how it felt to play DOS games?

how it felt to play DOS games?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There is only one way to find out, OP.
    Play some fricking DOS games.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I really don't want to do that...

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        So instead you kill off a perfectly good thread o- well, lets be honest there are no good threads on Ganker.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Really bad. Try Amoured Commander 2 if you want a taste.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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 fricking wish I still had it.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >playing Mega Man PC and experiencing premiere poor Japanese programming where game speed is tied to the frame rate for the first time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >game speed is tied to the frame rate
      Which tied to CPU clock speed
      Yep, that were the days

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It is entirely written by one (1) gaijin

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        And that gaijin also did a port of MegaMan X to MS DOS

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yep.
          It was a much better attempt despite not being 100% spot on

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      not made by japanese, all dos games are tied to frame rate

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    felt exciting, like I was doing something I wasnt allowed to

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      were games in the boxes or what? how it all looked like?
      >t too lazy to google

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >how it felt to play DOS games?

        >how it all looked like?
        Please learn English before posting.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          no

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >"My shit crashed again, fricking frick. Okay, lets try it again"
    >A year later and a thousand crashes
    okay, whatever.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Great. Populous. SimCity 2000. Duke3D, Heretic, DOOM, Apogee shit. Dark Sun! All the Sierra games.

    It was good times.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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. Frick it's impossible to give more infos.
    If a Boomer Chad could find it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I remember playing an erotic game with a woman named Jasmine that you can undress. I remember a game taking place in antic pompei.
      Fricking amazing

      you can find a lot of this shit on abandonware sites.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Leisure Suit Larry was eye opening for me.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Zool?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Frick 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

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >SEX QUEST
          >score: 4 of 69
          heh

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >cd folder
    >game.exe

    use arrowkeys instead of WASD
    there you go

    Played wolfenstein3d and TIE Fighter using that

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I remember playing an erotic game with a woman named Jasmine that you can undress. I remember a game taking place in antic pompei.
    Fricking amazing

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It was fine as long as your sound was configured correctly.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      did you liked duke nukem 1? i thought it was alright, but not that good.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Fricking 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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Haven't used this in a while.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Who else played ZZT games?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I did early on when they resembled more Rogue esque stuff.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So should you start with earlier ultima games or go straight for ultima 7?

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It felt weird to use the arrow keys to move even back in the day but I won't settle for anything else

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    editing autoexec.bat and config.sys for hours even though you are not good with computer

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Felt boss that your PC really only spent energy on GAME instead of GAME + WINDOWS + DATAMINING

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      + Steam + Epic + Origin + Battlelog + Blizzard app + Discord + wiki + youtube tutorial + VPN

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Really good or like a complete scam.
    Kind of like today, except games were finished and Shareware were just demos and not early access

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Fricking 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 fricked 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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You will have a nice day, israelite.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do you mean "how DID it feel to play dos games?" You stupid Black personlover

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You felt like a hacker even getting a game to install and boot successfully.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      sounds like modern Ganker would be in serious trouble if this was still a thing

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You don't say.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          norton commander haven't seen that in a while

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >that feeling when you finally found the right file and launched Rayman/Duke Nukem

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is a daily thing in the life of a linux user

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it was magical

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    why is dosbox so fricking shit bros
    getting tearing with every game I play

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      idk try PC emu

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Have you tried DOSBox-X?

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    DOSBox Staging? DOSBox-X? vanills DOSBox? What's your poison?

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I LOVE old games where I can just fly around 3D maps.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >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.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    playing right now
    i wish there was a way to upgrade the 3d graphics of old games

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