DOS Gaming

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/4106322

Man this game was complicated, no wonder I never really figured out how to play it lol. I did enjoy mixing the monsters though!

I didn’t see this question anywhere else here, so I apologize if I missed it. Is there any way to play dos on iPhone? I have a feeling there is for android and would love to know that too but I primarily use an iPhone. Fingers crossed. Thank you!

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/

From the site:

eXoDOS is an attempt to catalog, obtain, and make playable every game developed for the DOS and PC Booter platform. We strive to find original media rather than using scene rips or hacks. This collection uses DOSBox to allow these older games to play on modern systems. Games supported by ScummVM give the user a choice between emulators. All required emulators are included and have been setup to run all included titles with no prior knowledge or experience required on the users part.

This pack includes 7,200 DOS games. The focus is on games that were either released in English or are fairly easy to play without a knowledge of the native language. This is not every DOS game ever made, however it is a very high percentage of all commercial releases. There are thousands of freeware, homebrew, and shareware games that will continue to be added in future packs.

I'm playing Eye of the Beholder for the first time (SO good) and am a bit disappointed with the music. Naturally, I went on a hunt to build up a collection of DOS game music and found this site.

You can filter by platform (DOS filter is applied in the URL linked to this post) but what's really cool is that there is a torrent for the whole site's collection of MIDI and MOD tracks! The whole archive is 1.38gb and I'll be seeding it indefinitely.

This is the magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c3354503aa06d46c2c77193afb4ff6bc40c0e368&dn=mirsoftJuly2021snapshot&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce

Now, time for me to get back to dungeon cartography.

It looks pretty gruesome. Even for a DOS game. I'm intrigued.

I've been getting a bit more in strategy games, outside of real-time, and am keen to explore some of the DOS WW2 strategy games. I know strategy games and flight sims were both very popular, especially in the earlier years, so I'm hoping someone's got some suggestions for me :)

For context - other WW2 strategy games I'm playing at the moment are Hearts of Iron IV, Blitzkireg 1 and Company of Heroes 2.

So, kgen98 was one of the first genesis emulators, and it runs on dos.

I use it in one of my ICT classes (paired with a sonic 1 rom) on a floppy disk to demonstrate just how heavily compressed and optimised older games were.

It's an oddball that is definitely worth trying out.

I used to love playing this game back in the day. Awesome soundtrack and very fun mechanics. Apogee Software!

I created GOG community https://lemmy.world/c/gog

Let's see how this goes.. here's a collection of games (1740)

This is a collection of commercial compilations for Doom and Doom 2 (with some Heretic and Hexen stuff as well).

I sourced all of these from archive.org and then extracted them from their various CD images to make things as easy as possible for people. There were so many different CD image formats and I was unable to extract a couple but most are here. There is hundreds of thousands of wads here.

If you don't know where to start, my personal favorite is the D!Zone series. D!Zone Gold or D!Zone Collectors Edition are a good jumping off point.

This is a collection of retro FPS which I downloaded a long, long time ago. Below is an excerpt of the readme so you can see what's in the collection:

**1st Wave: **

-Battlezone + -Castle Master + -Cybercon 3 -Cyber-Cop -Eye Of The Beholder -Faceball 2000 -Hovertank 3D -Midwinter + -Mobile Suit Z Gundam - Hot Scramble -Space School Simulator - The Academy -Star Cruiser -Terminator 2029 -WaxWorks -Xenocide

**2nd Wave: **

-Alien Cabal -Bad Toys 3D -Blake Stone + -Bloodshot - Battle Frenzy -Bobenstein 3D (Demo) -Catacomb + -Corridor 7 + 8 -Depth Dwellers -Escape From Monster Manor - A Terrifying Hunt For The -Undead -H.U.R.L. -In Extremis -Isle Of The Dead -Ken's Labyrinth -Lethal Tender -Mr. Pibb: The 3D Interactive Game -Nerves Of Steel -Nitemare 3D -Operation Body Count -Pathways Into Darkness -Robocop 3 -Super Noah's Ark 3D -Terminal Terror -The Fortress Of Doctor Radiaki -The Terminator - Rampage -Thor's Hammer -Ultima Underworld + -William Shatner's Tek War -Wolfenstein +

**3rd Wave: **

-Alien Trilogy -Alien vs Predator -Alpha Storm -Ashes To Ashes - Feeding The Fires Of War -Assassin 2015 -Blood -Cybermage - Darklight Awakening -CyClones -Damage Incorporated -Descent + -Disruptor -Doom 64 -Duke Nukem 3D + -Eradicator -Fate (Demo) -(GZDoom) Action Doom 2 -(GZDoom) Blasphemer -(GZDoom) Chex Quest + -(GZDoom) Doom + -(GZDoom) Final Doom + -(GZDoom) FreeDoom -(GZDoom) HacX -(GZDoom) Harmony -(GZDoom) Heretic - Shadow Of The Serpent Riders -(GZDoom) Hexen + -(GZDoom) Strife -Immercenary -In Pursuit Of Greed -Jumping Flash! -Kileak - The DNA Imperative -Killing Time -Legend Of The 7 Paladins -Necrodome -Outlaws -PO'ed -Powerslave/Exhumed -Prime Target (Demo) -Quarantine + -Quiver -Rebel Moon + -Redneck Rampage + -Rise Of The Triad -Robotica -Shadow Warrior + -Star Wars: Dark Forces -System Shock -Terminator: Future shock + Skynet -The Elder Scrolls + -The Hidden Below -The Marathon Trilogy -Witchaven + -Wrath Of Earth -Zero Population Count -Zero Tolerance

** Obscene Wave: PORNOSHOOTERS**

-Duke Screwem -Immoral Cumbat -Rodger Ramrod (Demo)

Key: Pluses (+) indicate sequels/add ons of the games that are included (that I know of). GZDoom runs MULTIPLE games. They all are ran the EXACT SAME WAY, check GZDoom's GAMESETUP.txt file. Demos are marked by (Demo) at the end of the game title.

CGW was one a long running PC gaming magazine which started in 1989 and ended in 2006. You can find the entire archive on CGW Museum.

The only 'issue' with the museum is the file names - it only shows the issue number (e.g - cgw_156.pdf) which makes it tricky to know when it was actually released.

To make things easier for myself when reading on my tablet I renamed the files to include the year and month of release (e.g - CGW Issue #156 (July 1997).pdf)

I've done this for 1990 - 2000 and this is what I've linked in the actual post. If you want to get the rest of the issues you should go to the museum.

Here's another collection to jump start the community a bit.

There are many DOS manuals here along with other systems like Atari ST. Some are in PDF, others are TXT and a few DOC.

I hope this helps someone, even if it's just for the sake of collecting.

Thought it'd kick this community off with some content and to start I've got a collection of strategy guides for DOS games.

This collection is compiled from a few different sources. If you have a guide that's not in here please feel free to send it my way and I'll add it.

Enjoy!