MS-DOS Games

operation: inner space

it's a sort of space sim except "space" is actually your hard drive. you can choose any directory and the files inside of it are the levels. there's different factions and they all have different AI based on the faction you choose, you can also gain or lose reputation based on who you attack or defend

Let me help you user

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I was looking for that one, thanks

This keeps being brought up in DOS games threads. Maybe by the same user? But that's a Windows game. I've played it.
mobygames.com/game/win3x/operation-inner-space

Not really a hidden gem, but OMF2097 is what I played.

Imperialism 2 is the most recent DOS game I've played. Feels very heavy board gamey which for me is the sweet spot for turn based strategies. Would be too fiddly and complicated as a board game but works perfectly as a video game.

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Eye of the Beholder

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Master of Magic

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Do yourself a favor and set up Roland Sound Canvas VA & Munt. Your enjoyment of the games will double.

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You should try Daggerfall, the premiere western RPG of the millennium. Prepare to experience your new obsession.

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>blood
>hidden gem
ZOOM ZOOM

>Dark Sun not on the list
0/10

DOSBox Enhanced Community Edition for better scaling:
dosboxece.yesterplay.net/download/

D-Fend Reloaded - Great DOSBox frontend:
downloads.sourceforge.net/dfendreloaded/D-Fend-Reloaded-1.4.4-Setup.exe

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>no Waxworks
>no Curse of Enchantia
>no Banana Bass
>no Rayman
>no Blake Stone
>no Prince of Persia
>no AitD 2 and 3
>no Sim Earth

It's almost as if in order to make a postable image some had to be cut.

Play ganja farmer

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X-Wing and TIE Fighter are great for light flight sims

Who else a MIDI chad here?

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A lot of those are shit and are only on there because they are famous for one reason or the other. Phantasmagoria for example

is your midi player the best one? I aldready got an sc 55 soundfont but I just need a midi player to play games with

Savihost always gets a lot of delay over time for me with SCVA, I use a program called MIDIPlayer instead, keeping it in the taskbar makes it basically equivalent

That's a synthesizer, a spot-on oftware emulation of the Sound Canvas 88 Pro

Alien Rampage
Might & Magic 3,4 and 5
Tube by Bullfrog
Future Dimensions
Stargunner

>people still use janky hacky DOSbox for emulation instead of the superior PCem
>laughs in Voodoo and Win9x games

Dosbox has been able to do both of those things for years, user

based an midipilled, brother

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No Treasure Mathstorm? Terrible.

And is still the same hacky subpar mess it's been for years.

yea but I want to use sc 55

PCem is dead user

>just updated to v15
>dead
No, DOSbox is dead, been 0.74 for years now.

You can set it between SC-55, SC-88, SC-88 Pro, and 2(?) later versions.

DOSBox was updated recently but it's only a security update. No much work is being done on the emulation end it seems.

>he uses emulators instead of dual booting dos and windows or linux
No, I'm the one laughing at YOU.

The options are SC-55, SC-88, SC-88Pro & SC-8820

>I use a program called MIDIPlayer instead
Got a link for me there?

DreamWeb

Raptor.
Heretic and Hexen.
System Shock.

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there's serpent in the staglands that's supposed to be pretty good

>right now I'm playing good games everyone knows, can anyone suggest any good games that I don't know?
Smoothbrain

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vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=48207

It's a bit tricky to setup, but you set it to the loopmidi output and open the scva vsti in it

Then you just put a shortcut in the windows startup folder to have it launch on login

It even remembers that it's in SC-55 mode between PC restarts which Savihost also never did for me

There's been svn builds going on forever. Years of updates. Just not officially released for some reason.

If i don't get wrong you need to increase cpu cycles

Thanks

Show me the most graphically impressive MS-DOS game.

Someone ported Quake 2 to DOS so probably that

That's impressive, but I'd like to see something back from DOS' heyday, from the 90s.

>no mention of chasm: the rift
bruh

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Quake maybe
Tomb Raider.

I think by 1997 most PC games were being made for windows.

youtube.com/watch?v=IG3hd1humM0

I'm assuming you're looking for 3D here.

Nice.

Is that the pseudo-3d game with a custom engine programmed by one dude? It kinda looks like Quake except everything has to be on a flat plane like it's Wolf3d?

I can't believe it hadn't been posted yet.
Play Dark Forces.

I might give my vote to Comanche 3 actually.
youtube.com/watch?v=4bByAGhzZtM

Slipstream 5000
Test drive off road
Whiplash
Wacky wheels
Lotus 3 the ultimate challenge

No terra nova strike force centauri
No shattered steel
No xatax
No dschump
Shit list.

There is a group called "Retrospec" that does freeware versions of DOS classics. They're mostly 1:1 but they run on Windows and have updated graphics.

I played, and enjoyed thoroughly, their versions of Alien-8 and Knight Lore.

In particular I finished Knight Lore and memorizing the rooms and doing jumping tricks with the items is super fun. I had to plan a route on a piece of paper to win the game after a lot of exploration and tries and deciding which way was safer at any given time, which rooms were too risky and where items would spawn.

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Destruction Derby 2
Screamer 2
Death Rally
Big Red Racing
Stunts

Looks and sounds like "some" assets were "borrowed" from Quake. Seems you're right about the flatness. Only height difference is about a foot or some. Not a single stair case or incline. You know a surprising amount about this title.

This game is fucking incredible and I highly recommend it. I love it so much that I have it installed on my phone and i play with a dosbox clone for android (pretty funny that it is called magicbox!) And also have a windows port of it with better enemy ai, bigger maps, up to 12 players, etc...
Anyway it truly is phenomenal and still unmatched. Lords of magic special edition, age of wonders shadow magic, warwick master of the arcane, planar conquest... All come close but not quite.

I'd replace Goblins 3 with 2, it's a less ambitious game, but makes far better use of the unique two-character mechanic.

You should try Sabrewulf If you liked Knight Lore. They also named one of the characters in Killer Instinct like that as a tribute.

I could never get into adventure games in general but they do make up a substantial portion of the DOS game catalog

TERMINAL FUCKING VELOCITY

Came here to post this. Used to play this with my boy years ago.

Great game.
Probably terminal veloxity or descent 2.

I honestly can't even remember where I've heard of it. The only reason the game stuck out was that it looks like true 3d but can't even do flat stairs to a different elevation.

Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan

Both are great games, but mostly forgotten for some reason.

Got any friends with small hands? Slicks'n'Slide is a racing game with 4-player single screen multiplayer where everyone uses the keys on a single keyboard.

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Where's Pool of Radiance?

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Lots of them are famous for inventing stuff that we now take for granted. E.g. Dune II's UI will make you want to kill yourself if you played any RTS post Warcraft 2, but it is the game where nearly all RTS games have their roots in. Alone in the Dark has tons of unfair trial-and-error and infuriatingly clunky movement, but similarly, it's where nearly all third person horror games originate from.

Star Control 2 is one of the best games of all time. Play Day of the Tentacle as well.

Star Control 2 is the shit.
sc2.sourceforge.net/

Holy shit this so much

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>keyboard error beeping intensifies
>STOP HOGGING THE KEYS user

Depends on what you want. Early real-time 3D graphics in DOS generally look laughable by modern standards, but there's a shit ton of impressive pixel art, pick any popular point-and-click game and you'll find some.
If you want the most impressive pre-rendered/FMV stuff in DOS, try 7th Guest.

Are you trying to make more people incapable of forgetting Ymir, Tei Tenga, Moon Dagger and the rest?

in my experience the only way you get the keyboard beeping from the input buffer filling up is when someone is using the arrow keys. You can have everyone holding wasd, tfgh, ijkl and, numpad 5123 but it doesn't beep as long as nobody's holding any of the arrow keys.

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Most point-and-click games of the mid-90s, aside from a few absolute classics like Monkey Island, are now obscure because everyone got too excited for 3D.

The garbage 4th game didn't help either.

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Get Planet X3.
It's a good RTS game made by a /k/ gun fetishist in 8086 assembly. It was released two months ago.

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I've never seen anyone mention Centurion in one of these threads. It's literally Rome Total War before RTW was a thing. The higher difficulties can be pretty brutal.

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>no mention One Must Fall 2097

How dare you.

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This. Played this game to death. It blew me the fuck away that I was able to play it despite being too poor to own any kind of graphics card that mattered.

DOS game, played up to 4 on one keyboard
It was top down view fantasy game with warriors and wizards, each player controlled a character
You all had to walk around the little maps defeating all the monsters and then you went to the next stage
Any one know the game?

I particularly remember a stage where the enemies were slimes, a fuckton of slimes

Volfied
MDK (I prefer the DOS version because chunky and also awesome)
One Must Fall 2097
Abuse

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I remember that game but could never remember the name

came here to post this and you beat me to it user

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Genuinely one of my favorite games of all time

The amount of autism that went into supporting exotic video hardware in that game never ceases to impress me.

I've never played the 4th game. Does it at least reference the older games in one way or another?
Also, don't forget Woodruff and The Schnibble of Azimuth. Sort of a Goblins spin-off, but not really and hands down the hardest point & click game I've ever played.

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It's present in both big charts posted above.

The Lost Tribe on DOS
You lead a tribe of unga bungas to find a new homeland to settle, you need to juggle time limit, food supplies, and leadership scores.

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>Girlfriend

wat dis be?

thumbnail looks like two balls and two dicks going at each other.

Why no original Mechwarrior 2?

QUEST
FOR
GLORY
MOTHER
FUCKER
>adventure
>grind stats
>safari to the middle east
>magic for intfags
>thieving dickery for dexfags

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I can't speak for everyone but MW2 is a fucking bitch to get going right on modern hardware even with MechWM. My mouse just seems to be incompatible with it for example. And I wanted to play it bad. I wasted several days trying to fix that shit.

It's basically new levels for the 1st game, rendered in poor 3D.
It's not very fun, it looks like absolute dogshit, and half of the puzzles are insultingly simple.

I was disappointed in Woodruff for several reasons. It no longer has teamwork that distinguished Goblins from other point-and-click games, the character art doesn't look as cute in high resolution, and the game is just too big with too many screens and objects, leading to a ton of tedious walking until you get the teleporter gizmo.

Do you know where I can pirate this game and/or Planet X2? I checked, but everybody seems to be so fucking honourable in America that they seem impossible to find; I'd like to give them a try, though.

X2, I have no idea.
X3 might be hard because people buy it to support his youtube channel. So finding a disk image might be challenging.

Tell me about it, I tried to look for it again now and failed. It appears kickstarter morality conditioning is the best fucking DRM. If anyone has it, it'd be most appreciated if they could upload it. I really like the idea of a new DOS game, I'd like to try it, but I'm not into the genre, so it isn't even worth buying it for me.

I don't have it right now, maybe check /vr/ for it.
It's small enough where someone can embed it in a .png if that trick still works. 1.44 mb even.

Covert Action
Sword of the Samurai

Oh my, I will be checking eagerly

>the 8 bit guy is a /k/ gun fetishist
source

>embed it in a .png
When did rarjpegs come back? I have taken one too many vacations from this site.

Oh boy do I have a rabbit hole for you
youtube.com/watch?v=tqBbUmITyu8

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I don't know if they have, I just haven't tried it in ages.

homeoftheunderdogs.net/

you're welcome.

is dosbox still a piece of shit or there's something new that made it better or replaced it?
what midi player should I use to get the best sound?