Al Lowe 1990 #msdos

Monkey Island in its full glory HiRes: gamehistory.org/wp-content/u... Source: gamehistory.org/monkeyisland/

Star Wars: X-Wing LucasArts 1993

Windows 3.1 with CGA display driver 🫣

The Land of Llewdor map (King's Quest 3) From the King's Quest Companion, an official hint book first released in 1989.

SkyView (1993) by Stephen Michael Schimpf A simple planetarium for Windows 3.1. Displays the nightsky with a specific date and coordinates.

Pc Globe 4.0 (1990) An atlas for MS-DOS, first released in 1987. It features comprehensive databases and plays national anthems with the PC speaker.

Maniac Mansion by LucasArts Enhanced (December 1989) vs first release (March 1988). Both are EGA, but the enhanced version has a higher resolution. The easter egg included in Day of the Tentacle was the original version. #msdos #retrogaming

Kings Quest 4 1988 Sierra used different development tools over the course of time, one being AGI ('84 - '89) and its successor SCI ('88 onwards). KQ4 was produced in both, to support older and newer systems. The AGI version sold badly and was discontinued soon. It is considered very rare.

Windows Commander for Win 3.1 by Christian Ghisler, 1993 An orthodox dual pane file manager, now known on many platforms as Total Commander. The name had to be changed in 2002, because of certain similarities to a well known brand. T.C. 6.58 for Win 3.1 came out in 2008. www.ghisler.com/index.htm

The name's Blatz #msdos

Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, in 1989. Behind him you can see the pictures he produced to create the animations in the game, a technique called rotoscoping. The prince is actually his younger brother David. Inspired by the Disney movie Snow White, which used rotoscoping in 1937.

MS-DOS in Poetry It's safe to say that disk operating systems are not of much concern for poets. Here is an exception by Bukowski, on his 105th birthday. First published in 1985.

MS-DOS in Space This system, running MS-DOS, was used for microgravity space experiments in the field of Material Science, on board of the Space Shuttle in 1997 and later on the ISS. More info: www.kermitproject.org/nasa.html #msdos

Sierra catalog 1988

Pixel Art by Octavi Navarro O.N. was inspired by the graphics of games like Loom and Monkey Island as a kid and started pixeling with Deluxe Paint 2 on his 486 in the 90s. Years later, he joined the team of Thimbleweed Park. His pictures tell some really great stories... octavinavarro.com

Mortal Kombat 2 Arcade 1993 / MS-DOS 1995 A very faithful port, apart from the frame rate being less consistent compared to arcade machines. The series sparked many controversies, lawsuits, a congressional hearing in the US and MK2 was even confiscated in Germany. #msdos

Two main developers for what eventually became MS-DOS: Tim Paterson (who wrote 86-DOS, which later became MS-DOS) and Gary Kildall (who wrote CP/M, that served as blueprint for 86-DOS; controversies included) - in their natural habitats: driving rally cars and flying airplanes. #msdos

Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 - 4 Released 1990 - 1992 for Win 3.x The first release of Minesweeper, that was later bundled with Win 3.1.

Microsoft Space Simulator BAO Ltd. 1994 Based on the MS Flight Simulator. It features 14 different spacecraft, e.g. the Space Shuttle or a Bussard ramjet for interstellar travel. The learning curve is VERY steep - the manual has 230 pages and you won't get anywhere without it. #msdos

Versions of Stunts The beloved racing game came out in 1990 as v1.0 and a second time in early 1991, as v1.1 - these versions have significant differences in physics and car behaviour. In the UK, France and Belgium it was published as 4D Sports Driving by Mindscape.

Out of office since a month, no MS-DOS anywhere 😢 To be continued in a couple of weeks

Golden Axe pixelart by Wolfenoctis (Ben Adendorff)

After Dark 1.0 Berkeley Systems 1993 Some demos #msdos

Lemmings (1991) Skill: Mayhem, Level 1 🤯

Win 3.1 Icons

Lemmings 2 ad from December 1992

Death Rally Remedy Entertaniment / Apogee Software / GT Interactive 1996. Freeware for Windows since 2009. #msdos #retrogaming

Comanche: Maximum Overkill NovaLogic 1992 The first game to introduce the Voxel Space technology, invented by Kyle Freeman of NovaLogic. Voxels were first used in CT and MRI scanners. #msdos #retrogaming

Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 1994 My very first attempt in landing the little aircraft after 30 years. After a brief consultation of the manual (340 pages), I decided to still remember the hotkeys. #msdos #retrogaming

Jeanette Devereaux, callsign Angel. Wing Commander Origin Systems 1990 #msdos #retrogaming

Indy and Sophia travelling from Iceland to the Azores #msdos #retrogaming

Stunts - CGA / EGA / VGA palette comparison #msdos #retrogaming

Michael Z. Land - The Secret Of Monkey Island Soundtrack Released in 2022 as double LP 500 copies Record 1: MT32 Record 2: Adlib As this is a bootleg, it's hard to find and blocked from sale on Discogs. When it was still availabe there, price was in the three figures. Originally sold on ebay.

Monkey Island Scumm Bar (and beyond) EGA / VGA comparison video #msdos #retrogaming

Pushover Red Hat Software / Ocean Software 1992 Sweet puzzle game #msdos #retrogaming

Logitech MouseWare Control Center for Win 3.1 #msdos

SimCity Classic: Graphics Maxis 1994 An addon for Sim City, with various new graphic sets like Wild West or Moon Colony. #msdos #retrogaming

The Win 3.1 Sound Recorder I guess a lot of people did their first sound recordings on PC ever with this program. We used it to record extraordinary stupid sounds and import them into the shareware version of Doom, with a little program called dmaud.exe. Jolly good times. #msdos

Steinberg Cubase 1.0.2 Initially released for Atari ST in 1989, this version for Win 3.1 came out in 1992. It was MIDI only. The first version that introduced audio and plugins support was released in 1996 on Macintosh and in 1997 for Windows 95, named Cubase VST. #msdos #cubase

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Alfonso John Romero working on Quake, January 1996 #msdos #retrogaming

The Orchid Pro Designer II from 1990 This monster of a card had 32768 colours and 1MB video RAM, intended for the use of early versions of AutoCAD - first released in 1982. AutoCAD screenshot (from winworldpc) is v.2.15 from 1985. #msdos

Intro screen for a couple of arcade ports by Taito: Bubble Bobble, Arkanoid 2, Operation Wolf (and possibly more). #msdos #retrogaming

Kings Quest 3 manual front page #msdos #retrogaming

Employee of the week:

"Multitasking" (and more) in DOS with Dos Navigator You can open multiple Tabs (number to the upper left) and copy/paste from one to another. Does not work in Dosbox. There are newer open source versions with different features - see screenshots for latest. Feature wise, NDN is a monster. #msdos

The Microsoft Natural Keyboard introduced the Windows and Menu keys in 1994. #msdos

The Settlers - time lapse Blue Byte 1994 This game aged like good wine. 😋 If gaming time is sparse and you weren't aware - this can be done in Dosbox by pressing and holding Alt-F12 (Turbo Mode). #msdos #retrogaming