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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

The only thing I remember standing out was a microphone change early on. I've actually had THREE mic changes up to this point now... technically. I started out using the mic in a crappy $60 webcam, moved on to using the mic in a Sony camcorder I bought when I covered Covert Action, got a Blue Yeti …

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Ancient DOS Games Filler #99 - MURI is online! There were a couple reasons why I held off on covering this for as long as I did, given that this was a game mimicking the style and gameplay of the original Duke Nukem made in 2013 for modern computers. The first was that I didn't actually like the …

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Ancient DOS Games Episode 324 - PC Golf & PC Pro-Golf is online! I was originally intending only to cover PC Golf as we actually had this game on our Tandy 1000 SX way back when I was a kid. In fact, it was there from Day 1 of Dad owning the thing, meaning the guy doing the setup and installation …

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As for having to hold Ctrl to activate the rubber-band selection, I believe this is present in all versions of the game. Or, at least, I don't remember any that would simply allow you to drag the box without holding Ctrl. (IIRC, the GOG release should have the CD version 1.21, which is the latest …

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Ancient DOS Games Episode 323 - Warcraft is online! Having played Warcraft II but not the original, I thought going back to the original would basically be like playing a simpler version of Warcraft II... ...I had no idea it was actually going to be more like playing Dune II... :o ...with …

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Ancient DOS Games Pro 28 - Weapon Stats - Raptor: Call of the Shadows is online! Not really sure I ever thought I'd be going back to this game... but a lot has happened since I originally reviewed it over a decade ago and given Scott Host's latest re-release of another of his old titles I figured …

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Ancient DOS Games Episode 322 - Interphase is online! While this is more of an Amiga game at heart than a DOS game, it was still surprisingly well received for its time yet rapidly forgotten about following. When it showed up on digital storefronts not too long ago I was kinda drawn to the concept …

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Alright! Holiday hiatus is over and thus it's time for some more Ancient DOS Games! As such, Episode 321 - EGA Trek is online! I hadn't actually played through this one with any seriousness before, having only briefly touched it as a kid and was turned off by the interface looking all weird, given …

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Ancient DOS Games Episode 320 - Loom is online! It's not common for a game to have both an interesting yet contrived story, yet here we are. Even when you see screenshots of this thing or WATCH raw game footage, you're not really getting a good idea of how the game plays and the sensations which go …

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Ancient DOS Games Episode 319 - Tom and Jerry is online! I was a little surprised by this one as I expected it to be worse than it actually was given that video games based on popular cartoons had spotty track records, especially when you consider who published this one... but really, it's a …

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Ancient DOS Games Filler #98 - Defense Grid 1 & 2 is online! It's actually been awhile since I last touched these two tower defence games, as I've long since moved on to others, but going back and playing them again after so long reminded me of how good they were and why I sunk so many hours of my …

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Also the way you mentioned this model in the post I quoted appeared to me as if you approved of it, or at least viewed it as a positive thing, that's why I asked here. But perhaps the positive thing is that one no longer needs to add a link to one's site (provided one has a site at all) as a …

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not to mention share the fact that Ron Heuse no longer requires people to link to his website anymore for free copies of the full game: Just head to his website, grab his contact details, send him a polite eMail asking for a copy, and there you go! In that way it's still not technically freeware, …

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You may find that Reaping the Dungeon looks a bit better with the machine=vgaonly setting in DOSBox, as it displays 9-dot wide text as real VGA does, so that the alphanumeric characters have gaps between them. Interesting... I just checked that out and RARELY is that a factor with DOS games, but …

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Ancient DOS Games Pro 27 - Max Stats - Reaping the Dungeon is FINALLY online! So, here's what happened and why this video is a week late... Firstly, the past couple weeks have been absolutely ridiculous in real life in terms of things going wrong and becoming points of extreme mental and physical …

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Ancient DOS Games Episode 318 - Stunt Island is online! This is definitely one of the more unique flight sims ever published, given that instead of being a typical flight sim where you're either engaged in military missions or just taking in the scenery, this one's all about performing various kinds …

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Ancient DOS Games Episode 317 - Bug World is online! This one... is kind of incredible... and I mean that in the sense that it's incredible just how completely off the mark nearly every aspect of its design and programming are! :O At the same time though, the fact that it has few actual bugs and is …

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BTW, the original Apple II source code that was released by Jordan Mechner (which you discuss at around 5:11 ) does include the game data as well (images and levels), at least, that's the impression that I've got. So I guess someone could technically produce a playable game out of the code, …

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