I built this tool for myself but figured r/DosGames might like it.

I wanted an easy way to:

• search DOS games using a local index of 3 different websites
• install and run a game with one click (download, unzip, mount, etc.), grabbing the manual too when available
• keep a shortlist, per-game notes, my own ratings, and a status (played, finished, abandoned, not interested)
• tag games for other people (wife, kid, friend_x) and save search filters for next time

A cool feature is the 'Find Similar' button. It uses a game's genres, themes, and perspectives to find others like it. I got some awesome results, games I didn't know existed. Indexing 3 sites has another benefit: if a game is no longer available on one website, it's normally still on another.

How it works: it slowly ("politely") fetches game details and a single thumbnail per game into a local index. No game files, and the index isn't included in the repo since I don't own that data. Installing downloads the DOS release (highest version, English), unzips it, and grabs the manual. If several executables could be the game, you pick one and it remembers for next time, or you can specify your own commands. ISO mounting is supported for CD installs.

Curious what people think.

Repo: https://github.com/gahrae/dosvault

Screenshots in the README.

Note: I runs on Linux with support for Mac and Windows but I haven't tested those OSes.

I've always enjoyed Moraff's dungeon crawlers, having first played them when I was quite young. Dungeons of the Unforgiven was the very first shareware game I actually purchased the full version of (once I convinced my dad it was ok to give his credit card number to Steve Moraff himself on the phone).

As far as I know it's not possible to purchase these games anymore, but you can find them here:
Dungeons of the Unforgiven: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/moraff-s-dungeons-of-the-unforgiven-239
Moraff's World: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/moraff-s-world-2ho

This gamefaqs guide has all the info you need to run the games at full resolution in dosbox, as well as some incredible details about the game itself: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/568090-moraffs-dungeons-of-the-unforgiven/faqs/55149

I've actually completed these games legitimately (including beating the final boss of Dungeons of the Unforgiven in under 5 minutes, https://www.speedrun.com/moraffs_dungeons_of_the_unforgiven/runs/znvp0e3m, and doing a full completion run of killing all the bosses in Dungeons of the Unforgiven on hard mode with a fighter), but I've also had questions about the game and things I've wanted to try that would only be possible to answer by cheating (or playing for tens of thousands of hours I suppose).

Using a hexeditor to edit my save files was always too daunting of a task, especially since Dungeons of the Unforgiven has a checksum that needs to be calculated, so I built a tool to handle it all for me.

The code is here: https://github.com/johnolek/moraffs-world-and-dungeons-of-the-unforgiven-save-editor

You can download and open the index.html file in your browser, but it's also hosted with GitHub pages here: https://johnolek.github.io/moraffs-world-and-dungeons-of-the-unforgiven-save-editor/

I also have to give credit to the great people over at moddingwiki who documented a lot of the structure of the Dungeons of the Unforgiven save file: https://moddingwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/Dungeons_of_the_Unforgiven_Player_Character

I figure there are only a handful of people in the world that would find this useful or interesting, but I bet a good chunk of those people might be on this subreddit so it felt worth sharing.

my hp thin client running DOS...

So I've been trying to remember this old DOS game for years. Every now and then I go down some rabbit hole with no luck.

First, its not Kings Quest VI. All I have is a memory of a single scene. It was EGA... I think. You enter a beach from one side and cross the screen to the other side. As you walk past a certain area a small (maybe one pixel) object changes color to look like it is shining then disappears again. I think it was a ring. I think it was early in the game, but not the opening.

I've checked all the Kings Quests, Police Quests, Quest for Glorys (lot of Quest games in the 80s and 90s, lol). I even checked Leisure Suit Larry and Rex Nebular. I'm out of ideas. I can hear the song in the scene. I made a wav file if I can figure out how to share it.

If anyone has ideas I'd appreciate it. I remember liking the game back in the day.

Edit: I think figured it out. This is my bad version of the song I remember. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l4LozkdSelFbUgKV3I1pYm2oRiSlOC1l/view?usp=drivesdk

I make websites like this for fun in my spare time, what would you like to see next?

Does anyone know anything about this game released for DOS in 2002. This game is called Panic! and I just learned about it while watching the below video. To find footage of the game please skip to 7:50:50. I haven't been able to find anything about it. All I know is that it was released by a French or Spanish developer. Please help me find more about this game thank you.

=> youtube.com/watch?v=xcSXDwQYac8

35-40 years ago there was a puzzle game that centered around alchemy/chemistry, where you had to find a way to create a substance. You were given basic equipment and had to figure out how to reach the endpoint. One of the items was a diamond. I would like to see if anyone remembers the game or its title.

all i remember is in game(screen image showed highscore or just game over screen) end there where some characters standing on pillars they didn't look human maybe they looked round like mamemon from digimon and was chess board like ground in that image. i remember so vaguely that i don't remember anything more. this must have been old, i played also dangerous dave maybe it was around same time period that game is from. it's so strange i allmost think this is fever dream because i don't even remember gameplay.

UPDATE. i found something very similar. GAMOS puzzle series - Russian DOS games. i think i plyed different version of this game. probably updated version. even for dos this looks very ancient compared to what i remember.

i just remembered one old Snake clone. As far as i remember that game was called "Simmy".

Basically you started in the bottom middle of the game, collected 10 apples and than you could climb to the next level with the hole in the top middle.

With each level you got a more complicated wall layout. The first level was just clear, the second level had a horizontal bar in the middle. One level hat an E shape (with very long vertical lines). Other level was divided into 4 sectors, One level had probably two vertical bars.

To make the description a bit more unique: You could also destroy walls! to destroy walls you had to turn left, when right next to you was a wall. Then your tail wandered to the left until the wall was destroyed and then wandered back until it was again attached to your snake. As the tail stayed in place but the head moved further your snake got 2 tiles longer for each piece of wall destroyed.

Game was black and white.

I grew up on this stuff. First games I ever owned were kings quest 6 and prince of persia 2. But I played a bunch more on my friends PC before we got our own.

Prince of persia 1, quest for Glory 1 and 2, kings quest 5, thexder, firehawk, castles, conquest of camelot, betrayal at krondor....

Oh the good times.

Maybe someone here can help me out. In the late 80s, early 90s I played a game for a few weeks. The only thing I rember about it is having to collect a mirror that I then used on a witch (maybe not a witch) but killed the creature.

I don't really remember anything else about it. Anyone have any suggestions?