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[QuakeIV]

(Did a quick search, doesn't appear to be a threat about this)

So I was thinking about the good old days (okay well seven years ago or so) when I played Caesar 3.  I had always wondered about Caesar I and II.  So I found both.  Caesar II came with DOSBOX, and a script to automatically fire up Caesar II.  Alright, cool, 1995.  Still cant run Caesar I though (only 800kb by the way, I mean holy shit).  So I decide to try to direct DOSBOX to run Caesar I.  Lo and behold it works perfectly.  So I'm playing a game from 1993, which has surprising resemblances to Caesar 3, and I notice some pretty interesting stuff.  Low res pixel graphics can be made to look pretty sweet.  It has a lot of the gameplay elements from the later game so far as I can tell.  It also has a right and left mouse button interface, which works pretty well (somewhat hilariously, you cant scroll through the map with the arrowkeys, those move the pointer, presumably for those without a mouse).  You can touch the edge of the screen and scroll through the map at full pixel resolution if you have a tool selected.  It has reasonably catchy chirp music.  It was actually pretty fun when I played through it, and initially I found myself enjoying it more than the later tests in Portal 2.  1993 wasn't too bad...

So, any thoughts?  What are your epic DOSBOX exploits?

[Ozyton]

I'm not entirely sure how this is an 'exploit'. DOSBOX is supposed to run these older game by emulating DOS, or so I am told.

[QuakeIV]

Yeah I know, I was referring to the 'adventure' definition of exploit.  For instance, "The exploits of captain IronBeard are well known indeed."

e: Anyways, clarified the topic.

[Dsarker]

That's why I love having Windows 98. Hell, I've still got 3.11 lying around somewhere. They didn't need to do anything else.

[Patchy]

I miss those days sometimes. Who can forget the classics like Master of Magic or the original Master of Orion.

[Bouchart]

One of my favorite DOS games as a kid is an obscure puzzle game called Freakin' Funky Fuzzballs.  I replayed it about a week ago, actually.

[Dsarker]

Favourite would have to be Ascendancy.

[MrWiggles]

Gotta have DosBox installed.

Though not everything ages well. For instance, Dark Forces.

[lopocozo]

I wish I was smart enough to work that old/newfangled DOSBox machine.

[Rhodan]

DOSBox has this nifty little feature where you can simply drag any program you'd like it to run onto the .exe or a shortcut to it and it'll do all the mounting for you.  I used to get confused too until I discovered that.

[nenjin]

Really? Man, I never knew. mount c: c:\blah. I can type it out in my sleep.

[Gunner-Chan]

Darklands. I still wish someone could make a game that feels like that but modern.

[Sensei]

I hand a strong recommendation towards Alone in the Dark.

System Shock and Daggerfall are good ones too.

[Ghills]

For all those who have issues with DOSBox: http://www.gog.com

Old games, for cheap, with no DRM.  Compatible with XP, Vista & 7 (for most games, a few still have issues w/ 7).

I get almost all my old games fun from there. Except for King of DragonFall Pass, sadly.

[ChairmanPoo]

Favourite would have to be Ascendancy.

I loved that game.

They made an ipad port recently. I emailed them about whether they'd make an android port, but no such luck for now