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I just found this awesome CD image of Microsoft Space Simulator for MS-DOS on the Internet Archive. Uploaded by a friendly fellow named "CSmeds99" (thanks!). This is pretty rare and it works great, so check it out! 
https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Space_Simulator_1_0_CD-ROM
The July 1987 issue of Computer Language magazine reviewed half a dozen Lisp implementations for MS-DOS and the Macintosh. There are a few I didn't know such as TransLISP by Solution Systems.
Internet ArchiveComputer Language Vol 4 No 7 ( 1987 07)( Miller Freeman Publications)( US) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveArtificial Intelligence
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Dammit #MSDOS, I've had it with that black screen with white text on it.
I want purple 
text on a pink background.
Hey Bill, I'm talking to you!
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.
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@selzero Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, released in 1989 (EGA version on MS-DOS shown below). Adventure game (there was also an arcade one, much less interesting IMHO).
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Just casually playing with old #ham #msdos #packetradio software #GraphicPacket, my favorite in the 90's, in a #DosBoxX window.
I'm thrown 30 years back and thrilled to have managed to make it work with a #KISS modem and #TFKISS resident driver (a NordLink TNC2 "TheFirmware" emulator for MSDOS).
Btw, I am preaparing some real hardware (Pentium 233) to make that work on, with a legendary 1200 bauds packet-radio #BayCom modem...
Is there a way in #Linux to mount a DOS disk that was compressed with DoubleSpace? The 40MB hard drive that was in my Toshiba T5200 was compressed that way and I was able to ddrescue it back in November, but all I found on the DOS partition was a great big 39.9MB file called DBLSPACE.000.
Today I learned there was a game based on "Connections with James Burke", one of my all time favorite TV series. This coincided with a craving for 90s Myst clones.
This is extremely satisfying.
My AbandonwareConnectionsRemember Connections, an old video game from 1995? Download it and play again on MyAbandonware.
Back in the day, "PC Paintbrush for Windows" used to be my favourite image editor. I kept using it well into the modern Windows 9x era. Only recently, I learned of its history as an MS-DOS application. There are plenty of interesting similarities!
for the past few months i've been playing (and re-playing) every graphical star trek adventure game i can find.
it's been hit and miss. today, a genuine surprise: Star Trek DS9: Harbinger is *ridiculously* good.
it's like playing a *good* DS9 episode with the original cast, and no ridiculous inventory puzzles.
i avoided it in the past because all screenshots showed a phaser and made it look like an FPS with adventure elements.
it's the polar opposite: a first person Return To Zork-like, super dialogue heavy and purely focused on story
i can see why it would irritate both hardcore adventure gamers and ST fans alike, but i think it's just fantastic so far. i'm about halfway through.
back before SimCity 2000 became the defining city builder, Maxis published A-Train... which was the (third) Artdink Japan "Take the A-Train" rail & city building simulation game.
unlike railroad tycoon which is almost entire construction-based, and simcity which is entirely urban management-based, A-Train blends both genres together. you build a railroad, and in so doing, build a city around your infrastructure.
i've always been quite taken by the UI, which I thought was much more interesting than SC.
today i found out there was a Sharp X68000 version, which has a *very* subtly different colour palette which relaxes the yellows into something very pleasant to look at.
those palettes are *sixteen* colours
left: A-Train (DOS)
right: A-Train (Sharp X68000)
I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):
- Updated README because of login-problems with Mastodon 4.3 or newer
- Uploaded #win32 version (works on #WinXP or newer)
Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
Speedball 2, extrañamente, para mi es un juego de confort. Lo jugué mucho de pequeño en la Master System y en PC y últimamente ando dándole vueltas y vueltas en DosBox.... aunque es un poco frenético para antes de ir a dormir.
¿Cuáles son vuestros juegos viejunos de confort de aquella época?
a few years ago i bought a box of old PC games locally.
one of the games was Ultima V.
today i finally had a chance to go through its contents, and inside i found a thick coil notebook, full of notes, written by its owner "Brent" about 30 years earlier.
he judiciously took notes on every location, npc, spell, reagent and quest in the game.
here's to you brent 
i absolutely love these very personal ephemera i sometimes find in old games.
Some Tyrian to start the weekend... 
One of my favorite childhood games: The Game of Robot by TOM Productions. German shareware action adventure. Bit like Zelda meets Boulderdash and Robots (UNIX)
#shareware #gameofrobots #retrogaming #msdos
Wow, I didn't realise that LibreOffice turns 40 this year with it's latest release.
It started out as closed source Star Writer for CP/M in 1985 with DOS 3.2support in 1986.
Then became Star Office in 1994 for Windows 3.1
It became open source as Open office in 2001 and the LibreOffice fork in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice
en.wikipedia.orgStarOffice - Wikipedia
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#PixelArt for a Radarsoft point-and-click adventure, early 1990s.
Radarsoft was an early game developer in the Netherlands. The game had to run on MS-DOS PCs with CGA graphics, limited to a resolution of 320 x 200 pixels and 16 fixed colors. I used pixel patterns for the illusion of mixed colors.
Connaisseurs will recognize the #Amiga 1000 computers I depicted in some locations. 
