DOS Games Music Collection
I'm playing Eye of the Beholder for the first time (SO good) and am a bit disappointed with the music. Naturally, I went on a hunt to build up a collection of DOS game music and found this site.
You can filter by platform (DOS filter is applied in the URL linked to this post) but what's really cool is that there is a torrent for the whole site's collection of MIDI and MOD tracks! The whole archive is 1.38gb and I'll be seeding it indefinitely.
This is the magnet link: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c3354503aa06d46c2c77193afb4ff6bc40c0e368&dn=mirsoftJuly2021snapshot&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce
Now, time for me to get back to dungeon cartography.
Sounds intriguing, I'll give it a go. The handful of tactics games I've played I enjoyed a lot so could be quite good.
I am a (very casual) 40k fan and the Space Hulk poster always catches my eye but I've been put off by the fact that it's a old strategy (feels hard to get into) but knowing it's actually good makes it worth trying. Thanks for the recommendations yo.
Sweet, thanks for the recs, I'll check em both out, starting with the original. I vaguely recall seeing someone call Blitzkrieg a semi-spiritual successor and if that's the case I'm all in.
It's Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion. It's a Romero game from the Softdisk days so there's plenty of gore. There's also unique death portraits for the player based on which monster kills you and those are great as well.
I love the game but if you're a new player just know that it's very unforgiving. Try to kill enemies from as far away as you can and get used to prefiring the green slimes.
Very interesting, I'm surprised it works as well as it does. I also have nostalgia for emulation - namely using no$gb (no cash gameboy) via DOS (I think) to play Pokemon Red and Blue.
I just checked and the emulator is still around and you can get the DOS version but it looks to be a much later version than the I one I used in ~97
Bleem! and Nesticle are also quite nostalgic for me too.
Good WW2 strategy/tactics games?
I've been getting a bit more in strategy games, outside of real-time, and am keen to explore some of the DOS WW2 strategy games. I know strategy games and flight sims were both very popular, especially in the earlier years, so I'm hoping someone's got some suggestions for me :)
For context - other WW2 strategy games I'm playing at the moment are Hearts of Iron IV, Blitzkireg 1 and Company of Heroes 2.
Oldies but Goldies - DOS Collection
Let's see how this goes.. here's a collection of games (1740)
Doom Shovelware Collection
This is a collection of commercial compilations for Doom and Doom 2 (with some Heretic and Hexen stuff as well).
I sourced all of these from archive.org and then extracted them from their various CD images to make things as easy as possible for people. There were so many different CD image formats and I was unable to extract a couple but most are here. There is hundreds of thousands of wads here.
If you don't know where to start, my personal favorite is the D!Zone series. D!Zone Gold or D!Zone Collectors Edition are a good jumping off point.
Retro FPS Collection
This is a collection of retro FPS which I downloaded a long, long time ago. Below is an excerpt of the readme so you can see what's in the collection:
**1st Wave: **
-Battlezone + -Castle Master + -Cybercon 3 -Cyber-Cop -Eye Of The Beholder -Faceball 2000 -Hovertank 3D -Midwinter + -Mobile Suit Z Gundam - Hot Scramble -Space School Simulator - The Academy -Star Cruiser -Terminator 2029 -WaxWorks -Xenocide
**2nd Wave: **
-Alien Cabal -Bad Toys 3D -Blake Stone + -Bloodshot - Battle Frenzy -Bobenstein 3D (Demo) -Catacomb + -Corridor 7 + 8 -Depth Dwellers -Escape From Monster Manor - A Terrifying Hunt For The -Undead -H.U.R.L. -In Extremis -Isle Of The Dead -Ken's Labyrinth -Lethal Tender -Mr. Pibb: The 3D Interactive Game -Nerves Of Steel -Nitemare 3D -Operation Body Count -Pathways Into Darkness -Robocop 3 -Super Noah's Ark 3D -Terminal Terror -The Fortress Of Doctor Radiaki -The Terminator - Rampage -Thor's Hammer -Ultima Underworld + -William Shatner's Tek War -Wolfenstein +
**3rd Wave: **
-Alien Trilogy -Alien vs Predator -Alpha Storm -Ashes To Ashes - Feeding The Fires Of War -Assassin 2015 -Blood -Cybermage - Darklight Awakening -CyClones -Damage Incorporated -Descent + -Disruptor -Doom 64 -Duke Nukem 3D + -Eradicator -Fate (Demo) -(GZDoom) Action Doom 2 -(GZDoom) Blasphemer -(GZDoom) Chex Quest + -(GZDoom) Doom + -(GZDoom) Final Doom + -(GZDoom) FreeDoom -(GZDoom) HacX -(GZDoom) Harmony -(GZDoom) Heretic - Shadow Of The Serpent Riders -(GZDoom) Hexen + -(GZDoom) Strife -Immercenary -In Pursuit Of Greed -Jumping Flash! -Kileak - The DNA Imperative -Killing Time -Legend Of The 7 Paladins -Necrodome -Outlaws -PO'ed -Powerslave/Exhumed -Prime Target (Demo) -Quarantine + -Quiver -Rebel Moon + -Redneck Rampage + -Rise Of The Triad -Robotica -Shadow Warrior + -Star Wars: Dark Forces -System Shock -Terminator: Future shock + Skynet -The Elder Scrolls + -The Hidden Below -The Marathon Trilogy -Witchaven + -Wrath Of Earth -Zero Population Count -Zero Tolerance
** Obscene Wave: PORNOSHOOTERS**
-Duke Screwem -Immoral Cumbat -Rodger Ramrod (Demo)
Key: Pluses (+) indicate sequels/add ons of the games that are included (that I know of). GZDoom runs MULTIPLE games. They all are ran the EXACT SAME WAY, check GZDoom's GAMESETUP.txt file. Demos are marked by (Demo) at the end of the game title.
Computer Gaming World (CGW) Archive
CGW was one a long running PC gaming magazine which started in 1989 and ended in 2006. You can find the entire archive on CGW Museum.
The only 'issue' with the museum is the file names - it only shows the issue number (e.g - cgw_156.pdf) which makes it tricky to know when it was actually released.
To make things easier for myself when reading on my tablet I renamed the files to include the year and month of release (e.g - CGW Issue #156 (July 1997).pdf)
I've done this for 1990 - 2000 and this is what I've linked in the actual post. If you want to get the rest of the issues you should go to the museum.
Collection of DOS (and others) Manuals
Large collection of MS-DOS game manuals originally downloaded from eXoDOS.
Here's another collection to jump start the community a bit.
There are many DOS manuals here along with other systems like Atari ST. Some are in PDF, others are TXT and a few DOC.
I hope this helps someone, even if it's just for the sake of collecting.
Collection of DOS strategy guides
Thought it'd kick this community off with some content and to start I've got a collection of strategy guides for DOS games.
This collection is compiled from a few different sources. If you have a guide that's not in here please feel free to send it my way and I'll add it.
Enjoy!