Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 56

@metin @lashman There's nothing in common between these games gameplay-wise.

Knight Force (Titus, 1989) #DOSGaming

@root42 Well, that would be too much of a hint.

What am I reading?

@ne1for23 Haha. Yeah, those aren't the platforms I expected. 😂

Time for leftovers!

@nina_kali_nina If you mean the dropbox link that's in there, it's been deleted a year ago.

@cthielen Absolutely not

@Carnivius @sirmino Apparently it didn't.

@RobeeShepherd I wasn't even thinking of the graphics when I said it. It's a very British game. It hates the player.
The sequel is an awful, clearly rushed, mess, sadly.
However, some editions of the sequel wee bundled with an updated version of the first game. It runs in Windows, and has all of its visuals updated for higher resolution, and allows turning while walking/running.

So there's an SDL implementation of the Titus platformer tech that lets you play Blues Brothers and Prehistorik 2 on modern systems with some customization options. Sadly the main repo has been set to archived, and none of the forks ever published any releases.
Maybe a kind person with everything already installed can compile this, most recently updated, fork and provide a binary publicly?
https://github.com/twojstaryzdomu/blues

@RobeeShepherd Ecstatica is simultaneously a very cool, and an incredibly poorly aged game.

Did you know that Dario Casali had left Valve, and now has a YouTube channel where he plays Half-Life and his old Doom levels and provides commentary for them? Now you know.
https://www.youtube.com/@Dario.Casali/

Happy Turkey Day, my fellow Americans! 🦃

@Gamrok I'm convinced that nobody finished the game without cheating. A lot of it is near impossible because the development period was very short, and almost nobody on the team worked on the fist game, so they had to learn the tools, make AITD2 and Jack in the Dark all in just a few months.

Beats of Rage (Senile Team, 2003) #DOSGaming

@dolmen Yep. I got all my pre-Steam Valve games on Steam by punching in the CD key from the GOTY edition.

@SpindleyQ Big same

@wadjeteyegames It's Mastodon, Dave. You can EDIT posts. 😉

@flynn_taggart @pwarren It was already found. It's the Verbatim edition of John Carmack's Catacomb.