this website been around for a really long time though.
DOS Zone
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#72Publishing things that are still available for purchase from storefronts (like steam and gog) seems to be stretching the definition of "abandonware". While many people would likely justify their piracy with the idea that "The people who made it don't receive that money" - that isn't always true, and even then they did get the cash from selling the rights. It's not as it playing that one specific game is a human right…
It's a Russian warez website, fishing for donations in crypto to bypass sanctions because of their invasion? Pass.
Not worse than using Kagi.
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#73i love russians' nonchalance for anything regarding copyright
You can't really sanction a country and cut it off from the global financial markets and then turn around and expect them to respect the conventions of global intellectual property markets.
Russia's lack of policing copy right began much much much earlier than the Ukraine war sanctions. I can't understand why you would claim that to be the cause.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Semi-related, since SDL added support for DOS a few weeks ago I've worked with Claude to port Cave Story to DOS [1]. On a Pentium 75 it can get 30fps and with decoupling the frame timer it plays at the same speed as the original. The port offloads the Organya synth soundtrack to MIDI to improve performance, and also sounds amazing. Still working on a few bug fixes, performance tweaks, and Waveblaster support, but it'…
I admire your work, but at the same time I have to ask: Why?
Why not?
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
True, but in defense of the author site and from a personal perspective, the copyright laws are very skewed and allow for being paid for life for a craft that has been made once. Even heirs benefit from it for life. Isn't that wildly unfair for all the other jobs where you are paid for your work once for all? And irrespectively from the fact that what you designed has been produced by the million and still running...
> allow for being paid for life for a craft that has been made once It costs on average 7$ to buy a craft that took maybe 2 years for a team of 10 developers (since we are speaking of DOS era games). Are you suggesting such works should have been paid 7$ just once by one person? Reasoning like this is why most gaming companies pivoted to either use Denuvo or to make pay-to-win, ad-filled products. I cannot blame them…
That $7 isn't going to the developers.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a Russian warez website, fishing for donations in crypto to bypass sanctions because of their invasion? Pass.
Not worse than using Kagi.
> Not worse than using Kagi.
Kagi was founded by Vladimir Prelovac. But it is incorporated in Delaware, and subject to any sanctions the US imposes. It is not a sanctions bypass.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not worse than using Kagi.
> Not worse than using Kagi. Kagi was founded by Vladimir Prelovac. But it is incorporated in Delaware, and subject to any sanctions the US imposes. It is not a sanctions bypass.
They are buying Yandex data for 2% of their revenue. Money that goes directly into the Russian economy.
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#78Oh yes, Quake 3 Arena, classic DOS game.
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#79What's with the slop cover art for Doom?
BabyType too, and others.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fun fact, Win 95, 98 and ME booted DOS and autoexec'd win for you.
Yes, but like Windows for Workgroups before them, they didn't need to rely on DOS services once they had started. They were 32-bit multitasking OSes that could host multiple DOS VMs and (in the case of WfW) a 16-bit cooperatively multitasked GUI. DOS basically acted as a bootloader. But all of those OSes had the very weird feature that they could switch back into a virtualised copy of their bootloader. I do feel that…
Win95's ability to host multiple VMs was marginally better than Windows/386. It was a step in the right direction with the new driver architecture and elimination of TSRs (TSR-to-95 porting was one of my roles bitd). Just a baby step though, you could be just as rude in a '95 driver as a DOS TSR.