Star Control 2 demo colours issue (not the same as the full v. palette glitch)

Posted on 2017-01-19, 13:27

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I got the old demo version of Star Control II from here , and while it seems to work fine in DOSBox the colours in the game are too dark, even though the intro sequence does not seem to have this problem: http://i.imgur.com/59JzDuH.png http://i.imgur.com/Z4sHQd7.png Except from the very dark colours …

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2017-01-10, 19:57

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Thanks for pointing this out! I remember reading about that at the current official site.

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Re: Acclaim Entertainment computers recovered from Brooklyn warehouse

Posted on 2017-01-10, 19:46

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If you happen to find any promo screenshots for any of the games, would you mind sharing them? The Wayback Machine seems to have not archived any screenshots from Acclaim's website.

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Re: Total conversions/mods that became standalone games

Posted on 2017-01-04, 21:33

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Is it possible to add "free/retail" and "single player/multiplayer" information to the items? Hi! Sorry for not replying earlier, I kinda checked the forums here very sporadically and missed your post. It's a good idea, maybe I'll get around to this sometime. Most games listed should be SP, but I'm …

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2017-01-04, 14:56

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I decided to put together a separate list of DOS games which have source ports. I guess I'll leave roguelikes out as most of these games are open source and cross-platform from the very start. As usual, suggestions to expand this list are welcome! Abuse Abuse for Windows/DirectX Abuse SDL Beneath a …

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Re: Abuse (Crack dot Com) releases

Posted on 2016-12-26, 21:33

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I just read at Lord Soth's that Crack dot Com had released a preview screenshot pack with 10 images in PCX format. The file name was ABUSEPC2.ZIP. I haven't managed to track it down yet but Google Groups has an archived message from Dave Taylor dated 17 June 1995 which mentions these: Screen Shots : …

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Re: Curious Archive.org Conundrum

Posted on 2016-07-09, 11:12

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To clarify, it is my understanding that Gemini000 was contacted by the owner of a site called Demu.org (formerly DOS Museum). I've been in contact with that site's owner before he made a decision to host all its content at archive.org for the sake of better preservation. DOS Museum/Demu.org has …

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Re: Curious Archive.org Conundrum

Posted on 2016-07-08, 20:46

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Gemini000 , you probably know that the maintainer of the Classic PC Games collection at archive.org still has his own site - it's only that the files themselves are hosted at archive.org's servers. So he could give you completely legit links to his own site's pages which, in turn, only have links …

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Re: Charly the Clown shareware - no sound

Posted on 2016-06-23, 09:15

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Thanks!

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-06-22, 20:57

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RadioPoultry wrote: trythis.png For some reason it seems vaguely familiar to me, but I can neither remember the title nor where I could get that one from. Is it perchance some kind of shareware/freeware game? Or maybe I'm mixing it up with something different altogether.

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Charly the Clown shareware - no sound

Posted on 2016-06-22, 20:54

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I cannot get the sound working with Charly the Clown shareware. Neither v1.20 nor v1.30 play any sound or music, either with automatic sound card detection or manual setup. Upon startup, there's a clicking sound suggesting that the sound card is initialised, but then no sound is played throughout …

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Re: Looking for Pie 3D GCS games

Posted on 2016-06-19, 18:59

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I vaguely suspected that, thanks for clarifying!

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Re: Looking for Pie 3D GCS games

Posted on 2016-06-18, 17:36

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Does anyone know if there was ever a demo of Terminal Terror ? This page mentions a file called terror.zip, which was supposedly available at this address: http://www.inet-images.com/cation/terminal/terror.zip However the Wayback Machine has not preserved that page/file. It has also crawled a file …

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Re: Looking for an obscure DOS title

Posted on 2016-04-10, 19:41

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VileRancour wrote: gdjacobs wrote: To find anything at all on archive.org, you must be one with the Tao. Or, you could just search Demu.org (formerly DOS Museum). Basically, the Classic PC Games collection at archive.org, or whatever it's called now, is a mirror of Demu.org.

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Re: Cold Dreams (1995 shareware game)

Posted on 2016-04-10, 19:37

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Thanks for the heads-up. Are there any concrete clues that the registered version floating around is a 'fan translation'? I suppose that they could always have changed the intro wording between versions, so it'd be nice to know for sure (I'm the one who added that Moby entry). This is mentioned on …

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Re: Cold Dreams (1995 shareware game)

Posted on 2016-04-10, 12:55

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Further to this, I remembered that a long time ago when I was trying to track down the shareware version, there was a page in Google cache which mentioned a file called coldream.zip with the size of 2,167,442 bytes. The page seems to have disappeared since, but here's my post on the matter for …

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Cold Dreams (1995 shareware game)

Posted on 2016-04-06, 21:23

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Recently a person in another forum was asking to identify an obscure DOS platform game, which turned out to be Cold Dreams . I've read about it before and even tried (unsuccessfully) to find the shareware version a while ago. This time I used Hallfiry 's magazine cover CD catalogue and found two …

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Re: Garbo archive

Posted on 2016-03-16, 21:18

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Here's a seemingly obscure FTP with some possibly interesting stuff: ftp://tardis.ursa.org/pub/BBS%20Archives/ Found it via this FTP search engine (haven't used it before).

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Re: Could anybody with a retail CD-ROM copy of Descent verify their hashes?

Posted on 2016-03-16, 14:19

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For some reason I thought that the CD Audio tracks were included with the DOS CD version as well... As for the high-res version, at least D1X-Rebirth supports Mac game data, although some stuff like sound does not work for whatever reason. I wonder if the sound effects are of higher quality in the …

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Re: Total conversions/mods that became standalone games

Posted on 2016-03-16, 13:57

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Updated the list. Somehow I get the feeling it's going to be dominated by HL2 mods...

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