Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
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Re: Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
#2Scorched Earth was my favorite among that list. I spent many hours playing it on my Packard Bell 486x.
Re: Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
#3Scorched Earth was my favorite among that list. I spent many hours playing it on my Packard Bell 486x.
You can actually still buy it: http://www.whicken.com/scorch/index.html
Re: Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
#4I wish these were all available on Android so that I could play them on my phone.
However, UI issues, my own technical incompetence and laziness (if they don't come up after a Play Store search then I don't check much further) stand in the way.
Unless someone has any suggestions? I would think DosBox would not work well on a small screen?
Re: Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
#5I remember playing games along the same lines (a few years earlier than the author) on the Amiga buried in free game archives and collections. Or possibly early networked systems; my memory's cloudy.
I haven't seen them again. I've always wondered if some of them were partially finished personal projects that never were released widely enough to survive.
Re: Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
#6Scorched Earth was my favorite among that list. I spent many hours playing it on my Packard Bell 486x.
I would not call "forgotten" Scorched Earth. Even there is a remake in 3d.
Re: Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
#7I wish these were all available on Android so that I could play them on my phone. However, UI issues, my own technical incompetence and laziness (if they don't come up after a Play Store search then I don't check much further) stand in the way. Unless someone has any suggestions? I would think DosBox would not work well on a small screen?
I think it would depend on the game you were running.
Monitor resolutions were low in the DOS days so a lot of the text and UI elements were relatively large to make them readable.
The virtual keyboard mapping would probably be the hard part.
Re: Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
#8Secret Agent ftw! Wacky Wheels! Commander Keen!
Re: Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
#9I played the hell out of a game that only had 4 colors. 'Pyromaniac' and the filename was pyroman.exe (It looked a lot like sleuth, the first game on the list). You had to go through buildings trailing a burning fuse that you couldn't let catch you, and also there were cans of gas that would explode across several walls. Higher levels required quite a bit of strategy, intentionally starting fires so they would burn out by the time you needed to go through the area, strategic placing of gas cans etc.
Make it to the final level you get to burn down the Kremlin. Good times.
Please don't tell the parole board, I'm still doing 8 to 20 for arson.
Re: Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (2019)
#10Scorched Earth was my favorite among that list. I spent many hours playing it on my Packard Bell 486x.
You can actually still buy it: http://www.whicken.com/scorch/index.html
I wish it was on gog or steam. I'm lazy but would love to just have it work on the steam deck without me buying it, backing up the zip, configuring dosbox etc...