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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on Yesterday, 20:25

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The most insidious thing imo is that Steam drops support for older versions of Windows. They are supposed to be the "good guys" of DRM. I know why they do it, but it still sucks. If they really wanted to be consumer friendly, they would "officially" drop support, but still let you install the …

Re: Why The Internet Archive Is In Danger Right Now...

Posted on 2024-05-02, 12:05

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Is it just me or is the Wayback Machine less useful than it used to be? Old webpages are often not available. I've been using the WM for the purpose of researching and finding old games for over a decade, and no, I've not noticed any recent degradation of quality. Yes, some pages are not preserved …

Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2024-04-28, 16:13

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I just learned about a pretty obscure German game called Space in Motion: Future Trade which was made freeware by its author, and the source code released here: https://github.com/Burkersroda/FutureTrade According to that page, the game was released in 2000 and sold in stores (here's a couple of …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-28, 13:10

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Especially with bigger companies, they often use middleware or licensed assets for which they do not have the right to publish it outside of what contractually has been agreed on. For example, id Software had to change some stuff before releasing Doom 3 source code due to use of licensed technology …

Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-27, 19:55

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I am as big an opponent of online DRM as anyone - I only buy my digital games from GOG - but The Crew is a rather poor example, almost clickbait-grade in my opinion. Let's see. An online-only game, with no single-player content at all (per my understanding), which was from the day of its release …

Re: What is the LAST 5 DOS Game ever made for DOS?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 20:26

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What is the Last 5 MS-DOS game ever made for Dos? Depending on how you look upon it, this might be a tricky question. For one, DOS games are still being made, and some of these are sold, a few even with limited physical copies available. But most are freeware or donationware at best. The other …

Re: Rare and lost demo/shareware releases wanted list

Posted on 2024-04-20, 15:44

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Is rooster.zip on some other coverdisk CD besides 10/98? All of the issues seem not archived there, only some. I've not found the actual rooster.zip on any CDs in Hallfiry 's catalogue. PC Gamer PL issue 10/98 contains a self-extracting DOS RAR archive (of the command-line only variety, no install …

Re: Dune II HD port at last!

Posted on 2024-04-20, 15:31

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Sonic tank having less range than launcher and deviator kinda makes no sense to me but I dont remember what it was like in the original game.. Note that this is the sight range (i. e. the radius of the circle around the unit that gets revealed when it is stationary), not the actual weapon range. …

Re: Rare and lost demo/shareware releases wanted list

Posted on 2024-04-15, 20:47

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Rooster Type: Freeware (former commercial) File name: rooster.zip File size: probably around 2-3 MiB Original location: http://www.mirage.com.pl:80/index.php?id=retroattack (Wayback Machine link) Comment: This was a Polish overhead shooter apparently similar to Alien Breed , which was made a free …

Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2024-04-11, 17:24

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Another DOS game with the source code possibly lost: G-Fighter by Gaping Wolf Software. I was able to find the game itself here: gfighter.zip . The game was created using Allegro, but not archived at allegro.cc . An older page of the same developer is available here: https://web.archive.org/web/ …

Re: Problem with Powerslave on Windows 10

Posted on 2024-04-11, 12:32

Chasm works perfectly well in Dosbox on W10, played through it a few years ago. It requires some patches and Dynamic core. I'm pretty certain it's the other way around: you need to manually force normal core, because the Runtime Error 200 occurs when DOSBox auto-switches to dynamic core on default …

Re: Rare and lost demo/shareware releases wanted list

Posted on 2024-04-08, 12:17

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The Puzzle Pits Type: Level editor File name: pitsedit.zip File size: Unknown Original location: http://plasmaworks.com/pits/pits.html (Wayback Machine link) Comment: The Puzzle Pits is an originally shareware/commercial Soko-Ban -style puzzle game for Amiga and DOS. It was made freeware sometime …

Re: Random free game findings

Posted on 2024-04-05, 12:05

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Recently I've stumbled across quite obscure DOS games that have Amiga connections, but very little information in them is available: (The) Puzzle Pits / Puzzle Pits '95 , which I found via dosgames.com . It's a Soko-Ban variant with a plot of sorts, in a fantasy setting. I got stuck in one level …

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