Had a look - nice layout and good videos. Keep it up, will check it often !

Nice 😀 your voice is great , when it comes to commenting . So I am going to take a dive into the series, and oh by the way, do you know the video series Retro Core ?

http://www.segagagadomain.com/RetroCorepage-main.htm That show is/was made by a friend of mine. And that is show is good too.

nice. Now I know how to play megaman 😀

I have just watched the Tyrian2K episode and it is done really well.
Though let me add this:

You can't buy only a subset of the available weapons after each level, certain weapons are only available after completing certain levels. This increases the replay value of the game, especially since the interesting weapons are mostly available after completing special secret levels.

This game scales very well, it even runs fine on a 386 system.

I would like to have seen a brief roundup of the other available 2D space shooters of this time, as f.e. raptor call of the shadows.

Even if you prefer Adlib music in the spite of gaming experience comparison I would like to have heard at least a part with a real MIDI device as (Virtual) Roland Sound Canvas.

Good stuff, much better than the average youtube movie.

This looks great!
Good recording quality, good narrating, lots of info. The only thing I can complain about is how you forgot about stunts modding abilities. If you check the stunts forums, there's a section where you can download extra vehicles, as well as tools for making your own ones. There's also some other tools for it, such as TrackBlaster and Opponent Blaster.

elianda wrote:

This game scales very well, it even runs fine on a 386 system.

Not from my experience. I had needed a 486 dx2 66 for it to run at a Normal speed on lowest detail. 486DX 40 is murder, and 386... don't even THINK about that! The game will run fine and smooth when you get to the point of DX4, nearing 100MHz and a PCI video card, though.

elianda wrote:

Even if you prefer Adlib music in the spite of gaming experience comparison I would like to have heard at least a part with a real MIDI device as (Virtual) Roland Sound Canvas.

IMO Tyrian sounds horrible with wavetable, even on the mastered redbook tracks on the Tyrian 2000 CD.

very nice!!!! congrats! already bookmarked! 😁

Just a few quick replies:

* I will be doing more 2D shooters in the future of course. There's a massive selection of them in DOS such as Raptor, Stargunner, Major Stryker, Tubular Worlds, just to name the first few that come to mind. ;)

* Tyrian 2K sounds totally different using the MIDI music mode depending on your system, and on every system I have that supports General MIDI the music isn't nearly as good as in the Sound Blaster mode.

* I want to avoid discussing unofficial mods and expansions because people who aren't savy with handling them can really mess things up. I'll admit though, I could've at least mentioned that there were external track editors available. (I even tried making my own once though never finished it.)

Glad you're all enjoying the series! ^_^

You're right. Even if installing extra vehicles for stunts is just extracting files into the main game folder, people could still screw it up. The worst example I've seen is the guy who installed a game to his System32 folder, and then complained it didn't work.

Gemini000: I know it is maybe stupid advertisement, but the show I gave a link to, made me love the 2D shooters, so I am going to look forward to the 2D shooters from the Dos days. Heck you could make a long ass 2D shooter special about 2D Dos shooters, just like the guy behind RTC, made a few (three ?) shooting specials over the years.

Svenne wrote:

the guy who installed a game to his System32 folder,

😳 Why the hell would anyone do that?

I guess he just didn't red game's readme 😉

Ubisoft Entertainment Assassin's Creed II README.TXT 1.00 […]
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Ubisoft Entertainment
Assassin's Creed II
README.TXT 1.00

2.4. Bugs and Comments

* It is _not_ advisable to install the game into the Windows folder (usually
C:\Windows), a subfolder of the Windows folder, nor the root of the system
drive (usually C:\).

Maybe he just overlooked the word '_not_'. in the phrase '_not_ advisable'. 😜

yeah, i guess that would explain why they add "_ _" to "not" now 😉
But i guess they didn't write the first message without the reason too 😉
I wonder which option was causing more mistakes: not mentioning it in the manual or mentioning it without "_ _" 😉

The game is an online game called "Blockland". His nickname was Tezuni, if I remember correctly. He later got banned off the forums for stealing a gun model. Anyway, let's not get too far off-topic 😉

Cool show, I like it!

Much better than your standard youtube fare.

Maybe a little less repetition in the game play would make it more entertaining to watch rather than just listen to. =]

I like the tips and tricks for getting the games working, always nice.

Your humor is good too, thumbs up!

HOLY CRAP you own the actual MEGAMAN FLOPPIES and you're not afraid to show them! That already puts credibility on this series as you're not some random abandonware downloading kid doing nasally let's plays.

i'm willing to bet that "game from Finland" is Line Wars II, published in 1994 by Epi...err Safari Software.

Or, it's Slix n' Slide. That one was a popular shareware top down racer from finland in 95 too

Tyrian 2000 felt like a cheap resell to make a quick buck at the time, and heck I hate the fact it's mentioned more than the original Tyrian as if that never existed before. Tyrian Shareware 1.0 is still endlessly replayable alone and it's what I grew with then.

XSIV Games is pronounced as "Excessive" by the way.

RoyBatty wrote:

Maybe a little less repetition in the game play would make it more entertaining to watch rather than just listen to. =]

Really, it depends on the game. A lot of DOS games are notoriously repetitive to watch because the gameplay lacks the sort of cinematic quality a lot of newer games have. Obviously there are many exceptions but I've yet to cover one of them. I'll add live action when I can but that leads into my next reply...

leileilol wrote:

HOLY CRAP you own the actual MEGAMAN FLOPPIES and you're not afraid to show them! That already puts credibility on this series as you're not some random abandonware downloading kid doing nasally let's plays.

Yeah... I wanted to make the entire Episode 0 live action, but all I have to film with is a lousy webcam which doesn't do video + audio at the same time well enough for a show like this. (And only hits 15 FPS tops at 640x480.) Don't have the money to invest in a good camcorder just yet.

leileilol wrote:

i'm willing to bet that "game from Finland" is Line Wars II, published in 1994 by Epi...err Safari Software.

Or, it's Slix n' Slide. That one was a popular shareware top down racer from finland in 95 too

Those are both great games but I'm not going to say which (if either) is the one I'll be reviewing next! ;)

leileilol wrote:

XSIV Games is pronounced as "Excessive" by the way.

Good to know. Thanks! :)