Waiting for kickoff… ⏳🏈
Go wayback & play FOOTBALL FOR WINDOWS (Windows 3.1, 1994), made by an ex-college player.
You're the Coach. Pressure's on 😬
📋 Call the plays & try not to blow it as the clock runs out! ⏱️
Preserved and emulated in the browser ➡️ https://archive.org/details/FOOTFW
til: one of the freeware macintosh games i played a LOT as a kid on a mac plus was created by one of the Backblaze founders: Continuum
even better, he self-curates his own continuum page with the original source code in C, assets, game editor, and Q&A/post-mortems
Heyo all.
Regarding retro gaming again, some of my favorite ones were for ms dos. These include shareware only games too! So, some of them were Mechwarrior 2, I spent more time customizing mechs than actually playing the game, and would often listen to soundtrack on a cd player too!
Other ms dos games of note, include wolfenstein 3d, I made levels and edited sprites in that game as a kid.
Doom of course too, fooled around with modding for it briefly and now I just play levels i find on doomworld and zdoom sites.
Stunts, a fun racing game where you could make your own courses. So much fun!
Quake, also endless levels and modding.
Monuments of mars, fun little 2d platformer.
Descent 1 and 2, great 6 degrees of freedom shooter. Played it online against friends a lot.
Duke nukem 3d. Infamous, but the level editing for it was so easy to do and game itself was pretty fun, especially playing with and against friends online!
Commander keen. Fun little platformer as well.
Skyroads. Great f zero style game!
Corncob 3d. Fun flight sim, you could even get out of the plane and walk wherever on foot.
MegatronVGA. Mech game where you fought mechs in a maze.
Sango fighter, fun street fighter clone.
One must fall 2097, great street fighter clone with awesome music.
Epic pinball, fun pinball game!
Lemmings, great puzzle game.
Stellar 7 and nova 9, battlezone style games that actually had a plot and powerups you could activate and hidden warps and other fun things.
I played all these games and more on a Radio Shack Tandy 1000. Great machine!
back in the early pandemic, with way more time spent in my apartment than was healthy, i decided to run a solo podcast about 90s gaming on the Macintosh, Windows 3.1, and MS-DOS. my aim was introducing a level of technical and historical detail not often found on general audience video game podcasts.
each episode took 10-20 hours of research and writing to explore in depth. i tried to pick less popular games that hadn't been talked about much, were underrated, or fascinating from a programming perspective.
in 2022 we moved, i began new programming projects, and the podcast went on the shelf. i always meant to get back to it, and received many e-mails about future episodes.
today i'm relaunching the podcast.
website link:
https://podcast.vga256.com
rss link:
http://podcast.vga256.com/rss.xml
apple podcasts link:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/multimedia-hyperguide-windows-3-1-macintosh-and-ms/id1393890581
feedburner link:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MultimediaHyperguide
while i write the next episode, please enjoy some of the earlier episodes, including everyone's beloved SimAnt (episodes 14 and 15).
here are some box and browsies shots of SimAnt: The Electronic Ant Colony (Maxis, 1991) for 16-bit windows. i use the physical boxes and their documentation during research and writing. this has a 150+ page manual, which is 50% ant science!
#dosGaming #msdos #ants #vintageApple #macintosh #shareware #podcast
my first retrocomputing local pickup of 2026: an Apple Newton MessagePad 120.
almost passed on this one, as i'm more interested in an MP2100. but the seller's photo showed that it was running NewtonOS 2.0, which meant that it is an apple-upgraded MP120 with an 8MB ROM.
this is a rather huge upgrade, because it provides the exceptional Rosetta handwriting recognition (and mercifully puts an end to the lame simpsons meme)
thanks lunar. i *will* remember my shareware feel!
#newton #vintageApple #retroComputing #vintageComputing #shareware
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