PC Gaming; 1990-1996

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by Polyal

Ok you buggers, as if I dnot have enough distractions already. From what I can gather to run these older games on XP you need:

1. DosBox
2. D-fend

What are the websites? I hope theyare torrents because I cant setup up torrent programs on my PC for whatever reason, I always end up killing my connection.

Do you have a wireless network? If you do, it's a problem with continuous downloading that the connection can drop out. It happens to me all the time, as I have wireless and am constantly downloading torrents. It's annoying having to restart the router everytime it drops out.

Here is the link for dosbox. It isn't a torrent so you'll be safe. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1 . D-fend is linked from the same page. It is optional, but I have found it makes dosbox a lot easier to use. A great program, it's good fun running all the old games again. Good luck.

Originally Posted by pertuan

Duke Nukem 3D!!!

I used to change the config file so that the pistols were the most powerful weapon. And when I shot the aliens, they would bounce around the room because the pistol was so powerful. LOL. Ah I miss that game.

Have you seen the high resolution version? Runs great on XP, even without dosbox and looks far nicer than the old version too. You can download it here http://hrp.duke4.net/ . The download is for the whole game, not just the individual graphics upgrade.

[BOTTLEDUP]

Street Rod 1&2!!
Loved Master of Orion 1, X-com 1&2, Star Control 2, 4D stunts driving, Microprose Grand Prix, Das Boot, Wolfenstein, Silent Service 1&2, Red Storm Rising, Harpoon, and all the Microprose flight games (F19, F15 2&3, F117A, Gunship 2000, Commanche etc)

[5L]

go the street rod, i like 2 better

[Psycho Chicken]

Originally Posted by ea_silver_ghia

If you want to run older programs on Windows XP (if that's what you've got), you can download an emulator called DosBox. It's great for abandonware. You can also get the D-fend plug-in that gives it a full graphical user interface (beats typing in the old dos-style commands)

Eh, been there, tried that. Doesn't matter too much. I got over it quickly.

[Bucknaked]

Quake 2
Quake 3
Diablo 2 (Diablo 3 is in the works)
Unreal Tournament Series
Mafia
Max Payne
Need for speed (All of them)
Links

I have a few others, can't remember their names.

[Falcon_Phill]

Originally Posted by Bucknaked

Quake 2
Quake 3
Diablo 2 (Diablo 3 is in the works)
Unreal Tournament Series
Mafia
Max Payne
Need for speed (All of them)
Links

I have a few others, can't remember their names.

about 3/4 of them were well after 1996.

[Polyal]

Originally Posted by Bucknaked

Diablo 2 (Diablo 3 is in the works)

I have a few others, can't remember their names.

Any links for Diablo3?

[Polyal]

Originally Posted by ea_silver_ghia

Do you have a wireless network? If you do, it's a problem with continuous downloading that the connection can drop out. It happens to me all the time, as I have wireless and am constantly downloading torrents. It's annoying having to restart the router everytime it drops out.

Here is the link for dosbox. It isn't a torrent so you'll be safe. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1 . D-fend is linked from the same page. It is optional, but I have found it makes dosbox a lot easier to use. A great program, it's good fun running all the old games again. Good luck.

Have you seen the high resolution version? Runs great on XP, even without dosbox and looks far nicer than the old version too. You can download it here http://hrp.duke4.net/ . The download is for the whole game, not just the individual graphics upgrade.

Thanks for that, got the apps. But that Duke link isn't working :(

So to find the games, I search for the title and then abondonware?

[XAGSV8]

Most of my games are from this period and age has me only buying a select few these days. All of the above I have plus plenty more.

[ON_DUBS]

Originally Posted by ea_silver_ghia

Have you seen the high resolution version? Runs great on XP, even without dosbox and looks far nicer than the old version too. You can download it here http://hrp.duke4.net/ . The download is for the whole game, not just the individual graphics upgrade.

There is a similar program for Doom, Zdoom.

Also check out the Direct3D patch for Quake.

[Lukeyson]

My faves were

Street Rod
Indy 500
Need For Speed
F19 *some fighter pilot game*

[Charliewool]

Zork Nemisis.... I was on it for a good 6 months before I finally got through (with cheats)

[EF, What else?]

Originally Posted by XR6 Martin

Civilisation, Transport Tycoon, Doom, Wolfenstein, Microprose F1 GP, Indycar, Nascar, Jagged Alliance, C&C, F117 Stealth, Falcon 3.0, Aces over Europe, Aces of the Pacific, Aces of the deep, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Monkey Island, Quake, Sim City 2000, UFO Enemy Unknown.

Mate, you listed almost perfectly, with the exception of Street Rods and Duke Nukem.

Absolutely worshiped F-19, but when I got a copy of F-117 Stealth Fighter, it was like upgrading from a hole in the ground to a toilet, such an amazing experience. And the original F1 Grand Prix, spent so much time on that during my younger years. Im still the only person in the family to win a championship on the hardest level and 100% race distance. :Reverend: Go Robert Davies!

[ON_DUBS]

Originally Posted by EF, What else?

And the original F1 Grand Prix, spent so much time on that during my younger years. Im still the only person in the family to win a championship on the hardest level and 100% race distance. :Reverend: Go Robert Davies!

LOL i used to rename everyone with the current championship.

[4.9 EF Futura]

Great thread guys. Glad to see there's other people here that used to know DOS inside out as well

Indianapolis 500 (which must be REAL old as i recall playing that at primary school on EGA 16 colour screen.... which was much better than the 4 colour CGA PC we had a t home)
Nascar 1 and 2 (2003 season still rocks the foundations of my house + grand prix legends)
Indycar racing and Indycar racing 2 (and the plug ins to convert indy tracks into NASCAR and vice versa)
Poice quest/kings quest/space quest/lesuire suit larry. Sierra knew how to make a game. "Ken sent me"
Sim City series... the penultimate Sim City 2000... thankyou Maxis!
Microprose flight sims... F19, F117.
F16 Falcon 2.0 (ever seen that many 360kb 5.25in floppys????)
Doom/Heretic
Commander Keen 1,2,3,4 and 5...
Tie fighter vs X wing
Flashback was brilliant... i actually have a PC version of another world that's been converted to run on a symbian mobile phone... very cool.
Grand Prix 2 - plus the 1,005,704 plug ins you could get... lol, had V8SC running bathurst in that game at one stage....
Carmageddon (have this for symbian as well - its a great flashback)

[Quasi]

NFS 1 was cool, yeah, but also liked the sequels.

Commander Keen
Wolf 3D
Duke Nukem
Toy Story Game

There were also a couple of other car games I can't even remember the names of now.

[Bucknaked]

Originally Posted by Polyal

Any links for Diablo3?

On The Blizzard Web site. They have some images of the characters and I think talk about the game. I only found it the otherday while looking for something on D2

If you have any problem finding it, let me know and I'll see if i can find the link again.

[Bucknaked]

Originally Posted by Falcon_Phill

about 3/4 of them were well after 1996.

Oops. Sorry, i didn't see the date range.

:

[uranium_death]

Originally Posted by EF, What else?

Mate, you listed almost perfectly, with the exception of Street Rods and Duke Nukem.

Absolutely worshiped F-19, but when I got a copy of F-117 Stealth Fighter, it was like upgrading from a hole in the ground to a toilet, such an amazing experience. And the original F1 Grand Prix, spent so much time on that during my younger years. Im still the only person in the family to win a championship on the hardest level and 100% race distance. :Reverend: Go Robert Davies!

Ok. We all have our favourites, but the list CANNOT be perfect without Star Control II. That game had the best graphics, sound and gameplay for 1992. No game has ever come close in my opinion, because no game as been able to do it as well. Nor has anybody bothered.

We WOULD have seen more good Star Controls, but Accolade-->Infogrammes-->Atari own the rights to the name "Star Control" and won't release it to the creators, Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III.

Star Control III was terrible as it wasn't written by Paul and Fred and represents nothing of the true story that was intended.

If you don't have Star Control II or haven't played it, GET IT! Best game of the '90-'96 era by a mile IMO.

[merlin]

I remember if you wanted to play multiplayer online you had to organise it with no end of hassle. Duke Nukem was my favourite and to play against your mate we would have to ring each other up and make sure we were ready and on the same server. You then had to hook up the crappy 28.8kps modem and dial in (of course after firstly turning off call waiting and fighting with teenage sisters) then find him somehow through all the crappy settings to start the game.

Oh and Mechwarrier was awesome too.

[BlueRaven]

All of my games have been listed already.... but what the hell..

Wolf 3D
Doom I/II
Quake I
Duke 3D
Duke Nukem I/II
Bio Menace
Blake Stone
Zone 66
Solar Winds (never did get very far....but wasted hours trying)
Monkey Island I/II
Crystal Cave
Lemmings
Wing Commander I
Indy 500
Indycar 2
NFS I

96 was a great year for 3D games..

[Dauphin]

Round 42
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
EGA Trek
Wolfenstein 3D
Stunts
Test Drive III
Gods
Titus the Fox
Prince of Persia
MS Flight Simulator 4
Drug Lords
Llamatron
NFS

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by Polyal

Thanks for that, got the apps. But that Duke link isn't working :(

So to find the games, I search for the title and then abondonware?

That's weird. I tested the link after I set it up. Oh well, to find it go to google and type in "Duken Nukem 3D high resolution". It's easy to find. I've also got zdoom (the one mentioned by FAIRMONT4.0) which is the graphics update for Doom 1 & 2.

A great site for downloading abandonware is http://www.the-underdogs.info/ . Most of it is free, and you don't need to register (you can register but it isn't needed). That's where I get most of my abandonware. I'm hoping it's OK to post this link, as it is all old games that are no longer for sale anyway. It's not really pirating because it doesn't cost the makers of the games any money anymore. They've earned all they ever will out of these games.

And BTW, I can't believe I forgot Carmageddon in my favourite games. That is my all time favourite!

[ON_DUBS]

man how did i forget Lemmings and Prince of Persia! i played them both to death

[bt0]

Pretty much everything mentioned in this thread and I dont think I saw summer and winter games. (and was warcraft mentioned?)

Awesome thread guys.

[Agent86]

Privateer was a great off shoot of the Wing commander series

i have had PC's from when XT8086 were new :o and i still have the old old one somewhere and a 486 DX2/66 powerhouse!!!!!!!!

the boxes and boxes of old games i have lying around!

SimCity
Police Quest 1,2,3,4
Space Quest 1-7 i think
Quest for glory ( hero's Quest ) 1-3
3d Blockout
Mean Streets
TEST DRIVE 1-3 ( the grandaddy of NFS )
ETC ETC

[uranium_death]

Summer and Winter games were good. I have Summer Games but it doesn't work properly.

On the High Jump, once I run past 3km/h I can't jump. It just runs into the padding.

Home of the Underdogs is by far the most extensive Abandonware and Freeware site there is. However, they adhere to the ESA/IDSA, where certain games, although linked cannot be downloaded if still protected by Copyright, which covers Maxis, Sierra, Microprose and other companies which still claim to sell these games. CHips and Bits is a site where many of these "For Sale" games are available.

Many smaller abandonware sites do not adhere to the ESA/IDSA which means these sites are eventually closed down.

[uranium_death]

Titus the Fox. Now that was a good game. Very hard though. But excellent.

With that, Prehistorik was also a lot of fun, but also challenging!

Prehistorik II had excellent music, but that was also a challenging game!

[DaveGod]

I cant beleive no1 has mentioned StarCraft!!! Man that game was/is awesome! I still have my account. Its only just recently started 2 die off cos all the good players are leaving :(

[revhead24ads]

#Indianapolis 500
#Indycar Racing
#Grand Prix
#Where in the world is Carmen Sandiago? (my sisters)

This is all going off the top of my head so i will look when i get home.