Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)

I remembered that a friend of mine liked Fallout so much, even though their machine was very modest & didn't run it well, that in order to play it with no CD loads they only had the HUMONGOUS INSTALLATION of the game and Windows 95, and that maxed out their HDD.

@philnelson @jplebreton I legitimately remember thinking "this is obscene" when I first encountered a game that *required* an install size larger than a CD.

@mcc to... dos? 🤔

Fallout's custom installers (both DOS and Windows) tell you how much space you have free on all of your drives. Except the maximum it can display is 2,147 Mb, so I assume it counts the free *bytes* until it fills a signed 32-bit integer.

@Filomel Most people turned it off because it's just one tune for the entirety of the game.

@zero No, combined is MT-32 music with Sound Blaster digitized sound effects.

Bridge Deluxe 2 with Omar Sharif (CP Software/Interplay Productions, Oxford Softworks, 1996) #DOSGaming

It's nice to have options! Music from the classic action-puzzle game Supaplex (1991) on an AdLib, Roland MT-32, and PC Speaker. 💾🔊🎵
Real hardware recording. #DOSGaming

just found a treasure trove of extremely obscure BBS history stashed away on IA

thank you hard-working book scanners for preserving this rarity.

if you're familiar with BBSing in the 90s, you'll remember just how fast the vast majority of boards disappeared in 1995. it went from multinode 24/7 bbses to disconnected phone numbers in just a few months

this book accounts for the very small number of BBSes that made the transition from telco-only to "telBBS" or telnettable/web-accessible boards

3/4 of the book is a carefully curated list of 500 boards with screenshots of their homepages and bbs login/title screens. most importantly, the URLs of these boards is preserved so we have a chance to look them up on WBM some day.

#bbs #webHistory #smallweb #books

If I had a dollar for every time I was told to install Linux over the last couple of days, I'd be able to pay for the entire dentist bill that I've got coming up. 😂

Getting a viral post on here is weird. People are mostly well mannered, and try to make a point. So it's not anywhere near as annoying as on Birbsite. At the same time because of that it's just dozens & dozens of mostly the same reply. Kind of boring.

@ExtentOfTheJam Ok, the loader tune from Sanxion plays, and I think it might answer some of those questions. I trust you're familiar with the source.

TV-14 version of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) is FREE on YouTube (in the States). The only thing that got censored is very brief nudity, which does ruin one gag in the movie, but the rest surprisingly seems to be completely intact. If you haven't seen the film, I recommend it highly.
https://youtu.be/Z20sel2QcO8?si=On9TwHHWYsTqTkX0

@EverydayMoggie Indeed. And that's why I don't own a single Apple product.

Microsoft sent me an email telling me to throw my computer in the trash. 🤷

@ExtentOfTheJam Unfortunately it only accepts ancient format of SID files made using 30 year old conversion tools, and even then it doesn't play all of them. So my selection is kind of limited.

@ExtentOfTheJam Am I high, or is this actually not terrible?

@ExtentOfTheJam Just remembered this conversation, and decided to fire it up. Well, it's not great, but it is better than I remembered.

Do you own the rarest PC sound card in the world? - The Oldskool PC
https://youtu.be/Eeo4INoGyRY

Cheat codes for "The Shadow of Death" expansion for Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Can you tell this game came out early in the year 2000?