We've reached a whole new area, complete with giant dinosaur. Time for more exploring in Azrael's Tear! And back to F.Godmom for warming up! Streaming now! https://twitch.tv/sonneveld #DOSGaming #Twitch #Streaming #Retrogaming #retro #Retrocomputing #DOS #MSDOS

Dank einer freundlichen Spende von @dec_hl konnte ich gestern diese deutsche OEM-Version von MS-DOS 4.01 neu in meine Sammlung aufnehmen. Die enthaltenen 5 1/4 Zoll Disketten im 360K Format stehen ab sofort für euch im Internet Archive zum Download zur Verfügung:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_4.01_de_oem

Viel Spaß und vielen Dank nochmal!

This one required a bit of research, but I finally managed to get it working:

Jurassic Park for DOS is famous for its on-disk copy protection, so I uploaded a good variety of disk image formats: KryoFlux, TeleDisk, MFM, 86F. All tested and confirmed working on #86Box v4.2.1.

https://archive.org/details/jurassic_park_dos/

Have fun with the dinos!

Bug alien - alien fun

Three dimensional scene for today. Based on alien bug. Simple scene. Simply for fun and positive. This is bug alien. And behind him - it is a green door. And he wants to tell you something.

https://www.dosgameclub.com/heretic/

Oooooo @dosgameclub

Basic Maze – walking in the maze

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/03/basic-maze-walking-in-maze.html

Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?

Author: Raymond Chen
Original: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241112-00/?p=110507

A close friend went dumpster diving and was intrigued by a #CPU socket number he didn't know about.

Long story short, I have received a beautiful mid-tower #Pentium Pro 200 MHz for my birthday

Motherboard is an AOpen AX65 with 64 MB of EDO RAM in two 72-pins SIMMs, PCI S3 Virge/DX, 3COM 3C590C, 4.3 GB Seagate Medalist, and the usual CD, CDRW and 3¼" floppy drives.

Boots to NT4 or #MSDOS 6.22 with Win3.11 from NT4's bootloader.

There are issues, though...

(, but slow)

Another Interesting find... IBM DOS 5 was the only version of IBM DOS ever to include the famous DOS editor EDIT.COM. Earlier versions came with EDLIN.COM, later versions included E.EXE.

That's s so cool! I had always wanted to add "Krusty's Fun House" for MS-DOS to my retro collection. I've had the floppy disk for years (thanks flyers_80!), but I could never find the correct manual to answer all those pesky copy protection questions.

Tonight I found out, there's a beautiful PDF version of the correct manual within the current eXoDOS collection. All of a sudden, the problem is solved and I can finally play the game! Yay!

If you want it, here's the original disk image, uploaded by flyers_80 in 2017: https://archive.org/details/KrustysFunHouseAcclaim199335Kryoflux.7z

Using #86Box and MS-DOS 3.31, I was finally able to take a quick look at #Windows 1.0. It's archaic & feels older than the dawn of time, but it's still Windows. It's pretty usable, too. I kinda like it .

Dug into some old CD-R backups, and found these blasts from the past. I'm pretty sure I also have Ralph Brown interrupt list somewhere. #retrocomputing #msdos

You might also find this video interesting, Real Flipper Tricks in Epic Pinball: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4c... #retrogaming #msdos #retrocomputing

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:smo4shq4iappod6tbhflfmxu/post/3ll4yxrnwl22c

Real Flipper Tricks - Epic Pin...

If I remember correctly, #ElectroMan was shipped on the CDROM of a book about #MsDos #SoundBlaster programming ...

Regarding sound design, it was more impressive than Commander Keen, but I never really managed to think about it as an "interesting game".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJTSbWkKB7Y

I've just released v1.0.0 of ng2web, a command line tool that converts a #NortonGuide file into a collection of static web pages. Useful if you want to revive information locked up in Norton Guide files.

https://blog.davep.org/2025/03/24/ng2web.html

1990 waren die Pixel der Bitmap Raumschiffe in Wing Commander noch groß wie Bauklötze. Ich finde aber sie haben aber nach wie vor noch eine ganz eigene Ästhetik. Das Spiel ist BTW einer meiner absoluten Lieblinge auf dem frühen PC und haben mich sogar vom geliebten Amiga weggelockt. #retro #stream #twitch #pc #dos #msdos #rolandmt32 #wingcommander #ultima8