POLL: Still play any DOS games?

[CyberZenn]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello


My first ever rig was a 8088 running at a blazing 4.77mhz on a B&W monitor We "rented" it from a friend for a penny. (Rather, he gave it to us and the penny was collateral) Ahh, such fond memories. I loved the sound it made when you parked the hard drive

WOW! Someone who remembers "parking a HD"

We had an 8088 as well, i THINK it had DR-Dos on it instead of ms-dos. Its hard to remember as I was in elementry school at the time, but I very clearly remember my father making me run park.exe before turning the system off. Ahhhh space indavers, shogun, and text based adventure games.... Anyone remember the Hunt the Wumpus game???

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Tie Fighter owns you

Ok, hands up who else remembers having to make custom boot disks for each game in order to get enough conventional RAM!

- M4H

i haxored together one that would work for almost every game

 

[McMadman]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Tie Fighter owns you

Ok, hands up who else remembers having to make custom boot disks for each game in order to get enough conventional RAM!

- M4H

I actually used a boot menu in my config.sys/autoexec.bat

one for windows 3.1/normal dos/stripped down (yet fully functional) dos with i think around 619k of free memory.

Much faster than using a boot disk any day. I'm still using 98se, so some old games can still be played, ah the memories.

 

[godspeedx]

Originally posted by: LordRaiden
I still play the original Wolfenstein, and I also play Dark Forces!

Oh, I forgot. Let's see. Hmm. Lode Runner, Joust, and I think like 3 more.

Lode Runner ooooh, that brings back memories.

 

[HappyCracker]

I might have to pick up a copy of Captain Comic after reading this. Took me 6 years, but I beat it eventually.....
If so many games didn't have problems playing on a blazing fast machine such as mine, things would be better. I tried to play the original b17 Flying Fortress game on here and failed miserably.
So you got Lode Runner? Is that abandonware yet? I wanna play.
Oooh, Wolfenstein 3d. The game that started it all. Consequently, I picked up RTCW a couple months ago and played on and off. Just got to the last level today.

I'm through

 

[SaturnX]

I still play all the classic LucasArts adventure games, ie: Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jone and the Fate of Atlantis, The Dig, Sam n' Max, all on Windows XP, it's great, but I'd really like to setup a half decent DOS/Win98 based PC strictly for those games.

--Mark

 

[kusanagiz]

Originally posted by: N8Magic

Originally posted by: Gibson486
Return of the Tentacle was a great game for DOS Still one of my fav.

Day of the Tentacle.

anybody get the Sound working when running in Win2k?

 

[kazeakuma]

Originally posted by: McMadman

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Tie Fighter owns you

Ok, hands up who else remembers having to make custom boot disks for each game in order to get enough conventional RAM!

- M4H

I actually used a boot menu in my config.sys/autoexec.bat

one for windows 3.1/normal dos/stripped down (yet fully functional) dos with i think around 619k of free memory.

Much faster than using a boot disk any day. I'm still using 98se, so some old games can still be played, ah the memories.

Yer, I was going to say that. I used to laugh at everyone that used boot disks I had some tailored for some games (eg Zone66, crazy resource hog) but otherwise it was Games, Pure Dos, Windows.

 

[Eli]

nope.

 

[secretanchitman]

yup, every once in a while.

 

[gigapet]

scorched earth ........................need i say more?

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: eLiu

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Tie Fighter owns you

Ok, hands up who else remembers having to make custom boot disks for each game in order to get enough conventional RAM!

- M4H

YES! LoL those were the good old days...

boot disks suck. What you needed to do was modify your config.sys and autoexec.bat to have multiple boot options.

 

[Schadenfroh]

LHX attach chopper!

 

[idNut]

Went through hell to get Windows 98 on here so I could play my favorite classics such as Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Interstate 76', Chasm: The Rift, the Commander Keen series, and Hexen. I love DOS games.

 

[adlep]

X-COM UFO Defense.....
It still plays like a magic even under Windows XP :Q

 

[Telgin]

Wayne Gretzkey Hockey !!!!!!!!~~~~~~~

 

[NetWareHead]

Mechwarrior 2, doom, duke nukem, descent...

 

[Derango]

The most dreaded message ever to a DOS gamer:

"This program requires 589K of free conventional memory to run"

Which ment you had to squeeze your sound card driver, your CD-ROM driver (and since it probably required some type of extended/expanded memory as well, your memory manager (rememer emm386 ) ), plus your OS int a mere 51KB. its like trying to cram a really really big spring into a little tiny box, you always seemed to be out of breath and tired by the time the game actually ran

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
I can't play any DOS games anymore... I would love to play Duke Nukem sometime, but Windows XP just doesn't want to play them

One of these days I'm going to build an old P166 system so I can bring back the classics. In the meantime, does anyone know any emulators for XP (other than the BS "compatibility" mode that never works)

Duke Nukem 3D for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X

It only comes as source code, so you will need a compiler. I'd imagine that both Cygwin and MSVC would work. I have only tried it on Linux though.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: HappyCracker
Oooh, Wolfenstein 3d. The game that started it all.

/leans forward in wheelchair

You young whippersnapper! Not that fancy-schmancy 3D stuff you punk kids play! 2D is the future! Detailed sprites, and SS troopers that only die when shot by a grenade! Go cut me a switch!

/brandishes cane violently

- M4H

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Tie Fighter owns you

Ok, hands up who else remembers having to make custom boot disks for each game in order to get enough conventional RAM!

- M4H

Stupid Master of Magic and it's 600k+ free memory requirement! That's more difficult than solving the freaking Rubik's Cube!!! :|


Edit -- I have X-Com and Wolfenstein 3-D on my P150 laptop.

 

[SandLizard]

Originally posted by: SammySon
I still jam on xcom occasionally.

word. i have a pc I put back together specifically for the old DOS xcom games. then, last month, the hard drive crashed in the middle of my game. oh well.....


EDIT: oooooh, i have to get MOM (master of magic) and MOO (master of orion) back up on there when I change the hd...

 

[MattCo]

I have an Oregon Trail Floppy around here somewhere, wonder how it will run on a P4 2.0.


-MC

 

[amnesiac]

I dunno why some of those options are there.

Played Lemmings, XCom, and the original Battletech just fine on my WinXP box with no official DOS support. You don't need any dedicated SW/HW to run it you know.

 

[Encryptic]

I miss playing all the old DOS games.....

The Space Quest games
The Leisure Suit Larry games
The Hero's Quest games
The King's Quest games

Scorched Earth
Doom I & II and Final Doom (I bought the Doom Collector's Edition which works in Windows XP and play them that way)
X-Wing
Privateer I & II
The Wing Commander series