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RT @ThisOldTech2: I'm kinda jealous of this setup

 Wed Feb 01 07:27:10 +0000 2023

Yeah, I'm already looking at sparse footage on YouTube of nearly everyone not knowing how to play.

 Wed Feb 01 08:59:41 +0000 2023

RT @OldTechAdverts: MacWorld 1988 November
https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_8811_November_1988
#AppleMac #RetroComputing #Apple

 Wed Feb 01 14:21:15 +0000 2023

RT @ThatTomHall: Why so shocked? id Software is 32 years old today! #idsoftware

Founded with a passion for games, and still going strong!…

 Wed Feb 01 20:43:37 +0000 2023

RT @romero: Happy 32nd birthday to id Software. I am so grateful to have been there on Day 1. To all current id devs, thanks for keeping th…

 Wed Feb 01 22:53:33 +0000 2023

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

 Thu Feb 02 00:03:22 +0000 2023

It's the only movie I bought last year because I just had to see the behind the scenes stuff.

 Thu Feb 02 01:10:26 +0000 2023

RT @gnomeslair: The Atari ST oddness of Grandad and The Quest for The Holey Vest is being remade! https://brocantygames.itch.io/grandad-and-the-quest-for-the-holey-vest-remake https://t.co/6c6p…

 Thu Feb 02 14:51:49 +0000 2023

I wonder how all these "MS-DOS was stolen from CP/M" people feel about Linux? 🤔

 Thu Feb 02 15:09:09 +0000 2023

They are not CP/M stans, they are Gates haters, and in reality have no idea what they are talking about.

 Thu Feb 02 15:30:38 +0000 2023

RT @DOSBros_Vamonos: Two things in particular excited me about "Maniac Mansion." The variety of solutions and the fact that, although there…

 Thu Feb 02 16:02:41 +0000 2023

I'm envious of the European edition because they truncated the opening story in the American one.

 Thu Feb 02 16:03:55 +0000 2023

The story in the manual.

 Thu Feb 02 16:54:16 +0000 2023

It was. Later European releases just have a single Eng-Fre-Deu manual that has the story and info for *all* platforms.

 Thu Feb 02 17:00:16 +0000 2023

RT @ConvosCurtis: Did you know that the in-game videos in Phantasmagoria 2 had 15 FPS with a resolution of 320x168?

Have you ever wondered…

 Thu Feb 02 17:23:32 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Watch out for that first step. It's a doozy!

 Thu Feb 02 17:24:54 +0000 2023

Facts don't influence those kinds of people.

 Thu Feb 02 17:41:02 +0000 2023

Probably both. It looks like the shots were composed for wide screen.

 Thu Feb 02 17:52:37 +0000 2023

This is interesting. @cosmoschtroumpf tracked down a French version of Corncob 3-D called "Mission Secrète F4U" included on a disk of a French edutainment title about aviation.
While text files are translated, most of the game is in English. Possible fan translation?
#DOSGaming

 Thu Feb 02 17:57:41 +0000 2023

Also included on disc is a French shareware version of Glider. #NotDOS

 Thu Feb 02 17:59:34 +0000 2023

Continuing the theme:
Little Big Adventure 2 poster in a scene of an adult film "Das Brillen (S)experiment" (2001). https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1620097636308230144

 Thu Feb 02 18:15:11 +0000 2023

Yes, it's a very popular Mac shareware game.

 Thu Feb 02 18:57:53 +0000 2023

Sit down, Mr. Stallman.

 Thu Feb 02 18:58:42 +0000 2023

Did you know that I'm also on Mastodon?
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic

 Thu Feb 02 18:58:45 +0000 2023

Correct!

 Thu Feb 02 21:35:12 +0000 2023

Ambush at Sorinor (Mindcraft Software, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Feb 02 22:09:14 +0000 2023

Maximum performance of my GIANT HARDDISK

 Fri Feb 03 00:01:03 +0000 2023

Hast du etwas Zeit für mich?
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von 99 Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Fri Feb 03 01:10:07 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109798136573199176

 Fri Feb 03 01:10:28 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: I little more late Soviet animation. A segment from "Lift" by Pilot Studios from 1989.

 Fri Feb 03 01:59:03 +0000 2023

Because the existence of tankies is so baffling to me as a Soviet person, I'm gonna choose to believe that tankies are people who wish for reinstatement of tank controls in survival horror games. 🤷‍♂️☭

 Fri Feb 03 02:00:45 +0000 2023

An average tankie:

 Fri Feb 03 02:05:01 +0000 2023

But there was always respect

 Fri Feb 03 03:02:34 +0000 2023

😱

 Fri Feb 03 03:02:55 +0000 2023

The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? https://x.com/sharj0k/status/1614733996503474176

 Fri Feb 03 04:10:42 +0000 2023

RT @virtuablinds: Grand Theft Auto (1997)
PS1 MS-DOS
DMA Design

Dramatically casting bands of moonlight and neon across your employer's fa…

 Fri Feb 03 11:39:21 +0000 2023

RT @DominicTarason: Oh hey, it's Dune 2000 with the serial numbers filed off. Looks neat, though, and out next week.

Edit: Apparently its…

 Fri Feb 03 14:01:24 +0000 2023

RT @Vokabre: "How to keep warm in winter:
— shirt
— underpants
— sweater
— pants
— chickens
— coat"

 Fri Feb 03 14:20:27 +0000 2023

👋 @damgentemp

 Fri Feb 03 14:22:42 +0000 2023

CW: Cartoon titties
A nude cheat code discovered in a chess game by Capstone, the pinnacle of entertainment software.
#DOSGaming https://x.com/sonneveld/status/1621528243974336512

 Fri Feb 03 15:44:28 +0000 2023

*Unless you owned the most popular Z80 personal computer, the ZX Spectrum.

 Fri Feb 03 18:16:40 +0000 2023

RT @philscomputerlb: Things you should know before buying a TV as Monitor: https://youtu.be/5atcE3jDEIs

 Fri Feb 03 22:52:03 +0000 2023

RT @ScummVM: A few months have passed since we released ScummVM 2.6.1. It's time to prepare for a new release!

Please help us on our missi…

 Fri Feb 03 22:55:35 +0000 2023

RT @SierraChest: Leisure Suit Larry 2. Leisure Suit Larry 3 page upgrade coming soon.

 Fri Feb 03 22:55:40 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: Apogee first brought Richard Gray (aka Levelord) into the game profession to work on Blood, and then he moved to Duke Nuke…

 Fri Feb 03 23:29:47 +0000 2023

How is Richard these days, considering the situation in his current country of residence?

 Fri Feb 03 23:31:01 +0000 2023

This might be a slightly bigger revelation than Tommy having an indoor waterfall that makes him wanna go piss in the middle of the night. https://x.com/dark1x/status/1621601454527057930

 Fri Feb 03 23:38:27 +0000 2023

That's fucked up https://x.com/mjdtweets/status/1621268956831956993

 Fri Feb 03 23:45:29 +0000 2023

RT @dosgameclub: 💾NEW PODCAST💾 In December we checked out Albion, the 1995 fantasy/scifi RPG by Blue Byte #DOSGaming

It might be a bit of…

 Sat Feb 04 00:14:15 +0000 2023

Oh, sorry. I have to go. My friends are coming over.

 Sat Feb 04 01:11:08 +0000 2023

That's not a trailer. It's a cutscene in the game when Larry gets drugged after winning a game craps against Dewmi Moore.

 Sat Feb 04 01:41:10 +0000 2023

Drinks and ashtrays? Goddamn. https://x.com/sovietvisuals/status/1621591853186580480

 Sat Feb 04 02:46:21 +0000 2023

*Changed the title of the EGA version. VGA version didn't happen till 1992.

 Sat Feb 04 03:35:37 +0000 2023

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

 Sat Feb 04 12:38:54 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Reader Rabbit-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Sat Feb 04 12:42:50 +0000 2023

RT @Apogee_Ent: Tom Hall, a founder of Id Software, joined Apogee to lead Rise of the Triad. Tom also played El Oscuro, the boss of the Osc…

 Sat Feb 04 13:01:57 +0000 2023

RT @nixcraft: Who here remembers these two?

 Sat Feb 04 13:02:06 +0000 2023

RT @TexTweetz: Going through my cards i found these 2 beauties

 Sat Feb 04 13:31:11 +0000 2023

Hell yeah! https://x.com/DaveOshry/status/1618777916787277824

 Sat Feb 04 14:46:57 +0000 2023

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

 Sat Feb 04 18:18:18 +0000 2023

Arx Fatalis turns as old this year as Ultima 1 was when Arx Fatalist was released.

 Sat Feb 04 18:25:27 +0000 2023

Oh man, I'm slipping. But that's even worse. Arx Fatalis is x2 older now than Ultima Underworld was when Arx Fatalis was released.

 Sat Feb 04 20:40:03 +0000 2023

Not the EWJ stuff

 Sat Feb 04 20:57:13 +0000 2023

Certainly better than the OD/pissing ones

 Sat Feb 04 22:49:35 +0000 2023

Now ask it to write a poem about you and your chess program

 Sun Feb 05 00:38:36 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Possibly the best cosplay https://x.com/_keionharu_/status/896582063251349504

 Sun Feb 05 00:41:22 +0000 2023

DOOM v1.1 on 4 monitors
https://youtu.be/q3NQQ7bPf6U

 Sun Feb 05 01:20:19 +0000 2023

The illusion fails when you ask it to show *any* code, tbh.

 Sun Feb 05 01:49:59 +0000 2023

You're supposed to put the side monitors at 90º angles, I think.

 Sun Feb 05 02:18:29 +0000 2023

Anyone want to play DOS games with us? How about you?

 Sun Feb 05 04:44:29 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Passengers on the Wind-01.gif
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Sun Feb 05 10:11:07 +0000 2023

RT @nbcsnl: HBO's adapting another iconic game

 Sun Feb 05 14:27:44 +0000 2023

Theatrical is the better version. Even with the robot.

 Sun Feb 05 14:49:28 +0000 2023

The worst thing about the movie is the Russian announcer at the end. Let me know when you finished the film, so I can tell you why I hate him with a passion without spoilers.

 Sun Feb 05 14:58:40 +0000 2023

KKIT/SDL - Unofficial Ken's Labyrinth Editor's Toolkit
https://github.com/kaimitai/klabkit-sdl

 Sun Feb 05 16:53:58 +0000 2023

RT @WebDesignMuseum: The Hampster Dance website in 1999 in Netscape Navigator 4.04

This website was one of the earliest examples of an Int…

 Sun Feb 05 17:29:04 +0000 2023

👀 The VGA version? 😦

 Sun Feb 05 17:36:41 +0000 2023

RT @high_voltage_cz: Digitální archeologie lvl 100 - Bloody Revenge. Česká DOSovka z roku 1994, na internetech nedostupná, tedy až do okamž…

 Sun Feb 05 17:37:17 +0000 2023

RT @Gutterbunny: Holy shit why don't more people talk about Jazz Jackrabbit this game is amazing.

 Sun Feb 05 17:38:25 +0000 2023

RT @MirandaMoff: Second time getting here to second level, first level was kobols and wormy slugs.. And relearning how the games mechanics…

 Sun Feb 05 17:39:35 +0000 2023

... a version that I can not, in good conscience, recommend to anyone who hasn't played the game yet.

 Sun Feb 05 17:57:41 +0000 2023

The guy at the end translates "There were 2 guys killing each other, but I guess that's better than 20 million" as "I think this is better than $20 million dollars" and it fucking kills me every damn time.

 Sun Feb 05 18:00:06 +0000 2023

I assume the actor just misunderstood, being an actor and Russian, and not a translator.

 Sun Feb 05 18:07:36 +0000 2023

Well, that's where we differ, I guess. I'm Team EGA all the way. I just can't handle all the stuff that's missing from the VGA version.

 Sun Feb 05 18:09:40 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Testing ScummVM's new feature of replacing music in the original version of LOOM with orchestral rendition of The Swan La…

 Sun Feb 05 18:10:50 +0000 2023

If only resources of the VGA remake of LOOM™ told a story about how people who were tasked with the conversion felt about the actual game... oh wait!

 Sun Feb 05 18:31:09 +0000 2023

(Play the EGA version.)

 Sun Feb 05 18:32:48 +0000 2023

Why yes, there is! (Contains spoilers)
https://youtu.be/bRJD0OrGulU

 Sun Feb 05 18:40:51 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Holy shit, this review of LOOM™ 😯

 Sun Feb 05 18:47:34 +0000 2023

A lot of the backgrounds in the FM Towns version still "updated" just as terribly.

 Sun Feb 05 19:01:38 +0000 2023

Karateka on a real IBM PC 5150 with load times left in, and accurate sound.
https://youtu.be/zXtxN3hRdVg

 Sun Feb 05 20:45:30 +0000 2023

Jordan Mechner on PC port of Karateka:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/771093736235360258

 Sun Feb 05 20:47:18 +0000 2023

RT @FOmmetje: The Monopoly Deluxe Easter Egg mystery has been solved.
You'll first have you click in the upper right-hand corner. Then set…

 Sun Feb 05 22:08:22 +0000 2023

The only problem with retro gaming in 2023 is that people aren't doing enough of it.

 Mon Feb 06 00:00:48 +0000 2023

Lichfield is actually a title of his English earldom. His actual last name is Anson. So you guessed wrong, my darling antisemite.

 Mon Feb 06 00:04:47 +0000 2023

RT @Pixelengineer_: Show me your games with dragon artwork boxes 🐉. #DOSgsming

 Mon Feb 06 00:10:31 +0000 2023

RT @SierraChest: One of the newly discovered Easter Eggs in PQ3. It only occurs like 1 out of 20 times or so when looking at the message bo…

 Mon Feb 06 00:16:14 +0000 2023

Just about everywhere
https://archive.org/details/contra-nes

 Mon Feb 06 01:24:53 +0000 2023

RT @JacobJanerka: I will revive SimAnt https://t.co/O4JwUQi386

 Mon Feb 06 01:35:00 +0000 2023

Trying to play Theme Park after playing Theme Hospital is extremely difficult. Nothing is even remotely straightforward. It's so weird.

 Mon Feb 06 01:44:53 +0000 2023

I remember only for an hour
Move right through me, can you feel the power?
I don't know what's going on
It scares me, but it won't be long

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Mon Feb 06 01:58:09 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109815314424001637

 Mon Feb 06 01:58:54 +0000 2023

PC version is the original. It's a bit more complex. No missions, but has an "experimental" mode that is basically a sandbox instead. It also looks very different being a high res VGA game.

 Mon Feb 06 03:17:55 +0000 2023

>|<ona

 Mon Feb 06 17:41:27 +0000 2023

RT @RetroTechDreams: Encarta MindMaze

 Mon Feb 06 17:48:19 +0000 2023

Spaceship Warlock is originally from 1991. In 1994 on PC you had:
DOOM 2
Heretic
System Shock
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
WarCraft
Magic Carpet
Master of Magic
X-COM
Tie Fighter
Nascar Racing
Rise of the Triad
Wing Commander 3
Little Big Adventure
Under a Killing Moon
& many more

 Mon Feb 06 19:32:01 +0000 2023

(Sorry for necrotweeting. Was looking for mentions of Spaceship Warlock, and just couldn't help myself.)

 Mon Feb 06 19:33:05 +0000 2023

RT @DickWhitehouse: BigPEmu version 1.05 is out now! Lots of new features. Jaguar CD emulation has been pretty well conquered, and has grad…

 Mon Feb 06 20:19:24 +0000 2023

RT @Gammitin: I love the sound on this Toshiba MS-DOS laptop so much! (Apologies for the dodgy camera work):

 Mon Feb 06 20:50:35 +0000 2023

Sleepy babby ❤

 Mon Feb 06 22:22:46 +0000 2023

Khalaan (Chip/Rainbow Arts Software, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Feb 07 00:26:43 +0000 2023

RT @PhotoWebb: From the archives London 90's MS. Dos 6.0 #London #Photography #StreetPhotography #スナップ写真

 Tue Feb 07 00:54:10 +0000 2023

Yes, please.

 Tue Feb 07 00:58:05 +0000 2023

I must admit, I did not know IBM JX existed until just now. A pretty sexy machine, if you ask me.

 Tue Feb 07 01:59:15 +0000 2023

It's post PC Jr, so that makes sense

 Tue Feb 07 02:43:44 +0000 2023

You're right, its Fn keys were combined with number keys, but that's how it went from then on.
We actually have 2 PCjrs at the Long Island Retro Expo, and are doing our best to have them fully functional this year.

 Tue Feb 07 02:54:18 +0000 2023

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for content I can tell you I don't have any, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. If you subscribe or click the bell, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

 Tue Feb 07 03:40:51 +0000 2023

🤔

 Tue Feb 07 03:42:14 +0000 2023

The one that's going to come back in style.

 Tue Feb 07 03:49:27 +0000 2023

Once I ran to you ᵢ ᵣₐₙ
Now I run from you.
This tainted love you've given,
I give you all a boy could give you.
Take my tears and that's not nearly all,
Tainted MIDI
Tainted MIDI

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Tue Feb 07 04:14:59 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109821510810091998

 Tue Feb 07 04:16:07 +0000 2023

It is now being tested as officially supported title of ScummVM. Meaning it now can be played on just about any platform you can think of.
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Spaceship_Warlock

 Tue Feb 07 04:20:07 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: We have to be careful. This is an emergency area. 🦙🔊🎵

 Tue Feb 07 04:43:43 +0000 2023

Is there a retro computing scene on TikTok? Please say no.

 Tue Feb 07 15:02:17 +0000 2023

 Tue Feb 07 15:04:17 +0000 2023

RT @Sierra_OffLine: Here it is y'all: THE APPLE II AGE: HOW THE COMPUTER BECAME PERSONAL--now with a cover!Make sure it's in your hands in…

 Tue Feb 07 15:23:21 +0000 2023

There's nothing I hate more than viewing people's works as "products". It's a paradox, because often them being products is a large part of motivation behind them. And if one, like me, often re-examines media, it's unwise to ignore the commercial angle. But it's still fucking sad

 Tue Feb 07 15:48:01 +0000 2023

Why can't videogames just be art bestowed to us by their creators? Why must we always care about money?

 Tue Feb 07 15:49:30 +0000 2023

Nothing made me hate money more than living in America for 20 years.

 Tue Feb 07 15:50:19 +0000 2023

Oh, on a related note: if I ever refer to any of the things I make as "content," just *fucking shoot me*.

 Tue Feb 07 15:53:33 +0000 2023

@Lawnie10 Sir, what do I need to do to convince you to start mentioning your videos on here?

 Tue Feb 07 16:19:25 +0000 2023

I'm not a big fan of trying to figure out someone's memories of old games, but if you can recall more details about these games, I'll give it a shot.

 Tue Feb 07 18:51:00 +0000 2023

I'm not on Tinder anymore, so a no is likely.

 Tue Feb 07 19:59:50 +0000 2023

 Tue Feb 07 20:48:15 +0000 2023

Me waiting for my work day to end, so I can play the new System Shock Remake demo.

 Tue Feb 07 22:08:00 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: System Shock floppy version intro #DOSGaming

 Tue Feb 07 22:12:34 +0000 2023

As sort of a fan of Roiland/Harmon stuff, pretty much none of this is a surprise for me apart from the fact that they apparently had a falling out, something I'm sure I would have known about if Harmon's podcast was still around.

 Tue Feb 07 22:54:29 +0000 2023

Another fun playthrough of the medical floor. Lots of changes. Loved all of the additions, big and small.

 Wed Feb 08 02:16:40 +0000 2023

The melee somehow got worse though. Can't tell if I'm hitting the mutants at all. At the same time all the player animations feel excessive.

 Wed Feb 08 02:18:45 +0000 2023

At this point I've put in 10 hours into all the demos of System Shock Remake. 😄

 Wed Feb 08 02:20:19 +0000 2023

The other babby wants nothing to do with this.

 Wed Feb 08 02:24:45 +0000 2023

Support for "The Immortal" is being merged into ScummVM's main branch.

 Wed Feb 08 02:34:37 +0000 2023

MS-DOS came directly from 86-DOS/QDOS from Seattle Computer Products, so no, you did not remember correctly.

 Wed Feb 08 03:36:21 +0000 2023

None. ScummVM began adding other engines after the first year of its existence.

 Wed Feb 08 12:30:25 +0000 2023

RT @juanlurve: x0r_jmp has released a build of Ravager, an early version of Alien Rampage, from 1995.

x0r_jmp Rentry page including releas…

 Wed Feb 08 12:31:59 +0000 2023

Correct.

 Wed Feb 08 14:16:47 +0000 2023

 Wed Feb 08 14:55:19 +0000 2023

Revs: How Geoff Crammond squeezed a Formula 3 sim racer into just 32KB on the BBC Micro - Timberwolf
https://youtu.be/p5s-zbXtDoo

 Wed Feb 08 15:21:19 +0000 2023

It is so weird to see Duke 3D be rated more controversial than Shadow Warrior.
I will always defend Duke Nukem 3D just by fact of there not really being much content to legitimately accuse it of misogyny. Shadow Warrior though? Oh boy, that game is chock full of offensive shit. https://x.com/Apogee_Ent/status/1623348962584395781

 Wed Feb 08 15:59:48 +0000 2023

Out the entire list only Postal is the game that actually coasted on a controversy. It made a big enough splash where a rather substandard ended up making a whole bunch of money. Apparently enough to finance a game that got cancelled, AND a sequel that came out SIX years later.

 Wed Feb 08 16:05:07 +0000 2023

Also look at those sales numbers. 😄 Some of those were considered *big* hits.

 Wed Feb 08 16:09:02 +0000 2023

Yeah, but also 100,000+ sales would get you millions of $ in profits, which is good money for small teams of the time. Which is why when PC games started crossing half million in sales everyone went crazy.

 Wed Feb 08 16:15:20 +0000 2023

No, it really wasn't.

 Wed Feb 08 16:19:55 +0000 2023

RT @PhilBennett3D: Having mild fun with the Sierra KQ1/AGI sound editor (SOUND.EXE) that was in the recent source code release.

T=Time
C=C…

 Wed Feb 08 16:32:57 +0000 2023

RT @M_de_Groot: My favorite DOS games I played when I was young. I'm that old. Life was good back in the days. If you know, you know. Don't…

 Wed Feb 08 16:33:55 +0000 2023

THIS? This is what you've spent an entire month coming up with? Goddamn, bro.

 Wed Feb 08 16:35:28 +0000 2023

Trust me, I know.

 Wed Feb 08 17:15:44 +0000 2023

I prefer the first game, but yeah, Carmageddon isn't offensive in the slightest.

 Wed Feb 08 17:42:13 +0000 2023

I... actually own the movie.

 Thu Feb 09 00:37:34 +0000 2023

I somehow didn't notice that the ScummVM website added a special download section for Macromedia Director demos, and it already has hundreds of downloads in it:
https://www.scummvm.org/demos/director

 Thu Feb 09 00:43:14 +0000 2023

Not quite. I bought it after seeing the opening scene at a convention (way before the movie came out). It also came with a copy of Postal 2, which I didn't own at the time, and I think the whole thing cost less than buying the game separately, so... it was kind of worth it. 🤷‍♂️

 Thu Feb 09 00:45:03 +0000 2023

Proof:
And hey, look, I also get Uwe Boll ringtones!

 Thu Feb 09 00:49:29 +0000 2023

Several years later he released "Director's Cut" of the movie which replaced 10 minutes of the original movie with 20 minutes of different material. People said it was better. I was always slightly curious to find out if maybe I would find any of it funny.

 Thu Feb 09 00:59:55 +0000 2023

I laughed at the opening sequence, which sold the movie to me. I should have known that the rest of it would never measure up to it. But I didn't.

 Thu Feb 09 01:11:09 +0000 2023

I ❤ Buddy

 Thu Feb 09 01:12:11 +0000 2023

But I'm a creep
I'm a MIDI
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Feb 09 01:24:20 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109832165817781343

 Thu Feb 09 01:24:38 +0000 2023

It's like you've never played a King's Quest game before. The whole premise of the series is about a tonal whiplash.

 Thu Feb 09 11:48:24 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Dino-Sorcerer-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Thu Feb 09 11:56:11 +0000 2023

RT @MsDOSClub: Recuerda proteger tus ojos.😎

 Thu Feb 09 12:13:07 +0000 2023

RT @ikeholdinstuff: Ike is holding "tongue of the Fatman" for MS-DOS.

 Thu Feb 09 12:15:50 +0000 2023

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Dino-Sorcerer_1990

 Thu Feb 09 12:32:37 +0000 2023

RT @konha: @MrSimonBennett Bought it from a local library sale when I was a kid to teach myself programming on our MS DOS pc. Fun times. ht…

 Thu Feb 09 15:41:00 +0000 2023

RT @shirtsthtgohard:

 Thu Feb 09 16:56:55 +0000 2023

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: It's #NationalPizzaDay!

What's more tasty than remembering your favourite (yes, your favourite) OS, with a C:\ prompt mad…

 Thu Feb 09 17:08:23 +0000 2023

 Thu Feb 09 17:14:38 +0000 2023

Jesus Christ, HOW?! 😮
https://youtu.be/KBB7ywaqmqA

 Thu Feb 09 17:43:27 +0000 2023

Sure, but it just looks like the person memorized all the dungeons, which is the aspect I'm impressed by the most.

 Thu Feb 09 18:15:59 +0000 2023

Realms (Graftgold/Virgin Games, 1992) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Feb 09 19:21:31 +0000 2023

Us, appreciators of 16 bit computer games. ❤

 Thu Feb 09 19:25:38 +0000 2023

Apparently that's not even the world record time anymore. Here it is:
Eye of the Beholder in 4:52 by MaeL
https://youtu.be/Zp0mHL8UAdE

 Thu Feb 09 21:10:24 +0000 2023

CRT Terminator, an interesting project of capturing vintage PC videocard digital output using a feature connector, and converting it into clean HD image a modern monitor can display
https://oummg.com/

 Thu Feb 09 21:29:01 +0000 2023

I've made a critical mistake. I've made a quick thing to eat while making a different more time consuming dish. I've eaten the first dish, and now I'm too lazy to finish making the second one. Help.

 Thu Feb 09 21:36:45 +0000 2023

You're not missing much. As most of American processed food, it's just sugary bullshit that's bad for you.

 Thu Feb 09 23:06:12 +0000 2023

 Thu Feb 09 23:51:10 +0000 2023

It is a shame that when electronic dance music-style soundtracks became popular in videogames we already were firmly in the CD audio era. We probably missed out on stuff that would sound like this:
🔊🎵

 Thu Feb 09 23:57:52 +0000 2023

Here's the same MIDI file being played on a proper Yamaha XG device, the MU100, with data being fed to it by an HP 200LX!
https://youtu.be/godNouR3o70

 Fri Feb 10 00:02:58 +0000 2023

I'm using a 300 megabyte wavetable soundfont, so yeah, that's out of reach of soundcards of the 90s.

 Fri Feb 10 00:05:14 +0000 2023

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1623764046934691848

 Fri Feb 10 00:09:38 +0000 2023

There are only a handful of Spiderman games for PC from before 2000s, so you might as well check out all of them:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/marvel-comics-spider-man-the-sinister-six/screenshots
https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/amazing-spider-man/screenshots
https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/amazing-spider-man-and-captain-america-in-dr-dooms-revenge/screenshots
https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/spider-man/screenshots

 Fri Feb 10 00:16:35 +0000 2023

This does not ring a bell, sorry.

 Fri Feb 10 00:16:55 +0000 2023

Interplay sold their properties in 2016
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/09/07/870242/10165014/en/Interplay-Announces-Sale-of-Significant-IP-Portfolio-Wedbush-Securities-as-Strategic-Advisor.html

 Fri Feb 10 00:50:48 +0000 2023

One of the new additions to System Shock that I really like is that you can now occasionally catch Shodan delivering new enemies via crates of sorts instead of them just randomly spawning somewhere outside of your view.

 Fri Feb 10 02:16:59 +0000 2023

Happy 80th to Joe Pesci! 🎉

 Fri Feb 10 03:54:01 +0000 2023

It's a fine and fitting soundtrack, but definitely wouldn't be calling it best of anything.

 Fri Feb 10 04:30:05 +0000 2023

This is a just a boxed out work in progress version of a map, right? https://x.com/yebenya/status/1623734486423699457

 Fri Feb 10 05:04:30 +0000 2023

Can't seem to fall asleep. Let's see what happens if I switch to the For You tab. Maybe I'll scare myself to sleep.

 Fri Feb 10 05:13:43 +0000 2023

RT @rus_vg: Do you know a lot of Russian games? Aside from Tetris of course. No? And we had quite a lot of them. In my opinion the most int…

 Fri Feb 10 14:18:25 +0000 2023

Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?

 Fri Feb 10 18:52:26 +0000 2023

A new Double Fine documentary from 2 Player Productions?! Hell YES! Oh man, my weekend is *made*.

 Fri Feb 10 19:44:02 +0000 2023

It goes public later tonight.

 Fri Feb 10 20:49:47 +0000 2023

This is just soooo good. If you're interested in gamedev and you haven't watched any of the Double Fine documentaries, I don't even know what you're doing and why you would deprive yourself of such an awesome experience.

 Sat Feb 11 01:26:23 +0000 2023

I love getting Usenet ads!

 Sat Feb 11 01:27:44 +0000 2023

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

 Sat Feb 11 08:18:27 +0000 2023

RT @DominicTarason: Been poking around a bit at the original Tomb Raider using OpenLara, a modern source-port. Ultrawide, 120fps, high-res…

 Sat Feb 11 08:18:59 +0000 2023

"Deep combat system"? Ummm... I wouldn't call it that. A great looking game though.

 Sat Feb 11 09:37:44 +0000 2023

It's a very well received movie. As far as I'm concerned it's the 2nd best Rambo film. And one of the most graphic movies I've seen on a big screen.

 Sat Feb 11 16:44:43 +0000 2023

It's a Unix system. I know this! https://x.com/RetroTechDreams/status/1624187601015144449

 Sat Feb 11 16:48:44 +0000 2023

RT @lazygamereviews: Unboxing a 90s computer on LGR? Shocking but true!

https://youtu.be/WCdDKPonXXA

Opening and testing a minty AST Advantage…

 Sat Feb 11 18:21:41 +0000 2023

Russia

 Sat Feb 11 18:24:51 +0000 2023

That's tracker music. A bit different.

 Sat Feb 11 19:25:31 +0000 2023

RT @paleofuture: "another type of worker"

 Sat Feb 11 20:01:25 +0000 2023

That's an unfinished Half-Life map https://x.com/liminalspacess_/status/1624186713667952642

 Sat Feb 11 20:01:45 +0000 2023

I don't remember tbh. It wasn't all the have-sex-on-top-of-DOS-game-boxes-and-manuals tweets, because I fundamentally disagree with that practice.

 Sat Feb 11 20:03:18 +0000 2023

Yes, first film is the best for me. I can barely stand 2 and 3, and I only enjoyed 5 ironically.

 Sat Feb 11 20:04:12 +0000 2023

RT @ZoidCTF: While many studios did amazing work on the remaster, I'm let down Metroid Prime's Remaster does not include the full original…

 Sat Feb 11 20:29:17 +0000 2023

RT @textfiles: So, http://DISCMASTER.TEXTFILES.COM may be shut down at the end of the month, just due to the cost of running and maintaining it. I'…

 Sat Feb 11 20:46:20 +0000 2023

It is such a divisive topic. I also don't like most of the music, or idk, maybe I like the lowest to medium settings of each song, but not so much the later levels of intensity, nevermind the final cacophony mode.
Also it is easier to take in in AdLib rendition, not Gen MIDI.

 Sat Feb 11 21:59:51 +0000 2023

He's overwriting memory directly though, so it checks out.

 Sat Feb 11 22:03:45 +0000 2023

As expected, this is *so freaking good*. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1624132103209189382

 Sun Feb 12 01:31:22 +0000 2023

Today's amazing backseat gamedev take. 🤦‍♂️

 Sun Feb 12 01:50:34 +0000 2023

 Sun Feb 12 04:38:48 +0000 2023

I can't even handle FPS games with procedurally generated maps, so all those "in the near future AI will create content in your games" articles make me sad.

 Sun Feb 12 16:25:57 +0000 2023

Hundreds of hours should have taught you what happens with people who sign up.

 Sun Feb 12 17:16:52 +0000 2023

RT @kenshirriff: Processor flags indicate if values are zero, negative, overflowed, and so forth. Flags are critical for loops and conditio…

 Sun Feb 12 18:26:23 +0000 2023

The *only* Superb Owl.

 Sun Feb 12 20:28:31 +0000 2023

Tim Schafer at his desk at Lucasarts in the 90s.

 Sun Feb 12 21:06:40 +0000 2023

It adds multiple new features though, something DGvoodoo can't do.

 Sun Feb 12 21:38:09 +0000 2023

No, not really. I like to configure my own stuff. It's a part of the process for me.

 Sun Feb 12 22:06:11 +0000 2023

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the stream. It was lots of fun. 🥂

 Mon Feb 13 02:51:04 +0000 2023

RT @KevEdwardsRetro: Here's the programmer placeholder title page for Spectrum Ghouls 'N' Ghosts found on one of Mike Follin's early develo…

 Mon Feb 13 15:31:48 +0000 2023

POWER

OF

WHALE

 Mon Feb 13 17:46:48 +0000 2023

Me. Just finished. Good shit. Wish there was more.

 Mon Feb 13 18:10:49 +0000 2023

Вас интересуют люди которые в 2000-х делали фанатские игры на SCI или хакеры-переводчики? Потому что в противном случае это звучит как "кто из наших подписчиков работал в Сьерре?", т.к. это не был открытый инструментарий.

 Mon Feb 13 18:18:12 +0000 2023

Ooh. It babby.

 Mon Feb 13 19:34:16 +0000 2023

I've said many times in the past that I thought that "Double Fine Adventure" was the most important documentary about gamedev. Having finished "PsychOdyssey," I think that title now belongs to it. Excellent stuff. I know 22 hours is a big commitment, but it's really worth it. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1624132103209189382

 Mon Feb 13 22:18:28 +0000 2023

No, it's separate brand new doc. Double Fine Adventure covers 2012 - 2015, and this one is 2015 - 2021. (One episode is essentially a shorter version of the Amnesia Fortnight 2017 movie, but that's it.)

 Mon Feb 13 22:25:54 +0000 2023

No. I mean, yes, it can, but it would lose a lot of the impact, which is the important thing here.

 Mon Feb 13 22:46:47 +0000 2023

And let me very clear: I *hate* long form things. I don't like when movies are over 2 hours long, and I do not watch tv series. But here a 6 year long process is covered. You have to get big chunks of meetings, production discussions, etc. because reducing them to just >

 Mon Feb 13 22:54:36 +0000 2023

> sound bites and then cutting to arguments, interview bits, or someone quitting isn't the point. The point is to show the process, and in that way 22 hrs is a reasonable fraction.

 Mon Feb 13 22:55:51 +0000 2023

Yes, which is why it's the most important doc about gamedev. It's not talking heads reminiscing about the past. You get to see decisions being made, and then you get to see the consequences of these decisions play out because sometimes they impact *years* of work.

 Mon Feb 13 22:59:14 +0000 2023

Catch Simona in New York City (OctagonSoft, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Tue Feb 14 00:16:57 +0000 2023

RT @MsxRetro: Fire and Forget
Source: VideoGames and Computer Entertainment 1 (December 1988)
Scan Source: RetroMags

#amigagaming #atari #…

 Tue Feb 14 00:19:00 +0000 2023

RT @godlikefr: mario is missing sf

 Tue Feb 14 00:20:46 +0000 2023

 Tue Feb 14 00:25:23 +0000 2023

https://x.com/Apogee_Ent/status/1625289467736248320

 Tue Feb 14 00:26:12 +0000 2023

Did you miss DOS Nostalgia's 14th anniversary livestream last night? Well, you can watch the archived version here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/lsp-N_vdgOg

 Tue Feb 14 00:41:44 +0000 2023

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic! 💥🦶
https://youtu.be/KnxgQMSsc8c

 Tue Feb 14 00:47:04 +0000 2023

 Tue Feb 14 00:54:51 +0000 2023

I haven't, but I'll put it on my list.

 Tue Feb 14 01:01:51 +0000 2023

Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my mind she runs
Throughout the night, no need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Tue Feb 14 02:08:16 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109860650448593304

 Tue Feb 14 02:08:45 +0000 2023

Here's a videogame trivia question for you: which computer game incorporated a bit of Golden Brown into its score?

 Tue Feb 14 02:09:38 +0000 2023

Not a computer game

 Tue Feb 14 02:28:14 +0000 2023

"Thanks to the sketch, no doubt."

 Tue Feb 14 02:51:41 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Comic Bakery music in commercial games: 🎵
- Comic Bakery (Commodore 64, 1986) Composer: Martin Galway
- Jurassic Park (NE…

 Tue Feb 14 03:43:27 +0000 2023

RT @Vandaemon_: I received a custom valentine's map filled with the things I love the most in my life. Burgers, PSX Doom, Cacodemons, food,…

 Tue Feb 14 03:49:51 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Koach Tzabar-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Tue Feb 14 08:01:38 +0000 2023

Holy shit. 👀 I haven't heard anything about this sort of stuff, which is weird considering how much Long Islanders love shit-talking the city.

 Tue Feb 14 13:09:13 +0000 2023

aka one of the best titles in the history of videogames https://x.com/HG_101/status/1625444635094011906

 Tue Feb 14 14:16:26 +0000 2023

Just wait till you get to about half way through

 Tue Feb 14 14:27:52 +0000 2023

RT @tercio_miranda:

 Tue Feb 14 14:28:33 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Happy Valentine's Day to this cute couple ❤️

 Tue Feb 14 14:49:25 +0000 2023

RT @damgentemp: Fanatical is giving away Leisure Suit Larry 1-7 (and a certain extra title) for free. Can't beat that price, huh? (link is…

 Tue Feb 14 15:48:59 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Happy Valentine's Day from DOS Nostalgia! ❤️

 Tue Feb 14 16:04:11 +0000 2023

Ummmm... Okay.

 Tue Feb 14 16:50:37 +0000 2023

(And somehow that was wrong.)

 Tue Feb 14 16:51:00 +0000 2023

RT @FOmmetje: Valentine's Day is brought to you by The Incredible Machine. https://t.co/CtKvo08yzp

 Tue Feb 14 17:06:42 +0000 2023

WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO TAG?

 Tue Feb 14 17:07:15 +0000 2023

Lol. You're fucking hilarious.

 Tue Feb 14 17:35:01 +0000 2023

We're not laughing at everything, we're laughing at you. It's Valentine's day, & this is how you spend it. We all know that you're a friendless lonely manchild living with his parents, jerking off to pictures of women who will never talk to you. All you do is hilariously pathetic

 Tue Feb 14 17:41:03 +0000 2023

RT @itstheshadsy: Roses are red
Violets are blue
My sons have betrayed me
I know what I must do

 Tue Feb 14 17:54:31 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Happy Valentine's Day from DOS Nostalgia!

 Tue Feb 14 18:06:35 +0000 2023

I just downloaded the Steam phone app to redeem a code, and they've buried this option so deep for some reason, it's impossible to find without looking it up.

 Tue Feb 14 18:21:36 +0000 2023

The first sequel is better.

 Tue Feb 14 18:27:39 +0000 2023

*GASP* How dare you defile the name of someone so good and virtuous as the Lady van Vernon?! Our Lady is a saint among mortal women. An angel so pure the heavens couldn't hold her. https://x.com/Civvie11/status/1625539695831662593

 Tue Feb 14 18:38:50 +0000 2023

RT @yolkfolk_com: Somebody's been making a cherry pie for Valentine's Day again!

 Tue Feb 14 18:59:39 +0000 2023

Evergreen https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/302097823539814400

 Tue Feb 14 20:46:57 +0000 2023

Always RT physical patches https://x.com/Dominus_Exult/status/1625560432680357888

 Tue Feb 14 23:52:07 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Found my Valentine! I'm putting my lips on that. #DOSGaming

 Tue Feb 14 23:53:51 +0000 2023

Hero's Heart (Everett Kaser Software, 1992) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Feb 15 00:46:31 +0000 2023

They really don't.

 Wed Feb 15 15:01:07 +0000 2023

Correct! Although it's in the AdLib version as well.

 Wed Feb 15 15:47:20 +0000 2023

RT @Bhaal_Spawn: Are you a NORAD operator at all if you don’t know this Hyper-wave Decoder screen like the back of your hand? https://t.co/…

 Wed Feb 15 16:49:32 +0000 2023

RT @DOSBros_Vamonos: It can be as simple as that. You kidnap a young woman, do experiments with her, and in the end an apology is enough. 🤔…

 Wed Feb 15 20:27:34 +0000 2023

It Returned to the Desert, a game inspired by a Cinemaware Amiga classic, is now on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2188620/It_Returned_To_The_Desert/

 Wed Feb 15 20:34:50 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: A photo of me at my school graduation dinner that took place in a restaurant in a local hotel located in near the histori…

 Wed Feb 15 20:50:02 +0000 2023

This is a new game

 Wed Feb 15 20:56:46 +0000 2023

That's because ChatGPT is a language model, not a search engine.

 Wed Feb 15 21:56:17 +0000 2023

Of course it made the game up. It is meant to make games up. It will make stuff up constantly. Or it will alter description to fit you. It is literally its purpose.

 Wed Feb 15 22:17:23 +0000 2023

ChatGPT is a language model. It is meant to generate text that appears natural and human. Yes, it is trained on a giant sample of information, so it can access it during the process, but its goal isn't to serve that information to you.

 Wed Feb 15 22:25:11 +0000 2023

What's new, pussycat?

 Wed Feb 15 22:39:52 +0000 2023

Jin City: The Adventures of Deming (Lisco, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Feb 16 00:08:44 +0000 2023

But... DOOM only requires EMS or XMS. I don't think it has any conventional ram requirements.

 Thu Feb 16 03:07:02 +0000 2023

RT @OldTechAdverts: Converta allows you to use the joystick as a handheld as well as on the table. I am a handheld person. What about you?…

 Thu Feb 16 13:42:18 +0000 2023

RT @richardcobbett: https://t.co/96Jd8ak5nH

 Thu Feb 16 13:46:00 +0000 2023

Tortugas Pijas (Ediciones Manali, 1991) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Feb 16 17:24:03 +0000 2023

Good luck.

 Thu Feb 16 17:26:38 +0000 2023

Did a test for copyrighted music before I even began making a video. Of course. I fucking hate this.

 Thu Feb 16 17:55:48 +0000 2023

The actual music artist. So it made sense.

 Thu Feb 16 17:58:07 +0000 2023

Amazing and actually useful things that are possible thanks to machine learning https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1277749663727263745

 Thu Feb 16 19:16:52 +0000 2023

Guessed correctly by @Lawnie10: HeroQuest's score by Barry Leitch. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1625316303245307908

 Thu Feb 16 19:30:59 +0000 2023

RT @itstheshadsy: Well folks, I can finally announce my secret project...

I'm writing a book about the history of Maxis Software for @Limi…

 Thu Feb 16 20:30:24 +0000 2023

Well, the Tetris movie is finally right around the corner. https://x.com/AppleFilms/status/1626242517162242056

 Thu Feb 16 21:08:46 +0000 2023

This is... a lot more over the top than I'd expected.

 Thu Feb 16 21:10:07 +0000 2023

I mean... really. You didn't have to make up stuff like KGB beating the shit of Henk Rogers and car chases. There was enough material there for a Social Network-style gripping story as it is.

 Thu Feb 16 21:14:50 +0000 2023

I haven't been disappointed by a trailer this much in a loooooooooooong time.

 Thu Feb 16 21:19:24 +0000 2023

Do yourself a favor and watch BBC's "Tetris: From Russia with Love" before you watch this. This documentary is great because it consists entirely of *first hand* accounts of many of the participants:
https://youtu.be/NhwNTo_Yr3k

 Thu Feb 16 21:21:53 +0000 2023

There are many documentaries on the subject, including this one:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1626331054708604932

 Thu Feb 16 21:22:33 +0000 2023

He's been a millionaire for quite a while. He's doing fine.

 Thu Feb 16 21:26:29 +0000 2023

I mean, I'll still watch it. It can be a bunch of dumb fun. It's from the guy who made Filth. I'm just a bit baffled by the choice. It's giving me major Hollywood adaptation at the end of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure vibes. 🤷

 Thu Feb 16 21:53:31 +0000 2023

Nobody got dissappeared in late Gorby times. By that point nobody gave a shit. Everyone was just looking for ways to make money.

 Thu Feb 16 22:04:29 +0000 2023

We can only hope it doesn't. If it fit in, the whole landscape would disappear.

 Thu Feb 16 22:30:28 +0000 2023

It was. Yet, nobody cared. I'm saying that as someone who's been to a Soviet scientific research university and observed just how many games were played there, and how much general fucking around was considered normal at the time.

 Thu Feb 16 23:00:27 +0000 2023

It can take HOW FUCKING LONG?!?!?!

 Thu Feb 16 23:49:39 +0000 2023

His not Russian, that's meant to be Robert Maxwell.

 Fri Feb 17 00:04:34 +0000 2023

Obviously this is deliberate. Same with Roger's kids playing the Spectrum Holobyte's PC version on a Famicom earlier in the trailer.

 Fri Feb 17 01:12:29 +0000 2023

Two DOS versions of Tetris make appearance in the Tetris movie trailer, both presented as being played on a Famicom:
- the Spectrum Holobyte 1987 version, played by Rogers' kids
- 1986 Academysoft version, played by Hiroshi Yamauchi

 Fri Feb 17 01:17:07 +0000 2023

They finished shooting the movie 2 years ago. This isn't a recent decision.

 Fri Feb 17 01:19:13 +0000 2023

Did you do the fine tuning?

 Fri Feb 17 01:25:16 +0000 2023

It was the first commercial release of the game in the world.

 Fri Feb 17 01:38:48 +0000 2023

Yay! (Bring warm clothes)

 Fri Feb 17 01:56:27 +0000 2023

Ooooooh! 👍 Are you gonna be around on the 1st? There's a local monthly gamedev drinking event that I usually show up to.

 Fri Feb 17 02:04:48 +0000 2023

Darn. Well, let me know if you plan on doing some drinking in some place or another, and wouldn't mind a company of a fellow nerd. I'm not in NYC, but I'm in local suburbs, so pretty close by.

 Fri Feb 17 02:11:11 +0000 2023

Considering that I take all screenshots myself, yes, this does, in fact, exist.

 Fri Feb 17 02:30:53 +0000 2023

I'm assuming its running every single video file against your system, and measuring performance, and recording if it can play it at full 12 fps or does it need a frame skip, and creating a record of that for the game to use later at run time.

 Fri Feb 17 02:34:19 +0000 2023

RT @JFrankensteiner: Fucked up

 Fri Feb 17 02:43:45 +0000 2023

Yes

 Fri Feb 17 02:43:58 +0000 2023

Awwww. Babby so smart. ❤

 Fri Feb 17 03:19:07 +0000 2023

Cats are entitled in the most adorable way.

 Fri Feb 17 03:21:30 +0000 2023

Pajitnov sold plenty of game concepts between Tetris and Pandora's Box though (El-Fish, Knight Moves, Ice & Fire, etc.) as well as established a game company Animatek in 1988. So you might wanna talk to him a bit more the next time you two have lunch.

 Fri Feb 17 04:53:53 +0000 2023

Not to mention while he didn't make any money from Tetris for the first decade or so, him and Rogers did set up The Tetris Company in 1996, after they finally got the rights, and he's made a lot more money off Tetris than he could have before, thanks to cell phones and such.

 Fri Feb 17 04:57:46 +0000 2023

RT @oleivarrudi: this was painted by the same guy who did the original doom box art, don ivan punchatz

 Fri Feb 17 14:11:07 +0000 2023

Yeah, it's one of the better Amiga to PC ports, especially as far as Bitmap Bros games go. It is worth noting that the PC port adds Roland CM-32L in-game music by John Foxx, not heard in any other home computer version.

 Fri Feb 17 14:26:01 +0000 2023

I always thought that Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch House would lend itself nicely to a videogame adaptation (there's plenty of room for a different gameplayinterpretation as well.) This is a cool approach too: not an adventure game that looks & controls like an adventure game. https://x.com/atombraingames/status/1626206001643888645

 Fri Feb 17 15:11:27 +0000 2023

Lol @ Michael Douglas flat out advocating taking mushrooms when seeing the new Antman movie. 🤣

 Fri Feb 17 16:19:30 +0000 2023

GOG is giving away Biing!, a German sexy hospital management game.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/biing_sex_intrigue_and_scalpels

 Fri Feb 17 16:45:29 +0000 2023

I prefer to think of anything in E-rotic's catalog as purely original work.

 Fri Feb 17 16:53:25 +0000 2023

It didn't. The movie is obviously a fictionalized exaggeration of the actual story.
There's a great BBC documentary that consists entirely of first hand accounts from most of actual participants in the legal battle over the rights.
https://youtu.be/NhwNTo_Yr3k

 Fri Feb 17 17:00:55 +0000 2023

Hey all. Regarding the Tetris movie discourse: Henk Rogers is not an American. He is a Dutch person who lived and worked in Japan. His company Bullet-Proof Software was also a Japanese company.

 Fri Feb 17 17:06:36 +0000 2023

In "Tetris: From Russia with Love" Nikolai Belikov notes that Rogers was introduced to him as a "gentleman from Japan."

 Fri Feb 17 17:13:30 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Two DOS versions of Tetris make appearance in the Tetris movie trailer, both presented as being played on a Famicom:
- th…

 Fri Feb 17 17:19:13 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic:

 Fri Feb 17 17:47:50 +0000 2023

Stop dissing a MASTERPIECE

 Fri Feb 17 17:49:15 +0000 2023

 Fri Feb 17 17:51:55 +0000 2023

I love that the film features a freshly sieged White House.

 Fri Feb 17 17:55:41 +0000 2023

VIC-20? Pfft. Wake me up when it's VIC-420!

 Fri Feb 17 18:47:52 +0000 2023

I'm going to guess #2 is gonna be omitted from the movie entirely, as it would require negotiating additional rights.

 Fri Feb 17 20:15:15 +0000 2023

From the trailer it looks like the final act might consist of stuff that didn't actually happen: KGB car chases, Russian mob, etc.

 Fri Feb 17 20:19:03 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Top 5 stans:
- Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan
- Pakistan
- Sebastian Stan
- Stan

 Fri Feb 17 21:45:53 +0000 2023

RT @ThatTomHall: The full version of Rise of the Triad was released on Feb 17, 1995!

Laaaaa daaaa daaaaaaaaaaa! #FPS https://t.co/LircVQTY…

 Fri Feb 17 22:43:04 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: In the very very very beginning, it was just me and an IBM PC, making my little Kroz games in the late 80's. https://t.co/…

 Fri Feb 17 22:43:16 +0000 2023

Beasley's Deathtrap (Michael Sewell, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Fri Feb 17 23:56:15 +0000 2023

RT @nanochess: Apparently, I'm playing chess better than 30 years ago. I still couldn't believe Chessmaster 2000 fell into my blunder. 🤯 #R…

 Fri Feb 17 23:59:13 +0000 2023

RT @MossRC: This is a really cool (and very popular in its day) shareware game inspired by an overnight Boy Scouts trip and Sid Meier's Civ…

 Sat Feb 18 00:00:36 +0000 2023

Sorry to keep going, but I just have to:
a) Fictional hotel "Translink" where Henk Rogers stays in the Tetris movie. (Also an improper name. Soviet accepted term for hotel isn't "отель", but a "гостиница".
b) Soviet hotel "Intourist" where Rogers actually stayed during his trip

 Sat Feb 18 00:45:46 +0000 2023

Prepping for a conversation about the few good American remakes of French movies. Revisiting some material. Tonight and tomorrow it's
La Cage aux Folles vs The Birdcage

 Sat Feb 18 01:16:49 +0000 2023

Can consuming an entire package of jaffa cakes help when you're coming down with a cold? Only one way to find out!

 Sat Feb 18 01:29:14 +0000 2023

Yeah, out of the two I prefer the American version, although the original is quite different in tone, and as a result is probably a more interesting movie overall, at least as far as drama goes.

 Sat Feb 18 01:51:36 +0000 2023

I don't like the French Dinner for Schmucks either, but it's the fate of 99% of American remakes of French movies. They are just varying degrees of bad. With the exception of Some Like It Hot, True Lies, and The Birdcage.

 Sat Feb 18 03:23:25 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Fast Break-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Sat Feb 18 09:33:21 +0000 2023

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

 Sat Feb 18 13:39:18 +0000 2023

Which is unfortunate. There was enough already there in the actual true story to make a fun film.

 Sat Feb 18 13:54:15 +0000 2023

People replying with Heroes of Might & Magic screenshots, one of the best selling turn based franchises of the 90s, are insane.

 Sat Feb 18 14:08:58 +0000 2023

Sick. 🤒 Didn't go to work today. Staying in bed, taking it easy, drinking liquids. Tell me about your recent MS-DOS adventures. #MorningDOSTalk

 Sat Feb 18 14:12:37 +0000 2023

Unfortunate

 Sat Feb 18 16:04:04 +0000 2023

Arnie 2/Arnie Savage: Combat Commando (Zeppelin Games, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Feb 18 17:28:36 +0000 2023

hey now

 Sat Feb 18 17:31:55 +0000 2023

What if my new videos make me cringe as well? 🤔

 Sat Feb 18 18:16:50 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: What are the baddies saying in Wolfenstein 3D? We knew that players would want to know, so we added a page in the game's h…

 Sat Feb 18 19:35:58 +0000 2023

This is the saddest thing I've read today.

 Sat Feb 18 20:28:33 +0000 2023

 Sat Feb 18 21:01:05 +0000 2023

While I like Norman's video a lot, first hand accounts of the direct participants are a lot more special than retelling by people who had nothing to do with it.

 Sat Feb 18 21:08:00 +0000 2023

Beyond Shadowgate, an official sequel to the NES version of Shadowgate, kickstarter is happening right now:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zojoi/beyond-shadowgate

 Sat Feb 18 22:46:29 +0000 2023

The days of original Carmageddon running on modern systems without emulation are coming. https://x.com/dethrace_labs/status/1627088235087413251

 Sat Feb 18 23:33:41 +0000 2023

It's an open source project, so if there's a determined VR dev out there, who knows what can happen.

 Sat Feb 18 23:52:46 +0000 2023

I WAS IN THE WAR!

 Sun Feb 19 00:24:25 +0000 2023

I still remember watching it in a theater, and you could hear a pin drop during the final scene. I was actually sweating.

 Sun Feb 19 00:25:08 +0000 2023

It was one of those moments when you knew an actor would walk away with an Oscar as soon as the credits rolled.

 Sun Feb 19 00:29:41 +0000 2023

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1301282659893760001

 Sun Feb 19 00:35:26 +0000 2023

I'm yet to see either.

 Sun Feb 19 01:34:19 +0000 2023

You know, I just realized that scenes in the Tetris movie where Gunpei Yokoi, Henk Rogers, Howard Lincoln, and Alexey Pajitnov are running from Russian mobsters *could* potentially be framed as fictional within the film's story. And suddenly I feel better. For now.

 Sun Feb 19 02:11:11 +0000 2023

Let's face it, I don't know what the framing of the movie is like. I got so caught off guard by the overt farcical style of the trailer, that I didn't even consider for a moment that the film, potentially, can be self aware.

 Sun Feb 19 02:14:36 +0000 2023

Dark Carnival

 Sun Feb 19 02:33:42 +0000 2023

https://eeggs.com/items/2052.html

 Sun Feb 19 02:46:15 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. He w…

 Sun Feb 19 05:57:37 +0000 2023

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

 Sun Feb 19 10:55:57 +0000 2023

I would absolutely and unironically drive this.

 Sun Feb 19 12:42:56 +0000 2023

Raspberry pi can't run Windows 9x or DOS directly as its cpu isn't an x86.

 Sun Feb 19 15:30:26 +0000 2023

RT @CatWorkers:

 Sun Feb 19 15:54:18 +0000 2023

You laugh, but look who's keeping me company while I'm sick.

 Sun Feb 19 16:45:58 +0000 2023

RT @JoeSiegler: OK, I forgot I had this! It's part of the capture session for my own character in @RiseOfTheTriad. Some of the old VHS tape…

 Sun Feb 19 16:47:06 +0000 2023

A big part of it was developing an engine that was reusable, and eventually ended up on 6 different platforms. That's why there are 5 programmers credited on the game.

 Sun Feb 19 17:00:35 +0000 2023

RT @SlappyCromwell: I still haven't come up with a good idea of what to do with this voice AI thing other than to make characters say the l…

 Sun Feb 19 19:43:09 +0000 2023

Neverworld (Colors Arti Multimediali/Peruzzo Informatica, 1997) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Feb 19 19:47:17 +0000 2023

They fixed the fake license plate falling off a car in the most recent remaster of Goodfellas. 🤦‍♂️
Before and after:

 Sun Feb 19 21:20:03 +0000 2023

Had Scorsese, who has a reputation of a film preservationist, actually approved this?

 Sun Feb 19 21:21:46 +0000 2023

OMG! I didn't even notice the color change! 😮
https://x.com/dhrowghos/status/1627419446049398784

 Sun Feb 19 21:28:13 +0000 2023

Did anyone ever actually say "you know what always took me out of Goodfellas? The damn street signs!"? Honestly.

 Sun Feb 19 21:30:59 +0000 2023

White for when the film takes place. Green signs were introduced in the early 80s.

 Sun Feb 19 21:36:44 +0000 2023

I'm not screenshotting a 4K source. I assume it's better in that.

 Sun Feb 19 21:37:47 +0000 2023

That's normal. Every time a film gets remastered, color gets re-timed with tech that's current to the era. Older remasters pushed reds a lot, now it's blues because most people have TVs that are capable of displaying them better. You NEVER get what was in theaters.

 Sun Feb 19 21:50:39 +0000 2023

#DOSGaming

 Sun Feb 19 23:20:21 +0000 2023

Да.

 Mon Feb 20 02:04:21 +0000 2023

Any NYC old timers among my followers that can possibly confirm/deny that changed signs in Goodfellas are *still* not accurate?
https://x.com/cripalani/status/1627498633573588992?t=T6jMUyB0upnWkomiKU9ddg&s=19

 Mon Feb 20 03:00:15 +0000 2023

God, that sure does look like NYC in the 70s. 😅

 Mon Feb 20 03:40:48 +0000 2023

I don't doubt it

 Mon Feb 20 03:47:51 +0000 2023

Whoa. That's cool. Only DOS version is currently supported, and only in CGA mode for now. https://x.com/ScummVM/status/1627658246847709185

 Mon Feb 20 13:36:19 +0000 2023

Yes, I know this happens, however I'm questioning the validity of doing that after 30+ years.

 Mon Feb 20 13:54:22 +0000 2023

No, Italian only. I believe "freeware" here means the company declared that they don't care what's done with their old games, but they aren't officially distributing them or anything.

 Mon Feb 20 14:14:18 +0000 2023

The question is not what the feel the can do, but should they.

 Mon Feb 20 14:46:21 +0000 2023

Shawl (Alexey Pajitnov/AcademySoft, 1986) #DOSGameScreenADay #RussianVideogames #SovietVideogames

 Mon Feb 20 17:33:49 +0000 2023

Alexey Pajitnov (Tetris) later reused this game concept as a game "Color Collision" in "Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection" for Windows 9x in 1997, and Game Boy Color in 2000, the games developed by Mir-Dialogue (Nival) and Conspiracy Entertainment respectively.

 Mon Feb 20 17:39:29 +0000 2023

RT @DukeAtomicTimes: "I tell ya, I get no respect. I hand a dancer at a strip club a wad of cash and tell her "Shake it, baby!", she takes…

 Mon Feb 20 18:04:21 +0000 2023

Like I said, the creators have every chance and right to do this, but it doesn't mean they should. In fact, personally, i can argue all day that they shouldn't for multiple reasons.

 Mon Feb 20 18:09:27 +0000 2023

For all of you:

 Mon Feb 20 18:16:40 +0000 2023

Things like is what inspires other filmmakers. Coppola said that he could have fixed James Caan's missing punch in Godfather. He could even had done back then, as he had enough coverage & alt takes. But he said once it was out (and nominated), he wouldn't touch a frame.

 Mon Feb 20 18:19:55 +0000 2023

RT @lazygamereviews: Time for the annual 5150 checkup, I always like to power up and let the juice flow through these cranky old PCs every…

 Mon Feb 20 18:45:53 +0000 2023

This is the quality of the manual that shows up when clicking the "Manual" button in "Additional Content" section of Steam of all 80s and 90s Leisure Suit Larry games.
Each one DOES come with another pdf that's good, but you wouldn't know that without navigating to their folders.

 Mon Feb 20 18:57:43 +0000 2023

Patiently waiting for the System Shock remake to come out.

 Mon Feb 20 20:38:35 +0000 2023

Seriously, I can play the fist level up to no more enemies and 0% security only so many times. 😅

 Mon Feb 20 20:40:52 +0000 2023

https://www.amazon.com/Goodfellas-Remastered-Robert-Niro/dp/B018KDBQDI/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2QSHBA619Y6JV&keywords=goodfellas&qid=1676926201&sprefix=goodfellas%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-2

 Mon Feb 20 20:50:24 +0000 2023

Pedestrians from original Carmageddon: #DOSGaming

 Mon Feb 20 21:04:10 +0000 2023

She was in the war!

 Mon Feb 20 21:07:10 +0000 2023

Oh, nice. MobyGames is getting an upgrade. I assume this is a complete rewrite, because everything looks new.

 Mon Feb 20 21:36:10 +0000 2023

Sure there's a reason for a new remaster. We master things at higher resolution and with HDR color these days. That's good enough. Plenty of titles get remastered again and again, and yet feature no "fixes" of this kind.

 Tue Feb 21 01:03:22 +0000 2023

(I'm saying this as someone who owns ELEVEN copies of Army of Darkness)

 Tue Feb 21 01:03:54 +0000 2023

Oof. It looks like all screenshots got converted to jpegs. I hope this is temporary, as many screens on MobyGames were in original game resolutions, and converting them to jpegs absolutely *ruined* them.

 Tue Feb 21 02:49:00 +0000 2023

Before and after

 Tue Feb 21 02:50:59 +0000 2023

Hmmm... found some PNGs now. Maybe it was screenshots that were GIFs before?

 Tue Feb 21 02:53:19 +0000 2023

You'd blow him.

 Tue Feb 21 12:41:24 +0000 2023

Nah, I just know your type far too well.

 Tue Feb 21 12:55:04 +0000 2023

I'm not gay, so who's doing the projection here now? 🤔

 Tue Feb 21 12:58:59 +0000 2023

RT @DOSSTORM: MS-DOS gaming with a $12 AliExpress Sound card?! Is it any good? Find out in my new video! https://youtu.be/K6inPPJlvdM #RETROGAMI…

 Tue Feb 21 14:17:26 +0000 2023

RT @CapCorgiTTV: I saw a compilation of some old MS DOS games on YouTube and I gotta say, some of then hold up far better than I expected!

 Tue Feb 21 14:26:24 +0000 2023

My Twitter is green. Because all my tweets are biodegradable.

 Tue Feb 21 15:13:01 +0000 2023

They are bullshit.

 Tue Feb 21 15:13:08 +0000 2023

Starting a role-playing system for people who like fantasy, but have a short attention span: ADD&D.

 Tue Feb 21 16:41:34 +0000 2023

10 different models have portrayed Aunt Jemima over the years, but none of them appear to be bottle-shaped.

 Tue Feb 21 16:57:53 +0000 2023

I never thought it would, especially after seeing the demo. But it will come out eventually.

 Tue Feb 21 18:20:50 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Operation_ Frog-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Tue Feb 21 20:28:31 +0000 2023

Well, let's hear it

 Tue Feb 21 20:45:53 +0000 2023

I'm actually kind of interested to find out the details: did you think that remaking someone else's game was okay because the publisher went bust, and did you do any looking into the situation beforehand?

 Tue Feb 21 20:59:40 +0000 2023

You never know just how you look through other people's eyes.

 Tue Feb 21 21:02:02 +0000 2023

Terran Envoy (Stratagem, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Feb 22 00:08:27 +0000 2023

RT @tschak: In this video, I do a deep dive into Id Software's in-house level editor, DoomEd, which was written in #NeXTSTEP and #Objective…

 Wed Feb 22 00:17:00 +0000 2023

 Wed Feb 22 01:37:48 +0000 2023

🤔

 Wed Feb 22 02:02:24 +0000 2023

 Wed Feb 22 02:03:48 +0000 2023

Here is Sub-Zero. Now plain zero!

 Wed Feb 22 02:16:48 +0000 2023

Actually this is the arcade one. DOS port is in slightly lower resolution.

 Wed Feb 22 02:17:53 +0000 2023

Depends on which version, as there are a bunch of revisions. The CD one that almost no one played at the time is near arcade perfect.

 Wed Feb 22 02:18:42 +0000 2023

Yes, these days it's easily accessible, but that wasn't the case for a long time.

 Wed Feb 22 02:20:29 +0000 2023

Last time this happened he almost handed it over to Baz Luhrmann. 😱

 Wed Feb 22 03:29:10 +0000 2023

Bad Apple in C++ template errors 😂
https://youtu.be/Ome1vIXt4xk

 Wed Feb 22 03:38:36 +0000 2023

https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1627733994329501698?t=J5JgqYjLs1OvhkvFYtBKUg&s=19

 Wed Feb 22 05:12:57 +0000 2023

It's the 30th anniversary of Star Fox, and I still haven't played it. 🤷

 Wed Feb 22 05:17:15 +0000 2023

Idk how groundbreaking a 3D rail shooter was in 1993. Only because it was on a SNES.

 Wed Feb 22 14:06:05 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Happy birthday to my man here

 Wed Feb 22 14:29:38 +0000 2023

Yes, hence me saying "on the SNES". In reality it was neither ground breaking, nor a trend setter. We didn't get a bump in technology, or many games that followed the game's template. In reality it was sort of a one-off.

 Wed Feb 22 15:01:25 +0000 2023

 Wed Feb 22 16:17:32 +0000 2023

This year I finally get to make a joke I've been waiting to make pretty much since it became reasonable to put pictures on the Internet.

 Wed Feb 22 16:40:43 +0000 2023

Yo, can someone make some new #DOSGaming videos on YouTube, please? I have nothing to watch right now.

 Wed Feb 22 16:47:30 +0000 2023

RT @RobertLibsansky: One of the most unique games I've ever played, still unmatched in my opinion. You create films as a film director, cin…

 Wed Feb 22 16:56:01 +0000 2023

I love Marco dearly
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1309976822436769794?t=ZKrAR4qf_i6v1CByF2vidw&s=19

 Wed Feb 22 17:19:13 +0000 2023

I watch EVERYTHING 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

 Wed Feb 22 17:25:03 +0000 2023

I've seen it. I see EVERYTHING. 👀

 Wed Feb 22 17:40:01 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Second Person Shooter?

 Wed Feb 22 17:45:57 +0000 2023

This is from the view of a security camera.

 Wed Feb 22 18:01:19 +0000 2023

RT @frankcifaldi: Incredible find at Retro City Games in Las Vegas - an original and likely complete copy of Club Caribe, aka Habitat, by L…

 Wed Feb 22 18:03:53 +0000 2023

Right. So my example checks out.

 Wed Feb 22 18:06:41 +0000 2023

I PLAY MAX PAYNE ONCE A YEAR, AND I HAVE NEVER NOTICED THIS! https://x.com/ScottApogee/status/1628425240756776963

 Wed Feb 22 18:37:06 +0000 2023

RT @jmechner: My 1993 #journal: 30 years ago this week, I was designing the final levels of @princeofpersia 2: The Shadow and the Flame, an…

 Wed Feb 22 18:58:55 +0000 2023

What's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking.

 Wed Feb 22 20:20:33 +0000 2023

foster*

 Wed Feb 22 20:35:00 +0000 2023

30 years later, the debate of the System Shock music still continues. 🤣

 Wed Feb 22 22:17:58 +0000 2023

Do you keep music on when playing System Shock games?

 Wed Feb 22 22:22:10 +0000 2023

https://youtu.be/LtDWaTOdrlk

 Wed Feb 22 22:38:42 +0000 2023

Scroll up a bit

 Wed Feb 22 23:41:39 +0000 2023

Battle Isle '93: The Moon of Chromos/ Battle Isle Data Disk II: The Moon of Chromos (Blue Byte Software, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Wed Feb 22 23:53:50 +0000 2023

Redneck Rampage!
https://youtu.be/fBJYhiAs4Js

 Thu Feb 23 00:29:01 +0000 2023

Nah, this is what websites looked like at the time. Bulletin Board Systems were already an old tech that's been around for a decade & a half at that point.

 Thu Feb 23 00:33:56 +0000 2023

Alright. I guess let's see the new Aronofsky movie.

 Thu Feb 23 00:42:59 +0000 2023

It's not as bad once you've seen it over 5 times.

 Thu Feb 23 00:50:43 +0000 2023

I... might need a day to think about it.

 Thu Feb 23 03:17:00 +0000 2023

RT @dantemendes: STUNTS (Broderbund 1990)

Also called 4D Sports Driving, was originally released for MS-DOS PC (where it was popular), the…

 Thu Feb 23 15:40:50 +0000 2023

Romance of the Three Kingdoms III: Dragon of Destiny (KOEI, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Thu Feb 23 17:12:37 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Do you keep music on when playing System Shock games?

 Thu Feb 23 17:13:50 +0000 2023

A mini-PC with a monitor built around a WYSE thin client: http://molten.pw/packard.htm

 Thu Feb 23 18:18:35 +0000 2023

https://youtu.be/BgNajX8xjJE?t=165

 Thu Feb 23 18:32:53 +0000 2023

Yes
https://youtu.be/BgNajX8xjJE?t=165

 Thu Feb 23 18:36:39 +0000 2023

No thanks

 Thu Feb 23 19:38:54 +0000 2023

Yep. The THIRD level.

 Thu Feb 23 19:46:09 +0000 2023

Google this: Mechanik Aleksander Madej Robert Kowalski

 Thu Feb 23 20:05:04 +0000 2023

Dark Forces

 Thu Feb 23 20:05:30 +0000 2023

No.

 Thu Feb 23 22:52:29 +0000 2023

yes

 Thu Feb 23 22:54:08 +0000 2023

I guess there is no one to blame
We're leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

 Thu Feb 23 23:11:11 +0000 2023

Full length video over on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/109916582153264672

 Thu Feb 23 23:12:42 +0000 2023

RT @Official_GDC: The Game Developers Choice Awards at #GDC23 has named John Romero, the award-winning game designer, level designer, and p…

 Fri Feb 24 00:28:57 +0000 2023

RT @ScottApogee: To further celebrate @romero's industry honor yesterday, here's one of the letters I sent to him in 1990 that lead to him…

 Fri Feb 24 16:49:46 +0000 2023

New DOS games on GOG:
Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun https://www.gog.com/en/game/fiendish_freddys_big_top_o_fun
Infiltrator https://www.gog.com/en/game/infiltrator
Infiltrator II https://www.gog.com/en/game/infiltrator_2
#DOSGaming

 Fri Feb 24 20:24:33 +0000 2023

Dragon's Lair CD-ROM (Epicentric Interactive, ReadySoft/ReadySoft, 1993) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sat Feb 25 01:43:13 +0000 2023

And the Road Warrior? That was the last we ever saw of him. He lives now only in my memories.

 Sat Feb 25 02:35:53 +0000 2023

We all know that ideal number of Bomberman players is 4 though.

 Sat Feb 25 10:53:52 +0000 2023

Where the hell am I gonna find 9 other available people in the Year of Our Luigi 2023?

 Sat Feb 25 16:50:54 +0000 2023

RT @Apogee_Ent: Have a Dopefish weekend!

Here are Tom Hall's original sketches of the Dopefish.

 Sat Feb 25 16:58:41 +0000 2023

RT @mikko: Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), 30 years ago.

 Sat Feb 25 17:04:01 +0000 2023

Which one is that?

 Sat Feb 25 21:32:29 +0000 2023

Meow

 Sat Feb 25 22:02:13 +0000 2023

is babby?

 Sat Feb 25 22:34:30 +0000 2023

Everyone says they are going into "goblin mode," but I'm yet to see anyone bee bay boo bee boo bay boo

 Sun Feb 26 00:20:35 +0000 2023

CD upgrades of Coktel Vision games are mostly unfortunate, with exception of the first Goblins game and Inca.

 Sun Feb 26 01:19:20 +0000 2023

 Sun Feb 26 01:23:36 +0000 2023

 Sun Feb 26 01:29:39 +0000 2023

 Sun Feb 26 01:49:07 +0000 2023

Out of all old pocket PCs, 200lx seems to be the most successful in just about every area. And it's actually possible to use as intended, unlike many others. A wonderful little machine.

 Sun Feb 26 02:23:20 +0000 2023

No, this is the one. The game just has 8 or 16 bit graphics tilesets that are selectable in a launcher, or through their respective EXEs. Then in game F11 let's you switch resolution.
In 8 bit mode the game looks like this
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/810202963759296512?t=o52_wuUyqfda8HOO7MNJ0Q&s=19

 Sun Feb 26 02:28:39 +0000 2023

Jesus https://x.com/OldTechAdverts/status/1629718154757787648

 Sun Feb 26 10:35:30 +0000 2023

RT @Pixelengineer_: #DOSgaming Saturday 😀

 Sun Feb 26 14:27:17 +0000 2023

RT @retrogubb: I definitely need to start playing more DOS games!
Recommendations? Apart from Doom and Duke Nukem which I already have!
#Wo…

 Sun Feb 26 14:36:29 +0000 2023

It has flash storage storage that you need a button battery to keep alive, BUT it also has a PCMCIA slot, so it supports any storage that uses that, so these days it's incredibly easy to use by just getting a PCMCIA CF card converter, and BAM you have gigs of dos on the go!

 Sun Feb 26 16:07:29 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Redneck Rampage-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Sun Feb 26 17:27:17 +0000 2023

RT @dantemendes: WING COMMANDER (Origin 1990)

Remarkable space combat game, first title in a franchise that was quite successful through t…

 Sun Feb 26 17:27:38 +0000 2023

I've only played this version for the first time recently on a livestream, and it is very playable, despite what a lot of people say. If i didn't have a choice of a different platform, I'd play this version happily.
https://www.youtube.com/live/gEbRhjl7ZY8?feature=share

 Sun Feb 26 17:30:09 +0000 2023

The Settlement (Petr "AfBu" Kratina, 2022) #DOSGameScreenADay

 Sun Feb 26 20:03:09 +0000 2023

Oof. Amiga versions of Goblins 2 & 3 are pretty bad. As far as the games go, I personally enjoy 2 more, but I have to admit that 3 is a better game overall.

 Sun Feb 26 20:29:22 +0000 2023

I have no nostalgic connection to Amiga's sampled output, so this isn't better to me. This tune is fine because it's exclusive to this version, but the only other 4 tunes total, and 2 are simplified conversions of PC music because they needed to conform to Amiga's 4 channel limit

 Sun Feb 26 20:51:49 +0000 2023

RT @ScummVM: May I have your attention, please? May I have your attention, please?

Please welcome ScummVM 2.7.0 – "The Real Slim Shader".…

 Sun Feb 26 20:55:39 +0000 2023

Hunter Hunted (Windows 9x, 1996) #NotDOS

 Sun Feb 26 21:11:48 +0000 2023

Hunter Hunted print ad:

 Sun Feb 26 21:25:42 +0000 2023

Hunter Hunted bullshots, ALL of which appear on the back of the game box! 😄

 Sun Feb 26 21:29:38 +0000 2023

This game's art direction is shitty, but it's a pretty impressive 2D game for the time. Certainly more technically interesting than most 2D PC games of that era.

 Sun Feb 26 21:31:31 +0000 2023

It has a great soundtrack overall.

 Sun Feb 26 21:36:52 +0000 2023

That's correct

 Sun Feb 26 22:05:23 +0000 2023

I'm not a big fan of Abuse, but it does have great controls, and very solid art direction. The thing with Hunter Hunted though is that it has real time zooming in and out, which was incredibly impressive for the time, and the reason its screenshots look blocky.

 Sun Feb 26 22:25:23 +0000 2023

Lol

 Sun Feb 26 22:38:07 +0000 2023

https://youtu.be/fcrexKS8kxA

 Sun Feb 26 22:39:36 +0000 2023

I know you are, but that am I? 🤣

 Sun Feb 26 22:49:45 +0000 2023

Seriously? That's all you've got?

 Sun Feb 26 22:50:50 +0000 2023

No, that is not the best part, man.

 Sun Feb 26 23:22:21 +0000 2023

Just like your mom

 Sun Feb 26 23:26:43 +0000 2023

Almost. DOS version is 320x200 only, and the original Windows 95 version is 640x480 only.

 Mon Feb 27 00:56:50 +0000 2023

RT @shirtsthtgohard:

 Mon Feb 27 01:07:06 +0000 2023

Myst (Atari Jaguar CD, 1995) #NotDOS
Actually a pretty decent port, but the image resolution has been reduced to 256x192 from original 544x332. Almost down to 1/4 of the size.

 Mon Feb 27 03:15:11 +0000 2023

Why? PC version arrived in early 94.

 Mon Feb 27 04:12:11 +0000 2023

You click on it and it zooms in

 Mon Feb 27 04:27:58 +0000 2023

PS1 is not particularly powerful. Maybe it was to lessen the CD load times? Idk. There could be many reasons.

 Mon Feb 27 04:48:00 +0000 2023

It's not the resolution that I'm talking about

 Mon Feb 27 10:55:49 +0000 2023

Look at what I was watching

 Mon Feb 27 11:37:58 +0000 2023

This is an incredibly lucky first run. 🤣 The game actually has a bit more going on than just pressing the search button at every location, but I guess the rnd gods favored you today.

 Mon Feb 27 11:42:58 +0000 2023

Behind the scenes
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/442067106356817920?t=EtwyETW4CTpHS-ty3bPxmQ&s=19

 Mon Feb 27 11:46:17 +0000 2023

It's partially my fault too. The whole idea was to create a game mechanic, and don't explain it, hoping that players will figure it out through playing. The actual result was nobody understanding wtf is going on.

 Mon Feb 27 11:50:23 +0000 2023

That has nothing to do with Hypercard. Also I'm pretty certain non 8 bit images were already seen in one of the screensaver CD-ROMs that predate the Masterpiece edition by a few years.

 Mon Feb 27 12:35:37 +0000 2023

Yes, there are HUNDREDS.

 Mon Feb 27 13:52:27 +0000 2023

It zooms into another image

 Mon Feb 27 14:07:31 +0000 2023

So a while ago I made a text-based game where I decided to be extremely vague by obfuscating gameplay mechanics & leaving them for a player to figure out for themselves. The result should have been obvious - nobody understood wtf was going on. 🤣 https://x.com/Lawnie10/status/1630168837160050690

 Mon Feb 27 15:52:06 +0000 2023

https://www.doshaven.eu/game/dead-man-walking/

 Mon Feb 27 15:55:49 +0000 2023

4 device PC CGA composite color comparison courtesy of Nerdly Pleasures:
https://youtu.be/44eNkE1YoiI

 Mon Feb 27 16:23:50 +0000 2023

In reality both of them are kind of the same except Bill Gates
- actually co-programmed a couple of early MS products (Basic interpreter for the Altair).
- was a bit less of a dick to his employees.

That's about it, really.

 Mon Feb 27 17:14:55 +0000 2023

RT @kenshirriff: The Intel 8086 microprocessor (1978) led to the x86 architecture that your computer probably runs today. The 8086 provided…

 Mon Feb 27 18:30:12 +0000 2023

RT @DosTitleScreens: Goofy_s Railway Express-01.png
#dosgaming #retrogaming

 Mon Feb 27 23:50:31 +0000 2023

This is the *original* version, and the only version Ron Gilbert was in charge of.

 Mon Feb 27 23:53:53 +0000 2023

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

 Tue Feb 28 01:59:31 +0000 2023

Oh man. These people apparently love what I've done with my game and want to bring my experience in confusing the shit out of people to blockchain! 😍

 Tue Feb 28 11:12:39 +0000 2023

People order food, usually.

 Tue Feb 28 11:13:24 +0000 2023

It's 6 am and I can't sleep and have nothing better to do. 🤷

 Tue Feb 28 11:18:53 +0000 2023

Thanks, Elon.

 Tue Feb 28 11:31:41 +0000 2023

I've never been less excited about technology than I am now. It's basically conglomerates trying to either make a quick buck by pushing garbage that nobody actually needs or oversaturating promising markets before they are formed and completely burying them.

 Tue Feb 28 15:23:59 +0000 2023

Feels like it wasn't always like that, or was it just my youthful naïveté?

 Tue Feb 28 15:24:59 +0000 2023

Sorry, having one of *those* days. Expect depressing tweets. Show me cats to prevent my thoughts reaching the Internet.

 Tue Feb 28 15:30:49 +0000 2023

RT @Civvie11: Action Forms delivers a horror game that I could have sworn was about a haunted iceberg.

It's not. It's about EVERYTHING.

#…

 Tue Feb 28 15:32:03 +0000 2023

I refuse to believe that. He's obviously a good babby.

 Tue Feb 28 15:41:56 +0000 2023

Wtf? I mean Perestroika-period Soviet movies are largely shit, but what movies are you watching that are apparently so incomprehensible?

 Tue Feb 28 15:46:20 +0000 2023

"The <title of an old tv show> wouldn't be allowed on tv today because everything is censored." SHUT THE FUCK UP! 90% of modern popular tv shows wouldn't be allowed anywhere near American tv 30 years ago because the restrictions were so harsh. What fucking planet are you from?

 Tue Feb 28 15:52:39 +0000 2023

The only reason something is prevented from being on tv today is some asshole accountant running the numbers & deciding that there's no money in it, and then reporting that to an exec, who has never done anything creative in his entire life, to make that final decision.

 Tue Feb 28 16:01:59 +0000 2023

They used to pick one show a year, and mention that one non-recurring character is a sad gay in passing during a single episode, and then pat each other on the back during awards season.

 Tue Feb 28 16:04:55 +0000 2023

Sorry, I have no DOS-related hot takes today. I must have used them up during the past 14 years. 🤷

 Tue Feb 28 16:08:36 +0000 2023

Wait, here's one: we need to stop looking at the story of DOS and Microsoft as an example of Bill Gates' success because all he did is basically not drop the ball when it landed directly into his lap, but rather examine how Gary Kildall manage to repeatedly drop the ball so badly

 Tue Feb 28 16:11:29 +0000 2023

🤣 Then it must be just a getting older thing. There was a completely new incompatible platform launched like every other month in the 80s.

 Tue Feb 28 16:50:26 +0000 2023

All AI stuff today falls fairly nearly into both categories I've summarized though.

 Tue Feb 28 17:06:41 +0000 2023

RT @furan: When a startup CEO tries to give you the “you and I are rare birds” talk you should feel free to ask all sorts of nonsensical qu…

 Tue Feb 28 17:09:36 +0000 2023

People treat him as some saint? Do a Twitter search for "bill gates" and then start scrolling.

 Tue Feb 28 17:34:52 +0000 2023

Take a guess which game this person deemed to be impossible for today's world.

 Tue Feb 28 17:38:07 +0000 2023

If you guessed WOLFENSTEIN 3D, congrats, you're concept somehow on the same wavelength as an insane person.

 Tue Feb 28 17:39:04 +0000 2023

Lies. I heard he never gets old, and he'll never die.

 Tue Feb 28 17:41:09 +0000 2023

Just give it a little while. We might just find out the details.

 Tue Feb 28 17:42:41 +0000 2023

This reminds me of this delusional guy
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1223008675499008000?t=kHwmC5_2FjkJ8WgJJRLE0w&s=19

 Tue Feb 28 17:45:09 +0000 2023

Cats and computers is my favorite genre. ❤ https://x.com/MobyGamer/status/1630638046113611788

 Tue Feb 28 18:36:53 +0000 2023

Ooh, so chonky 😊

 Tue Feb 28 18:46:23 +0000 2023

Big babby

 Tue Feb 28 18:59:24 +0000 2023

RT @dosnostalgic: Jeez, Witchaven, could have just done something like "your sound card works perfectly" instead 😱 #DOSGaming https://t.co/…

 Tue Feb 28 19:32:50 +0000 2023

 Tue Feb 28 19:42:17 +0000 2023

Here we go! It's probably too much for the woke world of today! 🤣

 Tue Feb 28 20:28:06 +0000 2023

These people can really convince themselves of anything. 🤷
Hide your games, folks. The wokesters are coming.

 Tue Feb 28 20:41:24 +0000 2023

I responded with a screenshot. Waiting with baited breath.

 Tue Feb 28 20:43:26 +0000 2023

Facebook

 Tue Feb 28 20:45:08 +0000 2023

Correct

 Tue Feb 28 20:46:27 +0000 2023

This reminds of this happening during my Wolfenstein 3D stream last year:
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1523422357804658689?t=BGOM5mv9UiicoFybEq6OOg&s=19

 Tue Feb 28 20:56:05 +0000 2023

I'm so grateful that most folks I tend to interact with in the DOS gaming community are cool and levelheaded people with a fun hobby. Thanks for being awesome, peeps. 👍❤

 Tue Feb 28 21:13:44 +0000 2023

RT @anne_engineer: My floppy disk has an old friend on it
#floppy #pyportal #gif #CircuitPython @MarkKomus @Adafruit #maxheadroom https://t…

 Tue Feb 28 21:38:01 +0000 2023

"Stripteaser"? Yeah, definitely a native English speaker here, and totally not a foreign troll. 🤣

 Tue Feb 28 21:40:59 +0000 2023

Well, I got a like on the post with the screenshot and no answer, so we'll never know if they'll discover today's wonderful world of violent videogames. 🤷

 Tue Feb 28 21:58:10 +0000 2023

The doggo is adorable, but it's an Amazing Jonathan joke from 30 years ago.

 Tue Feb 28 22:29:07 +0000 2023

Sleppy babby

 Tue Feb 28 22:30:57 +0000 2023

I hope Quentin gets to see Amphibian Man in color. And also realizes that none of it was shot in Cuba. 😄

 Tue Feb 28 22:45:54 +0000 2023

Yo, if we're now bringing stuff from 90s back can we start putting Fairuza Balk in movies again?

 Tue Feb 28 22:54:47 +0000 2023

We have dozens of them at @Liretro
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/1558808767877316610?t=KfBMyGcnlh6s3xtUrNWurw&s=19

 Tue Feb 28 23:45:00 +0000 2023

The foreign country scenes were, but most of the film was shot in Crimea

 Wed Mar 01 00:25:46 +0000 2023

That's funny. I don't remember a stack of paintings jutting from the wall where me first dollar used to be. 🤔

 Wed Mar 01 01:41:32 +0000 2023

Trust me, I did point this out, along with providing a screenshot of a human enemy in the New Colossus.

 Wed Mar 01 02:12:38 +0000 2023

RT @BossFightBooks: We're publishing a book about the history of DAY OF THE TENTACLE by @bobservo!

Now funding until 3/7 as part of our Se…

 Wed Mar 01 02:22:15 +0000 2023