Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 9

Good night.

I broke one of my own rules. While hanging out with a friend I had a weed-infused apple cider. My friend then proceeded to put on the first episode of The Agency (2024), a show neither of us have seen. I loved each minute of it, but now I can't reliably tell if it was actually good. 🤷♂️ And that's why I never watch new stuff high.

DOS games on #AGDQ2025
Tue 1/7:
6:56 AM EST - Conquests of the Longbow
Thu 1/9:
9:32 AM EST - Dark Forces

@benjamin @mcc @foone Speaking from experience - writing data to 5.25 floppies from a modern machine is sadly not a very straightforward process. At least not as straightforward as one would probably expect.

@Die4ever I didn't say it was a list of *every* DOS game that is turning 30 years old. 😅

These DOS games are turning 30 years old this year:
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Full Throttle
Hexen
Abuse
Worms
Terminal Velocity
Dark Forces
Command & Conquer
BioForge
The Need for Speed
Hi-Octane
Destruction Derby
Witchaven
Descent
Stonekeep
TekWar
Crusader
Heroes of Might and Magic
Warcraft 2
Phantasmagoria
Discworld
Screamer
Slipstream 5000
The Dig
MechWarrior 2
Gabriel Knight 2
Caesar 2
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
#DOSGaming

@benjamin @mcc @foone Do *not* use those chips. Their features are extremely limited, and they might not end up doing what you want them to do. Get an open source drive controller, like a Greaseweazle.

Tim Cain shows off photos from Fallout development (1994-1997)
https://youtu.be/lgajXqRVwdw?si=gKsryk5u9aGMFza7

@reconbot @root42 I'm also yet to like a movie by Jon S. Baird. I guess I just don't like his style.

@reconbot @root42 At least they didn't include the scene where in the end in order to delay the KGB agents at the airport Alexei would start signing Korobeiniki as the crowd would join in. Source: Alexei Pajitnov on the script's many revisions.
I didn't need the film to be historically accurate, most of these kinds of films aren't. I just thought it was sloppy, and its depiction of late USSR too caricaturized even for a comedy.

@fuzzix 😉

Please watch the official Tetris® movie while Apple TV+ is free. Suffer like I did.

@camedei456 Prehistorik.... 2!

@dmbaturin I'm assuming alien forces taking over the planet, defeating all formal governments, and leaving only a small portion of inhabitants implies that student loan records were most likely lost.

27 year old Gordon Freeman: [thinking] well, at least I don't have to pay off my MIT student loans.

Making a game like it's 1993:
https://youtu.be/XEgX04mAwK8?si=RXKZZDSmcH3a6rn0

@yngmar Yeah, a while ago something started overflowing into the 1 sprite.

@curved_ruler Prehistorik 2, programmed by Eric Zmiro.

Time to start the new year properly.
#DOSGaming

@MenhirMike this question is already answered by the screenshot