DOS Games Discussion

Far Cry 1 and 2 were quite terrible... well, maybe not terrible, but i'd doubt you'd enjoy any for more than 3-4 days. The 1st was essentially a glorified tech demo with some great looking visuals and a terrific open ended tropical island environment (it doesn't support quick saving btw, even on the...

Excellent! Thanks for all the great info.

Maybe someone here could enlighten me. Is this game 3D / 2.5D at all? I originally thought the game world used a 2.5D engine, but... the world looks sort of pre-rendered, using 3D clips to shift from one screen to another it's an oddly convincing illusion. what's this visual technique even called? t...

MrFlibble wrote:Is it an Offscreen Start Bonus type of secret?

Hmm, sort of, yes. On an overhead map, the secret is to the right of where the player is facing when he starts the game.

Indeed. Once you get past the quirky interface and learn some of the hotkeys and get into the story, the game actually becomes fun. The b-movie FMVs are sort of funny. The sound/music are both fantastic! I found the dagger thing strange because... on one hand it makes the game initially easy, which ...

Yes, it's Dos. The graphics are OK-ish. The game uses 2D sprites, making the game look better in 2D shots.

I believe many of the monsters/characters were filmed in a studio, like the dwarf seen above. the game uses FMV

I'd like people to talk about Stonekeep (1996), a dungeon crawler game. What do you think, like and dislike about it? I started the game for the first time about a week ago. The interface is tolerable, but damn difficult to master. You can get over some things with hotkeys (eg: page up/down to quick...

Thanks. man i hope it's not a bad mobo. replacing that would mean the most amount of hassle

Hello. I have an old Win98 PC. When it boots up, it will sometime detect the two hard drives but will then write 'primary drive failure'. My only solution to this is to restart until it boots up correctly this always happens after all drives are detected at startup. The HDD never crashes after the c...

Ah thanks. got it working.

Ok. So I have an Win98SE comp with an intex sound card. whenever I set up dos games I can make it detect sound (default Sound Blaster) but I can't get the game to run midi. Any hints on what midi device I should select at setup and which port & so on? (whenever I hit 'test' i either get silence ...

Strange. I tried to run Heroes 2 on a win98 comp and it crashes instantly. disappointing.

Seeings as there isn't any activity on this subject i decided to post some screenshots on several CGSP scans i found, in case anyone should be looking for them, and a source page where you can download several full scans of various vintage magazines (including old issues of PC gamer). they aren't pd...

Ok. it was just a curiosity. I wasn't sure if floppys in general expired after a long period of time or whether other factors came into play

If a floppy disk should stay in a drawer for 15 or 20 years, and not be used, could it still work afterwards? does it make any difference if it's a factory disk (eg a driver disk) or something you yourself wrote at one time. i'm asking because i happened to find an old driver disk and the contents c...

Hey. I played this demo of a samurai theme survival horror type of game that played a lot like Resident Evil. it had pre rendered scenes, pretty good quality stuff. Its graphics were similar to alone in the dark the new nightmare; I played it on a WinXP machine, or Win2000. I found it on a demo disc...

I eventually passed the mission i was stuck in. my mistake is that I didn't have enough units to gather resources, hence i was always short, and that I invested too much in underpowered units and I waited too long between rushes. i noticed that if you wait too long, the AI will continue to upgrade a...

Really, it's almost impossible for me. Maybe i'm missing something. I could barely play through the first 3 singleplayer missions of the Zerg campaign and I can't advance anymore because the Zerg are woefully unbalanced. i can spend twenty minutes building up an army and the AI will wipe them out, t...

Video card is a 32mb nvidia M64.

shame because the rest of the game works flawlessly

Aright, so basically the Win95 gold version takes the resolution up from the 320x240 of the dos version. there's a program that lets you change it (included with the gold versino) but, yeah, only two choices 640x480 640x400. and the monitor is 17 inches. i tried an unofficial patch (Nyerguds) but it...