Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 62

@ruawhitepaw 🤷

@ruawhitepaw It's named after WSL.

L.A. Takedown (1989), Michael Mann's first crack at what went on to become Heat (1995) is on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/sT_tBNoUKlg?si=hAEuBtr4fe_nendL

SpeakerDoom, DOOM with pcm PC Speaker sound from 1998, accomplished in an rather interesting way:

The package is actually a small Linux 🐧with PCSNDDRV as its sound driver, that boots from DOS via Loadlin. 🤷♂️

@jab01701mid Doslinux is the other way around. Run Linux programs *in* DOS.

@bthylafh Trust me, I'm way ahead already. 😄

@bthylafh Ooh. I gotta check that out.

"Conflict" cover art by Simon Bisley

Conflict (Mastertronic/16-Blitz, 1990) #DOSGaming

DOS Subsystem for Linux integrates a real Linux environment into MS-DOS systems, allowing users to make use of both DOS and Linux applications from the DOS command prompt.
https://github.com/haileys/doslinux

With apparent success of Gobliiins 5 Pierre Gilhodes had announced that a crowdfunding campaign for Gobliins 6 is coming early next year.

@2bit_natty You sure it wasn't Richard Garriott?

Celebrating that one explosion sprite used by every mid 90s game:
https://youtu.be/XNxy_RbXRVE?si=OsDade490mvsnA4T

90s gaming magazine: [moody dutch angle photos of bespectacled developers in leather jackets] Check out these bad boys of the games industry. They own RAC CARS, and every Friday they play D&D with PIZZA and DIET COKE.
Kid me: Whoa, that's hardcore!

It's funny to see actual people who were celebrated as Gamedev Rockstars in the 90s and realize that all of them were just your regular massive nerds, and the edgiest thing they've done is maybe listen to some metal albums. 😄

@perfect_brains It's 95

@justgui Try it and see:
https://archive.org/details/demoscene_icecream-thegame-iso

Ice Cream (ISO, 1996) #DOSGaming

- Mom, can we get Ultima 7?
- 我们家里有Ultima 7

Good morning, East Coast.