how it felt to play DOS games?
how it felt to play DOS games?
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There is only one way to find out, OP.
Play some fucking DOS games.
I really don't want to do that...
So instead you kill off a perfectly good thread o- well, lets be honest there are no good threads on Ganker.
Really bad. Try Amoured Commander 2 if you want a taste.
Back in 2010, I think I played a DOS game where you could date a custom woman that you could create with custom parameters and take her out to dates in China and one of the outcomes of the date was you shooting Chinese infantrymen during dinner. I fucking wish I still had it.
>playing Mega Man PC and experiencing premiere poor Japanese programming where game speed is tied to the frame rate for the first time
>game speed is tied to the frame rate
Which tied to CPU clock speed
Yep, that were the days
It is entirely written by one (1) gaijin
And that gaijin also did a port of MegaMan X to MS DOS
Yep.
It was a much better attempt despite not being 100% spot on
not made by japanese, all dos games are tied to frame rate
felt exciting, like I was doing something I wasnt allowed to
were games in the boxes or what? how it all looked like?
>t too lazy to google
>how it felt to play DOS games?
>how it all looked like?
Please learn English before posting.
no
>"My shit crashed again, fucking fuck. Okay, lets try it again"
>A year later and a thousand crashes
okay, whatever.
Great. Populous. SimCity 2000. Duke3D, Heretic, DOOM, Apogee shit. Dark Sun! All the Sierra games.
It was good times.
I remember the only "cheat guide" I ever had was for King's Quest IV The Perils of Rosella which had the cool book with the red film reader to put over the hidden solutions. They put fake ones in there just to screw with you if you were trying to cheat.
That was my first solo Sierra game my bro got me and it was a ton of fun.
I've been looking for a msdos game I used to play a long time ago but I cannot find the name..
It's a 2d game where you control a character in a kinda weird world full of color and candies ? I cant remember much. I vaguely remember elongated character or something. Fuck it's impossible to give more infos.
If a Boomer Chad could find it
you can find a lot of this shit on abandonware sites.
Leisure Suit Larry was eye opening for me.
Zool?
Fuck thats close but not the game I remember. I remember some castle in the background but the world wasn't really full of candy but still weird and colorful.
I checked the abandonware website and couldn't find it but I found SEX QUEST kek I played this as a wee lad 25 years ago, good time
>SEX QUEST
>score: 4 of 69
heh
>cd folder
>game.exe
use arrowkeys instead of WASD
there you go
Played wolfenstein3d and TIE Fighter using that
I remember playing an erotic game with a woman named Jasmine that you can undress. I remember a game taking place in antic pompei.
Fucking amazing
I remember pirating the Quake demo from school by zipping it up and splitting across a stack of like 15 disks.
You had to know your way around CLI commands to install and run games. The even older ones required custom boot scripts for your PC to correctly load drivers so there was enough conventional memory to run the game properly.
It was fine as long as your sound was configured correctly.
Amazing. Best videogame platform of all times and it's not even a contest. Most innovative and inspired games exist on it, plus the thrill of actually making them work with your hardware.
did you liked duke nukem 1? i thought it was alright, but not that good.
Loved all three eps. Loved it more than DN2, which was very weird mechanically. DN1 allowed you to explore the enormous maps for hours. It helped that not many other games existed though. There's so many amazing DOS games it's hard to even count them all. Some absolute gems out there.
Fucking loved Battle Chess and Privateer. I played the shit out of all the point&clickers too, though I can't see anything from the QFG series there.
This. I remember having to use a boot disk for a few games to make them even run in DOS with minimal drivers lol.
Those old Sound Blasters are kino too
Haven't used this in a while.
Who else played ZZT games?
I did early on when they resembled more Rogue esque stuff.
So should you start with earlier ultima games or go straight for ultima 7?
It felt weird to use the arrow keys to move even back in the day but I won't settle for anything else
editing autoexec.bat and config.sys for hours even though you are not good with computer
I remember learning how to do DOS batch files properly so my autoexec.bat prompted you on bootup to decide which game profile to load
no idea how I figured it out, I probably just read another .bat file to copy from
There was no quality control and very little big corporation oversight, so anything and everything was possible. Shitty "we want the home console audience" ripoff games would sit right next to extremely important historical milestone titles.
Felt boss that your PC really only spent energy on GAME instead of GAME + WINDOWS + DATAMINING
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Really good or like a complete scam.
Kind of like today, except games were finished and Shareware were just demos and not early access
Just go play them.
An easy one to start with that isn't an actual DOS game is The Ur-Quan Masters. It's hard to play past learning how Hyperspace works because the map can feel overwhelming, but you'll at least hear the voice acted Starbase Commander and get the feel for what it was like.
Fucking around with random files to get the game to even start.
Incompatible hardware, missing audio, incompatible audio hardware so you get missing audio.
Demos were a thing, but you still rarely know what you were getting into and it wasn't rare for demos to have like 1 out of 2-3 good levels in a game.
Setting up some games to run properly with outside help (the internet) was pretty hard and multiplayer was a genuine pain in the ass, sometimes you would do things right and find out your ISP is ass due to one reason or another.
Weird noises that computers made under load and could cook your hardware for real. Awful CRTs and peripherals and the dreaded funky 1488-pin serial connectors that could get fucked up. Pins in general. Switching jumpers on hardware to put them in different modes.
Overall, 80% of this board probably won't be able to run games nowadays since it would require reading about 300-500 pages on what does what and god forbid you have to troubleshoot.
I grew up during Windows 95/98 era so I was playing DOS games through that and... Yeah, let's just say it's good that DOS games were like $5 because half of them didn't work and the other half worked but played PC Speaker beeps and bops
You will have a nice day, garden gnome.
I think lurking those murky low res DOS Doom corridors alone for hours as a 9 year old left a permanent mark on my psyche tbh
i also wonder if one of the reasons I like slayer's sound so much is because of enjoying Doom OST as a child
Do you mean "how DID it feel to play dos games?" You stupid moronlover
You felt like a hacker even getting a game to install and boot successfully.
sounds like modern Ganker would be in serious trouble if this was still a thing
You don't say.
norton commander haven't seen that in a while
>that feeling when you finally found the right file and launched Rayman/Duke Nukem
This is a daily thing in the life of a linux user
it was magical
why is dosbox so fucking shit bros
getting tearing with every game I play
idk try PC emu
Have you tried DOSBox-X?
recently i played cyberpunk 2077 and it reminded me how great quarantine is. it's the same world but bleaker and with no FPS bullshit, just car combat
DOSBox Staging? DOSBox-X? vanills DOSBox? What's your poison?
I LOVE old games where I can just fly around 3D maps.
My memory's shotty Ganker, I was only 4 or 5 at the time. Wasn't everything on floppy disks and you had to start games with a command prompt? At least that's what I think I remember
>80% of the ganes were garbage shovel ware and "joke" games
>10% were bad ports of established series like Mega Man
>the other 10% were decent "but not great" games.
It still loved it though and have lots of nostalgia towards it.
playing right now
i wish there was a way to upgrade the 3d graphics of old games