 +0000 2023

I hope we all survive till 2026.

 Sun Jan 08 01:00:44 +0000 2023

Which they shot as a part of "emergency reshoots" less than 2 months before the release. It's pretty crazy. I would still like to know what the original version of the movie was like, since everyone involved in changing it say that they managed to change a lot during the edit.

 Sun Jan 08 01:06:03 +0000 2023

I am actually a very wrong person to say that to, since I've been running a vintage PC game centered social media project for over a decade across several platforms. It is literally my #1 thing to talk to people all over the world about what old games they are playing.

 Sun Jan 08 01:28:49 +0000 2023

Younger people might also tell you the best movie they have seen was Captain America 2 (happened to me.) That doesn't really change the fact they might change that if/when exposed to a large sample of films. Of course it's personal. Or were u implying 1987 was OBJECTIVELY best?

 Sun Jan 08 01:31:30 +0000 2023

I am actually in micro computer circles as well, I just don't talk about it here. In fact several well functioning micros r both next to me & in a next room right now, and, unlike some, I still fire them up regularly. But I don't expect this to convince you of anything either.

 Sun Jan 08 01:36:11 +0000 2023

That's correct. So as it is, I disagree with your assessment of 1987 for the reasons previously stated.

 Sun Jan 08 01:37:38 +0000 2023

If that's how we took it, then surely an earlier year with multiple arcade games that literally shaped *everything* would take the cake?

 Sun Jan 08 01:41:32 +0000 2023

That is actually a pretty critical thing for me. First in the series ≠ actual good games. Or maybe even influential. Sure, there would be no more influential sequels without them, but imo those games should accounted in their respective years, not somehow attributed to first.

 Sun Jan 08 01:44:41 +0000 2023

And also... R-Type and Ys are "still shaping gaming today"? Yeah, just because they release another one everyone once in a while, they haven't *shaped* anything in a loooong time.

 Sun Jan 08 01:46:06 +0000 2023

I mean, that's fine and good, but is it influencing design of today's games? No. Ys is Ys. People who plays Ys know *exactly* what they want, and that's *exactly* what they are getting.

 Sun Jan 08 01:55:45 +0000 2023

For pretty much all 16 games from 1993 I can find you one of the following:
- a direct sequel
- a commercial clone
- a different game, but very closely inspired
all made within last 3 years, I'd say. Does it mean that ALL of them are still very influential? No.

 Sun Jan 08 01:57:09 +0000 2023

Well, good sir, I'll have you know that
Fury of the Furries is getting a sequel *right now*
Same with Simon the Sorcerer
There was a 7th Guest game released I last year
Every other new point & click game is Gabriel Knight inspired these days
TiM clones are very much a thing
(1/2)

 Sun Jan 08 02:11:40 +0000 2023

(2/2)
Call of Saregnar is pretty much a modern Betrayal at Krondor
And the only outlier seems to be The Lost Vikings, which is why I said "almost" all of them.
🤷

 Sun Jan 08 02:12:50 +0000 2023

Yes - @FuryFurries

And that was exactly my point. Just because there are new games, doesn't mean they still influencing anything.

The 13th Doll was, in fact, a brand new game and not a remake. Its commercial success or failure isn't relevant to the point I was making.

 Sun Jan 08 02:29:25 +0000 2023

Yeah, I've never played them either, but looking at footage right now and it is undeniably just a very slight refinement of the Vikings concept. 😯

 Sun Jan 08 02:37:32 +0000 2023

There are two DOS games in the Humans series that function sort of like a cross between Lemmings and The Lost Vikings. You can assign available abilities to individual cavemen, but then control them directly. Interesting, but it never quite worked for me.

 Sun Jan 08 02:42:56 +0000 2023

Yes, that's why I also said "commercial" in my original tweet. 😉

 Sun Jan 08 02:44:41 +0000 2023

RT @shirtsthtgohard:

 Sun Jan 08 02:48:59 +0000 2023

It is made by a team of "amateurs", BUT
- it IS very much commercial ($20)
- it was officially sanctioned by the original creators of The 7th Guest/The 11th Hour

 Sun Jan 08 02:53:22 +0000 2023

Yes

 Sun Jan 08 03:06:21 +0000 2023

RT @schmitthot: Norton Commander for MS-DOS flying floppies screensaver. #RetroComputing

 Sun Jan 08 03:07:58 +0000 2023

I'll take "Things That Never Happened" for $500, Alex.

 Sun Jan 08 03:11:30 +0000 2023

Technically there wasn't anything called "MS-DOS 1.0" either. It was either PC-DOS 1.0 - 1.1 or MS-DOS 1.25. 🤷

 Sun Jan 08 03:26:52 +0000 2023

This is why I aspire to be a cat.

 Sun Jan 08 03:31:17 +0000 2023

Before I go to sleep,
While SimCity 2000 is listed as a 1993 release in multiple places due 2 dates on disks/box, & ads in Oct/Nov magazines with "Coming this Christmas," the files on 1st release are from 12/28 & readme is dated 12/27, so there's NO WAY it made it to stores in 93 https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1611528349385367556

 Sun Jan 08 03:45:12 +0000 2023

Good night. Always remember that aside from certain promo events and shareware uploads "release dates" for games weren't a thing back in the day. Game release happened whenever inventory stock got a store, and employees put it out.

 Sun Jan 08 03:48:09 +0000 2023

There appear to be no DOS games on schedule for the current #AGDQ2023

 Sun Jan 08 12:57:16 +0000 2023

RT @MannyCalavera12: Looks like assets from the Quake 2 build of Duke Nukem Forever are incoming from you know who!

#alwaysbetonduke https…

 Sun Jan 08 13:04:15 +0000 2023

1990

 Sun Jan 08 17:21:38 +0000 2023

Les Ripoux (Hitech Productions/Cobra Soft, 1987) #DOSGameScreenADay #FrenchVideogames

 Sun Jan 08 18:17:04 +0000 2023

And now Les Ripoux in two other selectable CGA palettes, monochrome CGA, and Amstrad PC1512 graphics modes: #DOSGaming

 Sun Jan 08 18:20:51 +0000 2023

Ummm.... Not sure. Maybe @AbandonwareFr could help?

 Sun Jan 08 18:29:24 +0000 2023

RT @furan: this one is for all of you seen-everything freeloaders

 Sun Jan 08 18:48:00 +0000 2023

RT @DOSBros_Vamonos: The second section of "Second Reality" (1993) is full of energy. I think Future Crew's demo inspired many people to be…

 Sun Jan 08 19:32:14 +0000 2023

#DOSGaming

 Sun Jan 08 20:19:12 +0000 2023

No, it's its own thing that is technically an extension of CGA.

 Sun Jan 08 21:30:34 +0000 2023

RT @schmitthot: Space Quest III - The Pirates of Pestulon intro music on a Roland MT-32. When that beat drops at 00:23 🤩. Unsurpassed. #DOS…

 Sun Jan 08 22:10:37 +0000 2023

No, it's from 1994.

 Sun Jan 08 22:31:15 +0000 2023

Just realized that Charles Callet's name is misspelled on the title screen.

 Sun Jan 08 22:47:16 +0000 2023

Well, it's a tie-in game (as much as it can be, 3 years after the film,) but I don't think it follows the story in any way. It's sort of a detective adventure game mixed with a corrupt cop simulator.

 Sun Jan 08 22:54:59 +0000 2023

You know, for some reason I've never seen Cutthroat Island, the $100 million pirate adventure movie that brought down Carolco right after their massive success with Terminator 2.

 Sun Jan 08 23:24:14 +0000 2023

I just looked it up, and surprisingly it is *still* in the top 5 of the biggest box office bombs of all time. I was sure that it's been surpassed by some recent disasters, but no, apparently it made no money whatsoever.

 Sun Jan 08 23:25:27 +0000 2023

I don't hate Renny Harlin's movies normally. I like Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langela. I enjoy big budget action and explosions. Pirates can be fun. How bad can this movie really be? Well, time to pour myself a cup of tea and find out! ☕

 Sun Jan 08 23:27:28 +0000 2023

RIP

 Sun Jan 08 23:34:45 +0000 2023

OH. MY. GOD.

 Sun Jan 08 23:44:24 +0000 2023

Was there really an appetite for pirate movies in the 90s to begin with?

 Sun Jan 08 23:45:42 +0000 2023

I'm sort of surprised that a flop this big also didn't insta-kill Renny Harlin's career. Although he ended up self-imploding a few years later anyway.

 Sun Jan 08 23:48:01 +0000 2023

Dafuq you mean? I'd pay money to see this on the biggest screen possible RIGHT NOW.

 Sun Jan 08 23:48:37 +0000 2023

RT @echoLogin: Setup a computer at my mom's house to help her w/ her medical issues a few days a week. As many know, I've been working on a…

 Mon Jan 09 00:56:43 +0000 2023

I'll take "Things That Didn't Happen for $500," Alex. 😂

 Mon Jan 09 01:06:25 +0000 2023

Well... we got our answer. Kind of. 😂

 Mon Jan 09 01:07:30 +0000 2023

Ok, I'm 2/3rds into this movie, so the movie still has a chance 2 redeem itself, but I'm way past the point of enjoying it.
First 30 min were really fun because of
- occasional moments that worked
- many moments that were so awkwardly bad, they were entertaining
- $$$ on display

 Mon Jan 09 01:21:42 +0000 2023

Btw, the version of the movie currently on Amazon (through Starz) is cropped from 2.33:1 to 1.78:1, thus ruining quite a lot of action shots which are done in mediums.

 Mon Jan 09 01:56:25 +0000 2023

Ok, so yeah, this was not good. But I did enjoy the unbelievably corny first act, and the big battle at the end. Everything in between is rather unfortunate in many different ways.
Some of the action is edited somewhat awkwardly which sadly takes away from intended epicness.

 Mon Jan 09 02:26:35 +0000 2023

But this, what I assume is a special effects, shot is just *chef's kiss*. 👏

 Mon Jan 09 02:39:04 +0000 2023

👆 I'm almost questioning if the person doing the window stunt is actually Geena Davis. Their proportions are exact, which is why the composite works so well.

 Mon Jan 09 02:47:01 +0000 2023

I doubt I'll ever watch this movie again. If I do, I'll just watch the first 30 minutes, and then the final battle. Your millage may vary.

 Mon Jan 09 03:17:18 +0000 2023

Oh, is this why I'm getting replies in oldish threads by people like these? Their remarks provided no context. 🤷

 Mon Jan 09 03:24:33 +0000 2023

It's in the threads where I'm talking with/about LRG, so at first I thought it was someone who really hated artificial scarcity or something.

 Mon Jan 09 03:28:56 +0000 2023

Yep. Whoever the stunt and effects coordinators were worked out a great collaboration. For the time I don't think you could get a better composite. I also assume they are painting her out of the carriage before she jogs upwards, but there might be some other trick.

 Mon Jan 09 03:33:44 +0000 2023

And, of course, the person who did the morph handled the hair perfectly. A great job all around.

 Mon Jan 09 03:34:38 +0000 2023

Ok, I was wrong. Thanks to @codeman38 for catching the following DOS games in the #AGDQ2023 lineup:
Both on Thursday the 12th:
(UTC - 5)
4:09 AM - Battle of the Eras
5:04 AM - Dokkaebi-ga Ganda

I should have noticed the first, but wasn't familiar with the second.
#DOSGaming https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1612070935816699904

 Mon Jan 09 03:42:50 +0000 2023

That's what I'm thinking. Which all is leading me to believe that it's also actually her doing the window/fall stunt. The morph is prefect, and Geena Davis's proportions aren't exactly conventional.

 Mon Jan 09 03:44:41 +0000 2023

I'm Googling now, and allegedly she claimed in interviews that it was her, and she apparently injured herself during one of the takes by jumping out early. But I can't find any clips of the actual interviews from the time.

 Mon Jan 09 03:53:23 +0000 2023

For all we know the two plates may not have been exact, and there's actually a lot more work that went into selling this one shot. Which might explain why all the other composites in the movie are not great.

 Mon Jan 09 04:02:39 +0000 2023

It's 4 am, and I already received my gamer hot take of the day in YT comments. Games made with game creation tools are apparently not games anymore.

 Mon Jan 09 09:24:28 +0000 2023

This movie is twice the budget of First Contact, so they definitely had the money, and there certainly is a morph there, but I do agree, I don't really notice much about the lamp. The carriage exits a shadow at the moment of the morph, so it might just be that.

 Mon Jan 09 09:34:46 +0000 2023

When Matthew Modine & the carriage are in the distance, you can see his right arm look really weird in a couple of places. They clearly had to paint Geena, who was already in the carriage, out up until the moment of "impact". But he's very lively, & the lamp is very static.

 Mon Jan 09 09:39:55 +0000 2023

I keep the Spirit alive

 Mon Jan 09 09:54:31 +0000 2023

That's like 50% of the reason why I have one. Don't let your dreams be dreams.

 Mon Jan 09 09:56:26 +0000 2023

 Mon Jan 09 10:07:50 +0000 2023

If you think Kazaam was about a mystical pirate, you might wanna revisit the movie.

 Mon Jan 09 11:14:31 +0000 2023

It was released less than 2 months after Cutthroat Island, and barely broke even. Probably more interest in the Muppets than anything else.

 Mon Jan 09 13:13:26 +0000 2023

RT @bitmap_books: A statement regarding The unofficial MD/GEN: a visual compendium https://www.bitmapbooks.com/blogs/news/the-unofficial-md-gen-a-visual-compendium

 Mon Jan 09 13:26:39 +0000 2023

RT @tvaziri: This is an elaborate digital composite/morph blend of multiple passes from "Cutthroat Island" (1995). I seem to remember readi…

 Mon Jan 09 16:37:18 +0000 2023

Now, I say "allegedly" because it's random internet people citing interviews I can't watch, with no sources in sight.

 Mon Jan 09 16:39:07 +0000 2023

Yeah, as do I. It's called IBM PC-DOS btw. And I'm not even gonna entertain an idea of explaining to you why what you said it's so monumentally stupid. One day you might just figure it out.

 Mon Jan 09 17:44:32 +0000 2023

There's a brief, but entire dialogue exchange in slow motion between her and Matthew Modine later in the film.

 Mon Jan 09 17:58:05 +0000 2023

RT @ForateiS: Hello Everybody! Want to play some MS-DOS multiplayer games easily? Come check out this video!

https://classicgamingarena.com/

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 Mon Jan 09 18:16:46 +0000 2023

Well, there's something you don't see everyday. https://x.com/GeeksterLady/status/1612475754578575363

 Mon Jan 09 18:17:37 +0000 2023

It's time for @Bhaal_Spawn to step up the game. 🤷

 Mon Jan 09 18:18:13 +0000 2023

I'm in a public place, so I can't keep scrolling down her feed, but possibly. 🤷

 Mon Jan 09 18:38:38 +0000 2023

 Mon Jan 09 18:48:53 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: The first game Apogee released under "3D Realms" was Terminal Velocity, made by Terminal Reality, with lead coder Mark Ran…

 Mon Jan 09 20:51:46 +0000 2023

Conquered Kingdoms (Quantum Quality Productions, 1992) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Jan 10 01:35:22 +0000 2023

RT @Jameshhoward: A fun side project I worked on over the Christmas break - adapting the Wolfenstein 3D renderer to work in CGA! Here it is…

 Tue Jan 10 03:06:32 +0000 2023

Thank you. 🙏

 Tue Jan 10 13:08:08 +0000 2023

RT @Miles_Eves: Real pro tip: if you stand on the entrance doorway when you walk in you can do a matrix roll/jump and land on the exit door…

 Tue Jan 10 13:10:51 +0000 2023

Please expand on that

 Tue Jan 10 16:45:51 +0000 2023

Bulletin Board System https://x.com/OdedRechavi/status/1610616094091522048

 Tue Jan 10 20:32:08 +0000 2023

"Mom, don't pick up the phone. I'm online."

 Tue Jan 10 20:32:50 +0000 2023

I have no idea what that is. Must be after my time.

 Tue Jan 10 20:45:09 +0000 2023

Ummmmmm... I
A) Don't understand what exactly you want me to identify and why
B) Don't care much for "I will discuss it with you only if." Feel free to not discuss it with me.

 Tue Jan 10 21:37:56 +0000 2023

Kids, don't do this. https://x.com/Kris_Alex_79/status/1612926296207622145

 Tue Jan 10 21:39:39 +0000 2023

I *still* run Windows 3.11 on one of my vintage machines. Not to mention I use it almost daily for my #OPL3MIDI and #NotDOS stuff. The fact that this guy even thought he could somehow stump someone on tech Twitter with it is beyond ridiculous.

 Tue Jan 10 21:48:44 +0000 2023

DOS version of AOL actually runs on GeoWorks
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/762705747713134592?t=ZzMioh6NTEnzrIqR7BrfOg&s=19

 Tue Jan 10 21:58:41 +0000 2023

That's how I took it

 Tue Jan 10 22:22:49 +0000 2023

I feel like there might be an intentional catch of it actually being Windows 3.11 for workgroups, but maybe I'm giving him too much credit.

 Tue Jan 10 22:40:47 +0000 2023

BAD APPLE in a DOS MIDI player! 🔊🎵
The video combines two real MIDI files. One for the visuals and one for music.

 Wed Jan 11 02:21:53 +0000 2023

Correct, it's two separate files.

 Wed Jan 11 02:33:45 +0000 2023

It's silent

 Wed Jan 11 02:43:51 +0000 2023

He-hey, Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics run on DOS! https://x.com/servoisnaked/status/1612484461555290123

 Wed Jan 11 12:01:49 +0000 2023

I was sort of hoping that the pandemic in the U.S. would normalize wearing a mask when one feels unwell, but absolutely has to go outside & interact with other people. No such luck. 🤷

 Wed Jan 11 13:21:00 +0000 2023

I see a bunch of Doom3 discourse going on. It's great to see people enjoy the game. I've tried many times to get into it. I finished it twice. It's just not my thing. First couple of hours after the Half-Life-esque introduction are pretty great, but it just drags afterwards.

 Wed Jan 11 13:46:27 +0000 2023

The environments most certainly don't look all the same, but they are all lit more or less the same, which makes them look samey and dull. I've always been a defender of Quake 1's visuals, but I find Doom 3's graphics extremely unappealing.

 Wed Jan 11 13:48:25 +0000 2023

What's interesting is that original DOOM is absolutely *both* an OH SHIT horror-surprise-monster-closet and a METAAAAAAAALLLL FUCK YEAAH DIIEEEE game. And Doom³ and Doom 2016 both picked a side of that to lean into.

 Wed Jan 11 14:04:45 +0000 2023

Also please don't bring Doom 64, a game made by a different developer for a different platform, into my Doom - Doom 3 discourse.

 Wed Jan 11 14:06:52 +0000 2023

Inspired by the latest episode of @HG_101 podcast, which doesn't have a Twitter presence anymore, so I can't bitch directly at them, I have to point out that Japanese version of The Neverhood did, in fact, come out on PC:

 Wed Jan 11 14:43:51 +0000 2023

Nobody is giving me a hard time. *I* want to give all the people who surround me in the train car I'm in who keep endlessly coughing and sniffling a hard time!

 Wed Jan 11 14:51:20 +0000 2023

https://www.mediafire.com/download/q57lcik21bwja5v

 Wed Jan 11 15:09:48 +0000 2023

 Wed Jan 11 16:38:12 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: BAD APPLE in a DOS MIDI player! 🔊🎵
The video combines two real MIDI files. One for the visuals and one for music. https:/…

 Wed Jan 11 17:03:08 +0000 2023

The interactive terminals is probably my favorite thing. Their novelty never really wore off for me. Every time I've encountered one my brain just went "hey, isn't this neat?"

 Wed Jan 11 17:21:35 +0000 2023

Idk. I really dislike those simplified Jaguar maps that the PSX version also uses.

 Wed Jan 11 18:12:42 +0000 2023

Cool story bro

 Wed Jan 11 22:14:29 +0000 2023

It's sort of obvious right from the get go

 Wed Jan 11 23:42:42 +0000 2023

RT @400facts: Hey👋#PortfolioDay!

I'm Steve, an illustrator living in the UK, and recently I've been making images covering both retro and…

 Thu Jan 12 00:57:01 +0000 2023

Btw, because this involved reverse engineering the game, a whole bunch of previously unknown cheat codes for The Neverhood have been discovered https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1610004669794852864

 Thu Jan 12 01:00:11 +0000 2023

Press enter first, then type in the code, then press enter again.

 Thu Jan 12 01:13:26 +0000 2023

BAD APPLE in Impulse Tracker! 🔊🎵

 Thu Jan 12 01:16:41 +0000 2023

Ah, those halcyon days...

 Thu Jan 12 01:24:26 +0000 2023

I actually think it's rather accessible, as far as Myst clones go.

 Thu Jan 12 01:39:26 +0000 2023

As do I, but Neverhood's puzzles are generally quite literal puzzles, so I figured them out without too much effort even back in the day.

 Thu Jan 12 01:47:31 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Shirley Walker's Batman theme is the best Batman theme.
🦙🔊🦇

 Thu Jan 12 04:43:39 +0000 2023

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1187943064188440577

 Thu Jan 12 05:24:28 +0000 2023

Yep. Absolutely nothing beats a dual pane orthodox file manager in efficiency.

 Thu Jan 12 13:29:11 +0000 2023

Too deep of a cut.

 Thu Jan 12 18:10:58 +0000 2023

This is me all day today

 Thu Jan 12 18:14:57 +0000 2023

Same, I guess, but today especially.

 Thu Jan 12 18:18:04 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: 40 years later and people still talk about both IBM PC CGA's limited color palettes, and ZX Spectrum's color attribute ce…

 Thu Jan 12 18:20:18 +0000 2023

"Resident Tetris," a terminate-and-stay-resident version of the game included with Spectrum Holobyte's 1987 DOS version that allowed one to play CGA Tetris while any other program was running. #DOSGaming https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/752909381835034624

 Thu Jan 12 18:23:02 +0000 2023

The footage you're seeing is from an era appropriate computer, an IBM PS/2 model 30. Had enough RAM for two games, so I don't see why not.

 Thu Jan 12 19:22:14 +0000 2023

John Carpenter, forever an inspiration

 Thu Jan 12 20:06:22 +0000 2023

Why are all the trends actually relevant to my interests all of sudden? Stop it, Twitter!

 Thu Jan 12 21:07:59 +0000 2023

Got myself a sandwich, and I'm already doing much better than before.

 Thu Jan 12 21:28:45 +0000 2023

I've been overdue for a new adventure game for a while. Well, The Excavation of Hobb’s Barrow it is!

 Thu Jan 12 21:38:43 +0000 2023

So are mine. That's what I'm interested in.

 Thu Jan 12 21:51:16 +0000 2023

RT @Gammitin: Big Box PC - Theme Hospital - MS-DOS and Windows 95, all the box contents and the receipt from 4th June 1997 😊
This is one of…

 Thu Jan 12 22:00:03 +0000 2023

Crime Time (Byteriders/Starbyte Software, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Jan 12 22:51:14 +0000 2023

 Fri Jan 13 00:30:18 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: 9: The Last Resort (Windows 3.x, 1996) #NotDOS

 Fri Jan 13 00:42:56 +0000 2023

Goddamit, now I'm hungry. 👀

 Fri Jan 13 02:08:25 +0000 2023

Whoa, what? It looks like German techno band Scooter lost all of its members except for lead MC last month (and Jay Frog came back for just 2 month after 16 years away???) I'm sure HP will find another two guys to mime playing synthesizers at live shows, but this might be the end

 Fri Jan 13 02:11:48 +0000 2023

You have no idea how tempting it is. The weather here has been shit, so it would be so nice to get away.

 Fri Jan 13 02:14:54 +0000 2023

Even if EA agrees to release it (as the rights as split. They own the game, while Doug owns the characters and the name.) I can't support a re-release because that would mean Doug would be getting paid, and that's exactly where I draw the line of separating art from the artist.

 Fri Jan 13 03:36:18 +0000 2023

Ah, 1997. When selling 130,000 copies of a PC game was still considered "a modest success" of sorts.

 Fri Jan 13 03:41:25 +0000 2023

The whole article is sadly hilarious. Everyone outside of videogames rushed in to attempt making their own big CD-ROM hit like Myst or Barbie Fashion Designer (both name check by an exec in the article,) and then fell flat on their face.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-18-fi-23584-story.html

 Fri Jan 13 03:48:11 +0000 2023

(Trespasser would appear in stores 14 months after this article.)

 Fri Jan 13 03:50:35 +0000 2023

WE WERE ROBBED

 Fri Jan 13 03:54:01 +0000 2023

You really don't

 Fri Jan 13 03:55:48 +0000 2023

It's quite a sad rabbit hole

 Fri Jan 13 04:02:28 +0000 2023

Yep

 Fri Jan 13 04:07:34 +0000 2023

he's been doing commercials forever. There's a bunch for Russian supermarket chain.
https://youtu.be/k24IvjGdMoE

 Fri Jan 13 12:16:30 +0000 2023

Well, everyone quit less than a month ago, I'm sure some material has been created last year for H.P. to be able to put something out. Maybe last summer's extremely creatively bankrupt single was a sign that things weren't going well.

 Fri Jan 13 12:23:38 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: At one time, Apogee's Build engine was the most used 3D engine in the world. I think about 15 total games were made with i…

 Fri Jan 13 16:32:40 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Happy Friday the 13th from inside the NESticle emulator!

 Fri Jan 13 16:46:58 +0000 2023

RT @BuildEnginePics: Game: Blood
By: Monolith Productions

 Fri Jan 13 18:29:28 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Super Solvers_ Midnight Rescue!-01.gif
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Fri Jan 13 20:16:21 +0000 2023

Peasant's Quest VGA! 😂
https://youtu.be/xixgDV_9RJI

 Fri Jan 13 20:29:05 +0000 2023

Battle of the Eras in 8:20 by corndan
#DOSGaming
#AGDQ2023
https://youtu.be/ow3mBltOpVw

 Fri Jan 13 20:38:36 +0000 2023

RT @AdventurersCap: Alone in the Dark (Infogrames, 1992)

 Sat Jan 14 01:32:42 +0000 2023

Box art of the day: #DOSGaming

 Sat Jan 14 01:37:05 +0000 2023

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1606111686188044288

 Sat Jan 14 02:22:39 +0000 2023

No, Twitter. This shit is definitely not "for me".

 Sat Jan 14 02:24:06 +0000 2023

 Sat Jan 14 02:31:08 +0000 2023

 Sat Jan 14 02:44:42 +0000 2023

Sorry

 Sat Jan 14 02:53:10 +0000 2023

RT @kinsie: (XS, MS-DOS, SCi, 1997)

 Sat Jan 14 13:33:40 +0000 2023

RT @SJimtendo: First sentence in the yellow blurb.

#erotica #c64 #commodore64 #dizzy #filth #retrogaming #videogames https://t.co/aCXd3SO…

 Sat Jan 14 14:26:41 +0000 2023

Aka "The Debut". I just watched this amazing film for the first time a couple of weeks ago. She was great in it. RIP. https://x.com/sovietvisuals/status/1614310157177204737

 Sat Jan 14 17:19:49 +0000 2023

The film took 4 prizes at the New York Film Festival in 1971, including one for director Gleb Panfilov. That year the festival also featured films by Pasolini, Bogdanovich, Kurosawa, and Herzog, among others. It's a great film for Churikova to demonstrate her incredible range in.

 Sat Jan 14 17:26:43 +0000 2023

Checks out. https://x.com/DosTitleScreens/status/1614351664063954944

 Sat Jan 14 20:43:51 +0000 2023

Yeah, she was always great in supporting parts, and had great comedic timing, but The Beginning is really something else. She's the lead, and it's a story of a rural actress who gets cast as Joan of Arc in a movie. You get to see both. So it's a rather demanding role.

 Sat Jan 14 23:22:08 +0000 2023

RT @depthsofwiki: happy holidays

 Sat Jan 14 23:22:54 +0000 2023

My brain shut down at USSR with Microsoft Word 200x, and USB sticks, so I don't remember anything past that point.

 Sat Jan 14 23:28:10 +0000 2023

A theory that formed while I was watching the film:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1182516656582598656?t=gUiibzqyBFGU2hm30GtE_w&s=19

 Sat Jan 14 23:31:07 +0000 2023

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

 Sat Jan 14 23:55:11 +0000 2023

RT @Macaw45: Stream live! Today I'm going to start playing an insane lookin Taiwanese RPG on DOS https://www.twitch.tv/macaw45

 Sun Jan 15 00:45:57 +0000 2023

Dokkaebi-ga Ganda in 19:29 by dowolf
#DOSGaming
#AGDQ2023
https://youtu.be/msfFc5PVM-k

 Sun Jan 15 00:47:27 +0000 2023

RT @lazygamereviews: Sharp new LGR video!

https://youtu.be/maHIj321p8M

Cleaning, testing, and enjoying the Sharp PC-7000 luggable from 1985. A…

 Sun Jan 15 01:06:25 +0000 2023

Apparently work on Gobliiins 5 is progressing. That's good.

 Sun Jan 15 01:17:10 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: It's Saturday night! Dance like it's the 90s! 🎶

 Sun Jan 15 01:46:22 +0000 2023

Powerslave and Blood are both a bit ambiguous on the whole "Apogee produced" thing, since they both started out as Apogee produced, even though both eventually got sold off.

 Sun Jan 15 01:54:21 +0000 2023

At the time it was called "Ruins"
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/698306825444311040

 Sun Jan 15 02:34:01 +0000 2023

RT @DominicTarason: There's a lot of Doom 3 discourse going around for some reason, and it reminds me of why I wasn't very impressed by it.…

 Sun Jan 15 10:45:26 +0000 2023

RT @greenmandave: Still buzzing after reliving my childhood by playing #returntomonkeyisland
98 rubiks cubes were turned into #guybrush on…

 Sun Jan 15 10:48:42 +0000 2023

RT @Apogee_Ent: On this date in 1993, MAJOR STRYKER was released.

Developed by Allen Blum who worked on several titles with Todd Replogle.…

 Sun Jan 15 14:42:51 +0000 2023

Bro, no it didn't. Don't confuse a shareware EGA game with "top tier".

 Sun Jan 15 15:26:46 +0000 2023

RT @jmechner: Gene Portwood, Broderbund (ex-Disney) artist, drew that very cool loading screen. His partner Lauren Elliott animated a leopa…

 Sun Jan 15 15:52:52 +0000 2023

Can people from Soviet movies I've been watching this past month stop dying for a second, please? https://x.com/sovietvisuals/status/1614610830112456704

 Sun Jan 15 16:19:25 +0000 2023

Meow

 Sun Jan 15 18:23:54 +0000 2023

U.R.B.A.N The Cyborg Project (Thomas Nyberg, Jonas Borgström, 1999) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Jan 15 18:55:06 +0000 2023

Meow

 Sun Jan 15 21:30:54 +0000 2023

RT @DOSBros_Vamonos: WOW moments of the #MSDOS #Demoscene. Today: "Claudia" (1997) by DeathStar. Here is an excerpt from the six-minute dem…

 Sun Jan 15 22:55:40 +0000 2023

"The first run of disks still had the CPM copyright notice embedded in them.

After this came to light Microsoft actually bought the rights to the code they had tried to steal."
Citations? 🤔

 Sun Jan 15 22:58:53 +0000 2023

It never ends https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1247986339057930240

 Sun Jan 15 23:01:56 +0000 2023

Because Gates became the target of hatred of a significant chunk of a population during the pandemic I, a person who regularly searches for "MS-DOS" and all things related to it across social media platforms, am now doomed to read dumb shit like this on a daily basis.

 Sun Jan 15 23:04:31 +0000 2023

That's not what that tweet said. I am aware of the "debate". That debate has been perpetrated by Gary, and if he could sue, he would have. In recent years there's been multiple comparisons done with both reverse engineered executables and the currently available source code (1/2)

 Sun Jan 15 23:10:52 +0000 2023

(2/2) that concluded that the only thing directly copied from CP/M was system call numbers.

 Sun Jan 15 23:12:04 +0000 2023

I always have quality content for my followers. ❤

 Sun Jan 15 23:41:30 +0000 2023

I'll take "Things that didn't happen for $500," Alex.

 Sun Jan 15 23:47:07 +0000 2023

HAUSU.
It would be a 90s multimedia CD-ROM experience. Made with Macromedia. https://t.co/H4NspJBbD4

 Mon Jan 16 00:11:33 +0000 2023

 Mon Jan 16 00:19:19 +0000 2023

I CAN FEEL THE .MID
FEEL THE .MID
FEEL THE .MID

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Mon Jan 16 00:23:23 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109696030892158791

 Mon Jan 16 00:23:48 +0000 2023

I CAN FEEL THE BEANS

 Mon Jan 16 00:28:22 +0000 2023

IBM PC-DOS v1.0 original floppy disk.

 Mon Jan 16 01:08:58 +0000 2023

RT @90sfootball: Who remembers running away from the referee on FIFA International Soccer?

 Mon Jan 16 04:01:57 +0000 2023

RT @DukeAtomicTimes: Various concept sketches done for Duke Nukem 3D's Pig Cops by artist Chuck Jones.

 Mon Jan 16 15:36:00 +0000 2023

Happy 75th to the Master himself, Mr. John Carpenter.

 Mon Jan 16 18:44:24 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: John Carpenter, the ABSOLUTE KING.

 Mon Jan 16 18:46:21 +0000 2023

Destroyer (Rodion Dementiev, Andrey Dementiev, Roman Petrov/InterComplex, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay #RussianVideogames

 Mon Jan 16 19:23:58 +0000 2023

RT @DominicTarason: This immediately activates a deep memory of Interstate 76 and its dedicated 'ask your wingman for a poem' button.

http…

 Mon Jan 16 19:46:55 +0000 2023

 Mon Jan 16 19:59:51 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Mach 3-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Mon Jan 16 20:00:56 +0000 2023

RT @Liretro: We hosted our largest expansion of classic PC gaming yet at last year’s #LIRetro and it’s about to get even bigger. Join LIRet…

 Mon Jan 16 22:10:54 +0000 2023

You're thinking of Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M. Tim Paterson was the programmer behind QDOS, and he indeed worked for Microsoft several times throughout his life.

 Mon Jan 16 23:01:17 +0000 2023

ScummVM is integrating support for Tetraedge, the engine of Syberia games.
https://www.facebook.com/ScummVM/posts/pfbid0upyTR8UdyNmq8crEoCogfSj5i87CdUSFtzeDYrNBTesNHgZwifJ7ucnGgyuVgAgal

 Mon Jan 16 23:30:47 +0000 2023

They also gave him a ton of shares. He didn't sit on them long enough though. He wrote this in 1997:

 Tue Jan 17 00:19:08 +0000 2023

She looked me deep in the eyes
She touching me so to start
She says there's no turning back
She trapped me in her heart

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Tue Jan 17 00:38:15 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109701750779366711

 Tue Jan 17 00:38:30 +0000 2023

Another night, another attempt to dig through resources of a DOS game.

 Tue Jan 17 02:52:31 +0000 2023

While the part about Basic is correct, the part about DOS isn't. Tim Paterson wrote QDOS/86-DOS, and used Gates & Allen's file system. And that's what Microsoft ended up buying.
So both are true. Gates can and did write code. MS-DOS was indeed a purchased product.

 Tue Jan 17 13:30:08 +0000 2023

RT @hackaday: It’s Not Easy Counting Transistors in the 8086 Processor https://hackaday.com/2023/01/16/its-not-easy-counting-transistors-in-the-8086-processor/

 Tue Jan 17 13:31:55 +0000 2023

RT @BuildEnginePics: For games like Blood, palette emulation makes a real difference

Left is on right is off

 Tue Jan 17 18:22:22 +0000 2023

RT @JustPlaying85: Spielburg best be on high alert.. there's a new thief in town. #questforglory #heroesquest #qfg #soyouwantobeahero #sie…

 Tue Jan 17 18:30:15 +0000 2023

I'm the deliveryman. Okay if I unload in here?

 Tue Jan 17 20:48:36 +0000 2023

Play more DOS games!

 Tue Jan 17 22:44:13 +0000 2023

ᴵⁿᶜˡᵘᵈᵉˢ ᵘⁿᵖᵃᶦᵈ ᵖʳᵒᵐᵒᵗᶦᵒⁿ

 Tue Jan 17 22:44:30 +0000 2023

RT @Macaw45: Stream is live! Can we finish the absurd Taiwanese post apocalyptic DOS RPG Evil gate today? https://www.twitch.tv/macaw45

 Wed Jan 18 01:39:15 +0000 2023

 Wed Jan 18 01:49:42 +0000 2023

RT @wolf3dnews: ECWolf 1.4 is out! https://maniacsvault.net/entry91

This new release of ECWolf introduces co-op multiplayer for up to 11 players!…

 Wed Jan 18 12:48:16 +0000 2023

RT @gnomeslair: The original Fallout is a thematically and tonally consistent masterpiece, and one of the finest CRPGs ever developed. It's…

 Wed Jan 18 12:48:37 +0000 2023

RT @OldTechAdverts: Compute 1991 January
https://archive.org/details/1991-01-compute-magazine
#retrocomputing #viintagecomputing

 Wed Jan 18 12:49:12 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: Chuck Jones worked as a local tattoo artist before joining Apogee to work on Duke Nukem 3D, He proved himself invaluable w…

 Wed Jan 18 17:01:05 +0000 2023

Crush, Crumble and Chomp! (Automated Simulations, 1983) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Jan 18 20:48:55 +0000 2023

I'm always surprised to learn that many people program while listening to music. I code in total silence. A programmer respects the silence, it serves as the foundation of creativity.

 Thu Jan 19 00:42:20 +0000 2023

I'm an NYU film school graduate, sucka!

 Thu Jan 19 00:46:04 +0000 2023

I once had a girl
Or should I say she once had MIDI

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Jan 19 01:49:07 +0000 2023

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Here's one of our pixels from DOOM:

 Thu Jan 19 02:10:56 +0000 2023

RT @RetroSwimAU: I've started tinkering with C++ programming for DOS with DJGPP. I installed FreeDOS with the full DJGPP stack in a VM, and…

 Thu Jan 19 02:23:35 +0000 2023

I'm not surprised that people who haven't even looked at a game for 25 years designed something that isn't too current, but a big part of the reason why the game looks like it does is because it's made for the Quest, which is essentially a phone.

 Thu Jan 19 02:25:33 +0000 2023

If you had DOS 3.3 then IBM PC mice was very much a thing already. Original Microsoft Mouse is from 1983, and by 1987 quite a few mice were around, including the famous Logitech's C7.
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/772216094849458176

 Thu Jan 19 02:37:00 +0000 2023

I still have a PS/2 machine around (model 30,) and always want to pick one of those mice up for nostalgia/aesthetics purposes, but then my memory kicks in, and I don't recall them being too fun to use.

 Thu Jan 19 02:42:28 +0000 2023

Good night.

 Thu Jan 19 02:53:56 +0000 2023

Ice-Pick Lodge had a new game out for nearly a year, and none of you fuckers said anything?!

 Thu Jan 19 02:59:21 +0000 2023

Somebody pitched this movie to me this way: "Every cat lover should watch it." They neglected to mention that this is not a feel good movie at all.

 Thu Jan 19 03:00:31 +0000 2023

Because I respect my followers I make them WORK FOR COOL SHIT. Builds character.

 Thu Jan 19 03:05:22 +0000 2023

RT @winterion: Less war, famine, and plague.
More DOS gaming.

 Thu Jan 19 03:54:41 +0000 2023

Happy Still Alive Day! 🎉 🥂

 Thu Jan 19 15:28:12 +0000 2023

RT @DominicTarason: Someone - most likely a copyright troll - is going to incredible lengths to purge an obscure 1999 Japan-only adventure…

 Thu Jan 19 15:36:15 +0000 2023

So... uhhh... what time does the Meta/Oculus store unlock new releases?

 Thu Jan 19 17:10:56 +0000 2023

It's out today.

 Thu Jan 19 17:36:23 +0000 2023

Official announcement:
https://x.com/thecolossalcave/status/1616111774058659851

 Thu Jan 19 17:37:39 +0000 2023

Mean 18 (Microsmiths/Accolade, 1986) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Jan 19 17:40:33 +0000 2023

Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1270095600252583942

 Thu Jan 19 17:45:32 +0000 2023

Oh no. Twitter for desktop now switches to "for you" tab by default?!?!?! 😱

 Thu Jan 19 18:51:26 +0000 2023

Are they fucking *trying* to make me stop using it? They can just come out and say it then.

 Thu Jan 19 18:52:42 +0000 2023

Hmmm... Didn't quite expect Colossal Cave to have its VR version be an exclusive to VR platforms, and be more expensive than the newest version of Myst. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1435758455030177796

 Thu Jan 19 19:07:15 +0000 2023

2013 is not the greatest choice, tbh. How much for 1993?

 Thu Jan 19 19:41:21 +0000 2023

RT @Liretro: Continue The Game.
#LIRetro ver. VII2023, August 11-13 2023 from the Cradle of Aviation

http://liretro.com/tickets https://t.co/…

 Thu Jan 19 19:53:31 +0000 2023

🥂

 Thu Jan 19 20:44:17 +0000 2023

V for Vegeta

 Thu Jan 19 21:07:48 +0000 2023

RT @AriTheSage: He visto un recopilatorio de juegos de MS-DOS entre los años 81 y 98 y que cosas tan chulas se hacían en esos tiempos...

 Thu Jan 19 22:31:56 +0000 2023

Every time I see you, oh, I try to hide away
But when we meet, it seems I can't let go

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Jan 19 22:39:51 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109718273137906055

 Thu Jan 19 22:40:16 +0000 2023

RT @Apogee_Ent: In Oct 1993 Apogee released Halloween Harry (a year later renamed Alien Carnage) dev'd by a talented team in Aussieland led…

 Thu Jan 19 22:43:29 +0000 2023

Mastodon is most certainly not a failure. I've been on it for almost 7 years. Plenty of users, plenty of instances. It's open source, so there's plenty of clients for mobile, etc.

 Thu Jan 19 22:45:12 +0000 2023

So remember a few years ago a mainframe text adventure game was discovered that predated Will Crowther's Adventure/Colossal Cave, but didn't spread, so it remained unknown for decades? Because I'm pretty sure that happened, but I can't easily find anything about it anymore.

 Thu Jan 19 23:12:19 +0000 2023

AHA! Here it is. It was called WANDER.
https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/rediscovered-mainframe-game-from-1974-might-first-text-adventure/

 Thu Jan 19 23:17:58 +0000 2023

👆 This shouldn't be as obscure as it is. It happened nearly EIGHT years ago, and since then there have been multiple articles that mention Colossal Cave, and 90% of them keep repeating that it was the first adventure ever, even though we fairly objectively know that's not true.

 Thu Jan 19 23:23:05 +0000 2023

 Fri Jan 20 01:20:29 +0000 2023

RT @timeextension64: Sierra And Nintendo Almost Joined Forces To Create An Online Network In The '80s https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/01/sierra-and-nintendo-almost-joined-forces-to-create-an-online-network-in-the-80s #News #Sierra…

 Fri Jan 20 01:25:52 +0000 2023

RT @theharveydean: favourite MS DOS games growing up, drop em here. 👇

 Fri Jan 20 01:32:01 +0000 2023

RT @KaitlinCurtice: My kid wants to learn to type better so I was like “I used Mavis Beacon growing up you’ll love it” so I googled it & re…

 Fri Jan 20 01:32:06 +0000 2023

Would probably take more than a tweet

 Fri Jan 20 01:56:29 +0000 2023

RT @arstechnica: Pioneering Apple Lisa goes “open source” thanks to Computer History Museum https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/pioneering-apple-lisa-goes-open-source-thanks-to-computer-history-museum/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @benjedwards

 Fri Jan 20 03:09:25 +0000 2023

I'm actually surprised it picked up the scribbles. Okay, so what is says is "Petrovich, it's winter. A peasant is triumphant." Explaining why this is funny would take too long, but it's a reference to Alexander Pushkin's novel in sonnets "Eugene Onegin".

 Fri Jan 20 03:22:20 +0000 2023

It's a bit from chapter 5:
It's winter!... A peasant is triumphant,
breaks a new passage with his sleigh.
his nag has smelt the snow, and planted
a shambling hoof along the way.

 Fri Jan 20 03:23:18 +0000 2023

This is not viable even for a person with a humble following like mine, I have to scroll through pages of likes, nevermind someone with 200+ thousand followers.

 Fri Jan 20 13:12:00 +0000 2023

RT @jimblimey: Some more MS-DOS fun (emulated 8mhz 286)

 Fri Jan 20 13:15:04 +0000 2023

Julian Gollop apparently dislikes the DOS version quite a lot.

 Fri Jan 20 13:16:44 +0000 2023

This is the kind of determination retro PC game enthusiast needs. (Sometimes) https://x.com/AxolotlGodGames/status/1616269617600626689

 Fri Jan 20 13:19:36 +0000 2023

RT @RetroRacing: 25 years ago, I was busy writing software 3D engines for the 486 PC.

This was "Jake" - my attempt at an indoor 3D engine…

 Fri Jan 20 13:42:01 +0000 2023

RT @Liretro: It’s not just another retro gaming convention.

2022 was a return to form.
2023 will be a revelation.

Hear @ScarletSprites…

 Fri Jan 20 14:50:57 +0000 2023

Original version hasn't been found, so no, we can not tell for certain at the moment.
The input you're seeing is from the later version of the game.

 Fri Jan 20 15:08:40 +0000 2023

RT @Jameshhoward: Wolfenstein 3D is now fully playable in CGA!
Full source code and binaries available on Github here: https://t.co/Ym2P0kF…

 Fri Jan 20 15:50:35 +0000 2023

RT @Jameshhoward: Includes support for CGA composite mode if you have a CGA card that can output NTSC composite video! (2/7) https://t.co/J…

 Fri Jan 20 15:50:41 +0000 2023

Mine does, and I know exactly what I'll be doing when I get home from work. 😄

 Fri Jan 20 15:55:32 +0000 2023

Nah, he apparently thinks its poorly programmed. Also I can deal with the graphics as long as I also get Matt Furniss' awesome music.

 Fri Jan 20 17:09:00 +0000 2023

We were ROBBED. https://x.com/CannonFilmGuide/status/1616493919612575744

 Fri Jan 20 17:54:44 +0000 2023

RT @Campster: I have never been more thirsty for a refreshing cup of bleach in my life

Why did they shoot it like this https://t.co/AEMMl…

 Fri Jan 20 18:18:02 +0000 2023

aka the Michael Bay Question.

 Fri Jan 20 18:19:30 +0000 2023

Well, if you say so...

 Fri Jan 20 18:40:28 +0000 2023

Oh man, you can play the 5 games with exclusive 1512 graphics mode support! 😯

 Fri Jan 20 18:53:09 +0000 2023

Grace Kivlin is the model. You're welcome, everyone.

 Fri Jan 20 19:58:35 +0000 2023

RT @jillianiles: Oh my god: This MA school can't turn off its lights — and hasn't been able to for ~1.5 years — because the software that r…

 Fri Jan 20 20:18:35 +0000 2023

"You bludgeoned my father, and then talked about old times?"

 Fri Jan 20 21:37:19 +0000 2023

Time to boot up SimCity in 720x348!

 Fri Jan 20 22:09:35 +0000 2023

Shit. Time sure flies. 😯 I guess expect a livestream, provided my ISP doesn't serve up garbage that day.

 Fri Jan 20 22:15:31 +0000 2023

How have I been doing this for so long? 😯 Am I old? 🤔 No. It's the calendar that's wrong. 😠

 Fri Jan 20 22:18:44 +0000 2023

Look how youthful I was back when I just started! Not a care in the world. If I attempted even a 10th of substance abuse that my body was able to handle back then, I'm pretty sure I'd die instantly. Oh, the good old days.

 Fri Jan 20 22:25:26 +0000 2023

RT @cyberat2600: CAN you play @Jameshhoward's cga version of Wolfenstein 3D on a Kaypro 16? Yes. SHOULD you play it on a Kaypro 16? Also ye…

 Fri Jan 20 22:48:44 +0000 2023

2008

 Fri Jan 20 23:42:58 +0000 2023

This is hill I'm willing to die on https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1495035631126335492

 Sat Jan 21 00:14:39 +0000 2023

 Sat Jan 21 00:18:39 +0000 2023

Awwww. It babby. ❤

 Sat Jan 21 00:19:43 +0000 2023

https://youtu.be/dfIvCwATrcI

 Sat Jan 21 00:31:09 +0000 2023

RT @SierraOnLineUni: 😬

🖕👀

Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh (1996)

#MiddleFinger #Phantasmagoria #SierraOnLine #SierraGames #Sierra #Adv…

 Sat Jan 21 01:06:53 +0000 2023

RT @DOSBros_Vamonos: I thought the first levels of "Duke Nukem 1" (1991) were so awesome as a kid! It had the perfect learning curve. You c…

 Sat Jan 21 01:07:10 +0000 2023

Duke Nukem 1 > Duke Nukem 2

 Sat Jan 21 01:07:20 +0000 2023

RT @Macaw45: Stream live! The time has come once again to play a French developed DOS game from the ultimate game developer... https://t.co…

 Sat Jan 21 01:27:27 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: I booted WIN today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the MIDI
The only thing that's real

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI https://t.co/ZFyZO…

 Sat Jan 21 02:39:49 +0000 2023

Ouch

 Sat Jan 21 03:15:44 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: One of the biggest laughs in Back to the Future: Marty just fucking *roasting* a toddler

 Sat Jan 21 03:19:46 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Tarkovsky on The Terminator

 Sat Jan 21 03:45:12 +0000 2023

"Mask of the Phantasm" is still the best Batman movie. And no other entry even comes close.

 Sat Jan 21 04:48:15 +0000 2023

Good night.

 Sat Jan 21 05:35:36 +0000 2023

RT @ActionRetro1: DOOM in its natural habitat

 Sat Jan 21 05:49:52 +0000 2023

Ok, this one *does* come close, but it's still not as good.

 Sat Jan 21 13:22:35 +0000 2023

RT @jmechner: $5500, according to my journal. And the artist got to keep the original painting after Broderbund scanned it for the box. All…

 Sat Jan 21 15:46:38 +0000 2023

Has anyone in recent years reached out to the Murrys to find out if they owned Manhunter? https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1408532969619439628

 Sat Jan 21 18:19:11 +0000 2023

I don't think I've ever seen a winchip with my own eyes.

 Sat Jan 21 20:44:02 +0000 2023

RT @high_voltage_cz: Wolfenstein 3D CGA on the mighty HP 200LX (80186 7.91 MHz, 2MB RAM) :) #dosgaming #wolfenstein3D https://t.co/5RY1vx0q…

 Sat Jan 21 23:36:02 +0000 2023

"Run you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!"

 Sat Jan 21 23:38:48 +0000 2023

RT @Macaw45: Stream live! This time we play through The Raven Project on DOS for real, no glitches! https://www.twitch.tv/macaw45

 Sun Jan 22 01:16:09 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: It's Saturday night, and that means PARTY TIME!!!

 Sun Jan 22 01:55:18 +0000 2023

That's a very nice machine, but CD-ROM drives most certainly existed by the time Gorillas became a thing, they were just very expensive. There were already a few CD-ROM DOS games by that point as well.

 Sun Jan 22 03:08:26 +0000 2023

Welcome to the Gamer Discourse.

 Sun Jan 22 11:12:15 +0000 2023

My god. What did they do to the Whigfield song? 🤣

 Sun Jan 22 15:29:01 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: When I heard Duke's line "I'm gonna rip off your head and sh!t down your neck", I told Duke Nukem 3D producer, Greg Malone…

 Sun Jan 22 15:46:22 +0000 2023

Fuck me, and the official Android app now too. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1616146331919339522

 Sun Jan 22 16:05:12 +0000 2023

 Sun Jan 22 16:14:17 +0000 2023

I was defending the Amiga today, so I never want to hear anything about being an Amiga-hater ever again.

 Sun Jan 22 17:12:40 +0000 2023

(I am *not* an Amiga-hater.)

 Sun Jan 22 17:13:46 +0000 2023

All of the above? 🤷

 Sun Jan 22 17:14:47 +0000 2023

What's DOOM about?... About 11 megabytes.

 Sun Jan 22 19:10:17 +0000 2023

What do you mean NOW?

 Sun Jan 22 19:29:24 +0000 2023

Oh yeah. Although the shareware installer is just 2.39mb. I remember that because for a while I always used to carry 2 floppies with it on me at all times.

 Sun Jan 22 20:16:44 +0000 2023

Hello, I'm also in the gotta get a car immediately club. Just back from a dealership, actually.

 Sun Jan 22 20:55:27 +0000 2023

Swords of Xeen (Catware/New World Computing, 1995) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Jan 22 21:30:02 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Sun Jan 22 22:34:14 +0000 2023

Idk what floppies you're using, but it pkzips nicely into just under 5 mb, and thus fits very comfortably on four 3.5 inch floppies, which is how the registered version was delivered in the first place.

 Sun Jan 22 22:39:28 +0000 2023

A bit more details: this was a part of a discussion about ReelMagic, a device that on launch cost more than an entire base model Amiga. 🤷‍♂️ https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1617208639109976065

 Sun Jan 22 23:48:28 +0000 2023

Original footage: https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1591245482718015489

 Mon Jan 23 00:26:45 +0000 2023

RT @RomainMacre: I liked the first Test Drive game a lot for the design. They used a snapshot of a road trip, with generic mountain on one…

 Mon Jan 23 00:43:44 +0000 2023

People give Aaron Sorkin shit all the time, but I find his brand of comedy where everyone is constantly being assholes to everyone else really funny.

 Mon Jan 23 03:40:23 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: May I have your attention please?
Will the real VGA please stand up?
I repeat, will the real VGA please stand up? https:/…

 Mon Jan 23 13:24:30 +0000 2023

RT @Aistarin: Back at it with the MS-DOS VGA Mode X programming. Vertical scrolling no longer does full screen refreshes if it doesn't have…

 Mon Jan 23 16:19:43 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: My favorite CD change screen of all time

 Mon Jan 23 16:34:59 +0000 2023

It's actually not that big, because a lot of the data on the first 6 cds repeats. Gabriel Knight 2 is actually significantly larger despite being on six CDs.

 Mon Jan 23 17:16:37 +0000 2023

RT @Bezdarbor: The friendliest NPCs ever are in The Elder Scrolls: Arena!

#RETROGAMING #videogames #gamingpc #DOSgaming https://t.co/tDXk…

 Mon Jan 23 18:46:50 +0000 2023

RT @crdudeyoutube: === NEW VIDEO ===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIKZCQnplDA

I tried to make a video about the _CapShare_, a weird one-off handheld scanne…

 Mon Jan 23 19:06:09 +0000 2023

That's how you know Tarantino isn't on the Internet: on his podcast where each episode him & Roger Avary discuss 3 films that often don't even have easy to access current releases, when a Gymkata reference is made, he points it out as potentially too obscure.

 Mon Jan 23 19:23:17 +0000 2023

It's really cute that Quentin thinks that Gymkata, of all the things, is potentially too obscure of a reference. That's how I know he doesn't spend time on the Internet.

 Mon Jan 23 19:26:34 +0000 2023

The first part of the animation repeats

 Mon Jan 23 21:16:33 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: Two of Apogee's earliest games, Pharaoh's Tomb and its sequel, Arctic Adventure, both developed by George Broussard in glo…

 Mon Jan 23 22:26:31 +0000 2023

RT @Kaspervillum: 😳

 Mon Jan 23 22:30:01 +0000 2023

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

 Mon Jan 23 22:48:01 +0000 2023

RT @schmitthot: The Dig (1995), a point-and-click adventure game by LucasArts. Love the atmospheric intro. Completely cinematic and blew me…

 Tue Jan 24 01:06:12 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Me thinking about all the DOS games

 Tue Jan 24 02:18:37 +0000 2023

This is the girl.

 Tue Jan 24 02:27:09 +0000 2023

I love that for nearly a decade (1988 - 1997) Luc Besson had his films start out pretty much the same way:
- The Big Blue (1988)
- Nikita [La Femme Nikita] (1990)
- Léon [The Professional] (1994)
- The Fifth Element (1997)

 Tue Jan 24 04:00:59 +0000 2023

Yep. But at the same time not everyone gets to make *three* legitimately amazing and internationally acclaimed movies in a row, so... 🤷‍♂️

 Tue Jan 24 04:10:39 +0000 2023

Obviously if he started it with a pan and a tilt up it would have been even better.

 Tue Jan 24 04:26:55 +0000 2023

Btw, if anyone has any ideas on how to watch the American version of The Big Blue, the one that's an hour shorter and has a happy ending and a Bill Conti score, I'd appreciate a link. I've never seen it.

 Tue Jan 24 04:46:57 +0000 2023

RT @RetroTechDreams: 90s LAN party. Tag your squad.

 Tue Jan 24 13:57:00 +0000 2023

A man's attitude determines, to a large extent, how his life will be

 Tue Jan 24 16:19:03 +0000 2023

Songs turning THIRTY years old this year: 🎶
---
Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love
4 Non Blondes - What's Up?
Haddaway - What is Love?
Duran Duran - Come Undone
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
2 Unlimited - No Limit
Real McCoy - Another Night
Culture Beat - Mr. Vain
Us3 - Cantaloop

 Tue Jan 24 16:49:48 +0000 2023

The single, yes, but the song was recorded and played locally throughout the second half of 1992.

 Tue Jan 24 17:56:35 +0000 2023

RT @jmechner: I still don't know who just paid $63,000 to own this vintage #princeofpersia artwork... but its recent sale at auction inspir…

 Tue Jan 24 20:46:03 +0000 2023

I'll take some if you need to free up some space.

 Tue Jan 24 20:52:34 +0000 2023

It looks like support for "Richard and Alan's Escape from Hell" might be coming to ScummVM in the near future.
https://strangerke.blogspot.com/2023/01/escape-from-hell.html

 Wed Jan 25 01:18:28 +0000 2023

Oxyd magnum! (Dongleware Verlags, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Jan 25 01:36:02 +0000 2023

IT IS HAPPENING! #MadeWithMacromedia https://x.com/ScummVM/status/1618222647837609985

 Wed Jan 25 13:10:24 +0000 2023

This gives me hope. I gave up on Goodwills a couple of years ago because I figured they began running all their electronics donations by eBay, because stores just turned into endless trash storage all of sudden. This is an absolute win.

 Wed Jan 25 13:56:09 +0000 2023

Lol. You should read Carlin's autobiography. Might discover a thing or two about him.

 Wed Jan 25 14:01:51 +0000 2023

You don't know anything about him though, and yet here you are.

 Wed Jan 25 14:39:41 +0000 2023

I mean in a fairly populated area too, since I'm in NY as well 😉

 Wed Jan 25 16:31:03 +0000 2023

This is a GREAT podcast to listen to even if you aren't familiar with Albion. Both guests have been in the games industry for 30+ years, so they have plenty of gamedev stories to tell. https://x.com/dosgameclub/status/1618038900370571264

 Wed Jan 25 16:35:50 +0000 2023

https://x.com/Campster/status/1618272325706588160

 Wed Jan 25 16:51:34 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Videogames are art

 Wed Jan 25 16:57:04 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Videogames as art #DOSGaming

 Wed Jan 25 16:57:16 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Videogames are art. #DOSGaming

 Wed Jan 25 16:58:45 +0000 2023

There's an interesting take. How's yours MS-DOS programming?

 Wed Jan 25 17:23:22 +0000 2023

Weeeeellll, not only were they available before, but a German punishing company partnered up with Dongleware a few years ago, and actually was ready to launch a web version AND a update that featured ALL levels from all the games, a Steam workshop map editor, and multiplayer....

 Wed Jan 25 17:47:44 +0000 2023

... but then it never came out. All the links and mentions of this are dead, and Dongleware's website put up a notice that they will no longer be operating. 🤷
Maybe the trailer for the remake is still on YouTube or something.

 Wed Jan 25 17:49:15 +0000 2023

Yep. Here's all that remains. There are a few other videos on the channel. I've seen this remake in person at GDC 2018.
https://youtu.be/J4i7SayknCY

 Wed Jan 25 17:54:57 +0000 2023

That's not gonna work with Daggerfall though, or most DOS games running in Windows for that matter.

 Wed Jan 25 18:33:11 +0000 2023

I don't assume anything, just going by what you're showing me.

 Wed Jan 25 18:47:12 +0000 2023

Wait till you see this then
https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

 Wed Jan 25 18:53:12 +0000 2023

I honestly don't understand how people who actually choose to write things like "Bill Gates is a communist/marxist" actually survive on a daily basis.
How much thinking is actually required to get through a day? Apparently not a lot.

 Wed Jan 25 18:56:39 +0000 2023

Everyone wanted a piece of that delicious Myst pie.

 Wed Jan 25 18:57:34 +0000 2023

RT @itstheshadsy: 8 years ago, I went to a life-changing event about the preserving the Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs at Rhizome.

And now this we…

 Wed Jan 25 19:03:53 +0000 2023

........ I was there too. HAS IT BEEN EIGHT YEARS ALREADY?!?!

 Wed Jan 25 19:22:19 +0000 2023

Goddamn. Wait. Does this mean we've met? Were you at the bar afterwards?

 Wed Jan 25 19:26:29 +0000 2023

Ah, I see. I was like no way we were in the same space & some kind of conversation didn't occur.

 Wed Jan 25 19:30:10 +0000 2023

I mean, I wouldn't trust Bill Gates either. Or any billionaire, for that matter. 🤷

 Wed Jan 25 19:46:03 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Batman_ The Movie-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Wed Jan 25 20:37:28 +0000 2023

Don't we all

 Wed Jan 25 20:45:56 +0000 2023

If only that's the reaction I've seen. It's mostly just people agreeing.

 Wed Jan 25 20:54:51 +0000 2023

RT @KevEdwardsRetro: The Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro. A classic PC joystick from 1996.

 Wed Jan 25 21:21:25 +0000 2023

RT @LucasArtsMemory:

 Wed Jan 25 21:50:33 +0000 2023

Isn't it funny that some people couldn't handle the fact that this has no context, so some random person just made one up, and now it's pretty much accepted as canon?
(If you read read an interview with the puppeteer, the real story didn't involve a pub or police.) https://x.com/wejustnormalmen/status/1617462274532282369

 Wed Jan 25 22:18:50 +0000 2023

Yep. Just being a random in the moment gag makes it a lot more realistic. We've all been there.

 Wed Jan 25 23:17:10 +0000 2023

Good night.

 Thu Jan 26 03:44:12 +0000 2023

Oh, they weren't selling them boxed at that point. In fact, I don't think they *ever* sold them boxed. Pretty sure the only Skunny game to get a big box was the 1995 platformer that was put out by WizardWorks.

 Thu Jan 26 09:21:02 +0000 2023

https://x.com/MichaelMatteoRo/status/1618131763712380930

 Thu Jan 26 17:01:30 +0000 2023

Bad for the environment

 Thu Jan 26 17:24:02 +0000 2023

OpenEnroth, an open source Might & Magic 7 implementation, with Might & Magic 6 and 8 support coming soon.
https://github.com/OpenEnroth/OpenEnroth

 Thu Jan 26 17:26:30 +0000 2023

I miss my 20s... 💋 💦🍕 https://x.com/shirtsthtgohard/status/1618668401102311427

 Thu Jan 26 18:11:47 +0000 2023

RT @realRetroPC: We all remember that moment where we discovered this video on our Windows 95 CD-ROM.

 Thu Jan 26 18:12:48 +0000 2023

I love that you wrote "probably" not a communist. 🤣

 Thu Jan 26 18:21:16 +0000 2023

I believe that a rich person can be a communist, just not that particular person.

 Thu Jan 26 19:44:07 +0000 2023

Bob Morane: Chevalerie 1 (Infogrames Multimedia, 1987) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Jan 26 22:41:11 +0000 2023

Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition is coming
https://youtu.be/ncHPrdhtUa4

 Thu Jan 26 23:39:24 +0000 2023

Fury³? Pfft. Wake me up when it's Fury⁶⁹! https://x.com/irelan/status/1618757379902029824

 Thu Jan 26 23:56:34 +0000 2023

RT @DominicPajak: Try some ARM2 era games using the web-based Acorn Archimedes emulator from @pdjstone - love it! https://archi.medes.live h…

 Fri Jan 27 01:12:07 +0000 2023

Repeatedly was falling asleep in my office chair. Moved to bed. Now I'm wide awake. Can't win.

 Fri Jan 27 01:13:46 +0000 2023

RT @textfiles: An emulated-in-browser version of the Texas Instrument TI-82 is running at the Archive now. Enjoy.

https://archive.org/details/ti82-calculator

 Fri Jan 27 01:28:26 +0000 2023

Feel the MIDI from here to Asia
Dip trip, flip Fantasia

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Fri Jan 27 01:31:56 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109758586193658129

 Fri Jan 27 01:32:19 +0000 2023

When you're watching a David Lynch film:

 Fri Jan 27 01:49:22 +0000 2023

I wish this was on PC. I've never played the original game.

 Fri Jan 27 03:31:43 +0000 2023

Oh, that's a different version. I know of it. Honestly, it's also possible to play the original N64 version on PC on an emulator, AND even with optional keyboard + mouse controls (which obviously makes the game much easier & removes original feel.) I just want an official release

 Fri Jan 27 03:37:58 +0000 2023

Oh, man. I had no idea Mask of Phantasm script was also available. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1616658913822121991

 Fri Jan 27 05:14:52 +0000 2023

As I've been gradually ageing, there are few movies that keep surprising me more. I can't believe they've put all of that into what essentially was a weekly cartoon series spinoff.

 Fri Jan 27 05:34:35 +0000 2023

It is just so crazy how they've managed to put a spin on literally everything that makes Batman great, and all of it worked. You'd think who would care about yet another origin story, but yet they find a way to do it that feels 100% more authentic than anything else.

 Fri Jan 27 05:39:51 +0000 2023

I love the fact that the theme is all about duality. Arguably, that's the center of Batman's character, and yet none of live action movies touch upon it in any meaningful way. Here it is the central theme, AND in the end there's no good ending for anyone. It's perfect.

 Fri Jan 27 05:48:41 +0000 2023

DDD OOO SSS
D D O O S
D D O O SSS
D D O O S
DDD OOO SSS

 Fri Jan 27 06:24:41 +0000 2023

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

 Fri Jan 27 11:53:05 +0000 2023

RT @DickWhitehouse: Along with Jaguar CD support, the next release of BigPEmu will allow you to pipe any audio device through VLM! This is…

 Fri Jan 27 11:58:08 +0000 2023

Correct. When Windows 9x is loaded, there's no more DOS running. If you're running a DOS program in Win9x, it's Windows' kernel handling it.
Here's a fairly detailed explanation from Raymond Chen, the guy who implemented DOS support in Windows.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24063

 Fri Jan 27 14:22:28 +0000 2023

So many people say "Windows 9x runs on top of DOS," but in reality it is exactly the opposite. But yeah, there's no question, Win9x does need DOS to boot.

 Fri Jan 27 14:23:31 +0000 2023

RT @philscomputerlb: My TOP 3 storage options for 386 DOS Retro PC: https://youtu.be/YWpeSp2gOgU

 Fri Jan 27 16:51:28 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: 🎵 Well, how can I forget you, DOS
When there is always something there to remind me 🎵

(Like inability to name files an…

 Fri Jan 27 18:16:33 +0000 2023

It's never "If you know what's this then you're FUCKING COOL! Hell yeah!" isn't it? 😥 https://x.com/royvanrijn/status/1618614421613580289

 Fri Jan 27 20:57:48 +0000 2023

AUTOEXEC.BUTT

 Fri Jan 27 21:03:45 +0000 2023

I just like the sound of FM synthesis, and I really like Microsoft's GM - OPL3 player. But no, normally it's not my preferred way of listening to MIDI music.

 Sat Jan 28 00:01:50 +0000 2023

RT @schmitthot: Time for another classic game intro. This time it's The Legend of Kyrandia for MS-DOS, developed by Westwood Studios, and r…

 Sat Jan 28 00:34:50 +0000 2023

RT @pikuma: Spectrum Holobyte's #Falcon A.T.

MS-DOS, 1988.

The graphics mode used was 640x200x16, which allowed simple dithering to creat…

 Sat Jan 28 00:38:49 +0000 2023

RT @mdscntstmgm: I just realized you can, as a private person, buy both a working jetsuit and a flamethrower legally.
It will cost me about…

 Sat Jan 28 00:39:48 +0000 2023

Apparently German DOS platformer Lollypop had dropped on GOG and Steam a couple of weeks ago:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2117440/Lollypop/
https://www.gog.com/en/game/lollypop

 Sat Jan 28 01:16:35 +0000 2023

Jesus Christ https://x.com/ZOOMPlatform/status/1619057926156734464

 Sat Jan 28 02:21:08 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: The Fortress of Dr. Radiaki. Promotional "screenshots" vs reality #DOSGaming

 Sat Jan 28 02:29:49 +0000 2023

In the age of AGI get ready for the age of SCI.

 Sat Jan 28 02:36:17 +0000 2023

RT @discoverys16: 我が家のMIDI音源
SC-55、ST、CM-64のお手入れせねば

 Sat Jan 28 13:18:28 +0000 2023

I don't get it.

 Sat Jan 28 14:13:22 +0000 2023

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1618815552356757504?t=N5rc6jq40RphGAumsY3_EA&s=19

 Sat Jan 28 17:21:49 +0000 2023

fheroes2, an open source implementation of Heroes of Might & Magic 2 with multiple enhancements
https://ihhub.github.io/fheroes2/

 Sat Jan 28 18:06:21 +0000 2023

RT @DominicTarason: If you want a different take on X-Com, try The X-Com Files. Starting out with four suited agents in a sedan and near-ze…

 Sat Jan 28 18:45:09 +0000 2023

This tag line is also kind of weird
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1264625792996315153?t=J5ahoOc5D6coOsn1V72VUg&s=19

 Sat Jan 28 18:54:05 +0000 2023

Idk, I kind of love it as far as Myst-wannabes go, as most of them are trash. It is absolutely too much in almost every aspect, and if a player is tone deaf they're totally screwed. Hopefully more people will get to experience it when ScummVM's Director support arrives.

 Sat Jan 28 18:58:28 +0000 2023

RT @richardcobbett: Anachronox. Also, finish it.

 Sat Jan 28 20:51:20 +0000 2023

I see "the Matrix" trending, and I'm preemptively disappointed because I already know it's for the dumbest reasons. I don't even need to see the actual "discourse"... How the fuck did we get here?

 Sat Jan 28 21:59:33 +0000 2023

I long for the days when the *worst* the Matrix discourse was just people arguing exactly how much the sequels sucked.

 Sat Jan 28 22:02:34 +0000 2023

Which, btw, if you haven't seen them in a while, you need to revisit. The last decade or so of Hollywood blockbusters has been so terrible, that the Matrix sequels are instantly elevated by having, you know, actual ideas & commitment behind them.

 Sat Jan 28 22:03:55 +0000 2023

Nonsense. I miss 90s Laserjets so much. Those things would last *forever*, unlike today's printers.

 Sat Jan 28 22:48:05 +0000 2023

RT @cbrzeszczot: According to @TimSweeneyEpic, the original ZZT source code was lost in the early 90s: "[... If] I had it, I'd release it,…

 Sat Jan 28 22:50:35 +0000 2023

RT @cphonx: If you've every had to type in "SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 T6", then you're F*CKING COOL! Hell yeah!

@dosnostalgic

 Sun Jan 29 00:00:24 +0000 2023

RT @burgerbecky: Since #doom3do is trending again, here's a refresher on the ACTUAL PHOTOS taken from the ill fated DOOM 3DO cut scene set.…

 Sun Jan 29 06:05:35 +0000 2023

20*. It's 20 years later.

 Sun Jan 29 12:09:25 +0000 2023

RT @BuildEnginePics: Today marks the birthday of the shareware 1.0 release of Duke Nukem 3D. It was released on January 29th, 1996. https:/…

 Sun Jan 29 15:54:02 +0000 2023

Oh... oh no. 👀 https://x.com/pripyatbeast/status/1619710797562937344

 Sun Jan 29 15:54:33 +0000 2023

RT @KevEdwardsRetro: ZX Spectrum Bubble Bobble source code safely archived from Mike Follin's original development discs. I'm not sure if t…

 Sun Jan 29 16:53:57 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Duke Nukem 3D shareware exit screen. #DOSGaming

 Sun Jan 29 18:22:36 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: If you downloaded a Duke Nukem 3D shareware in 1996 from a bbs or the internet in 1996, raise your hand! https://t.co/OqH…

 Sun Jan 29 18:22:50 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Register that shareware! #DOSGaming

 Sun Jan 29 18:23:12 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Duke Nukem 3D beta from January 4th 1996. Only a couple of weeks before shareware, yet many differences https://t.co/FP8I…

 Sun Jan 29 18:23:39 +0000 2023

$1 in 1996 is $1.92 today. So $39.95 + $5 for shipping would be about $86.

 Sun Jan 29 18:39:21 +0000 2023

Yeah, but...
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1619767166999629824?t=zQ2ruIn91HA9sQHr1MH8zA&s=19

 Sun Jan 29 18:39:56 +0000 2023

It's more like "some time this month, probably, maybe." 🤷 https://x.com/DayTechHistory/status/1619681900045410304

 Sun Jan 29 19:34:10 +0000 2023

It's... fine.

 Sun Jan 29 19:34:42 +0000 2023

Never trust a vintage game release *day* unless there are multiple citations from press/press releases.

 Sun Jan 29 19:38:41 +0000 2023

RT @destroyed4com4t: Decided to write something that will make a lot of people very angry, because I'm just in that sort of mood lately.

h…

 Sun Jan 29 20:48:15 +0000 2023

Headline aside, the article does bring up quite a few excellent point, with citations.

 Sun Jan 29 20:56:51 +0000 2023

RT @Apogee_Ent: ☢️ The Apogee team checking out the Duke Nukem 3D V1.0 release day demo on this date in 1996.

From right to left: Jim Dose…

 Sun Jan 29 20:58:53 +0000 2023

RT @FOmmetje: There's an Easter Egg in the DOS version of Monopoly Deluxe. How to activate it is still a mystery. Thanks to some hacking we…

 Sun Jan 29 21:08:40 +0000 2023

CGA and "Intended", "Incidental" and Just Plain Wrong Graphics - Nerdly Pleasures
http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2023/01/cga-and-intended-incidental-and-just.html

 Sun Jan 29 21:16:32 +0000 2023

TEETH

 Sun Jan 29 21:18:04 +0000 2023

RT @OldTechAdverts: Digital Research ported CP/M to the 16bit 8086 and 8088 processors.
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n260/mode/1up
#Retrocomputing https://t.…

 Sun Jan 29 23:42:18 +0000 2023

Sunday evening. Not a bad time to look at some print ads from 30 years ago, right?

 Mon Jan 30 00:30:01 +0000 2023

"Hyundai. PCs designed and built in America."
$1 in 1993 is about $2.08 today.

 Mon Jan 30 00:33:23 +0000 2023

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 Mon Jan 30 00:38:24 +0000 2023

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 Mon Jan 30 00:43:06 +0000 2023

🤔

 Mon Jan 30 00:44:46 +0000 2023

CD changers were continued getting made pretty much throughout the entirety of the CD utilization cycles
https://youtu.be/oRuhRfvIkn0

 Mon Jan 30 00:46:43 +0000 2023

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 Mon Jan 30 00:49:13 +0000 2023

 Mon Jan 30 00:51:12 +0000 2023

Long live the New Flesh.

 Mon Jan 30 00:52:05 +0000 2023

 Mon Jan 30 00:53:22 +0000 2023

#DOSGaming

 Mon Jan 30 00:54:41 +0000 2023

AMD

 Mon Jan 30 00:56:14 +0000 2023

 Mon Jan 30 00:58:14 +0000 2023

And now a SEVEN page Windows ad! (1/2)

 Mon Jan 30 01:00:20 +0000 2023

(2/2)

 Mon Jan 30 01:00:41 +0000 2023

And that was your journey to 30 years ago. I hope you enjoyed it. All ads were from January 1993 issue of Byte magazine.

 Mon Jan 30 01:03:42 +0000 2023

Good night.

 Mon Jan 30 02:16:40 +0000 2023

It's an awesome real-time rogue-lite with not-gross 90s as aesthetics, BUT it's meant to be played in co-op. Single player experience is just not the same.

 Mon Jan 30 13:22:01 +0000 2023

Yet another nerdy vintage thing I didn't expect to see in a porno: Disney Princess TV & player unit!

 Mon Jan 30 16:32:31 +0000 2023

Previously on
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1402657799973347330?t=dAuO9xTZQTytpuMtkkULmA&s=19

 Mon Jan 30 16:35:25 +0000 2023

And
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1202967545617305600?t=zltkYJofTvUB8zPvl5IpHA&s=19

 Mon Jan 30 16:35:53 +0000 2023

Dear porn producers. Please make my life easier and put more DOS-related things in your products. https://x.com/therealzomg/status/1620099095917363200

 Mon Jan 30 16:40:33 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: Ravager was a game/team Apogee originally funded in 1994 but eventually decided to walk from. In this game you were to pla…

 Mon Jan 30 17:40:26 +0000 2023

Yes, but did you buy Marble Blaster in Best Buy for $9.99?

 Mon Jan 30 17:41:42 +0000 2023

RT @MarioBrothBlog: A Game Boy test cartridge used internally at Nintendo to diagnose problems with the hardware contains a graphics test t…

 Mon Jan 30 21:37:11 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: A teenage Ken Silverman, coder talent from another planet, diligently working on the Build engine in 1995, which was the f…

 Mon Jan 30 21:51:50 +0000 2023

It is honestly a bit baffling to me that some people find Atari 50's price to be too much. If retro gaming packages like that were created often, I'd pay $40 every time. A dozen new games, nearly 100 old games, brand new emulators, tons of stuff to look at, & 1.5 hrs of video.

 Mon Jan 30 21:58:03 +0000 2023

I also really love the default linear timeline presentation. Honestly I wish more compilations framed games in some kind of historical context, and not just a list of titles to select & play.

 Mon Jan 30 22:01:25 +0000 2023

RT @PhilBennett3D: Gave Sierra's 1988 adventure Gold Rush! another try and was pleasantly surprised. Random deaths from illness and acciden…

 Mon Jan 30 23:55:21 +0000 2023

For once AI data generation is right up my alley. Considering how bland & derivative 90% of Eurodance is in the first place, this can probably provide me with endless eurodance if my day+ long playlist runs out. https://x.com/arstechnica/status/1620193794997059586

 Tue Jan 31 00:34:36 +0000 2023

(Not joking about the playlist)
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1289601256399413250

 Tue Jan 31 00:35:06 +0000 2023

Idk, I'm seeing a bunch of "$40 for 50 2600 games you wouldn't be playing for more than 5 minutes" kinds of takes. As if that's all there was.

 Tue Jan 31 01:07:38 +0000 2023

Try Wacup.

 Tue Jan 31 01:53:26 +0000 2023

RT @wolf3dnews: Play Wolf3D like it's 1982!

James Howard's "Wolfenstein 3D CGA" is a modded version of the Wolf3D engine that runs the gam…

 Tue Jan 31 12:10:39 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: When Id & Apogee released Wolfenstein 3D in 1992 we had both a game manual (free) and a hint manual ($10 extra) showing al…

 Tue Jan 31 17:57:37 +0000 2023

It rained in New York earlier, and now it's snowing. You know what means!
TIME TO BREAK OUT MAX PAYNE GAMES!
💧 ❄ 🗽

 Tue Jan 31 18:21:03 +0000 2023

RT @BuildEnginePics: Game: Powerslave
By: Lobotomy Software

 Tue Jan 31 18:21:14 +0000 2023

RT @DominicTarason: Old-school RPG fans, in case you missed it, Amiga RPG Ambermoon recently got an expanded PC remaster. If it looks famil…

 Tue Jan 31 19:16:55 +0000 2023

RT @Civvie11: EPIC
UNREAL
MEGASPECIAL

https://youtu.be/5PtU2stZK0M

#FreeCivvie #RETROGAMING #UnrealEngine

 Tue Jan 31 19:44:05 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Ugh!-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Tue Jan 31 20:02:35 +0000 2023

RT @GrundislavGames: This is the second best cover of Woodtick I’ve ever heard.

https://youtu.be/rPEf_g9JpoE

 Tue Jan 31 20:49:35 +0000 2023

YES

 Tue Jan 31 21:27:45 +0000 2023

You guys should see Russia! (Not really)

 Tue Jan 31 22:08:07 +0000 2023

RT @rob_sheridan: Looking back on the biggest news story of January 1998, 25 years ago (wait for it):

 Tue Jan 31 23:48:35 +0000 2023

Desperado 2 (Gamart/Topo Soft, 1991) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Feb 01 01:07:33 +0000 2023