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Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.
#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing
Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.
#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing
There was a time when a game taking up 262 MB of hard disk space was considered CRAZY, even by the game's own developers! 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
There was a time when a game taking up 262 MB of hard disk space was considered CRAZY, even by the game's own developers! 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
I.M. Meen: This Substitute Teacher Loves to Play Games...
Source: Electronic Entertainment 19 (July 1995)
Scan Source: RetroMags
some of you know that i wrote a book - "Mages & Modems" - soon to be published, about my experiences growing up in the 80s and 90s with microcomputers in northern canada.
back in 95-97, as a teenager, i worked at the arctic's first ISP. but before it became an isp, ssi micro was canada's only Gateway 2000 computer retailer.
a village of less than 500 people housed a massive 40,000 sq ft computer store.
i've been searching for photos of the old computer store, before it disappeared in the 2000s. the search has been fruitless for twenty years, until today.
today i found the one surviving photo of the store EXACTLY as it was the day i left it to go to university when i was 17 years old.
an annotated version of this photo will appear in the book. the photo is painfully low-res (digital cameras were VERY new in 97), but you can make out some of the details if you squint.
a few fun things: the cowprint sweaters in the center of the photo are official Gateway 2000 gear. i don't remember us selling a single one to a customer 😅
directly behind the sweaters are slatwall shelves (every computer store had 'em!) full of games. my big box copy of Dune CD-ROM - the one with the incredible sandworm mouth - came from that shelf
to the right of the sweaters and main entrance, along the shelves, are dozens of ISA and PCI upgrade cards. whenever a customer made a custom order, i'd walk over from the service bay, grab the upgrade card, and stick it in their machine. it was always exciting to get to test new weird stuff like SCSI and video capture boards.
the computer on the far right was supposed to be for customers to test out software and our internet service. i never once saw a customer use it, but i sure as hell got a lot of Quake DMing done on that machine 😆 it was a Gateway 2000 full tower with a Pentium 90. the fastest machine in the building.
i was a repair/ISP technician in those days, and my little service bay was beyond the wooden birch-coloured doorway. that room also housed our local dial-in lines (four of them!) and 33.6 Sportsters.
if you're interested in reading the book, i'll be posting about it more in the coming weeks. i've got a few review copies out, and once i've had more feedback and (made some edits) it'll be ready to go.
if you can identify some of the software or hardware in the photos, i'll be happy to include it in the annotated version with credit :)
some of you know that i wrote a book - "Mages & Modems" - soon to be published, about my experiences growing up in the 80s and 90s with microcomputers in northern canada.
back in 95-97, as a teenager, i worked at the arctic's first ISP. but before it became an isp, ssi micro was canada's only Gateway 2000 computer retailer.
a village of less than 500 people housed a massive 40,000 sq ft computer store.
i've been searching for photos of the old computer store, before it disappeared in the 2000s. the search has been fruitless for twenty years, until today.
today i found the one surviving photo of the store EXACTLY as it was the day i left it to go to university when i was 17 years old.
an annotated version of this photo will appear in the book. the photo is painfully low-res (digital cameras were VERY new in 97), but you can make out some of the details if you squint.
a few fun things: the cowprint sweaters in the center of the photo are official Gateway 2000 gear. i don't remember us selling a single one to a customer 😅
directly behind the sweaters are slatwall shelves (every computer store had 'em!) full of games. my big box copy of Dune CD-ROM - the one with the incredible sandworm mouth - came from that shelf
to the right of the sweaters and main entrance, along the shelves, are dozens of ISA and PCI upgrade cards. whenever a customer made a custom order, i'd walk over from the service bay, grab the upgrade card, and stick it in their machine. it was always exciting to get to test new weird stuff like SCSI and video capture boards.
the computer on the far right was supposed to be for customers to test out software and our internet service. i never once saw a customer use it, but i sure as hell got a lot of Quake DMing done on that machine 😆 it was a Gateway 2000 full tower with a Pentium 90. the fastest machine in the building.
i was a repair/ISP technician in those days, and my little service bay was beyond the wooden birch-coloured doorway. that room also housed our local dial-in lines (four of them!) and 33.6 Sportsters.
if you're interested in reading the book, i'll be posting about it more in the coming weeks. i've got a few review copies out, and once i've had more feedback and (made some edits) it'll be ready to go.
if you can identify some of the software or hardware in the photos, i'll be happy to include it in the annotated version with credit :)
Tonight, I'm having an absolute blast playing around with Microsoft's Flight Simulator 4.0 and its "Experimental Jet Aircraft" from the "Aircraft & Scenery Designer" expansion.
Seeing this old game, which is so dear to my heart, running super smooth in full SVGA resolution and with all of this extra in-game content makes my inner 12 year old jump up and down from excitement! This is what retro gaming is all about!
#RetroGaming#DOSGaming#Nostalgia#Microsoft #FlightSimulator#FloppyDisk#Diskette#MSDOS#SVGA#Emulation#86Box
The DOS Game Jam link is active!
https://itch.io/jam/dosember-game-jam
Although I'm using DOSember as an excuse to run this, anyone can join!
The jam runs all the way until the end of November. Please feel free to get involved! 😊
#msdos #retrogaming #retrocomputing #gamedev #dosgaming #dosember
The DOS Game Jam link is active!
https://itch.io/jam/dosember-game-jam
Although I'm using DOSember as an excuse to run this, anyone can join!
The jam runs all the way until the end of November. Please feel free to get involved! 😊
#msdos #retrogaming #retrocomputing #gamedev #dosgaming #dosember
A 486 PC is great for saving text files with spells from a floppy accidentally dropped in a cauldron
@voxel thanks for the good fun!
A 486 PC is great for saving text files with spells from a floppy accidentally dropped in a cauldron
@voxel thanks for the good fun!
Today is a big day for DOS emulation, now we have 100% authentic Sound Canvas (Roland SC-55) emulation in Staging via Nuked SC-55 🥳 🎉 🍻 🎊
Grab the latest dev build from here:
https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/development-builds/
Then follow the installation instructions from the PR below:
Search "manual testing" and follow the steps under "usage" (this will be more streamlined in the final; the plugin (without the ROM files) will be included in the distribution package)
https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/pull/4090
#DOSGaming#MS-DOS #Emulation#RetroGaming#LinuxGaming#MacGaming#FOSS#Roland#SoundCanvas#SC-55 #MIDI#GeneralMIDI
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