Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 34

@m501 A regular gift

Received a gift from China. A special Pocket 386!

@foone PRAISE HEAVENS

@JoergA I actually haven't though of that. 🤔

A quick search proved to be a bit futile, since with the same key words people are usually looking to achieve the opposite of what I need. 😅

Ok, has anyone made a program that will eat up a customizable chunk of conventional memory in DOS? I would like that for testing purposes, so I don't have to dick around with loading every driver & tsr I can think of, and save myself some time.

@anthk I know. I've learned to play with original controls after playing the port. I think it sort of adds to the overall experience. In a panic it's *really* easy to fuck up, so that's another plus for the whole survival horror thing.

@Tradecraft I'm sort of dreading the groves and engineering now. 😅

It's funny how when freed from the confines of its original archaic controls System Shock is very obviously not an immersive sim by today's standards, but very much a classic-style dungeon crawler with a pinch of survival horror mechanics.

Getting old. Got lost several times on the Storage level in System Shock Remake. And I still have Engineering to look forward to. 😅

@varpness Yes, I do. "Tracker music" is what the format is generally called, and it still exists to this day.

Jonny Quest: Curse of the Mayan Warriors/Jonny Quest And The Splinter Of Heaven (MicroIllusions/Hollyware Entertainment, 1993) #DOSGaming

@GayOldTime I believe they did, they just didn't think it through. Probably the reason nobody uses "puta" for "computer" today anymore, at least not in print.

Almost 30 years after the game's release Jazz Jackrabbit gets a second community patch:
https://www.jazz2online.com/news/1813/jazz-jackrabbit-1-second-community-patch-released/

"Millennium Mantra," a Windows/Macintosh game developed by LaMa Media and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive. Not archived anywhere on the Internet at the moment.

I was gonna clean my room until I got high
I was gonna get up and find the broom but then I got high
My room is still messed up and I know why

Cause I got high
Because I got high
Because I got high

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

I, I live among the MIDIs of the night
I haven't got the will to try and fight
Against a new tomorrow
So I guess I'll just believe it
That tomorrow never comes

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

The Humans III: Evolution - Lost in Time/Evolution - Lost in Time (Imagitec Design/GameTek, 1995) #DOSGaming

StrataVision was the 3D modeling and rendering package used to produce graphics of the original Myst. They are so proud of this that even right now if you get the latest version of it ("Strata Design 3D SE", free on Steam,) it comes with a bunch of Myst assets in its library:

Saw a scene from an adult film, and was surprised that the lady performer had a Quake 2 logo tattoo. It took me an entire clip to realize that it was probably an "€". 🤷