MS-DOS gaming

Truth: DOS has been multitasking since the early 1980s.

This game is great! If you somehow never played this, it has my seal of approval.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/2106/supaplex/

Part 1 discusses mostly abandonware. It's a great read! Part 2 here.

We all love our "Doom"," Command & Conquer", "Commander Keen" etc.

But what is a game that you love that no one seems to know and/or like? What is that one gem that makes you type your "C:>cd games" just that little tiny bit faster?

I'll go first. My pick is Normality from 1996 by Gremlin Interactive. A 3D first person point and click adventure with FMV Cutscenes. It's goofy and weird but perfectly playable. I highly recommended anyone who loves point and click adventures to try this one out. It's basically Doom Point 'n Click

This game is amazing, and makes you feel like you're actually in the original Star Trek series.

This is actually the sequel to Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. And is using the same engine.

I actually never really knew what to do because you need the manual for this game, and my manual was in black and white, so I couldn't read the star systems. Mind you, this was an official release.

These days the color manuals are more easy to find thanks to the internet. And I finally got to play it.

It was ahead of its time. You can do quests and talk to people. It has multiple endings. There's voice acting. It's overall a very immersive game for its time. It is also the last commercial standalone game on the Doom engine.

And for the modern computers, you can get the veteran edition on gog and steam.

It's fun, though dated. All vehicles handle differently. It's not the worst game out there if you can look past the graphics and "edgy" presentation.

This game is a thoroughly enjoyable experience from start to finish. What if you cross a racing game with a flight combat game and make it arcady as hell? Slipstream 5000.

This game is dumb, fun and has more blood than most DOS games.

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I recently played The Dig for the first time, which passed me by when I was younger. I had heard of it I didn’t realise it was another Lucas/Spielberg game. I’d just come off a couple of other Lucasarts games and it was quite different.

Looking back it seems quite divisive, I think because it was so different to the comedy Lucasarts adventures, but there’s still a lot of love for it floating around the internet, and now I’ve added to it here if you fancy a long read: https://p7uen.neocities.org/posts/2023-06-23-The-Dig

If you've been meaning to play it, or always wanted to try it; this is the definitive edition to play it on a modern computer!

There's even a floppy disk version available.

It includes features like:

• Mod Support with some extras using Lua
• OpenGL Acceleration
• SDL 2.0 Support
• New graphical effects
• Multiplayer Support (Up to four players)
• High Quality Packs which make the game look better, provide better sounds and even music you might never have known existed in the original games
• In-game Menu for Vorticons Keen as well as a new HUD
• Named save slots
• Unrestricted Joystick Support

and much more

It was way ahead of its time. Having sloped floors, catwalks, transparant textures and moving platforms while still being limited by 90 degree walls. A mouse based shooting with the crosshair moving across the screen and using that same crosshair for your HUD and picking up items. (not unlike what system shock did)

And above all, it's a lot of fun!

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/980903

https://www.scummvm.org/demos/

use ScummVM itself to play them or the full games if you own them https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

I love the way your character finishes boot camp by cheating in all possible ways.

They even have games released this year for DOS!

This port, or re-implementation as it's called, has several improvements including:

• wide-screen mode
• smooth scrolling & movement mode with increased frame rate
• quick saving
• improved game controller support
• extended modding features

A great way to (re)play this awesome game from before Duke jumped to the 3rd dimension!

Not everyone knows that id software made an FPS before their smash hit of Wolfenstein 3D. It's rough around the edges, but still an important part of history.

I remember playing this in the old days. Very open ended space strategy game with creative non-humanoid races and a deep skill tree.

I recommend this game for anyone looking for a DOS era strategy game.

After the successful Voxel Doom the creator of that project is releasing voxel Doom II.

I cannot wait. Voxel doom worked so good, so doom 2 might be even more awesome!

eXoDOS is an attempt to catalog, obtain, and make playable every game developed for the DOS and PC Booter platform

7200 DOS games and counting!

From the page:

A curated list of references for development of DOS applications and learning about the system itself. This includes list of compilers, tutorials, videos, links to free and paid books and source code to DOS games. The goal of this list is to collect information and act as a starting point for someone who wants to start out retro-programming for the DOS platform.