/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.2009132]

Okay guys, i need your help, i got a lot of DOS games, the problem: i'm too much of a retard to use DOSBox.
Are there any good frontends or another DOS launcher that is easier to use?

[Anonymous No.2009164]

What's the problem?
Launching the game? Just drag the game.exe into the dosbox.exe

[Anonymous No.2009176]

>>2009164
well fuck, thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.2009180]

>>2009132

MS-DOS master race here.

Never used the command line before, have you? This is quite easy. Let's say you have Wolfenstein 3D unpacked in folder WOLF3D, under c:\games. When you launch DOSBox, and have the black DOS command prompt open, type the following:

mount c c:\games <press Enter>
c: <press Enter>
cd wolf3d <press Enter>

Then launch Wolfenstein 3D by entering the name of the game .EXE, whic is usually WOLF3D.EXE. You can view a list of all files and folders inside the WOLF3D-folder by entering:

dir /p <press Enter>

[Anonymous No.2009192]

>>2009180
This.

OP, believe me when I say I am a bigger retard than you at PC tinkering.

But even I got DOSBox to work all sorts of games I never expected I'd get to play.

This guide is pretty much everything, but you can also do >>2009164

Be aware that doesn't work for all games, yet for some games it's the ONLY way things will work. Tie Fighter for example - I can't get it to launch via command lines, but it works perfectly dropping the START batch on the DOSBox icon.

Also, the DOSBox wiki has some really fantastic, clear and concise guides on all the command lines you might need.

Some games for example, you might have to mount several isos for it, and mount the game itself. That's where the guides come in.

Godspeed dude and remember if I could do it, believe me you can.

[Anonymous No.2009241]

>>2009132
Basically do what was said before, though I say also look into D-Fend Reloaded, you can have profiles/configs set up for each game and even have it so it'll auto-mount the CD for you if necessary, either mounting the image within dosbox or it'll ask which drive to use in your computer.

[Anonymous No.2009264]

You don't deserve to play these old games if you can't even figure out how to change directories and launch executables in DOSBox. If you actually looked at the documentation or one of the many websites that explain DOS commands you'd figure it out in 5 minutes.

[Anonymous No.2009271]

>>2009241
>anon.
>>2009192
>>2009180
>>2009164
thanks to all of you anons,finally going to get a nostalgia boost with theme hospital

[Anonymous No.2009278]

>>2009264
>You don't deserve to play old games

[Anonymous No.2009283]

Anyone tried dosbox for android? I thought it might be fun to try cannon fodder with the touch screen instead of a mouse, then I though distinguishing between left and right clicks might not be so hot, but it couldn't hurt to try.

So I downloaded aDosBox, I can load up the game fine, but once I'm in I can't type. I can type fine in the dos part, but in the game keystrokes just don't seem to register. It's one of those games with the anti piracy screens where you have to type a word from the manual, so I just get stuck there and can't do anything.

[Anonymous No.2009385]

>>2009271
FYI there's also a sourceport you might want to see, named CorsixTH.

[Anonymous No.2009394]

>>2009132
I use DBGL.
it has a setup wizard and chooses all the right settings and shit. Easy as fuck to use.

Don't bother with elitist command entering bullshit. I just want to play the game

[Anonymous No.2009408]

>>2009271
>That Theme of the Hospital

Pic related, what was supposed to be the "casual" sequel to this game.

[Anonymous No.2009558]

>>2009180
all that shit can be added to the config file of dosbox, by doing that you never have to fuck with settings and command live shit again, ya simply run the dosbox exe and bam in ya game, and the great thing is with a few tweaks to the config (mostly name changes of the game exe you want) you can get multiple games running easy as no fucking around

https://mega.co.nz/#!VQ9SFBjC!WGBqDGq6dYYgtpnpqHeGuvy9uUhCm-sQoh09XOMJKc4

also tie fighter, full cd rip and ready to go

[Anonymous No.2009579]

>>2009408
why would anyone put that kind of tv's on a fucking hospital of all places,that looks like shit

[Anonymous No.2009591]

>>2009579
okay guys so what are some cool DOS games?

[Anonymous No.2009603]

>>2009591
x-wing
tie fighter
powerslave
need for speed
super street fighter 2 (near perfect arcade port)
carmageddon
mk1-3
CnC
mechwarrior 2 (if u can get it going)
jurassic park (well for me)
raptor call of the shadows
tomb raier 1
worms
sim city
wing commander
the list goes on really

[Anonymous No.2009604]

>>2009591
commander keen

[Anonymous No.2009605]

>>2009591

[Anonymous No.2009652]

>>2009603
>>2009604
>>2009605
Thanks guys,now its time for me to play all those games that i never played because i was too little/wasn't even born when they came out

[Anonymous No.2009767]

>>2009132
I find the well commented and easy to understand conf file for Dosbox easier to use than some of the complicated DB frontends that emphasize profiles and cascading inheritance with individual game configs.

Once you get a decent generic config that works for a majority of games; you mostly never have to touch it again.

EXE, DOSBOX.CONF - that's it.

And once you know the basic DOS directory commands, then all games work roughly the same.

SETUP.EXE, SETSOUND.EXE - Sound, VESA mode, kb/joy.
GAME.BAT, GAME.EXE, GAME.COM - Guess :).

You generally use the same directory as your DOS C Drive and just install lots of games into it; so be sure to put the mount commands in your DOSBOX.CONF.

mount c x:\dosgames
mount d y:\ -t cdrom

[Anonymous No.2010054]

Get the newer SVN builds. They include an interface so you can change things on the fly.

[Anonymous No.2010515]

>>2009164
this again. always this. most game EXE's can be dragged and dropped onto dosbox. just be sure to download latest version of dosbox.

unless you use some edgey linux with no GUI. in which case, you're a big faggit or trolling.

[Anonymous No.2010568]

One thing I wish dosbox would do is split the config into a host and guest settings file (so dosbox becomes dosboxes), but I suppose there are ways to improvise it yourself

i remember trying one of those frontends years ago and finding that the available configs for each game also contained arbitrary host settings from who ever happened to create the file. kinda ruined the plugnplay aspect if you have to tinker with the settings each time before use.

[Anonymous No.2010571]

I usually just drag the folder with the game to the dosbox.exe. That way the folder is mounted as C:
If a game needs a CD drive, add imgmount D "game.iso" -t iso to the bottom of the dosbox.conf

[Anonymous No.2010574]

>>2010568
You can always download an individual copy of dosbox for each of your games, and set the config accordingly for each game. I haven't don't this myself technically, but for example I have my DOSbox with my preferred settings for most vidya, but I've got a few GoG / Steam DOS games that launch from their own DOSboxes.

[Anonymous No.2010651]

>>2009180
You should really stick your mounts in the conf file so you don't have to type it when you start up.

Also if he needs he can try dir /? to find what the switches are. dir /w/ad/p is useful for listing directories. If you're in the middle of a pause and want to get out ctrl+c will break without having to finish.

You can use edit to modify text files in dos but it might be easier to just do it in windows and then ctrl+F4 to refresh the file system.

To move down one directory he can also use cd .. to move down two cd ../..

If he needs to know dos commands he just google dos commands and some of it will generally apply in dosbox pretty spot on.

[Anonymous No.2010659]

>>2010574
You don't even technically need individual copies of dosbox, just make new configs and make a shortcut to the dosbox.exe with -conf "configname.conf" in the target. Optionally also -noconsole

[Anonymous No.2010678]

>>2009394
>Elitist command entering bullshit
It's also part of the DOS experience, don't knock on other people's enjoyment of their hobby if you don't share it man.

[Anonymous No.2010680]

>>2010054
>tfw Daum for Linux doesn't have the menu bar
;_;

[Anonymous No.2010689]

>>2010678
using an operating system is not a gaming experience

[Anonymous No.2010702]

>>2010689
You've never gamed until you've written your own boot disk just to free up the last 15 kB of conventional memory needed for the game.
DOSbox is nothing in comparison.

[Anonymous No.2010705]

>>2009579
EA

[Anonymous No.2010709]

>>2010689
>using an operating system is not a gaming experience
So I take it you'd like it more if you could emulate Amiga games without that pesky AmigaOS, right?

[Anonymous No.2010715]

>>2010709
I've never tried emulating Amiga.
But I can emulate C64, MSX, and DOS (using a frontend) without ever touching a command line interface.
This is a good thing. I do like this.
Fucking with a command line interface is an unnecessary hassle that keeps me from playing the game. I probably wouldn't have played as many games as I have if I had to constantly do that shit.

[Anonymous No.2010750]

>>2010709
You don't need workbench for every Amiga game.
Some games are also distributed as hard drive images so your interaction with the OS is minor.

[Anonymous No.2010782]

>>2010689
But the installers are!
I pity those who have never known the comfyness of 80x25 text mode GUI on VGA CRT.

Also, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77k-eNscp2k

[Anonymous No.2010805]

Does Shadowplay work for DOSBox? It doesn't seem to be detecting the games on DOSBox at all, even if I meddle with the graphics output settings. Any chance somebody here knows how to get it to work?

[Anonymous No.2010815]

>>2009394
Elitest commands? Really? Fuck, you've caught stupid of astronomical proportions. Stick to consoles so you don't hurt yourself kid.>>2009394

[Anonymous No.2010816]

>>2009394
>elitist command entering bullshit

[Anonymous No.2010820]

>>2010815
>Stick to consoles so you don't hurt yourself kid.
You see this? This is the elitism I was mentioning.

I will gladly continue to enjoy DOS games using a frontend, without wasting my fucking time entering routine startup commands. Thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.2010852]

>>2009558

This.

There's really no need to jump through the hoops like back in the days and that's coming from someone who used to. Just set it and forget it.

[Anonymous No.2010886]

>>2009180
>MS-DOS master race here.
>can't into autoexec.bat (or the dosbox equivalent)

that being said, there was a long, long era of owner-operator computer users who were scared shitless of modifying their config.sys and autoexec.bat

[Anonymous No.2010905]

>>2010820
>without wasting my fucking time entering routine startup commands

>what is batch
>what is the easiest scripting on the planet
if you're too dumb to work DOS, you don't deserve to play the games. plain and simple.

saging and /thread

[Anonymous No.2010921]

>>2010689
I don't quite agree. Part of the appeal retro gaming has is to replicate as well as possible both the feel and the atmosphere from when you originally played your old games. People who hunt CRTs, or make arcade cabinets, console hunters, people who pick up old computers and set them up as gaming machines - they're all looking to make their experience as close as the original as possible. And having to deal with DOS/Windows 3.1/95, etc was pretty much integral to playing games. Like >>2010886 said, being booted to DOS or having to fiddle with your system files made it so much more... i dunno, intense. To me (and this is just me ok you can differ and it's alright) DOS will forever be one with 80's-90's PC gaming.

You want straight forward stuff, all the more power to you. And I think that being able to have it your way is radical as shit.

[Anonymous No.2010938]

>>2010921
>People who hunt CRTs
To be fair, CRTs aren't a nostalgic way to play games, they're just a better way to play them, period. For old SD games CRT TV's are the reigning champ outright. For computers CRT monitors with older games and scaling is perfect and plus CRTs just look better than LCD for color, motion and image quality.

If there was a better display technology for the games many people would use that. But there's not. Sure some people do it for for originality, but most people do it because it's the premium experience.

[Anonymous No.2010941]

>>2010820
Well deserved elitism to your own elitism you threw out first.

[Anonymous No.2010982]

>>2010820
It's not elitism. If you aren't willing to learn the commands to operate a system, you aren't entitled to operate within that system. Simple. Not elitest.

No one hands you car keys before you learn how to drive, I bet you call people with licenses elitist too.

[Anonymous No.2011000]

>>2010982
In all fairness, DOS is pretty much the only platform that still requires some form of command line dickery to get games working. You don't even have to do that for C64 games anymore.

While it is a nice option to have, it's 2014 and it shouldn't be a necessity.

[Anonymous No.2011017]

>>2011000
>You don't even have to do that for C64 games anymore.
It depends on the way you got the games in. Knowing how to get the floppy directory and being able to load more than just the first game is handy and be it for troubleshooting.
You can always try to get games preconfigured so you don't have to do anything special to run them but that can limit the games at your disposal and may end with a suboptimal configuration.

[Anonymous No.2011235]

Might as well ask this thread.

Mechwarrior 1 all of a sudden started running poorly on my DOSbox today out of nowhere. I have my DOSbox configured for game, since it needs slight tinkering, but now everything is choppy and slowed down, from the frame rate to the music.

I've been playing it with no problems all of last week. Any ideas guys?

[Anonymous No.2011424]

Yeah. Check out Dosshell or D-Fend Reloaded.

[Anonymous No.2011425]

>>2010921
I like you.

[Anonymous No.2011473]

Not loving this holier than thou attitude.
I thought we were above that, i thought we welcomed people who didn't know how to emulate or run dosbox.
I thought we wanted people to talk about and play games?

[Anonymous No.2011486]

>>2011473
we may have another name but we still are /v/ at heart,so most of the guys here are assholes pretending to be nice guys

[Anonymous No.2011514]

>>2011486

>we still are /v/ at heart

Says more about you than me, i don't roll like that here, neither should you.

[Anonymous No.2011528]

>>2011514
yeah, well, there's a reason why i don't go to /v/ anymore, those guys are insuferabble pricks most of the time, you guys are better than them

[Anonymous No.2011529]

>>2011473
more like this

[Anonymous No.2011552]

>>2011473
Plenty of people have contributed helpful advice and made suggestions. The holier than thou attitude is largely originating from someone bitching about it.

Of course even with helping I don't 'want' people to talk about and play games. I'm here to talk to people 'who do' play them. It's not anyone's job to hand hold you through a hipster retroventure if that's what they're trying to do and I don't care if people who don't know jack shit about games never bother post a thing.

>>2011528
The crux of what he was saying is /vr/ is /v/ at least a statistically majority of what made /v/ worthwhile early on. /vr/ is distilled good /v/, /vg/ is distilled bad /v/ and current /v/ is neo/v/ full of people who were never in /v/. There's some seepage between the three, but pretty much that's it pretty much turned out. So, old /v/ is actually /vg/ and /vr/ put together. Of course that doesn't mean /vr/ is all rainbows for everything, it just means most of the people here were the least and lesser shitlords from old /v/. All the old meme's about /v/, the ground isn't hard enough, kicking everyone's ass, /v/ being angry, that's here that's this community. That's our response to the shitty part of old /v/ and modernization. You don't see it come out as much here because, here is where those things come to fruition, the ground is hard here and there's a significant portion of less retarded individuals here.

[Anonymous No.2011576]

>>2011529
What is a CRT's Suck? Wikipedia gives nothing about it.

[Anonymous No.2011594]

>>2011529

[Anonymous No.2011736]

>>2010651
>>2010886
My system doesn't have persistence, because I boot Puppy Linux directly to RAM and never save.

[Anonymous No.2012141]

>>2010680
>linux
>gui
lol

[Anonymous No.2012416]

>>2011736
Do you have to install Dosbox or any other software every single time you want to use it? I remember that in the version I've used once you make a single change to your Puppy image it wants to save every reboot, which I find quite defeating the purpose.

I've always liked the idea of running the OS entirely from RAM, but it never quite worked out for me for that reason.

[Anonymous No.2012479]

I was using Meagre since that's what was included with the exodos collection I had found on some tracker. The thing is that it has a peculiar mame-ish setup where it has all the data files for the games (pictures, covers,info) in some big !dos folder and then separately the games.
If I wanted to use something else, like D-Fend for example, could I just point it to the games folders and would it identify them ? Perhaps scrape info/covers from the network on its own without fucking anything up ?

Also, I'm loving these silly FMV games.

[Anonymous No.2012695]

>>2012479
Which one is this? on my cell phone so I apologize if the filename had sauce.

[Anonymous No.2012975]

>>2010982
I could learn the commands if I wanted to.
I just don't fucking want to because it's a waste of time when frontends that do it for you exist.
I DON'T like to waste my fucking time.
Saying that people who don't enjoy wasting their fucking time aren't entitled to enjoy games is the biggest crock of bullshit I've ever heard

[Anonymous No.2013008]

>>2012975
I think front ends waste more time.

[Anonymous No.2013061]

>>2009278
Actually I agree with him. Can't read some fucking docs and learn how to mount the drive. Did you know you could simply make it autoexecute on startup with the config file?

[Anonymous No.2013170]

Christ. All you elite tryhard faggots need to shut the fuck up and let others enjoy the games in whatever manner they choose.

[Anonymous No.2013309]

>>2011736
So pop in a USB stick and copy the conf file. Or upload it onto an ftp or something and use wget/curl to snatch it.

>>2012141
Linux in general is lol tier shit. It's a kind of a gigantic mess and absurd hassle and for the DE it's buggy and unstable as fuck.

[Anonymous No.2013313]

>>2013309
>Linux in general is lol tier shit. It's a kind of a gigantic mess and absurd hassle and for the DE it's buggy and unstable as fuck.
when was the last time you used Linux? or are we talking about 1999 Linux because this is /vr/?

[Anonymous No.2013342]

>>2013313
I'm running it right now. I've got distros relatively 2-3 years apart from this month to ~1996 or so floating around.
It's taken twenty years to get not a whole lot of anywhere.

[Anonymous No.2013408]

>>2009591
http://a.pomf.se/bkeizx.webm

[Anonymous No.2013427]

The command line is easy, dudes, have you seriously never used DOS before?

[Anonymous No.2013438]

>>2013427
>Tor
You're a big pedo.

[Anonymous No.2013447]

>>2013438
Actually, I use Tor for fringechan.

[Anonymous No.2013591]

>>2012416
>Do you have to install Dosbox or any other software every single time you want to use it?

Yes, that's exactly what I do. It only takes like 5 minutes to set it up, because I only install a small handful of small programs + a web browser before I configure my web connection. I only use Puppy for Internet, because I got tired of all the bloated antivirus and firewall programs that plague Windows. I still have Windows installed, and I use it for all the serious work, plus emulators of course, but I no longer browse the web from the Windows side of things.

The whole point is security. I boot to an obscure, RAM-only system and let the whole thing expire when I'm done to ensure that a potential virus infection would not survive a reboot. Been doing this for 5 years now, and I've been virus free the whole time.

[Anonymous No.2013598]

>>2013591
Do you also cover your computer's camera with a piece of paper?

[Anonymous No.2013680]

>>2012695
It's Angel Devoid. Lot's of hammy acting.

[Anonymous No.2013741]

>>2013447
>Go to Fringechan because.
>Immediately depressed.
Is it always that depressing?

>>2010905
>>2010886
Custom .BAT master race reporting in. Set it all up, get my own icons, own it.

[Anonymous No.2013754]

>>2013598
What camera?

[Anonymous No.2013772]

>>2013741
>Is it always that depressing?
Yeah, pretty much.

[Anonymous No.2013775]

>>2013741
>>2013772
what the hell is it? isn't that the one where they discuss super natural powers and shit? smiley's board?

[Anonymous No.2013781]

>>2013775
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=fringechan

[Anonymous No.2015138]

Definitely check out Blood and Carmageddon OP.

[Anonymous No.2015214]

>>2009132
I use D-Fend Reloaded. It launches the games without having to go through the command prompter.

I was fine used the command prompter, but for my thesis I needed to use a program that only ran on DOS, and the professor who gave it to me had no manual. I couldn't get to to start with the cmmand prompter, but it works just fine when started through D-Fend.

[Anonymous No.2015376]

>>2010709
For many Amiga games, it was often just a matter of booting your machine with the game floppy in the first drive (DF0:) and then swapping disks if necessary. Occasionally you'd need to format a blank disk for saved games, but that was an easy point & click thing from Workbench.

It sometimes got a bit more messy and DOS-like if you happened to have a HD and wanted to install games. Not all of them, mind you. Some couldn't even be installed to HD, due to copy-protection. Others were easy to install because the game provided a "install to HD" icon... But other times you had to open up a CLI or Shell window and actually type some commands (ooooh scary commands!) that were given in the game manual, like manually copying the files to HD, and probably also adding an "assign" entry to your DH0:/s/startup-sequence script.

But generally it was easier than DOS, because you didn't have to worry about drivers and freeing up enough 640KB base memory. Amiga machines were advanced and from the future and all that! :-)

[Anonymous No.2015532]

>>2013408
This really needs a sourceport.

[Anonymous No.2015992]

>>2009164
why did no one ever tell me it was this simple?

[Anonymous No.2016093]

>>2015532
http://a.pomf.se/zutrik.webm
http://a.pomf.se/rqsbnl.webm

[Anonymous No.2016313]

>>2011424
What setting do you use to get your icons big like that?

[Anonymous No.2016315]

>>2015992
Well personally I have always known about this method, but I thought people would prefer writing the commands in so I never talked about it.

[Anonymous No.2017509]

this thread makes me sad

[Anonymous No.2017572]

>>2017509
About what?

[Anonymous No.2017586]

>>2017572
My life.

[Anonymous No.2017608]

>>2017586
How did this thread make you feel sad about your life bro?

[Anonymous No.2017624]

>>2017608
I was actually screwing with you (I'm not even that guy), I wasn't expecting a serious answer. I forgot I was on /vr/ where poeple are nice. But now that you mention it I'm kinda floating through life trying to find a purpose and that kinda gets you down sometimes.

[Anonymous No.2017629]

>>2017624
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDglL8gY8o

But yeah. Don't worry. Be happy.

[Anonymous No.2017635]

>>2017629
Thanks bro, to get back on topic messing around in DOS actually cheers me up for some reason. Maybe it reminds me of a simpler time or something.

[Anonymous No.2017648]

>>2017635
>C:\
cd games
>C:\games
cd doom
>C:\games\doom
doom
*hard drive starts making those jiggy jiggy noises as Doom loads up*

>They will never know this feel

[Anonymous No.2018757]

for those of you that have a Wii still the dosbox port is nice for almost all the games i threw at it. just check out the Wiibrew entry and compatibility pages for games.

[Anonymous No.2018831]

>>2017648
> jiggy jiggy sounds

MY GOD THE NOSTALGIA IT'S TOO MUCH

[Anonymous No.2018989]

Sorry about the poor quality. The original is to big for 4chan.

[Anonymous No.2019096]

Okay I know all the DOS commands and all that, but I just like old school TUI menu screens for some reason... Does anyone happen to know what DOS menu program some anon used when he made a "shareware games pack" some months ago? It had like all the major Apogee or Epic MegaGames stuff or something...

[Anonymous No.2019486]

I remember using a front end called d-fend that worked well enough.

[Anonymous No.2019528]

>>2018831
The biggest nostalgia for me were the jiggy sounds when the machine was turning on, during the BIOS check. They had a special characteristic rhythm and order..

[Anonymous No.2019932]

>>2018989
>Epic Pinball
Fuck, thanks for reminding me. Installing it now.

[Anonymous No.2020026]

it was probably a 101 best games cd menu that was modified. i have three cds that are full of shareware games that are menu driven

[Anonymous No.2020039]

>>2019528
What about dialup modems, remember those?

>DEEEEEEEEE drrrrrrrrrrrrrr VWEE-OOH-WEE-OOH frrrrrrchhhhhhhhhhhhCCHCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHCHCHCHbzzzzrmmmcht

I don't wanna be all "le epic generation", but seriously, we're probably the last generation that's going to know what a dialup modem sounds like.

[Anonymous No.2020604]

>>2017648
>cd games
>cd doom
Why? That's stupid.
cd \games\doom
I just increased your directory changing effeciency by 100%.

[Anonymous No.2020850]

>>2020604
>Not having a batch file in your path that does all that and more
>Calling other people stupid

[Anonymous No.2020913]

>>2020604
sorry dude I was, like, 8.

[Anonymous No.2020937]

>>2018989
I can recommend these games:

>Battle Chess

>Commander Keen

>Command & Conquer
But I recommend Red Alert over C&C. RA is my favourite RTS of all time. In the Sobiet campaign you take orders from Stallin himself and are treated to these cheesy B-movie-esque cutscenes before the missions. Also highlighting soldiers and hearing their 'YES SIR? AFFARMATEEV' never gets old.

>Carmageddon
Must play car combat game. Fully awesome, kickass soundtrack. Great damage modeling and incredible physics to this day.

>Blood
Probably my single favourite game of all time. It's not the most polished game but its level design, atmosphere, distinctive character and ridiculously awesome gunplay/gameplay more than make up for it. I never get bored of Blood.

>Day of the Tentacle

>Descent/Descent II

>Doom/Doom II
Final Doom isn't mentioned but definitely check it out after these two as imo Plutonia is the best out of the original wads. Plutonia is fucking incredible.

>Duke Nukem 3D

>Full Throttle
One of my favourite three point and click adventure games along wth Leisure Suit Larry 7 and Blade Runner. Must play. Might be difficult to find in 2014 and not very well known anymore but everyone loved it back in the day. I guess you could consider it to be a 'gem' today.

>GTA
Also check out GTA 2.

>Jazz Jackrabbit

>King's Quest VI

>Leisure Suit Larry
I recommend 7 if you're only going to play one of the games. 7 is an absolute masterpiece and also comes with an inspiring jazz soundtrack.

>Quake
Another favourite of mine.

>Shadow Warrior
Another one of the 'Big 3' BUILD engine games.

>Tetris
Eh, play it on gameboy though.

>Monkey Island games

>Wolfenstein 3D
To be fair it's been completely overshadowed by its subsequently released shooters but would be a nice game to check out to see the historical progression of FPS.

Man DOS was great...

[Anonymous No.2020943]

seconding DBGL - DosBox Game Launcher.

Just make a profile, set the machine to be a late 90s pc, set your .exe in the mounting tab, run the profile. done.

if the game needs installing, set the installer in the mounting tab, run setup.

easy peasy japanesey

[Anonymous No.2021013]

Honestly, the easiest thing to do is write up a config for your game and use shortcuts to launch it.

My next step is to make batch files with for the shortcuts, turn those into exe, and use Steam as a launcher.

[Anonymous No.2021027]

>>2020937
What about Chip's Challenge? Isn't that for DOS as well?

[Anonymous No.2021041]

>>2021027
There's a Dos version, but the one we all know and love is for Windows

[Anonymous No.2021048]

>>2021041
which would be the better way to run it? I doubt it would work on windows 7

[Anonymous No.2021050]

>>2021027
I never played it m8.

[Anonymous No.2021053]

>>2009132
i use d-fend reloaded, its pretty nice

[Anonymous No.2021301]

http://ykhwong.x-y.net/
MT-32 support included.

[Anonymous No.2021345]

>>2021041
ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga, DOS. Pick any of those, they're all better than inflicting your computer with that "Windows" trash. ;-)

[Anonymous No.2021485]

>needing a frontend other than Norton Commander

Just werks, and was an interface people actually used back in the day. Comfy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.2021514]

>>2021485
I use Dos Navigator.

Free, open source (BSD license), and retro (last stable release was in 1999).

[Anonymous No.2021520]

>>2021514
Looks nice, although I'm a complete sucker for the blue color scheme of old DOS interfaces and installers.

[Anonymous No.2021536]

>>2021520
You can change the color scheme, and it comes with a bunch of presets, including one that mimics Norton.

[Anonymous No.2021545]

>>2013427
/pol/?

[Anonymous No.2021559]

>>2013427
with a desktop like that you shouldn't be trying to talk down to others.

[Anonymous No.2021570]

>>2021545
How'd you guess?

Was it the ebola.txt, or the terrorist stuff?

[Anonymous No.2021601]

>>2021570
do you really feel like such a hardcore politician that you feel the need to put those on your desktop of all places? why did you even post a picture of your desktop anyways? it proved nothing in your post right. you seem like a pretentious and edgy faggot.

[Anonymous No.2021681]

>>2021485
>>2021514
Didn't these things have functional hex editing capabilities?

[Anonymous No.2021682]

>>2021601
>do you really feel like such a hardcore politician that you feel the need to put those on your desktop of all places?
Where else would I put it?

[Anonymous No.2021708]

>>2021681
Dos Navigator has a built-in file editor, and can edit in plaintext or hex.

[Anonymous No.2021864]

>>2009164
I've been doing it the hard way for years, and now this.

[Anonymous No.2022640]

>>2017648
I like how Neko Project II (I think it's that one) can simulate those sounds while loading up and playing PC-98 games.

[Anonymous No.2022653]

>>2022640
It has floppy sound emulation but I haven't heard of an emulator with hard drive or CD sound emulation.
I didn't care about hard drive sounds until I got a SSD.

[Anonymous No.2023282]

>>2009164
WHAT

[Anonymous No.2023317]

>>2021345
i never knew chip's challenge was a romance sim. and i've beaten it when i was a teen

[Anonymous No.2025370]

Motherfucking Triplane Turmoil!

Probably not as fun as I remember it being. Had a lot of fun in 2player though.

[Anonymous No.2025737]

>>2021345
>not catching that Chip is Bill Gates

Even if it isn't the best version, it is the definitive one.

[Anonymous No.2025746]

>mount folder
>cd name
>name.exe
Wow it's so hard!

[Anonymous No.2027236]

>>2020039
I actually hated that, probably because my internet often disconnected so I would have to listen to this sound 50 times a day

[Anonymous No.2027503]

>>2027236
Didn't your modem have a volume control?
Mine was an ISA card with a volume knob next to the phone jack.

[Anonymous No.2027548]

>>2021048
Well I think that 32-bit Windows 7 still has support for 16-bit programs, don't quote me on that though. What I do, however, is run it through a Windows 3.1 installation on Dosbox. I think Vetusware had a premade one ready to unzip on your Dosgames folder.

[Anonymous No.2027550]

>>2022653
FS-Uae has, I think.

[Anonymous No.2027569]

>>2027550
I'm not seeing it.

[Anonymous No.2027571]

>>2025746
Depends on the game.

For some games that have CD based music, like Mechwarrior 2, you have to make a .bin and a .cue image, then imgmount the .cue, then mount like regular and run. This makes the EXE recognize the .CUE as a disk image, which lets you hear the music.

Playing Mechwarrior 2 without its music is blasphemy.

[Anonymous No.2027707]

>>2025370
My fuckin' nigga.

There were a lot of good indie DOS games that hardly ever get talked about.

[Anonymous No.2027749]

>>2011000
>You don't even have to do that for C64 games anymore
>"LOAD "*",8,1"
>"Oh, hmm, that didn't work. Let's try LOAD "$",8 then LIST"
>"Oh, okay, there's a ton of things in here. I guess I'll LOAD "ITEM1",8,1"
>"I... spelled it wrong? Okay, LOAD "ITEM*",8,1"
>"Oh, right, fuck, there's three things that start with 'ITEM' there... hmmm."

also batch files nigga

[Anonymous No.2027881]

I just played Skynet for the first time.
This was way too fucking amazing.
Scavenging buildings, shooting shit,bunnyhopping around...
Unfortunately though, my laptop couldn't handle it with the higher resolution option.

[Anonymous No.2030152]

glug glug glug glug

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.2030156]

>>2011424
Anyone else think Dangerous Dave kind of looks like trollface.jpg?

[Anonymous No.2030532]

>>2027707
very true. Some are really hard to find if you don't know how they were called.

[Anonymous No.2031102]

>>2018989
where the fuck is prince of persia? what a glaring oversight.

[Anonymous No.2031865]

>>2031102
It's certainly an incomplete list. It's missing lots of classics.

[Anonymous No.2032256]

>>2010715
For amiga I use the releases made by The Company
>inb4 /vr/ has some retarded beef with the company

[Anonymous No.2032529]

I want to run 2400 AD but it requires a character disk, how do I do that in dosbox?

[Anonymous No.2032579]

>>2032529
I mounted another directory as floppy drive A:.

[Anonymous No.2032602]

>>2032579
thanks I figured that is what I would probably have to do

[Anonymous No.2032776]

>all these retards who didnt know you could drag and drop a game exe into Dosbox

this thread is a laugh riot

[Anonymous No.2033216]

>>2032776
But then I have to open a new explorer window, and browse to the game's folder and scroll down until I find the exe, click on it, and drag it onto Dosbox.

Using the command line is still faster.