Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 30

Man, the remake of Riven looks great. It's almost surreal to experience these locations in actual real time 3D.

@jaykass I feel like it's probably easier for me to recompile from available source code rather than to find this value in a WinNT executable.

This reminds me. I should probably look into how to recompile Quake 3, since for reasons unknown it's hardcoded to limit the default amount of players on a server to 8, even though there are 10 available slots in the creation screen. 😠

@indigo Yes, but don't you miss sitting next to random strangers in unfamiliar places?

If you miss old LAN games and you're in New York, you can always come down to Long Island Retro Gaming Expo, August 9th - 11th, to play some classics, original Counter-Strike among them.
https://liretro.com

Found a file CS.BMP in my backups from when I used to play Counter-Strike, dated October 9th 2000, so it predates Counter-Strike 1.0.

@akira28 I would suggest *not* watching it in English though.

@akira28 It's not the greatest movie ever, but it's fun.

@nlhomme I mean, I own two different editions of it, so I have definitely seen it.

@vampiress There's a website for that: https://fineleatherjackets.net/monkeyinflation

King's Quest 1: Quest for the Crown VGA (Tierra Entertainment, 2001) #DOSGaming

@grum999 Ummm... You do know Highlander was a massive hit all over the world, right? That made him a star for a bit. Plus, and you may not know this, but he was born in New York, in fact, just a few miles from where I currently live.

So apparently this American 2001 DVD of Luc Besson's Subway (1985) that didn't even bother filling up a single layer disc is the only digital home media release that features an optional English dub where Christopher Lambert dubs himself.
Well, you can grab it here now, if that's something you're into
https://archive.org/details/subway-1985-usdvd-2001

Bear Stormin' (Humongous Entertainment, 1993) #DOSGaming

Get Piste! (Hungry Software, 1997) #DOSGaming

Whenever, wherever
We're meant to be together
I'll be there, and you'll be near
And that's the deal, my dear

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Bushido (Ebenel Enterprises/Advanced Computer Products, 1983) #DOSGaming

Shariki is almost certainly the first modern Match 3 game. But almost nobody has heard about or its author. It's never brought up in history of the genre, instead people go for Columns and such. But I guess *someone* at PopCap must have played it.

Шарики/Shariki (Evgeny Alemzhin, 1996) #DOSGaming #RussianVideogames

Last week an updated version of a unique Russian RTS Perimeter (2004) was released. It includes the full original campaign that was previously unavailable in the English language releases:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2530170/PERIMETER_Legate_Edition/