@mrabandonware
I play and archive old games PC, MS-DOS era to early 2000s Abandonware Enthusiast and Data Hoarder Occasional C64, Amiga, SEGA & SNES gamer Leaving Windows and taking my first steps towards permanently using Linux. mrabandonware.wordpress.com
Adventure games, like many other games, should not be constrained by arbitrary completion times. That puzzle you get stuck on, take a break, think about it, come back to it.
Enjoy the journey, rushing through it is a sad reflection of our throw-away culture as we're hurried onto the next thing.
My 9 games, a picture of 9 computer game covers Top row (left to right): Bubble Bobble, Gunship and Sid Meier's Pirates, all on the Commodore 64 Middle Row (left to right): It Came From the Desert, on the Commodore Amiga, Eye of the Beholder 2, Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, both on MS-DOS PC Bottom Row (left to right): Ultima VII: The Black Gate, System Shock, Crusader No Remorse, all on MS-DOS PC
My 9 games (up to, and including, the MS-DOS era)
I didnβt get any 3D video working, I ended using the VBE Miniport Standard PCI Graphics Adapter 140214, which was enough for what I wanted to use it for.
I put FreeDOS and Windows 98SE on one of these, all running off a 64GB Micro SD card. It was a fun little project.
"Microslop" is also becoming commonly used among their Enterprise customers.
Anecdotally, from my professional role, I know institutions have gone from working in partnership with MS on cutting edge infrastructure projects, to actively moving away, due to the drop in quality across the board.
Happy to announce that DREAMM 4.0 is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux!
dreamm.aarongiles.com
Now with support for all Lucas-family games released prior to 2000 on DOS, Windows, and FM-Towns, including all 8 Lucas Learning games. Network play is also now supported (experimentally).
Still, it's the best OS Microsoft ever made...
Basically, this guy, his wife, and their musician friend* had an idea to make the most "early-1990s" game ever and just went with it, and kept on going.
It's perfection.
*Joe Sparks, Maura Sparks & Kent Carmical.
One of things I have noticed in the last 6 months or so of using Linux is that it's recaptured some of that joy of learning and experimenting with computers that I've not felt since the late 90s / early 2000s.
An interesting thread on the recent Dark Eye (Poe's Interactive Horror - 1995) re-release.
My thoughts, whenever I see a publisher with no previous presence releasing a previously considered abandonware title, I'd advise caution.
When I saw a publisher with no presence it felt a bit off to me.
Iβve had this one on my to-do list for a while, but testing still brought up a few issues I could never figure out, so I never uploaded it.
Ironically it appears within 3 reviews someone encountered one of themβ¦
The volunteers at ScummVM do all the hard work to get this working, making it commercially viable, and like magic it stops being being abandonwareβ¦
Silicon Valleyβs alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we canβt depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, Iβve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
So much vibe coding going on now, was it too hard for you to copypaste the code you don't understand from stackoverflow, so you had to outsource it to the environment-destroying fakemachine?
B. Keeps you focused on the characters as they talk.
From my recent experience, I do feel we've reached the point where moving to Linux is less hassle than persevering with Windows.
Photograph of the text of a magazine review of The Sims 2: H&M Fashion Stuff.
This is the review that got me blacklisted by EA. Some shitbag executive wanted me fired.
A few thoughts on why I'm dropping Microsoft and moving over to Linux, and why I think we all should do so.
mrabandonware.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/t...
Post a banger thatβs not in English.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPDD...
Accurate
The original Alone in the Dark and its sequels are free at GOG for a limited time.
Want a free game? It's from 1995, but it is indeed free!
It's called Star Quest 1 in the 27th Century and even if PC Gamer calls it classic (maybe in the UK?), I've never heard of it before today!
Please leave my backlog of games and books alone, I'll get round to them when I have time...
That is at least voluntary for those that want/can to contribute.
Maybe I'm being optimistic, but it could be helping keep the prices of the games in the program down and, longer term, funding their commitment to keep the games working on whatever hardware/OSs we have then.
I do agree that preservation needs to be more than "works on Windows 10/11" though.
My frustration is that many of their games don't work on their native OSs, and I do question if that is actually preservation?
I look at preservation as a collaborative effort.
Museums tend to deal with the "raw materials", developers (usually volunteers) build the tools, and companies like GOG make games available to people. It's all actual work, but GOG choose to cover their overheads as a business.
Solidarity with Ubisoft workers β
There's no point training people to use tools that can't answer the questions people are asking.
Train people to answer the questions themselves instead. It'll be more cost-effective and will actually empower people in the process.
never seen such desperation for the entire capitalist class to sell one technology
RELOADED 2 is finally here! You can download or read the free retro gaming zine here: dominuz.itch.io/reloaded-2
Many thanks to the contributors. I hope it makes a nice Christmas gift for all the retro gamers. Thank you!