Free DOS Games on GOG.com

ExarKunIv

Red Alert works also works a little slow at times

spruce_m00se

@exarkuniv red alert and CnC went slow on original hardware and run slow on my i7 with 16gb of ram, they were just coded badly, or had coding limits, thts part of the fun of multiplayer, you storm them with so many units that it slows down, then they dont know what to do since they are used to certain reaction speeds. it throws people off

Afunnyname

Can you help a me out a little in understanding what's happening. What are DOS games? Are they old Windows games or just PC games?

spruce_m00se

@afunnyname do you know what DOS means?

ExarKunIv

@spruce_m00se

oh i know.

been rocking those games from day 1. I still like Dune 2 over C&C, dont know why maybe its the memory's that i have playing it on my dads 286 laptop.... :)

ExarKunIv

@afunnyname

look here
its the list of DOS games

Afunnyname

@spruce_m00se I do not know what DOS means

A Former User

@afunnyname said in Free DOS Games on GOG.com:

@spruce_m00se I do not know what DOS means

I just realized I'm old :D

edmaul69

@afunnyname dos means disk operating system. Ms-dos is what microsoft used before windows. When you see a command line screen, that is what dos was like. If you have windows on your computer sometimes you have to bring up the dos prompt to do something in command line. That is what dos was. No gui. Windows 3.1x is an operating system running on dos.

edmaul69

@arkive thanks for reminding me about being old... but just think about it, we will be the first generation (in any sizable numbers) to play video games through our golden years.

ExarKunIv

@edmaul69 said in Free DOS Games on GOG.com:

we will be the first generation (in any sizable numbers) to play video games through our golden years.

hell yea

edmaul69

@exarkuniv and generation z will be the generation in their golden years that just watches past generations play games. Like they do now.

A Former User

Yeah, that cracks me up. Ironically, it's called "Let's Play" :)

Getting old is not that bad, at least not that bad as it looked when I was a kid. And true, the added bonus of being the part of the videogame pioneer wave, is priceless.

I don't know what they'll be playing 100 or 1000 years from now, but I doubt it'll be any better than stuff from the incredible DOS Decade - 1985 to 1995.

spruce_m00se

@exarkuniv i only just discovered dune 2, my first cnc was on the saturn, I played that sucker to the end over the christmas holidays when I got it, then we got tiberiun sun on the pc, then RA2, then I stopped, because they turned shite.
I still havent met a person who can beat me in a lan battle on either of them. quite a few have tried, I can normally take two people at once who consider them good and hand them a whoping.

ExarKunIv

@spruce_m00se

nice

never got to play C&C on lan, only got to play starcraft over battlenet

BenMcLean

Come on. To make a proper list, you need links.

edmaul69

@benmclean first post updated with links

spruce_m00se

@exarkuniv come on, LAN is where it is with CnC. I played warcraft 2 on battle net, but it didnt lend itself to LAN as well as Tiberiun sun, I used to hate it when someone woudl call the phone at your house and while they heard ringing it would make the game pause......... sometimes crash when on dialup with mates. Lan was a clear winner

ExarKunIv

@spruce_m00se

oh i wanted to, but none of my friends ever wanted to play CnC
did play duke 3d over dial up a few times, i think Diablo 2 is when i really started to play online