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vertigo Jun 22, 2023

DOS Games Music Collection

DOS Games Music Collection - Lemmy.world

I’m playing Eye of the Beholder for the first time (SO good) and am a bit disappointed with the music. Naturally, I went on a hunt to build up a collection of DOS game music and found this site. [http://www.mirsoft.info/] You can filter by platform (DOS filter is applied in the URL linked to this post) but what’s really cool is that there is a torrent for the whole site’s collection of MIDI and MOD tracks! The whole archive is 1.38gb and I’ll be seeding it indefinitely. This is the magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c3354503aa06d46c2c77193afb4ff6bc40c0e368&dn=mirsoftJuly2021snapshot&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce Now, time for me to get back to dungeon cartography.

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vertigo Jun 14, 2023

Sounds intriguing, I'll give it a go. The handful of tactics games I've played I enjoyed a lot so could be quite good.

I am a (very casual) 40k fan and the Space Hulk poster always catches my eye but I've been put off by the fact that it's a old strategy (feels hard to get into) but knowing it's actually good makes it worth trying. Thanks for the recommendations yo.

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vertigo Jun 14, 2023

Sweet, I'll check em both out, starting with the original. I vaguely recall seeing someone call Blitzkrieg a semi-spiritual successor and if that's the case I'm all in.

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vertigo Jun 14, 2023

It's Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion. It's a Romero game from the Softdisk days so there's plenty of gore. There's also unique death portraits for the player based on which monster kills you and those are great as well.

I love the game but if you're a new player just know that it's very unforgiving. Try to kill enemies from as far away as you can and get used to prefiring the green slimes.

https://www.gog.com/game/dangerous_dave_pack

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vertigo Jun 12, 2023

Very interesting, I'm surprised it works as well as it does. I also have nostalgia for emulation - namely using no$gb (no cash gameboy) via DOS (I think) to play Pokemon Red and Blue.

I just checked and the emulator is still around and you can get the DOS version but it looks to be a much later version than the I one I used in ~97

Bleem! and Nesticle are also quite nostalgic for me too.

no$gba - nocash gameboy advance / nintendo ds / dsi emulator

vertigo Jun 12, 2023

Good WW2 strategy/tactics games?

https://lemmy.world/post/82158

Good WW2 strategy/tactics games? - Lemmy.world

I’ve been getting a bit more in strategy games, outside of real-time, and am keen to explore some of the DOS WW2 strategy games. I know strategy games and flight sims were both very popular, especially in the earlier years, so I’m hoping someone’s got some suggestions for me :) For context - other WW2 strategy games I’m playing at the moment are Hearts of Iron IV, Blitzkireg 1 and Company of Heroes 2.

vertigo Jun 10, 2023

Oldies but Goldies - DOS Collection

https://lemmy.world/post/34474

Oldies but Goldies - DOS Collection - Lemmy.world

Let’s see how this goes… here’s a collection of games (1740)

vertigo Jun 9, 2023

Computer Gaming World (CGW) Archive

https://lemmy.world/post/34359

Computer Gaming World (CGW) Archive - Lemmy.world

CGW was one a long running PC gaming magazine which started in 1989 and ended in 2006. You can find the entire archive on CGW Museum. [https://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=0&pub=0&id=500] The only ‘issue’ with the museum is the file names - it only shows the issue number (e.g - cgw_156.pdf) which makes it tricky to know when it was actually released. To make things easier for myself when reading on my tablet I renamed the files to include the year and month of release (e.g - CGW Issue #156 (July 1997).pdf) I’ve done this for 1990 - 2000 and this is what I’ve linked in the actual post. If you want to get the rest of the issues you should go to the museum. [https://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=0&pub=0&id=500]