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Retro [DOS] Games

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  • 05-08-2007 12:19am
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    Kevster
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    Hey, I found this great website recently with many old classic DOS games. I've found many of my old favourites on it including Bioforge, Bart Vs The Space Mutants, and others.

    Link: http://www.abandonia.com


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    Reku
    Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Even has "The Adventures of Captain Comic"! lol
    I remember growing up thinking that game was great.

    Heh, original "Mechwarrior" game too! Wonder if controling the cycles on Dosbox will let me tune the speed :confused: (seriously even on a 486 the game ran so fast you were dead before you even saw the enemy:eek: ).


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    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    ahhh, the great Captain Comic! I completed the first episode of it but not the second. The website doesn't have all of the Commander Keans though but I managed to get them all years ago.

    Oh yeh, I forgot to mention that you'll need DOSBox to run these. There's another program called D-Fend that runs on top of DOSBox and has extra settings to tweak. Maybe that'll be of more use to you.


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    SirLemonhead
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    I don't see the thread lasting long :p


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    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    What on Earth do you mean?


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    Kiith
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    Cause abandonware is kind of on the grey side of the rules.


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    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    ... ...then how did it get a dot.com domain? :confused:


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    Reku
    Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Meh, doubt I'll need those extra settings really, remembered yesterday evening that "Mechwarrior" has a password requirement at the start to try prevent copying of the game, basically it shows one of the mechs and gives a code to which you need to check the manual for the decrypted version of, you get 3 tries before the programme closes down.


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    SirLemonhead
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    Kiith wrote:
    Cause abandonware is kind of on the grey side of the rules.

    Especially since some of the games on there are still being sold (Keen 6 for example..)


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    Stephen
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Kevster wrote:
    ... ...then how did it get a dot.com domain? :confused:

    Cos its piss easy to get a .com domain. There's no checks done whatsoever for .com/net/org.


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