What are some good DOS games, aside from pic related?

[Anonymous No.7093720]

[Anonymous No.7093908]

>>7093720
Duke Nukem 2
Hocus Pocus
Jill of the Jungle
Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion
Space Quest
Legend of Kyrandia
Dune (by Cryo)
Star Trek 25th Anniversary
Might & Magic 3-5
Wizardry 6-7
Gold Box games (especially PoR and Savage Frontier dilogy)
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands
Ravenloft: Curse of the Stradht
Amulets & Armor
Various sequels/prequels/games on the same engine as those that listed on the pic.
The better question is what kind of games are you interested in?

[Anonymous No.7094181]

how the fuck do I use dosbox to emulate?

[Anonymous No.7094216]

>>7094181
google exodos
if you can't figure that out then just stick to pirating gog versions

[Anonymous No.7094220]

80% of those are already unplayable unless you have nostalgia goggles or are low functioning autistic

[Anonymous No.7094247]

>>7094220
ZOOM ZOOM

[Anonymous No.7094256]

>>7094247
Nope there's a reason why PC gaming was living in console gaming's shadow. Much fewer quality games on DOS than say SNES or PSX

[Anonymous No.7094259]

>>7094256
that is entirely subjective.

[Anonymous No.7094260]

>>7093720
there's this great game it's called NESTICLE and it's for DOS

[Anonymous No.7094265]

>>7094260
Also ABRAHAM LINCOLN LAND

[Anonymous No.7094430]

>>7094220
Which ones?
There are exactly 100 entries on the list, so 80% would be at least 80 games.
I'll give you 10 games from the list that are from the 80s, since they are probably the hardest to get into in the list.
Name at least 10 more games that are unplayable from the rest of the list.

[Anonymous No.7094438]

>>7093720
Fantasy Empire
Dungeon Hack
Death Trak

those are just a few rarely mentioned games I recall from childhood that were good enough to stick in my memory.

[Anonymous No.7094447]

>>7093720
BLAKE STONE...ALIENS OF MOTHERFUCKING GOLD.

[Anonymous No.7094449]

>>7094438
>dungeon hack
what did you like about it? I tried it once and wasn't a big fan, although it might be bc I didn't have any nostalgia for it.

[Anonymous No.7094460]

>>7094449
I like the fact that it generates a new random dungeon every time so it was a fun new experience every time I fired it up.

[Anonymous No.7095685]

What are the best games exclusive to DOS? Or at least the games with the best versions?

[Anonymous No.7096353]

>>7095685
Comanche 3, Ultima 8, Wacky Wheels, Lords of the Realm 2, SkyRoads, Terminator: Future Shock, One Must Fall 2097, MegaRace 2, Commander Keen, Realms of Chaos, Test Drive 3, IndyCar Racing, CyClones, Daggerfall, Grand Prix 2, Realms of the Haunting (not really exclusive, also on MAC)

Those are some you could start with

[Anonymous No.7097434]

>>7096353
Thanks!
I've played Comanche 2 and Ultima 7, how do they compare?

[Anonymous No.7097518]

>>7094256
On the contrary, many DOS classics aged extremely well because of their complexity and depth. I can spot at least eight games on this list that still have active modding communities to this day.
Also because the main PC gaming demographic in the 90s were between the ages of 35-60, you had games like Betrayal at Krondor, Gabriel Knight, and IHNMBIMS that with far more mature narratives than anything on consoles.

[Anonymous No.7097523]

>>7094220
>>7094256
On the contrary, many DOS classics aged extremely well because of their complexity and depth. I can spot at least eight games on this list that still have active modding communities to this day.
You also have games like Betrayal at Krondor, Gabriel Knight, and IHNMBIMS that have far more mature narratives than anything produced on consoles.

[Anonymous No.7097529]

>>7094181
I'd recommend using a version with a UI, like the Daum SVN or Dosbox-X builds. You can simply drag folders and exes to them and it'll mount and play them for you, and you can adjust everything like CPU cycles and display settings from the menu pretty easily.

[Anonymous No.7097546]

>>7094260
Must say, I abandoned most native PC games the moment I realized the PC was the ultimate free games console via emulation. Not to say there isn't great shit like Deus Ex and Baldur's Gate but c'mon now... we all know the arcade and consoles had the best action games outside of the FPS genre and I'm really too ADD for most PC games unless they are truly exceptional and aren't autistic shit in the MMO/RTS/sim genres.

[Anonymous No.7097562]

>>7094447
This game is pretty dank. It's a better Wolfenstein successor than ROTT imo. Thing is about Wolf and Blake though, you can't really circle strafe without it technically being a cheat, can you? Kinda sucks for feel, but I guess you can always crank difficulty up a little if you mod c-strafing in. Nobody gotsta know.

[Anonymous No.7097634]

Where's that awesome DOS pack Anon made? There was even a Win 3.1 pack. Anon was a fucking god for making that, and now all i can find online about it is some turd who made a youtube video about it and linked to it though it's probably now riddled with virii...

[Anonymous No.7098260]

>>7097434
Comanche 3 is alot better than 2, both visual and simulation-wise. It is unfortunately also one of the heaviest games to emulate on Dosbox, but any decent cpu after 2010 should run it. You can also try the Comanche 3 Gold windows version. Ultima 8 is regarded worse than its predecessor because it's more like an action/explorer rather than an rpg, but you might still like it.

>>7097634
That'd be my pack (baseddosguy), the link on his video is still correct. I even updated the pack now and then. I'll link it here for you just to make sure: https://mega.nz/folder/CldGAahb#yn_8LkRHraywPgKJMp5pqA

[Anonymous No.7098908]

>>7093720
Getting DOS games to run on hardware is far and away more fun than the games themselves. Which is okay, fucking with DOS is an amazing game if you've got the patience for it.

[Anonymous No.7098918]

>>7093720
>wacky wheels on your gem list
Ah yes, Aldis brand Mario Kart at 15fps. A delectable morsel indeed.

[Anonymous No.7098932]

>>7098260
>https://mega.nz/folder/CldGAahb#yn_8LkRHraywPgKJMp5pqA
>ion fury for Windows 98
This I gotta see. This has CPU issues on relatively new machines. I'll have to run it on my P4 2.4 later.

[Anonymous No.7098946]

>>7098932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7uYMMoDOik
oh no no no... guess I'll see how your thing fares after work

[Anonymous No.7099049]

>>7098932
Sorry for the confusion, that's the only non-windows 98 game in that list. I named the folder that way because all other games were originally for win98. I haven't tested if it runs on 98, it's the standard version. If a version exists that runs on retro machines i'd be glad to upload it there.

[Anonymous No.7099087]

>>7098260
BasedDosGuy, yer my hero. We really need a DOS general in /vr/ so that link and the win3.1 poack link can always be available. Yer work makes this shit easier to play than GoG. I swear, we're gonna use yer stuff as playable DOS games in the museum when we get back up and running after the COVIDs. thanks Anon!

[Anonymous No.7099201]

>>7099087
Yer welcome! Fyi i had no part in the win3.1 games pack, it was done by another guy and he used PCem as a base. Unfortunately he always uploaded his archives on temporary file hosts, so even if you manage to retrieve those links from for example warosu, they are most likely timed-out by now.
>>7098932
I just took at a look at this, and there is indeed a win32 build (for win98) available for Ion Fury over at VOGONS: https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=68439 but it is highly unstable and you will need the 2015 visual studio runtime dlls or else you will get missing .dll errors. There is also a 32bit build that seems to work on Vista and higher: http://www.mediafire.com/file/w70bv4yddm2ccos/eduke32-IF-win32-r8044-20190821.7z/file and is more stable, i'll add that to my Ion Fury.7z just in case, perhaps it'll work somehow.

[Anonymous No.7099362]

>>7099201
I actually dug up version 0.5 of the Win 3.1 pack, and I've uploaded it to. I did not make it either. I know there is a version 0.6 out there somewhere. Point me at it and I'll Mega it.

https://mega.nz/folder/NmJQxLYT#Q6FgKNImHECbsEypk-TVHg

Thanks for doing what you do BasedDOSGuy!

[Anonymous No.7099372]

>>7093720
F-177

[Anonymous No.7099374]

>>7094447
this cracka know what's up

[Anonymous No.7099461]

>>7098908
i have this tinkering-virus too, and it feels rewarding to get an old game running, like fixing an old engine and seeing it start up again

[Anonymous No.7099495]

>>7097523
consoles are for children

[Anonymous No.7099502]

>>7094216
dosbox svn daum version.
it can savestate.

[Anonymous No.7099898]

>>7099201
I might fool around with them + KernelEx at some point too.

[Anonymous No.7100031]

>>7093720
Star Control 2.
>but it's in the op
Yeah but nobody's going to read that whole list.

[Anonymous No.7100764]

>>7098918
not my list, bro.

[Anonymous No.7100827]

>>7097529
>Dosbox-X
works perfectly bro, thanks.

[Anonymous No.7100830]

>>7099495
Tranimes are for trannies.

[Anonymous No.7100973]

From my CD-ROM dumps:

Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (point-and-click adventure)
Dark Forces (Star Wars DOOM-clone)
Discworld/Discworld II (point-and-click adventure)
Fatal Racing (combat racing)
Jones in the Fast Lane (boardgame)
Kingdom: The Far Reaches (FMV adventure game)
Life & Death 2: The Brain (surgery sim)
Litil Divil (action adventure - strange playstyle but very interesting)
Normality (POV adventure game)
Quarantine (proto-GTA and Carmageddon)
Terminal Velocity (POV space combat - the same engine was used for the Windows 95 game, Fury3).
The Pandora Directive (Tex Murphy FMV adventure)
Under a Killing Moon (Earlier Tex Murphy FMV adventure)
Zool/Zool 2 (platformers)

Kudos to whoever got D/Generation and Blackthorne on that chart.

[Anonymous No.7101002]

>>7100973
From my Abandonware folder:

Boppin' (puzzle)
Martian Memorandum (point-and-click adventure)
Mystic Towers (isometric platformer)
PIzza Worm (snake clone)
Push Over (dominoes puzzle)
The King of Chicago (sim/adventure)
The Last Eichhof (SHMUP)
Zac's Contraption (puzzle platformer)

[Anonymous No.7101351]

>>7093720
NHL '96 on DOS is pretty fuckin based.

[Anonymous No.7101517]

>>7098260
>has doom 2 but not doom 1
why

[Anonymous No.7101583]

>>7101517
It has Doom, Doom 2, Doom 64 (community WAD), SIGIL (by Romero), No Rest For The Living (by Nerve Software) and Rekkr (Doom Total Conversion).
I put them all in 1 line in in the readme because they are all technically WAD files running on 1 game, the Doom (idtech 1) engine.