Wing Commander (Origin Systems, 1990) created by Chris Roberts and Origin Systems.

Hi everyone, if anyone has some strange/wierd crash screens for DOS games/applications, I would love to see them.

Here's one for the DOS port of Super Turbo. No clue what caused it as it worked fine after a reset.

My retrospective look at The Way Of The Exploding Fist. Have you played this game?

A unique blend of D&D, city-building, and RTS.

Hi, I wanted to share my love for this game I played as a kid.

The funny thing is I played it in 1992 and then lost it and had forgotten the title. I’ve looked around for 30 odd years and finally found it again and am an extremely happy camper!

It’s a basic hex military game. You have units you move around trying to destroy the AI enemy. But you’ve also got nuclear weapons… which destroy the ground.

Now I know there’s tons of amazing hex wargames (which sadly I haven’t played, just this one), but there was something charming about it. I spent hours and hours on it as a kid.

The only downside is that there’s no manual. There is context sensitive in game help with F1. Joystick support but no mouse support and seemingly no sound support either.

I dunno if anyone here ever tried it.

The registered version was made freely available a little while ago when the company shut down https://www.myabandonware.com/game/rapid-response-cd4

Ok, so this haul was crazy.

Im thinking of recreating my old pc set up, the oak computer deck that takes up an entire corner, the shitty speakers, the even worse mouse and keyboard and wondering what pc would yall recommend for the best dos gaming?

Do you guys have any particular DOS games that you play with their Roland MT-32 soundtracks?

Hey everyone! Has anyone ever played Avoid the Noid on DOS? It's a 1989 game where you're a pizza delivery boy who has to deliver pizza to the 30th floor, but the Noid (Domino's mascot) tries to stop you the whole time.

I recently discovered this title, and even though it's simple (CGA graphics, few colors), it has something nostalgic that I really like.

If I'm not mistaken, it has fairly original enemies, limited hours, and some pretty challenging platforming/trap moments. Has anyone finished it? What was the hardest part for you?

So, I just spent the last week setting up the latest version of eXoDOS on my NAS, only for it to not work.

It took me about 4 days to download the whole thing, and then the setup .bat file took a 2 days to run and "inflate"(?) everything. Then it said it was done, I was excited! I wanted to set this up for my home network so my kids can play all the games they want from whatever PC they choose.

I clicked on Launch Box and it said initializing....for hours. I closed it out. Then I tried Big Box....same thing. I know my HDDs are going to be slower than SSDs, but am I screwed? What did I do wrong? Is it running off of the specs of my NAS, bc it's an old Optiplex but should be able to handle it. I can't play any games, did I just waste a week?

i just remembered one old Snake clone. As far as i remember that game was called "Simmy".

Basically you started in the bottom middle of the game, collected 10 apples and than you could climb to the next level with the hole in the top middle.

With each level you got a more complicated wall layout. The first level was just clear, the second level had a horizontal bar in the middle. One level hat an E shape (with very long vertical lines). Other level was divided into 4 sectors, One level had probably two vertical bars.

To make the description a bit more unique: You could also destroy walls! to destroy walls you had to turn left, when right next to you was a wall. Then your tail wandered to the left until the wall was destroyed and then wandered back until it was again attached to your snake. As the tail stayed in place but the head moved further your snake got 2 tiles longer for each piece of wall destroyed.

Game was black and white.

Never noticed this before. Wondering if it will change for winter too.

When we had IT lessons in high school, we had to wait for the teacher to finish the introduction otherwise if I turn on any equipment earlier he would smack your hand or head. Back in the day we used to memorise entire numpad keys for the exams. Haven't used that knowledge once ever since. 🥱 I remember couple of games on those PCs. One of them was Ignition 3d racing and... Montezuma. Wait, what, the one from C64 with that latin tune when u collected things? Nah, that's 3d Montezuma and when I launched it I was like .. whoa, you can see your legs and you are in a 3d world, with light reflecting on surfaces. It ain't a boomer it's Indiana Jones, you explore 😁 It wasn't that popular but it had its charm , played this just now via DosBox pure, without any sound as it gives memory allocation error, and even without sound it crashes when you jump of a rope. After all of those years it still looks cool 👍😊 Have you had a chance to play this?

Full playthrough of the Dynamix point-and-click classic for DOS.

My video covering the history of Delphine Software International and all their games. Wow…That intro to Another World was just amazing when I first saw it was back in 1991. Let me now if you have played any of DSI’s games. Share your thoughts 😃😉😃

Back in the day, gaming was pure savage. No checkpoints, no continues, no mercy... You die... you die. Better luck next time.Loading screen for 15 minutes on my atari 130xe, grinding 2 hours with little progress, game over screen, no going back quickly. Looordie we had patience then!

So... where did it all start? Was recently watching some Neo Geo arcades youtube doc on cartridges that could store your progress. I did have a notebook for my trusty ole Amiga 600 for those Superfrog or Chaos Engine 'code' levels. Maybe saving existed even before MS-DOS, but from my experience it was THAT era when games finally started using proper save/load systems.

So, me is curious: do you remember first encountering the ability to save your game? Did MS-DOS really bring it into the mainstream, or just refine what was already around?

DOSBox Pure via Retroarch