DOS Games Discussion

I'll help you find it. Right after I find that game with this guy that has to shoot those bad guys. And they are coming at him from the right.

Maybe it was Dark Ages? That dude kinda looks like a girl.

Well, there are quite a few Wolf3D clones out there. The ones I know off the top of my head is 'Blake Stone: Planet Strike', Corridor 7, Operation Body Count (though the latter is less likely to be the game you are looking for).

That's a Windows game, not a DOS game.

I wouldn't bother with Duke Nukem I, but Duke Nukem II is cool. You can also try Bio Menace if you are into rather hard platformers with tons of secrets. Earthworm Jim (1 & 2) is nice. For a slightly different platformer/puzzle combo games - Prince of Persia (1 & 2), The Lost Vikings, and Bl...

Not quite a hut, not quite a bear, not quite snowy, but is there a chance you are referring to Beyond Good and Evil?

This actually sounds a like like Pharaoh's Tomb, which is a much older game (1990).

Could it have been Battle City for the NES, played via an emulator?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_City_(video_game)

There is a Windows clone, called just "Tank":
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tank19 ... t/download

So I've been goofing around with running MS-Dos 6.22 in Virtual Box and have been having a lot of trouble finding .img game files. Getting games to play in DosBox has been really easy but I want a more authentic experience. "Authentic" as in "VirtualBox"? No, you don't. Trust me...

This has got to be the worst, most generic and least informative description ever.

Somehow it looks like y'all are forgetting that they were still making platformers in the mid-to-late nineties, with classics like Rayman (1 and 2, which was 3D), Oddworld (Oddysee&Exoddus) and Abuse (that I personally did not care for, but was interesting in many ways). Of the early-90s Apogee/...

This appears to be one of the cases where, even if you have no clue, and never heard of the game, the description is specific enough to be able to find it with a trivial Google search query.

Is it this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherit_the_Earth

USB support in DOS mode is very tricky to work. USB 2.0 support in Win98 SE (GUI mode) is also tricky. If you want to use Win98 SE - try to avoid USB drives.

I was in a similar position. :) At some point you grow up and realize that (a) you can beat most games without cheating, (b) it's more fun without cheating. I do cheat from time to time in old DOS games when I play them just for fun. Usually they have enough built-in cheats to make external utilitie...

For a P4 system:

Best OS for running DOS games natively - Win98 SE (assuming your P4 system has good working drivers). But you need an ISA slot for working sound in pure DOS.

Best OS for running via DOSBox - Windows XP (anything newer will struggle on a P4)

Could it be just Prince of Persia 3D?

Oh yeah, I still have those "Duke Nukum" versions. :) As for these, they are clearly shareware. But even if they weren't, it is not so much out of the ordinary for a third party publisher to have an agreement with the developer or the primary publisher to distribute their games to a specif...

1.) If your mobo supports SMART for your hard drive, you'll have to turn that off. SMART will keep telling you that your hard drive is failing due to the Fat16 file system. That's news to me. Do you have any source / explanation to this? SMART, as far as I know, is agnostic to the file system. 2.) ...

SqueakyWheel wrote:I mounted my virtual drive H as drive D (the command being: mount d h:\corr7cd -t cdrom).

I assume your H:\ has a mounted image of the exact Corridor 7 CD, so it sounds like you need to do: mount d h:\ -t cdrom (without the extra path).

Or use imgmount on the ISO itself, as suggested.

Very nice article indeed. Although I think he kind of did not explain the main point of the first part clearly. 320x200 (or 640x400) is a 8:5 resolution, but it was filling the entire 4:3 CRT, because the pixels weren't square. But the key is this: the reason those games looked correct on 4:3 CRTs (...