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by MrFlibble
Sat Nov 02, 2024 4:44 am
Forum: General Off-Topic
Topic: Banned?
Replies: 3
Views: 1413

Banned?

Hello, no one banned you. This must be some phpBB quirk, I'm getting this message from time to time when just trying to access the board. Just wait for a while and try again.

Thanks.
by MrFlibble
Wed Sep 11, 2024 5:14 am
Forum: Find Old Games
Topic: Retro Prison Game with Balloons
Replies: 4
Views: 21236

Retro Prison Game with Balloons

yoyo2000, you have made four different posts asking about what appears to be the same game. Such behaviour is not allowed here. Do you think this will somehow help identify your game? Please confine your search to a single post.
by MrFlibble
Tue Sep 10, 2024 11:56 am
Forum: Discussion Forum Trouble Reports
Topic: Some posts lose their edit-buttom but others not
Replies: 1
Views: 25028

Some posts lose their edit-buttom but others not

In short. This is a spam-bot countermeasure. There are malicious users that sign up, make random, seemingly innocuous posts, and after a while come back and edit their posts to insert SEO links or spam messages. Often we cannot know if a user is legit or a potential spammer. Hence, posts are being l...
by MrFlibble
Sun Sep 08, 2024 12:44 pm
Forum: Find Old Games
Topic: The weirdest old steampunk game ever
Replies: 4
Views: 15510

The weirdest old steampunk game ever

You can also try this category: https://www.mobygames.com/group/712/protagonist-female/sort:date/ And if not there, there's 3rd person view games. Also, you could fill in some gaps in the description. I have the impression that your game was fully 3D, like, for example, Psychonauts ? Was it a commer...
by MrFlibble
Sat Sep 07, 2024 12:59 pm
Forum: Find Old Games
Topic: The weirdest old steampunk game ever
Replies: 4
Views: 15510

The weirdest old steampunk game ever

Maybe start by looking in this list?
https://www.mobygames.com/game/genre:steampunk/
by MrFlibble
Thu Sep 05, 2024 3:09 am
Forum: Find Old Games
Topic: Pixelart ecosystem or biotope creating game [SimLife]
Replies: 4
Views: 14152

Pixelart ecosystem or biotope creating game [SimLife]

How do i download it from the linked page? You don't. MobyGames is a video game database, not a download site. I found a download here: I'm sorry, but we don't allow links to abandonware sites here. This game was never released as freeware, and we do not promote software piracy on this forum. Pleas...
by MrFlibble
Tue Sep 03, 2024 6:50 am
Forum: Get Games to Work
Topic: How do install this labyrinth game?
Replies: 6
Views: 53909

How do install this labyrinth game?

I noticed in the images from Mr Flibble also issues with umlaut-characters in the menu bar, maybe the unpacking did not work correctly for those, or it is just a display thing on the PC used to run it? That's because I have Cyrillic fonts as the default setting, so no umlauts unless I change the sy...
by MrFlibble
Mon Sep 02, 2024 9:07 am
Forum: Discussion Forum Trouble Reports
Topic: invalid characters found
Replies: 2
Views: 14569

invalid characters found

I noticed that the version of phpBB used by the forums here (or maybe some plugin, don't know) is incredibly picky about characters. I once spent about an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with a post that I had made in a different forum and was trying to re-post here, by copying the text. It...
by MrFlibble
Mon Sep 02, 2024 8:09 am
Forum: Find Old Games
Topic: Prison escape with two other characters
Replies: 1
Views: 11990

Prison escape with two other characters

First off, congratulations on making every single major mistake in formulating your game search request. I remember when I was young there was a game We have absolutely zero idea when you were young, so this tells us nothing. Please try to specify at least the approximate time frame (80s? 90s? 2000s...
by MrFlibble
Mon Sep 02, 2024 7:20 am
Forum: Get Games to Work
Topic: How do install this labyrinth game?
Replies: 6
Views: 53909

How do install this labyrinth game?

Alright, I downloaded the game and used winevdm (which allows to execute 16-bit Win applications on modern Windows) to run the installer, but I got the same error message as you. The installer must be borked somehow, I don't know. Luckily, the game files are simply compressed with LZ compression, wh...
by MrFlibble
Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:08 am
Forum: Find Old Games
Topic: (PC)(2000'S) Island Survival Game
Replies: 5
Views: 13967

(PC)(2000'S) Island Survival Game

Something like Schiffbruch perhaps?
by MrFlibble
Sun Aug 04, 2024 12:55 pm
Forum: Find Old Games
Topic: Water game with panda
Replies: 2
Views: 13819

Water game with panda

Very little detail, but this sounds like a game that could be too new for us here (later than 1980s to early 2000s), and possible not even on PC or retro consoles.
by MrFlibble
Sat Jul 27, 2024 5:11 am
Forum: Game Creation
Topic: Porting DOS game to Windows; where to start?
Replies: 5
Views: 24434

Porting DOS game to Windows; where to start?

kronoman, thank you for the in-depth reply!
by MrFlibble
Mon Jul 22, 2024 3:28 pm
Forum: General Gaming
Topic: Tried to contact
Replies: 1
Views: 12182

Tried to contact

Do you want to contribute a game to the dosgames.com site?
by MrFlibble
Fri Jul 05, 2024 2:20 pm
Forum: Find Old Games
Topic: A yellow round character who moves around the map building things [Speedy Blupi]
Replies: 3
Views: 12983

A yellow round character who moves around the map building things [Speedy Blupi]

Glad you found it! Blupi games are quite excellent, as far as I can tell.

They are also now freeware, you can get Speedy Blupi and others from the official site:
https://blupi.org/
by MrFlibble
Mon Jul 01, 2024 12:05 pm
Forum: Game Reviews
Topic: Ken Silverman interview by UnknDoomer
Replies: 0
Views: 32750

Ken Silverman interview by UnknDoomer

Doomworld (and many other forums) regular UnknDoomer recently released an interview with Ken Silverman, the famous creator of Ken's Labyrinth and the Build engine . The interview, done via e-mail, includes 30 questions polled from fans, and covers various topics such as the development of Build and...
by MrFlibble
Mon Jul 01, 2024 11:55 am
Forum: General Off-Topic
Topic: Beyond DOS 6.22
Replies: 3
Views: 14176

Beyond DOS 6.22

Say we have internet capability. If you want to access websites/download things, that would all need to happen in some form of a GUI wouldn't it? There's a DOS-based web browser called Arachne . There's also a DOS-based GUI OS called XFDOS . So no, Windows 3.x is not the only GUI for DOS that is av...