Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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Here some lr-dosbox pictures :
Castlevania ( I had a joystick calibrate issue, keyboard works )
Metal gear :
Luigi and Spaghetti :
Rayman / Boulderdash :
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@folly Metal Gear DOS looks like it's based on the atrocious NES adaptation, rather than the MSX. Am I wrong?
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@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Metal Gear DOS looks like it's based on the atrocious NES adaptation, rather than the MSX. Am I wrong?
Yes indeed. Looks more like the nes edition.
I know there should also be a solid snake on pc but i think it was on windows.
It should be lying around somewhere here. -
@folly Well on my end I can confirm that Fallout, Daggerfall and Command and Conquer work pretty much flawlessly on standalone dosbox.
Fallout in particular is very impressive graphically.I'm wondering if I can find any DOS games that can push the Pi more.
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@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Well on my end I can confirm that Fallout, Daggerfall and Command and Conquer work pretty much flawlessly on standalone dosbox.
Fallout in particular is very impressive graphically.I'm wondering if I can find any DOS games that can push the Pi more.
Terminal Velocity is maybe as much as you will get through DOSBox. The problem is that PC games moved to being Windows-based before they got more powerful than the Pi can cope with, so there are a lot of games we can't try because of that.
Half-Life, Quake 1-3 as Ports are probably the best easy (ie. well documented) options for PC games that push the Pi.
Edit: Oh, and as stated I couldn't recommend the old-school Lucasarts games enough. ScummVM is best for those, although I guess they would work on DOSBox also.
- Monkey Island 2 (and the others)
- Day of the Tentacle
- Sam and Max
- Indy and the Fate of Atlantis
- Full Throttle
- The Dig
- Grim Fandango (which will work on ScummVM soon)
They still look pretty good now, they hold up well I think.
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@adambegood Agreed. I was playing Grim Fandango this week on ResidualVM and it looked really good. Unfortunately ResidualVM has pretty bad glitches and the game confused me within minutes so I don't think I'll be continuing it anytime soon. What's a good point of entry for PC adventures?
I hear ScummVM runs Blade Runner as well? Now that'd be pretty exciting.
I'll try Terminal Velocity tonight.
Edit : I've still had no luck with Half-Life :(
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@zering That is annoying on Half-Life. I did struggle a bit but I got there in the end.
I'd say The Secret Of Monkey Island is a good place to start. It's a bit simpler than some of the later ones, where you have multiple characters at the same time. It is the least pretty, as it is the earliest but it has charm.
Grim Fandango has a remaster on the Switch and all the modern consoles, that is what I played it on. Grim passed me by first time round, it's the only one that did.
You're right on Blade Runner, I have that on ScummVM.
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@adambegood For me the obstacle is that most of the puzzles have seemingly absurd solutions with very little in the way of clues.
Blade Runner on ScummVM is very exciting.@Folly Thought you might be interested that I've got Star Wars Dark Forces running at full speed in lr-dosbox-svn. It was sluggish at first but with some tinkering I managed to get the game up to speed ^^
I'll try the same settings on lr-dosbox.I'm pretty sure you can compile it from RetroPie-Extra.
Edit : I just tried Terminal Velocity and it runs smooth as butter on my rig. The game looks pretty fun. I'll play this once I can figure out how to use joysticks on dosbox. Thanks @AdamBeGood. The music is much fun.
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Thanks,
Now busy with the "share"
I made a patch for policenauts (pc98).
Tinkering on how the directory stucture should look like.https://github.com/FollyMaddy/RetroPie-Share
Just uploaded the files.
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@folly That's excellent! Great work as always.
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@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood For me the obstacle is that most of the puzzles have seemingly absurd solutions with very little in the way of clues.
Blade Runner on ScummVM is very exciting.I did find Grim a bit like that, usually the puzzles do make sense if you speak to everyone and pay attention. But I found it more like that than others.
Give one of the earlier games a try.
Edit: I think it is Ctrl F1 to get the keymapper up in DOSBox, it is pretty easy to map joypads.
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@adambegood I will. I find PC games less accessible as a rule anyway, but they keep drawing me in. Today I finally finished the first dungeon in Fallout, after having started the game a dozen games. Likewise, I played Ultima 4 on Master System and DOS several times before it clicked and I finally played it to the end (although I lost my save before I could venture down the final dungeon). Or even Doom. I hated Doom the first time I played it. Now I think it's the best FPS ever made, behind Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
Sometimes I have to recognize that I may simply not be predisposed to something that's awesome.
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@zering I'd chuck Half-Life 2 and Bioshock into the FPS mix, I think.
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@adambegood Good point. I played Half Life 2 and its two episodes more than any other FPS yet I've never played the first one. Go figure.
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@zering I had the first one at release but never finished it. I don't understand why. Need to do it on the Pi.
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@adambegood And me. But I can't which is very frustrating ^^
Having said that I started Dark Forces tonight, having finally figured out I could simply edit the controls using SETUP.EXE. It's really really good, the objective based mission structure and the Doom-like graphics make it really unique.
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@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood And me. But I can't which is very frustrating ^^
Having said that I started Dark Forces tonight, having finally figured out I could simply edit the controls using SETUP.EXE. It's really really good, the objective based mission structure and the Doom-like graphics make it really unique.
Another game I had when it was first out (well on "White Label", which was a budget range, so not when it first came out) and didn't finish.
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@adambegood What did you think of it then?
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@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood What did you think of it then?
I think I thought it was okay, but a little bit clunky even then maybe. I think by the time it came out on budget, games had mouse-look. So it felt a bit anachronistic even then! I was playing Quake.
I'm having a mad moment, I have a game on PC-88 (Scottie Turbo) which has F7 as fire. Obvious choice. How do I map that to my joypad? That key isn't there as an option on Libretro as far as I can tell, but I may be being stupid.
Edit: Thinking about it, I played Dark Forces II a lot more. My friend had that. Multi-player over modem with mutual friends was fun.
One of the games that same friend had that I didn't was Settlers II, which I've put on my Pi today.
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