Category: MS-DOS

Get to know Microsoft's spreadsheet before Excel

A new article at trs-80.org about Microsoft Multiplan has been published. Wait! Don’t move to the next retro-sexy-game post! If you like retro computing story, the author did a really good job telling a short but complete story about the first spreadsheet made by Microsoft to compete with the blockbuster VisiCalc. The article focuses a bit on Tandy machines, but…

First Gaming Hall of Fame class includes Pong, Tetris, and Mario Bros.

The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, has named the first six games to its new World Video Game Hall of Fame. Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Doom, and World of Warcraft were chosen based on “popularity over a sustained period”, and other criteria. According to the Arstechnica article, the games were chosen by curators, educators and…

VCF East 2015 Photo Gallery

VCF East is now part of the history that it tries to tell. The last event took place last weekend, and it seems whoever was able to attend had a blast! If you, like myself, couldn’t be there, you can have a glimpse of the event visiting the link below, containing some nice photos of the event. Link: VCF East…

Proto Raider – Steam Greenlight

[youtube wX9M-kSw2UQ nolink] Proto Raider is an arcade game where every level is a mini-quest. You can run and jump, scuba dive, surf the waterfalls, fight monsters, fly in tornadoes etc. But you must be careful because you can be burnt to ashes, drowned, poisoned, stabbed, annihilated or turned to stone! To complete the quest and collect all loot, you’ll…

Pouet Latest Releases

Latest releases over at Pouet are as follows: Mysterious Monorail by Desire Chiperia Issue #1 Particle Party by Desire above by sensenstahl IMPOSSIBLE ROAD by ribbon Source: http://www.pouet.net

Internet Archive lets you play 2400 MS-DOS games in your browser

Internet Archive is back ruining your productivity, while having a pleasant ride through the memory lane! They made available to play online 2,384 MS-DOS games directly on your browser. The MS-DOS project is likely to see similar popularity to the console experiment. Although this isn’t the first time some of these games have made it into a playable browser format,…