Favorite DOS games...
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Doom (2)
Wolfenstein
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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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@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 & 2My 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
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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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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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@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/ -
Hi am i doing something wrong i was trying to get pinball dreams and fantasies to work they played okay but were not at optimal speed. I did not think these would be that processor intensive but on the PI3 they were not that smooth. On the above lists i see a lot more processor intensive games am i doing something wrong?
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@gorgar dosbox runs at around 20mhz on the pi. There are funtions for dosbox to speed up and slow down. CTRL+F11 decreases the amount of emulated CPU cycles, CTRL+F12 increases it. CTRL+F8 increases frameskip and CTRL+F7 decreases it.
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@edmaul69 said in Favorite DOS games...:
@gorgar dosbox runs at around 20mhz on the pi. There are funtions for dosbox to speed up and slow down. CTRL+F11 decreases the amount of emulated CPU cycles, CTRL+F12 increases it. CTRL+F8 increases frameskip and CTRL+F7 decreases it.
I think dosbox on the RPi3 is much faster than 20 MHz....
I can play games like "Strike Commander" and other late Dos games quite well, they won´t run on a 20MHz PC.
Yesterday i tried my games on a RPI2 which was much slower on some games.
For example "You dont know Jack" (emulated in Dosbox with Windows 3.11) runs fine on my RPi3 but was unplayable slow on the RPi 2.... -
@celly thanks bud, great games!
@suprjami thanks for the omf wiki!
Does anyone use controllers for any of the DOS games? I am wondering how good it works?
@Dominus I use xbox 360 controllers for all of my installed dosbox games. The only one that gives me fits is Lemmings as I mapped the mouse to my thumbstick... It always wants to go up and left. I haven't spent time trying to tweak just yet, but will be digging into @Concat thread linked above. (thanks) Otherwise mapping with dosbox mapper has been smooth and setup each game with its own ".conf" and ".map" file called out from my ".sh". Seems like since updated xpad in Retropie 4.0.x I have better controller response than before.
@backstander would love to get Dungeon Keeper and Dune running.. let me know if you ever tackle them :)
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@HPK-de nevermind. i found my problem with running retro city rampage any faster than 20mhz. i had to split the power between the hdd and the pi. i dont run dos games off the hdd, but apparently running that game requires a lot from the pi.
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@dawtyne10 Hope you could make Raptor and JazzRabbit ported to Pi3. Thanks a lot!
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Supaplex and Cannon Fodder, I played the AMIGA version of Cannon Fodder 2 and I really loved it.
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On my Pi a still have a few MS-DOS games that I enjoy very much, they are:
- Abuse
- Blues Brothers (there are other BB games, but this one is really nice)
- Dragon's Lair - Escape from Singe's Castle (a hidden gem!)
- Commander Keen 4 to 6
- Terminal Velocity (runs at 1 fps on my Pi, bummer!)
- Supaplex (also, somewhat of a hidden gem)
There are a few games that I played a lot, but I found other versions that are better or more easy to install/play:
- Prince of Persia 2 - The Shadow and the Flame (the game that I've enjoyed the most in my life): I recently found out that the Mac version completely blows the graphics of the MS-DOS version away.
- Lemmings: I find it more easy to play the SNES version.
- Descent: PSX
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I temporarily move to to north carolina from colorado tomorrow. I dug out all of the star wars dos games and expansions from my storage unit today to take with me so i will get those installed when i get there.
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@PetroRie How to play it on Retropie? Hope you could help me!
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@tien_huu_1408 said in Favorite DOS games...:
@PetroRie How to play it on Retropie? Hope you could help me!
Play what on RetroPie??
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@Meneer-Jansen "IT!" :-P
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I don't have any on the Pi yet but I got a few old favorites of mine I want to try.
3D Lemmings
One Must Fall 2097
Cyberia
11th Hour
Space Hulk
Tie-Fighter
Mega Race
Brix
Boppin
Descent
Descent II (which I think originally was DOS if memory serves me right)
Windows 3.X (mostly so I can play something like the first 'Journey Man Project' if possible)
Doom 1 and 2
Heretic
Hexen
Duke Nukem 3D
... and a bunch of old random freeware games that folks made back in the 90's that I use to play the crap out of. That is if I can find my old disk archives. I use to back up everything I downloaded from the net back then.
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