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DOS Game Club
- jebarker 3y agoThe list of previous episodes contains so many games from my childhood I totally forgot about, e.g. Little Big Adventure
- mertd 3y agoThey are supposedly working on a new LBA.
- mkimball 3y agoThe announced sequel was cancelled, due to a lack of funding. However, they are still working on a 'remaster' of the original. Source: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/twinsens-little-big-adventure-reboot-cancelled-as-studio-were-unsuccessful-in-securing-a-publisher https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/twinsens-little-big-adventu...
- harel 3y agoLittle big planet is available as a mobile game. Looks pretty accurate too
- edfletcher_t137 3y agoThe style for this site is fantastic. Is it available as importable source somewhere?
- seritools 3y agoWhen it comes to fonts there is this: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
- treve 3y agoReminds me of Turbo Pascal (5/6/7)
- jsd1982 3y agoTurboVision!
- poisonborz 3y agoThe site not capturing Alt + shortcut keys to control the menu is a big missed opportunity though.
- soneil 3y agoIt looks like it's trying to. On Safari ctrl+alt+f works for me.
- nathanaldensr 3y agoIt's the old IBM code page 437[1]. Lots of DOS applications were designed to look like this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
- to11mtm 3y agoLooks like they have their own stylesheet, not sure if they have it somewhere with documentation/etc. I will say, BOOTSTRA.386[0] may be a good substitute; per it's name it's just bootstrap. I've actually used it in production[1] and it works just as one would expect. [0] - https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386 https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386 [1] - At the time it was just a gag prototype, and while I told everyone "if you don't like it feel free to switch it to normal bootstrap or one of your choice" but nobody bothered to do so since it wasn't a very complex UI and, frankly, it kept things clean.
- iancmceachern 3y agoI love seeing syndicate covered here. It was so unique, love that game.
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- beebeepka 3y agoI never got to play it. What was unique about it, besides the multiplayer?
- tom_ 3y agoIt's like an RTS, but you only have 4 units, and you've got fairly close moment-by-moment control over their actions. It's continuous, not grid- or turn-based like X-COM. A lot of the maps feature police, antagonistic to all syndicates, and civilians, whose death or injury can attract the police. This aspect can require some management. I don't recall this kind of mechanic from any of the RTSs I played around that time. Also worth noting: it ran in 16-colour 640x480 VGA (or maybe it was 640x400...), so it looked nice and intricate. Sure, you take a slight colour count hit compared to 320x200 - but UK games artists in the early 90s were well practised at dealing with that, after years of doing ST and Amiga games. (The Amiga had a 32 colour mode, but it came with a performance penalty.)
- iancmceachern 3y agoIt's gameplay was very similar in practice to that of Grand Theft Auto, the first top down one, except it was years ahead. There was also a money and equipment/weapons buying and upgrade system that was very cool, similar to some of the top down shooters or racing games.
- intalentive 3y agoI’d like to see them cover MicroProse’s Darklands, an underappreciated classic of historical party-based role-playing with interesting mechanics you don’t see much in the D&D style slashers.
- nostromo 3y agoDarklands is such an under-appreciated classic. I played and re-played it for at least a year as a kid, and still think about its complexities and interesting gameplay mechanics. If anyone creates the spiritual successor to Darklands, I’d buy it in an instant. There is a mobile game called Occidental Heroes that’s loosely based on it, but a bit too simplified to capture its magic.
- nurettin 3y agomicroprose had such amazing titles. I still enjoy listening to master of orion 2 soundtrack at my desk job.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoYou can suggest a game on their forums
- armchairhacker 3y agoAlso see Random DOS Game Show: https://www.youtube.com/@getoffmylawn6692/videos https://www.youtube.com/@getoffmylawn6692/videos. He posts something nearly every day
- kuhewa 3y agoDoes anyone know if they covered Sleuth
- paulryanrogers 3y agoNo it yet but you can make suggestions on their forums
- matt3210 3y agoThis website is unironically the best design ever.
- matt3210 3y agoI’d love the source for the site so I can make my entire portfolio look like that
- paulryanrogers 3y agoA very welcoming an friendly club and podcast. They're small enough your voicemail has a good chance of being included in the cast. Or if you suggest a game the club plays you may be invited to join the cast conversation. Also love hearing perspective of folks outside the US about retro gaming. Much like "DOS Nostalgia".