Re: Looking for Trainers
Posted on 2015-09-05, 21:11
Re: How to tweak CGA / EGA game palettes easily :)
Posted on 2015-07-03, 20:50
why would you ever want a 4-colour mode when you can have 16 or 256? John Romero released Pyramids of Egypt in 1990. Most people had a CGA card back then, so he put CGA graphics in his game. When you ran the game on a EGA card, it would still have only 4 colors, but one of the colors was changed to …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2015-05-24, 22:36
I just think it's fascinating that some of the graphics of Mega Man are also used in Duke Nukem 1. I've played Duke Nukem 1 a lot when I was young. Years later, when I read on the Internet that Duke Nukem 1 stole graphics from Mega Man I played the whole game to see if I could find more stolen …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2015-05-23, 22:35
BTW, it looks like Mega Man is the first DOS platform game that scrolls the whole screen both ways, as it doesn't have a status bar. Commander Keen also scrolls the whole screen, but it was release at the end of 1990 and I assume Mega Man was released before that.
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2015-05-22, 23:00
And I mean platform games for DOS that scroll both horizontally and vertically. Not that there weren't any. Indeed, there was actually quite a number of them by 1990, with games at the top of my mind being Thexder, TMNT (only both ways during overhead sections), Zeliard and Strider, but by 1992 …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2015-05-19, 19:52
I kinda like Mega Man III. I think it's better and more polished than the first one. In what qualitative way? Kris aptly pointed out all the regressions. It's been a while since I played both games. But I remember the graphics in the sequel as more detailed. And the game wasn't as hard, because the …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2015-05-17, 20:40
I kinda like Mega Man III. I think it's better and more polished than the first one. I haven't played the NES Mega Man games, so I don't care there's no music, the level design is totally different and the bosses look like the bosses of the NES games. And in 1992 there weren't that many side- …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2015-04-05, 19:48
There's even a version 3.0 of Math Rescue according to Litude.
Re: Can't start Commander Keen 4 or later in CGA
Posted on 2015-02-05, 21:00
Keen 4 CGA can downloaded from RGB Classic Games.
Re: Can't start Commander Keen 4 or later in CGA
Posted on 2015-02-04, 19:55
ripsaw8080 wrote: Some later Keen games had one version for EGA/VGA and a separate version for CGA. I know this was true for 4 and 6, not sure about 5. You will need the CGA-specific versions to get CGA graphics. This is true for Keen 4, 5, 6 and Keen Dreams.
Re: Commander Keens crash to prompt
Posted on 2015-01-25, 19:32
Maybe you are pressing Ctrl + Q.
Re: Undocumented Tempest 2000 DOS version cheat code?
Posted on 2015-01-16, 22:54
You can also start the DOS version with the command line argument FLOSSIE WANTS TO CHEAT to enable the F11 and F12 cheats. I don't know if this also works in the Windows version.
Re: Are there any games that are incompatible with newer versions of DOS?
Posted on 2015-01-03, 22:45
Tried Bio Menace in DOS 7.0 and it does lock up/freeze as I remember. There is a fix though; when 3DRealms made this game available as freeware in December 2005, they included a patch file (biopatch.zip) to correct a similar issue in DOSBox back then. The same patch file also works in DOS 7.0, …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2015-01-03, 22:15
Todd Replogle was offered to use the smooth scrolling Commander Keen engine for Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, but instead he created his own engine because id Software's engine couldn't do parallex scrolling. At least, that's why he created his own engine for Duke Nukem II.
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2014-12-20, 16:05
http://www.classicdosgames.com/forum/viewtopi … .php?f=6&t=1321
Re: Struggling with Outrun and Tandy in DOSBox
Posted on 2014-09-10, 20:31
2fort5r wrote: (I had forgotten about the spoken intro.) If I remember it correctly, there are two different versions of the spoken intro. One with a male voice and another one with a female voice.
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2014-06-08, 21:42
The Apogee Legacy #20 - Joe Siegler : 6) Is there any story/incident that stands out as interesting during your time associated with Apogee? ... the story of losing to an inanimate object in ROTT deathmatch comes to mind. Back then, ROTT had a record for allowing 11 people to play at once in a …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2014-06-08, 20:58
11 players in multiplayer mode is a reference to This is Spinal Tap.
Re: HUGE problem
Posted on 2014-04-18, 08:15
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2014-03-15, 18:03
For your next filler episode you should review Wacky Kart 😉
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