I decided I'm gonna play DOS games all year. What is your favorite DOS game? I am particularly fond of platformers.
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I decided I'm gonna play DOS games all year. What is your favorite DOS game? I am particularly fond of platformers.
off the top of my head: keen 1, keen 4, jill of the jungle, cosmos cosmic adventure, monster bash, crystal caves/secret agent, dark ages, xargon
this is a good list
id add duke nukem 1+2, prince of persia 1+2, and alien carnage
i think dos pop1 is a game every gamer should play at sone point
Keen is boring
Just buy Sierra stuff or watch YouTube videos about it. There's a giant book about this I saw at barnes n noble too
>No DOOM
>No Duke3D
Why not?
Also, adding Wolf to the list. A game where you play as a wolf. A wolf sim, if you will.
You scared, israelite?
I enjoyed the old Halloween Harry sharewares.
Jazz Jackrabbit
Raptor Call of the Shadows or Need for Speed. Can't decide honestly.
Prince of Persia
Dizzy m8. They got the best dizzy-likes on the Dos swear on me mum
>not playing dizzyvanias on the zed ecks where it was born and raised
Bit shite innit
Where to start with dizzy?
You start with the first game on the ZX spectrum of course and then play all games chronologically.
Actually don't play them at all as they are shit. The first game is backtracking the game because of only having one inventory slot in a game with 20+ items.
The following games have you search for 30 hidden coins that are mostly behind "items" that look exactly like the background tiles next to them so you have to press the pickup item button on literally every square on the map.
protip: build an actual dos pc
This. A real DOS/Win9x rig with a CRT just plays so much better than dosbox.
It's unironically crazy how smooth games like Duke3d run on DOS. Not a single hitch or stutter or dropped frame. I have a pretty decent PC and even modern games running at 144hz don't compare to how fluid it looks.
I guess that's the power of not having Windows doing god knows what in the background when you just want to play video games.
Speaking of which, some mad lad actually managed to build a PC natively running DOS that's fast enough to run some of the late DOS games at fricking 1600x1200 at full speed with software rendering:
It even has ISA, to boot.
vogons, an entire community dedicated to it that's been around for decades
you can run DOS natively on 14th gen intel if you want
that's pretty based. just don't ask to hear their poetry
Is there a way to circumvent real mode running the CPU (or rather the first core it finds, I guess) at 100% all the time? I know it's possible in Win98.
Yep, here it is: the israelites murdered JFK, bombed the USS Liberty, and bombed the Twin Towers. You stupid fricking butthole.
I think most people just run FreeDOS these days
Yes, use DOSidle
https://archive.org/details/dosidle
Aside from the most obvious answers and games already mentioned by other anons:
>Dangerous Dave series.
Platforming and shooting. The series starts adding horror elements and cartoony gore with the second game.
>One must fall
Fighting game with robots and animesque aesthetics, although it's a western game.
>Terminal Velocity
Action game where you freely control an spaceship in different planets and must destroy several objectives.
One must fall 2097 is the robot game specifically, there is an earlier human dudes fighting game called one must fall undated
That description of Terminal Velocity is a little ambiguous. It's more or less like Descent except you spend most of the time flying above the surface. The space travel capability of TV-202 only comes into play when you reach a command ship's departure unit (DUN).
Unlike Descent it controls more or less like a plane and it can't hover in place, it continues moving forward even at the lowest acceleration setting.
Play sword of the samurai, just a weird interesting old microprose game
Heroes of Might and Magic II
Warcraft 2
Quake
secret of monkey island 🙂
Tes arena
Gonna say it but you will need more than one year if you are going to include sandbox games and wad editors. Once you start putting things together in SLADE you will keep wanting to do more.
Please do yourself a favor and play XCOM. There are many great DOS games like Tie Fighter, Blood, Theme Hospital, and Dungeon Keeper. But if there is one game that stands above them all, it is XCOM.
>OP image
Oregon Trail
Companies who have released a lot of good games:
Microprose
Apogee
Epic MegaGames
ID
Softdisk
Origin
New World Computing
Interplay
Psygnosis (at least the early '90s)
Not everything from these companies were classics, of course, but a lot of games were pretty good. Specifically, the usual assortment of Ultima Underworld, Doom, X-COM, System Shock and Commander Keen. Other favorites of mine are Neuromancer, Dangerous Dave, Sword of the Samurai, Xargon, ZZT and Bio Menace.
>found a pentium 4 3.0ghz cpu, mobo, sound blaster, and geforce4 in my dead uncle's stuff
will it DOOM?
also all the pins are bent on the cpu, going to try to straighten them but not too optimistic considering its age...
>pentium 4
You're going to need one of these
actually it came with a pretty hefty heatsink compared to other shit in there from the early 2000s, that's kind of why the pins were bent, it was practically welded to the heatsink with thermal grease or some shit and just thrown into a plastic container
no he needs liquid nitrogen.
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Hocus Pocus is a fun little platformer.
so how do gpus work with dos? do you have to find dos drivers? or do they just magically work?
they dont need drivers
Not 100% sure but if you mean like DOS games that support Glide then you have to install the graphics drivers on Windows 9x then run the DOS game from a MSDOS prompt within Windows. That's also the only way you're going to be getting sound out of a lot of later sound cards and integrated sound chips in DOS since they all switched to WDM early on.
Were there never Glide drivers made for DOS?
iirc there were a handful of games that essentially baked "drivers" into special executables, like the d2voodoo version of descent 2
If you mean old-ass 2D era stuff, like S3, Trident, SiS, Cirrus Logic etc. graphics adapters, they used some generic VESA drivers (UniVBE orsmth?), unless I'm badly mistaken (and I probably am, it's been nearly 30 years since the days of my S3 Trio64V+).
>build dos rig out of spare parts
>every time I touch it I get a zap
Commander Keen is of course the Mario of DOS platformers.
There's a lot of great stuff in the DOS pack that you can get via the links in the FPS general thread (that's much wider than just FPSs).
Some of my Faves:
Most of the Lucasarts Adventure catalogue - but particularly Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max Hit the Road and Monkey Island 2
Toonstruck
Doom and Dark Forces
Command and Conquer
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games
Worms
Wing Commander III and IV
Privateer II
Terminator: Skynet
Need For Speed
Screamer
Carmageddon
Little Big Adventure 2
Speaking of 3D, what are some good 3D DOS games that aren't just DOOM clones?
Descent I and II.
Ultima underworld and Ted arena
I could probably play a years worth of moo2 alone
I still play MOO2 but in Linux nowadays!
For me, its Dangerous Dave. Posting this made me learn that its a John Romero game, what the frick.
Sky Roads is pretty cool.
Theme Hospital, Worms, GTA1 and 2. These were all released in MS DOS, as well as Windows.
Alone in the Dark
Math and Word Rescue
X-Wing.
>top right corner
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Necrodome
Quarantine