/vr/ - Retro Games

>>>/vg/

>>6541856
thanks for bringing the post back. and no, don't go to vg, stay here

>>6541907
So, loving this pack so far.


Would love to see more Sim games added, like Sim Farm or Sim Earth..

No might and magic? no wizardry? no goldbox?

I'm moving my DOS business to RetroArch.

>>6541901
>>>/r/eddit

>>6542186
>No might and magic? no wizardry? no goldbox?
PCem pack 0.8 has you covered.
https://www75.zippyshare.com/v/nxeeJXOg/file.html
https://www75.zippyshare.com/v/Oj02Klvt/file.html
https://www75.zippyshare.com/v/2VHuo2eC/file.html

>>6542898
Might as well list the games 0.8 has.

A-10 Tank Killer
ADOM 1.1.1
Alone in the Dark 1 and 2
Alphaman 1.1
Angband 3.0.5
Army v1.2
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
Bard's Tale Construction Kit
Battle Chess 4000
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception and Revenge
Blackthorne
Blake Stone - Aliens of Gold
Blood
Bolo Ball
Buck Rogers RPGs
Cadaver 1 and 2
Caesar
Cannon Fodder 1 and 2
Castle and Island of Dr. Brain
Castles plus expansion and 2
Chuck Yeager Air Combat
Civilization
Colonization
Command and Conquer
Commander Keen 1-6
Contraption Zack
Corridor 7
CyClones
D&D Dungeon Hack
D&D Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures
D&D Hillsfar
D&D Neverwinter Nights
D/Generation
Dark Sun series
Descent
Doom 2: Hell on Earth v1.9 E1-3
Doom v1.9 E1-3
Drug Wars
Duke Nukem 1 E1-3, 2 E1-4, 3D E1-3
Dune
Dune 2
Dungeon Master 1-2
EGA Trek
EcoQuest 1 and 2
Elite Pro and 2
Epic Pinball
Extreme Pinball
Eye of the Beholder series
F Godmom
F-117 Stealth Fighter
F-14 Tomcat
F-29 Retaliator
Falcon 3.0
Flashback: The Quest for Identity
Gods
Halloween Harry/Alien Carnage E1-4
Hardball 3
Hocus Pocus 1-4
Hugo 1-3
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Atlantis VGA
Inspector Gadget: Mission 1 - Global Terror!
Jazz Jackrabbit E1-9
Jill of the Jungle 1-3
KGB
King's Quest 1 and 5
Krynn series
Lemmings 1 and 2 plus oh no!
Loom
Loopz
Lords of the Realm

cont next post.

>>6542912
Major Stryker E1-4
Maniac Mansion 1 and 2
Mega Lo Mania
MiG-29M Super Fulcrum
Might and Magic 1-5
Monkey Island 1 and 2
Monster Bash 1-3
Mystic Towers E1-6
Nethack 3.4.3
Nobunaga's Ambition 1-2
One Must Fall:2097
Out Of This World/Another World
Oxyd plus Magnun and Xtra
Panzer General
Pinball Construction Set
Pinball Dreams 1 and 2
Pinball Fantasies
Pinball Illusions
Pipe Dream
Police Quest 1 and 3
Pool of Radiance series
Populous 2: Trials of the Olympian Gods
Prehistorik
Prince of Persia 1 and 2
Pushover
Quarantine 2
Quest for Glory 1
Raptor: Call of the Shadows E1-3
Realms
Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch
Rogue 1.1
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1-3
Rome: Pathway to Power
Sam and Max Hit The Road
Savage Frontier series
Scorched Earth(Shareware ver.)
Secret Agent 1-3
Silverball 1 and 2
SimAnt
SimCity and 2000
SimFarm
Sink or Swim
SkyRoads
Sopwith 1 and 2
Space Quest 1
Spectre VR
Super ZZT and original ZZT
Syndicate
System Shock
Telengard 5.03
Test Drive 2
Test Drive 3
Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
The Bard's Tale series
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
The entire Super Solvers series
The Immortal
The Incredible Machine 1 and 2
The Lost Vikings
The Oregon Trail + Deluxe
The Secret Island of Dr. Quandry
The Settlers
Theme Park
Times of Lore
Tyrian
Ultima 1 and 4-6 plus Underworld 1-2 and Worlds 1-2
Ultimate Domain
Valhalla 1.0
Wacky Wheels
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
Wargame Construction Set 1 and 2
Warlords 1-2
Where in Time/World is Carmen Sandiego
Wing Commander - Privateer and Rightous Fire
Wizardry 1-7
Wolfenstein 3D v1.4 E1-6
X-COM UFO: Enemy Unknown
Xargon 1-3
Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Zool 2
Zork Zero-3

>>6542912
>>6542916
much better. throw in lands of lore, ravenloft and stonekeep and you're pretty much set.

>>6542898
>>6542912
>>6542916
Thanks based PCemanon, looking forward to v9

>>6542924
The first Lands of Lore and Ravenloft games will be doable, their sequels and Stonekeep are maybe's. I have some ways of making CD-ROM based games run off of the HDD without complaint in DOS, but not every CD-ROM game is willing to work with me. The lack of free HDD space left is also a big problem. Even after removing a few of the larger games that were already in that one anon's DOSBox pack, I'm still sitting on about 250MBs free.

ok i collected plenty psp, gba, n64, gc, ps1, ps2, pc and dos games also a lot of pr0n (mostly hairy and vintage) and now im finally ready to stash it into my bunker...am i missed something?

>>6542986
>am I missed something?
A brain.

>>6542986
wtf did I just read

>>6542898
Good.
Now upload it to a service that hasn't shitty reputation and doesn't downright suck.

>>6542306
Look at this plebeian. Look at him and laugh.

>>6541856
Honestly had a WTF moment when i saw my pack being posted while unsuspiciously browsing /vr, but thanks for posting it again anon
>>6541996
>>6542186
Note that the pack is mainly focusing on later, "heavier" DOS games released between 92' and 97' (there are some exceptions to the rule). Then in the last thread i received alot of requests and i pretty much added all of them. Sadly i can't (and maybe wouldn't choose to) add more games to the pack due to IRL changes. Also wanted to keep it relatively small with most of the blockbusters of that time period alone. As of right now there are 85+ games in the pack. Luckily, there's based PCem anon >>6542898 to fulfill the needs of those older, smaller games.
While my pack will be perfect to play the late era DOS games with many QOL updates and tweaks applied (see the readme), perhaps his pack can fill up the gap with the older classics.
Note that if you're aquainted with editing batch files, you can also add a few games to my pack yourself, should you desire to do so.

>>6543075
Why? Enlighten me.

o take me back

>>6543073
Mega and google drive are out, since I'm not posting something that will let the anons that report everything they see effect my personal stuff. Anonfiles keeps spitting up an error, and I'm not seeding anything. What is left?

>>6543073
You know, if it doesn't meet your high standards, you're free to not download it.

>>6543635
Maybe Google Drive on a throwaway account, maybe? It's not really important though, zippy share will do. Others are free to create mirrors if they feel it's so important.

>>6543665
>it doesn't meet your high standards, you're free to not download it.
I won't, don't worry

>>6543087
I used your collection as a base for a very different setup: I split all the grouped games and BATs and edited them to run each game directly, so now I can either set individual shortcuts, or run them from RetroArch as shown here >>6542306, where I mixed it with ScummVM and Amiga games (besides all console emulators).
But for all the things I changed, I wouldn't have done it without your pack as a base. I really appreciate the care put on individual fixes and improvements on many of the games. Thanks again!

>>6543665
I honestly feel like it doesn't really matter, once the depot gets uploading working again I'll be putting 0.9 there as the main distribution source. I made it for the depot anyways.

>>6542898
Links give me a 403 Forbidden error

>>6543702
Another anon had a similar problem, solved by downloading through TOR. Either they block your country, or your ISP blocks them.

>>6543087
your humility is a rare thing, dosanon

>>6543928
ty anon
>>6543694
Yeah, i guess the added fixes is what makes it stand out more from other DOS compilations that simply take the base games and throw them in a zip (without any optimization).

It's pretty amazing really, that there are still people in 2020 eager to enhance 25+ year old DOS games, they deserve alot of respect. I simply put the pack together and streamlined it, but contributions done by for example CHEATER (who made the Powerslave and Dark Forces modifications) cannot be overstated.

>>6543694
>I split all the grouped games and BATs and edited them to run each game directly, so now I can either set individual shortcuts, or run them from RetroArch as shown here >>6542306, where I mixed it with ScummVM and Amiga games
UPLOAD AS A PACK FOR EVERYONE ANON!
BE ANTHER RETROCOMPUTERANON!
I'm loving all this 80s, 90s pc love, replaying a bunch of stuff from my childhood, and because of these threads i was encouraged to take a look on the VSTi and Munt, holy shit the sound those things can make, its a breath of new life on my old games.
Currently i'm using Munt for MT-32/CM-32L, Sound Canvas VA for regular Sound Canvas and Edirol Hyper Canvas (i thing that's the first VSTi with Sound Canvas but has even more instruments) and Yamaha S-YXG50 for some Yamaha goodness (Descent uses REALLY well).

>>6544070

>>6542948
Update. Ravenloft 1 and Stonekeep are working, Ravenloft 2 is not possible with the space left(50MBs). Having major issues with Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos. The installer fails outright, and the already unpacked version keeps locking up after selecting character. I'm going to keep looking for decent install media for that one. Changes to the games list are as follows so far:

GAMES THAT WERE REMOVED TO MAKE ROOM SINCE ALREADY IN ANON'S DOSBOX PACK

Battle Chess 4000
Blood
Civilization
Command and Conquer
Descent
Doom v1.9
Doom 2: Hell on Earth v1.9
Duke Nukem 3D v1.3D
SkyRoads
Syndicate
System Shock
Wacky Wheels
Wolfenstein 3D v1.4

GAMES THAT ARE NEW FOR 0.9

Battle Bugs
Beneath a Steel Sky
Bio Menace
God of Thunder
Hi-Octane
Inner Worlds
Jetpack
Lamborghini American Challenge
Legend of Kyrandia : Fables and Fiends
Lode Runner : The Legend Returns
Lure of the Temptress
Peroxyd
Police Quest 4 : Open Season
Ravenloft : Strahd's Possession
Return to Ringworld
Screamer
Solar Winds 1 and 2
Speed Haste
Speed Racer : The Challenge of Racer X
Stonekeep
Valhalla 1.0 has been updated to Ragnarok 2.5
ZZT's Revenge!

>>6545276
Thanks for trying anon. Looking good.

>>6542912
>Lemmings 1 and 2 plus oh no!
What's wrong???

>>6542898
Zippy doesn't work in Europe, or some parts of it

>>6545954
Got any file hosters that EU can use that isn't mega or google drive?

>>6546104
1fichier

>>6546173
>files get removed after 15 days of not being accessed
What a shitty filehost. I'll upload a copy there, but I won't bother re-uploading.

>>6546190
https://1fichier.com/?m9rlccwdlstaq336mob6
This should be 0.8.

>>6546218
Thanks anon

>>6542898
>>6543087
based RetroPCanos.

>6542437
Based

>>6542986
>No NES
>No SNES
>No GB and GBC

Anon...

>>6543087
I'm using your pack as a template to make a compilation of my favorite DOS games. I really appreciate your work. Your launcher is maximum comfy

>>6543087
What do the exe's in your file pack do? There's stuff like intro.bat and intro.exe in the same folder. Also what does button.exe do? Thanks!

>>6545276
And 0.9 is live.

https://www65.zippyshare.com/v/ooynR5KZ/file.html
https://www65.zippyshare.com/v/2btWkFVB/file.html
https://www65.zippyshare.com/v/KHOQYDYf/file.html

For people who can't access zippyshare or don't like it:
https://1fichier.com/?fxstzdlhxdm8huykxv3u

Please report issues with the menus or games. Keep in mind, many old DOS games really required you to read the manual just to figure out controls, I won't help with "how do I play X game" questions. I do want to know if games aren't saving, are crashing, or if you can't access them due to a fuckup in the menu. 264ish games in this one, no more config needed for Windows users.

>>6543087
>>6547373
You guys are doing great work. Love both of the packs. I did want to let PCem anon know that the Lost Vikings gives a copy protection error and refuses to open the game from the Action Puzzle Game menu.

>>6547453
Odd, I just tested and the game runs from the menu, and didn't give an error. Does the error pop up past the first level or something?

>>6547658
But I did discover that I made a mistake in the graphical adventure menu that was preventing page 2 of the non-Sierra/Lucasarts games from showing. Whoops.

>>6547672
And I just found a fix for Lands of Lore to get it to function properly. All it needed was an update to version 1.23, and now it works just fine. With that, the HDD is down to roughly 27MBs left, and I want to leave that free for save games and whatnot. As such, version 1.0 of the pack is pretty much done. Only changes until 1.1 will be bugfixes, no more new games until I'm ready to try to force shit to run off of D:. Will post new links tomorrow.

>>6547367
Thanks anon. I'm actually thinking of pushing out one more update today that adds Hi-Octane, WipeOut, Slipstream 5000 and Terminal Velocity, so you might wanna grab that too!
>>6547371
They're all sounds (.wav files packed into a .exe) that trigger at the right time. They are the sounds that you hear while navigating the menu. (Intro.exe is the song playing at intro screen, button.exe the sound when choosing a game, back.exe when going back). Used a utility called Plany for them. DosBox can play mp3/ogg too but only through using CD audio (RedBook). For any sound running through the cmd screen it must be .wav (unless you have a 3rd party player).

I'm new to DOS gaming. Which of these would you recommend I check out first? I'm most interested in RPGs and dungeon crawlers, and there are tons to choose from.

>>6547873
The pack in OP (DosBox) has dungeoncrawlers too, look in the Requests section in the main menu. Also most of the well-known DOS titles.
The other pack in the comments (PCem pack) has alot of old titles including rpg/crawlers as well, maybe just check out both of them.

>>6547873
Eye of the beholder.

>>6548018
I'm specifically looking at which of those to start first, which of them will be a good jumping in point. I already got both packs.

>>6548021
Thanks anon.

>>6547373
>>6547717
absolutely based

>>6541856
>ctrl+f
>no Supaplex
Kneel

>>6543694
>>6544070
>UPLOAD AS A PACK FOR EVERYONE ANON!

Alright, here it is.

anonfiles com/r0Tcl5C3oc/DOSBox_VR_Split.ver_7z

As I said, it's the same DOS pack from the OP, except grouped games and BATs are divided to launch games separately. I made this to be able to include this collection on RetroArch and frontend setups more easily. For people launching directly from the desktop, the original pack's launcher will be a lot more useful than this.

I included more tips on how to use this in a text file.

>>6547373
>>6547717
>>6547814
Thanks!!

>>6547814
>>6541856
Update!
Pack creator here, found some time today to add some more titles that i felt should be in the pack also: Hi-Octane, SlipStream 5000, Terminal Velocity and WipeOut were all added. WipeOut comes with the official OST. You can find the new games in the 'Hover' subsection (top-right, formerly this was the Descent section, however i just put all those Hover games in there and renamed the submenu).
Just following the link in OP's post and you will see the updated DOSGAMES.7Z
Have fun!

>>6547658
It gives it the moment I select the game from the menu. Screenshot in pic. Could it be something I need to configure on my end?

>>6548562
Weird, it's like the setup didn't keep the info. Will be fixed for 1.0, but if you don't want to wait all you need to do is navigate to C:\TLV and run the setup. Tell it Sound Blaster Pro for everything, and give it any word for when it asks for info from the manual. I used "cunt" and it had no problems with that.

>>6548594
Ran setup and the game works like a charm. I'll let you know if I find any more issues. Keep up the good work anon!

>>6548653
Thanks for actually bothering to report an issue. Odds are, that one has been broken since 0.5 and no one noticed.

And PCem pack 1.0 is ready. 265ish games now, and The Lost Vikings should fucking work now.

https://www35.zippyshare.com/v/i4kUyNwY/file.html
https://www35.zippyshare.com/v/z9WJT3oY/file.html
https://www35.zippyshare.com/v/75rqikVq/file.html

https://1fichier.com/?kdeenc4muyonrzxq64lr

>>6548676
Shouldn't it be v0.10?
Anyway, thanks! I haven't had the chance to try it yet, I'll start with this one.

>>6548741
Nah, 1.0 means it's done for adding new games until the next major version. Any bugfixes needed will be 1.01, 1.02, etc. I was holding off on 1.0 until I could get Lands of Lore working. I don't plan on going to 1.1 and adding more games until I've figured out which games need to run off of C: and which I can just shove anywhere. Eventually 2.0 will be two 2GB HDD's full of games, but that's a long way off. I don't plan on getting to work on that until I've gotten the Win3.1 pack done.

>>6548382
>>6548676
b+rp

>>6548396
>>6548676
Thanks again!!

Don't even worry about Lands of Lore. It runs in ScummVM.

>>6541856
You aren't the author, but you wanted to post someone else's work on an image board so you'd feel important and people would talk to you. Neck yourself.

>>6550436
So that's how you're going to 'improve /vr/'? By shitposting in good threads? Get your own shit together or leave this place forever you massive faggot.

>>6550436
Sure bro. Thanks for the bump

>>6548676
Why does it weight less? Better compression?
Thanks anon

>>6551445
Pretty much. I might be able to go even smaller if I use 7z, but I need to test around to see what works best. It's not hugely important right now, but once I move to add a second HDD the pack will start getting a bit bulky.

>>6548396
Thanks hoss. You figure this is the last one or will you maybe keep adding them?

>>6541856
>https://mega.nz/folder/CldGAahb#yn_8LkRHraywPgKJMp5pqA
downloading and bumping.

>>6551787
You're welcome anon. Not saying i won't ever add something to this again, but at the moment i feel like i've accomplished what i wanted to accomplish with this project. Back in the beginning, what started out as an amateuristic attempt got improved and polished up nicely along the way. Now that it has matured, i don't see anything else that i could (or want) to improve upon.

>>6548676
Great work. Thanks for uploading it to an alternate host.

can you configure this on standalone versions of dosbox or is it only a feature for the dosbox-svn core from retroarch? I looked around but I can't find anything

>>655300
That setting simply lets you pick whether graphics synchronization is being handled by DosBox or RetroArch. There’s no reason why it should exist in standalone DosBox

>>6553236
oh dang, thanks for the explanation
my dumb ass thought it somehow improved performance but I guess the core just has better optimization than standalone dosbox builds

>150 threads in /vr/ and this is the only good one
based and sadpilled

>Civilization (latest version, sound patch applied)
I recommend also aplying the no quiz patch with JCivED

>found my first pc with a Pentium MMX
>still boots and plays every DOS game fine

>>6553875
that removes the copyright protection screen? iirc you can just fill in something random and press enter and you can continue, no need to fill in the actual answer

>>6548676
Some games (like populous) are running are at a way higher framerate
Is there a way to tweak the single games?

>>6555870
I can set them to use setmul or something similar to disable the L1 cache and hope that slows it down enough, but PCem is emulating a system and not each game individually. I've also heard of another DOS program that lets you set the speed, but I have to check into it.

Any other games besides Populous having issues?

This is a long shot, but here goes.

When I was a kid, I played a game on PC that I think was called Siege of Exile or similar. It came on a CD-ROM called 1001 Computer Games or similar. The disc itself had a bunch of little games like frogger, pacman, and a few random games that weren't too fun, but Siege of Exile (as I remember it being called), was a blast.

Here's what I remember, bear in mind that memory is fuzzy.
> top down RPG game with 4 members in party
> character creation was point buy and you could take penalties like "bad back" to increase the number of points you used for stats
> pixel graphics with sprites
> may have also been called path of exile
> there was a text command box to do things in some instances.

I know this descibes like half of retro games, but any help is greatly appreciated.

>>6556409
Exile from Spiderweb Software?

>>6556418
Hey man, I think that's it.

Have a (you) and my gratitude.

>people talking about Exile
>right before I could get the Win3.1 pack uploaded
How did you know? Win3.1 0.5 pack uploaded, get it here:
https://www65.zippyshare.com/v/Ncr1S42w/file.html
https://www65.zippyshare.com/v/sAxJ0E3Z/file.html
or
https://1fichier.com/?tbfl6vwb90ou5dhvz1ah

Game List for 0.5:
Ace Ventura
American Civil War
Balance of Power
Castle of the Winds
Castle of the Winds 2
Chess
Chip's Challenge
Cruel
Deja Vu
Deja Vu 2: Lost in Las Vegas
Dr. Black Jack
Dragon's Keep
Drain Storm
Exile : Escape from the Pit
Exile 2 : Crystal Souls
Exile 3 : Ruined World
FreeCell
Fuji Golf
Glider 4.0
Golf
Hearts
Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures
Jezz Ball
Klotski
Kye
Legions
LifeGenesis
MagnaFlux Runner
Maxwell's Maniac
Metal Marines
Minesweeper
Monopoly
Pegged
Pipe Dream
RattlerRace
Risk
Rodent's Revenge
Scrabble for Windows
Shadowgate
SimEarth
SimLife
SimTower
SkiFree
Skulduggery
Solitaire
Space Cadet
Stars!
Stones
TDK Pinball
Taipei
TetraVex
Tetris
The Even More Incredible Machine
The Journeyman Project Turbo
The Uninvited
Tic Tac Drop
TriPeaks
Tut's Tomb
WordZap

>>6556770
another quality post

Why wouldn't I just use exodos or the win 3.1 collection?

>>6556854
'Just' use Exodos? Aka downloading a 500GB bloated archive that has 7000 games, from which 6900 aren't worth your time. Not to mention it uses additional software to run. It's not 'plug 'n play' at all.

>>6556890
You can literally just import it into Launchbox with like two button presses, and 500 gigabytes is like three games these days. Buyyyy bigger hard drives

>>6556902
>and 500 gigabytes is like three games these days.
what board do you think this is?

>>6556902
The main problem isn't even hdd space, most countries (except for example sweden) are still limited to medium internet speeds. Excerpt from 2017: "The average U.S. fixed broadband download speed was 64.17 Mbps (15th in the world) in the first half of 2017". 64,17 Mbits per second is 8mb/sec (it does slowly go up every year but not by much). Downloading 500 GB at that speed would take roughly 17,5 hours. Which is still highly optimistic because Exodos is distributed through torrents, where speeds can drastically be reduced depending on available seeds.

>>6556942
not him, but how is 17.5 hours a problem?

>>6556854
That pack is like 90% shit

>>6556770
my hero, my love, my life. thank you.

>>6556968
It literally is. But that's because it's an archival project (like a digital DOS museum), not really suitable for getting started with the best DOS games quickly.

Same reason they expect you to actually use a digital copy of the original manual, open it up with a .pdf reader, search up the secret code and fill it in the copyright protection screens. They also included full, uncompressed CD-images for every game that use them, that's why the total size got so out of hand. Bit like oranges and apples compared to this pack.

>>6556854
PCem anon here. It's a matter of what use case is best for the end user.

Anon's DOSBox pack is a smallish collection of the more demanding and 3D DOS games configured and tweaked to be as good as possible. It's not every DOS game you would ever want to play, but for the games it has, it's a good way to play those specific games outside of source ports. My PCem pack is a smallish collection of the shareware favorites, graphical adventures, and RPGs that made late 80's to mid 90's DOS gaming so memorable, with a lot of other stuff like pinball and edutaiment thrown in. Most games have been patched to their final official release version, and have already been configured to run from menus so the end user doesn't have to do any setup.
Both packs are great for people looking to get into the highlights of DOS gaming without having to manually do a lot of configuration, do per game config for DOSBox, or make their own virtual machine. Neither requires any knowledge of DOS to be usable either. Both packs together give you a few hundred of the best DOS games with little effort needed.
ExoDOS is an attempt by a good man from pleasuredome to get every DOS game in existence working under DOSBox without QoL improvements. Which is good if you plan on using DOSBox, but makes for a lot of useless files otherwise. Great if you want to play everything under DOSBox. ExoDOS just focuses on having one version of each game as well. Great if you want a file list that reads like a game list, bad if you want a specific version of a game.
Total DOS Collection is an attempt to archive every single DOS game, and every version, addon, etc. Focus is on .IMA and .bin(s)+.cue of original install media, but loose files in an archive can be accepted if they have no alternative. It's up to about 168GB's so far, so it's not quite as far along as ExoDOS, but it's still getting new stuff. Great for real hardware and PCem, kinda clunky for DOSBox.

>>6556968
not really an archive if you only keep the best stuff

>>6556931
What kind of lame ass gatekeeper only plays retro games Jesus

>>6557181
This is a good reply thank you for more context.

>>6543087
>in the last thread i received alot of requests and i pretty much added all of them
Is the updated pack the same as the one in the OP?

>>6557702
Yes, that's the nice thing about Mega. You can replace the files inside the map that is being shared, while the link always stays the same. In other words, the same link will always contain the latest version.

>>6548382
>>6553008
Just a heads up for people using RetroArch: the "DosBox SVN CE" core was abandoned, the one with all the fixes and improvements is actually the core called "DosBox-core" core (kek)

https://github.com/realnc/dosbox-core#dosbox-core

>A libretro core of DOSBox for use in RetroArch and other libretro frontends. DOSBox-core is kept up to date with the latest sources from DOSBox SVN trunk.

>The core provides some improvements over the DOSBox-SVN core:

>Native MIDI support on Linux and Windows.
>>You can select the MIDI output port in the core settings. The core will try to select the correct MIDI device even if the MIDI port changes in the future, as it remembers the MIDI port by name, not by number.
>Cycle-accurate OPL3 (YMF262) emulation.
>MT-32, CM32-L and LAPC-I emulation.
>Soundfont-based MIDI synthesizer.
>>Using FluidSynth, a MIDI software synthesizer that supports >SF2/SF3/DLS/GIG soundfonts.
>>Using BASSMIDI, a MIDI software synthesizer that supports SF2/SFZ soundfonts.
>Experimental 3dfx Voodoo support.
>Other general, under-the-hood improvements and bugfixes.

>DOSBox-core was originally based on the >https://github.com/libretro/dosbox-svn libretro core, developed mainly by Radius as well as other contributors (the full commit history has been preserved.)

>>6557252
people who like good games?

>>6556770
>SimTower
I love you

>>6556770
==b

>>6556942
stop living in a third-world-shithole

>>6559223
I don't actually, i was just making an example because the average person is still stuck with that speed, i have a comfy 125mbps myself. I think alot of people who are maybe interested in trying out some DOS games would be turned off by the fact that they would have to download a 500gb archive (in the case of Exodos). It might not be a problem in the near future, but for now it's still better to compress and cut down in size in many occasions. The other packs in this thread being between 1 and 2 gb while still offering the best available titles is a much better compromise than to cram 7000 titles in a compilation.

>>6555870
Can you use a line like "CONFIG -set cycles=10000" in the BAT file to slow it down?

Just an idea

>>6556770
>Castle of the Winds 2

Used to dick around with this on my grandma's computer. Thanks!

>>6559326
No, DOS does not allow you to set your CPU cycles, that's just something you can do in DOSbox. A lot of slowdown programs available work by disabling the L1 cache to slow the CPU down, but it's no promise it will slow it down enough. A few claim to work by eating cycles, so I'm hoping one of those will work under DOS..

>>6556770
0.6 is up. New games are:

Adventures of MicroMan
Atomic
Backgammon
Blades of Exile
Cribbage
Fields of Battle
High Command
Loony Labryinth
Lunacy
Mesh : Hero Defiant
Odell Down Under
Slay
Spaceward Ho!
Terrace
Zombie Castle

I'm running out of Win3.1 games that can run off of HDD alone. If anyone has any recommendations for stuff that can run off the HDD under Win3.1, please let me know. I may have to get creative with some CD based games. If I can't fill out the 2GB HDD, I'll just make the final version with a smaller HDD to save room. Download links here:
https://1fichier.com/?vrfzpzot5ce68qmcuq01
or
https://www31.zippyshare.com/v/4H788r1K/file.html
https://www31.zippyshare.com/v/bwSphuGy/file.html

Can someone guide me to running this on linux?

>>6560776
1. Install DosBox
2. ?????????
3. Profit!

>>6560821
Yea man but i want nice menu and all of that

>>6560828
Then use it?

>>6560776
To run the PCem packs under linux, install PCem on your machine. Copy the contents of the configs and rom directories over to your configs and rom directories wherever you stick PCem. I image the DOSBox pack can be transferred the same way.

>>6556770
Okay so now we have anon's dos pack, the PCem pack AND the win3 pack?

>>6560969
Yes.

>>6560828
To use pack in OP (dosbox pack) on Linux just switch out the windows files for their linux equivalents (Dosbox.exe, SDL.dll, SDL_NET.dll). You can grab the Linux version simply from dosbox.com

>>6541856
>DOS Pack for dosbox
>in a DOS general
>unironically
Actual DOS on actual hardware, plz.

>>6561989
Nah

>>6561989
Where did you get the impression that this thread is either only genuine DOS hardware or only DosBox? Both are welcome to be discussed here. The fact that real DOS hardware is hardly being talked about here is because it's rare these days. It's mostly about the games on this board anyway..

>>6562178
That's not the complaint.
What annoys me is these packs are actual dos user unfriendly. They're made with only dosbox in mind.

>>6562235
The pack in OP works actually works fine on real DOS hardware, given you own a sb16. Just gotta copy the games to your C drive and manually start them.

>>6562263
Got 486 DX2/66 and sb pro 2.

>>6562235
The PCem packs would work just the same on real hardware if you transfer the shit over. And the Total DOS Collection already exists for real hardware users. See:
>>6557181

Are you complaining that you didn't bother to read the thread, or that you don't understand different use cases?

>>6562235
>What annoys me is these packs are actual dos user unfriendly.
You poor guy. Hang in there, anon.

>>6562403
Thanks for linking me to that comment.

>>6548676
>tfw just cancelled 0.8 download once I saw 0.9, then cancelled it again after reading this post
better read the thread to the end first I guess

>>6562652
1.0 DOS and 0.6 Win3.1 are the most recent PCem packs, and will remain the current version for some time. Just got the call, won't have internet access for some time, probably months. Once I get back in town I'll resume the project, but I can't do anything until then.

So for those just tuning in, OP's post has most recent version of the DOSBox pack anon made, and
>>6548676
and
>>6560653
are the most recent versions of the PCem packs I made.

>>6542412
Fucking hell that's amazing.

>>6560969
DOSchads just keep on winning, bro

>>6541856
The amount of winning in this thread is refreshing and makes me hard.

>>6556770
Well, I just bought a copy of The Journeyman Project Turbo off ebay after remembering playing it when I was a wee lad. Looks like I didn't need to because you added it to the Win3.1 0.5 pack. It did have some hardcore copy protection via the manual though, so I'll help everyone out:

TSA Entry Code: 6894895
Temporal Security Annex, Left monitor code: 0524133
Historical Code for disc: 0291384

Oh, and SAVE A LOT. When you die, it shuts the game down entirely. It was one of the first multimedia games of its kind, so, well, there it is.

>>6557838
I tried downloading it both from the menu and manually from github and I don't think its working correctly. It runs slower (way slower) than dosbox-svn, plus it keeps crashing all the time for seemingly no reason. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong but I think I'll stick with the other core for now.

>>6563975
Yeah, same experience here. I reported a bug on the DosBox SVN github and the response I got was "DosBox SVN is dead, DosBox-core is the most recent version", so I came back and made that post. But after trying it a bit, I regret recommending it. It's definitely unstable, crashing frequently when loading more than one game on the same session. Besides, the default settings it comes with are now focused on older games, so most games in this thread's pack need to change the CPU settings to run correctly... this is probably why it worked slowly for you. This might or not be a big deal depending on how many games you need to tweak manually.

Good to know they're still working on adding compatibility to it, but for now SVN CE is still the more reliable option. Or at least the one closest to standalone DosBox.

>>6564960
dosbox is dead in general. Basically no progress in a decade.
Try https://dosbox-staging.github.io/
Dosbox is far behind it.

>>6565136
Fuck off shill. DOSBox is fine for playing 95% of the DOS library.

>>6565173
So what. It's also a dead project.

>>6565178
Just what further development in DOS emulation do you need you colossal sperg? Holy fucking shit you stupid autists, all of you.

>>6565192
There's active forks of dosbox plus PCem and box86, thus absolutely no reason to use the deprecated, abandoned dosbox.
Are you a dosbox dev or a friend thereof? You come out as quite desperate, defending a dead project like that.

>>6565204
I don't give a fuck about the other shit you shill here

>>6565216
For someone who doesn't care, you sure post a lot, mr. dosbox shill.

>>6565224
You too.

>>6565136
Thanks. We know about dosbox-staging, it's been mentioned before on these threads. Good shit. It doesn't make it illegal to discuss or prefer other alternatives for whatever reason though.

>>6565136
I don't know why but the performance is worse than on DB 0.74.

>>6564960
yeah I changed the settings but it still ran like absolute ass, also, whats the difference between the dosbox-svn and dosbox-svn-ce? I've been using the former and it has been a mostly flawless experience

>>6565769

The changes on the libretro cores seem to be fairly recent, so there doesn't seem to be a real documentation on the differences (there's a DosBox core article in Libretro Docs, but seems to be outdated). Here's what I could gather lurking around various github issue discussions:

dosbox-svn: upstream dosbox-svn, nothing added on the libretro side.
dosbox-svn-ce: is "dosbox-svn with additional community patches (like built-in MT-32 emulation and such)" (https://forums.libretro.com/t/dosbox-svn-appear-double-in-the-core-updater/25124))

Both of these are "legacy core for old systems where dosbox-core doesn't run" (https://github.com/libretro/dosbox-svn/issues/63).). Presumably, they're not being updated anymore.

dosbox-core is where they're adding all the new stuff, like additional types of audio emulation, and 3dfx (>>6557838). But as we've found out, it's not nearly as stable as svn/svn-ce, and has higher system requirements.

So yeah, let's stick to dosbox-svn-ce for now. Seem to work just fine for all the games on the pack we're discussing. And it's not like there's a new DOS game comming out. Now, if you want add Carmageddon to it, or another 3dfx game, there's dosbox-core for that.

>>6565136
More like dosbox-STAGNATING am i rite

>>6565204
>dead project
I think it works fine. What is it about these other programs that you like over using dosbox? Nobody needs to argue over this, just tell the thread and we can all have fun, together.

>>6567559
Not that anon, and i don't anything about dosbox-staging but i was already using DosboxECE before. That one has actual benefits to use instead of regular dosbox.

>>6567598
>VOGONS community
Run by dosbox devs, they banned dosbox-staging's author and do routinely censor criticism or alternatives to dosbox.
I'd rather go somethere else, like vcfed.

>>6568260
They link to vogons on their own GitHub about why the branch exists:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=790065#p790065

>>6561989
lol

Unrelated to DOS but for the original pack creator who also shares those Windows 98 games, I've downloaded Thief from your MEGA folder and the cutscenes are not working, this is usually an issue when not installing Tfix but I can't really tell if the cutscenes are in the folder at all since the movies folder is missing and your doc also mentions NewDark is already patched in. Game works fine otherwise, at least for the couple first missions I've played.

>>6569071
Dospack/Win98 anon here, i do remember installing TFix on top of it (from the same website where NewDark is hosted, ttlg) but i don't remember removing any movies folder, perhaps it was already a rip version without them. On a sidenote, i'm planning to go through all those games and correct some stuff (put default res to 1920 instead of 1280 etc.) and repack them in a .7z file format.

>>6569280
top notch