DOS Games Discussion

Oh my god I found it. I knew it was trash but wow.

https://animorphs.fandom.com/wiki/Yeerk_Pool_(game)

You know, the more I look at these the less I think it was 1st person. It feels more or less top down, but I don't remember what the character looked like.

Not a lot to go off of i know.

Thanks for the assistance, it was definitely later than those. Specifically these keys were definitely 2D but prerendered in 3D.

Not a lot of interaction, I remember it being super bland and basic but definitely had a vibe. Ineffable lol

This is like a feeling bubbling up, not sure what platform, but I get a sense that either it was first person or it didn't have a traditional recognizable character, I just remember a black background and a maze, where the keys were brightly colored and a sort of shadowed, pre-rendered 3D. There's n...

Ok, colorful and optional :-) (btw. I worked at a company who only used colored 5.25" floppies, yellow was 360kB, blue was 1.2MB, at least you didn't mix them up easily.) Yep! That's the idea. Only get the one you're gonna use. I'll probably post more about the project once things start rollin...

Umm...I don't know if an actual 5.25" floppy disk is such a good way to distribute such things nowadays; the availability of these drives are limited, and there are no modern USB versions of such, to my knowledge (Though the 3.5" drives exist with USB interface). Not to rain on your parad...

Thanks! That does answer my question, and after some digging I also found that same but about the GOG catacombs pack, but I'm at work and couldn't install the game to check the contents. Very cool, and that sort of answers the question. I also dug more into Hovertank and it looks like it's still in ...

Hi folks! I'm currently curating some disks for distribution to people who miss shareware distros, and I'd like the first disk to be the lesser-known Carmack/Romero/Carmack games from Softdisk/Gamer's Edge. I start to run into specific classification problems with the first Catacomb. Several sources...