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[Dsarker]

They made an ipad port?


Well, luckily for me I won an ipad recently...now, to get that port....

[ChairmanPoo]

http://www.logicfactory.com/main/Logic_Factory.html

[Dsarker]

Something I will have to get. Thank you for pointing it out to me!

[Itnetlolor]

Ah, Atomic Tetris, Starcon (1 and 2), and Scorched Earth. If I ever wanted to hit my siblings really hard, these were good reasons.

I also remember whenever my brother took over the computer, we essentially turned it into a Let's Play session way before they came to existence online. Started off with X-COM. I had my base, he had his. Much fun was had when my skyranger reached a site before his. I lost so much, my base's funding pretty much got cut off, and I was kicked out late-game because I hurt his funding so badly due to not being a good tactician back then. That can also work as a new way to play or LP the game.

I remember learning tons from watching my brothers play games and use other interesting programs (like Fractint (Fractal Generator) and Gravity (planet simulator)). Watching them play Civilization or Master of Orion was generally fun to watch as well. They are, or at least were, outright fearsome to watch. I think the earliest I've seen them beat the game (on at least normal difficulty) was at about 1500 AD, where they overrun cities with Armor tanks and Mechanical Infantries, and bombing the hell out of places with dense airforces. And just to be a dick, finish the last guy's city off with maybe 20 simultaneous ICBMs, or a single militia (or similarly weakest unit available by then), or for the biggest middle finger to the last man standing, a single settler.

If there were any games I played the most solo, it would have to be Stunts, X-COM, Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, and Tie Fighter. Beating Tie Fighter at as young as maybe 12 (was it?), freaking awesome. I was pretty much a Top Ace and a pretty decent seat in the Secret Sith Order as well. I mean, I was able to chase down A-Wings and dogfight them with TIE Bombers, I was that good. Minefields became no worry either. And the overall story and music, and everything else involved; screw it, that game rocked.

I still advise using the D-Fend Reloaded Frontend for DOSBox for anything DOSBox related. Quite user-friendly, easy to tweak things to their best settings, and quick to setup.

[justinlee999]

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.

How did I not know this.

Anyway, I can launch DOS games manually, but usually use frontends so that I can skip all the mounting crap and just play the game.

[jmancube]

Daggerfall X-Com, Masters of Orion, and Master of Magic. Those games are some of the best games in existence, especially Master of Magic. I played that game just last year, and it's become one of my favorite games. That's a game that I would really enjoy a decent remake of, there just doesn't seem to be anything else that quite measures up to it.

[rhesusmacabre]

Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2 (never played 3).

[Virex]

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.

How did I not know this.

Anyway, I can launch DOS games manually, but usually use frontends so that I can skip all the mounting crap and just play the game.

You can also make shortcuts with some options appended to the path it points to so it automounts the game. Then you just need to type in the name of the game's .exe and you're off.

[BigD145]

NDS version: http://dsx86.patrickaalto.com/
I can play all Quest for Glory games except 4. SimFarm? I can play it. Railroad Tycoon? Yup.

[RedKing]

Stronghold (the SSI D&D-themed one, not the much later castle RTS)
Fantasy General
Any of the TSR Gold Box stuff
Master of Magic
Master of Orion
Might & Magic: World of Xeen
Jagged Alliance
M.A.X.
Ascendancy

Best part is, I still have the original disks for all this stuff 

I've tried futzing with it to get it to run Frontier and Frontier: Alien Encounters but they're still buggy.

[Sappho]

I just use DOSshell. Easy interface and it saves everything I set up.

Most of my recent DOS time has been spent on Darklands, Mice Maze, or Boomtown, though that one is glitchy as hell and I don't often last long with it. Come to think of it, I haven't played Darklands in a while... Need to boot it up next time I have some free time.

[zombat]

Like space games?

Play wingcommander, complete with luke skywalker kicking ass with his kitty kat wingman, then flying home to get the dents hammered out by the porn star mechanic.

Come to think of it was wingcommander a dos game or a windows game?



Also don't forget to try the last dos game, dereck smart's desktop commander -  released in 1996, completed in 1999.

[puke]

good christ, dont say that name.  he'll show up here if you invoke his name.  Isnt he still making games in that franchise, even now?

Wing commander was definitly dos, at least the first one.  How many were there, like five or so?  I liked the spin-off games, too.  Armada was pretty lame, but Privateer was one of the best Elite-clones ever.

System Shock was one of my favorites, but it has so much problems with its memory emulation that there is a whole community devoted to getting it to run stabley.  search for "System Shock Portable" and you'll find it.

Syndicate is another great one.  It used to not run well under dosbox, but they've patched things up in recent years and now it goes like a champ.

[justinlee999]

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.

How did I not know this.

Anyway, I can launch DOS games manually, but usually use frontends so that I can skip all the mounting crap and just play the game.

You can also make shortcuts with some options appended to the path it points to so it automounts the game. Then you just need to type in the name of the game's .exe and you're off.

Yeah, I've read about those, but frontends also let you have config files for each separate games, so I don't have to manually change the DOSBox config file just to play a different DOS game.

[612DwarfAvenue]

TES1: Arena.
TES2: Daggerfall.

All you need for a while.