RT @dosnostalgic: Beta of "Stop Nick Macki". The game would eventually become Pie in the Sky's "Lethal Tender"
Replying to @ben_304
Cat!
Patiently waiting for Director support to be functional in ScummVM https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/759494206901587972
RT @dosnostalgic: Commercial 3rd party Quake addons:
Shrak, Malice, X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse, & Abyss of Pandemonium https://t.co/h…
RT @annascottpiano: Well, here's rural Nova Scotia in two pictures, taken a day apart. Photos by Andrew Killawee
Oh no. One of my awesome shirts began to fall apart D:
Jimmy suggests you play a DOS game today
RT @DanKaszeta: OK. There's several layers of fun to be had with this screen shot.
RT @dosnostalgic: Here Stephane Picq is defending AdLib music ("more capable than one might think") using his Dune soundtrack as an example…
RT @dosnostalgic: Beautiful AdLib soundtrack from Cryo's KGB/Conspiracy is now available to listen & download: https://youtu.be/t1Id5-iKKFs http…
RT @dosnostalgic: Amazing AdLib Gold soundtrack from Cryo's Dune by Stephane Picq. Listen & download https://youtu.be/gUfGyfbzl9k #DOSGaming htt…
Dinner with some friends at a restaurant. 2/3rds were booked by a local Republican branch. On my way out a lady was staring at my shirt XD
🤔 https://x.com/stooovie/status/892535499084242944
I agree with this https://x.com/popeguilty/status/892536199537188864
Raise a little Hell
Raise a little Hell
Raise a little Hell
RT @DickKingSmith: "Yes madam, I believe we have one left. Aisle 6, next to the basmati rice and below the Nesquik."
RT @TexTweetz: Finally!!! #DOSGaming
RT @RetroGameGeeks: THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND: Here's a review of the 1990 PC adventure game from C&VG magazine... #retrogaming #dosgamin…
RT @Pixelengineer_: Flying Tigers (Ticsoft, 1994) #DOSgaming
RT @SplAdamSage: Do we remember the "Mother of All games": Scorched Earth? So many variations of this classic have followed since. #Retroga…
RT @dosnostalgic: Before turning into Gorillas, the artillery QBasic demo was called Castles & was much more boring looking (From DOS 5 bet…
Rewatching Stranger Things. God, this show looks so good.
One Slice Mickey
Final Verdict II
Danger Island VI: The Missing Team
FOAM
Righteous Dragon https://x.com/epicgeezr/status/891781690540118018
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
RT @dosnostalgic: Russian #NotDOS print ads from 1997: Vangers, Parkan, Gag, and Hard Truck
RT @dosnostalgic: That's an interesting ad. #NotDOS
SHELL32.DLL https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/892574715407208448
Replying to @popeguilty
Have you seen 90s advertising? This wouldn't shock anyone.
#CurrentMood
RT @dosnostalgic: #NationalColoringBookDay Don't forget about digital ones: Electric Crayon series for DOS:
Gggmanlives reviews Ukrainian DOS fps Chasm: The Rift https://youtu.be/Uu19BSDPanQ
Replying to @limbclock
I used to like this guy until he started going through a long stage of SJW bashing in every one of his videos. He calmed down now though.
Replying to @limbclock
I like the guy's fps skills. He clearly knows what he's doing. Love watching his Blood video not for the review, but for actual gameplay.
PanzerChasm, a reverse engineered Chasm port https://github.com/Panzerschrek/Chasm-Reverse/releases
Software vs hardware
Omg, I'd love a cure 4 the common cold. I'm the type of person that jumps 20 feet away if a person next 2 me sneezes http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40800941
Replying to @luisfmercado and @limbclock
He didn't say that. XD SS2 isn't a perfect game, and he pointed that out.
When I worked at a supermarket chain that used store cards, I've seen the amount of customer tracking that is going on.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Now, the stores themselves rarely even look at any of that, but the data is there, it's accumulating.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I'm sure that's part of the reason why Amazon bought Whole Foods. We live in the world where tracking data is money.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
And even though I can't really think of a sinister reason why Amazon would want to know how often you buy bananas, I'm sure it's there.
RT @Pixelengineer_: Do you know my friends ... lighter fuel Jim, cotton stick Paul and sharp knife Willy? They are such a good team ;)! htt…
I'm supposed to get something delivered by UPS tomorrow. After my previous experience decided to let them leave it w/o my signature.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Now I'm worried they are gonna leave it at another address or something. With UPS it's always an adventure of some kind.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
What I don't understand is why so many companies block the option of them holding my package for a pickup.
RT @textfiles: Here's a party - 210mb of Hypercard Stacks that were selected as winners by MacWorld in 1989. https://archive.org/details/MacWorldSuperStacks https:…
Replying to @ALWyvern and @craigperko
I'd gladly do that. I receive all my mail in a PO box, and find that a lot more convenient than having to rely on deliveries.
RT @CUTEFUNNYANIMAL: 'Chillax bruh, it's not real'
RT @dosnostalgic: Some of my Logo Writer school work from when I was 11
RT @dosnostalgic: Where was the person who wrote this when I needed to pad out my school papers?
Replying to @retrospasm
It doesn't cost them anything. It's up to the shipper to allow that option or not.
RT @PIN_VID:
RT @dosnostalgic: Remember remember the 29th of April 2015... 😢
RT @dosnostalgic: Do you remember?
Replying to @wainsaht
I'm from Bum Fuck, Russia. The only place I ever saw ZIP disks was magazines
Replying to @wainsaht
Also this is an archiving program from 1991. ZIP drives wouldn't be around for another 3 years or so
Whoooooooooaaaaaaaaa! https://x.com/textfiles/status/892857981305585664
Helllooooo, people of Twitter! What DOS games have you been playing recently? (Cool stories & screenshots will be RTed)
RT @AnasAbdin: @dosnostalgic I was getting my ass kicked while Scott and Mark were fleeing
RT @DopefishJustin: There's just no substitute for 640x350 EGA mode on a proper CRT
RT @Toxicoow: @dosnostalgic The first Liero game on dos.
RT @madsdk: @dosnostalgic @Pixelengineer_ Dark Forces, Doom 2 and The Dig on my brand new Pentium 75 running DOS 6.22 👍
RT @GamingJay1001: @dosnostalgic Recently fended off a planetary invasion of mechs in Battletech: The Crescent Hawks Revenge (a personal fa…
Those things were lovely. And really fucking heavy. https://x.com/lazygamereviews/status/892863911237701633
Replying to @ferchoarg
It's not the manual, but the official strategy guide
RT @Silentwulf: @dosnostalgic Peter Rabbit goes to Hell
Replying to @jess_haskins
I'm stuck at work :(
RT @doyousketch2: @dosnostalgic Wrote a #Love2D app to help you through the lands of Might&Magic III and Xeen, so that's where I'm at. htt…
Best anti-depressant https://x.com/Bodegacats_/status/892875664298323968
Replying to @retrospasm
I think you've missed the point again. It's not up to the UPS, but the shipper.
RT @Foone: @lazygamereviews I only play Duke Nukem on bedroom walls.
RT @lazygamereviews: Mmm CRT
Replying to @pripyatbeast
Replying to @jshmlr
RT @SQHistorian: @dosnostalgic Played all the way through original 1993 DOS #GabrielKnight for my homeboy @GrundislavGames. https://t.co/t5…
Replying to @SQHistorian, @ShawnMills77 and @willoneill
I'll give you something meaty
RT @DavidXNewton: @dosnostalgic I've been taking another look at Electro Man, the shareware inferior-named release of Electro Body! https:/…
Replying to @DavidXNewton
It's probably from a song, just like other samples in the game.
Replying to @DavidXNewton
The author of the game is actually on Twitter, but I have him blocked because.... well, he's a G Ger among other things.
That particular blooper wasn't so great. No movie is worth destroying a piece of history for it. https://x.com/OnePerfectShot/status/892895018180116481
Replying to @Foone and @DavidXNewton
JESUS IS HERE
Remember when I was just some asshole on the Internet? Oh wait...
Replying to @ATMcashpoint, @Foone and @DavidXNewton
Don't anyone fucking dare to say the actual word!!!
Replying to @geeoharee
I didn't watch the video. Was it about Annie Hall?
Replying to @geeoharee
Figured.
Ummm... I kinda want this sign
Replying to @dosnostalgic
So occasionally I stumble upon sources that claim that there was a DOS version of Macromedia Director Projector (v4). I've never seen it.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Have any of you?
Replying to @Foone
Actually I'd like to hear all of those
$32.95 of 1981 dollars is about $92 today. https://x.com/IQ_Adventures/status/892909553045602304
COMMAND(DOT)COM
Replying to @lance_gilbert and @Foone
HOLY FUCK
RT @dosnostalgic: Swype is great though. Here's a sample of my dictionary
Replying to @lance_gilbert and @Foone
WHAT ARE ALL THESE STORES?!?! What is this insanity?!
Hocus Pocus https://x.com/Nintendo_Legend/status/892797322429685761
RT @dosnostalgic: EA's LHX: Attack Chopper (1990) intro. Can you tell that fast 3D was still a relatively new thing at the time? #DOSGaming…
Replying to @Coffee_Cork
Not unless you got all $32.95 in pennies for some reason
Replying to @retrospasm
No, I'm referring to how UPS functions.
Replying to @retrospasm
The sender has the option to not allow UPS to hold the package at their facility for the receiver.
Replying to @retrospasm
One has nothing to do with another. If UPS holds a package for you that requires signature, it still requires signature when you pick it up.
Replying to @retrospasm
All my recent packages required a signature. And yet all of them had the pickup option blocked.
Replying to @retrospasm
I'd actually be glad if they just dumped it somewhere near my house, but unfortunately I now have to play tag with them.
Replying to @retrospasm
OR alternatively I'd gladly pick them up from a facility that's actually very close to where I live & sign for them, BUT NO CAN'T DO THAT.
Replying to @retrospasm
No, holding doesn't cost anything. I've shipped enough through UPS at work to know that.
Replying to @LambdaCalculus and @ATMcashpoint
Amiga version is the original one, yes. VGA graphics in the first DOS version are identical.
Replying to @LambdaCalculus and @ATMcashpoint
Yes. That version is VGA only too, no EGA or CGA options.
RT @TheRetroManCave: It's Finished! Watch my 486 Trash to Treasure pt5. (& gaming montage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZToLdCLOko #dosgaming @lazygamerev…
RT @dancingcrab: Dwarves, dwarves, everywhere... but not an axe to spare.
#EyeOfTheBeholder #retrogaming #DOSgaming #LPsLongPlay https://t…
RT @Pixelengineer_: FIFA Soccer 96 (Extended Play Productions / Electronic Arts, 1995) #DOSgaming
RT @Padawanmage: @dosnostalgic Found this Thinkpad at a Goodwill. Would like to try DOS games on it. 👍🏼
Alien Rampage, a rather obscure great looking and super challenging DOS action platformer is now on GOG https://www.gog.com/game/alien_rampage
RT @bbpcgc: Dragon Magazine gave Ultima Underworld SIX stars out of five. @RichardGarriott
RT @kylewrather: Wired, Jan 94
RT @DavidXNewton: The raptors in DOS Jurassic Park. Had to turn sound off. And looking at this video I was entirely justified! https://t.co…
RT @dosnostalgic: A few backgrounds from Castle of Dr. Brain. #DOSGaming
I see Doug T. continues to be a shitty person.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
It always sucks when this is the case with a person whose work you enjoy, but in this case it's not a surprise. He's been like that a while
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Which is why last time I thought long & hard about supporting his Kickstarter. In the end, I ended up doing it. Regretted it since.
Replying to @textfiles
He's been doing this for a while. Especially on Twitter. He has alerts set to see when his name is mentioned & immediately butts in.
Replying to @textfiles
Incredibly petty guy.
Not mentioning his name because the guy had alerts set to his name appearing anywhere for like 10 years now. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/893160878257864704
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Last thing I need is being personally chastised by a shitty person I used to admire.
Yeah, the game blew too. Which I kind of suspected was gonna be the case. Just reinforces that The Neverhood was a happy confidence. https://x.com/SirTapTap/status/893162407450877953
Replying to @PixelMetal
Aaaaand that's enough of that
Replying to @demodulated and @LambdaCalculus
Just now I learned that he also came out in favor of the Gate. Hardly surprising m
I'm glad I can be entertaining even when I'm wrong about reality
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I mean, I guess I should be glad I don't exist in the same reality that person does, apparently, but peeps, lmk if I'm wrong about tech.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I'm always happy to receive corrections from people who are more skilled in areas where I'm not.
LIES! It's gonna happen. Progress is slow, but I'm in it for the long haul. https://x.com/demodulated/status/893178910736875522
Replying to @KGOrphanides
Cat! <3
The Dark Eye https://x.com/Nintendo_Legend/status/893177789653929984
Replying to @richardgoodness
Replying to @LambdaCalculus and @KGOrphanides
Cat!
RT @TheRetroManCave: "I'm Paul Page, from Papyrus, this, is Indy Car Racing" 🤣 #DOSGaming #RetroGaming
Nerdly Pleasures: New Discoveries about the IBM Music Feature and Roland Sound Canvas http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.lu/2017/07/new-discoveries-about-ibm-music-feature.html
Replying to @RanFuRe
What? As in "The Dark Eye"
Replying to @jennfrankgames
This is a good tweet! #Cat
Trust me, I know exactly why current generation of VR was invented
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Falling down VR rabbit hole
Replying to @PushinUpRoses
Yep
Replying to @CNO_cycle
Unfortunately both of those aren't open source, so the chances of that are slim. DOOM, however, has already been ported.
It's strange seeing that blocking someone on Twitter is being compared to calling them Hitler and other stuff. It's the opposite.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
If I wanted to argue with someone, or prove something to them, I'd do that. If I didn't do that out means I just don't want to hear from >>
Replying to @dosnostalgic
>> them. Ever. Because I'm tired, and arguing on Twitter is never worth it. That is all.
I want to be this cat https://x.com/elenajday/status/893231815338717184
Replying to @camerabird
I'll usually talk shit if they say something that catches me off guard, while not mentioning their name. I think it's acceptable.
Replying to @camerabird
Well, I don't do that. That also requires a lot of energy, and like I mentioned, I'm too fucking tired for any of that shit.
I guess I'm in for the new Death Wish movie, sort of. It's more like I don't care, but I still might watch it. Don't like Eli Roth though.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
In my mind Death Wish is the kind of a movie that's allowed to get a remake. Maybe not THIS remake, but it's not like it's a perfect film.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
This is, for example, is how one could remake RoboCop. Much better than the actual remake we got. (NSFW) https://youtu.be/KSPzsV2YN6Q
God, this scene is amazing. Such incredible attention to detail could only come from total love for the original film. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/893250427000676352
Replying to @howieeday
NSFA: Not Safe For ANYONE
RT @dosnostalgic: To this day, Blood's help screen remains unmatched in terms of entertainment. Programmers, more stuff like this! https://…
RT @dosnostalgic: Some of original digitized frames of Blood models. Before resizing.
Replying to @GyCot
The BEST
RT @dosnostalgic: I'm almost too frightened to ask... Are you the marble deliveryman... or the model?
RT @dosnostalgic: DOS/4GW FTW!!! #DOSGaming
Replying to @DeiruSan and @BrammarB
In Blood it's supposed to be a gargoyle
RT @tsion: 1997: your lightbulb emits more heat than light
2017: your lightbulb is a futuristic color LED currently DDoSing GitHub on behal…
Replying to @DocPandaman
I got to play a few games a couple of years ago. I think the most fun for me was that Wario one.
Replying to @demodulated
Yes?
Replying to @DocPandaman
I also liked that wireframe 3D flying game, but kept hitting the walls of tunnels.
RT @RetroSwimAU: Happy weekend! Here's some DOS and Master System glory in one unholy union!
RT @ben_304: Something I love about forgotten strategy games of the 90s is how unique they sometimes looked at felt. Games that just did th…
Replying to @expectproblems and @ben_304
It was me. #Silmarils
Replying to @expectproblems and @ben_304
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/795775047285805058
Replying to @Foone
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/888790907331514368
RT @ItsTheShadsy: Found leftover pieces of this while cleaning up the apartment and I still cannot believe this worked https://t.co/7tPLuis…
Replying to @SQHistorian
I accept
RT @gnomeslair: A gif that has absolutely nothing to do with game cities:
RT @pointandgifadv: A watertight bathroom, the perfect way to clean. Just fill it with water with soap and it cleans it self.
(Leisure Sui…
Replying to @SQHistorian and @IkiFoo
MAP32 is my DM map of choice
Pfft. You just haven't met the right cats https://x.com/retroexplorer/status/893537491785068545
Replying to @richardgoodness
WELL FUCK YOU TOO, RICHARD
Replying to @richardgoodness
(I don't actually want to see that movie, no)
Replying to @AgustinCordes
You better hurry up then, buddy. Ours is moving fast.
RT @TexTweetz: Here's a Covox Sound Master +. Only 1 game that i know supports it: Alone in the Dark
Replying to @TexTweetz
What about other Infogrames games?
RT @dosnostalgic: This freaking bird
I have no fucking clue what I was talking about there https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/575651679548342272
That must be it! Mystery solved! https://x.com/yakkoj/status/893592563973861376
RT @dosnostalgic: Heh. Look at this Namco ad
RT @dosnostalgic: You're out to lunch
I'm out of thyme
And I'm all out of bread
Will you bring a pound?
RT @dosnostalgic: Terrible box art of the day:
RT @dosnostalgic: Fable is terrible
RT @dosnostalgic: Tetriller. 1990 Soviet Tetris "parody" where you have to help a guy escape from his Tetris pit nightmare #DOSGaming https…
RT @dosnostalgic: Normality. US version featuring Corey Feldman #DOSGaming
Waaaaaaait a second. There's a fucking program to use Milkdrop plugins in VR?!?! And nobody let me know?!?!
RT @dosnostalgic: For those of you who were asking me about my Milkdrop preset collection. Here's the whole thing: http://dosnostalgia.com/files/milkdrop2.7z…
RT @dosnostalgic: Don't forget to save your game
RT @dosnostalgic: System Shock UK ad #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: Don't forget!
RT @dosnostalgic: System Shock level 1
This isn't what I was dreaming of when I was watching The Jetsons when I was a kid, but alright, I'll take it. https://x.com/TripleSixGod/status/893243149417578496
RT @pointandgifadv: Just one more beer, I will be fine to fly home after that. Unless the dragon has been drinking too.
(Legend of Kyrandi…
RT @dosgameclub: Podcast episode 5 is out now! It was great fun talking Strike Commander with the amazing @banditloaf #DOSGaming https://t.…
RT @Pixelmusement: New Ancient DOS Games episode uploaded! http://youtu.be/3cwKui_utic?a
RT @dosnostalgic: Flashback Saturday
RT @dosnostalgic: Hello World
RT @dosnostalgic: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? for DOS throughout the versions #DOSGaming
Replying to @decafjedi
I'm not sure, but I don't think so. There's CGA composite support though.
RT @dosnostalgic: Four Wing Commander games #DOSGaming
RT @Foone: The vintage computer festival has a doom death match room set up! I approve, even if it isn't on DOS hardware... https://t.co/JK…
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
No
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
Yeah, it's a pretty shitty upgrade. But you get the animated intro with voices. And different pics for after the missions.
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
I actually prefer the original transitions, and the original animated intro with no voices.
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
Try the MT-32 renditions. They are pretty good.
A Soviet Orange
Replying to @dosnostalgic
You know what? Fuck you, AND your Dragon Ball! This is a commie orange!
Ok, I lol'ed :D https://x.com/MrKrisViking/status/893954959548575745
😂
RT @agistuff: Gold Rush!, Room 019 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
RT @dosnostalgic: Keep all the money
RT @dosnostalgic: Promo shots of Legend Entertainment's The Wheel of Time circa summer of 1997. Obvious mockups. If anyone has better versi…
LOADHIGH
RT @dosnostalgic: And if you've never experienced DOOM with PC speaker, here you go: #DOSGaming
RT @JoeSiegler: Found this old relic. Someone had sent in an order for @RiseoftheTriad only with Monopoly money! If memory serves, I sent h…
Replying to @Carephrii
Errrr.... Except they do.
RT @dosnostalgic: Oh! I got one! This is where the theme from Alley Cat comes from: https://youtu.be/hS1VsP6Fjv8
So my short summary of attempting to fight a huge wave of depression: watching Twin Peaks, rearranging living space, bought new bed
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Also decided to spend money on a new toy, which ended up being an Oculus Rift. I do feel much better now.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I think I would be doing even better if the weather wasn't so shit. Terrible summer in New York this year.
Regarding VR: There are definitely improvements that need to be made. Especially in the area of porn.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
This isn't a joke. Out of all my brief VR experiences porn turned out to be the most disappointing.
Trust me, human "intelligence" will kill us all before any AI.
The best Boss key https://x.com/SpindleyQ/status/893993472587419653
Replying to @awesomonster
I'll consider making one
So yeah, sorry for the absence of new DOS Nostalgia content, but I was mentally in a place that made it impossible to work.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I'm feeling much better now though, so new stuff is definitely coming soon.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
However, now I'm also fighting some technical difficulties as well. All associated on working on a new machine. Software is acting up.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Like FFMPEG now flags my resized videos as 1280x802 instead of 1280x800, which also throws off Handbrake. Wtf?
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I copied the entirety of my FFMPEG directory to the new machine. Same version, same batch files, different results. Upgrading didn't help.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually, but this really fucks with my usual workflow.
RT @dosnostalgic: How ridiculous was the intro, you ask? Well..
RT @dosnostalgic: Today's #NotDOS corner:
The original free version of MicroMan, a Win3.x platformer
RT @dosnostalgic: The Adventures of MicroMan.
An improved version of MicroMan, now shareware. Episode 2 was available to customers https://…
RT @dosnostalgic: MicroMan: MONOLITH Edition. Another improved version. New sounds + a ridiculous pre-rendered intro
RT @Foone: Some punk showed up and OMG they have a demidiskette (or a predecessor?)
An IBM format that was never released to the public! ht…
RT @SQHistorian: Well, holy shit. I've updated my blog post: http://spacequesthistorian.com/2017/07/27/playing-space-quest-iii-with-digitized-sound-effects/ https://x.com/SpindleyQ/status/893984347304456192
Replying to @OchoBlanko
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/893954655830626305
This fucking tweet is spreading around because of some stupid dragon and his balls. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/893952756486156289
RT @agistuff: Gold Rush!, Room 013 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
RT @lazygamereviews: PC SPEAKER
RT @dosnostalgic: Happy Sunday!
I'm getting quote-tweeted about fucking Dragonball about every 20 seconds. With every third tweet calling me an "uncultured swine" XD https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/893952756486156289
Replying to @dosnostalgic
The Power of Twitter. Lol. It's always the stupidest things that spread the most.
RT @dosnostalgic: RT if you remember
RT @dosnostalgic: Got this comment on one of my videos. If you get a similar effect from them, I'm sorry. It's never my intention. You're v…
RT @dosnostalgic: If you say "Chessmaster" three times in front of a mirror...
Replying to @Fredsterr68
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/893954655830626305
Got to try a bit of Mission: ISS for Oculus last night. Pretty cool, actually. ISS apparently has wires all over the fucking place.
What have you done to my mentions, comrade?
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Less than 24 hrs, and over half a million people so far have already let me know that this orange is, in fact, a Dragonball.
LeninBall ☭ https://x.com/TheWack0lian/status/894271457391464452
RT @dosnostalgic: Emulators from Bloodlust Software. Nesticle, Genecyst, and Callus. #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: Mouse Systems PC Mouse. An optical mouse that only worked on its mousepad, and cost an arm & a leg. https://t.co/1qEinyCs…
RT @dosnostalgic: Check the Mouse Compatibility List.
Just remembered this day https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/465091466533273601
RT @dosnostalgic: "Captain Bible in Dome of Darkness" is probably the most entertaining religious DOS game. Look at the Captain's heroic ru…
Box art of the day: #DOSGaming
RT @Pixelengineer_: WolfPack | print ad (1991) #DOSgaming
RT @TheRetroManCave: Watch my relaxing Sunday tale of Gaming Lore and revisit, Links 386 Pro https://youtu.be/Baxz_lisAGI | #DosGaming @dosnosta…
RT @dosgameclub: This month, we're playing Sierra On-Line's classic RPG/adventure hybrid QUEST FOR GLORY! What's your favourite character c…
Replying to @dosgameclub
Why is Paladin not an option? ;)
RT @Retro_Computers: Always wanted a Covox Speech Thing so I built one tonight. I hope it works! Will make a better one if it does. #DOSGam…
Cancelled DOS game alert https://x.com/AbandonwareFr/status/893928905161277440
TIL that fans of them dragon's balls can be very angry
Replying to @prajch
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/777936182030299137
Did The Roadhouse run out of money or something, so they booked James? #TwinPeaks
Is this how kids these days insult people? Really dropping the ball on creative cursing there, millennials.
Replying to @Sigglypuff
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/894440093343207424
Replying to @damienguard
That's just mean
RT @ultrabrilliant: The most early '90s screenshot ever taken.
RT @vintage_pc_ads: We see farther.
RT @vintage_pc_ads: The personal, portable daisywheel printer. Only $599.
RT @cshel23: Currently replaying Full Throttle on my IBM 486. These are some of my favorite things to do; Kick down doors and lick everythi…
RT @dosnostalgic: HMI Sound Operating System demo (Human Machine Interfaces) #DOSGaming
Replying to @therobotjane
I've been thinking of making one, but I'm afraid to get even more disappointed in humanity then I already am
Replying to @therobotjane
I've been thinking about making one recently, but then I'm afraid to get even more disappointed in humanity than I already am.
I'd love to Twitter more, but that fucking star orange tweet is killing my app. Not deleting it cause I wanna see how ridiculous it gets.
Replying to @MrThorMighty
Idk. It's not the retweets they are killing the app, it's the interactions. I get quote-tweeted about every two seconds. App can't handle it
Holy fuck, @AJMattis! 😂😂😂
Replying to @AJMattis
I kind of wanna know what's your tweet's engagement count? My Twitter app pretty much insta-crashes because of mine.
? for Oculus users: what are the best programs for it that aren't on Oculus launcher or Steam? You know, all the *real* cool shit.
Replying to @takaforo
Sadly I'm finding that most DK2 programs aren't CV1 compatible :(
Replying to @AJMattis
My mentions are *destroyed*
Replying to @takaforo
No, but I most certainly will!
Replying to @takaforo and @TheRetroManCave
Barcade is a skip & a hop away from me. I can have this experience in real life.
Replying to @ins_punk
No, no. Fuck YOU.
Replying to @WadjetEyeGames
He turned himself into a pickle, Dave. He's Pickle Rick!
Replying to @ins_punk
I'm not a commie, man.
Replying to @takaforo and @TheRetroManCave
Real hardware. Depends. 50c to $1 or more if the game is new.
RT @SQHistorian: This video brings back memories. It also makes me scared for what happens when I hit 2,000 subs. cc @dosnostalgic https://…
RT @dosnostalgic: I remember playing this as a kid and my grandmother walking by, glancing at the screen: "How awful. A coffin!" https://t.…
RT @dosnostalgic: Doom Legacy. Split screen mode.
RT @dosnostalgic: Now THIS is a fucking title screen!
RT @dosnostalgic: (Actual unretouched screen.)
Replying to @Pixelmusement
I still have occasional debates about Win3x being an OS, but the rate of those seems to have subsided in the last few years.
Replying to @Pixelmusement
Also I recently discovered this response to the Win95 thing by Raymond Chen himself. Now I show it 2 all these peeps https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/846400147168874501
RT @dosnostalgic: Interplay's 10th Anniversary has a custom installer for each game with a CD track music & interviews #DOSGaming https://t…
RT @dosnostalgic: Here's a Russian pirate CD from 1997. 160 games. All DOS. Didn't really have WarCraft 2 and Outpost 2. https://t.co/huwFS…
RT @dosnostalgic: Remember when Retro Gamer came with a CD?
RT @dosnostalgic: Listen to "Live From The Sierra Lounge" tape: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC91456D0EB82E02A
RT @dosnostalgic: The colors of Sierra
My first ever compilation video "MS-DOS Games in 1992" finally gained over 200,000 views! https://youtu.be/D6E4FZdY-pM
RT @SamuelWRoberts: tfw you wonder who the other person in the google doc is and it turns out you've got the article open in two tabs https…
RT @dosnostalgic: WarCraft II tips #DOSGaming
RT @Variety: Haruo Nakajima, the man who wore the Godzilla suit for the first 12 films, has died #RIP http://bit.ly/2uzX40g https://t.co/…
I
LOVE
ALL
CATS
RT @WaldorfSixpence: tfw you have personally sunk three warships
Replying to @PXAbstraction
Cat!
RT @lazygamereviews: Was finally able to get Game Blaster/CMS working on a Sound Blaster 2.0 with a GAL chip upgrade!
Check it running EGA…
Replying to @raunkjaar
Cat!
Replying to @mindthreat
Cat!
RT @nicxanbrooks: Finally got these up! Photos of my Hacker (System Shock) cosplay done by @AndrewTranWK47 at Momocon! [ @NightdiveStudio ,…
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
Cat!
RT @fabynou: Game Engine Black Book went through its 8th proof-reading session and survived. It will ship at the end of August (https://t.c…
RT @stus_reviews: Kids on Site- a #FMV game where you go nuts with heavy machinery. Design work by @nfalstein! #RETROGAMING #DOSGaming http…
Replying to @SQHistorian and @LambdaCalculus
Cat!
RT @dosnostalgic: Me beating a level on the "Alley Cat" difficulty in PC classic Alley Cat. Recorded in 2008.
RT @Pixelengineer_: Birds of Prey | print ad (1992) #DOSgaming
RT @Pixelengineer_: #InternationalCatDay
Replying to @HobbesVoltaire and @Pixelengineer_
Wing Commander 2
#internationalcatday https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/749283767362134016
RT @dosnostalgic: Cat! #DOSGaming
Replying to @GrundislavGames
Cat!
Replying to @lazygamereviews
I used to do this "work". It's not as fun as it sounds.
Replying to @montyavocado and @lazygamereviews
https://youtu.be/lDnS4pkmzis
America! Fuck ye.... Oh wait 😞 https://x.com/indianschoolboi/status/894269062196465664
Catz (Windows 3.x, 1996) #InternationalCatDay
Replying to @Pixelmusement and @Foone
What's really cringeworrgy is that certain people are shameless enough to call this system "#1 in the world."
Sleepy babies #InternationalCatDay
Replying to @Foone and @Pixelmusement
Yeah, well that's exactly what I mean. Those are the kind of people who will spin that into "this is better for the patient".
RT @pointandgifadv: A puppy, I love puppies. Hey puppy let's cuddle! Not mouth cuddle though you keep those teeth to you.
(Hugo's House Of…
Windows Commander v1.10e (Windows 3.x, 1993)
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Total Commander v9.0a (Windows x64, 2016)
Replying to @Padawanmage
It's a Norton Commander clone.
Bloodlust Software 1992 - 1996 #DOSGaming
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years later is kind of meh, but I'm sticking with it.
Replying to @Nutrient_X
Yes, the artist, James Ethan Petty. The programmer has been at EA since the late 90s.
Replying to @Foone
That's what it was called on my pirate cart in 1992.
Replying to @icculus
I see someone else already suggested Time Bandit ;)
Ok, TheWaveVR is the most amazing thing!
Replying to @bocha_himself
There's no such thing!
😨😨😨😨😨😨 https://x.com/bocha_himself/status/895223269070180352
RT @agnostic_dragon: A #Ultima VII reviewer save games disk with instructions written by @KenDemarest, the lead programmer of the game. @ul…
Replying to @ben_304
Cat!
RT @Pixelengineer_: B-17 Flying Fortress | print ad (1992) #DOSgaming
Seriously, the experience was incredible. Can't wait to attend a live show in VR. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/895177931168907264
RT @GameHistoryOrg: Are you a writer interested in digging deep into video game history? We want to pay you to write for us! https://t.co/W…
RT @IQ_Adventures: I still think Sopwith by BMB Compuscience is the best PC game ever made. #PCGaming #DosGaming
Replying to @tempesttossed
Drugs and hookers!
RT @FozzTexx: Sound card was too easy! Just ran their installer & it dumped the settings into autoexec. Joystick works too! Told this game…
@demodulated Sir, if you ever in a possession of Vive or Oculus (or have a friend with one,) I can't recommend @TheWaveVR enough.
Replying to @demodulated
I truly had an amazing experience last night with it. The kind I didn't know was possible until I was having it. Pure magic.
YOUR
SOUND
CARD
WORKS
PERFECTLY
RT @dosnostalgic: HMI module Alpha Humana on approach to space station Mercury.
Replying to @waynemlib, @S9Stryc9, @montyavocado and @lazygamereviews
To be fair, dead people don't care, and genealogical work is open to everyone, and can help people research their families
Replying to @waynemlib, @S9Stryc9, @montyavocado and @lazygamereviews
Also keep in mind that even by Mormon doctrine baptising a dead person doesn't automatically them Mormon.
Replying to @waynemlib, @S9Stryc9, @montyavocado and @lazygamereviews
God isn't real, man.
RT @agistuff: Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel, View 11, Loop 1 #spritemap #AGI #Sierra
He-hey, good people of Twitter! Let's talk about how you accidentally fucked up while using DOS! Tell me ur stories #AfternoonDOSTalk
Replying to @demodulated
It was magic, I tell you. Can't wait for a live show next week. This is all I ever wanted. Watch me go full on Lawnmower Man.
RT @hmemcpy: @dosnostalgic First time on a PC. Watched friend copy game from 3.5 to 5.25, started by typing 'format A:'
Next day I tried to…
RT @awashtell: @dosnostalgic Finished playing a demo, decided to erase *.* it, hadn't realised it quit back to C:\ 😢
RT @euprax1a: @dosnostalgic edited my autoexec.bat with WordPerfect and didn't know how to save as plain text.
Replying to @demodulated
That's the whole thing. Being there. Sharing visualizations with other people. Having roomscale & touch controls is incredibly immersive.
Replying to @demodulated
The DJ tutorial is great too. You have a virtual turntable & visualizer controls. Everything is fully functional.
Replying to @demodulated
But VR is what makes it special. I danced in the middle of my room, but in VR I was making light trails with my fingers, & other people saw
Replying to @demodulated
them, and interacted with me. It's a perfect example of an experience that's not a simulator. You are in a surreal world, but it makes sense
Replying to @demodulated
There's no way to get that effect not in VR. I thought I was in there for 10 min, but it turned out to be an hour. I've seen the Future.
RT @merconomicon: @dosnostalgic As 10yos, friend needed more base memory to run a game. I removed the most memory-consuming thing from conf…
Replying to @demodulated
D: Yeah, but I also have to stress that it's roomscale movement & touch controls that make it. I bet it's really boring without them.
Replying to @demodulated
If there was a live performance in that thing every day, I'd quit my job, put an IV in, and just never leave.
RT @BaconZombie: @dosnostalgic On my Amstrad 8086, set the BIOS to 2025, no issues.
Then set to highest year it would take & bricked it. #A…
RT @RacieBeep: @dosnostalgic I was like 4, Mom gave me a box of new floppies and asked me to format them all, one errored out and I thought…
RT @cphonx: @dosnostalgic Not sure this counts, but I once fried my dad's new $500 20m hard disk by plugging it in backwards. Never let a 1…
RT @Andrew_Taylor: @dosnostalgic We installed a game that added itself to autoexec.bat. We briefly ended up with a £1500 machine that only…
Hawt https://x.com/Foone/status/895356773745295360
RT @ryan_maclean: @dosnostalgic One on my very first DOS V commands was 'format c:'. I was six and learned a very important lesson that day…
Lots of FORMAT C: and DEL *.* in the root stories are coming in.
RT @SQHistorian: @dosnostalgic I wrote a 2-part text adventure in QBasic. Whilst working on part 2, I accidentally saved over part 1.
Winner! https://x.com/martijnfrazer/status/895361764229042176
I don't think I've ever shared this here, but I think now is a good time to do this: The first person who taught me to code was a woman.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I learned Basic on my own using a random book I bought on a street corner, but other languages & structure/problem solving were taught to me
Replying to @dosnostalgic
by an old school Soviet lady, a wonderful teacher, who respected intelligence of children, and wanted to educate future generations.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I owe a big chunk of my obsession with technology to her. She gave me the tools to experiment with, & let me do whatever I wanted.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
She recognized my passion, and gave me a lot of opportunities to mess around with many PCs in my local computer school, something I
Replying to @dosnostalgic
otherwise wouldn't have access to, being just a poor Russian kid with a single parent. I really owe her a lot.
RT @doom_txt: @dosnostalgic [This. I discovered *this*. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/PWAD_size_limit -Ed]
What if I actually died when I got electrocuted by 220v when I was 5, & my life now is just some cruel Jacob's Ladder-type thing.
Replying to @SQHistorian
The only explanation
RT @TheMariaRamie: I had just learned the tree command and used it in front of my mother. I think I was about 12. She grounded me because I…
RT @misterorange: @dosnostalgic Pretty much the sequence:
"Wait, there's an 'undelete' command? Let me just delete Wordperfect 5.1 and the…
Replying to @WadjetEyeGames
Unfortunately no, but I'm still (barely) in touch with her son on Facebook and Twitter.
Replying to @CloakedAlien
Which one of us made up whom though?
RT @negrostrike: @dosnostalgic Somehow I entered the BIOS setup when I was 3 and wiped out C:. Dad was writing his master's thesis there. H…
RT @dosnostalgic: After Dark for DOS 1.0 (1993)
RT @herrshaun: @dosnostalgic I thought I could trick my computer into upgrading the sound card by writing the name of a better one in confi…
Replying to @meneerharmsen and @mgloerich
Microsoft Defrag was included with DOS 6, but it was just a licensed Norton Speeddisk
Replying to @meneerharmsen and @mgloerich
No, 6 is the last iteration of DOS before Win32, with 6.22 being the final version.
RT @dosnostalgic: "VR Surfer"
RT @dosnostalgic: Turbo Pascal v4.0. DOS, 1987
RT @dosnostalgic: Borland Turbo Pascal v6.0 (DOS, 1990)
Seriously, I still can't get over how awesome @TheWaveVR is. I have seen the Future.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Of course partly it's the old races in me talking. I'm too tired to go to an actual rave, so obviously a similar experience in my own room
Replying to @dosnostalgic
is a pretty damn attractive concept. But there's more to it. The visuals and actually having to interact with others is what really makes
Replying to @dosnostalgic
the experience special. I guess in a way it sort of aligns with what we want raves to be, but can't achieve in the real world.
Autocorrect corrected "raver" to "races". I guess I should be happy it wasn't "racist". https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/895406356051750916
Anyway, I guess what I really wanted to say is, dear VR devs, more stuff like THAT please.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
This is the kind of shit I wanna see when I'm in VR
RT @OnePerfectShot: THE FISHER KING (1991)
DP: Roger Pratt
Director: @TerryGilliam
More Shots: http://bit.ly/2vJJI5V https://t.co/3vUNR…
Replying to @demodulated
Yes, among mong other things. My favorite one so far is the one that spawns a room full of dancers with TVs for heads that mimic ur movement
Replying to @demodulated
Absolutely. There's no video that can describe the feeling of physically doing these things.
Replying to @radiocurea
I mean it's pretty good. For a still picture. ;)
Replying to @natti_lin
How do I go about getting into the 2nd show tonight?
RT @dosnostalgic: Tell your grandkids that you had a gamepad port on a sound card, and a sound device that plugged into a printer port http…
😂 https://x.com/Foone/status/895432702861557761
RT @dosnostalgic: "Dude, I once caught a rotfish *this* big!"
RT @dosnostalgic: A monitor as big as an engineer's imagination (20 inches)
RT @dosnostalgic: I learned my history from gaming. I know this guy is a piece of shit who'll nuke your ass first chance he gets! http://t.…
RT @dosnostalgic: First mission in X-COM. Making my first moves aaaaand.... :(
Just remembered about this https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/430518044679352320
Replying to @retroremakes
Cat!
FINALLY! https://x.com/Foone/status/895455504872255488
Replying to @natti_lin
I'm ready!
Replying to @_ragegun
Huh? That's exactly what I'm talking about.
#CurrentMood
The "Director's Cut" of The Warriors is the fucking worst.
RT @pointandgifadv: But there could of been an item I need hidden in this dark scary alley game. Plus I like exploring.
(Leisure Suit Larr…
RT @vintage_pc_ads: The Elder Scrolls Arena. [Bethesda Softworks, 1994]. https://buff.ly/2vH6YSg #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retroga…
RT @agistuff: Manhunter 2: San Francisco, Room 034 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
TIL why Treasure Island Dizzy only gave you one life. Aaaaarrrrrrrgggghhhh!
Replying to @darthhelmet86 and @richardgoodness
COFFEE
Here are my guesses:
Tough Guy McPunchFace
Adventures in Space Paintings
Nerd Saves The Day
Almost as Boring as Myst https://x.com/SteadyGoDigital/status/895645097282248709
RT @Pixelengineer_: Cover Girl Poker | print ad (1992) #DOSgaming
RT @dosnostalgic: A message from the programmer found in Dungeon Keeper's executable #DOSGaming
First pen I touched at work exploded in my hands. What a great beginning of my work day.
Replying to @MetalJesusRocks
Cat!
RT @Foone: Nice, a bot for tweeting Microsoft Office 4.0 clipart:
https://x.com/Clipart1994bot
RT @lazygamereviews: DOSBox through Raspberry Pi through HDMI to RF adapter on my little '83 Panasonic TV. Cuz why not. https://t.co/Fc2m2Y…
RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming Dizzy adventure platformers that made it to IBM PC compatibles
RT @dosnostalgic: It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body.
RT @RedPandasDaily: Sharing is caring
Replying to @Ranthalion75
DosBox internal
RT @agistuff: King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, Room 029 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
Replying to @IQ_Adventures
That's not OJ!
Seriously, even though it doesn't change that much, it really fucks up so many of the film's best moments. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/895503763879809024
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I only noticed it last night for the first time, but it also crops some of the shots! What's the fucking point? Why would anyone do this?
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Thank goodness the theatrical cut is streaming on Amazon in HD. Still no physical release though.
RT @archillect:
Replying to @adr
IBM is the same, obviously. Never used DR
Big thread of people's stories https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/895344876694450176
RT @dosnostalgic: INSTALL DOS
Like a boss
RT @dosnostalgic: Millennials! I know if u grew up with a computer in ur household, u probably like DOS games. So u're all good by me! http…
Has anyone played RezVR yet?
Replying to @PBfromCT
I mean, I sort of agree, but I have a brand to uphold here.
Replying to @PBfromCT
(Also Aladdin version is much more refined)
Replying to @PushinUpRoses
It's a shame that there's so little commentary in MI2. I really could have used a lot more. So funny. "Pants dropper" XD
RT @Foone: D/Generation is a great game, and this is not a great advertisement
From http://retrocgads.tumblr.com/post/164044354673/uk-1992
Replying to @Foone
It's those balls that eat everyone in the game, come on!
Replying to @Foone
Yes, but this is much more horrifying. These guy is about to be eaten!
Late night jam: Jon Hare - Narcissus (later reused in Cannon Fodder): https://youtu.be/pMqOMFW3Gt8
Mask of Phantasm update: the 4x3 "television" presentation actually looks more consistent https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/891334435521654784
RT @pointandgifadv: Oh my, finally people I can be friends with. This planet is making my underwear sweaty and I need help.
(Space Quest 3…
Replying to @4thguy
It was changed to a theatrical release mid-way through production. Theatrical version has a lot of shots that are super soft for some reason
RT @PCMag: The Golden Age of @Dell Computers: http://bit.ly/2hReIM5 #FlashbackFriday
RT @Pixelengineer_: Do it like Indy ... #DOSgaming #MonkeyIsland #IndianaJones #LucasArts
RT @siegarettes: I wrote up a little history on some of the fans who've helped make Sonic Mania a reality!
http://kotaku.com/the-hackers-and-modders-behind-the-next-official-sonic-1797537901/amp
"Does Night Trap hold up today?" Listen, it didn't even hold up when it was originally released.
Replying to @Tanukitsune and @awesomonster
Once we get more than a handful, I'm sure the answer will be "everyone"
Replying to @Tanukitsune and @awesomonster
Being campy and goofy, and actually having gameplay that is good aren't mutually exclusive.
So I can't believe I'm saying this, but if Myst isn't available for VR, it really needs to be.
Replying to @ben_304
Cat!
Replying to @Radio_Russell
That's fine with me.
Dear @cyanworlds, please add VR support to RealMyst. Thank you.
Today's Google doodle is fucking awesome!
RT @dosnostalgic: Print ad for Lighthouse. Sierra was going "Look! This is just like Myst! Please buy a million copies!" #DOSGaming https:/…
I'll never forget the day @AgustinCordes schooled me. 👍 https://x.com/AgustinCordes/status/715893831049330688
Replying to @AgustinCordes
I don't feel bad. I'm a better person now because I have more knowledge.
Cryo's Dune
The Neverhood
Monkey Island 2
The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Genesis)
DOOM (1993) https://x.com/GilesPink/status/896054344474284032
Replying to @dosnostalgic
And I can't fucking believe I now have to put 1993 after mentioning DOOM.
Preferred versions of these soundtracks:
Dune - AdLib Gold
Monkey Island 2 - AdLib/SB
DOOM - Sound Canvas https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/896095478026129408
Summer cats! <3 https://x.com/Bodegacats_/status/896120298856103937
Replying to @PushinUpRoses and @UnburntWitch
Gladly have you both as guests if either of you wants to talk about a group of DOS games of some kind.
Replying to @frankcifaldi and @GameHistoryOrg
Virtual Valerie is fondly remembered by many, but the rest, not so much.
RT @frankcifaldi: Just added some super rare adult CD-ROM magazines to the @GameHistoryOrg library and, wow, did these weird games disappea…
Replying to @frankcifaldi and @GameHistoryOrg
I played it. It's not that good. ;)
Replying to @frankcifaldi and @GameHistoryOrg
I did not, but now I really want to.
Replying to @frankcifaldi and @GameHistoryOrg
Two Space Sirens, and two Seymote Butts games are available on Legendsworld btw
Replying to @frankcifaldi and @GameHistoryOrg
This one too
OKAY, I REALLY HOPE THERE'S STILL A COPY OF THIS SOMEWHERE!!! https://x.com/frankcifaldi/status/896137029754396675
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Oh gosh, Letha Weapons AND Lisa Lipps in the same game? It doesn't get any more 90s than this!
Replying to @frankcifaldi, @sacaitlin, @griph and @GameHistoryOrg
You both act like you've never heard of Seymore Butts before
Sexy Myst it is https://x.com/frankcifaldi/status/896140937486675968
Replying to @lazygamereviews
Archive that shit, dude!
Replying to @lazygamereviews
Also https://x.com/frankcifaldi/status/896134432557383680
Replying to @lazygamereviews
One's been unearthed, @frankcifaldi
If you think that 90s computer porn will ever *not* be interesting to me, YOU'RE WRONG
Replying to @lazygamereviews and @BoomtownFox
Brenda Romero was a designer on that.
Replying to @ben_304
Soft cat!
Replying to @ben_304
Awwwwww
Replying to @Foone
Oh shit, I didn't know these guys made more games!
Shareware adventures ftw! https://x.com/Foone/status/895900324208168961
RT @dosnostalgic: You better get these sales numbers up before Mr. Bear runs out of his famous patience!
Replying to @Overnine_k and @lazygamereviews
#MSDOSAfterDark
Replying to @bluestarultor
Looks fine to me
RT @D0CT0EBCKNN: Куча людей нихуя не делает только из страха критики со стороны людей, которые сами нихуя не умеют. Хвалите, когда кто-то ч…
RT @breaded_cats:
RT @pointandgifadv: Go to work? Nah that sounds like work, time to explore the world and party.
(Police Quest 2)
RT @vintage_pc_ads: If you want better word processing, don't settle for Perfect. [Microsoft, 1989]. A good ex. of MS's efforts to grab the…
RT @Pixelmusement: New Ancient DOS Games video uploaded! http://youtu.be/r9qmKODaAJY?a
RT @vintage_pc_ads: The game is fantasy. The interface is magic. [LucasFilm Games, 1990]. https://buff.ly/2vsYbAS #retrogaming #retrocompu…
Replying to @SteadyGoDigital
This one is even easier: Darkseed, Gabriel Knight 1, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Sanitarium
RT @lazygamereviews: August 12, 1981. IBM launched the IBM PC 36 years ago today!
Replying to @IkiFoo
Cat!
Fuuuuuuck ooooooooooooofffffffffffff!
If you told me when I was a kid that I'd be able to play some of my favorite games in perfect VR, I'd be so amazed.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
And then if you told me that one day I was gonna be told to listen to what the Nazis have to say, I'd also be pretty shocked.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
How the fuck did we arrive to a future that's so awesome and so shit at the same time
RT @dosnostalgic: Always fight Nazis!
Why the fuck did I watch Schindler's List before going to bed last night?
Replying to @LeStacheGaming
I have now seen it so many times, it has very little emotional impact on me.
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Replying to @Foone
Jesus fucking Christ, man.
RT @dancingcrab: To celebrate the recent release of @crafty_studios new version, today's #bigboxaday is REALMS OF ARKANIA: STAR TRAIL! @bbp…
Replying to @AgustinCordes
I don't see DRUGS on that list, bro.
RT @dancingcrab: By Marthammor Duin's scrotum, I might be buggered. How do I navigate THIS??
#EyeOfTheBeholder #DnD #LPsLongPlay #DOSgamin…
RT @dosnostalgic: Soon, peace and order will be restored throughout the galaxy. #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: #CurrentMood
RT @vintage_pc_ads: "I just found the ideal solution to my telecomputing problems..." [Hayes, 1984]. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #dos…
RT @ben_304: Making sure everything works okay the traditional way: building a transport network on Mars.
RT @CoolBoxArt: Wolfenstein 3D / PC / id Software / 1992
RT @agistuff: Gold Rush!, Room 015 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
RT @CoolBoxArt: Wolfenstein 3D / Manual / id Software / 1994
RT @dosnostalgic: Always fight Nazis
Replying to @doyousketch2 and @RadderssGaming
It's a very good game
Replying to @LambdaCalculus, @therobotjane and @richardgoodness
I vouch for Richard, but I can't live in the woods.
Replying to @therobotjane, @LambdaCalculus and @richardgoodness
If there's food & cats, I'm there!
Me when someone nearby mentions MS-DOS https://x.com/CuteEmergency/status/896797502011305985
RT @MobyGames: Cover Of The Day: Cyberdream's creepy Giger-inspired adventure game Dark Seed (PC, 1992): http://www.mobygames.com/game/dark-seed https://t.…
Stumbled upon Lenin's "Who Stands to Gain?" and yep, things haven't changed much since 1913
Replying to @richardgoodness
Might as well be what he actually said
I used to run into Russian neo nazis a lot in my youth, because my birthday weekend would usually consider with that of Hitler.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I'm being told that these days there are a whole less of them around. Russian gov't swung far enough right that it's just easier to be...
Replying to @dosnostalgic
... a white nationalist on a government payroll. Much more attractive. Let's not let this happen here.
Replying to @twiz718
I was, but my phone decided otherwise.
*coincide, obviously. Swype and my eyes failed me. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/896857935698997249
Replying to @garagehirst
My friends and I had gotten into occasional fights with them, but we were in our late teens at most, and they were older guys with knives.
Replying to @montyavocado
Yeah, no surprise to me, as I lived through Russia of the 80s and 90s.
RT @Foone: So I also went to the De Anza Electronics Fair yesterday. Here's what I got:
A book on building your own PC! https://t.co/vZr02I…
Replying to @montyavocado
There's that
Customer: You must have been cute as a baby
Me: I most certainly was
Customer: I'm being serious!
Me: Me too!
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Proof that I was the most adorable baby:
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Proof #2:
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Have no idea what happened. I think someone switched and kidnapped real me. Now you're all stuck with this guy:
Google Earth VR: Great, but why no Street View?
Replying to @davebancroft
And how do I access it?
Replying to @KrasMikael
Haha. No it's not.
Replying to @awizardsbeard and @jhartikainen
That's... not Street View.
RT @dancingcrab: #SSI classic set in the #ADnD world of #AlQadim for tonight's #bigboxaday... AL-QADIM: THE GENIE'S CURSE! @bbpcgc #DOSgami…
RT @BluScreen_Jason: You mean all they had guarding this piece of the Staff Of Chaos were two measly Hellhounds? Big deal, they're slim pic…
Replying to @SPYderman233 and @BluScreen_Jason
Elder Scrolls: Arena.
RT @vectorpoem: in conclusion,
Replying to @davebancroft
Soooooooooo.... I can't access it in Google Earth VR is what you're saying?
Replying to @davebancroft
I don't have a fucking clue what this is supposed to mean
Replying to @davebancroft
No
Ok, these are fucking incredible!!!!! https://x.com/nothingreal/status/896931121279127552
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Especially "Call Me". Almost a David Lynch remix.
RT @pointandgifadv: A free drink you say? How can I turn down that, it would be just rude to do so. Bottoms up!
(Leisure Suit Larry 2) htt…
Replying to @lazygamereviews
Refugee is also worth the price
I'd watch a lot more TV if more of it was made by David Lynch. Just sayin'
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Actually, I shouldn't discount Mark Frost either. Yes, so from now on I want all TV to be made by Lynch and Frost.
Replying to @markstuckert
Fuck YES
Replying to @markstuckert
Errr... No. But let's face it, how many things are, really?
Replying to @AgustinCordes
I'm gonna be so sad when the new Twin Peaks is gonna be over :(
RT @lazygamereviews: LGR - Hunting For Duck Hunt PC Games: http://youtu.be/w5tkXIreWyg?a via @YouTube
Replying to @richardgoodness and @LambdaCalculus
Well, it's kind of what it actually is, isn't it? Up to & including the haircut reveal it's an actual pilot that didn't get picked up.
Replying to @richardgoodness and @LambdaCalculus
The rest was shot a year and a half later, after Studio Canal decided to finance it and get a feature instead of a show.
Replying to @therobotjane
Depends on a job and position really
Replying to @therobotjane
I think you'll be fine depending on who runs the place. Might actually work to your advantage.
RT @vintage_pc_ads: How to look a gift-horse in the mouth. [Quarterdeck, 1993]. Introducing QEMM 7. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #dos…
Replying to @richardgoodness and @LambdaCalculus
Doubt it. I mean, if you look at the European Twin Peaks film that was made from the pilot, it kind of wraps things up a lot easier & faster
Replying to @richardgoodness and @LambdaCalculus
Have you seen the Euro Twin Peaks?
Ok, so most VR porn is boring as hell. Step up your game, directors!
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Like fucking seriously, a new existing technology, and zero fucking imagination.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places. Suggestions are welcome.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Also if anyone wants to start a cool VR porn company with me, this might be the second time in my life when I might seriously consider it.
Gee, just look at the stuff from 1970s. Creativity pouring out of every hole. So to speak. https://x.com/folbaum91/status/897149610396876800
I'm gonna be looking for this one, for sure. https://x.com/MrKrisViking/status/897154602134642691
Replying to @therobotjane
It'll probably require both of us moving to a state that actually allows producing porn though.
Speaking of creativity in porn, does anyone remember "Starship Eros" from 1980? The robot costume was a C3-PO mask 😂😂😂
Replying to @therobotjane
Yeah, but also New York in some places without strict obscenity laws.
Replying to @therobotjane
Yeah, but California is really expensive
RT @CoolBoxArt: The Dagger of Amon Ra / PC / Sierra / 1992
Replying to @therobotjane
That might be too hot for me. Weather-wise, I mean.
Replying to @therobotjane
I'm just trying to avoid getting fried into a crisp.
Replying to @therobotjane
:(
Replying to @therobotjane
That's sounds great. Did you find a buried treasure or something? Cause we gonna need that $$$$
RT @CUTEFUNNYANIMAL: 'Please ma'am, may I take just the one... Pack'
That's not what I'm referring to. I'm referring to boring setups, and absence of variety. https://x.com/BrammarB/status/897168675836493824
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Also video in VR currently looks like shit, especially 360° ones. A combination of not too high resolution of the screen & video compression
Words can't describe how tired I am, and there's still 7+ hours of work ahead of me.
Depressed and tired today, but at least Bruce Campbell is coming to town again tomorrow, so there's that to look forward to.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Might even bump into some people I haven't seen for a decade at the event. You never know.
RT @AlexT: so doggy school exists and this little guy is so excited to go 😫
Replying to @joelschlosberg
Book Revue on Long Island
Replying to @frogoland
POV VR porn is the most boring of them all!
I love my followers who know how much I love cats! https://x.com/Sapo_de_Batalla/status/897181855870570496
Replying to @doyousketch2
I'm that sort of a guy as well.
Replying to @Bella_Zuppa
Cat!
RT @grumpygamer: Proud to say I co-designed this Nazi punching game with @nfalstein and @DavidBFox. https://t.co/tNXWuDEyWt
Replying to @PXAbstraction
Cat!
Replying to @russkysam
I kind of don't wanna die before the day is over.
Replying to @russkysam
Don't even start
Replying to @sheehanmilesk and @Sapo_de_Batalla
Cat!
There's a 10 year old girl in my store who appears to be doing a Silent Bob cosplay or something.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I know it can't possibly be that, but that's what it looks like, and I can't think of a reason why a 10 year old would dress like that.
Replying to @richardgoodness and @LambdaCalculus
You dirty Trekkie
Replying to @garagehirst
It's was like a baby trenchcoat. It was weird.
I am very tired, but if you want to share something about DOS games you've played recently, I'm all ears
Replying to @KutilDomaci
I manage a supermarket
RT @dosnostalgic: I am very tired, but if you want to share something about DOS games you've played recently, I'm all ears https://t.co/d8h…
RT @DavidXNewton: @dosnostalgic Xargon! It's a bit clunky these days - noticeably an answer to the first Duke Nukem
RT @Radio_Russell: @dosnostalgic I played Legend of the Red Dragon today, if that counts.
Replying to @kungfuman316
No, but I once tried dialing a whole bunch of phone numbers of tech companies from 80s & 90s https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/817532334140456961
I used to play games with 90s dance CDs for a soundtrack. Scooter's Back to the Heavyweight Jam fits well with fast paced action https://x.com/Cambert123/status/897221003016798213
:O https://x.com/garagehirst/status/897221377958326274
Replying to @dosnostalgic
That is, of course, if you can handle Scooter in the first place
All you need is DOS
DOS is all you need https://x.com/dvergspett/status/897222591752138753
Replying to @SirTapTap
Hyper hyper
Replying to @otaviomad
Honestly most of them would need a keyboard, but you can install ScummVM & comfortably play a number of classic adventure games
Replying to @otaviomad
Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, LOOM™, Quest for Glory VGA, Goblins 2 & 3
The other day my roommate spent over an hour arguing with me about the definition of irony.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Actually using *the* song as an example. Rain on a wedding day is ironic in his book. I'm holding Alanis Morisette responsible for this.
Replying to @HobbesVoltaire
Yes, that's actually what I also think.
I approve of this https://x.com/kiwapebretech/status/897231148253929476
Replying to @therobotjane
Congrats on the second job. Maybe one day we'll be able to afford our porn empire.
Replying to @therobotjane
❤️
Holy crap! Thread: https://x.com/Foone/status/897225282007867392
Possibly the best cosplay https://x.com/_keionharu_/status/896582063251349504
RT @dosnostalgic: Oh yes, I remember my Nintendo switch
RT @dosnostalgic: Yes please
RT @textfiles: No time to explain, we need to go back in time before you were blocked from getting a milkshake due to a hard drive failure…
Just realized there are only 4 more episodes of #TwinPeaks2017 left. Fuck! D:
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I really wish the new Twin Peaks was at least a year long. I'd watch every week.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
That being said, if Cooper turns out to be the dreamer, I'll be very upset.
Replying to @Phobos_4nomaly
Yeah, but that's not the point my roommate was arguing.
RT @BigHairyMarty: @dosnostalgic One of my fb friends openly mocked the dabbing fad, so I played through MI2 for the sole purpose of this s…
RT @pointandgifadv: Look it is the Two Guys From Andromeda I better ask for an autograph before they get rushed.
(Space Quest 3) https://t…
Replying to @asbjornu
#NotDOS
Replying to @Interzonas
Anything else you can remember about it?
Replying to @BluRael
Alley Cat
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
I'd rather not
Replying to @agistuff
That's the Anne Bras's place, right?
RT @agistuff: Visited the Bonami Video Game / Computer Museum today. Thought I had a pretty sizeable big box collection, but it's nothing c…
RT @agistuff: If you think that's a lot, they have even more!
Replying to @sacaitlin, @agistuff and @lazygamereviews
Nah. Pretty sure this is officially the largest big box pc game collection in one place
Replying to @agistuff
Pretty sure that's the one
Replying to @DarkSoul4242
Any significant changes like in Police Quest 2?
Anyone I know who's at the Bruce Campbell book signing right now?
Replying to @joelschlosberg
Are you that guy?
Walking by the shelves in the book store. Oh fuck, Milo's face. Goddamnit!
Replying to @joelschlosberg
Well, I'm there wearing a Doom-Army of Darkness mashup shirt.
Replying to @joelschlosberg
I'm sitting in a chair. My letter is K. I'll be here a while
Replying to @joelschlosberg
We're on the benches outside
Me: Derp derp derp
Bruce Campbell: What the fuck?
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Slightly better faces on both of us on a photo from maaany years ago ;)
Replying to @popeguilty
He was all 5 times I've met him ;)
Replying to @Resulka
Yep yep
Replying to @TheSquink
That's the rest of this movie. Be ready.
You mean the latest masterpiece of fantasy storytelling from Lu.... Wait, what? https://x.com/FutureTenseNow/status/897450124548255745
Replying to @AGhostFlipsUOff and @FutureTenseNow
This is a good tweet
Replying to @GrundislavGames
Oh, mister Jefferies! The shit come out of my ass!
RT @pointandgifadv: What a lovely hairstyle you have my young friend. I think I might turn green in envy.
(Leisure Suit Larry 1) https://t…
RT @dosnostalgic: Me: Derp derp derp
Bruce Campbell: What the fuck?
Replying to @JudicatorPredo and @popeguilty
Ha ha. No.
RT @vintage_pc_ads: Bit for bit the best modem on the market. [USRobotics, 1985]. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
Replying to @hmemcpy
This is obviously a fake, sir.
Replying to @vectorpoem
Hawk: Twenty Six Coopers
RT @dosnostalgic: Man, the tone of CompuServe ads is just so different to the kind of advertising we have today
That's the fucker that said "It’s kind of a fun idea, just being able to say ‘white power,’ you know?" https://x.com/justcallmeBABA/status/897736204682186752
Replying to @dosnostalgic
We fucking failed ourselves.
Last night (upon further examination) it turned out that the book was on the same shelf as a bunch of books about Hitler, BUT... https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/897587701502922754
Replying to @dosnostalgic
... the book store was still carrying it. At least that one copy.
Replying to @owlcavedev
Maybe that's all the people who like boobs, but aren't millennials? Idk. Just a theory.
Replying to @owlcavedev
Into boobs?
I didn't know Sonic Mania was also available for PC until last night. Too bad I don't like Sonic games.
RT @probzz: @_AlexHirsch 👊
Apparently Takeshi's Challenge was released on mobile yesterday AND it features new content. Rather unexpected.
TIL https://x.com/KateAllDay/status/897625504525819904
Replying to @duganchen
Don't I fucking know it
Lol. Now THAT'S a logo :)
It's amazing that these days I can suddenly remember an obscure DOS game from the late 90s & instantly have it running in my phone's browser https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/897930126175883264
RT @dosnostalgic: Coktel Vision ads
I'll be there https://x.com/TheWaveVR/status/897845864999378944
Replying to @RamessesXIII
Pretty much my life motto
RT @AnasAbdin: Forgot the glass cutter.. #spacequest #spaceventure #pixelart #gamedev
I love 2 keep talking about fun stuff during dark times, cause that's what's getting me through them, but sometimes it gets too depressing..
Replying to @dosnostalgic
... because we have shameless fucking nazis gathering all over the place.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I was born in the USSR, grew up In Russia, seen things go from bad to worse to bad to worse. Moved to the States during W's time.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Since then I've been watching shit here gradually go downhill. Will I ever witness any kind of stability in the world in my lifetime?
Replying to @dosnostalgic
With the way things are going now, pretty fucking unlikely.
Replying to @ki11deer
I will never understand how someone can be this reductive of nazis, unless they really feel like being one.
I call people who wave the Nazi flag around & do the Nazi salutes Nazis. If they also happen 2 be "moderate centrists", they are still nazis
Replying to @dosnostalgic
If being called a Nazi moves you so far right from this so-called moderate center, something tells me that "center" wasn't that far off.
Replying to @dptxa
What the fuck are you talking about?
Replying to @dosnostalgic
If you end game is the noble cause of history not being destroyed, but you happen to have a swastika tattoo on your chest, well.... Nazi.
Replying to @dptxa
Oh fuck off
Replying to @dptxa
It wasn't. People who wave Nazi flags and Nazi salutes are Nazis. They deserve everything what's coming to them.
Replying to @dptxa
Thanks for following btw. Cheers.
Replying to @DavidXNewton
See also: feminists
Oh, I also *want* things to get better, but I think the entirety of history sort of shows that things get REALLY bad first https://x.com/dj_ir0ngruve/status/897962911884206080
Replying to @DavidCShipley
To anywhere I used to/currently live.
Anyway, something something DOS games, and shit.
Apparently there are still people who suggest we hug & kiss Nazis to death, or something like that. I'd love to see that actually work.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Your "civil discourse" is worth nothing when your mouth is around a concrete block, and a heavy boot is about to curb stomp your ass.
Replying to @FoxeoGames
Please re-read my tweet
WHAT IS THIS?! I NEED THIS!!! https://x.com/andresrond/status/897964832263204864
Replying to @FoxeoGames
If you're fine with a Nazi standing by your side, you're not better. Cheers!
RT @Foone: @dosnostalgic Let's all play Corncob 3D, the only alt-history game that undoes the Nazis as a parenthetical in the backstory. ht…
Honestly, someone make a Wolf 3D mod where B.J. only has picket signs instead of weapons! https://x.com/branrags/status/897966537830785024
Please tell me this isn't a joke! 😂😂😂 https://x.com/J_TRSH/status/897968044118392832
OH. MY. GOD. https://x.com/J_TRSH/status/897968797910417409
Replying to @camulust
I <3 CAT
You guys are the best. Love you. 👍
Replying to @dosnostalgic
(Except the select few who questioned my views on nazis & what should be done with them. That was dumb.)
True story: one of my ex'es spent almost her whole life looking for her father. She eventually found him a couple of years ago.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
He was an old dude from the South. An okay guy. Relaxed. Liked to drink. Supported Trump.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Long story short, eventually showed his newly found daughter his nazi knife, and said he's proud that his new grandson has German blood.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Funny thing is, that seemed at least a bit surprising a couple of years ago. Now I'm barely surprised at all the secret nazis.
RT @PushinUpRoses: In case you missed, I created a new video about LeChuck's Revenge! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VOhTinyOac (Maybe I can persuade @grumpy…
Replying to @charlesforman
There's a little bit more to it, unfortunately.
Replying to @KusyTv
Nobody turned out dead or secretly gay in the end though. So at least there's that.
Replying to @SplAdamSage
Tough crowd
Replying to @TeddyDief
I'm trying, I'm trying
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
I didn't even know there was a walking speed bug. I don't remember having issues on my P3 or P4 tbh
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
Right. But Wolf 3D is really fast as it is. Idk, I'll have to investigate.
That crying nazi asshole video
Smells like meat.
Rotten meat.
Replying to @patrickstankard
Me irl
RT @LiToast: just saying it how it is
RT @lazygamereviews: To take a cue from @dosnostalgic:
Some MS-DOS after dark
RT @dosnostalgic: #MSDOSAfterDark
WARNING: NSFW and flashing lights
RT @CUTEFUNNYANIMAL: 'Toucha da bunbun'
RT @Foone: Today's fun discovery: The '91 Hulk Hogan sci-fi comedy film Suburban Commando had a DOS tie-in game!
And it's a shmup? Didn't…
RT @GrundislavGames: I just changed my phone's email alert sound to the score noise from King's Quest VI. Yes, I'm a nerd, so what?
RT @Foone: My favorite difficulty selector: Railroad Tycoon!
As you go through each level, they reveal more aces up their sleeves. https:/…
Replying to @demodulated and @GrundislavGames
My phone has been on silent for a couple of years now.
RT @stus_reviews: Watch me unshrink #BigBoxPC game Dungeon Master II by FTL and @InterplayGames - #DOSGaming #RETROGAMING https://t.co/CZG8…
RT @Pixelengineer_: Guybrush, ... I ... AM YOUR BROTHER !!!! ;) #DOSgaming #MonkeyIsland
Replying to @Alien426
It's kind of like a linear adventure with some action. Nothing special. DOS version doesn't look particularly great either.
RT @vintage_pc_ads: 14 reasons why the Paradise Multi-Display Card is selling faster than we can make them. [Paradise Systems, 1983]. #retr…
RT @BeschlossDC: Headline today 1973:
RT @NightdiveStudio: System Shock Enhanced and System Shock 2 are now 85% off on #GOG https://www.gog.com/ #RetroGaming
Replying to @Campster
We have such pies to show you!
*This* is what I like to see when asked to id a game someone can't remember the name of. (The game in question is Wreckers)
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Unfortunately more often it's "a game about a guy who runs really fast onto the next screen," and there's not a lot I can do with that.
Replying to @JXPrime
My knowledge of both of these platforms is non-existent
Replying to @JXPrime
If you have a Reddit account, I heard that "tipofmyjoystick" subreddit can be helpful
RT @dosnostalgic: I LOVE® CONSUMING™
RT @dosnostalgic: Do YOU believe in life after love?
RT @dosnostalgic: I do love these old IBM ads
RT @dosnostalgic: Gotta love Evryware.
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
Can we see a historical example, please?
Replying to @ajbruner77
Funny? Is it funny that most of my family died in the Holocaust to you as well? Why do you approve of it? Or was their death pointless?
Replying to @ajbruner77
Have you ever interacted with Neo-Nazis in your life, sir?
Replying to @ajbruner77
Then what else can I say except that I'm glad things are working out so well for you, and your approach. All the best!
Replying to @ajbruner77
So.... What it is you're doing exactly to move the society towards this future, besides bitching on social media of course?
Replying to @ajbruner77
Most importantly, will you just stand there and hold a picket sign when I'm being pushed into a line to the incenerator?
Replying to @ajbruner77
Will you hold up ur piece sign when ur government turns fascist, & starts locking up all that speak out against it? What will I actually do?
Replying to @ajbruner77
I have lived and experienced enough to know how things might turn in the future. And I know where I DON'T want it to go.
Replying to @ajbruner77
"Living a modest life" doesn't get rid of Neo-Nazis, unfortunately. And civil discourse is useless when you're being curbstomped
Replying to @ajbruner77
But once again, good luck. We'll see what the future brings, and maybe both of us will live long enough to see it.
Replying to @ajbruner77
I get where you stand. Which is why I know I can't count on you when I'm physically assaulted.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck https://x.com/TheNewBloods/status/898273471087521792
Replying to @awesomonster, @richardgoodness and @Syndarr
What about Casper Mattress and Audible?
Replying to @ajbruner77
Now I'm losing you. Why fight? If you're okay with someone just shaking their finger when someone curbstomps u & ur kid, idk what 2 say.
Replying to @ajbruner77
If u ca't see the difference between a side that encourages an ethnic cleansing, & a side that opposes that, we have nothing more 2 discuss
Replying to @ajbruner77
I don't fight for hate. I fight for mine & my loved ones EXISTENCE, which those people fight to END. I fight to protect life.
Replying to @ajbruner77
Nazis believe my loved ones & I aren't human, and therefore don't deserve to exist. Their world is better if I'm not around.
Replying to @ajbruner77
I can't allow that to become everyone's reality. There can't be progress if we're DEAD.
Replying to @ajbruner77
Oh, I see now. Well, cheers!
Apparently suggesting that Nazis might kill someone is "using alarmist concepts". Who knew?
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
I'm sorry to say this, but it was another pacifist guy. I only suggested that if I see a nazi kicking the shit out of him, I'll get involved
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
directly and physically. When I asked him what he's gonna do for me in the same situation, he relied that he "hopes" I'm never in a
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
situation like that, and said that I'm using "alarmist concepts" to promote hate. That's where we're at.
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
Exactly my point. I don't want violence. But their better world is the one where my loved ones & myself don't exist. We only have each other
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
Suggesting that nazis might attack me isn't a call to violence. But it's a very real threat. It can happen. If it does I know who 2 count on
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
As have I. It's sickening to see this shit spreading again.
RT @Foone: It's not every day you get to compile a DOS FPS from 1992.
What's the best horror game for Oculus?
RT @Emma_The_Ward: Chameleons are fun cause they'll grab anything you give them.
Broken Engine Jam starts soon https://itch.io/jam/broken-engine-jam
New Scooter album is a disc of jumpstyle tracks, and a disc of classic club tune remixes? Idk how I feel about that.
Almost two years later, and there's still no answer to this important question. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/643051025738432512
Replying to @shaneriley
Will do when I finally get around to it
RT @dosnostalgic: Here's "Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!!", first of ICOM's MacVentures from 1985. Let's take a look at other versions 1/…
RT @dosnostalgic: All these ports are from 1987:
Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and DOS 2/5
RT @dosnostalgic: More Deja Vu ports:
Apple IIGS (1988), NES (1990), Windows 3.x (1991), and Game Boy Color (1999) 3/5 https://t.co/9KTfWsQ…
RT @dosnostalgic: Couldn't take a screenshot myself, so I borrowed one from the PC-98 port (1991) from @MobyGames 4/5 https://t.co/kSfNCNWN…
RT @dosnostalgic: And I couldn't find a matching location shot from the 2002 PocketPC port, but I guess it looked something like this 5/5 h…
Replying to @aNuChallenger
Muriel Tramis of Coktel Vision. She often featured theme of colonialism in her games, and even made a whole game about slavery
RT @dosnostalgic: Dat ass
RT @dosnostalgic: Seamlessly my ass.
RT @dosnostalgic: Dat ass
Porn parody of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Someone make that.
VR porn parody of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Give me money, and *I'll* make it. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/897149763447140352
Oh, there's a dic-something in something, alright. https://x.com/JamesInDigital/status/898351427902357506
Replying to @wilsonjamm
Yes, that's Mario Teaches Typing by Interplay
Very much a European home computer "action-adventure" game of its time. Those were rare on the IBM PC. https://x.com/decafjedi/status/501695708328886272
RT @dosnostalgic: Tandy ads
Replying to @develintales
*Fapping
So no good horror games for Oculus then? https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/898300643290624002
Replying to @Padawanmage
Eeeeeeh. Unofficial support with only looking around. Breaks the immersion for me.
Replying to @itsjoeyclassic
...........
I approve of this https://x.com/RetroSwimAU/status/898366783106695168
Replying to @deadmomed
Fade to Black
Thread. I can't believe this actually needs to be explained. Nazis were no more Socialist than North Korea is a "Democratic Republic". https://x.com/billosophizing/status/898248950263709697
Replying to @frankcifaldi
Good horror games?
Replying to @frankcifaldi
I mean, there's a whole separate VR dev conference in a couple of months.
Replying to @develintales and @frankcifaldi
I'd say that http://vrdconf.com/ is a bit more than a conference in a office, and probably a sizable chunk of its attendants has Rifts
Replying to @develintales
Pretty sure the VR version is a PSVR exclusive.
I have really liked what I have played of @DUSKdev so far
New Duck Tales is pretty good, but the new rendition of the theme song is really bland.
Replying to @JhaCouch
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?&sort=date
RT @GalexQuest: MFW waiting for software updates to install.
Happy Friday! https://youtu.be/xGytCyUiOQI
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I totally forgot that I made that video so giant, it was in 4K.
RT @ben_304: Replaying something quite old, and it's all @dancingcrab's fault...
RT @lazygamereviews: Here we go with another LGR Tech Tales, this time on the topic of the disappearance of big box PC game packaging!
htt…
He-hey! The only thing of mine that YouTube found unacceptable for advertising is my podcast with @Resulka about porn games for DOS! :D
Replying to @Resulka
So now feel free to listen to it on YouTube knowing that I don't make a single penny off of it https://youtu.be/3LOFITgljfo
RT @vintage_pc_ads: With modems you can Get Smart...or get smarter. [ATI, 1988]. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
Replying to @russkysam and @Resulka
We didn't mention a lot of games that I've learned about since then.
RT @HG_101: Your Weekly Kusoge: Nerves of Steel, one of many oh-so-bad mid-90s first person shooters http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge-nervesofsteel.htm https://t.co/R…
Replying to @Urania_Orwell
Some Like It Hot. A classic.
Replying to @giedosst and @HG_101
Unlike Nerves of Steel, Lethal Tender is actually not a bad game
My day is going so bad that I pre-ordered the new Scooter album.
Replying to @AnasAbdin
I have like 6 more hours at work, + half hour of travel before I can.
Replying to @TrekChris
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful...
Replying to @AnasAbdin
Sounds good to be
DNKROZ
DNSTUFF
DNSCOTTY
RT @ben_304: It's funny how many games in the 90s started you off as a guy, in a house, when suddenly: adventure! Don't think I've seen thi…
RT @ItsTheShadsy: So many of these mid/late 90s videos about the internet
Speaking of YouTube monetization: I don't really make money off YT. My videos don't get enough views. I've only ever collected twice, BUT..
Replying to @dosnostalgic
... what I learned after enabling monetization is that YT pushes monetized videos in searches. As soon as the videos were monetized, there..
Replying to @dosnostalgic
...was an obvious bump in views. That's the real reason I keep the ads on. So it sucks to hear that ads get disabled for some.
RT @dosnostalgic: Cracked #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming #SVGA
Still probably one of the most surprising things I came across while digging through old games https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/759451726353145861
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
All of the art is different
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
DOS version was developed by the Russians I'm 640x350 EGA, but all the art was redone later by Spectrum Holobyte. Since the resolution is so
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
machine specific in that case, new art had to be created for other systems.
RT @dosnostalgic: An early version of original Tetris from 1986, programmed by Vadim Gerasimov. Statistics & NEXT option r implemented http…
Replying to @Jigglenomicon
Just the maps, really. They probably used an already existing Doom map editor instead of developing their own.
Replying to @RealLordDalek
I know ;)
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
I work on weekends :(
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
The cruel world of retail
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
Yep
New Games Old Kit: DIV Game Studio https://newgamesoldkit.tumblr.com/post/164338143958/kit-profile-div-dx
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
I'm not in a union this time around
RT @vectorpoem: one of my fav parts of this game is the Metropolis-style vision of Atlantis in Sophia's presentation
Replying to @Rattlehead1994
http://div-arena.co.uk/
Replying to @richardgoodness
My god, the Mooch was right! That is very much like sucking one's own dick!
RT @ItsTheShadsy: With your co-host, a raytraced version of Dick Tracy named Ray Tracy
RT @The_Real_TroyS: #DOSGaming memory, this was a graphical masterpiece at the time an felt like a movie:)
STRIKE COMMANDER
1993
Origin Sy…
RT @oldgamesitalia: Jazz Jackrabbit (Epic MegaGames, 1994), il #platformer con conigli e tartarughe che diede notorietà a Cliff Bleszinski…
RT @dosnostalgic:
#MSDOSAfterDark https://x.com/lazygamereviews/status/898752922284040192
RT @Pixelmusement: Oh cool! Looks like there's an ENTIRE WEBSITE dedicated to providing modernized installers for old Sierra games! https:/…
RT @lazygamereviews: Ah. Memes from 1989, apparently.
Replying to @mgloerich
There are plenty of good new adventures around. I personally enjoy games by Wadjet Eye a lot.
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
Cat!
RT @TexTweetz: Finally some success, the FrankenTandy seems to be tamed at a mere 9MHz speed
RT @astroehlein: Auschwitz personnel, 1942. People, not monsters, help make atrocities happen.
So yeah, Dusk is really good. A weird amalgamation of 90s shooters, and not just visually. Very fun to play.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
The only thing so far - it's on the easy side, at least the few levels that I have finished so far.
Replying to @jhartikainen
No.
RT @DavidXNewton: http://davidxn.tumblr.com/post/128303763862/a-curiously-musical-extract-from-the-simon-the A strangely musical extract from the Simon the Sorcerer speech file. I'm impressed that they recor…
RT @dosnostalgic: Adventure games! XD
RT @dosnostalgic: Ow!
RT @dosnostalgic: Hello Mr. President. A Korean fighting game. #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: Like a boss
Replying to @VilhelmMattson
The second & third game never really held up, but the first one is still pretty solid. It is antiquated in many way though.
Replying to @Maindrian
YES.
Replying to @Maindrian
The level design reminded me mostly of Redneck Rampage, but it has some other inspirations as well.
The game missed the April deadline & shareware ended up dropping in May, BUT look at how late the EGA version was still a part of it. https://x.com/lazygamereviews/status/898759622210793473
RT @dosnostalgic: Wolfenstein 3D title screen. From EGA to VGA final #DOSGaming
Btw, Dusk is the first retro fps throwback that actually adheres to old design principles. Unlike Strafe or Doom 2016, for example. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/898919000301858816
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Maps are very Build engine-esque with some Quake thrown in. Feels great.
Replying to @popeguilty
Yeah, but you can bunny hop all around the enemies. Makes me laugh.
RT @dancingcrab: Personal favourite tonight: #ULTIMA UNDERWORLD II: LABYRINTH OF WORLDS! #bigboxaday #DOSgaming @bbpcgc @ultimadragons @Oth…
Replying to @ben_304
You need to play this!
I had to bail water to prevent my apartment from flooding for 20 min yesterday, & today my whole body is sore. I'm so out of shape. D:
RT @emotionalpedant: I guess Peter Weller finally got his photo taken with the Greatest Shirt Of All Time
This is good Twitter https://x.com/thechrishaley/status/898912653346828290
Replying to @aNuChallenger
Oh, fuck me, I just blocked that guy the other week!
I've been alerted to the fact that the crying nazi asshole is apparently from Stony Brook, which is around the corner from me
RT @vintage_pc_ads: Try our new light menu. Introducing The Handbook. [Gateway, 1992]. https://buff.ly/2uR3EVj #retrocomputing #vintagecomp…
Random fact about me: when I'm super drunk, I can recite Burroughs' Talking Asshole routine from memory.
Replying to @mgloerich
Legacy is kind of lacking, but it's a good beginning for the series. I recommend marathoning all of the games. Most aren't all that long.
RT @lazygamereviews:
RT @agistuff: The Black Cauldron, View 10, Loop 0 #AGI #Sierra
Replying to @therobotjane
Piano rollllllllllllllll
IS IT FUTURE,
OR IS IT PAST? https://x.com/Slot1Gamer/status/899032324066521088
One of my new cashiers is half French. He asked me if I knew who Louis de Funes was. Boy, do I!
RT @lazygamereviews: Getting distracted while working on a related video
Replying to @marcellus00
Nobody knows anything about France in the US.
Replying to @awesomonster
<3
RT @lazygamereviews: Still distracted by DOS
I wish Crank 3 got made, but I guess I should be grateful Crank 1 & 2 exist in the first place.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Seriously, the idea that Crank 2 actually came out of Hollywood studio system is just so crazy.
Fuck this! https://x.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/899116231369916416
Late night texts from friends
Whoooooa how am I leaning about this only now?
Oh shit, I forgot that Chester Bennington was in both Crank movies.
Replying to @BilliardLentil
I wish SAW VII had even a fraction of originality that Crank films have.
Replying to @PushinUpRoses
Yes
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
U no like Rain Man and Lion King?
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
Rain Man has a pretty cool synth-y score. https://youtu.be/kHsQUGjC1NA
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
I'm not a big fan of Zimmer, but this is one of my favorites of his
Oh god, that Kaiju moment in Crank 2 😂😂😂
Replying to @tomerg
Ummm... Okaaaaay
I'm a
⚪️ Man
⚪️ Woman
🔘 Floppy Disk
Not ready reading drive A:
⚪️ Abort
⚪️ Retry
🔘 Fail
RT @Bhaal_Spawn: #GamingHaikus - #PCGaming history in #Haiku form
Number 27
©: MS-DOS (1981)
#retrogaming #dosgaming #micropoetry #poem h…
It is Sunday. If you're not stuck at work like I am, play some DOS games!
Replying to @dosnostalgic
THOUSANDS of DOS games playable right in your browser, all ready to go https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Don't let your dreams be dreams
RT @dosnostalgic: Ken Silverman's Build map editor #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: A few Full Throttle concept sketches #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: Third person DOS #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: Addons/Expansions #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: Boss Key screens from a few DOS games #DOSGaming
Replying to @AmyDentata
What are you talking about? I'm young! Young! Oh god, I'm so YOUNG
Replying to @garagehirst
Nah, it's a bad game
Replying to @KensLabyrinthII
Yep
Replying to @AgustinCordes
You should probably keep it that way ;)
RT @dosnostalgic: Best boss key screen was in the DOS port of Star Wars arcade. Because it was incredibly interactive! #DOSGaming https://t…
RT @dosnostalgic: Selecting "Graph" would give you a 3D Broderbund logo that you could control! #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: "Militant vegetables enslave children in this arcade delight!" #DOSGaming
RT @AmznMovieRevws: 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Replying to @Viss
I'm gonna say it's probably technically can be done to some degree, but will require a significant rewrite as I guess a lot of things are
Replying to @Viss
baked in. Plus you'd have to rely on emulation, which would probably break a few things.
Replying to @Viss
And I'm not an expert on any of this stuff. Maybe @MobyGamer can provide his opinion?
Replying to @Viss and @strangeqargo
Haha. This is a DOS demo from the early 90s. Do you think this was done in an editor of any kind? Like a timeline animation with 3d meshes?
Replying to @Viss and @strangeqargo
There's like a 99.9% chance that it is *not* the case. ;)
Replying to @Jigglenomicon
I'm sorry :(
Fuck! I just realized that I forgot the trap door model! https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/844939572488425472
RT @Bodegacats_:
RT @dosgameclub: We're playing Quest for Glory in August! Now's the time to dive in & share your thoughts with us on https://t.co/d6DAlC6Se…
I 👏WANT 👏TO 👏BE 👏A 👏SOFT 👏CAT
Replying to @McLambo
Does it matter?
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
CAAAAAT!
RT @dancingcrab: Let's hear it for cRPGs!! #retrogaming #DOSgaming #SundayShelves #bigboxPCgames #DnD #LegacyOfKain #DungeonMaster #LandsOf…
RT @mikko: Unreal by Future Crew was released 25 years ago. At Assembly 1992 in Kauniainen. http://archive.assembly.org/1992/pc-demo/unreal-by-future-crew
RT @dancingcrab: First it's weird birdmen, then it's a weirdo w/ glowing eyebrows. Can't we catch a break!?
#EyeOfTheBeholder #DnD #LPsLo…
Replying to @AgustinCordes
Who do you think that is there?
Replying to @AgustinCordes
I pray that it's not gonna turn out that Cooper is the Dreamer.
Replying to @AgustinCordes
I hope not. Because I'll be very upset if that's what it's going turn out to be.
Replying to @AgustinCordes
Yeah, but he already played that card like 3 times. It's cool if he came up with it during Twin Peaks, but there's no need to do it again.
Replying to @AgustinCordes
Is it future, or is it past?
Replying to @Amon26 and @mcclure111
Zdoom. You're welcome. Debate over
Awwwwwwwww #TwinPeaks
So yeah, The Roadhouse definitely ran out of money. First the have James perform, and then pretty much just put a CD on. #TwinPeaks
Charlie is like my new favorite character. What a dick. #TwinPeaks
Replying to @SWE_Motorizer and @Eugene_Lensky
"What a dick" is one helluva spoiler!
RT @Foone: You know it's an Origin game when it has to spend 4 pages in the install guide explaining how to get enough RAM to be able to ru…
Replying to @Eugene_Lensky
I don't think it's that at all
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
Yep. Same with the Mac version. I don't like it.
RT @agistuff: Manhunter 2: San Francisco, Room 045 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
RT @agistuff: Gold Rush!, Room 244 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
RT @vintage_pc_ads: Northgate slims down! [Northgate, 1989]. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
RT @dosnostalgic:
RT @dosnostalgic: I keep hearing something about an upcoming total eclipse. Didn't we have enough already?
Replying to @richardgoodness
I thought they take away your gay card for stuff like that.
Replying to @richardgoodness
#Rebel
RT @dosnostalgic: ♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪
♪ Boot to DOS! ♪
Well, there it is
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Booooooring. Now, where's my DOS games at?
Oh boy!
RT @zachtronics: At @zachtronics we take PC gaming very seriously. That's why we ported SHENZHEN SOLITAIRE to MS-DOS! More info here: https…
Bethesda®™©℠ https://x.com/GOGcom/status/899675039112589312
RT @dosnostalgic: Microsoft Mouse bundled Piano demo. Along with full Basic source code.
RT @dosnostalgic: Remember WinG library and its Doggie demo? #MorningWin3xTalk
RT @dosnostalgic: A few backgrounds from Space Quest 6
RT @dosnostalgic: Day of the Tentacle background art
I just called
To say
I love DOS
Replying to @AgustinCordes
Why did you even watch it? The trailers looked like garbage already.
Three years ago I made a wish, and it came true! https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/519153978190618624
Replying to @AgustinCordes
I refuse to watch any more Alien or Terminator films
Played a little bit more of Dusk, and it only keeps getting better. My GOTY 2017, and the full version isn't even out yet.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I wanna stress that while I think its cute that Dusk looks like a magically hardware accelerated game from 1996, thats not what appeals 2 me
Replying to @dosnostalgic
It's the design of levels, weapons, and enemies. All done in the manner I've missed for so long. It's a treat.
Replying to @SHODANFreeman
Yes, it was fun. Enjoyed the architecture, but it was super super reliant on monster closets iirc.
Replying to @PushinUpRoses
Nope
RT @Foone: Speaking of Realms of the Haunting, I played the demo on the almost illegally good May 1997 PC Gamer cover CD:
https://t.co/7X6Q…
RT @LoCyber: Haced caso a GoodBoy. Siempre. Plox.
Tag yourself https://x.com/Bodegacats_/status/899772661584343041
RT @vintage_pc_ads: BetterBASIC Version 2.0. "I wrote it, and I recommend it." [Summit, 1986]. #retrocomputing #compiliers #vintagecomputin…
They fucked it up :( https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/619697730865242112
Replying to @TheWizardBeard
The show is fucking atrocious
Replying to @richardgoodness
I'm so excited for you. Did you watch The Missing Pieces though?
Replying to @dgdw and @TheWizardBeard
Almost everything.
Replying to @richardgoodness
Deleted/Extended scenes
Replying to @GrundislavGames and @richardgoodness
I envy all of you so much
Kind of bummed out that Jurgen Prochnow didn't reprise his role of a Woodsman in the latest Twin Peaks episode
Replying to @Maindrian
All of it
Replying to @LordScavamungus
Woodsmen are so important in the new show, but he was the original one, even if only for a couple of shots.
Replying to @Thriftygamer83
I watch Das Boot every time my apartment is in danger of flooding. The 5 hour cut. Last Friday was one of those days.
Replying to @GrundislavGames
Believe it or not, this entire scene is probably what's most important in relation to the new series
Replying to @timotheus and @GrundislavGames
Did you watch The Missing Pieces?
Replying to @timotheus and @GrundislavGames
It is.
Replying to @AgustinCordes
What? I... I actually don't remember. But it was different dude in the show.
RT @pointandgifadv: The elevator seems to be broken, better take the super hidden secret stairs!
(Leisure Suit Larry 2) https://t.co/VsJuc…
Replying to @GrundislavGames and @richardgoodness
That was NOTHING compared to what's coming!
Replying to @richardgoodness and @GrundislavGames
Wally Brando!
Army of Darkness https://x.com/sleepyskunk/status/897879332479258624
Replying to @SM_iron_prince
Of course.
StixWorld (PsychoHazard Software, 1998) #DOSGameScreenADay
Finally finished the first episode of Dusk. Can't wait for more.
Replying to @GreyAlien
Unity.
Replying to @GreyAlien
It's designed like an old skool game as well. I'm quite pleased.
Any FFMPEG experts in the house? My old machine w/ this exact thing gave me a 1280x800 video on the output, by on my new one it's 1280x802
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Doesn't matter if I use the exact same version of FFMPEG (copied from my old machine) or a new one. Still 1280x802 :(
Replying to @vashpan
Yes, that's a typo on my part. The date is on the first screenshot.
Replying to @TrekChris
It doesn't matter as the aspect ration is forced by the player.
Microsoft Visual C++ Professional v1.0 (Windows 3.x, 1993)
I saw John Carpenter trending and my heart dropped for a second.
Replying to @gozargozarian
Aspect ratio is forced by the player. This has been my workflow for many years.
Replying to @ssaaavvw
It doesn't matter because the aspect ratio is forced by the player according to a flag. Even without ar set, it's still 1280x802.
To all the people who are about to tweet about aspect ratio: AR is forced by the player. Even without that parameter I still get 1280x802. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/900039554954080257
Replying to @dosnostalgic
But yeah, you can totally have a 1280x800 video with 4x3 aspect, and a player will auto stretch it to 1280x960.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
For years my workflow was this: edit in 320x200, upscale through FFMPEG to 1280x800 4:3, Handbrake it to 1280x960 in AVC. It worked.
Yeah, I'm thinking it's more something like that. Since I've literally did NOTHING, except move files from one machine to another. https://x.com/ssaaavvw/status/900065581122060288
Replying to @DerSevenlive and @ThatsEliYT
Yes
Replying to @ssaaavvw
Yep
Replying to @DerSevenlive and @ThatsEliYT
vf scale:iw*4 ends up with 1280x802 still.
Replying to @DerSevenlive and @ThatsEliYT
Yep
Replying to @bbpcgc
Yes you do
Replying to @lazygamereviews
Yeah, I loved it. I hope it opens the doors for more classic style fps games that don't aim to look like they're from 1997
Oh shit, Verizon sent me a check from overcharging me a decade ago
Replying to @dosnostalgic
And they have the balls to make it void if not deposited within 90 days!
Replying to @nerflad and @lazygamereviews
You've spelled "DOS" wrong
Replying to @nerflad and @lazygamereviews
Hey now, hey now,
Don't dream it's over!
#DOSGaming
RT @stus_reviews: Vintage #Infocom ad for 3 of the best games of all time - Sorcerer I think has the best puzzle ever. :) #RETROGAMING #DOS…
RT @Foone: if I was still living in the south and 20% more of a dick, I'd wear a holster all the time and fill it with floppy disks.
I ope…
#MSDOSAfterDark
RT @VGArtAndTidbits: Super Mario Bros - on set press photos.
NO. Saved you a click. https://x.com/VICE/status/900183320314687488
Just rewatched Jackie Brown. It's still really boring. #UnpopularOpinions
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I know many name it as their favorite Tarantino flick, and I have no idea why. Great cast & soundtrack though.
You know what movie isn't boring? Face/Off
RT @TheChowdery: Packing up to move houses & rediscovering treasure stash of classic games for PC, #C64, etc. #retrogames #pcgaming https:/…
Despite being American, even trash containers know that it's easier to use Celcius https://x.com/trashcanlife/status/899783204663578624
Replying to @WendyOKoopaZNTF
Because it's true
Replying to @KeyJ_kat
Zip Motion Block Video
Aspetra (Zonarware, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay
RT @dosnostalgic: Some versions of Jazz Jackrabbit had an APOGEE cheat that made the game run in 16 colors & half the speed http://t.co/NRY…
RT @dosnostalgic: The Print Shop v1.0. DOS. 1985
Replying to @KeyJ_kat
Me too :(
#DOSGaming
RT @Bhaal_Spawn: #WednesdayWisdom
"Let my armies be the rocks & the trees & the birds in the sky"
Or Harkonnen Devastators!👍
What wud u ch…
Replying to @mcclure111, @Tanukitsune, @R4_Unit and @vectorpoem
I do love me some French PC games!
Finally got around to playing GTA V. Played the total of 5 min, but god, the game looks beautiful!
Replying to @Xain777
I couldn't give too shits about the online mode.
Replying to @robotics_gttg
I tried both briefly
Replying to @innerdrum
I already get silky smooth 60 fps
RT @TheMarkTwain: All generalizations are false, including this one.
RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: Eye see you!
Replying to @Nukkus
It's mostly pretty boring
Daaaaaamn https://x.com/GoldS_TCRF/status/900382936704352256
Played through Accounting last night. It was okay, I guess. But hey, it's free.
RT @dosnostalgic: Hello. I'm the DOS cat. I hope you've been playing DOS games recently.
I played some ViveDoom yesterday, and it was pretty nauseating.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
My brain is definitely not equipped to visually travel at Doom's run speed while physically remaining stationary.
RT @BrianFargo: Does anyone remember playing the Scott Adams adventure games? Talk about hard puzzles.
Replying to @LordScavamungus
VR is fun, but movement in VR so far is one of the biggest unsolved issues. Room scale and teleporting doesn't work for everything.
Don't let your dreams be dreams! https://x.com/unRoberto/status/900451579081445377
RT @dosnostalgic: I still have the app on my phone that blinks <ADVERTISEMENT> in case someone asks me about LOOM™ in the wild https://t.co…
Replying to @Silentwulf
So yeah, still baffled by this. Tried a bunch of stuff, nothing worked. I guess I'll need to find an alternate method https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/900039554954080257
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Does Handbrake have an option for nearest neighbour resizing together with aspect ratio change?
Replying to @richardgoodness
Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be in games. But even then it sounded like a bunch of bullshit.
Replying to @_sorceress
I don't know about this
PSA (Pedantic Service Announcement):
The "Mortal Kombat Theme" is really called "Techno Syndrome". K Thnx bye
Replying to @d4rk0men
No
Replying to @sacaitlin
Look who you're talking to! https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/813157717003173888
Replying to @Garm1981
Never forget https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/813157717003173888
RT @dosnostalgic: Mortal Kombat on DOS
RT @dosnostalgic: This is an ad for Mortal Kombat 3 on pc. ???????
RT @dosnostalgic: Free Mortal Kombat tattoos in every box
Replying to @sacaitlin and @griph
It was the Utah Saints, and the track was called "The Utah Saints take on the Mortal Kombat Theme." or something like that
Replying to @sacaitlin and @griph
I know. That's what I was saying.
I'm glad I can finally get rid of the Bethesda launcher, which I only kept for Quake Champions.
Best song in a video game? Hands down The Lil' Bonus Room from Skullmonkeys by Terry Taylor https://youtu.be/MWgoXSkaQyI
Replying to @richardcobbett
Do the Champions still talk all the time, or did they finally take that out?
Replying to @ferchoarg
"Turbo" is always inverted. That's how they get you. ;)
Replying to @thereaIkerma
Classic deathmatch is still very much there. It's pretty much the same as playing Quake Live
Replying to @richardcobbett
They used to fucking talk all the time in the beginning. Then they just left them talking when you got killed.
Replying to @expectproblems
Names plz
Replying to @expectproblems
Have you tried Robo Recall?
Replying to @expectproblems
I haven't tried Super Hitr VR yet, but Robo Recall is the only only action game that feels right so far.
Replying to @awesomonster and @sacaitlin
Chinese Ninja Warrior!
RT @dosnostalgic: May I have your attention please?
Will the real VGA please stand up?
I repeat, will the real VGA please stand up? https:/…
RT @dosnostalgic: Please Register This Shareware is a great Tumblr http://pleaseregisterthisshareware.tumblr.com/
RT @dosnostalgic: Please note #Sierra #DOSGaming
Replying to @nothingxs
Gotta be some sort of memory issues
Replying to @nothingxs
Sound initialization maybe then?
Windows
Replying to @richardgoodness
Just wait till you get to THAT one episode.
RT @agistuff: Manhunter 2: San Francisco, Room 249 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
Replying to @therobotjane
Great show.
Replying to @richardgoodness
You still have a couple more :)
Replying to @GrundislavGames and @richardgoodness
It's one of my favorites, but the show gets even crazier later.
Orion Burger (Sanctuary Woods Multimedia Corporation/Eidos, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay
RT @simoncarless: LAST DAY: that latest Video Game eBook @Storybundle is disappearing forever in just a few hours, grab it now: https://t.c…
Replying to @Jigglenomicon
Not yet, and
Not particularly
Hellooooo, people of Twitter! Tell me about your accomplishments in DOS games as well as DOS itself! #AfternoonDOSTalk
Replying to @timotheus
Exclamation...
Replying to @timotheus
As usual best stories and screenshots will be RTed #AfternoonDOSTalk
RT @MetalFRO: @dosnostalgic At age 12, I wrote a program in BASIC that played the melody of "Sherry" by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, w…
RT @ejrtairne: @dosnostalgic I once somehow wrote a text adventure entirely as a batch file.
RT @Leprosy: @dosnostalgic Learned to use an hex editor and translated Zeliard to spanish.
RT @bocha_himself: @dosnostalgic I Finally got the fucking Covox replica, but I'm shure you saw it in my twitter already. Oh, the opportuni…
RT @Jigglenomicon: @dosnostalgic made a dos Christmas cart in basic, haven't tested it on real hardware tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efhXB1IAvmw
RT @MFolschette: @dosnostalgic My avatar is the main character of a Zelda-like I started to develop in QuickBasic. It featured dialogs, com…
RT @DavidXNewton: @dosnostalgic I will never forget my dad's jubilant cry of "I'M ON THE NEXT SCREEN!" when he finally beat level 1 of Jaso…
RT @AgustinCordes: @dosnostalgic I'm still proud of religiously beating Zak McKracken and Thexder without walkthroughs or cheating.
RT @MrKrisViking: @dosnostalgic Well once upon a time I actually got a hole-in-one in the game PGA Tour Golf.
RT @merconomicon: @dosnostalgic Getting a working understanding of eg. VGA palette management, double buffering and interrupt handling, for…
My whole life has been a lie https://x.com/ErnieEaglebeak/status/900758941260447744
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Funny enough "Dendy" became the name of all Famiclones in Russia, despite a large variety of them available. So I sort of see the point.
RT @stadtgorilla: @dosnostalgic Does getting Wing Commander II on our 286 to even work count?
RT @banditloaf: @dosnostalgic This one time, I freed up enough memory to run Aces of the Pacific. You don't forget a thing like that! :)
My biggest #DOSGaming accomplishment is starting this Twitter account 😜 #AfternoonDOSTalk
Having a decent video card means having to look up shit like MSAA and TXAA, because I have no fucking clue what they are.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
It used to be common for 3D games to explain graphical options when you hovered over them. What happened?
Replying to @Canageek
Why can't a game give me a short summary? An external source shouldn't be required.
Replying to @xnotjeremyx
Nope
#GameDev #MSDOS #DOS #DOSGaming
Replying to @dosnostalgic
From one time Andrew LaMothe emailed me
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
Baaaaaaaaaasiiiiiiicccccc
That one time I listed my favorite videogames, in case you wanna know what they are. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/734134799208747011
Replying to @CorwinB87
That's a great feature!
RT @drpatrik67: @dosnostalgic Still waiting for volume II
RT @bara: @dosnostalgic
cc: @doom_txt
Replying to @kabukkake
It's a list of games I like. What's there to disagree with?
That is pretty awesome https://x.com/Foone/status/900818397243559937
RT @dosnostalgic: - NO external power supply required
RT @dosnostalgic: Now I'm playing with power!
HP 200LX FTW! https://x.com/kiwapebretech/status/900829058442907648
RT @textfiles: Great News: Legend Entertainment's "Mission Critical", emulated at Archive. https://archive.org/details/mission-critical-dos Bad News: It's a 1gb (ON…
RT @dosnostalgic: At a glance this might look like an article, but this is actually an ad.
RT @dosnostalgic: #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: Dance like it's 1990! Dance like the world only has 16 colors!
Replying to @expectproblems
Rise of the Dragon (EGA version)
RT @carrington: Sonic the hedge fund.
RT @dosnostalgic: The Complete MAUS preview from "Voyager Presents" CD-ROM #NotDOS
RT @dosnostalgic: And now a classic AdLib Tracker 2 tune called IMADICK
Replying to @expectproblems
Is that friend Michael Crichton?
RT @taimoortariq: Gorillas in #AugmentedReality would be a cool game @dosnostalgic @dosgameclub @IBM @Snapchat
Twitter notifications tab should also include an option for quoted tweets in addition to mentions.
Doom Classic Complete is $3.74 on Humble https://www.humblebundle.com/store/doom-classic-complete
Replying to @expectproblems
A bit too exploitative to be that, I think.
Replying to @therobotjane
Bored, waiting for my employees to finish work, so I can count the drawers.
Replying to @therobotjane
It's not their fault. They are all good kids.
Replying to @cphonx and @LouisGorenfeld
They aren't zombies. They are MUTANTS
RT @mdf200: Ooooo.... That's #awesome! Mmm...I have a cunning plan.... #Lemmings
Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance (Capstone Software/IntraCorp, 1996) #DOSGameScreenADay
RT @vintage_pc_ads: My Citizen makes working at home look very attractive. [Citizen, 1991] #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing https://t.co/r…
RT @Pixelengineer_: 007: Licence to Kill (Quixel / Domark, 1989) #DOSgaming
RT @stus_reviews: Night Mission Pinball (1983) - An early #BigBoxPC pinball game by Sublogic. #DOSGaming #RETROGAMING #FBF #BigBoxaDay http…
RT @dancingcrab: More worlds from #OriginSystems for tonight's #bigboxaday: this time, 2400 A.D.! 1988 DOS version. @bbpcgc @RichardGarriot…
👍 https://x.com/hmemcpy/status/901136142195712000
Replying to @Estirdalin
Cat!
Haven't we suffered enough? https://x.com/AdventurersCap/status/900705879946874884
Replying to @Pic0o
Still better than the first game
Replying to @lazygamereviews
Prince of Persia and Civilization
White Town - I Could Never Be Your Woman https://x.com/FLOATINGCOFFlN/status/900582875640320000
Replying to @Mr_Bingo_Little
I got it
Replying to @bara
The sequel is A LOT better
No matter how hard I try, I can't write about how much I hate a Phantasmagoria.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Someone buy me a few drinks at a bar some day, then ask me about Phantasmagoria, and have your phone ready.
Replying to @bara
First one is pure trash from both design and realization perspectives. Second one has a neat story, decent production values, but still is
Replying to @bara
a badly designed adventure game. But at least it doesn't make me yell at the screen.
RT @lazygamereviews: Connected some retro Pioneer audio kit to the Adlib and Sound Blaster cards in my IBM AT and Zenith 286 PCs. This is c…
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
On the 6th, I hope.
Replying to @MDliberaldude
I'm on Long Island.
I really want to download my Twitter archive just to see how much dumb shit I've said throughout the years
Replying to @NotANumber123
I know it's possible to do, but Twitter is glitching out for me. And I'm too lazy to contact support.
Aivazovsky's paintings are incredible. I've only seen a handful in person. https://x.com/Oniropolis/status/900911106729889796
Is this a Google AI fail again? The album isn't out till the 1st.
Replying to @DJSharpeCheddar
I read it, and felt your pain, brother.
The version I grew up with https://x.com/PulpLibrarian/status/901172783723368448
Replying to @DJSharpeCheddar
It's worth playing just to see how much things improved. It's still not a good adventure game, but the story is cool, and production value
Replying to @DJSharpeCheddar
is pretty high for the time. And it sort of mostly works up until the very end.
Replying to @DJSharpeCheddar
What I find ridiculous is that it's the SECOND game that has a reputation of being very bad, which is clearly not the case at all.
Replying to @nothingxs
Not a clue, sorry.
Replying to @DJSharpeCheddar
I can't play more then five minutes without yelling at the screen. The older I get, the more I hate Phantasmagoria. It's the worst.
RT @Pixelengineer_: Aces of the Pacific (Dynamix / Sierra On-Line, 1992) #DOSgaming
Bethesda sale on GOG. Get Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake at 75% off https://www.gog.com/promo/29170821_special_sale_bethesda
Replying to @PushinUpRoses
It's a pretty decent port all things considered.
RT @paulmather007: 80 years of science fiction and not a single story predicted we'd use our phones as flashlights.
Replying to @AgustinCordes
Corrupting the youth early
Replying to @PushinUpRoses
I played it. I actually have it in a box. I still think it's a decent effort. I mean, it's a weird pick to adapt their first VGA P'n'C game.
Replying to @PushinUpRoses
Of course, but there's a whole less of a game to adapt. KQ1 is a very simple game.
Replying to @PushinUpRoses
I agree. Deja Vu also ditched the cursor in favor of menus in the NES port, and it was for the best.
Replying to @PushinUpRoses
That is a plus for sure. But still, it's an impressive version considering the platform. Almost nothing is missing.
Replying to @LambdaCalculus, @awesomonster and @PushinUpRoses
I played it, but I'm not particularly fond of it, as for me it gets annoying quickly. It's cute though.
RT @dosnostalgic: Did you know there was a remake of Sierra's Softporn Adventure for a Japanese computer PC-88 with added graphics? https:/…
Replying to @awesomonster, @LambdaCalculus and @PushinUpRoses
I'm just not a fan of linear visual novels. I have very similar issues with Snatcher as well. #UnpopularOpinions
Replying to @HG_101
Daaaaamn
RT @dosnostalgic: A gag that's only present in the Passport to Adventure version of Monkey Island demo #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: Passport to Adventure #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: A little intro present in the original stand-alone demo of Monkey Island #DOSGaming
I
LIKE
THEM
VIDEO
GAMES
We can't stop here. This is .BAT country! https://x.com/lazygamereviews/status/901242119150592000
My anaconda don't want none
Unless you got at least 602k of conventional memory free, hun https://x.com/garagehirst/status/901243100043116544
Replying to @LambdaCalculus
I remember when I was a young executive at this company...
Replying to @darthhelmet86 and @LambdaCalculus
I love the stock market values scrolling signs next to each urinal
The best year in videogames is quite obviously 1873
Replying to @ben_304
Puppy!
I approve of this https://x.com/thinkinggaming/status/901257337222053888
Forever https://x.com/lazygamereviews/status/901256228680204292
Replying to @kalirion
NO
Something about the new Tick show is... off.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Peter Serafinowicz is great though.
Replying to @Foone
He is the Tick. And he's perfect.
Replying to @Foone
The show is very different in tone to both previous versions. Written by the guy who did the comic books.
Replying to @therobotjane
She's my summer girl!
Replying to @corbindavenport
Diskcopy and ImageDisk
Replying to @richardgoodness
YAY! #GotALight
RT @ben_304: Something I really love in old, low resolution games is areas decorated with large crystalline structures. https://t.co/OmBDRD…
RT @BCT_Podcast: Episode 111! Community relations (it's not as boring as it sounds) http://www.grundislavgames.com/podcast/BCT_111.mp3
RT @NamiRocket: Okay, who did this?
RT @gnomeslair: Wonderland was a truly beautiful game.
Roller Coaster Rumbler (Subway Software, Tynesoft Computer Software/Hi-Tech Expressions, 1990) #DOSGameScreenADay
Remember: #DOSGameScreenADay archive is available at the official DOS Nostalgia Facebook page: http://fb.me/dosnostalgia
Replying to @Nightshift10000
Roller Coaster Rumbler
RT @math_rachel: "computers will not live up to their potential until we start to think of them less like televisions and more like paintbr…
Replying to @richardgoodness and @LambdaCalculus
This is what I was thinking during the bomb sequence https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/879207130854805506
RT @Pixelengineer_: Birds of Prey (Argonaut Software / Electronic Arts, 1992) - North American X-15A test flight. #DOSgaming https://t.co/i…
Replying to @richardgoodness and @LambdaCalculus
We're not gonna talk about Judy at all! Who do you think that is there?
Replying to @LambdaCalculus and @richardgoodness
I wish the show would never end for the rest of my life, I love it so much.
Once you watch episode 8 of #TwinPeaks2017 your life is never the same https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/879205485861318658
RT @dosgameclub: Episode 6 of the DGC Podcast is out now, in which we discuss COMMAND & CONQUER! https://www.dosgameclub.com/command-conquer/ #DOSGaming https:/…
Replying to @opsxcq
It's an amazing thing.
Ok, the Alexa joke in the new Tick made me LOL 😂
RT @neilcic: Through the open window, buried in the city noises, morning birds and wind, I hear a distant Doom (1993) door-opening sound
RT @retrogaminglive: It's DOScathlon day! Join us at 3PM EDT for a marathon race of 10 classic DOS games. Details at https://t.co/SCMDjcaAv…
RT @mogwai_poet: Half -Life 3 jam: "Half Life 3 is finally free. Half Life 3 belongs to the people. LET'S MAKE IT." https://itch.io/jam/epistle-3-jam
No thanks https://x.com/PaintYourDragon/status/901158586977353728
Replying to @Campster
ME!
Via http://worldsofsierra.tumblr.com #DOSGaming
Today is my mother's birthday. She always encouraged me 2 pursue my interests, so you can partially blame her 4 ur #DOSGaming filled Twitter
Replying to @HG_101
Daaaamm. Any DOS coverage in this issue?
Pretty great music video made for no money at all https://x.com/sovietvisuals/status/770969572161626112
Replying to @dosnostalgic
An interesting part is when a guy in the restaurant smokes *something* @sovietvisuals https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/676940727771901956
RT @agistuff: King's Quest: Quest for the Crown, Room 038 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
Replying to @LambdaCalculus, @richardgoodness and @AgustinCordes
I think you guys are reading too much into it, but then Inland Empire did connect with a bunch of other Lynch stuff
RT @agistuff: King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella, Room 048 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
RT @sovietvisuals: 1955: massive corn campaign led by Nikita Khrushchev. 1957: this cartoon about corn comes out. ("Chudesnitsa") https://t…
RT @dosnostalgic: Microsoft Visual C++ Professional v1.0 (Windows 3.x, 1993)
RT @dosnostalgic: Microsoft Visual Basic v1.0 (Windows 3.x, 1991)
RT @dosnostalgic: Microsoft Visual Basic for DOS v1. DOS, 1992.
Replying to @expectproblems
Brezhnev!
Replying to @Targrod
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/808106124138479616
RT @dancingcrab: Big thank you to the @Foone for today's #bigboxaday! Sealed NA version of #WARCRAFT II: TIDES OF DARKNESS. @bbpcgc @Blizza…
#CurrentMood https://x.com/agistuff/status/901610205443747840
Me: What are you doing for your birthday?
Friend: Drinking heavily with you.
#Russians
Replying to @dosnostalgic
(Or maybe just #Alcoholism idk)
Replying to @raytype and @LouisGorenfeld
Nice shirt, @LouisGorenfeld
Replying to @Foone
In Soviet Russia Vodka drink YOU!
#internationaldogday
RT @lazygamereviews: Or how about Sonic the Hedgehog for DOS? Not official, or even very accurate, but it's a playable oddity at least http…
You always know you're in for a good night when there's a polar bear bleeding on the label.
RT @archillect:
RIP Tobe Hooper. He earned his "Master of Horror" badge with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and changed the genre forever
Polygon put out a video about Petz on their Facebook page. Having a hard time trying to share it using mobile app, so Im just letting u know
Polygon Petz video https://x.com/antzpantz/status/901824040343449602
RT @vintage_pc_ads: Allow us to draw your attention. [Epyx, 1987]. (See, https://buff.ly/2wd5tcD). #dosgaming #retrogaming #retrocomputing…
RT @textfiles: This is an excellent overview of the issues involving "Game Preservation". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMBZNXJoEf8
RT @VGArtAndTidbits: Space Quest V: Roger Wilco – The Next Mutation. Sierra MS-DOS (1993).
PIE
eBay in one picture
I didn't realize it was this long since I've tweeted this. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/691346592620765184
Today is already shaping up to be a tough day at work, but WHO GIVES A SHIT, NEW TWIN PEAKS TONIGHT! Coop!
Replying to @rmmzx
Liking? I'M LOVING IT!
RT @Foone: Infocom's 1983 text adventure Suspended had a very unique box. It had a 3D face inset into it!
Another World for Android is on sale https://x.com/DotEmu/status/901189462071406592
RT @dosnostalgic: Strangest Sierra's Japanese venture since the animefication of Police Quest 2? Maybe. (screens via @HG_101) https://t.co/…
RT @dosnostalgic: Exit screens. #DOSGaming
Rewatched World's End last night. Such an awesome movie. Definitely the least funny out of the 3, but makes up for it elsewhere.
Replying to @TrekChris
Yes, I nearly cried when I went to see it the second time.
Replying to @TrekChris
I almost ended up being Gary King, but thankfully managed to avoid it.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
The final confrontation between Gary and Andy is beautifully acted. The emotions feel honest.
Replying to @ceearrbee
You haven't seen any of the new series?
Replying to @ceearrbee
You'll also need to watch Fire Walk With Me and The Missing Pieces before the new series.
Replying to @ceearrbee
You're in for a ride.
I'll take two, please https://x.com/Karen_meikoi/status/901249914977501184
RT @dosnostalgic:
RT @HG_101: Populous, Bullfrog's legendary sim that effectively created the "god game" subgenre http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/populous/populous.htm https://t.co/1ufTa…
Replying to @retroremakes
You're in a dangerous territory there, sir! https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/901866155463278592
Replying to @pfournier33
I don't really care. Either way, I'm happy.
I am the FBI #TwinPeaks
Replying to @dosnostalgic
God, I almost cried.
Lynch called him Kale for a while after they've met https://x.com/fantasmascope/status/901806958684102656
RT @Foone: So Epic Pinball, released in 1993 by Epic Megagames, contained two boards by Misko Iho (aka Pixel):
Space Journey & Toy Factory.…
Fucking hell! #TwinPeaks
RT @MrNobre: Love reading old school PC mags. @lazygamereviews and @dosnostalgic will relate
RT @Foone: The sad era when "scalable fonts" was such a cool thing you could buy a software package just to get it.
https://t.co/BMlTmv78…
Replying to @Foone
Only the quality is garbagio. I have one.
I can't fall asleep after this episode of #TwinPeaks. I feel sad for everyone who isn't watching this amazing show.
Replying to @taxalot
You need context for it to be a spoiler.
Replying to @taxalot
Ok then.
Replying to @robdelacruz
No. The requirements are high. The original show, the movie, the deleted scenes from the movie are all a must.
RT @Pixelengineer_: Task Force 1942 | print ad (1992) #DOSgaming
Replying to @Maindrian
I wish this show would never end!
RT @frankcifaldi: Roberta Williams' pencil-drawn screen sketches for King's Quest II, part of an amazing collection on loan at @museumofpla…
So I got so excited watching last night's #TwinPeaks, I had one drink too many. 😞
Ok, Twitter really needs to get rid of showing you randomly liked tweets feature. I check Twitter at work, and someone I follow happened...
Replying to @dosnostalgic
... to like a picture that featured big boobs. Boobs are great, but I have a feeling people around me might not appreciate them as much.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
In a way this has a lot to do with society, but I'm putting this on Twitter's doorstep. That feature is all kinds of dumb. Nobody wants it.
Apparently there's a hack of sorts, at least if you're not on mobile app (I am though) https://x.com/renpytom/status/900925879525703680
Replying to @Estep
Timeline
Replying to @transfaerie
I've been doing this for YEARS.
Me as a cat https://x.com/videocats/status/901168886569205764
RT @dosnostalgic: Borland Turbo Pascal v2.00B. DOS, 1984.
RT @dosnostalgic: PC Paint v1.0A. DOS, 1984.
RT @dosnostalgic: 1984
RT @dosnostalgic: Electronic Arts logo. 1985, 1991, 1992, 1993. #DOSGaming
Replying to @Foone
What?!
Replying to @Foone
Can I name a file AUX.TXT & get the same effect
Replying to @Foone
Daaamn
Replying to @aburone
RT @womensaudio: Want to learn about FM (Frequency modulation) synthesis? A beginner’s guide to FM8 | @NI_News http://bit.ly/2xzcmEB http…
RT @dosnostalgic: FM synthesiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis
RT @dosnostalgic: YT playlist of all DOS game soundtracks I've uploaded. All FM (OPL2 or OPL3), all with download links: https://t.co/t0Emk…
Replying to @HunsV and @gugamaciel
It is
Replying to @HunsV
Yes
RT @dosnostalgic: Holy fuck, transporting Kinder Surprise eggs into the US can seriously fuck up your wallet! :O
I think I figured out a version of Kinder egg that's America-friendly. Instead of a toy inside each egg is a GUN.
Apparently Fire Walk With Me is 25 years old today. Now who do you think that is there?
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I still don't like FWWM, but the new series certainly justifies its existence. All of the "universe" expansion essentially happened in it.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Or I guess "was set up in FWWM" is better way to describe it.
Replying to @BvS_Azimuth
Yep
Replying to @MrKrisViking
It's the Twin Peaks movie
RT @pripyatbeast: Won't play the new @DOOM VFR until it has native support for the GRAVIS PHOENIX
Replying to @Pixelmusement, @PushinUpRoses and @ProJared
😏
RT @dosnostalgic: #CurrentMood
RT @ben_304: Over on @AdventureGamers I took a look at how game art can help show the effect when a game shifts dimensions! :D https://t.co…
RT @Foone: This is neat: IBM made a better-than-Soundblaster MCA card a few months before the Soundblaster!
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/audio-frequency-data-acquisition/ https…
RT @dosnostalgic: And here's an EIGHT page Microsoft languages ad (1986) [1/2]
RT @dosnostalgic: [2/2]
Tag yourself https://x.com/Foone/status/902314705791860736
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I'm that surprised fish on the bottom left
Well, that's a first. A customer came in blasting Infowars from his phone. Loud. While he was shopping AND while checking out.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Some people obviously can't wait to appear as giant morons in public. Good job.
Replying to @Dugongue
I complimented his accomplishment.
Replying to @dj_ir0ngruve
It would be funny, if it wasn't so dangerous.
RT @vintage_pc_ads: This fall's hot new program stars 4 sexy Europeans and 1 American stud. [Accolade, 1987]. https://buff.ly/2xB6NFI #retr…
I'm tired and ready to go home. Tomorrow is my best (Russian) friend's birthday, which means I'll be drinking more than I should.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
How else am I supposed to live up to the stereotype that society assigned me?
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Replying to @coreywilliam
Ewww :O
Replying to @Amon26
Sorry, it's a Russians only night.
Replying to @DanBancalari
That's a fairly recent development. I'm old.
Replying to @garagehirst
Aka tasted like shiiiit
Replying to @Sh1n0b1wan
I bet I could pull it off
Replying to @Syndarr and @WalterWorldG
Hmmm... More details needed. That describes 90% of CRPGs of the time
RT @Pixelengineer_: Maniac Mansion | print ad (1989) #DOSgaming #ManiacMansion
RT @Bhaal_Spawn: Aaah... I always found Sim Earth & its box art to be so relaxing. Float me on ur digital clouds!
#Retrogaming #Dosgaming…
RT @Razor792: The majority (although not all) of my Carmageddon collection
RT @CoolBoxArt: Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Chess Wars / PC / Capstone Software / 1993
RT @retrorabble: ❤️ #RetroGaming memory
Cannon Fodder / Virgin Interactive / 1993
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon%20Fodder%20%28video%20game%29
RT @fabynou: Game Engine Black Book is available for preorder: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Fabien_Sanglard_Game_Engine_Black_Book?id=Lq4yDwAAQBAJ. Preview here: https://books.google.com/books?id=Lq4yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false. Paper versio…
Replying to @gravislizard
Looks like a TSR program that remapped the controls. This is the first I hear about it.
"There are no mentions of this publicly on the internet but it definitely exists."
Don't be a tuna head! https://x.com/the_blueprint/status/902262516813791233
#MichaelJackson #DOSGaming
#CurrentMood
Arachnophobia (BlueSky Software/Walt Disney Computer Software, 1991) #DOSGameScreenADay
Replying to @gregsbriefs
GAG: The Impotent Mystery
I've also wondered about this many times https://x.com/Foone/status/902605800761262080
RT @adamjogrady: Just discovered an on-page advert was mining bitcoin in my browser.
Remember kids: always use an adblocker
#MichaelJackson https://youtu.be/PfrV_6yWbEg
#DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: A few LOOM™ EGA backgrounds #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: An unused sprite of the hero cutting off his own arm from Quest for Glory 4
Replying to @Jigglenomicon
That's also true of like 70% of early to late 90s CD games
Toxic Crusaders https://x.com/NetflixLifee/status/902350053142126592
RT @ItsTheShadsy: Quick shoutout to the really groundbreaking preservation/curation/exploration work from @worldsofzzt and @dosmeow! https:…
RT @OnePerfectShot: DUNE (1984)
DP: Freddie Francis
Dir: David Lynch
More Shots: http://bit.ly/2wfBTog
Started as a cashier and then continued to fail upwards https://x.com/aaronlinde/status/902563709465223171
RT @Pixelengineer_: Street Rod | print ad (1991) #DOSgaming
Poke
So I don't know if it's Windows 10 or my network card that keeps dropping my connection constantly, but I think I'm frustrated enough to...
Replying to @dosnostalgic
just buy another network card. Either way it's total fucking bullshit.
RT @dosnostalgic: Jimmy suggests you play a DOS game today
RT @dosnostalgic: #CurrentMood
RT @Foone: Testing Shenzhen Solitaire for DOS on an original 4mhz IBM PC... It works!
(I promise it's faster on slightly more modern hardw…
I can't believe they managed to repackage and sell this game so many times https://x.com/VGDensetsu/status/902970735219671040
Reach out and touch DOS
RT @dosnostalgic: Virus Construction Set. 1990-1991(?). First virus generating software
RT @dosnostalgic: Microsoft Anti-Virus. DOS, 1993. (Came bundled with DOS 6 - 6.22)
Replying to @_careet
It might be. I always forget.
I'll take two, please. https://x.com/RobotGameDev/status/902999383473627136
RT @dosnostalgic: Videogames are art
RT @dosnostalgic: Box art of the day: Microsoft Flight Simulator 5 scenery packs #DOSGaming
RT @dosnostalgic: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing v1.22. DOS, 1988
Replying to @mcclure111
https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/794238896766914561
RT @frankcifaldi: It's starting. This is the first big leap toward cartridge reissues becoming as ubiquitous as vinyl reissues. https://t.c…
Any good examples of largely sprite based environments in a VR product out there?
RT @s4xton: “Welcome, traveller, which elixirs do you seek?”
Only one house will prevail
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Your battle for Dune begins... NOW.
😂😂😂 https://x.com/hrsmns/status/903040962179600384
More like a pile of floppies, but the rest is accurate https://x.com/PaperFury/status/902638850203238400
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I'm incredibly lucky to have to so many talented & creative internet friends. Your stuff inspires me daily.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I've met some of you, but I realize that I'll never get to meet ALL of you in real life. But that's okay.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
But yeah, there's totally a reason why I use my real name, and not "CoolDOSGameShots" or something like that. I'd like to think that a lot..
Replying to @dosnostalgic
... of this account is fairly representative of me in real life. At least in a way I think & communicate.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
(Except maybe for when I briefly turn into this guy)
Replying to @rewritability
Living close to NYC, and traveling to GDC is what allowed me to meet a lot of Twitter peeps
Replying to @AgustinCordes
Finale? There's two more episodes z
Replying to @AgustinCordes
Oh wait, they are airing both together? I might explode!
Just learned that #TwinPeaks is about to end this coming Sunday. Truly a sad moment for me. I could have easily watched 18 episodes more.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I might be drinking is all I'm saying.
RT @dosnostalgic:
Replying to @richardgoodness and @AgustinCordes
Tell Mike to make another one
Replying to @richardgoodness and @AgustinCordes
How far in are you, Richard?
Replying to @richardgoodness and @AgustinCordes
Wooooooooo!
Replying to @richardgoodness
My whole life is Garmanbozia
Replying to @OmniRemix
Really? I thought the viewership numbers are very low.
RT @Foone: This DOS game is the 1985 Shareware "Willy the Worm" by Alan Farmer.
It's one of those games that uses text mode with a custom f…
RT @OnePerfectShot: SECONDS (1966)
DP: James Wong Howe
Dir: John Frankenheimer
More Shots: http://bit.ly/2vCwMvy https://t.co/YVkbZBWA…
Just saw that the David Lynch documentary is free on Amazon Prime (I activated the trial for The Tick.) Now I know what to watch tonight.
Replying to @awizardsbeard
Yes. It's great. The best Cryo game.
RT @dosnostalgic: Only one house will prevail
Impressive https://x.com/GoNintendoTweet/status/903110472286822400
Super Hot VR is fucking dangerous. I punched my TV three times.
Replying to @Askab
PC with Oculus
Replying to @BreoganHackett
I don't have enough room to play it :(
Revenge of Defender (Hidden Treasures/Epyx, 1989) #DOSGameScreenADay
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Revenge of Defender is VGA, EGA, CGA, and Hercules #DOSGaming
RT @romero: My response to an article about the origin of multiplayer-only maps. http://rome.ro/news/2017/8/30/multiplayer-only-maps #gamehistory
RT @lazygamereviews: What better way to start a geeky day than a cup of IBM PS/2 Model L40 SX coffee.
Thanks for the donation, Jared! http…
Replying to @Crashgamereview and @decafjedi
Not even close.
#DOSGaming
#DOSGaming
Replying to @jwestonharvey
Yep
RT @Pixelengineer_: Grand Prix Circuit (Distinctive Software / Accolade, 1988) #DOSgaming
Reminder: don't forget to tag your DOS gaming related posts with #DOSGaming!
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Also don't forget to resize your 320x200 screenshots to something manageable today. I recommend 1600x1200 (also corrects aspect ratio)
Replying to @dosnostalgic
And if you have a podcast, don't forget about the MP3 tags. Tag that shit!
Ugh. Also someone call my work and tell them I'm dead or something.
RT @Toxicoow: @dosnostalgic I can't tell you how much i didn't expected Transport Tycoon Deluxeto be that fun.
#DOSGaming https://t.co/a394…
Replying to @dlindleyau
But where's the tag?
Replying to @AykoKuma
Comanche 3
I can't understand why America continuously enforces the belief that it's acceptable to threat any service industry people like shit.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
The customer its most certainly NOT always right, and especially when they are being a piece of shit to an employee.
Replying to @MrKrisViking
It is
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Unrelated: if you're checking out at a store, get off your fucking phone.
Replying to @bluestarultor
People who tell you they'll never come back are the ones that'll come back 99% of the time
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Another pet peeve: People who throw their shit on the floor at the movies. Like, what the fuck?
Replying to @dosnostalgic
I actually saw people a *few* times who literally emptied all of their popcorn buckets onto the floor as they were leaving.
Replying to @therobotjane
I think we ruled out you moving to NY previously, or is there still a shot?
I'm sure it's the same all over the world. I'm pretty sure we all know where to blame. *cough* Capitalism *cough* https://x.com/Shinjiki81/status/903314130291097601
Replying to @dosnostalgic
The only reason I associate it with America is that because in the USSR/Russia I grew up in, an angry retail employee could easily...
Replying to @dosnostalgic
... bitch you out. And if you were caught stealing or doing something unsavory, you'd get your ass kicked. Real hard.
I'm in a weird mood today. Play some DOS games for me, peeps.
We can all reboot the system this come October, right in time for the 100th anniversary. https://x.com/lettheashesfall/status/903318498260246529
RT @gonsak: @dosnostalgic Ok
RT @AnasAbdin: @dosnostalgic say no more...
RT @dosnostalgic: Warm yourself up with this rockin' AdLib tune from Ski or Die by Rob Hubbard http://dosnostalgia.com/files/skiordie.mp3 #DOSGaming https://t…
I'm at work, but I can't stop thinking about my poor tv & if it's actually gonna turn on next time I use it. https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/903255249766547456
Let's play Dizzy! https://x.com/Vyothric/status/903325169061679106
Replying to @dosnostalgic
When I say punched, I mean *punched*. If there wasn't a wall behind it, it would have fallen on the floor.
Replying to @Tanukitsune
Of course
RT @bonerman_inc: your games: immersive narrative, story driven gameplay, procedurally generated loot, 80 advanced shaders on screen at onc…
Replying to @Foone
I use IrfanView to do this, and my process is on autopilot at this point.
Achievement unlocked! https://x.com/swampyrad/status/903331970440036353
Tried about 10 min of The Climb, and liked it a lot. Default graphics settings were too low, but then I cranked them up too high.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Have yo figure out the happy middle, I guess. I feel like I'm back in the late 90s.
Replying to @dosnostalgic
Haven't checked the gameplay options, but I hope there's one that allows me to fall ALL THE WAY down each time I miss.
Replying to @LordScavamungus and @Foone
Been using it since the very beginning. It's a life saver.
Replying to @judibabes
I'd love to put up a sign saying do not attack employees. And then I can just point to it every time a customer is behaving rudely.
Replying to @Carterballs
It's always worse somewhere. It doesn't have anything with being fair, nor does it justify anything.
Replying to @KGOrphanides
Cat!
RT @dosnostalgic: Wiering Software platformers: Mario & Luigi, Super Angelo, Charlie the Duck, and Charlie II #DOSGaming https://t.co/OpSaV…
RT @dosnostalgic: Commander Keen 3 overworld map
RT @dosnostalgic: Did you know that Titus the Fox was a changed version of Lagaf': Les Aventures de Moktar? #DOSGaming https://t.co/P4b2dj1…
Replying to @dosnostalgic
This is apparently what the game was based on, and HOLY SHIT apparently it's well remembered. 4.8 million views! https://youtu.be/54YE868-LLw
Replying to @TheBigKhuna
I have a feeling there'd be no comedy like that now either
RT @agistuff: Manhunter 2: San Francisco, Room 185 #slowmotion #AGI #Sierra
Replying to @richardcobbett
I thought stereotype comedy was pretty international.
Replying to @LouisGorenfeld
Yes
RT @spookperson: 🤔
Replying to @ChaoticPesme
Original version isn't, but Titus the Fox is.
Replying to @AbandonwareFr and @richardcobbett
I'm well familiar with this. Remember, I'm a European, and my mother is a linguist with French being her primary focus.
Replying to @AbandonwareFr and @richardcobbett
Don't kid yourself, in the USA they also had this https://youtu.be/ZDPIK7Fz_g4
Replying to @Sidboylol
Where did you hear that?
Replying to @Major_Alchemist, @AbandonwareFr and @richardcobbett
I can tell that it was racist without understanding any of the words
Replying to @expectproblems
I approve of this message
Replying to @TheWaveVR
I don't care as long as it's more stuff! (And also as long as one's own library is available to be streamed at some point in the future)
I didn't think I'd be saying this, but this drink is really fucking good!
Replying to @Selfies4Storm
Will do, Mr. Cat, sir!
RT @CUTEFUNNYANIMAL: "Say, could you loan me some money?"
RT @meganamram: Here's the real question: who are truly the nazis, the people who aren't nazis or the nazis
Replying to @Foone
DOOM. Not just on every DosBox install, but pretty much on every post-94 machine I've ever had
RT @Foone: Railroad Tycoon has a neat cheat+bug: Hit F1 then $ to get 500,000$!
Until you hit 32.5m.
Then it only goes up by 36k, then goe…
Replying to @AgustinCordes
Replying to @Foone
Best overflow bug is definitely Civilization though.
Pizza is here https://x.com/NotesForEx/status/817734735342379008
Nazis are gone https://x.com/NotesForEx/status/817734735342379008
Abort, Retry, Fail? https://x.com/NotesForEx/status/817734735342379008
RT @dosnostalgic: #CurrentMood about the same as Bomberman's https://x.com/dosnostalgic/status/798516599099572224