I Miss DOS...Follow

They don't make games like they used to.

Seriously, what ever happened to all the old 3D flight sims that were mission based and would cause certain parts of your craft to stop working if you were hit in specific areas?

My favorite among those were the old X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter games. Even though graphics have gotten better, gameplay in newer games such as Rogue Squadron just don't feel as solid.

I miss taking off and landing on carriers, giving commands to wingmen and setting my deflector shields in combat. I miss being equally vulnerable as all the CPU crafts, and not being a one-man army like in all the games today.

It seems ironic somehow that I can no longer play these games because my computer is too new to run them. I've tried DOS emulators, but none of them work correctly.

I dream of a day a collection of DOS classics is released for Windows. Games like the original Warcraft, Commander Keen, Airbourne Ranger...

C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN\DOS\RUN



Old joke is olde.

I wasnt around when DOS was but I've always wanted to play older games like the original Elder Scrolls. Anyone know if theres a good working emulator for DOS?

Have you played through rogue squadron 2 while piloting a tie interceptor without improved shields? Or even on an A wing I guess. Anything without an r2 unit can die really easily.

The battle of endor in particular was one of the hardest moments that I can remember in modern games. The feeling after turning around at the start to look at the pretty stars, only to realize that the stars are actually all tie fighters is one of the more ****-your-pants moments in any game that I can remember.

I will say that I liked RS1 (on n64) better than 2 on the gcn, mostly because it had a lot of truly original and rich new worlds to explore, taking areas from the books and EU that didn't just rip off the movies. 2 follows the movies almost to the letter.

Dosbox is awesome, I use it to play Settlers 2 Gold.

Oh man, DOS, brings back so many wonderful memories. The X-Wing/Tie Fighter games were great, as were games like Doom and Wolfenstein. I had this cd full of shareware/freeware that occupied the majority of my DOS game-playing time. Anyone ever played Scorched Earth? The Adventures of Maddog Williams? Both great games. But I submit that nothing is better than the masterpiece that is Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, which I still consider one of my top 5 favorite games of all time. Man...I suddenly need to play that, NOW.

That is the exact game that I mean. There were two versions actually, one with voice acting, which came on CD-ROM (imagine that), and another with just the text speech, which came on a whopping 5 floppies. I of course had both, but preferred the CD-ROM title. The voice acting wasn't too terrible, considering Indy wasn't voiced by Harrison Ford.

DOSbox, which was mentioned earlier, seems to be the common emulator on the TES boards.




Many games will never be remade for various reasons. TES II: Daggerfall for example is gone for good unless you can get your hands on an old disc because the source code went missing. Bethesda has stated multiple times the game or remake of any kind will never be released. The used TES II disc usually goes for $50+. Including the hologram box is usually $100+.




Scorched Earth actually runs on Vista if you set the compatibility to XP. Might take a little playing around with but I have had it up and running on my Vista machine without an emulator. Also you can grab Scorched Earth 3D if the original doesn't work for you.

Scorched3D
Scorched Earth (Requires registering for fileplanet to download)

X-wing vs TIE Fighter didn't require DOS. Now Rebel Assault... THAT was a DOS game.

Old school PC games were freaking awesome.
I used to play the hell out of Eye of the Beholder.
OOO OO and Wing Commander! And Prince of Persia!
Oh the nostagia...
I could go on forever