DOS Games Discussion

Hmm, it took a small few to get me hooked onto DOS (or at least come back to it):

Hugo I/II/III
Commander Keen
Wolf 3D
DOOM
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

Microsoft removed the 16-bit subsystem from Vista and yet provided no emulator - breaking hundreds of legacy applications and games. I have played games with DosBox 0.71 on Vista before I downgraded back to XP Pro. But yeah, if you have Vista, you are stuck with DosBox. My hope is that DosBox will p...

Thanks for clearing that up! glad to be aboard...

I read several threads here and usually there's good advice but there's no step by step process for a complete beginner. For some background, I do lot of Windows game development and am going after a computer science degree. I started missing the old DOS games and I figured I want to try out DOS pro...

I'm going after a computer science major, so I figured I would share some light on this subject. Since we're at a DOS games site, I'll talk about DOS game programming. First, you need to know the programming language C. Not C++, it's way too overhead for DOS and was barely used. You can program stra...