Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 29

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

Summer is here! 😎

@anopka Psst. It was a joke. But Pajitnov has *always* been adamant about the playfield size, even back in the day.

@root42 Installer says OSF/Motif and OPEN LOOK compatible.

@root42 I know very little about Unix/Linux, so I just don't have the energy that would be required for me to pull it off.

@root42 Nope. Haha.

@root42 Yes, it is. It's DESQview/X 2.1

I don't think this version of Tetris complies with the official Tetris Guideline, Quarterdeck. 🤔 (But the hint bar on the bottom is a nice touch.)

Any theater/lit enthusiasts in the house? Can anyone recommend a decent English translation of The Servant of Two Masters? Beginning to think that English may be too rigid of a language to preserve the flow of the play.

Well, ain't we a pair, raggedy man.

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Vigilance on Talos V (PolyEx Software/Square Wheel Studios, 1996) #DOSGaming

@a2_4am NO

Haven't seen this until just now, but I have a feeling I'll be referencing this a bunch going forward in my that annual "Windows 3.x is *not* just a GUI" online fights.
A nicely laid out, easy to understand technical explanation of how Windows 3.x functions:
https://www.xtof.info/inside-windows3.html

@ShadowInTheVoid @Eliot_L Yeah, I'm still on a 1080 I got in 2017, and I'm fine as far as VR games go.

Can't wait for the full version to come out so I can play it in VR.