@futurebird i'm not sure that any game had a more profound influence on me as a 12 year old than SimAnt. sometimes i think about how it's almost criminal how completely ignored in the Maxis catalogue (like SimLife) it is.

#dosGaming #msdos #retroGaming

@futurebird i'm not sure that any game had a more profound influence on me as a 12 year old than SimAnt. sometimes i think about how it's almost criminal how completely ignored in the Maxis catalogue (like SimLife) it is.

#dosGaming #msdos #retroGaming

just had so much fun recording a DOS Game Club podcast episode on Betrayal at Krondor with @Tijn and @pix

cannot imagine a friendlier and easygoing DOS gaming podcast than this one 👏

https://www.dosgameclub.com

#dosgaming #msdos

just had so much fun recording a DOS Game Club podcast episode on Betrayal at Krondor with @Tijn and @pix

cannot imagine a friendlier and easygoing DOS gaming podcast than this one 👏

https://www.dosgameclub.com

#dosgaming #msdos

This sketch also runs on #DOjS, my #p5js compatible #CreativeCoding platform for #MSDOS.
Only change is that I needed to remove the SVG rendering as that is not supported.

I will make the source available later.

#RetroComputing #JavaScript

a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.

i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour

it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.

and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.

so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.

so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.

we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.

it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.

enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️

paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf

DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb

a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.

i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour

it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.

and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.

so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.

so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.

we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.

it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.

enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️

paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf

DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb

Matthew Garrett on what it actually means for a computer to be IBM PC compatible.

https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/what-is-a-pc-compatible

#retrocomputing #ibmpc #msdos

I am back to trying to get a parallel port CD ROM running on the 486. It was already working, but very slowly, due to the PIO only parallel port on the multi I/O card. I now have a Holtek dual ECP/EPP card. I have jumpered the first port to 378, IRQ 7 and EPP. The BIOS recognizes the port, but the Freecom driver does not see the drive. Any ideas?
Do these cards need a DOS driver? Or will it work out of the box? Is the Freecom driver too limited?
#retrocomputing #msdos

I am back to trying to get a parallel port CD ROM running on the 486. It was already working, but very slowly, due to the PIO only parallel port on the multi I/O card. I now have a Holtek dual ECP/EPP card. I have jumpered the first port to 378, IRQ 7 and EPP. The BIOS recognizes the port, but the Freecom driver does not see the drive. Any ideas?
Do these cards need a DOS driver? Or will it work out of the box? Is the Freecom driver too limited?
#retrocomputing #msdos

Help needed to port #FujiNet Battleship to:

#Atari8Bit #Apple2 #ColecoAdam #MSDOS #C64 #Plus4 #VIC20

Code is here:
git@github.com:FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-battleship.git

Code can also be borrowed from:
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-apps/tree/master/5cardstud/cross-platform

Can you help?

Taking a break from MS-DOS, I've been working on a game for the #PsionSeries3 pocket computer, of which I own too many. Dragonfell is a #HOMM inspired game where two sides raise armies of creatures and send them against one another across a decaying land, trying to seize the other's citadel. That game goes into beta test today, hopefully for a release by Christmas. There may be an #msdos version in future, as it's different enough from HOMM to be worth porting.

Taking a break from MS-DOS, I've been working on a game for the #PsionSeries3 pocket computer, of which I own too many. Dragonfell is a #HOMM inspired game where two sides raise armies of creatures and send them against one another across a decaying land, trying to seize the other's citadel. That game goes into beta test today, hopefully for a release by Christmas. There may be an #msdos version in future, as it's different enough from HOMM to be worth porting.

Mal ne allgemeine Anfrage an die Retro-Gemeinde: Hat von euch zufällig noch jemand eine deutschsprachige Diskettenversion des SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kits für DOS rumliegen und könnte mir davon ein Image zukommen lassen? Also keine CD-Version oder eine Compilation und auch keine Windows-Version, sondern die wirkliche SCURK Diskette?

Wäre euch sehr dankbar! 😃

P.S. Die Diskette müsste in etwa so ausgesehen haben. Hab ein Bild angehängt.

#FollowerPower #RetroGaming #DOSGaming #RetroGames #MSDOS #90er #SimCity #Maxis #Diskette #FloppyDisk