It's a wonder I ever learned how to use #MSDOS as a kid.
Imagine turning on a computer for the first time in your life, and after watching a bunch of strange text scroll by, at the bottom of the screen it says “C:\>” with a blinking underline after it.
No wonder GUIs got so popular so quickly.
I took a first stab at isometric maps on a 386. The new direction definitely makes things more challenging... and I'm not sure yet if I can pull it off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JZ35t_8q1A
#gamedev #retrogamedev #retrocomputing #retrogaming #msdos #indiedev #devlog #pascal #turbopascal
A 2026 edition of Pym's Daily Word Square Puzzle is now available. This contains the game for #msdos, with the puzzle data for 2025 and 2026. If you have the original 2025 edition, you can instead just download the 2026 puzzle data and add it to your installation. These files are available at https://cyningstan.itch.io/pyms-daily-word-square-puzzle #ibmpc #cga #pym
Epic Pinball for MS-DOS has always been on of my favourite pinball games! I've always known this as a collection of multiple tables. Only recently did I find out these tables were also sold separately. As separate products. Each table with their own unique cover art!
Here are a few of these disks: https://archive.org/details/epic-pinball-individual-table-releases-from-bn-companies
This is epic... pinball. Epic Pinball! 😃
#Pinball #RetroGaming #MSDOS #EpicPinball #FloppyDisk #Disketten #DOSGaming #PCGaming #DOSGames #PCGames #DOS #90s
Blade Combat in #StarCadre Combat Class allows for accuracy in stabbing with a blade. This is a common skill for Medics and Scouts. You don't need this to use a blade to free hostages though. https://cyningstan.itch.io/star-cadre-combat-class #ibmpc #msdos #cga
Frisch aus den 90ern! Ein Satz deutschsprachiger 3,5 Zoll Disketten von Windows 3.0. Die Datenträger tragen das Produktionsdatum vom Juni 1990. Hochgeladen wurden vollständige Scans in 300dpi, saubere KryoFlux Streams, sowie IMG Sektorabbilder. Ich hab die Disketten gerade auch mal testweise installiert... funktioniert alles einwandfrei! Viel Spaß!
https://archive.org/details/mswin_30_de_35
#RetroComputing #Windows #Microsoft #IBMPC #MSDOS #FloppyDisk #Diskette #KryoFlux #90er #90s
I just published v0.99 of #jSH, a #JavaScript scripting environment for #MSDOS. This is the 'little' text-mode brother to #DOjS.
- fixed `Screen` object.
- fixed `CGets()`.
- added missing include
- updated zip, mbedTLS and curl
Update on the Apricot IR hackerying
Managed to make the USB HID stack library I was using work nicely with USB mice, and now we have a pretty fully functional USB mouse adaptor (which was my end goals :blobfoxlaugh:)
#apricotportable #apricotpc #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #dos #msdos #vintagelaptops
I'm building an online #NortonGuide collection, in the hope of preserving all those handy help files we used to work with back in the #MSDOS days. Can you help?
blog.davep.org/2025/12/12/n...
#help #hypertext #clipper #caclipper #xbase
A Norton Guide collection
I'm building an online #NortonGuide collection, in the hope of preserving all those handy help files we used to work with back in the #MSDOS days. Can you help?
https://blog.davep.org/2025/12/12/norton-guide-collection.html
Surprise Friday stream! After a lot of painful debugging we (hopefully) return to the riveting FMV intrigue of CITY 2000 - London!
Иногда компьютеры ошибаются. Воспроизводим тот самый баг на $475 000 000
Приветствую всех! Знаю: тема багов, которые изменили мир, избита уже настолько, что на ней не осталось живого места. Но сейчас мы не будем просто говорить о самых выдающихся таких случаях. Сейчас мы затронем лишь один из них: ту самую ошибку в процессоре Pentium. И не просто поговорим обо всём этом, а ещё и продемонстрируем её на реальной машине. Итак, сегодня мы разберёмся, что же это был за баг в данном теперь уже ретро-процессоре. Узнаем, как он проявлялся, как его воспроизвести и, конечно же, увидим вживую, как всё это работало. Press F1 to continue
https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/975344/
#timeweb_статьи #pentium #msdos #windows_98 #алгоритм_деления #i430fx #чипсет #жёсткий_диск #x86 #озу
Okay, #term39 is giving me some serious #DESQview (with a side order of #TurboVision) vibes and I like it. #msdos #dos #terminal
Okay, #term39 is giving me some serious #DESQview (with a side order of #TurboVision) vibes and I like it. #msdos #dos #terminal
Keys are used to open locked chests and grates. Unlike a lockpick, usage of the correct key to open a chest or grate gives a 100% chance of success and requires no skill. Keys are found in the dungeon chests. Get The #ChambersBeneath from https://cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers-beneath #roguelike #ibmpc #msdos #cga
Because not everything has to be *NIX let's help spread the word about @freedosproject 😉
https://allthingsopen.org/articles/why-freedos-is-modern-dos
@DOSBox_Staging just crossed 15,000 commits. Thanks to all contributors over the years!
Now starting my second stream for this year's #DOSember. For the first half I'll be playing the flight/racing game Slipstream 5000, and for the second half I'll be making another attempt at X-Com: UFO Defence.
Update on the Apricot IR work, after flailing around with USB HID host stack on the RP2040 I was able to get a rudimentary USB Keyboard -> Apricot IR adaptor
Needs more work, this is more of a quick PoC I made by editing the example code, but I hope to make this into a full USB KB + Mouse adaptor
#apricotportable #apricotpc #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #dos #msdos #vintagelaptops
