Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 14

Umbrella Entertainment is putting out a collector's set with FIVE versions of Caligula (1979), and god, I wish I had money to throw around on shit like this 😅
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@ashortbusvet What I was mainly pointing out that on June 22nd of 1996, the officially celebrated date of Quake's release, there was no way to actually play the full version of the game because it didn't exist yet.

@ashortbusvet I mean, another way was for wait for the shareware CD to appear in the stores (I think in August?,) buy it for $10, and then just download a copy of QCrack (available 10/08/96,) and you were all set.

@a1ba That is a normal shareware thing. Although Quake's 4th episode is my favorite.

Huh. Well, I just had an anxiety attack while relaxing, sitting in my chair, reading some 30+ year old programming documentation. What the hell? Not cool.

@fuchsiii https://fineleatherjackets.net/monkeyinflation

Happy birthday to the Internet SHAREWARE version of Quake! 🎂🎉🍾🥂
Remember, it was only 8 maps long. To get the full game you had to order it for $45 + $5 S&H (about $100 today) and wait for it to get finished and shipped to you.

@mirabilos @marshray both were included with DOS 5.

@michaln I'm not that interested in further testing. Just wanted to play around for a bit.

@michaln There is, but it's not like it runs without it.

@mirabilos @marshray Not really. DESQView/X is from 1992.

@marshray Well, the most obvious would be Microsoft's own stuff that was bundled with DOS. Like HIMEM.SYS.

@robdaemon I already had 7.Something installed, so I just used that. I'm just not a big fan of that.

@robdaemon I feel like it's cool that supplies an X library to it use with a DOS compiler. But it's definitely targeting a very specific kind of user.

Oh, forgot to mention an important bit: it *requires* you run QEMM for your memory manager.

Played around with DESQview/X today. Pretty cool. Not sure what I'd ever be using it for. I guess if you wanted to run multiple text mode DOS programs at the same time - it's *really* good at that. But other than that, it's kind of clunky.
An impressive feature is being an X11 client/server. You can use Unix programs running on a Unix machine on your DOS PC, or you can stream DOS programs or Windows 3.1 (real/standard modes only) to a Unix station. Not sure how often you'd want to do that though

@comchia The game is crazy hard, bordering on near-impossible at times. However, it centers around a time rewind mechanic, so unwinnable scenarios are intentional.

And now almost an EXCLUSIVE: a native MPEG version of this cutscene from the ReelMagic version of the game, previously seen only by a handful of mortals:

RIP Donald Sutherland.
Here is his only credit in a DOS game - a CD-ROM update of Cryo Interactive's 1992 point & click adventure 'KGB' known as 'Conspiracy':
#DOSGaming

In the summertime, when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got MIDI, you got MIDI on your mind

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI