Syndicate Bullfrog Productions 1993

Companions of Xanth 1993

I live....AGAIN

DOSBox-X The classic Dosbox 0.74-3 handles pretty much everything great out of the box, but it doesn't offer too many options in case you want something special to be different. That's where Dosbox-X comes into play. It is VERY extensive, offering numerous options. The menu is pretty handy, too.

Pinball Dreams Digital Illusions / 21st Century Entertainment MS-DOS 1993 (first release on Amiga 1992)

I really love the design of this record, paying tribute to the good old days. Quake OST, composed by Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. Released for the first time on vinyl in 2020. Pic from here: www.turntablelab.com/products/nin...

Save the Lemmings Psygnosis / DMA Design 1991 A rare (back in the days) Lemmings demo a.k.a. as the Covox Levels. It was bundled with the Covox Speech Thing or you could get it by calling 1-800-GET-PSYG. The Covox was a rather rough tech D/A converter, connected to the printer port.

Video Test Bench V 4.5F Warren C. Martin, 2011 As our beloved CRTs are slowly getting old and probably need some care sooner or later, here is a DOS software for those of you, who do it themselves: github.com/unclejed613/... It covers pretty much everything, best tool I have seen so far.

Design your own pinball table with Macadam Bumper ERE Informatique 1987

‪From a time when we counted the free MEGABYTES. Stacker by Stac Electronics, a disk compression utility. Other companies found the idea interesting, too. "Microsoft Loses Patent Lawsuit, Must Pay Rival $120 Million": www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

NHL Hockey EA Sports 1993 The game was called NHL '94 on other platforms. I found the videos in the rotating puck quite impressive in the year 1993.

Scorched Earth v1.50 By Wendell Hicken, 1995 Walls: Rubber

The path of Jupiter in the next four years, as seen in SkyGlobe 3.6 by Mark A. Haney, 1993 This can be done by incrementing the time automatically by one sidereal day (23h56m4s). Jupiter and Mars can be seen going retrograde several times. The thing zooming through every 3⁄4 second is the moon.

Blockout 1989

RighTime v2.53, 1993 by Tom Becker. A program to correct the system clock on MS-DOS Due to many reasons (e.g. temperature fluctuations that affected the oscillator), old systems could be off up to several minutes a day. I found this referenced when searching for software used by NASA.

You have chosen...not so wisely. From the VGA version of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The GIF is from this page: www.superrune.com/tutorials/in... A really great comparison of many scenes of the EGA and VGA versions of Indy3.

Well, this could mean a lot if you weren't there

From a time when you could quit Windows: WinRAR 1.54 BETA

AdvanceMame on MS-DOS 6.22 Pictured is advv, a tool to create custom modelines. The white box is the menu of the CRT, confirming the 59.1hz. This would be the modeline for Metal Slug, which had 320x244 @ 59.19 It's as close to the real deal as you can get. Last update for AdvMame was in May '25.

Frankenstein Windows Windows 3.1 running Calmira II - mimicking start menu, taskbar, desktop icons and many other features of Windows 95. It was first released in 1997 and intended for people, who were stuck with Windows 3.1 but wanted the future... It works surprisingly well. www.calmira.de

Some familiar names here in the Robocop boot sequence. But can it run Doom? 🤔

If the USS Enterprise would run on Win3.1, it would probably look like WinTrek. Written in 1989 by Joe Jaworski. Screenshot Version 1.00J from 1992

Creating an online Avatar in the year 1994 Sierra launched the first online multiplayer gaming system in 1991, called the The Sierra Network (later ImagiNation Network). It featured chats and a number of games like backgammon or chess. There is still a host for this: www.innbarn.com

Bliss 2.6.1 2023 by Lucas Pedrosa A track editor for Stunts / 4D Sports Driving. It offers many features not to be found in the native editor. The download comes with three binaries - Linux (bliss), Win (bliss.exe) and MS-DOS (bliss. com). Screenshots from DOS version. www.raceforkicks.com/bliss/

MS-DOS edit - alive and well in 2025! Microsoft revived the good old editor for the command line and released it open source on github earlier this year. Runs on Mac, Linux, Win and is now implemented in Win11 since a month or so. Screenshot from a Terminal in Linux. github.com/microsoft/edit

Monkey Island - playable EGA demo from 1990 There are minor differences to the finished game, noticeable in the Scumm Bar. From the readme: "Enter The Secret of Monkey Island contest and you could be the Grand Prize winner of a Caribbean Cruise..."

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.