Neu im Blog: Meine erste Begegnung mit einem MS-DOS-PC fand im Jahr 1991 bei meinem Cousin statt: Er war stolzer Besitzer eines 286ers. Ehrensache, dass ich ihn in dieser Zeit sehr oft besuchte.

Von Steffen Anton

https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/meine-ersten-erfahrungen-mit-ms-dos-eine-persoenliche-retrospektive/

Aquest any fa 30 anys que ens arribava "PC Mus" per "DOS" . #PcMus #Dos #JocDeCartesITaula #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming #RetroGames #VideojocsAntics

I think the #ItxLlama is an interesting project.

• Shure it's not what I'm looking into but for those that want to rock an #AGP Graphics Card this is propably the #ITX #Maindoard to go with!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAFBR-Wk5Xw
https://www.retrorgb.com/itx-llama-a-new-motherboard-for-retro-pcs.html
https://github.com/eivindbohler/itxllama
https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/mini-pcs/diy-mini-itx-motherboard-lets-you-play-dos-games-without-emulation-itx-llama-features-a-vortex86ex-500-mhz-cpu

Trying to port Mario & Luigi (1994) by Wiering Software from Turbo #Pascal to #FreePascal trunk (i8086), ofc on #DOS: https://wieringsoftware.nl/mario

Posted on https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,71748.html but got nowhere

I can build it on FPC, but can’t run. Removing call to ReadConfig shows gfx issues and input gets messed. I can’t find a way to debug the realmode properly

May I ask heroes from my feed for some helping hand? @foone @wyatt @root42 @nina_kali_nina

Made a new release of #OpenCrystalCaves!

https://congusbongus.itch.io/opencrystalcaves/devlog/984248/040

This release includes playable levels 1 & 3, both with unique mechanics, as well as features like sound!

The game has likely hit an inflection point, as work on laying groundwork tapers off while the pace of features and polishing pick up. Hopefully episode 1 will be playable before too long!

Aquest any és el trenta-cinquè aniversari de la publicació a casa nostra de "Drazen Petrovic Basket" per "DOS" . #DrazenPetrovicBasket #Dos #Esports #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming #RetroGames #VideojocsAntics

As promised: PartUtil a limited partition editor that makes dual booting DOS and Win 9x without a boot manager easier.

Hide, unhide and make partitions active. Save and restore MBRs to files. And a few extra tricks that help with initial setup. Runs on any PC compatible and any version of DOS. Source code included.

(I've been using an earlier version of this for years on a PCjr. This is a complete rewrite that is finally worth sharing.)

http://www.brutman.com/PartUtil/PartUtil.html

It's a tiny one! I'm going to embed this inside a CRT to make an all-in-one. Must be one of those CRTs with speakers attached or built in. #freedos #dos #msdos #retrogaming #retrocomputing

A few weeks ago I wondered what it takes to turn a small LISP-1 into a LISP-2. Turns out it takes just a few hours to get most things right, then some days to iron out a few subtleties, and then a couple of weeks to polish it into a piece of art.
MICRO COMMON LISP is a tiny, purely symbolic, microscopic subset of #CommonLISP. It runs in less than 64K bytes of memory, even on #DOS (tiny model) or CP/M. Here it is:
http://t3x.org/mcl/
#CPM #LISP

Coming soon ... a utility to make swapping active partitions easier.

On my PCjr I like to switch between DOS 3.3 and DOS 5, while keeping the drive letters in the extended partition the same. To do that you have to mark the new partition active, but also hide the old partition. FDISK doesn't allow that.

Other tools exist but they are often not small machine friendly. I wrote a similar utility years ago but I lost the source code, so here it is recreated and enhanced.

Oh, Alien Intruder in BrewOtaku issue 6

https://www.brewotaku.com/2025/05/brewotaku-006-dec24-jan25/

Also, the game is here! https://www.usebox.net/jjm/alien-intruder/

https://youtu.be/rX8QcfpKdOE?t=344

CyClones, an interesting shooter from 1994, it is a bit different from its peers in that the design is more akin to that of a pure dungeon crawler.

Love the soundtrack and setting. An interesting fact, this was the first game to have independent mouse aim, a fully movable crosshair in all axes. Mouselook came to gaming later; still interesting to see such pioneering - and of course, this was made by Raven Software.

Aquest any fa 30 anys que ens arribava "Witchaven" per "DOS" . #Witchaven #Dos #Shooter #JocDeRol #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming #RetroGames #VideojocsAntics

Avui és el 30è aniversari de la publicació a casa nostra de "The Scottish Open: Carnoustie Virtual Golf" per "DOS" . #TheScottishOpenCarnoustieVirtualGolf #Dos #Simulador #Esports #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming #RetroGames

I think I'd like to try Links as my DOS web browser, but I can't seem to get gopher working. I set C:\GOPHERUS\GOPHERUS % as my gopher path, but it just throws an error when I try to follow links to gopher. Does anyone have any suggestions?

There are loads of videos about MS-DOS, DOS games and DOS PCs on PeerTube, here's a playlist:

https://fedi.video/w/p/uEorJj9vYsrdmihjc2otzu

- Watching on a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist

- Watching on a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen

- Watching embedded: Click or to see next or previous videos in playlist

cc @msdos

10 days left in the #gog #summersale! For those of you enjoying #dos games from GOG, if you didn't know, #dosboxstaging offers a much better experience than the default #dosbox.

I also wrote a tool to seamlessly replace it for you when playing on gog galaxy: https://tinyurl.com/dbstgrplcr

Working on some bug fixes and polish for an upcoming release of #OpenCrystalCaves, such as having the green "bigfoot” monster chase the player on hit, or tweaking the hurt boxes so that trick jumps work - they have to be just right!