DOS Games Discussion

Kay I know what the problem is now, but unfortunately because my school net access sucks I can't fix it ... :( See they seriously throttle anything other than web access, so I can't even connect via FTP to my site during the day. I have to wake up around 4am to be able to do that ... usually I have ...

Oh that reminds me, I said you'd be allowed to upload your own avatars didn't I? Well the last thing I want to be remembered as is a lying scumbag! So, let's see if I can find where to turn that on ... EDIT: I think I turned it on. :) So try uploading your own if you want and see if it works. Please...

Check out: http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html It's a list of game-making programs. Some of 'em are unfinished ... some of 'em just plain suck ... but there's a lot of 'em there so prolly you'll be able to find one that does what you want. The other option is to learn a programming language (like...

Thank you for complying with our notice of copyright infringement. One of our investigators did not look closely enough at the links so we apologize for the inconvenience. Our database will be updated. Best Regards, DMCA Officer Interactive Digital Software Association The question is, does this me...

I'm probably not going to enable any kind of advanced scripting. The potential for abuse vastly outweighs the potential benefits of turning it on. Also I suspect that using advanced DHTML/JS scripts would probably result in annoying the majority of forum browsers. So unless good reasons (other than ...

Sure if people want their sites added, they can post here ... or send me a private msg ... or email me.

The old board is dead! Let it die! :karate: Um, seriously ... the board files are still there ... but they're on the old shared hosting account, which can't be accessed from the web anymore. I need to cancel the old shared hosting account soon anyways, since I can't be paying for both accounts. So ....

zzt.the-underdogs.org is hosted by an abandonware site, but the zzt site itself isn't abandonware. If there were another way to link to the site I would use that, but since I don't know of any ... *shrugs*

Selling shareware is a sketchy area. That's one of the reasons why the DOSGAMES.com CD never happened. A lot of shareware authors have no problem charging a small fee if their game is included on a collection CD-ROM like that. However some others specifically state that they don't want their games t...

Actually just to be 100% clear, bugs and broken links should be emailed to me ... only suggestions are supposed to go here.

Heya,

Jorrit is the webmaster of dosgamesarchive.com. Everyone wave hello! I thought it was only fair that he be an admin.

As for losing the "cosy" feeling ... well you'll always have the 'Elite' club.

Oops! Thanks for the tip ....... I corrected the download links but forgot about the screenshots! Anyways, they're all fixed now. Except for maybe the ones I re-added last night ... hmm I should check those.

The reason I request broken links to be emailed to me, is that by emailing it, it guarantees that I'll read it, whereas if you post here I may not see it. Anywho I'll take a look at fixing the link ...

EDIT: The link seems to be working fine now, for me at least.

Yeah, 500gigs per month. So bandwidth costs shouldn't be a problem. *prays* :angel: Hmmm, I guess it's at least good to know that I'm not the only one being picked on by the IDSA. :rolleyes: I don't think we'd need any new mods right away and, if we did, like I say, it'd be up to DB to pick some ......

Da_Goat has brought up some good points. I'll have to discuss the abandonware issue with Jorrit ... AFAIK, dosgamesarchive.com doesn't have any abandonware on it. However, I think that (especially after my recent "run-in" with the IDSA) the "no abandonware rule" will not be flexi...

Hi all, Received an email from Jorrit (webmaster of dosgamesarchive.com) with an interesting proposal ... here's part of his email: "Lately I've been running a webpoll on the site with the question "Would you like to see a forum on this site?" Now there are over 3500 votes and more th...

Well it took awhile but it looks like everything has ended up as it should. I'm probably going to get hit by a meteor or something tomorrow to balance out my luck. :rolleyes: If there are any lingering problems please let me know and I'll take a look. For now, I will finish setting up dosgames.com ....

Testing, testing ... w00t w00t

Okay, so the transfer of the vgstores.com phpbb went okay. You can see it in all its glory at: <A HREF="http://www.vgstores.com/forum/">http://www.vgstores.com/forum/</A> Other than the userlevel icons (which I haven't reinstalled yet) everything seems to work. The problem could be that, w...

At first I'll host only the games that aren't available elsewhere (or games you guys make as long as they're not really huge or anything) and see how much bandwidth that uses, then I'll probably add more that are on slow servers or unreliable ftp sites or whatever.