DOS Games Discussion

Bio Menace uses the Commander Keen engine, so the fairly active Keen: Modding forum is probably going to get you the quickest answer.

Another solution, although it requires a bit more work, is to use Memdisk and a network card with PXE support. Then you can boot the PC over the network and choose which floppy image you want to boot. You can even boot a floppy that mounts a network drive, allowing you to play all your DOS games on ...

Yeah it's no big deal, I just thought that since there is an SGA letter for the dot, an "Earth" dot looked out of place. But again, if we are "arguing" about a mere dot it must mean you did a pretty good job of the image :-) And just for the record the correct name for it is a pe...

Are we in a nitpicking mood today ? Are we ? :laugh: BTW, whilst we are nitpicking, dosgames.com (teh link) doesn't has a full stop, so I guess that emmzee is correct here, just saying .....) Well when the only criticism you get is about a full stop, it means you've done a pretty good job :) Also t...

Looks great! You know there's an SGA letter for a full stop too...

Interesting. Well at least FileZilla has an option (in the Site Manager, on the Advanced tab) to adjust the server's timezone offset, so for those servers you might be able to tweak it to get the timestamps you want. Or if there are no timestamps across the whole server, you could set them all after...

That's really interesting. Some investigation reveals there are (new?) FTP commands called MLST and MLSD which provide a directory listing in a format much easier for a program to parse. A normal directory listing is platform specific, and it has always been problematic for graphical FTP clients to ...

That's a bit odd then. I tried connecting directly to ftp.3drealms.com and I could not get the server to give me a time for /source/rottsource.zip (just a date.) What time did it give you? I wonder how it managed to get that time?

Yes but the point is what time zone do you use for the original time stamp?

@dosraider: Most programs designed for mirroring sites will change the date on the downloaded file to match the server. But the problem is, what time do you use? Let's say you're in Belgium and your timezone is UTC+1, but the server is in the US with a timezone of UTC-8. If a file was originally upl...

When you say the timestamps are corrected for the local timezone, do you mean that 5pm on the server is converted to 5pm localtime? Or 5pm server time appears as (for example) 2am local time because no conversion is being done? I'm not sure there's a way around this because I don't think servers rep...

If you use a program to just automatically download and mirror the whole site then it just becomes an issue of how much you can download and store. You (or others) can always go back to examine it later, but if the site disappears and nobody saved a copy, well it's too late then...

Interesting. Well the game already lets you kill yourself to restart the level by pressing "D", but as above, the /HELA option only appears in the .exe file that handles the main menu. The three game .exe files (one for each episode) do not have /HELA listed anywhere in the file, so it wou...

Nah this is a string in GOT.EXE in the middle of all the other valid command line parameters, so it's definitely an option you can specify when you run GOT.EXE. The DOSBox debugger is good, but for stuff like this you really need a disassembler to figure it out for sure. I don't think the payoff wou...

It's possible there's a difference between the versions, but the way the game works, GOT.EXE handles the main menu and episode selection, then it launches _G1.EXE, _G2.EXE or _G3.EXE depending on the selected episode. "/HELA" appears in GOT.EXE but not any of the others, so if it does anyt...

Good point. If /HELA does something it must only affect the menu screen.

Holding down the "3" key in /VOLSTAGG also does something (apparently the border colour changes) but I don't know what it actually does either.

Well I've worked out /SAVEGAME. You need to run _G1.EXE (or _G2.EXE for episode 2, etc.) and give that the filename. Like "_G1 /SAVEGAME:SAVEGAM3.GOT".

Hi all, I'm in the process of adding support for God of Thunder to Camoto and I have come across a few command-line parameters which could be useful for modding, but I'm not sure how they work. Does anyone know how to use the parameters /HELA and /SAVEGAME? I think /SAVEGAME could be particularly us...

Hi all, I'm wondering whether anyone has heard of Voyetra MusiClips? While this isn't a game, apparently it was some kind of a music library that contained royalty free music, which I suspect ended up in a number of games (such as Word Rescue, which credits Voyetra for the music.) I'm quite keen to ...

Sounds a bit like Spelling Fun One , where you have to spell a word correctly to open a castle wall and walk through to the next room. It had CGA graphics, so purple and cyan or red green and yellow. It came with a colour selector program to choose which CGA palette you preferred. But this might not...