Re: What old game would you like to see remade?
Posted on 2011-08-09, 02:31
DONKEY.BAS also, Attack by IBM. Bonus points if it can be snuck onto the Mac App Store.
Re: Spam, spam, spam
Posted on 2011-08-09, 02:27
User shanebishop has exactly three posts: spam, spam and spam. search.php?search_author=shanebishop
Re: This has been driving me nuts for years... looking for an old screen saver
Posted on 2011-08-08, 23:04
It's a long shot, but does it happen to be this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMATICvHsYM the pencil looks like it's on speed, but apparently you can tweak that. It's numbered "2", so maybe what you remember was the first version. And yeah, search results for software (and for almost …
Re: Whatever happened to Retrograde Station?
Posted on 2011-08-08, 20:45
Good news (for those who care)... I did manage to contact Demonlord - there have been problems with the domain and he's been focusing on other things, but he hopes it won't be too long before he can get Retrograde back up again in a new location.
Re: Game slows down.... and gets faster again....
Posted on 2011-08-08, 03:09
Seems like there are quite a few versions of Ms Pac Man for DOS, at least according to my MobyGames search (select "DOS" or "PC Booter" as the platform). If you can pinpoint the exact one, that would help. If you manage to find the one, please post your DOSBox config settings to help identify the …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2011-08-07, 17:55
Doom II had that same problem since "imp encounter", as if notorious pwads TOONDOOM.WAD and FURRYSEX.WAD wasn't enough for it, it just had its fanbase permanently vindicated with fur. yeah, this shit has definitely gone too far. Even cult classics like Star Control II have been infected - the …
Re: Game slows down.... and gets faster again....
Posted on 2011-08-07, 02:55
Do you mean Ms Pacman from Atarisoft ('83)? if so try typing the following command in DOSBox before you start the game: cycles 280 see if this makes any difference.
Re: Whatever happened to Retrograde Station?
Posted on 2011-08-06, 19:26
to be honest, the "abandonware" thing isn't the reason I care (wouldn't have posted this if it was) - every dubious "collection"/"pack" of DOS games out there has probably added this stuff by now anyway. Retrograde was an important website because it was the work of one person, and was specifically …
Re: Whatever happened to Retrograde Station?
Posted on 2011-08-05, 16:03
that one only has the Sir-Tech stuff and some of the info pages... anyway, I wouldn't want to post links here 😀 I was talking about the Web Archive at web.archive.org, but even their archive is broken in places.
Whatever happened to Retrograde Station?
Posted on 2011-08-05, 15:32
Demonlord's awesome site used to be a valuable resource for a long time, but it's been gone for over a year now.... the email address is unreachable too. Old pages are still accessible via the Web Archive, but not everything works. This guy's work is invaluable when it comes to preservation, and …
Re: I have an unusual question
Posted on 2011-08-05, 03:01
Just because of the bandwidth requirements, I don't think ethernet would be anywhere near practical. Plain PCI has a bus speed of 133 MB/sec, not to mention AGP (up to >2 GB/sec) or PCIe-16 (4-16 GB/sec). So even a modern gigabit ethernet NIC doesn't cut it, let alone a network card that would work …
Re: Single Player vs Multiplayer Games Trend
Posted on 2011-08-04, 02:20
I have nothing against the idea of multiplayer games - modem and internet matches against my friends playing Doom, Duke3D, Quake 2, Carmageddon etc have always been awesome. It wasn't the same thing as games that were meant to be experienced inside one player's head, but it was a fun social activity …
Re: Internet Explorer Users Are Dumber, Study Shows.
Posted on 2011-08-04, 01:52
I've never used a DOS browser myself either. DOS was for BBSing, Windows was for the web... it's actually kind of remarkable how the DOS->windows transition and the BBS->Internet one went hand in hand, it was pretty much perfectly concurrent. Two ages gone in one fell swoop. well three, if you count …
Patch & Test Build - CGA w/ Monochrome Monitor Support
Posted on 2011-08-03, 22:27
I finally found some more time to tinker with this, make it look satisfactory, and create a patch (thanks Qbix for helping with the latter). win32 test build also attached. To use: - set machine=cga_mono in the newly created config file - F11 cycles between green, amber, and grey (similar to machine …
Re: LCDs, VGA, and refresh rate
Posted on 2011-07-30, 03:25
Isn't that something you can tweak with VBE somehow? http://home.arcor.de/g.s/vbehz.htm , for instance? Of course there are games that are written for specific chipsets and don't use VESA modes, but they aren't common, right? You'd still have to depend on how each specific game was programmed to …
Re: LCDs, VGA, and refresh rate
Posted on 2011-07-29, 16:30
The most annoying aspect of LCDs for oldschool gaming is the single native resolution and single refresh rate. Haven't seen a flat-panel that can handle 70Hz VGA modes nicely yet.
Re: Stop playing video games. You're causing global warming.
Posted on 2011-07-26, 02:24
How would one get the necessary (sun)light exposure when living underground? Mostly referring to Australia and other AC countries / states like Texas or California LOL Although during cold winters, it's also warmer underground. But not nearly as practical I would think. In hot summers however you …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2011-07-26, 01:43
SkyRoads... oh man, my brother and I used to burn HOURS at a time on this one. Pretty sure I finished all the races, but I don't think I could ever beat the hardest one again after that, hahah. Then there was the 'Christmas Edition' with the much harder levels, don't think I've ever gotten too far …
Re: Grrrr....tech help forums and posters....
Posted on 2011-07-26, 00:44
my buddy just lost his Win7 partition (probably some kind of MBR-trashing virus). The 'System Repair Disk' proved absolutely useless... according to him, it ran scans for something like twelve hours, and finally enlightened him with the helpful message: "There is a problem with your hard drive". …
Re: Think There's Still a Market for "Desktop Games"?
Posted on 2011-07-25, 20:44
'Casual' games are huge right now.... Angry Birds is probably bigger than the Beatles. Not as much on PCs maybe, as you pointed out, but there's always room for them. on the other hand, people are still going to demand flashy graphics. Just look at the stuff that's on smartphones and tablet PCs …
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