3DFiles. Fuckin' ZD.

hehehehe, she really misses 1997. Sad.

DosFreak wrote:

3DFiles. Fuckin' ZD.

3DGamers is an excellent site that is similar. All you need is a free login and you're good to go. Older files never have any wait.

JackChaos site. It provided helpful things concerning Ultima, especially offered walkthroughs by users for Ultima 9. AND a lot of Ultima related forums, especially the Exult forum. And from one day to the other the site vanished and we never learnt what had happened...
The good thing about it was that we (the exult team) eventually had to open our own forum for Exult. Otherwise we would probably still live on in his forum, similar to how Dosbox still "lives" here on Vogons instead of their own forum 😀

swayye, I didn't do much downloading at 3dFiles but I loved the forums. I long ago stopped visiting forums dedicated to hardware enthusiasts (Right about when 3DFiles went down) because I got tired of playing the 3DMark game. (Heard last week that FutureMark is going to start developing games so I guess playing 3DMark won't be a joke anymore....)

Dominus,

I think once people stop trying to play DOS games in an environment outside of DOSBox and once configuration files for each DosBox game are easily provided per game then it may make sense for DOSBox to go back to a DOSBox only forum. Probably won't happen for a long time though since people are stilling playing with their Apple II/C64's and there are ALOT more PC's out there capable of playing DOS games without DOSBox.

Previously DOSBox was hosted on the sourceforge forums which sucked and there were alot of questions on those forums that had nothing to do with DOSBox. There was also a beta testers forum on a totally different website as well which while that was fine you had to go to a different forum.

swaaye wrote:

3DGamers is an excellent site that is similar.

not quite, they're anti-preservatant with the habit of removing old screenshots, demos and trailers once new ones release.

/Davros tortures Dominus with a pointy stick
until Exult runs crusader fully

leileilol wrote:

not quite, they're anti-preservatant with the habit of removing old screenshots, demos and trailers once new ones release.

hmmm. Oh well. I still use them to get patches for DOS games quite often.

I miss www.com. They used to be the best search site but now they have gotten very terrible.

@Dosfreak: I'm actually not complaining about Dosbox being here on Vogons 😀 Since I *moved* here from the horrible old VDMS forum I was happy to find Dosbox here at a later point. The Sourceforge project forums are not useable at all. Exult did use them in between jackchaos and our own forum.

@Davros: I'm just the lazy documentation guy, poke someone else 😀 (Darke is here in the forum as well, poke him with a carrot 😀)

Nothing really to do with old games, but one I miss a lot was amused.com - The Centre For The Easily Amused. It launched in 1995. There were hundreds of links to be found there for offbeat and humorous sites, and several online games before Flash really dominated that field. I think it died around the time of the dotcom bust, but I still remember it fondly.

http://www.janes.ea.com and http://www.origin.ea.com. 😢

I also miss the old version of The Adrenaline Vault. Where have all the motherf***ing reviews gone? 😵

bullfrogs website and the sites of all there games 🙁 R.I.P

I miss the troubleshooting eight ball found in the site of the creators of Bleem... does anybody knows where can I find one of those?

I like turtles.

pduke001 wrote:

When I first got online in the mid-90's, there was a site called Town of Illucia that covered Squaresoft console games, namely Final Fantasy and Seiken Densetsu (Secret of Mana). It had a fancy-for-the-time graphic "town" interface that you could explore to find the site's content, which was particularly compelling and unique stuff back then which you couldn't just come by anywhere else (remember, no Google!). It would be considered ametuerish these days, but back in the days when Netscape 3.0 reigned supreme it was pretty wild stuff. I have fond memories of clicking through the town on a 24 kb/s dialup connection...

The site later evolved into a full-fledged Java RPG web game with HP, experience points, etc. It was possibly the first of its kind to the best of my knowledge.

did it have any desktop themes by any chance? The ones I find on the net date back to 99 and that's not old enough.