Crowd funding: Point & Click adventure "Tomáš: King of Rejection"

Mark Bauermeister’s "Tomáš: King of Rejection" aims to be a tribute to “the 1990s, the golden age of adventure games”: In the game, described as a "slapstick comedy" the player must involuntarily take on the role of Jesus after a time-travel accident, having pushed the latter out of the way when trying to connect with a certain Mary Magdalene.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00069-EN.html

#crowdfunding #pointAndClick #Amiga #Atari #MSDOS #Android

amiga-news.de - Crowd funding: Point & Click adventure "Tomá¨: King of Rejection"

I installed a Gotek running the FlashFloppy firmware in my Otrona Attache 8:16. This should make fiddling around with different disk images a little easier. No more needing to whip out the 386 utility PC to make backups of my scratch disks.

#vintagecomputing #msdos

back in 1996 i was a year away from graduating from high school and deep into my cd-rom obsession

from 1994 onward, every month i bought a $12 copy of CD-ROM Today because it came with The Disc! - a coverdisc packed full of mac and pc demos and shareware

except for one issue. this issue. as the resident early Seinfeld hater of my people, i was also a proud Jim Carrey hater when he was at his peak.

i was so truly offended by the cover of this issue that i refused to buy it on principle.

a month later, I went back to my Coles bookstore to get my fix, and the magazine was gone from the shelves. i checked two other bookstores - it wasn’t out of stock; it had disappeared entirely. by september, it was clear that the magazine was never coming back, and i gave up looking for it. i was heartbroken - it was something i had counted on every month for years.

a few years ago i started buying every issue of the magazine i could find. it took months just to assemble a complete year’s worth of issues.

and then, this morning: I begrudgingly flip open the issue that i had refused to buy 30 years ago. a note from the editor explains that as of this issue, CD-ROM Today is ceasing publication, and forking into Boot magazine and MacAddict!

i would have been fucking overjoyed to know that i now had *two* cd-rom mags to buy! instead, when i saw MacAddict and Boot appear on the shelves, i just assumed they were inferior fly-by-night zines that would disappear after a few issues. 😭

#multimedia #cdrom #macintosh #vintageApple #msdos #dosGaming

DOStodon: El asombroso regreso del pasado para conectar la computadora con el Fediverso

Una mirada al cliente que permite revisar tus redes sociales directamente desde el viejo sistema operativo MS-DOS sin necesidad de Windows ni entornos modernos.

Para la mayoría de las personas, la idea de revisar una red social moderna implica abrir una aplicación en el teléfono inteligente o usar un navegador web pesado en una computadora de última generación. Sin embargo, el ecosistema libre y abierto de Mastodon nos regala sorpresas que rompen por completo con lo convencional. El proyecto conocido como DOStodon demuestra que la tecnología del pasado todavía tiene mucho que decir, permitiendo que computadoras antiguas fabricadas hace más de 30 años se conecten a internet para interactuar con la comunidad digital actual de forma totalmente nativa.

Este peculiar programa es un cliente completo de Mastodon diseñado específicamente para funcionar sobre MS-DOS o sistemas compatibles como FreeDOS. Creado originalmente por el desarrollador independiente SuperIlu, el software no es una simple curiosidad de texto plano, sino una herramienta funcional que ofrece características avanzadas que envidiarían otros entornos sencillos. Los usuarios que se aventuran a instalarlo pueden ver la línea de tiempo, revisar sus menciones, buscar etiquetas temáticas y, lo más sorprendente de todo, previsualizar imágenes en miniatura directamente en la pantalla de sus monitores de tubo antiguos.

El secreto detrás de esta hazaña técnica radica en una herramienta llamada DOjS, un entorno que permite ejecutar código Javascript bajo el viejo sistema operativo de disco de Microsoft. Gracias a esto, el programa puede gestionar las conexiones de red necesarias para hablar con los servidores modernos del Fediverso y traducir los datos en una interfaz visual limpia y adaptada a las tarjetas gráficas de la época. Para los amantes de las computadoras clásicas, los requisitos mínimos son un viaje en el tiempo: basta con tener un procesador 80386 y apenas 4 megabytes de memoria RAM, aunque se recomienda una computadora tipo Pentium para que el desplazamiento por los mensajes sea tan suave como la seda.

El desarrollo de este cliente se mantiene activo gracias al soporte de su comunidad en sitios como GitHub, donde recientemente se han integrado mejoras críticas en las librerías de seguridad para que la aplicación no pierda compatibilidad con los protocolos actuales de la web.

— A. Eldritch, Periodista, Locutor, podcaster y bloger del fediverso

Alt text via @altbot y @TeLoDescribot

#DOStodon #Mastodon #MSDOS #Retrocomputing #SoftwareLibre #Fediverso

I just discovered: DOSGames.com offers an impressive collection of oldschool game company catalogs for DOS! A journey through the 90s and a beautiful addition to any retro collection! 😎

Link: https://www.dosgames.com/catalogs.php

#DOSGaming #Gaming #DOS #Retro #RetroGaming #PCGaming #90s #90er #MSDOS #GamingHistory #Win95 #Win311 #Preservation #StopKillingGames

Land in The Anarchic Kingdom is the measure of your success. It also influences how many peasants your barony can support: when you gain land, people move in. Play at https://cyningstan.itch.io/the-anarchic-kingdom #anarchickingdom #ibmpc #msdos #cga
The Warhammer is a large blunt weapon for smashing enemies, requiring Bludgeoning:5 skill. Damage caused to enemies is based on the player character's Strength. It is especially fun to use the warhammer in upper and middle level dungeons, where it allows the player character to bludgeon their way through enemies as if the enemies were not even there. Get The #ChambersBeneath from https://cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers-beneath #roguelike #ibmpc #msdos #cga
On the second level of Conveyors, even the guards are helpful. They push the cards onto conveyor belts for you to pick up, and play no further part in the game. But you must be quick: if you don't pick up all the cards in time, they will be carried into the forcefields and destroyed! Luckily, you can have four robots to complete this task. Choose wisely! Download #TeamDroid from https://cyningstan.itch.io/team-droid #ibmpc #msdos #cga

Brand new Spectrum game: Wall-Run, by orac81.

A compelling little action game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Vic20 (unexpanded), C16/+4, PET, MSDOS/VGA or SDL2 (Linux or Windows).

Download:
https://github.com/orac81/miniapples/raw/refs/heads/main/vtdl/vtdl-latest.zip

#zxspectrum #commodore64 #vic20 #c16 #pet #msdos #sdl2 #retrogaming