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Anatoly Shashkin💾<p>The Trials of Odysseus Kent (Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw, 2002) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a></p>
Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈‍⬛<p>And I can't resist showing off the beautiful box 🥰</p><p>Amiga version, as it was on this computer that I first played it 🪄 🎵</p><p>🧵 2/</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Loom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Loom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrianMoriarty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianMoriarty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LucasfilmGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LucasfilmGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LucasArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LucasArts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdventureGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdventureGame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PointAndClick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PointAndClick</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariST</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a></p>
Thomas Leroy 🍣🐈‍⬛<p>Happy 35th anniversary to Loom! 🎂 ✨ (May 1990)</p><p>Have you ever seen the 5-minute demo presented at CES in Las Vegas in January 1990? 🪄 🎵 🦢</p><p>➡️ Full video: <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=6PxHvPNZl-o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=6PxHvPNZl-o</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>🧵 1/</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Loom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Loom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrianMoriarty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrianMoriarty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LucasfilmGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LucasfilmGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdventureGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdventureGame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PointAndClick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PointAndClick</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtariST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtariST</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a></p>
Anatoly Shashkin💾<p>The Adventures of Lance (Michael P. Miller and Margaret J. Ganzberger, 1990) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a></p>
Game Magazine Print Ads<p>SimCity 2000 CD Collection<br>Source: Electronic Entertainment 15 (March 1995)<br>Scan Source: RetroMags</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dosgaming</span></a></p>
Anatoly Shashkin💾<p>Full Metal Jacket/鐵甲神兵/풀 메탈 자켓: 그 겨울의 시작 (Mirinae Software/Pantech, 1996) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a></p>
DesertFOX<p>Oh, look! It's the original TETRIS from Spectrum HoloByte for the IBM-PC. This is such an iconic piece of history!</p><p><a href="https://shorturl.at/uS4Re" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shorturl.at/uS4Re</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TETRIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TETRIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGames</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IBMPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IBMPC</span></a></p>
💾 DOS GAME CLUB 💾<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 We've done lots of combat sims over the years, but never before under water, which is what 1993's Subwar 2050 by Particle Systems and Microprose is all about!</p><p>Some say it's merely "aquatic Wing Commander", but when you dive into it (pun intended) there's quite a unique experience to be had at the bottom of the sea!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/subwar-2050/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">dosgameclub.com/subwar-2050/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://dosgame.club/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://dosgame.club/tags/retroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://dosgame.club/tags/dosGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dosGaming</span></a></p>
DesertFOX<p>Okay, it's almost 4am... I should really go to b.... but let's first upload another set of floppy disks to the retro community! Here's "Aces of the Pacific", version 1.2 in 256 colors for MS-DOS. Perfect KryoFlux streams, working disk images and scans.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/aces-of-the-pacific_v12" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/aces-of-th</span><span class="invisible">e-pacific_v12</span></a></p><p>Have fun! ... and good night!</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGames</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Dynamix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dynamix</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Sierra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sierra</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FlightSim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlightSim</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>90s</span></a></p>
DesertFOX<p>Here's another gorgeous set of floppy disks for a classic DOS game. "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" in a 16 color EGA version. This was released in 1989 on 6 x 360K, 5.25 inch disks.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/indy3_ega_525_gw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/indy3_ega_</span><span class="invisible">525_gw</span></a></p><p>Have fun! 😃 </p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IndianaJones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndianaJones</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LucasArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LucasArts</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LucasFilmGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LucasFilmGames</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Retro</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FloppyDisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloppyDisk</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adventure</span></a></p>
Anatoly Shashkin💾<p>Picture Perfect Golf (Lyriq International/Priority Records, 1995) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a></p>
💾 DOS GAME CLUB 💾<p>💾 NEW COMMUNITY PROJECT!💾 In March we revisited DOOM, the game with which we started the club all the way back in 2017.</p><p>During this month the club took it upon themselves to put together a complete custom episode WAD for vanilla Doom 1.</p><p>Nine people contributed work on putting together 8 maps, 1 secret map and a custom MIDI intermission track.</p><p>We're very proud of our awesome community and we hope you'll check out what we put together for you all!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/doom-map-pack/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">dosgameclub.com/doom-map-pack/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://dosgame.club/tags/dosGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dosGaming</span></a> <a href="https://dosgame.club/tags/doom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doom</span></a></p>
DesertFOX<p>Oh, well.. I guess, it ain't much... but today I just came across this very fine 5.25" 1.2MB single disk version of "The Games: Winter Challenge". An awesome addition to the games collection!</p><p>I cannot share this disk itself, as it is not mine, but here's an equally pristine 3.5" version: <br><a href="https://archive.org/details/winter_challenge_kfx" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/winter_cha</span><span class="invisible">llenge_kfx</span></a></p><p>Have fun! 😉 </p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Olympics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Olympics</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Winter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Winter</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSDOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Accolade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accolade</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FloppyDisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloppyDisk</span></a></p>
vga256<p>i can't really believe this research was never done or published over the years. it's funny how basic knowledge like this disappears: the original typeface that graced the cover of every Ultima game. </p><p>"Victorian" was created by english typeface designers Freda Sack and Colin Brignall in 1976, and was included in the ITC typeface library.</p><p>top: Victorian Standard Regular typeface.</p><p>bottom: Worlds of Ultima - Martian Dreams box cover, with a slightly modified version of the Victorian font. You'll notice that the M has a very pretty descender added by an artist at Origin Systems. i *suspect* this was painted or airbrushed by Denis Loubet (does anyone know denis here?), but there are no credits given in any of the manuals.</p><p>both use an exactly 64 point font.</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/typefaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>typefaces</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/ultima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ultima</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dosGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dosGaming</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/gamePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamePreservation</span></a></p>
DesertFOX<p>MS. PAC-MAN for IBM-PC. From 1983. Okay, I am really bad at this game... but at least the emulation is working! 😉 </p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Booter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Booter</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FloppyDisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloppyDisk</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arcade</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PacMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacMan</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>80s</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Emulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Emulation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/86Box" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>86Box</span></a></p>
DesertFOX<p>Sometimes, I just love to dig into really old games. Here's 1983s "Ms. Pac-Man" from Atarisoft. The game came on a double-density, single-sided 5.25inch disk of 160K. But when you tried to look into it from DOS, it just seem completely empty, because it's a "Booter" without a file system. Interestingly, this one doesn't seem to be copy-protected at all.</p><p>P.S. Here's the link:<br><a href="https://archive.org/details/pc_mspacman_kfraw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/pc_mspacma</span><span class="invisible">n_kfraw</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Booter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Booter</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FloppyDisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloppyDisk</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Arcade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arcade</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PacMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacMan</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>80s</span></a></p>
Anatoly Shashkin💾<p>Pulsoid (Fifth Dimension Company, 1998) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UkrainianVideogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkrainianVideogames</span></a></p>
vga256<p>how did i only learn now that Uncharted Waters 2 had a DOS port? 🤯 </p><p>the dithering style is unusual and beautiful - almost like woodcuts with the very intentional horizontal spacing between vertical lines</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dosgaming</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/pixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pixelArt</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Bio Menace has been remastered by Apogee and is coming to Steam later this year 🔥🔥 (video via dosgamert, a nice dude and an excellent YouTube follow, as he does lots of playthroughs of DOS games and often posts exclusives like this that you'll see first on his channel.) </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldaf8z2ik3o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ldaf8z2ik3</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p><p>Wishlist it on Steam here: <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459100/BioMenace_Remastered" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">store.steampowered.com/app/345</span><span class="invisible">9100/BioMenace_Remastered</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/BioMenace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BioMenace</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steam</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SteamGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SteamGames</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DOSgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSgames</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Apogee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apogee</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOSGaming</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OldGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldGames</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a></p>
vga256<p>haha so</p><p>back in 2013, blizzard re-released Blackthorne as freeware using dosbox on battle.net</p><p>it.... was strange. if you hadn't played the game before then, you might not have noticed a bunch of glaring bugs, like missing sound effects and missing music in several places, including the intro. over the years, no one was able to figure out the cause, and the standard reply became "just download the original from a dos gaming site and play that instead"</p><p>it always kind of pissed me off that blizzard released a truly *great* game in this state, so tonight i decided to figure out what was causing the missing audio. </p><p>the first step was ruling out some audio configuration problems - except, blizzard stripped out the dos installer program from their release. no prob - I'll just grab a copy from an abandonware site. and so, I downloaded a fresh preinstalled copy of blackthorne from myabandonware.com and made sure the audio was configured properly.</p><p>... and surprisingly, the game still played with missing music in the intro and on the first level, just like the blizzard version.</p><p>on a hunch, i grabbed two original diskette images, and installed the game from scratch. i ran the audio configuration, ran the game, and - lo and behold - the music all worked fine.</p><p>.. which made me realize: blizzard's team so was fucking lazy that they copied the buggy pre-installed version of the game from an abandonware site, and rebadged it with a blizzard logo. apparently no one on the team was familiar enough with the game to realize that the audio didn't work at all. 🙄 a multi-billion dollar company.</p><p>so folks, if you want to play Blackthorne and enjoy the gorgeous music - grab the *disk images* here instead: <a href="https://archive.org/details/003030-Blackthorne" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/003030-Bla</span><span class="invisible">ckthorne</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dosGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dosGaming</span></a></p>
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