sup tell me some badboys to play on this thing
Cyberdogs
Sid and Al's Incredible ToonsThe Incredible Machine
>>737865445Master of Orion Master of MagicCiv 1+2Commander Keen 4SkyroadsSupaplexDuke Nukem 2XataxXargonRaptor: Call of the Shadows, if you don't have the 2010 versionDeath Rally, if you don't have the modern port.Dune 2dschumpheaven & earth clockwerx/ultimate spin doctor if you boot to win 3.1 (which runs in dosbox quite well)MechWarrior 2 MercsFallout 1Sam and Max hit the roadJill of the junglePutt putt goes to the moonTerra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
>>737865863There's a modern port of Death Rally? I fucking loved that game back in the day
NormalityLittle Big Adventure
Warcraft
ultima underworld
>>737865863Can confirm fallout 1 and putput goes to the moon are both pretty fun
>>737865445Make place
>>737866294They don't make them like they used to
UFO: Enemy Unknown. Tell me if there are better turn-based strategy games for DOS than it. I just wish that version 1.0 didn't frequently crash with DOSBox>>737866179I've been reluctant to play Fallout 1 but after playing UFO: Enemy Unknown, I think I can understand how to play it now
>>737866553isnt that just xcom or is that something else
>>737866040>redditbobStay
>>737866553>Tell me if there are better turn-based strategy games for DOS than it.jagged alliance
>>737866718>isnt that just xcomYes. It was just localized as X-COM for countries outside of Britain. I just find it fascinating that the game might've been named after UFO since it was developed in Britain>>737866758Thank you for the suggestion. I'll try to play it and see if I enjoy it
Crusader: no regret
>>737865445You really ought to try "Stunt Island".
>>737865445INTERSTATE 76
PatrizierSiedler 2Fugger 2Kaiser
>>737865445Machiavelli, also released earlier with slightly cruder graphics as Merchant Prince. Deeply underrated game by the guys that would later make Emperor of the Fading Suns. Kind of a hybrid of trade simulation and 4X, with some political sim elements mixed in.
>>737865445System Shock
>>737865863>Dune IILook, I was obsessed with this game as a kid but it aged like shit. Dune 1 is still decent to play tho.
>>737867039seconded, but also No Remorse
>>737865676>Sid and Al's Incredible TroonsWow, nice. Never knew this existed.
>>737865445Jazz JackrabbitHeroes of Might and Magic 1Dungeon KeeperX-wingPinball FantasiesDiscworld
If you like watching a bustling town and dudes going about their business.
>>737865521basedone of the first dos games I remember with co op
There was a very cool, open-ish game for DOS game where you did crime. Looted banks or stores. And planned your crimes on some town map thing. While avoiding the law. I wish I could remember what it was.
>>737866836based qfg enjoyer
>>737872314The Clou?
Gizmos and GadgetsEncarta 98
>>737872397The encyclopedia?
>>737872314>>737872386I remembered what it was. Crime Fighter. https://dosgames.com/game/crime-fighter/Game is awesome. Try it.
>>737872550Yeah, it has a game where answer trivia and go exploring in a maze.
>>737872605MindMaze was my jam
>>737865445The Summoning
>>737866486that whole aesthetic of browsing a shitty catalogue / newspaper for things to buy, as featured in that video, is something that's also lost to time. That alone would make singleplayer vidya with market mechanics way more interesting than looking at a generic computer terminal screen
>>737870939Why not just play the enhanced version?
>>737872386the only game that gave my old Dos computer boot AIDS. Maybe it was an early virus or something, but I remember this game for fucking up the Windows 98 games computer my brother set up for me. There was always some weird message on the boot up sequence related to The Clou. wtf
>>737865445picrel>>737872598such a great game
>>737865676Incredibly based anonAnyway anything from BullfrogBut especially Syndicate
>>737865445Pretty much all of the actually worthwhile ones have had the source code released, have been fully reverse engineered, or have an official modern Windows port. DOSBox is useless now.
>>737865445Armada 2525 Deluxe>>737872598There's a mobile version of it but it's loaded with ads
>>737874634>huge-ass library>play only the mainstream onesSad is your existence.
>>737865445Star Trek 25th AnniversaryStar Trek 25th Anniversary: Judgement RitesYou can get the original DOS versions off Abandonia for free. The CD version with the voice acting is on Steam. Both of the DOS versions need the Copy Protection map so you can actually play.
>>737865445ZorkBaldiesAlone in the DarkJones in the Fast Lane
>>737875232Oh and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>>737865445Caesar 2
>>737874937There's a reason the original DOSBox devs quit developing it and left it at 0.74 forever. The remaining DOS exclusive library of games consists of bad games and old entries in franchises which have been fully obsoleted by newer ones.
>>737865445Bump for interest.
>>737865445>>737865863Master of Orion 2 is the granddaddy of all space 4x gamesMaster of Magic is civilization except you research a spell book instead of a tech treeTyrian 2000Betrayal at KrondorThere are also the dungeon crawler games by TSR:Curse of StrahdMenzoberranzanStone Prophethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w31mEMtUFfoReunion isn't that great, but its Main theme has played in my head so long
>>737865863>Master of Orionclunky ui for 2026 but not a bad game, haven't followed 1oom development, maybe it's already superior to the original>Master of Magicshit>Civ 1+2obsoleted by newer civs>Commander Keen 4>Duke Nukem 2>Xargon>Jill of the junglereverse engineered ports available also play a proper console platformer instead>Skyroadsshit>Supaplexseems there's something called opensupaplex now though i'm not sure how good it is>Raptor: Call of the Shadowstyrian was always better or play a proper arcade shmup instead also there's a native modern windows version and source code was released>Dune 2obsoleted by command & conquer (has native windows version + source released)>Death Rally, if you don't have the modern port.the modern port is free to download so who doesn't>Xatax>dschump>heaven & earth>clockwerx/ultimate spin doctorwhat the fuck even is this shit>Fallout 1maybe i have to give you this one though seems there's something called fallout1-re>Sam and Max hit the roadscummvm>Putt putt goes to the moonscummvm also what the fuck even is this shit>Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri>MechWarrior 2 Mercsokay maybe i have to give you these, not into mechwarrior so idk if the newer ones obsolete mw2
>>737876331
>>737878382>>Master of Magic>shitStopped reading there.
>>737865445Command & Conquer
>>737866040insufferable consoomer screaming into the void
>>737866040You realize copyright was designed for 14 years when it was first introduced?
>>737880715I had the PS1 version, with the same icons as the DOS version but I'm 90% the UI was organized as a horizontally rotating carousel.
whats the name of that wizard game? somebody has to know what im talking about
>>737883256nox
>>737883256hocus pocus
whats the name of that DOS game? somebody has to know what im talking about
>>737883389captain comic
>>737883349I had the shareware version and it was really damn pretty.Exploration was decent.Combat was utter fucking shit.
>>737883389Geneforge
>>737883389Sango Fighter
W H I P L A S HHIPLASHhttps://github.com/FatalDecomp/ROLLERyou don't need dosbox anymore to play the greatest racing game of all time
>>737865445https://www.playdosgames.com/Play online in your browser
>>737884019https://github.com/dethrace-labs/dethraceand you can play the second greatest racing game of all time as a native windows port too
https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos.htmlAnd you can get everything pre-configured and downloaded via torrent from an internal search engine. In can you are a lazy fuck who can't be bothered to find DL link manually nor lurk in old-ass forum to find the specific conf DosBox need for a random-ass game.
>>737866040Destroy your PC right now! your CPU is emulating a x86 CPU and you're comiting a crime!
What's the best version/fork/whatever of DosBox to use for old games these days? I know there's at least one version with save states, but I seem to remember it being a bit unstable. I want to replay Zool, but I'm not going back to limited lives
>>737884312This with a CRT monitor is a fucking sick way to play all these. These aren't just pre-configured but also cracked versions with DRM screens removed. Also has launch options for each game to either be floppy/CD versions, different graphics modes, and all of the sound cards to pick from so you can enjoy whatever audio you prefer. The manuals are pretty essential too. eXo win is also really cool but the really good stuff won't be in it until the next batch which should hopefully cover up to 98/99.
Descent 1+2 although you can just use a sourceport instead
>>737885037I'd recommend the source port, in fact. DXX-Rebirth is wonderful
>>737882652it was on 64 too. console RTS ports were weird.
>>737866040DOSBox is literally used for official re-releases of DOS games by the original creators you fucking retarded faggot. Every Steam/GOG re-release literally uses DOSBox. >>737866553You don't need DOSBox for X-Com when OpenXcom is the superior choice >Tell me if there are better turn-based strategy games for DOS than it. Not really, most of the best turn-based strategy games are post-DOS. Like the other anon said, there is Jagged Alliance 1.>I've been reluctant to play Fallout 1 Fallout 1 isn't a DOS game, but don't expect it to be 1:1 with X-Com, there's no shame in using a guide for it, especially since the early game has some autistic pixel-clicking nonsense for some of the dungeons.
>>737865445
>>737865863>Civ 1+2fuck barbarians
>>737865445Oxyd Magnum. Cool puzzle/dexterity game.It's got two prequels (original / Per Oxyd) but they've got worse levels.
>>737865445Wizardry
>>737873608You mean like the catalogue in RDR2? You could even download an app and buy things from it from your phone.
>>737886859More like Nips of the Cosmic Forge
this thread reeks of retard
Dune CDColonizationBermuda SynndromePsycho PinballBudokanSango FightersStreet Rod 1+2
>>737866176this
>>737866176Why does the 2nd game have such a bad OST compared to the 1st?
>>737885940>Fallout 1 isn't a DOS gameYes it is, otherwise it wouldn't have been included in the eXoDOS collection. The original retail release came with DOS support, but the readme file VERY STRONGLY recommended not to actually play the game that way as running it in DOS is very unstable and more crash prone. It was basically treated as a last resort in case you somehow couldn't get it run in Windows.
>>737885940>You don't need DOSBox for X-Com when OpenXcom is the superior choiceI'm aware of OpenXcom and OpenXcom Extended. I had to resort to playing it when it crashed multiple times when I tried to play it in DOSBox. There should be an option in the settings that automatically disables every feature that wasn't in the vanilla game. It's preventing me from playing a purely vanilla playthrough of X-Com, although I know I should just try to play it in DOSBox if I wanted to do that
>>737889334I should mention that I played it in DOSBox Staging and not the regular variant
>>737865445Lemmings
Lotus Spirit Turbo ChallengeIndianapolis 500Nascar RacingOutrun
>>737867039>>737870991>ctrl+f: crusader>two resultsvery good
>>737885030>eXowinOh shit, didn't know they made a version for that too.Fucking hell I really to save some cash and buy a few hardrives to install the full versions.
>>737876331>and old entries in franchises which have been fully obsoleted by newer ones.I bet you are the kind of retard who never tried Diablo 1 just because Diablo 3/4 exist.
>>737866040Hey, I can dig this one out.
>>737866040The law won't change overnight, and if it does it's irrelevant because I already have every rom ever. What now?
>>737882652i don't remember it like that, but it floated instead of being attached to the side. maybe it could be toggled to be horizontal?>>737885301c&c was in 3D on N64 and the music was remade into being midi, it was almost like a whole other game
>>737891824>i don't remember it like that, but it floated instead of being attached to the side. maybe it could be toggled to be horizontal?Found them.The floating one was RA1, without any carousel but pressing a button (can't remember which one) opened another interface that showed all the available option for that construction slot.
>>737882652https://youtu.be/hofzKv_xDSo?t=272you were right about scrolling horizontallyhttps://youtu.be/GY9IPFjFWXQ?t=182looks like the N64 version also had a side bar, i'm sure i remember a floating semi-transparent version thothe N64 version looks so cursed.. it also didn't have cutscene videos, didn't fit on the cassette. just still images and audio
>>737892253ah it was RA, thanks for setting it straight
only the best
Wizardry 1, 4, 5Daggerfall>>737866040Dosbox is a legit company, you can buy the games legally, Daggerfall should be $2 on gog.
alien trilogy obviously
>>737892604>DaggerfallHow faithful is the Unity remake? Did they stick to the original as much as possible or is it an "improved" version?
>>737866040you joke but 16-bit exe files doesn't even run on 64-bit windows, emulation is necessary
>>737866294https://www.retrogames.cz/play_1738-DOS.phpyou beat me game, 36 years later and "type stuff from the manual" is still the best copy protection>seems like you can type anything, or i just guessed correctly with "k"
>>737889186Huh I didn't know that, my bad. >>737889334Yeah that's fair, I can understand not wanting to play around with Open Xcom if you want to go pure 100% vanilla purist. But it's still worth checking out for future playthroughs and especially modded playthroughs. It has a lot of good quality of life features that make it worthwhile. >>737889538Why not the regular variant?
>>737865445Question, I am a total noob with DOSBox, does anyone know the best way to get the definitive/best sound settings for a specific game so I don't have to rely on a shitty soundsystem that wasn't what the game was intended for? I've been trying to play pic related on DOSBox-X for context, and got no idea what to do.
>>737889876>Crazy Cars IIII could have sworn that was a branded Lamborguini game
>>737866040Retard award.
>>737865863>Duke Nukem 2Plays better in the Rigel Engine source port
>>737893515> so I don't have to rely on a shitty soundsystem that wasn't what the game was intended forIs there is any sound at all, then that was intended.Soundboards weren't standardized back then so games had to be packaged with different soundtracks for each card, and "the best" is going to be partially a matter of taste (and nostalgia for the version you had). That's why looking up old games' OST on youtube will often return several version labeled "Adlib", "MT-32" or whatever who all sound slightly differently. All those versions are "as intended" and done manually by the artist.
>>737893167If only you could find a manual as easily as the game itself... Oh wait: https://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/street-rod/download/1891
>>737894007I see, I'll have to look through the OSTs for each board and play around with changing soundboards until I find the one that sounds the nicest for me. Thanks for the explanation, I admittedly didn't grow up with DOS, so I am fairly new to it.
>>737893515Probably the easiest and laziest option is to just download eXoDOS lite and whenever a game has a more advanced looking option for sound available on the startup, pick that.
I really wish getting games to run at a proper speed wasn't a gigantic pain in the ass of fucking with cycle counts so shit isn't Speedy Gonzalez or running like a slug through molasses. Also fucking with voice acting or weird soundcard setups in some games is a huge asspain. ALSO installing some games is a bitchnigger, some are easy to mount but then you have shit like the cd version of TES: Arena that I can't figure out at all and there are very little tutorials available for it because for some reason very few people seem to give early PC the same love early consoles get.
>>737894069I realize now this might have been the manual for the first game, and retract my sarcasm
>>737890959well diablo 1 is very limited compared to 2 and it doesn't take long to see everything it has to offer, and there's very little reason to go back to after that except maybe once 10-20 years or so. but in some ways it is better than 2 as a contained proper single player experience and it's more atmospheric, and the ui isn't that much worse than in 2 (besides there's devilutionx now) so it's worth it to try out at least once if you've never played it. 3 and 4 are blizz official servers online only drm which i'm not a fan of, at least poe has an excuse in that it's f2pdune 2 is just a shittier c&c with a clunky ui (ok it has the frank herbert dune universe thing going on if that's something you want) and why bother playing civ 1 or 2 now unless you're doing research on the origins of the series or something, and it's not been mentioned but war2 also isn't that great compared to starcraft because of the almost identical factions (nice cd soundtrack tho but you can listen to it without dosbox)
>>737894864The first sentence of this post is so reductive and dumb I didn't bother reading the rest of it.
>>737893515When it comes to midi if you have the option to choose always pick Roland MT-32. It's a midi sound module that was very expensive back in the day, but it now can be easily emulated and it makes a huge difference in bgm if you play DOS games. You just need the proper files for your emulator of choice. Budokan supports MT-32, but you need to select it each time you run the game.
>>737865863GoG does all of the work for you with all of these games. No point in dabbling in DosBox when you can just get an installer.
>>737895631Wasn't Adlib Gold the fanciest sound card of that era?
>>737880715I just came
>>737865445Descent to UndermountainI wish it was good bros...
>>737893364I'm actually using OpenXcom Extended for my first playthrough of X-COM. The only mod I have installed is Less Dense Smoke, which only applies a visual change>>737893364>Why not the regular variant?DOSBox Staging just has more settings that make it easier to play games in DOSBox, including expanding the environment variables so all of the files don't have to be under 8 characters for them to be opened in it. With that said, I wish that DOSBox Staging had an auto option for its cycles. It only accepts numbers and max for its cycles
>>737893515It's on case-to-case basis and >>737894007 is also wrong. A lot of games past a certain point (around 1993 or so) came with a single copy of MIDI file format music + a wrapper that translated MIDI commands into alternative sound generating/mixing frameworks like OPL or GUS. You'd need to look around on the internet to find out what the "intended experience" was. vgmpf.com is usually a good place to start looking.
>>737895497well some people are weird and like to watch laserdiscs or vhs when there's a bluray available with the exact same content>>737895631midi music in newer dos games was often composed for general midi not mt-32 (a real or emulated roland sound canvas or yamaha xg synth is usually best for the gm stuff)also if you want to emulate a mt-32 make sure you really emulate it and not a basic soundcard or gm synth in mt-32 mode, a real mt-32 is programmable (instruments can be redefined) while the mt-32 compatibility mode in newer devices only simulates the default instruments>>737895850not really
>>737865445emulate arcade games insteadold western pc games have always been complete dogshit
>>737895684>GoG does all of the workYou mean GoG takes the work other people did and puts a price tag on it
>>737895850I think Adlib Gold was very rare and most games were designed for the lower-quality Adlib OPL2.
>>737896314shit take, play some more games
>>737896314with some exceptions agreed (the exceptions tend to be playable without dosbox because somebody actually cared about them since they're good games)
>>737896123>around 1993 or soThat's toward the end of MSDOS games tho. Shit was starting to have CD instead of only floppies at that point.
Amulets and Armor.It was even worked on for a little bit in the early 2010s, where it got a multiplayer feature.
I'd probably play more dos games if installing them wasn't such a bitch and finding clean install files wasn't a nightmare. Every repo out there is some custom configuration I don't want or need.>fucking exodos
>>737896536>don't like to have anything to do>don't like when there is nothing to doGuess you were just born to suffer, then.
>>737896536lazy nigger
>>737896782I like playing videogames. I don't like spending 4 hours trying to bumblefuck my way through mounting and installing shit that I don't have even a basic grasp on until I inevitably give up and I can't find any documentation for.>>737896853This isn't a problem I can solve by trying harder. I don't know what to do with some games and nobody bothered writing this shit down anywhere.
>>737896950> I don't like spending 4 hours trying to bumblefuck my way through mounting and installing shit that I don't have even a basic grasp on until I inevitably give up and I can't find any documentation for.Then what's your problem with eXoDos? It was literally made for (you).
>>737898087I can't easily modify it to use whatever soundcard I desire or use it with staging so I can get sickass filters.
>>737865445Covert Action
Ecstatica. Short, but great survival horror game.
>>737866553Its significantly better using source port openxcom extended, but its still to tier dosbox
>>737866040silence tendie, adults are talking.
>>737866040Nuke Japan 5 more times pls
>>737892839Depends on what you consider an improvement. Infighting exists and can be toggled off.Dodging applying to the enemies was fixed. I think in the og. Damaging a monster's stat to 0 wouldnt kill them but could kill the player. And that behavior was made to apply to both npc and players.
>>737892604>paying for daggerfallBethesda literally released it (and Arena) as freeware and there's several places where you can get it for free legitimately, like Steam (which also happens to use dosbox)
>>737900617Would that lead to anime getting better or worse?
Since people were talking about OpenXcom in this thread, does anyone know how to have it play MIDI music? Despite using 1.4 files with OpenXcom, I'm unable to have it play MIDI files and it always defaults to AdLib music
>>737865445Traffic Department 2192
>>737866040This is the same argument anti-AI tards make>YOU'RE STEALING!!!!!
>>737866040Nice bait, brownoid
>>737901358https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg0At--6lk4
>>737901543
>>737865445BiomenaceColonizationone must fall 2097fatal racing
>>737901543oh cool, it's by robert allen.
>>737894219I could try that in the worst case scenario.>>737895631Thanks for the info>but you need to select it each time you run the game.Is there a way to have that auto-configured so I don't need to do it every time?>>737896123I see, I'll look into vgmpf, that might be the best long-term way for me to be certain. Thanks
>>737866040>I made poor life decisions and now try to recoup some dignity
>>737894295das rite
>>737899965rule34?
>>737905403The world isn't ready for ellipsoid smut.
>>737905561>she even asks the player to "play" with her
