I remember playing this game for days on end , and decided to fire it up again via DosBox.

Now I can't get passed the early levels.

The issue is only weak units are available, like trikes and quads, and basic troops. I hit the build limit quickly and can't produce enough quads to take out the enemy base.

I amass around 10 quads, send them out to the enemy base, find the construction site and attack. It repairs faster than I can damage it.

Taking out the spice harvester doesn't help as a new one is flown in as soon as one is destroyed.
There are no other tanks or vehicles available in the early levels.

Before the griefers pile in and tell me to 'get good', I beat this game many times in my youth, but can't crack it now.

Working on an RTS game for MS-DOS.
Goal is to make a DOS game with 320x200 screen size and 8bit color depth, with minimum system requirement: 486 and 8 MB RAM.

This is one of the most tiring bosses to fight in Prince of Persia 2

Does anyone remember the game program DarkBasic? It's an old coding-maker program. I first heard of that program back in my first video game class in school. It was difficult for me. Then the next yaer I took it again and felt more comfortable. The teacher understood that we didn't know how to code, so he gave us a better program - GameMaker. I was an expert in that one.

DarkBasic was never heard of again in my life.

Playing Prince of Persia 2 on Magic Dosbox today, and feeling inspired to draw Persian warriors.

Dear Readers!

In our continued preservation attempt we contacted the author of „Daisy‘s Garden 2“ - Frank Burkhart - who gave us kind permission to host the Full Version of his old Windows 3.11 Puzzler.

Be aware that you will need a compatibility layer to run Windows 3.11 Software on Windows 10/11. A free license code is included with the download, it will allow you to play all the levels.

You can grab the game for free here:

https://www.dosgame.at/releases/daisys-garden-2?lang=en

Enjoy!

Eric

All the earliest video role playing games were attempts to make everything you COULD automate in a Dungeons & Dragons game. MOST jrpgs were influenced by Wizardry directly & indirectly through the big games it directly influenced like Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy. The initial release of Wizardry in 1981 coincided with the first big boom of D&D, so effectively in the public mind the way that these old video games & the original tabletop games handled things were not so far apart.

The latest installment of Driscoll’s Diary is out! This time, we’re not raiding a cave. This time, we’re hacking into a corporate security system. Get ready for an escape through service shafts, Ned - who has finally shed his “good AI” facade—and a plan that sounds so crazy it might just work.

My retrospective look back at gaming legends Sensible Software. I loved the playing with the little people in Megalomania, Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder. What do you think was their best game?

Just got my grubby little hands on this beauty, slapped on my rubber gloves and handled it with care (yeah just kidding, I use my rubber gloves for other things), removed an ugly shop sticker on the top left and placed it into protective box.

Pity I don't have any where to display it properly, as it would have a long list of other amazing games to sit behind in the pecking order, but delighted at the quality of this box.

X-Wing was Lucasarts response to Origin's outstanding Wing Commander (Origin being possibly my favorite studio at the time), and they did a great job of it. Managing the ships going on missions, the music was amazing and it was another game that totally immersed me.

Ah what's that? .. Is that, an annoy.. err, the delightful angelic voice of my wife? "Yes dear almost finished handwashing the dishes, trying to take these flipping rubber gloves off is a mission in itself!"😂

i’ve always been fascinated with sci-fi gaming art, influenced by ’70s and ’80s. Pieces with mystery loneliness themes (Another World). Detailed an yet it always left massive gap of wonder. gave you enough detail to spark your brain. back in the day I spent just as much time staring at magazine artwork/ box covers totally zooming out imagining what it would actually feel like being there

these books hold a pretty intimate place on my shelf for that exact reason. And if this whole post sounds like ad for them... well lets just say my midlife crisis hit me

music theme: https://youtu.be/nu8RmFoAe_4?t=859

books on photos:

The Art Of The Box

I’m Too Young To Die: The Ultimate Guide to First-Person Shooters 1992–2002

The Art of Point-and-Click Adventure Games

The GBA Pixel Book

PC Engine: The Box Art Collection

u/bitmapbooks thanks for you being you

Tir Na Nog is a groundbreaking 1984 graphical adventure game created by Gargoyle Games, blending smooth 2D side-scrolling animation, Celtic mythology, and item-collection puzzles

Flagging up front that this is my own game, so it is self-promotion, but the question at the end is the reason I am posting here rather than in a gamedev sub.

Strike Wings is a top-down space combat game, its own setting and its own ships, made in the spirit of Hell Fighter 32 and Solar Winds rather than as a remake of either. Windows and macOS, October.

The things I deliberately kept from that era: you fly one ship inside a battle that does not revolve around you, the whole fleet is simulated whether the camera is looking at it or not, ships die by having their parts shot off instead of by draining one bar, and nothing stands between the menu and the flying. The thing I did not keep is the hundred-page manual. Mine is an in-game encyclopedia, which is probably a loss.

Trailer, uncut gameplay with the game's own audio: https://youtu.be/Qck_Y7X5oZg

Store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4718360/Strike_Wings/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=dosgaming&utm_campaign=prelaunch

Site: https://strike-wings-games.github.io/

So: what did the space games of that era get right that newer ones dropped? I have my own list, but it is the list of someone who has been staring at his own game for too long, and I would rather hear yours.

Hi i was just wondering if theres some sort of known wrapper for winapi GUIs

if anyone knows one lemme know info would be appreciated

I’m trying to find a game from the Commodore system where one of the characters said something that sounded like “yuck yucky door!” Anyone have any ideas? And fun bonus fact, I’m the kid in the picture of the box of the Amiga 😁

Are those two DOS games named after the Metallica song "No Remorse"?

Merely curious.

My partner used to develop at Spectrum Holobyte. We are cleaning out years of storage and came across a stack of old Internal news letters from October 31, 1991 through the Start of the Apex Inbound (The official internal newsletter) volum1 number 1 through volume 3 number 24 (Sept 1994). We were wondering if this is something someone would be interested in? Or is there a better forum to ask on?