Nice video! I was impressed by how you managed to get from zero to a user-friendly (by DOS standards) program in one hour. I think this neatly illustrates how BASIC, and QBasic in particular, is great for quickly getting to a point where you can develop simple but useful programs. I also liked the …

Downloading the game from here gives you a ZIP file with the main executable's file name ("RYSSÄ.EXE") encoded as code page 437 or 850 (both were commonly used in Finland at the time and handle Finnish text the same). Unzipping this with Windows 7's built-in ZIP extraction produces the expected file …

The advent of VGA made possible the storage of video data directly in video memory as well as "scrolling" the screen coordinates across this virtual screen space, and thus page flipping was born. Anything pre-VGA though with 3D graphics is pretty much guaranteed to have flicker of some kind, some …

Ancient DOS Games Episode 104 - Roketz is online! I've actually been debating for over a year whether or not to cover this game on my show. What finally tipped me onto the side of doing so is when I found out the game runs at 360x350 display resolution... seriously... o_O Pinball Fantasies and …

Gemini000 wrote: But what really confuses me is why they didn't simply create a digital version of iMUSE. It's even more confusing; they already had iMUSE working with PCM instead of MIDI in Full Throttle and The Dig before development on X-Wing vs TIE Fighter started, let alone the Windows 95 …

The Windows versions of X-Wing and Tie Fighter are indeed terrible, and should be avoided at all costs. LucasArts was so proud of iMUSE, which was their system for dynamically segueing into different sections of music based on what is happening in the game, and it's depressing to see them throw …

Also Overkill had a Tim Wright (not Dan Froelich or Robert Allen) soundtrack. Compare this to Lemmings (DOS) and you'll immediately notice similarities. Tony "Tiny" Williams, actually. You're very close, though. Tiny did the music for Oh No! More Lemmings and, as far as I can tell, the DOS …

Another viewer of mine Hi! did some really in-depth investigating of what's up with Blip.tv and Android phones and submitted all the info to Blip.tv, so hopefully there'll be some progress on getting this all working again soon. blip.tv hasn't responded to my message at all, so I guess we'll have …