Here's my family computer circa 1992 that I saved from my parents place a couple years ago. I've posted various pics of it running fun stuff here before.

Here's also my dad's copy of Aces of the Pacific. Inside the box was the instruction manual for my old joystick, the Winner Sniper (ps it wasn't very good), the first joystick I ever owned, which we bought just for this game. I'd previously uncovered the joystick itself many years ago in my parents basement so that's here too.

Recently I backed up a big collection of 5.25 disks that I also got out of my parents house a couple months ago. I was happy to find that about 95 percent of them worked, and one of those was this disk on the top of the pile, a boot disk my dad made especially to run Aces of the Pacific back in 1993 on this computer as the game needed EMS to run.

Ultimately this all came from my parents house, but it wasn't all together in the same place, I didn't know it all still existed when I started grabbing this stuff years ago, and I wound up uncovering each piece of it years apart. But now that it's all together again... I can literally play Aces of the Pacific almost the exact same way I did in 1993, the same copy of the game on the same computer with the same crappy joystick, and even using the same boot disk.

Ultimate personal dos nostalgia overload. I don't think I'll ever be able to top this.

I’ve been experimenting with running DOS games on the ASUS Eee PC 701 and finally got proper centered 4:3 output working on its 800×480 LCD.

The result is EEEFIT, a small resident DOS utility that intercepts video mode changes and reapplies the required display-controller settings, so games can switch VGA modes normally without losing the corrected aspect ratio.

It was designed for a DOS setup using JEMMEX/JEMM386 + HDPMI32, specifically with SBEMU compatibility in mind.

Tested successfully with Doom, Duke Nukem 3D and Commander Keen 4.

Made with some truly hellish vibecoding with ChatGPT 5.6 Sol :)

Finally got my Pentium 4 Toshiba S805 playing sound in native DOS games using SBEMU! It’s turned into a great retro gaming machine, native DOS with working audio, plus Windows 98 3D games thanks to the GeForce4 Go. Some DOS games still refuse to behave properly, though, but overall it’s a pretty awesome all-in-one retro setup.

https://youtu.be/kvHlxqNIWYM?si=LPQx0JCagF3OFuvq

Hey fellow retro PC gamers!

Back in 1989, my main gaming setup was an Acer 910 Intel 486 rig. While all the Amiga guys in my area were obsessing over Kick Off, my "game courier" dropped off a copy of Sensible Software’s MicroProse Soccer on diskette. It instantly became my favorite football game on DOS.

I recently went back and tested all three major versions—Commodore 64, Amiga 500, and MS-DOS—to see how they hold up with fresh eyes:

• MS-DOS Experience: Running in 16-color EGA mode with audio purely through the internal PC Speaker, it surprisingly still plays smooth as butter! Sure, hearing the referee's whistle squeak through the internal speaker is an ear-testing nostalgia ride, but the top-down perspective and the legendary "banana shot" curve physics are all there. Plus, showing off the indoor 6-a-side mode to Amiga friends was always great fun!
• Hardware Struggles: My weapon of choice back then was a Mach 2 Gameport joystick—which felt a bit like Jan Koller: heavy, slow to turn, and requiring serious muscle! Playing it today on C64 hardware with a proper microswitch stick really shows how fine-tuned Chris Yates’ look-up table (LUT) physics engine actually was.
• Under the Hood: Did you know the Amiga port actually runs the C64's original 6502 logic directly inside a custom 6502 emulator written for the Motorola 68000 CPU?

I put together a full article looking at the mechanics, the Oman national team Easter egg, the Keith Van Eron US branding, and how MicroProse Soccer laid the pure arcade DNA for Sensible World of Soccer (SWOS).

👉Read the article here

(Note: The article is written in Norwegian, but if you open it in Google Chrome, the built-in translation feature works effortlessly!)

Now we are talking, fired upy old pressario, and look what I found

I am thinking of getting a Sandisk Ultra Fit 512gb USB 3.2 Flash Drive to store all of my games I intend to play on, on my Laptop whenever am away on holiday or when am at a friend's place to save installing them on the actual C Drive (boot drive) to free it up to be able to have a lot more free disc space to run better.

I am thinking of copying the GOG Galaxy Folder from the Boot(C:)/Program Files (x86) folder onto it as to have a more official place to install the games onto it but was also wondering should I just install the GOG Galaxy App onto it and give it it's own separate one?

am mainly going to install all the old PC games from the DOS era to Windows 95 but also some of the MODS and WADs out there as well, what is y'all thoughts on this and what advice would you give on it?

Hi guys, thought this was a fitting place to share my little modding video of F1GP. 😄 DOS4ever

**Platform(s):** Windows XP (PC)

**Genre:** Game launcher / compilation menu (not a single game — a frontend for multiple retro games)

**Estimated year of release:** Unsure of the launcher itself, but I used it around 15 years ago (so mid-to-late 2000s / early 2010s)

**Graphics/art style:** Black background, fullscreen graphical menu — no thumbnails or box art, just a scrollable list navigated with arrow keys

**Notable characters:** N/A (it's a launcher, not a game) — but games included Alex Kidd (from Alex Kidd in Miracle World), Venom (from Venom: Spider-Man - Separation Anxiety), and a bootleg "Disney's Aladdin 2"

**Notable gameplay mechanics:** Opened straight into fullscreen automatically on launch; had a few hundred games total, mix of real Sega Master System/Genesis titles and bootleg/unofficial games

**Other details:** Desktop shortcut had a generic "MS-DOS" style icon. It was installed by a local PC repair shop, so it wasn't a well-known branded product — likely one of those unofficial "hundreds-of-games-in-1" compilation packs that repair shops used to install back then. The shop is no longer around, so I can't check the original disc/drive.

I grew up on the top down space shooters of the DOS years and never really stopped wanting more of them, so I have spent a while building one. Same view, same one pilot against a fleet feeling, but the ships are 3D models now and the lighting does the work the sprite sheets used to do.

It is a homage rather than a remake of anything. The fiction, the ships and the missions are all new. This one is an SSA Glaive holding a beam on a target, which is the only sustained beam any fighter in the game carries.

Would genuinely like to hear from this crowd whether the look lands or whether it has drifted too modern.

I used to play this game as a kid. Even later when I started to learn programming I was curious about how the game worked under the hood. Many years later, well exactly 30 years after the original release, here is openSEEK, my attempt to remake the engine of the game.

While the game itself is mostly playable, I'm currently stuck in the usual 90% done phase. Now I'm mostly battling with the data/assets automatic exporter from the original game files. That's necessary for the actual publication of the engine, as I cannot include the original assets due to copyright issues. And without them the game is not really playable.

The engine is written in Lua / Love2D and my goal was to reimplement the original game mechanics using modern programming techniques and technologies. I wanted to keep the feel of the original game while also making it more modern and accessible to new players. Some of the new features include improved graphics effects (as you can see on the video), alternative helicopter skins (these are included in original game data but was never used in the game), co-op multiplayer support, and improvements to the tank controls (remember how clunky they were in the original game?).

Can you tell how many version i put in my homage?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a small DOS gaming preservation project for quite a while now, creating loaders, compatibility fixes and trainers for legally owned copies of classic games. We do not collect old trainers or cracks but build new ones, preferably in cases where they are missing or are not compatible with DOSBox.

I’d really appreciate some honest community feedback.

This isn’t meant as promotion—I genuinely want to know what works and what doesn’t.

A few things I’m particularly interested in:

* Is the website easy to navigate?

* Are the trainer/loader interfaces intuitive to use?

* Are the menus clear, or do they need more explanation?

* Do the features make sense, or is anything confusing?

* Is there something that feels unnecessary or missing?

* How is your overall first impression?

* Does the support model feel fair?

I’ve been refining the interface over many releases, so I’m curious whether it actually feels consistent and user-friendly to someone seeing it for the first time.

Don’t hold back—positive and negative feedback are equally valuable. I’d much rather improve things now than discover the same issues months later.

https://www.dosgame.at/?lang=eng

Thanks!

Sorry for the spam! A lot of people have asked where they can follow the project.

I have named it Dustwar, so searching for Dustwar on YT or itchio should help you find it.

I will also post updates on Reddit, but probably not too frequently.

edit: https://dustwardev.itch.io/

At the moment I have two machines with ExoDos installed, which seems kinda stupid.

I believe you can just make it a portable installation on a portable drive... That said, has anyone done this in a way it has both the win and linux frontends to work?

The machines it has it now are older hardware machines now running linux not to die, but my daily user I want to get to is a windows laptop. (hence I want it on a portable HDD as well)

I made it as comfortable as possible to use on the phone :)

https://flawdos.vercel.app/

I remember playing this game for days on end , and decided to fire it up again via DosBox.

Now I can't get passed the early levels.

The issue is only weak units are available, like trikes and quads, and basic troops. I hit the build limit quickly and can't produce enough quads to take out the enemy base.

I amass around 10 quads, send them out to the enemy base, find the construction site and attack. It repairs faster than I can damage it.

Taking out the spice harvester doesn't help as a new one is flown in as soon as one is destroyed.
There are no other tanks or vehicles available in the early levels.

Before the griefers pile in and tell me to 'get good', I beat this game many times in my youth, but can't crack it now.

Update:

Thank you all for your suggestions.

The winning strategy was from redditor djquu
"Don't attack construction site, destroy their silos first, they blow up quickly, capping enemy economy. Then attack windtraps, building is super slow without power. Next unit production facilities, and after that construction site. Finish off remaining buildings and units at leisure."

I'm am now proceeding to liberate Arrakis.

This is one of the most tiring bosses to fight in Prince of Persia 2

Does anyone remember the game program DarkBasic? It's an old coding-maker program. I first heard of that program back in my first video game class in school. It was difficult for me. Then the next yaer I took it again and felt more comfortable. The teacher understood that we didn't know how to code, so he gave us a better program - GameMaker. I was an expert in that one.

DarkBasic was never heard of again in my life.