DOS Games Discussion

So I recently went to download and install Baldur's gate for my DOS box and I can't find it anymore. It seems they have now released some Windows based "Enhanced Edition" (that has bad reviews) and the original is no longer abandonware. So what is the deal? Does anyone know where to downlo...

Yeah, those don't have the answer, but I did find at least some of the answer in a video. Apparently when you hover over the spell it tells you how many times you can cast that level spell. It's not perfect, and doesn't really explain the formula that's used, but it's something and more info than I ...

I've been playing this game pretty successfully, but for the life of me I can't figure out how casting for Druids/Clerics/Preservers works in terms of "mana pool" or whatever. The Psi "spells" use your psi stats, and you can see your psi go down when you use those abilities, but ...

I've not played this game, but there was a mention of a 4-button Gravis joystick/pad for Keen 6 here: http://legacy.3drealms.com/tech/keen.html The text implies this was for using two-button firing, and involves some setup both in game and of the Gravis gamepad - in the heading text it only refers ...

ahh, that make sense, but then what about 4 button support. Here is a screen shot of the 4 button config screen:



I don't find this screen in keen 6, but do on 4 & 5. Any ideas?[/img]

Does anyone know of any relatively easy ways to mod the original Master of Orion? I want to basically just tweak and balance the races a bit.

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I've got Commander Keen 4 & 5 that both support all 4 buttons on a Gravis gamepad, but for some reason every download of Keen 6 only supports 2 buttons. I have noticed that the exe name for 4 & 5 are keen4e and keen5e, but for 6 its keen6c. So I'm guessing that version e is what's needed for...

So, the MB only has 1 PCI slot and no ISA slots. So now I'm finding that there are not many PCI sound cards that support DOS. I can't find some Sound Blaster 16 PCI cards, but I'm reading mixed reviews of their DOS compatibility. The manuals from Creative seem to indicate it's only supported in DOS ...

Thanks, that saves me from needing to even try using the current sound card. Yeah, I'll look at a SB16 probably. Also, I'm running DOS 7.1 right now (just because it as easier to install). Is that a problem or should that be okay? I do wonder if the sound card drivers might work on 7.1 actually, I m...

I'm trying to setup a DOS machine that can be used for programming and gaming. I'm first trying to use what I have on hand. I'm kicking myself for getting rid of my old Pentium machine about 2 years ago now after having not used it for like 15 years. Oh well. What I have is the following machine: ht...