5edac9 No.14001937
Currently replaying Blackthorne and it's rekindling my desire to play some old DOS games with DOSbox. What are some of your favorites? I've already got the classic shooters covered through GZDOOM, source ports, and eDuke32.
1cc9b3 No.14001961
I really enjoyed the commander keen series (the later ones) and the bio menace series. Also One must fall was a cool fighting game
5edac9 No.14001991
>>14001971
already in the queue, actually. good to see continued referral for this one, as I'd only ever given Morrowind and the more recent ES games a short and didn't like them
cd30b1 No.14002042
System Shock is often overshadowed by its sequel, but it's worth a try.
b325e8 No.14002047
I'm currently playing through the early Rance games, they're alright. I don't think you need DOSbox to play those, though. Also, the second one isn't translated, only the 2010 remake.
f39b71 No.14002129
8234be No.14002202
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Outrun
Test Drive
Double Dragon
Airborne Ranger
Winter Games (1985 originally for c64)
Leisure Suit Larry (EGA version)
Space Quest 1
Police Quest (EGA version)
Buck Rogers and the Planet of Zoom
Dune II
Commander Keen
Prince of Persia
Lemmings
2c366d No.14002224
Master of Magic is a great 4X game. It's more fun than any Civ after 4.
>>14002047
The aesthetic reminds me of Scheherazade on the NES.
c7d64b No.14002225
Get the original Prince of Persia my man, gameplay still holds up yet it's so simple. Even the graphics hold up to a degree, those animations are so smooth.
b4ab0d No.14002263
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Duke Nukem is one of the few MS-DOS games I remember from when I was a kid. I wasn't any good at it, but it was a fun enough platformer.
7bfece No.14002280
>>14001937
>MS-DOS
>Not FreeDos
Dungeon Keeper? Theme Hospital? Magic Carpet 1+2? Populous?
9a9b3f No.14002371
>>14001937
Get a real DOS/Win9x PC my man. It's not that expensive, you won't have to deal with Dosbox's bugs and incompatibilities, and it won't set your quad core CPU on fire trying to play Ultima 6. Also play Death Rally right the fuck now.
5edac9 No.14002537
>>14002225
I've beaten the shit out of it so many times, but I agree - a timeless classic.
>>14002042
good call, thanks!
>>14002047
this looks quite good. thank you!
>>14002280
I could never get Magic Carpet to run properly through DOSbox. I may have to resort to GOG for them. Populous is a game I have heard tons about and totally missed growing up. good recommendations!
>>14002371
my parents still have an old one in their basement. I may just steal that at some point and exploit that sweet sweet 10MB HDD it contains.
a8d588 No.14002557
Honestly, still my favorite strategy game, surprised nobody has posted yet
70d6e9 No.14002558
>>14001937
Machiavelli the merchant prince, Hammer of the Gods and Emperor of the Fading Suns. Holistic doesn't get mentioned nearly enough
4728fd No.14002566
>>14002263
>Play this on a dos shareware game
>It's the one with Dr. Proton
>Die early, and it jumps be ahead by like 8 levels
4728fd No.14002582
Raptor: Call of the Shadow
Hocus Pocus
Might and Magic
Lots of others
7d44ca No.14002605
Master of Magic
Basically a fantasy Master of Orion, only better.
858b1b No.14002623
>>14002042
I've never understood why that is as SS1 is legitimately a far better game. Controls kept modern gamers away I guess.
7bfece No.14002637
>>14002537
Magic Carpet runs like a charm in Dosbox
Try Alone in the dark & Ecstatica if you like horror games, they're quite unnerving.
858b1b No.14002667
Ultima 7. Fantastic RPG we used to talk about on the same tier as XCOM, SS1, and SC2 but seems to have not been rediscovered by the current generation. Probably because it's such a nightmare to get to run correctly, or they attempt to use Exult which is a lost cause.
b325e8 No.14002699
Ah, I might as well ask something since this thread is going on.
How to deal with aspect ratio with these old games in widescreen monitors/TVs?
Windowed gives off such a small window, and when I set it to fullscreen, the image is a little stretched. Is there no way to force fullscreen with black bars on the sides to maintain the aspect ratio?
5edac9 No.14002715
>>14002637
I'll have to check a few more places for settings. The last time I tried, something with the mouse input wasn't working and would randomly start reversing all of the directions or something crazy. Maybe either my mouse polling rate or sensitivity was way too high.
>>14002557
been rocking this on OpenXCOM. solid fucking game.
>>14002667
oh fuck, bringing back some memories. >>14002699 (checked)
if you can't set it to the correct one in the program settings, I found my monitor had a setting to allow the correct aspect ratio, if requested. Once that was enabled, I haven't had a problem getting 4:3 since.
858b1b No.14002764
Might and Magic: Clouds of Xeen was also fantastic. I'd not bother with darkside/world, though.
f39b71 No.14002821
>>14002667
>SS1 and SC2
what are those? Please illuminate us younger anons.
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68932f No.14002934
One Must Fall. Giant robots in a fighting game and stages have hazard traps. Great stuff.
858b1b No.14002985
>>14002971
Syndicate Wars was a huge disappointment as a sequel to Syndicate.
f2358b No.14002997
>>14002985
Never agreed with that sentiment. I prefer it.
3d407d No.14003117
The original grand theft auto is a dos game
8e7ca2 No.14003131
>>14002225
Prince of Persia 2 is also great
f817e8 No.14003812
>>14002667
Never tried Ultima 7 for long because the prospective was really unplesant. Why the fuck did they draw the entire game like that?
178391 No.14003828
>>14003812
Keeps the easy to render/compute grid format whole adding a sense of 3-dimentional depth. Tibia was inspired by it and through that game I learned you get used to it pretty fast.
f817e8 No.14003857
>>14003828
No, I mean the prospective is physically unpleasant (not super ill but not worth it). Have a similar issue with 3D PS1 games (Only PS1 format and emulation of it. Not N64/Saturn/PC versions of the same games).
6a15e1 No.14004515
>>14002623
And for a good reason. They are retarded. And the UI that requires you to switch between its tabs often to display relevant information.
6a15e1 No.14004527
>>14002605
Too familiar over the years I have played it. And too easy if you don't patch it with community patches. For example AI players have trouble with utilizing naval transports. They tend to make max size stacks consisting of nothing else than galleons, instead of splitting them into smaller ones that are actually usable.
eef044 No.14004781
Panzer General
Dark Sun
Dark Sun: Wake of The Ravager
Imperium Galactica
X-Com
Star General
Curse of the Azure Bonds
The entire Gold Box series actually
5edac9 No.14004815
>>14003767
very nice, thanks!
>>14003474
>>14003494
>>14003489
>>14003478
Mega Man seems weird without a banging soundtrack playing
4e4c9b No.14005890
Darklands, open world RPG in the good sense of the word.
Also read the manual. It is pure gold.
3bee1a No.14006182
>>14003857
>prospective
>making the same mistake twice
it's perspective you illiterate twat
acf9ef No.14006262
>>14001937
Feel free to shit on GOG, idgaf.
19fda8 No.14008313
>>14002371
Have fun trying to get a decent video card for under $100.
5edac9 No.14008357
>>14006262
nice collection - better than Steam
>>14004781
how could I forget about the Gold Box games!?
>>14003459
I doubt I will be going back to play these, but more good memories
1164cd No.14009775
best games coming through
2eb1e4 No.14009810
cdb558 No.14009815
Blood is fantastic. Easily the best build engine shooter.
>>14001991
daggerfall is awful like all TES games
2eb1e4 No.14009823
>>14009815
did you ever play strife it is pretty neat
cdb558 No.14009832
>>14009823
Strife is good but its not build engine
112c8b No.14009853
>>14009775
What's the name of the game on the third pic?
5064e9 No.14009911
Question, is there anything wrong with using the GOG installs for most DOS games?
f39b71 No.14009975
>>14009775
>last pic
While realistic, I don't think it's convenient for the units to be that well camouflaged. What game is it?
1164cd No.14010059
>>14009853
Gene Wars. A forgotten Bullfrog title and a real gem.
>>14009975
That's Earth 2140. A very good and fun RTS. The palette isn't that bad when you play it. There's a relatively stable windows version too but it was originally a DOS title.
sequels had some acclaim but I didn't enjoy them personally
also that faux-Knopfler track on the OST
1164cd No.14010134
More great titles
>>14009823
fukken great game it's Doom engine doe
8caf2c No.14010265
>>14002667
>RPG
That's not how you spell point & click adventure
>or they attempt to use Exult which is a lost cause
What is wrong with Exult?
>>14004565
There is a mod, but since it was not achieved in a clean manner it never got merged into Exult. You would have to compile Exult with the changes of the mod, so it's not really something practical or sustainable for development.
http://ultima7.ultimacodex.com/exult-rotate/
It does look pretty nice though.
>>14009911
Not that I would know, but it depends on the individual game. Check the GOG forums when in doubt.
226a2d No.14010312
>ctrl+f "rise of the triad"
>no results
What the fuck.
b952be No.14010320
>>14010134
>blatant Quake ripoff
Why not… just play Quake?
1164cd No.14010462
>>14010320
Because it's fun as all fuck?
Chasm has more to it than just ripping off quake, though. It's basically Daikatana but good. Has a nice dismemberment system for its time too.
also
>not pointing out the 'obvious' Warcraft rip-off in my post
229d04 No.14010495
Cyberdogs/C-Dogs is pretty fun, though I only played it co-op so singleplayer might not be as fun.
8907e0 No.14010528
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>DOS thread
>only one mention of Amulets & Armor, and it's a random untitled screenshot.
Come on
2eba8b No.14010537
>>14010495
The man, the legend, the Snake Logan.
62b08e No.14010642
>>14010312
did you ever try the "remake?" I couldn't quite put my finger on it but it just felt bland, even though they quite clearly tried to emulate the original in a lot of ways. For whatever reason it just felt flat and uninteresting.
226a2d No.14010669
>>14010642
>did you ever try the "remake?"
Nah, fuck it. I was always sure it is shit.
Remakes try to build their hype and reputation around the great nostalgia of the original series, but in the end they just fail to deliver and are hated because they are made to bring shekels to lazy devs.
acf9ef No.14010813
>>14010312
It's in my screencap, mate.
==LUDICROUS GIBS!==
8f8395 No.14010980
>>14002371
>Get a real DOS/Win9x PC
>you won't have to deal with Dosbox's bugs and incompatibilities
Or just run a virtual machine with actual ms-dos installed in it and everything should work fine.
2b68c5 No.14012094
>>14010528
Preach, my dude.
One of the most underrated classics out there. Sorry for not giving a title
So how do you enjoy the Windows version?
I kinda miss the old, chaotic music
http://amuletsandarmor.com/
Will the lazy faggot ever implement high resolution mode? Most of my friends won't touch it because of the resolution.
858b1b No.14012105
>>14010980
It won't. The hardware is too different. The VGA card especially was a miserable pile of secrets that vidya exploited but VMs designed for business use poorly emulate.
858b1b No.14012138
>>14010265
>That's not how you spell point & click adventure
Kill yourself.
>What is wrong with Exult?
Everything. Most of the "scripting" in U7 wasn't scripting, it was coded into the engine. So Exult had to rewrite a lot of the game, and rather than take the time to reverse engineer it, they winged it and made what they felt was similar, and often what they preferred. The result is a game where lots of things still don't work, and lots of things don't work like the original game. The project is more like a remake than an engine replacement.
7ecc91 No.14012144
Play some Myth niggers. It isn't being sold anywhere so consider it free. It's an RTT but with no stupid bullshit getting in the way. It essentially plays like those missions in RTS campaigns where you have a set pool of units and have to win the level with them. Some neat features it has are all projectiles being influenced by physics, as such you can micro to dodge projectiles, it becomes harder to hit things at range etc. There are also units which throw explosives which are incredibly fun to use.
Guide: http://mythipedia.wikia.com/wiki/Installing/Updating_Myth_II
Game Files: https://www.dropbox.com/s/575zlde6g56fi92/Myth2_Install.7z
858b1b No.14012173
>>14012138
Btw, so you can understand, look at their recent github commits. Almost all the NPC behavior and combat schedules aren't from the original game as they were hardcoded, and they're still trying to make something that looks&feels similar.
https://github.com/exult/exult/commit/0c658baecba369609d21611997b8f0e0075cc22c
https://github.com/exult/exult/commit/73ac722c2f74430e5c046a25e81f4eec5a414006
https://github.com/exult/exult/commit/bdcce09418c73d6d15ed176cafed6df0fa2e8c6a
If you'd played the real U7 and played exult, you're hit with how dead and broken the world feels because the AI was lobotomized.
f8f4ce No.14013065
>>14003478
>>14003474
>>14003489
>>14003494
Funny, It's using the same engine as commander keen 1&2
fc86d6 No.14013220
>>14001937
Sorcerian is the side-scrolling RPG genre at it's finest.
4ef448 No.14013244
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>ctrl+f
>no street rod
>no street rod ii
You fucking plebs.
8caf2c No.14015662
>>14012173
>>14012138
> Almost all the NPC behavior and combat schedules aren't from the original game as they were hardcoded, and they're still trying to make something that looks&feels similar.
> If you'd played the real U7 and played exult, you're hit with how dead and broken the world feels because the AI was lobotomized.
Unless this makes the combat interesting instead of just watching a jumbled mess, and unless it makes me not want to strangle the interface designers to death, it doesn't really matter.
Ultima VII is a game where the hook is that you can go around in the world and just derp around: you can pick up stuff, put stuff on stuff, bake bread and so on. Once the novelty has worn off you realize that the game itself is just a glorified point & click adventure. Everything you can do simply lacks the meat to make it an interesting game of action and reaction. It's like the Minecraft of its day.
858b1b No.14015726
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>>14013244
Never played it or knew anyone else that played it. imo it was a gimmick. I did play the shit out of Vette though. First OPEN WORLD driving game I can remember.
858b1b No.14015746
>>14015662
>U7 is a point and click adventure minecraft
Take your meds.
19fda8 No.14015822
>>14013065
Funny like a heart attack. I wish someone would remake those awful games, as DOS games. Only real problem would be having to slap the keyboard to change weapons, as without extra drivers, only two button controllers are supported. I have a bag of Sidewinders that are useless in DOS.
19fda8 No.14015829
>>14015822
And by remake, I mean make them at least as properly as the million or so Mega Man fangames from the past five or so years.
1def7f No.14015857
Check anything made by them, you can hardly go wrong.