#ms-dos

[soapdispensersalesman]

#ms mari #mariko #megaman.exe #mega man battle network meme #mega man battle network #megaman #megaman meme #rockman.exe #rockman #DOOM #DOOM eternal #DOOM game #MS-DOS #can it run doom #mmbn #battle network #mega man #blackboard #doom meme #freedoom

[digitalfossils]

#80s #MS-DOS #village #trees #porch #vaporwave #beautiful #aesthetic

[foone]

I've been hacking on Railroad Tycoon (DOS, 1990) for a week+ now and I decided to finally put some of my knowledge to good use and I made a custom map for the game:

It's the Trans(-continental) Railroad (Tycoon)!

#trans pride flag #railroad tycoon #ms-dos #crts

[stoplookingup]

A lot of younger folks find it weird and even hilarious that their elders are over-cautious -- dare I say, terrified -- about accidentally hitting the wrong button on their computer, like if they're not careful, they'll accidentally blow it up.

That's because younger folk have only ever used fairly idiot-proof computers. They've never known the joys of MS-DOS, where every floppy disk had to be formatted from the command line by typing FORMAT followed by the letter of the appropriate drive. And if you typed the wrong letter -- or even just forgot to type any letter -- before hitting enter, you reformatted your hard drive. That's right, you wiped everything on your hard drive, with one keystroke, in the course of doing a common, everyday task.

There were all kinds of other pitfalls. Like for example, foolishly starting to upgrade Windows without realizing that you had to first make sure certain files were in the correct path, and if they weren't, the install couldn't find them and it just ground to a halt, leaving you with a half-installed OS, which is the same as having no OS at all. (Ask me how I know.)

Mind you, people should be able to learn new ways of doing things, and they should understand that there are safeguards now that make those kinds of mistakes nearly impossible. But it's not that easy to let go of fear, and those early PCs really traumatized us. More than a few of us lost days, weeks, even months of work. Whole novels. So next time Grandma is kind of freaking out about hitting trash or install or whatever, have some pity. She's been through a lot.

#early pc's #take pity on your elders #ms-dos #trauma

[fuzzyghost]

#microsoft #ms-dos #90s #chainsaw #retro computing #vhs #retro #gif

[weeklyinternetarchive]

Several MS-DOS based viruses, now removed of its destructive capability but leaving their messages. 

Top to bottom

- FELLOW.COM - - HYMN.COM - [sound warning] - CRASH.COM - [eyestrain and flashing lights warning]

#daily internet archive #internet archive #malware #ms-dos #vintage computer #eyestrain #virus

[neververy4]

It’s official

I have written my first x86 assembly program, complied it directly onto a floppy, and ran it on original hardware!

Alas, I used EMU8086 to write and compile the code 😔 so I’m almost there, but not quite. But I’m more than close enough to be happy (:

All this program does is print text to the DOS screen. But, that’s all I wanted it to do :) Just a test

#neververy4 #MS-DOS #Gateway #2000 #colorbook #Floppy #program #code

[contac]

#big business #1990 #ms-dos #dos #retrogaming #retrocomputing #pixel art

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Hell on CD-ROM

“This CD-ROM is so good... You’ll crap your pants!” (PC Gamer #15, Aug. 1995)

#doom #doom ii #pc gaming #MS-DOS #video game ads #retro gaming

[moonlightfaust]

Dの食卓 D (3DO ver., 1995)

#D #Dの食卓 #Warp #Warp Inc. #Kenji Eno #Horror #FMV #Interactive Movie #Playstation #PS1 #Sega Saturn #MS-DOS #3DO

[thechosenpumbloom]

A collection of random box covers of both notable and not so notable MS-DOS horror games. All credits to people on Mobygames. Feel free to add.

#Halloween #MS-DOS #Horror games #Survival horror #7th guest #Alone in the Dark #Ubisoft #Alien Carnage #Apogee #Blood #Bureau 13 #Dark Seed #h.r. giger #accolade #Elvira #dracula #Ecstatica #gabriel knight #sierra online #hugos house of horror #lurking horror #infocom #monster bash #Call of Cthulhu #strahd #Nightmare on elm street #clive barker #nightbreed #ssi #Shadow of the comet

[posthumanwanderings]

attract mode, Violent Vengeance: The Universe Hero (Accend / Soft-World - MS-DOS - 1994)

#shoutout @ mugenfinder for posting about this awful game #Violent Vengeance #The Universe Hero #fighting games #chinese games #MS-DOS #bad games #Accend #Soft-World #attract mode

[digitalfossils]

#80s #MS-DOS #The crew consists of three extraordinary beings

[foone]

Happy Pride Month, everyone! For this year I went retro and made a DOS program called VGAPride. It'll show a wide variety of flags on any DOS-compatible computer with a VGA or compatible video card.

It's open source, and you can download an EXE here (it'll work in DOSBox if you don't have a Packard Bell 486 handy)

Some examples, shot on a Pentium-60:

It also includes some regional pride flags, like the Brazil Gay Pride Flag:

And at least one flag I just made up, the Cool Crab Pride Flag:

#pride month #pride flags #ms-dos #lgbtq

[nulcow]

I wanted to know because I felt like developing a point-and-click adventure game for a retro platform, and I think Windows would be the easiest one to make it for; the problem being that Windows 3.1/9x are some of the least accessible retro platforms.

I might port it to other platforms later, but this isn’t guaranteed.

#196 #gamedev #retro #windows #macintosh #amiga #ms-dos #gaming #retro gaming #retro computing

[soapdispensersalesman]

#mmbn #DOOM #can it run doom #DOOM game #doom eternal #MS-DOS #doom #mega man battle network meme #megaman meme #megaman.exe #megamana #mega man battle network #yai #Yai Ayanokoji #Yai #yaito #Yaito Ayanokoji #Ayanokoji Yaito #Ayanokoji Yai #PET #rockman.exe #Lan Hikari #Netto Hikari #Hikari Netto #Netto #Lan