Back in the early 90s, my aunt had this game on her computer. I always thought it was a Star Trek game because it was a ship-based sci-fi where you went to different solar systems and harvest crystals for fuel, but none of the official Star Trek games look anything like it.

It had a GUI where you controlled all ship functions, and the section of space you were currently in was depicted with ASCII. You had lasers, torpedoes, all that jazz. Anybody have any guesses? Thanks!

In the late 80's I used to play a simple vertical shooter game off a BBS on a Tandy 1000. It had CGA graphics in the purple/cyan palette and AFAIK was kind of like Galaga or something like that. I think it had a funny letter like an "X" or "Z" in the title. Was probably freeware given it's origin.

The most notable thing about this little shooter was that before every round, it would say in a robotic voice:

"READY"

"PREPARE FOR BATTLE"

...and put the words on the screen in a "sci-fi" font at the same time like that.

This was super notable to me at the time of course since I was used to only PC-speaker beeps and boops and there were only a few programs that would make any sort of real sound through the speaker let alone talk.

I don't think this software was likely to have used any of the enhanced features of the Tandy. It was probably doing the PIT PWM trick to simulate lo-fi PCM audio through the normal PC speaker.

The only other notable memory I have about it was that it was fairly "large" compared to most games. "Large" in this sense meaning it may have required two 360K disks to fit. Or it may have just been on a disk with another game and that was why a 2nd disk and I'm confused, as I remember there were lots of files in the directory listing. But I think there was something different going on with the disk compared to the other games I had.

I've searched for years for this title and have found just about every other game I played then except this one. Do you guys remember anything like this?

Hi there! I noticed that some games are missing and want to update my eXoDOS. Can anyone share step-by-step instructions for adding CD version games and also multi-CD versions?

Thanks in advance!

I'm having issues to play dos games with 3dfx support in exodos v6. I'd like to have the game in full screen but every time I choose it the game uses only a part of screen. I tried to change settings everywhere and nothing.

Any thoughts? Thank you

I'm trying to recall a game from early 90s. It actually had several games in it, you would pick which one to play from a menu. The only one I remember though was you were this little guy in a maze, top down perspective, and he had to avoid junk food, similar setup to pac man only with food instead of ghosts. If you ate some you would get fatter. You had a heart rate monitor and if you got too fat your heart rate would go through the roof and you'd die of a heart attack. However the twist was you could visit this bench press weight set and press up and down arrow keys to do reps and burn off the weight. BUT you couldn't do them too fast because that also raised your heart rate, albeit temporarily. As you slimmed down you could exercise faster. I remember a lot of the time I would run right at all the food and go try to work it off and then finish the maze unobstructed, but it was a risky strategy.

Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to download Fallout 1 and 2 on the Magic DOS box app for Chromebook. I’ve read a lot of tutorials but am completely lost and have zero clue what I’m doing.

First of all, where do I even download a compatible version of the game? I see it listed on gog.com for $10 but that’s a windows version which I’m not sure would run on DOS? I’m nervous about downloading things from sites I’m not familiar with because of viruses though and don’t even know where to start.

Also I keep seeing troubleshooting things come up for people who were able to download the game but not with sound? How can I avoid that being an issue without any coding literacy. And is there anything else I should know or be expecting? This is all very confusing.

Thank you!!

Hello folks, the last time I went down the rabbit hole of "forgotten" dos games was a long time ago and back in the day D-Fend was a bit of a novelty!
How is the situation now?

-I was trying Exodos, I think I understand that you can't add games manually but only use the "included" ones? (which are certainly not few!)
-Does RetroArch also support DOS games? If so, does that mean you can use features like "save state" and "rewind"?
-Is D-Fend still active and valid?

I was looking for Windows 10 PC.
Thank you.

Any idea what this is about? For example, I tried playing Jazz Jackrabbit in FreeDOS and it just would show this error and wouldn't load.

Specs: (Probably the root of the problem)

Ryzen 5600X
MSI B550 Gaming Edge WiFi
GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
32 GB DDR4.

Huge Dosbox fan but haven't used it in awhile. I have a brand-new new Macbook Air running Mac OS Sonoma 14.1.1. Boxer seems like it's gone. Anyone know how I can run Dosbox or Dos games on this new Mac? Thanks in advance for any help! ;)

I loaded up a copy of this game recently and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to exit it. I did all the obvious key combos such as esc, q, end, del, ctr q, and various other combinations at different times in the game and nothing worked. I think I pressed every key on my keyboard. I'm also playing this on a real dos PC so I can't just exit and reload the emulator.

I checked out the manual for the PC version on archive.org and it didn't seem to address this topic...

I've been looking for this game for years with no luck. I used to play it on this old computer that had Windows 95 or maybe 98 in around 2006. I was looking through Explorer in all sorts of random files when I saw what I believe was the colorful MSDOS logo and opened it. To my surprise it was a game. There was also another game in the folder with the same logo but I don't remember it.

In a window I was greeted with colorful graphics and what I believe to be the most important lead: a 8-bit / chip tune version of Hallelujah similar to this that just looped on and on as far as I remember.

As far as I remember there was a starting screen with colorful text / graphics (no textures just shapes and colors) and the song playing. The you started the game and it was just a pretty simple puzzle game, it had some blocks or icons in different colors that you probably clicked on or moved in a certain way to solve it.

Been looking through youtube and websites with no luck. If this rings a bell please let me know. Thanks.

Allen Pilgrim, the original designer and programmer of Xargon back in 1994 has graciously released a version of Xargon that allows you to edit your own levels, maps, and story scenes using an editor that is built into this special 4/1/2024 dos version of the game. He has also provided a very detailed guide to using the editor, as well as a few new bonus levels recently created with it and some bonus music. The archive also includes all content from the full version of Xargon.

Basically everything is in here to allow you to edit existing levels, or make your own custom levels, or make a full custom episode of Xargon! Pretty great stuff!

Get it here:

https://archive.org/details/xargon-edit-version-04-01-24

Or here, in the "Extras" section:

https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Xargon.html

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Hi Folks,

I‘m happy that I found this community and hope that you can assist me in searching an old favourite game of mine.

In the next sentences I’ll try to describe as much as I can from what I‘ve got in mind.

The game that I‘m searching since several years is a football manager with some special attributes:

• it was published as shareware
• it had a size smaller than 720 kb
• it was text-based on DOS, but not at command prompt
• in the unpaid #shareware# version you only could choose between the British and the Suisse league
• of course it was very easy-made without deeper complexity, but you were able to handle several management stuff
• it was published under the name #Fußball Manager#, which makes it very hard to find something useful via google/bing today
• I’ve played it in the early 90‘s on my old 8086/8088 for several years
• there were players like #Ince# and so on, meaning original names
• language was - as far as I remember - German and English
• most of the screen background color was blue with font in white or yellow

I know this is not so much, but if anybody has any kind of information to find the original game or anything else about, I would be very very thankfully.

If you have additional questions, please let me know about.

Many thanks in advance

Edit: added some addtional pointes