DOS Games thread

[Anonymous No.9726453]

[Anonymous No.9726456]

>>9726453
Mystic Towers is my favorite DOS Rom

[Anonymous No.9726462]

Mechanized Assault and Exploration is fun. The bugs and crashes get annoying in long games though

[Anonymous No.9726497]

>>9726453
>dos
>ultima

[Anonymous No.9726553]

>>9726453
Alright, so basically

[Anonymous No.9726563]

>>9726497
I never played any of those games, but didn't they include ports of the first 2 or 3 games or something with some of the later ones? I think like Ultima 5 or 6 included that, possibly in some special edition or something. Don't know if it ran in DOS though.

[Anonymous No.9726609]

>>9726563
Don't recall what dosshit included at whatever time you're thinking of. I played the real deal. It went [perfectly normal] at 4 anyway.

[Anonymous No.9726620]

>>9726453
...that's an Apple II game anon

[Anonymous No.9726632]

This one slapped pretty hard back in the day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv_rz9eFjC0

[Anonymous No.9728280]

>>9726497
What the fuck is wrong with the DOS version of Ultima you mongoloid?

[Anonymous No.9728294]

>teleports into your mom's kmart shopping cart

[Anonymous No.9729005]

>>9728280
>the DOS version of Ultima
You will never be a real fitter inner

[Anonymous No.9729229]

>>9726497
>>9729005
>The California Pacific Computer Company published Ultima in 1981 for the Apple II only. By June 1982 it sold 20,000 copies,[2] and went on to sell 50,000 copies.[25]
>Sierra Online re-released Ultima for the Atari 8-bit computers.[5]
>In 1986 Origin Systems completely re-coded the game in Assembly and re-released it.[25]

>Because the 1986 remake was re-coded entirely in Assembly, it had significantly improved running speed and was able to handle superior graphics. Some small cosmetic changes to the content were also made, such as the addition of another castle map variant and three new city maps, the introduction of traveling monsters in the outdoors section, and the division of the money the player has into separate "copper", "silver" and "gold" coins.
>It was first released for the Apple II on December 23, 1986[27] as Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness.
>Ports for the Commodore 64[28] and DOS/EGA were also released.[29] Later releases included the 1989 version for the MSX2, published only in Japan by Pony Canyon,[29] and an Apple IIGS specific port in late 1994 by Vitesse. In 1997, the DOS/EGA version of Ultima was released by Electronic Arts as part of the Ultima Collection.

[Anonymous No.9729242]

kind of wish we had a /gr/ to talk about retro computing, I know it unoficially happens on here but it'd be nice to have a dedicated space for retro CPU/GPU flame wars away from bleeding edge GPU/CPU flame wars

[Anonymous No.9729247]

>>9728294
Kek one of the first games I heard with a Sound Blaster.

[Anonymous No.9729261]

Commodore 128: The Ultima V Machine
It has literally no other games aside from text adventures

[Anonymous No.9729292]

>>9726497
The FM Town has the best version.

[Anonymous No.9729293]

[Anonymous No.9730284]

>>9729229
>waaahhhhh
lol

[Anonymous No.9730319]

>>9729292
Will check it out. Was too busy with new shit at the time but looks interesting. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.9730337]

>>9728280
Did you even play Ultima if it was not coded by Lord British personally?

[Anonymous No.9731247]

>>9728280
Armor is bugged and does literally nothing in dungeons

[Anonymous No.9731417]

>>9729229
No amount of tjing will ever make you fit in

[Anonymous No.9731474]

My first real PCplat

[Anonymous No.9731479]

And another great time waster

[Anonymous No.9731489]

>>9726620
OP's pic is not the Apple II version. This is. And it's the re-release version. The original used the split-screen with text window at the bottom.

[Anonymous No.9731493]

>Sound by THE FAT MAN

[Anonymous No.9731545]

>>9731489
I know. Well I actually didn't know that it was specifically the DOS version but I am aware that's the 1986 remake since I've played both.

[Anonymous No.9731582]

>>9726632
Raptor is getting an HD remaster this year.

[Anonymous No.9731992]

I love the DOS era graphics, sound, and cozy feel to it. But it's always like this:
>game looks decent, try it
>cumbersome, horrendous UI
>need to read the manual to even understand how the game works
>take my time to learn the UI and read the manual
>the game is actually shallow and boring as fuck

[Anonymous No.9732238]

>>9731582
Yeah I'm excited. Hope they do a good job with it

[Anonymous No.9732896]

Got trolled hard by this as a kid. It is basically impossible to finish and combat is painfully clunky. Anyone else play scavengers of the mutant world?

[Anonymous No.9733960]

>>9729261
Not because it can't, but because it's living in the shadow of an older machine with an existing vast game library.

[Anonymous No.9734105]

>>9726456
>DOS Rom
Repent zoomer.

[Anonymous No.9734196]

I'm fond of Hero, the game that got me started in software development

[Anonymous No.9734354]

>>9734196
Hero was the game that convinced me the 2600 could do a decent game. Until then, the c64 was the only option for me, and I only had the tape deck '_-

[Anonymous No.9734404]

>"goddam id published Doom on a new engine and our Wolfenstein sequel is more than a year from release
>"sir, I'm sure we can do better with our modified Wolf3d engine"
>"exactly how can that happen? It has much scarier enemies, is way bloodier and the weapons make ours look like pea shooters"
>"ok enemies will include creepy molester-style chanting monks. When you grenade them... Ludicrous gibs.
Also Excalibat.
Plus you need to heat up and eat your own porridge or die."
>"God help us all."

[Anonymous No.9734416]

"goddam id published Doom on a new engine and our Wolfenstein sequel is more than a year from release
>"sir, I'm sure we can do better with our modified Wolf3d engine"
>"exactly how can that happen? It has much scarier enemies, is way bloodier and the weapons make ours look like pea shooters"
>"ok enemies will include creepy molester-style chanting monks. When you grenade them... >" >"Ludicrous gibs. I'm talking eyeballs, rib cages and bits of face.
>"Also Excalibat."
>"And with that you need to heat up and eat your own porridge or die."
>"God help us all."

[Anonymous No.9736356]

>>9726453
bump

[Anonymous No.9736360]

>>9726632
I was wondering why this sounds familiar. Turns out I was thinking of Roxanne by The Police

[Anonymous No.9736379]

For me, I loved how Vengeance of Excalibur felt. It was clunky and difficult, but it was ambitious in its game play and art style. I never beat it, but just playing it as a kid and figuring out how to move the story along was so enthralling.

[Anonymous No.9736415]

>>9729293
Thanks, Shitman!
>bow to the fecal lord

[Anonymous No.9736445]

>>9726453
Picrel was the first game I ever beat. I played the original too but the remake is better imo

[Anonymous No.9736492]

>>9728294
I managed to beat this, granted with a gamepad.

If you can stack powerups, the game becomes pathetic easy.

[Anonymous No.9736502]

[Anonymous No.9736689]

For me it's crusader series

[Anonymous No.9736691]

>>9729261
got any good recomendations? I'm looking for games to play on my C64, I tried ultima VI yesterday but couldn't figure out how to load the disk

[Anonymous No.9736749]

>>9736691
Blue Max

[Anonymous No.9736812]

>>9736691
Wizball. Extremely unfriendly at first, but once it clicks, it becomes really good.