Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 52

@chrisashtear Yes

Zorlim's Arcade Volleyball (Zorlim Software, 1995) #DOSGaming

🎶
I will remember DOS
Will you remember UMB?
Don't let command line pass you by
Weep not for extended memory

James McCaffrey, the voice of Max Payne, had passed away. RIP to the legend.

Stéphane Picq (music from Dune, KGB, Lost Eden, MegaRace, and others) has released a new album. Money from sales will go to fix his computer, so work on remastering Dune: Spice Opera album could continue:
https://stphanepicq.bandcamp.com/album/secret-beach

@wiredfire @th3rdsergeevich @haliphax It's a tribute of sorts.

Char (LightSword Software, 2005)

ScummVM is adding support for 7 more Macromedia Director games:
- Alice: An Interactive Museum
- Ape Odyssey
- Classical Cats
- Gadget: Invention, Travel and Adventure
- The Cute Machine
- The Dark Eye
- Wrath of the Gods
https://www.scummvm.org/news/20231214/

@Viss @urda @jerry @foone Unfortunately the only MFM hard drive I had died a few years ago, and since got replaced by an XT-IDE.

NetHack v1.4f (Mike Stephenson, 1987) #DOSGaming

Disturbing the peace?! I got thrown out of a window! What's the fucking charge for getting pushed out of a moving car, huh? Jaywalking?

🔊🎵#OPL3MIDI

@keen456 @foone yeah, I posted about it two days ago. Apparently works like a charm.

@magicknight Different people's perception can be amusing
https://bitbang.social/@polpo/111565332937656632

@polpo @retrosponge And the character's journey is motivated by family. It's certainly a very common Christmas movie theme.

@retrosponge Yep. You wouldn't invite your estranged cop husband to a 4th of July party on the other end of the country.

@retrosponge Lots of people argue against it being a Christmas movie. My argument now always is: if Home Alone is a Christmas movie, then so is Die Hard. Christmas figures into the plot of both films in near *exact* ways.

Some say that Die Hard is not a Christmas movie because the holiday there is incidental, while in Home Alone the setup of the holiday is essential. Fuck no! It's exactly the other way around. How many people get their whole family flown to France by their uncles for Christmas exactly? That's not a fucking thing! You know what's a thing? A business Christmas party in an otherwise empty office building, an exactly the kind of a holiday event one can appropriately invite their spouse to!

I somehow missed this 2 hour interview with Raymond Chen, a man who has done *many* things throughout the history of Windows, but of course in my world he's still *that* guy who handled pretty much all of DOS compatibility in Windows 9x. A legend.
https://youtu.be/-vJQv4rgHYE

NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device with an assigned drive letter. The remote disk image can be a floppy disk image or a hard drive image.
- DOS 2 & up
- 6kb ram
- server on Win/Linux
- uses UDP
https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_NetDrive.html

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