/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8265880]

I finally figured out how to use Dosbox, wowie! What are some uhh Dos games that don’t suck ass?

[Anonymous No.8265883]

Dark Heart of Uukrul

[Anonymous No.8265890]

Odell down under

[Anonymous No.8265891]

Moonstone, although I prefer the Amiga version

[Anonymous No.8265964]

Blackthorne

[Anonymous No.8265982]

Gladiator

[Anonymous No.8266109]

[Anonymous No.8266612]

Why does DOSBOX filter so many people

[Anonymous No.8266628]

>>8266612
text interface scawwy, pls understand

[Anonymous No.8266641]

>>8266109
>trash like wasteland is on the list but no gems like Dark Sun
Shit list. At least try to put on it games that don't require a paragraph book to alt+tab constantly.

[Anonymous No.8266758]

>>8265880
>>8266612
>>8266628
You don't need to use the command line. Just drag a DOS executable onto a shortcut to DOSBox and it will run.

[Anonymous No.8266770]

>>8265880
Blood
>>8266758
Pretending that im using a dos machine gives it soul

[Anonymous No.8266779]

>>8266612
Dosbox filters people? You'd have to be a bonafide imbecile. All you gotta do is open the config file, scroll to the bottom and mount whatever folder you have your games in as the C: drive, then just do cd GAME followed by Game.exe or bat, maybe setup.exe and you're in game. It takes 5 minutes, maybe 10 if you have to Google it.

I can't believe these people have jobs. I'm a fucking ADHD dumbass and I can do it.

[Anonymous No.8266805]

>>8266758
>Just drag a DOS executable onto a shortcut to DOSBox and it will run.
I doubt they even have that level of technical expertise. They'll double-click the DOSBox icon, see a black box with text, and they'll either give up there or type something noobish like "GAME" or "RUN GAME" without mounting any folders beforehand.
>>8266779
A shocking amount of zoomers have no idea what a filesystem is or how to navigate a directory tree even in GUI-based OSes.

[Anonymous No.8266813]

I'm trying to get my controllers set up in dosbox for the Commander Keen games, because fuck playing that shit with a keyboard.

It only supports "joysticks" and I've gotten to the point where dosbox recognizes and uses the analog stick on my various controllers as the joystick, but I want to bind the D-Pad to the arrow keys. However, dosbox won't let me do that in the CTRL+F1 remapping screen. What are my options?

[Anonymous No.8266824]

>>8266805
Shut up old retard

[Anonymous No.8266834]

>>8266824
Neck yourself, zoomie.
Your generation is hopeless.

[Anonymous No.8266843]

>>8266779
Dude, most modern people can't comprehend the idea of folders and their hierarchy. That's how damaging Andoid was to the modern generation.

[Anonymous No.8266846]

>>8266834
>folders are buckets
>ackchually... folders are laundry baskets
what's the difference?

[Anonymous No.8266887]

>pretending that i'm using a real DOS machine
DOSBox is actually made for people who don't want to experience the pain of setting up a real DOS machine

[Anonymous No.8266967]

>>8266887
>who don't want to experience the pain of setting up a real DOS machine
It's not that hard.

[Anonymous No.8266971]

>>8266612
Because Doom sucks without fullscreen, no always running option and shitty vertical mouse movement.

[Anonymous No.8267010]

>>8265880
>>8266612
people too retarded to know how to edit a config file and read the instructions.

[Anonymous No.8267320]

>>8265880
>What are some uhh Dos games that don’t suck ass?
Get your DOSBox in order first. Proceed to install DOSBox staging and set the scaling to pixel perfect.
Then download the Roland MT32 roms and setup Munt32, either within the emulator, or as I prefer it, as an external program with nice a midi monitor.

[Anonymous No.8267679]

>>8266641
>At least try to put on it games that don't require a paragraph book to alt+tab constantly.
zoomer can’t alt+tab to reality

[Anonymous No.8267819]

>>8266846
Hard to tell. They are grasping for an equivalent to what used to be a universally understood concept (card index) for everyone before "smart"phones turned the majority of brains into sludge. I think at this point they should just give up and call directories something like "holding thingie".

[Anonymous No.8267840]

>>8266971
>a bunch of dumb shit
?
DOSbox can be run in fullscreen no problem, in any ratio and scaling type you want. DOS Doom can have its viewport increased to full screen. Capslock enables always running. Doom has no vertical aiming, I dunno if you're speaking of DOSbox's general mouse support or what. What is this diarrhea you posted?

[Anonymous No.8267843]

>>8265880
>What are some uhh Dos games that don’t suck ass?
Hahahahahahahaha hahaha
*Inhales*
Haaaaaahahahahahahaha

[Anonymous No.8267848]

depends on what kinda DOS games you fancy. is it late period VGA CD-ROM titles like Ultima VII or the early crude ones like PC-Man and Digger?

[Anonymous No.8267920]

>>8265890
nice

[Anonymous No.8267984]

>>8265880
Some of my favorites:
Warcraft 2 - realtime strategy game; best with a friend
Eric the Unready - humorous text adventure with pictures
Master of Orion - turn-based strategy where you conquer the universe
Epic Pinball - pinball with dope soundtrack
Scorched Earth - turn-based artillery with absurd weapons; best with friends
Syndicate - isometric action where you control cyborg teams working for a corporation taking over the Earth
Eye of the Beholder - first-person dungeon crawler

[Anonymous No.8268002]

>>8267840
I believe, and that is a wild guess, he's refering to the fact that if you maximize the screen in Doom1+2, you lose the HUD. It disappears in max mode and is only visible one notch below.
Brutal Doom and such have that fixed and you get true fullscreen plus the HUD. Not sure about the other nonsense about always running.

[Anonymous No.8268018]

Emulation sites tend to have a good selection of DOS ROMs

[Anonymous No.8268030]

>>8268018
>The Dig more popular than Quake, Duke Nukem, Wolf3D, Strike Commander, and Doom

[Anonymous No.8268035]

Dungeon Keeper

[Anonymous No.8268059]

[Anonymous No.8268150]

>>8265880
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SnJUG59_Jw

[Anonymous No.8268158]

Play Sleuth, it's a bit like playing one-player Clue.

[Anonymous No.8268167]

>>8266779
Wow, you’re so superior for learning how to use antiquated UI systems that most people have never seen before or give a shit about.

[Anonymous No.8268507]

>>8268167
"most people" aren't children who only know the iOS interface and only understand emoji

[Anonymous No.8268696]

>>8268507
You're in the minority here anon. Most people on the internet don't have the basic computer literacy people did 10 years ago let alone 25.

[Anonymous No.8268718]

Grand Prix 2, and only race shitty backmarkers.

[Anonymous No.8268764]

>>8265880
I sure hope you got a PC CRT with the proper modelines configured to go with it!

[Anonymous No.8269084]

Op here, forgot I made this thread, woops.
>>8266612
I’m couldn’t figure out the file paths, as I was just getting into older computer stuff. All good now.
>>8266887
I’d do that if I could find one in my area, I don’t trust shipping them long distances.
>>8267320
I don’t know what any of that’s means, but I’ll look into it
.>>8267848
Pretty much anything, preferably stuff that isn’t just a 5 minute mini game.
>>8268764
Yeah, I’ve got one.

[Anonymous No.8269125]

>>8266109
Man, 1995 was such a golden year.

[Anonymous No.8269161]

>>8268167
Well we didn't have windows until 95.

[Anonymous No.8269368]

>>8268696
"most people" aren't here anon. And most people on the internet who don't know that shit are going to die in a tiktok related accident before they're old enough to drink.

[Anonymous No.8269678]

>>8266109
I wonder if these infographics are made by one guy and just because of its great presentation it's perceived as "legit", or was it done by multiple people?

[Anonymous No.8269828]

>>8265880
Congrats zoomie. Have a cookie.

[Anonymous No.8270086]

>>8266971
>without fullscreen, no always running option and shitty vertical mouse movement.
Fullscreen is easily applied in options, you turkeyknob. There are however solutions to the other ones, if you wanna do it absolutely Old Style.

>>8267840
>Capslock enables always running.
Not in the original .exe, this is was added in sourceports and later official ports.
You can however trick the .exe into doing autorun for you by futzing with your .cfg and making it think you're holding down run when you're not.

>Doom has no vertical aiming, I dunno if you're speaking of DOSbox's general mouse support or what. What is this diarrhea you posted?
He means the 'mousewalking' which vanilla Doom has, ergo you push mouse back and forth to move back and forth. This functionality made sense in Wolfenstein 3D, where there is no difference anywhere in terrain, and no inertia to your movement, so you always stop on a dime and move at full speed without having to accelerate, hence allowing for some VERY slick and fast maneuvers once you get used to it.

In Doom, terrain varies wildly (sometimes changing on the spot), and there's actually inertia to your movement, having to actually accelerate to full speed, and having to actually decelerate to stop. As a result, this kind of control input makes the game handle very clumsily, making it easy to fall down into pits, get stuck on shit, as well as minute back or forth movement while turning interfering with your aim (horizontal turning). Some guys probably grew to like this, but the vast majority of people didn't, considering how it's always off by default in ports and is so seldom used by anyone that it's almost forgotten.
To disable this functionality in the original .exe, you actually had to use a hack such as novert. Again, being able to just not use this feature is something which has been added in later sourceports and official ports.

tl;dr DOSBox isn't necessarily the best way to have the true 1993 experience.

[Anonymous No.8270110]

>>8265880
You gotta play the 2D Duke Nukem games, they're pretty fun

[Anonymous No.8270201]

>>8265880

Micro-Machines - One of the best overhead racers ever made.
Duke Nukem 1 (a.ka. Duke Nukum) - Great platformer
Skyroads - Fun little 3rd person bouncy ship game
The Lion King - Solid platformer with amazing art.
WarCraft: Orcs and Humans - The beginning of a great franchise. Pretty fun RTS.
Grand Theft Auto 1 - The first entry was really fun.
Star Wars : TIE Fighter - Great space combat sim.

[Anonymous No.8270223]

>>8266834
To be fair, neither do I.
I have an extremely vague concept in my head when it comes to fat32, and I have no bloody idea how NTFS works, let alone something like ZFS.
Directories are just text files in ext3/4. No bloody idea about NTFS, but I'm positive that it isn't the case.

[Pr?nc?ss Sevenleaf No.8270260]

Duke Nukem 1, 2, 3, and II
Commander Keen 1-6
Keen Dreams (fuck you, I liked it)
Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion
Crystal Caves 1-3
>Jazz Jackrabbit
Pure platforming pleasure. People always say DOS has no good platformers. I don't get it.

Also, lotta good RPG's have DOS versions. Also DOSbox can run Windows 3.11 really well which provides a convenient way to play Chu-Teng and Tong-Nou.

[Anonymous No.8270402]

>>8268167
Damn right. I'm glad these things have a barrier to entry to keep the subhumans out.

[Anonymous No.8270429]

How come DOS fighting games always had awful collision detection? Like...basically nonexistent.

[Anonymous No.8270475]

>>8270429
Probably just shitty ports. I doubt they ever devoted actual resources and talented devs to port fighting games to unfavorable platforms like DOS.

[Anonymous No.8271121]

>>8270429
Mortal Kombat Trilogy for MS-DOS is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.8271127]

>>8268167
Yes

[Anonymous No.8272136]

Hey I bought a cd version of Heretic and I’m trying to run it. It won’t install on windows 7, on windows Xp it installs and almost runs perfectly, but the sound breaks the game. (Maybe you guys can explain what soundblaster is and why it conflicts with windows XP) by disabling sound effects the game runs smooth. Sound effects enabled stutters and everything is choppy with a laggy frame rate.

I’m willing to try and install dosbox on the windows xp machine, not sure if it will run on the windows 7 machine. is the dosbox website, dosbox itself, and soureforge trustworthy? don’t want to get viruses on my machine. I’ll be downloading it on one machine and transferring dosbox to the machine I’m trying to play the game on.

I really am curious why sound effects are what’s fucking the game up.

[Anonymous No.8272153]

>>8271121
Mortal Kombat 3 is the good port, MK Trilogy is a bad port from a technical POV. MK3 is very smooth and runs @ 70fps if i'm not mistaken, MK Trilogy suffers from occasional hiccups.

[Anonymous No.8273829]

>>8272136
>bought

[Anonymous No.8274693]

>>8273829
sorry I prefer to have the physical versions of older games (assuming they aren’t expensive) That way I can always just install them from physical media. Even if for some reason my internet isn’t working.

[Anonymous No.8274701]

>>8274693
Also I like the way a lot of old game look, the cds, boxes, sleeves, art, manuals. Was a different time.

[Anonymous No.8274914]

>>8266813
Try using external remapping software like joy2key or xpadder.

[Anonymous No.8274927]

>>8267819
The funny thing is, kids thinking about it as 'a bucket' are actually closer to the truth than Windows/Mac fags who think of it as folders and filing cabinents. Directories don't actually contain files, after all; they merely point to them.

That said, the 'folder' analogy, while technically being absolute balls, is a good way to make sense of it all, so it's kind of shocking to see it go.

[Anonymous No.8275026]

>>8265880
Direct Access menu system
Ultra easy setup
Nested submenus
Never deal with remembering 'what starts this game' again

[Anonymous No.8275032]

>>8266612
the only problem with it is setting up the appropriate cycles for some game. i still don't know the speed wing commander is meant to run at.

[Anonymous No.8276065]

>>8274927
>The funny thing is, kids thinking about it as 'a bucket' are actually closer to the truth than Windows/Mac fags who think of it as folders and filing cabinents.
Not really. Both are containers. The advantage of cabinets and even folders is in them being at least somewhat analogous to directory entries within a special file.

[Anonymous No.8276236]

>>8275032
1337 cycles is the magic number, always works for me

[Anonymous No.8276245]

>>8265880
Lotus III

[Anonymous No.8276304]

>>8266109
The best version of Loom is the one for FM Towns, not DOS.

[Anonymous No.8276359]

>>8275032
Wing Commander 1+2 are problematic. WC1 probably around 12k-16k while WC2 needs 25k-33k but the lips will still move too fast sometimes.

[Anonymous No.8276491]

Oregon Trail is a classic.

[Anonymous No.8277545]

>>8268167
Yes, everyone who isn't a dumbass should understand how files and folders work.

[Anonymous No.8278450]

>>8268167
there's no shame in being ignorant.
the shame is in staying ignorant.

[Anonymous No.8279589]

>>8265883
>Dark Heart of Urkel?

[Anonymous No.8280672]

>>8265880
Heart of Darkness
Best death animations for a child I've ever seen

[Anonymous No.8280685]

>>8265880
>Dos games
They're called dos roms.

[Anonymous No.8280693]

>>8280685
And.

[Anonymous No.8280708]

>>8272136
Yes Dosbox works fine on Windows XP and 7. Before modern DAC you needed a sound card to hear music in your DOS games. Sound cards then were the Graphics cards of today. The reason why the sound doesn't work is probably because XP doesn't emulate a soundblaster card which Dosbox does. I wouldn't use the command prompt to run any Dos software on any NT based Windows (XP and up). Also Dosbox is safe and open source. That's why Steam and GOG use it for there repackages of Dos games.

[Anonymous No.8280797]

>>8265880
master of orion
raid on bungalo bay
doom
doom 2

[Anonymous No.8280810]

Princess Maker 2

[Anonymous No.8280819]

>>8265880
Gorilla.bas