Category: MS-DOS
Dungeon Master was originally developed for the Atari ST by FTL Games, and later ported for the Amiga, Apple IIGS, PC, SNES, TurboGrafx-CD, Sharp X68000 and PC-9801. The game established several new standards for RPG and video games in general. Jimmy Maher, The Digital Antiquarian, has published to articles about the game. The first one talks about the development of the game and the…
Infocom was the text adventure main publisher in the 80s, being Zork the best-known among the company’s many successful games. A collection of digitized scans from a large cache of documents related to the game publisher Infocom, assembled by Steven Meretzky of Infocom was recently released and made available through Internet Archive. During his time at Infocom, Steve Meretzky meticulously…
We have been hosting a forum for many years, but with so many good forums around the internet, we assume we never were able to gain regular members, helping to increase the interest. For many months, we’ve been using the Facebook groups more actively, and the results are really amazing, with interesting discussions, news, photos and whatever comes to your…
On Wednesday, the 30th of September, Scene World Magazine will be interviewing 3D Realms live as part of their “An Evening At The Museum” show! They will be talking about the history of their kickass games and also about their new IP “Bombshell!”. Watch it live via Twitch: 30th of September, 7 PM CEST: Website: http://twitch.tv/olymptronica
We had reported here about the MS-DOS port of Retro City Rampage. The game made its way to all major platforms since 2012, and now the developer wants to release it for MS-DOS, preferable using floppy disks!. Gamasutra sat with Brian and talked about his project. Right, but this was something I wanted to do years and years ago (…)…
mariuszw on AtariAge forum has ported over Ocean’s ‘The Great Escape‘ to the 8bit Atari!The Great Escape was originally released back in the 80’s on the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and also DOS. The perspective is an isometric view, much like Batman and Head over Heels on the ZX Spectrum. ScenarioThe player controls an unnamed prisoner of war…
Rick Dangerous was developed by Core Design for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and DOS based PCs. The game was released in 1989 and published by Rainbird Software in Europe and the rest of the world, and on the MicroPlay label (part of MicroProse) in America. PlotThe plot of Rick Dangerous is largely based on…
Futurama is one of those cartoons for adults that was not quite as offensive as Family Guy but was not as family entertaining as The Simpsons. It is also one of the least ported to gaming cartoons that we have seen. For some reason the rich world of Futurama has not been ripe with videogame adaptations/interpretations. Developers could, almost, literally…
Retro City Rampage 486 is an MS-DOS port of Retro City Rampage DX.It will run on an old 486 PC and requires 4MB of RAM and 3.7MB of HDD space. While ROM City Rampage was a fun *prototype* for the NES, this is a full on Retro City Rampage DX port with Story Mode, Arcade Challenges and Free Roaming. It…
[youtube rushX-wtDig nolink] The Centre for Computer History in Cambridge – UK has announced that the next Retro Gaming Night is happening on June 26th, from 7pm to Midnight. Besides the obvious retro-gaming-jam, the event also allow you to bring that extra retro game or hardware to swap or sell during the event. The space is limited and you can…
