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So who else has tried their offerings? Currently falling out of love with Dune II, I'd forgotten how slow it is!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

I've definitely got some bits and pieces from here at various points, though I can't really remember what or when. The original Railroad Tycoon, maybe. I was playing that a few months ago, before the flashy new one came out (which I'm ashamed to admit I loved).

Just having another browse through what they've got there, and I'm VERY tempted to have a go at the first two Alone In The Dark games...

― JimD, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

I've been trying to get UFO to work. I don't think I get the DOSBox thing!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

I love these guys. I thought the first Alone in the Dark was shit tho. Kv, have you got Dfend?

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

It's a great site. I'm a bit more liberal than they are regarding what I'm OK with stealing, but I like seeing an abandonware site with morals.

regarding dosbox: install dosbox then install d-fend, then open d-fend and click on the wizard hat to add a game.

― abanana, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

This thread reminded me of an old Amiga game I wanted to play, but it wasn't on that site (also came out for DOS and Atari ST, IIRC). So I looked on Wikipedia, no entry. So I looked at the name of the guys who made it, googled them, found their new company, e-mailed them and asked if there were a way to purchase the game.

He sent me to the-underdogs.

I feel 0% guilty about downloading 4 free now! :D

― Will M., Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

I thought the first Alone in the Dark was shit tho.

Well, so did I, proably. I don't really remember loving it, I just remember liking the atmosphere. I know I never got very far into it. And I know the copy I had only ran something like 1 time in 5 anyway. But hey, nostalgia is nostalgia.

Which game Will?

― JimD, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't saying don't play it, Jim. I just remember thinking it looked cool all those years ago and then finally getting to play it via abandonware and thinking "oh this hasn't aged well then :( "

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

Panzer General, Fantasy General and early 90s RPGs are probably my fave oldies that I still play.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

Star Command... a really fun SSi game from 1988 which was like Star Control, kinda, I guess. Except you build a party and raid things too. I played it WAY before Star Control (I only played SC2 about 6 months ago)

― Will M., Wednesday, 9 May 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

Kv, have you got Dfend?

No. Would that help?

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 08:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yeh. Like Mr Banana said, d/l and install D-fend, it's a front end for dosbox and makes everything much easier.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 10 May 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

I think my DOSbox might be too far advanced. I'll have a look though. Thanks all.

― kv_nol, Thursday, 10 May 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm it opens game in a smaller window which is good but it makes the game slower which is bad! Also when I open Dune2 in DosBox it doesn't fill the screen properly. Any help anybody?!

― kv_nol, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

You need to tinker with the graphics settings in D-fend. There's a decent help file, I think. But my basic settings (under the Extra menu, Configure Defaults) are:

Under "General" tab: Resolution 800x600; Scale normal2x; Start fullscreen ticked; Fullfixed ticked

There's an option called Cycles under the environment tab - this affects the running speed, you can tinker with it til you're happy with the game speed

Obv the best thing to do is to have a read of the help file but once you know what the important tabs do it's pretty easy to play with it.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Downloaded Pirates! Gold! No joy though. Can't figure out how to make it work with DosBOX and d-Fend. What should I be looking for, do you think? There's no "Setup" or similar in file list :(

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

I've got it working. Not sure how to save though!

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm the drawer that is meant to be save game doesn't work. I wonder why :*(

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Pirates is now boring! On to bigger and better things I think. Have to stop doing this at work though. V bad idea!

― kv_nol, Monday, 21 May 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

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― abanana, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

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