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    • A
      Arcuza @Concat
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      @Concat Colonization, Railroad Tycoon, Screamer, Need for Speed

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        dawtyne10
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        @Concat

        Installed:
        JIll of the Jungle 1-3
        Bio menace 1-3
        commander keen 1-6
        lemmings
        oregon trail
        catacomb abyss
        catacomb 3d

        to do:
        shadow warrior
        star wars dark forces
        one must fall
        raptor call of the shadows
        heretic
        hexen
        jazz jackrabit
        blood

        Did not install dooms, duke 3d, wolf3d, or quake as work well in ports already

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        • suprjamiS
          suprjami
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          not mentioning One Must Fall 2097

          https://github.com/superjamie/lazyweb/wiki/RetroPie-DOSBox-OMF2097

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          • suprjamiS
            suprjami @SimonBelmont
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            @SimonBelmont

            One of my favorite DOS games was Veil of Darkness but that won't be going on my Pi as it uses the mouse a lot

            I've seen a topic about mouse rendering but haven't tried it yet myself:

            https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2032/dosbox-mapping-mouse-to-ps3-analog-stick

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            • cellyC
              celly @dawtyne10
              last edited by

              @dawtyne10 said in Favorite DOS games...:

              @Concat
              commander keen 1-6

              Hell, yes. Good choice. Also on my pi.

              Currently Playing: Tetris (Gameboy)

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              • edmaul69E
                edmaul69
                last edited by

                i have :

                doom series - all 4 releases (not shareware version)
                police quest series
                leisure suit larry series
                wolfenstein series (still having control and exit issues with castle wolfenstein in dosbox) but the other 2 work great in ports
                retro city rampage

                still need to set up:

                3 hexen/heretic games

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                • DominusD
                  Dominus
                  last edited by

                  Does anyone use controllers for any of the DOS games? I am wondering how good it works?

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                  • edmaul69E
                    edmaul69 @Dominus
                    last edited by edmaul69

                    @Dominus i actually press ctrl and f1 at the same time while in a game to configure the keyboard keys to the controller. I cant get controller dpad to work in several games and in retro city rampage i can only configure 3 buttons to the controller when i need 6 so i have to use the dosbox keyboard config to set up my controller as keyboard functions

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                    • EkstremeE
                      Ekstreme
                      last edited by

                      Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
                      Stunt Racer
                      Day of the Tentacle

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                        Concat
                        last edited by

                        I just use linuxjoystickmapper... mainly because I wanted to map mouse to a joystick, which you cant do in the dosbox mapper.

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                        • edmaul69E
                          edmaul69 @Concat
                          last edited by edmaul69

                          @Concat soooooo the shoe is now on the other foot... Please do tell me how i get and use the linuxmapper?

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                          • suprjamiS
                            suprjami @Dominus
                            last edited by

                            @Dominus Apparently DOSBox native joystick support isn't great, but the keymapper is spot on, as per my post above.

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                            • suprjamiS
                              suprjami @edmaul69
                              last edited by

                              @edmaul69 I linked his thread above.

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                              • edmaul69E
                                edmaul69 @suprjami
                                last edited by

                                @suprjami cool. I actually have joymap for the atari 800 emulator for the 5200 but i downloaded it already preconfigured. I guess i will have to figure out using it. Thanks. I will trifle through that thread and learn all this.

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                                  LSolrac2
                                  last edited by

                                  Doom (2)
                                  Wolfenstein
                                  Daggerfall <3 <3

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                                    HPK-de
                                    last edited by HPK-de

                                    Ok, i´m a bit of a DOS Freak, i´ve got all my old games up and running, and i´m still buying games from E-Bay or GOG. But most of them are old treasures from my childhood days, which i had lying around....
                                    I bought lots of games back then and in the late 90s i had ( thank god) the idea to make backups of all the floppies on CDs..... I don´t think the floppies are readable anymore....

                                    Besides a Sega Master System, i never had any consoles, so the RPi ist mostly a "DosBox".
                                    Some of these games require ISO Files, some Windows 3.11 installed, some needs a bit tweaking around (Strike Commander, Ultima 7) and some really needs a Raspberry PI 3.....
                                    And my 32GB card is filling rapidly ;-)

                                    Dosbox:
                                    1869
                                    Astrofire
                                    Caesar II
                                    Capitalism Plus
                                    Capture the Flag
                                    Conqueror AD 1086
                                    Conquest of the New World
                                    The Clou
                                    The Patrician
                                    Fugger II (the Guild)
                                    Die Kathedrale (german Text Adventure)
                                    Doom
                                    Duke Nuken 3D
                                    Elizabeth I (Ascaron)
                                    Football Ltd
                                    Grand Prix 2
                                    GTA 1
                                    Gunship 2000
                                    Hanse
                                    Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures (Win 3.11)
                                    Lemmings
                                    Links 386
                                    Mad TV
                                    Need for Speed 1
                                    Oil Imperium (aka Black Gold)
                                    Oldtimer
                                    Pirates Gold
                                    Popolous
                                    Ports of Call
                                    Raptor (Apogee)
                                    Rome AD 92
                                    Ruesselsheim
                                    Sid Meiers Civilization 1
                                    Sid Meiers Civilization 2 (Win 3.11)
                                    Sid Meiers Colonization
                                    Sid Meiers Railroad Tycoon 1
                                    Sim Ant
                                    Sim City
                                    Sim City 2000
                                    Spaceward Ho!
                                    Starttrek 25th Anniversary
                                    Strike Commander
                                    4D Sports Drivin (aka Stunts)
                                    The incredible Machine 2
                                    Theme Park
                                    Ultima 4
                                    Ultima 7
                                    Wing Commander
                                    Wing Commander Privateer
                                    Wolfenstein 3D
                                    Worlds of Ultima - Savage Empire
                                    Worlds of Ultima - Martian Dreams
                                    X-Wing
                                    You dont know Jack (Windows 3.11).

                                    Dos Games via ScummVM:

                                    Broken Sword
                                    Flight of the Amazon Queen
                                    Indiana Jones 3+4
                                    Loom
                                    Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes 1+2
                                    Lure of the Temptress
                                    Mainac Mansion 1+2
                                    Sam n Max
                                    The 7th Guest
                                    The Secret of Monkey Island 1+2+3
                                    Zac Mac Kracken.

                                    coming soon: You dont know jack 2+3 (bought via Ebay, awaited for the weekend ;-)...).

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                                      backstander
                                      last edited by

                                      @HPK-de that's an impressive collection of MSDOS games! I had a Atari 5200, NES, Gameboy & TurboGrafx16/CD so I missed out on owning the other 16bit consoles but I had a good PC to play many of those same MSDOS games! I can remember back in the 90s going to the mall and checking the good old bargain bin and picking up some under the radar games for cheap. I use Dosbox much because I've been catching up on the other consoles I didn't own and playing through some of the classics.

                                      I saw on your list you got Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures running in Win 3.x. I use to have the demo for that game and always wanted the full version. I remember it being a lot of fun.

                                      I loved all the id software games and games that used their engines (like Heretic, Hexen, Strafe) but I use the Linux ports because they typically play better than they do in Dosbox.

                                      Here's what I have tried in Dosbox:

                                      The Elder Scrolls: Arena (now full game is free to download)
                                      The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (now full game is free to download)
                                      Death Gate (based on a great book with a great story)
                                      Rise of the Dragon
                                      Formula One Grand Prix
                                      Isle of the Dead (crappy bargain bin game)

                                      Games I plan to install in Dosbox:

                                      Abuse
                                      Alone in the Dark 1, 2 & 3
                                      Arkanoid
                                      Corridor 7: Alien Invasion (I own it but never beat it)
                                      Dark Seed
                                      The Dark Half
                                      Dune
                                      Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures (Win 3.x)
                                      Dungeon Keeper
                                      FlashBack
                                      I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
                                      Iron Blood
                                      It Came From The Desert
                                      Legend of Kyrandia
                                      One Must Fall 2097
                                      Operation Bodycount (crappy bargain bin game)
                                      Phantasmagoria
                                      Powerslave
                                      Prince of Persia
                                      Quarantine
                                      Stunts
                                      SkyRoads
                                      Street Rod 1 & 2
                                      Stunt Island
                                      Test Drive 1 & 2

                                      My ScummVM list:

                                      Beneath a Steel Sky
                                      Flight of the Amazon Queen
                                      Full Throttle
                                      Indiana Jones 3+4
                                      Loom
                                      Lure of the Temptress
                                      Return to Zork
                                      The Dig

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                                      • edmaul69E
                                        edmaul69
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                                        For me scanlines on dosbox and lr-prboom was a must. I have scanlines on all my tv/monitor based systems minus the few with no option.

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                                          Concat
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                                          What are the benefits to using ScummVM over dosbox for those old point and click games like Beneath a Steel Sky or The Dig?

                                          Actually, I hate separating out ports, Scumm and Dos games in retropie... I've already started moving over the bashscripts to start the ports games from PC. I'd rather just have one folder called Computer Games... also helps the kids make sense of the category because ScummVM is not self explanatory for the layman.

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                                            backstander @Concat
                                            last edited by backstander

                                            @Concat well Dosbox is kind of like a one size fits all MSDOS emulator and ScummVM is geared for certain point & click adventure games that use the SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) game engine even though I can play a couple non-SCUMM games. "The benefit of ScummVM is the ease of use for the games it does support, as well as a GUI interface that makes it simple to change graphics and audio settings."

                                            If you had to pick just one then go with Dosbox but the beauty of RetroPie is you don't have to!

                                            Edit: this is something I found describing the difference:
                                            http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/12/08/dosbox-vs-scummvm-what-plays-old-games-better/

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