Re: Rare and lost demo/shareware releases wanted list

Posted on 2024-04-20, 15:44

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Is rooster.zip on some other coverdisk CD besides 10/98? All of the issues seem not archived there, only some. I've not found the actual rooster.zip on any CDs in Hallfiry 's catalogue. PC Gamer PL issue 10/98 contains a self-extracting DOS RAR archive (of the command-line only variety, no install …

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Re: Dune II HD port at last!

Posted on 2024-04-20, 15:31

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Sonic tank having less range than launcher and deviator kinda makes no sense to me but I dont remember what it was like in the original game.. Note that this is the sight range (i. e. the radius of the circle around the unit that gets revealed when it is stationary), not the actual weapon range. …

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Re: Post Apocalyptic Petra, a 3D adventure/platforming game for DOS and Windows retro PCs

Posted on 2024-04-20, 15:21

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I would like to ask if you permit other sites to mirror the download of the game? Yes, you (or anyone else) can freely mirror the game as you want. You can link to the itch.io page but it isn't necessary. One thing to note is that if you do mirror version 0.99o (the latest at this point), please …

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Re: Rare and lost demo/shareware releases wanted list

Posted on 2024-04-15, 20:47

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Rooster Type: Freeware (former commercial) File name: rooster.zip File size: probably around 2-3 MiB Original location: http://www.mirage.com.pl:80/index.php?id=retroattack (Wayback Machine link) Comment: This was a Polish overhead shooter apparently similar to Alien Breed , which was made a free …

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Re: New version of Xargon (Epic Megagames 1994) released on 4/1/2024 with level editor + bonus levels! (not an April foo

Posted on 2024-04-15, 12:49

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rain wrote on 2024-04-04, 12:43: Also ,There is a steam version of xargon https://store.steampowered.com/app/2447530/Xa … gon_Remake_Ep3/ Interesting, this is the first time I hear about this remake. Nice!

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2024-04-11, 17:24

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Another DOS game with the source code possibly lost: G-Fighter by Gaping Wolf Software. I was able to find the game itself here: gfighter.zip . The game was created using Allegro, but not archived at allegro.cc . An older page of the same developer is available here: https://web.archive.org/web/ …

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Re: Problem with Powerslave on Windows 10

Posted on 2024-04-11, 12:32

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Chasm works perfectly well in Dosbox on W10, played through it a few years ago. It requires some patches and Dynamic core. I'm pretty certain it's the other way around: you need to manually force normal core, because the Runtime Error 200 occurs when DOSBox auto-switches to dynamic core on default …

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Re: Rare and lost demo/shareware releases wanted list

Posted on 2024-04-08, 12:17

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The Puzzle Pits Type: Level editor File name: pitsedit.zip File size: Unknown Original location: http://plasmaworks.com/pits/pits.html (Wayback Machine link) Comment: The Puzzle Pits is an originally shareware/commercial Soko-Ban -style puzzle game for Amiga and DOS. It was made freeware sometime …

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Re: Pył, Pyl, Dust English language version

Posted on 2024-04-07, 20:20

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It's a real pity that the game didn't do (much) better, they deserved the respect and the publicity that would have helped their programming/designing careers. Did they at least get jobs in the gaming industry? Apologies for the belated reply. I've skimmed through the interview once again, but …

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Re: Random free game findings

Posted on 2024-04-05, 12:05

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Recently I've stumbled across quite obscure DOS games that have Amiga connections, but very little information in them is available: (The) Puzzle Pits / Puzzle Pits '95 , which I found via dosgames.com . It's a Soko-Ban variant with a plot of sorts, in a fantasy setting. I got stuck in one level …

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Re: New version of Xargon (Epic Megagames 1994) released on 4/1/2024 with level editor + bonus levels! (not an April foo

Posted on 2024-04-03, 12:49

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As far as I know, the source port is not exactly complete, or, at least, there were no compiled binaries last time I checked.

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Re: Battlehawks 1942, CGA and AMSTRAD computers

Posted on 2024-04-02, 19:42

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Not sure if this is the same thing as with this game, but if you set DOSBox to machine=cga and play PopCorn, it will use a CGA palette with the red colour instead if the usual pink. With the standard svga_s3 setting, it will be pink.

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2024-04-02, 19:36

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I only remember that Family Guy gag with Adam West.

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2024-03-28, 18:47

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I just realised that several of the older games by Johan Peitz (Free Lunch Design) have their source code available from here: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d98peitz/fld/download.shtml

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Re: Pył, Pyl, Dust English language version

Posted on 2024-03-28, 16:42

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if you watch video walkthrough you will notice there are door textures on the walls which you cannot open. Well yeah, that might be an "in-universe" explanation, but still it's very obvious that these are the kind of scripted gotcha moments that become old very quickly. I actually found and read an …

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Re: Pył, Pyl, Dust English language version

Posted on 2024-03-26, 15:30

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Alright, I played the demo a bit (it's only one level), and the game has nothing to do with Quake or Doom at all. Instead, it's a first-person action-adventure game of sorts that also happens to be an FPS. Since the demo has no built-in hints or a manual whatsoever, I had to look up the video …

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Re: Dune 2 (floppy) : Insufficient spice storage when loading...

Posted on 2024-03-25, 12:21

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I was able to reproduce the bug as well. I think that maybe it was known already, albeit it's very rare and not mentioned often, for obvious reasons. For other bugs, you might want to use the unofficial patch . Please note that due to how modern browsers work, Chrome and others may silently block …

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Re: Obnoxious Chrome anti-feature, download blocking now too paranoid.

Posted on 2024-03-16, 13:17

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This is indeed an incredibly annoying feature that seems to come from a place where all users are automatically assumed to be clueless imbeciles, but file renaming is something new to me. So far, I've registered two variations of trying to prevent a file download, one is where I can click on the …

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2024-03-11, 12:01

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_later_released_source_code?useskin=vector I certainly went through that list a while ago. I can't be certain I didn't miss anything, but most of the commercial DOS games with available source code are either very well known, or …

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2024-03-10, 11:05

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Here's a really obscure game that went open source. It's was originally called Super Pooh , an unlicensed DOS action platform game based on Winnie the Pooh characters (but with a few twists, being mostly inspired by the Soviet version ). It was sold commercially in the 90s, then the author was able …

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