Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 65

@mcc I mean, who isn't? 🤷

I know the real world is horrific enough, but let's talk about the kind of horror that is harmless. Had a DOS game ever scared you or creeped you out? Tell me the story!
#MorningDOSTalk

Almost 200k views, and lots and lots of praise in the comments. Quite something. JFC.

Watched a 39 minute video about my hometown from one of those alternate history types. Kind of impressive, actually. As a person familiar with local history & also, you know, REALITY I rolled my eyes a few times, but it was well put together & everything. Basically it's a lot of video footage of local historical architecture while a barrage of total bullshit is being narrated in an assertive, yet calm voice. Lots of photo montages too. Could be rather convincing, if you're a fucking idiot.

Old man Stauf built a house....
VR remake of The 7th Guest is out on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2456960/The_7th_Guest_VR/

@beejay It's not *that* overdesigned, but it is a tad too complex to be easily engaging.

IPXWrapper allows using software that needs IPX/SPX support on recent versions of Windows which no longer support it.

You can choose to use a DOSBox IPX server to communicate with other hosts rather than exchanging packets directly, either to allow play over the Internet or communication between Windows and DOS games (running under DOSBox).

https://github.com/solemnwarning/ipxwrapper/

Looks like this barely known German game was possibly the first puzzle game to have been officially localized & published in Russia.

Swing (Software 2000, 1997) #DOSGaming

I will never forget the Asshole Table enemy from Ecstatica:

@Gamrok the format is different. In the US release its the size of the real newspaper, and everything got moved around to fit on both size of one folded sheet

@48kRAM @grumpygamer Somehow I have never heard of this until today.

@grumpygamer I won't. Thank you for replying.

@grumpygamer Ouch. Can I repost your reply elsewhere?

@grumpygamer Sir, I always wondered: how did you get to keep using SCUMM after leaving Lucas? Did you have to license it, or did your original agreement allowed you to take it with you somehow?

@Gamrok a fun only recently discovered fact: you can type in BENJAMINYAELFRED to skip the copy protection check.

@Gamrok Oh, shit. The paper is different in the US release. 😯

@retrosponge THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!

Haven't read anything in a while

Toxic Bunny (Celestial Games/Vision Software, 1996) #DOSGaming