Anatoly Shashkin💾

How I know that videogames is still very much a developing artistic medium:
No videogame so far had made me feel the same emotions as when I see this 👇

"Narcissus" aka Recruitment Theme from the DOS port of Cannon Fodder played on a real Roland MT-32. 🔊🎵⚰️
#DOSGaming #SensibleSoftware #MT32 #RolandMT32 #MIDIMusic

Yes, but these are remakes made using original assets targeting modern mobile phones. What I was talking about is a contemporary 90s demo.

Sort of. Uspensky wanted to retain the rights to the Kolobki name, and Tatarsky & Kovalyov wanted to keep own their characters, so that's how they decided to settle it.

YouTube video by LGR At last! New IDE Optical Drive Emulators for Retro PCs

Fresh new hardware for aging old computers on LGR!

youtu.be/td6QdOnMvnk

The ZuluIDE and PicoIDE optical drive emulators replace your old CD/DVD drive with a MicroSD card solution for loading ISOs, including support for Redbook CD digital audio! Among other features like virtual hard disks and more

Pilot Brothers games are based on a Soviet animated series "Kolobki are on the Case" co-created by Igor Kovalyov. In 1991 Kovalyov joined Klasky Csupo where he became responsible for the visual style of "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters," among many other things.

I had no idea that "Pilot Brothers" (1997) had an official English language demo. No changes have been made to the voices, but all graphics and text are indeed in English. And you get 3 whole levels out of 15.

All assets are still original

OpenOMF, an open source remake of "One Must Fall 2097" with new options and network play: github.com/omf2097/open...

And also stuff like this, if you own the European edition with bonus features:
bsky.app/profile/dosn...

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

Bruce Campbell on Duke Nukem/3D Realms:

Yes, although ScummVM had support for non-adventure games for decades now. Mainly RPGs and such. But yeah, there's something about seeing it running a Tetris clone that feels a bit off.

Oh, the refrigerator puzzle in Pilot Brothers is giving you PTSD? Well, why then not try out a game of just THAT with "Flip - Flop" (1995)? 😂

Turns out that in addition to the first two Pilot Brothers games ScummVM now also supports a handful of other games developed by Russian company "Gamos", ones that aren't adventures. Such as the Windows 9x port of WildSnake!

Go up to your brother
Kill him with your gun
Leave him lying in his uniform
Dying in the sun

"There are no set territories, no rules of engagement."

My anaconda don't want none unless you got DOS, hun.

I understand. That's how I felt about Transformers 2. Haven't watched a Michael Bay movie since.

I don't mind a bunch of the 3rd one.

I'm way too old to be excited about anything that has "Scary Movie" in its title.

Do you care about things? The AI companies want to stop that. Their product, more than any other invention in human history, is training you to stare dead-eyed while a machine serves you a stream of mediocrity

The future The Lawnmower Man (MS-DOS, 1993) promised us never arrived :(

This is one of those films that I caught randomly on TV when it was new, and in my memory it is a cool weird & creepy flick. I've been afraid to revisit it ever since and most likely ruin the illusion.

Finished Gobliins 6. Despite finding its puzzle design too frustrating, I'd have to say that it's an improvement over the previous Goblins entry in every aspect. And I loved all the Gobliins 2 lore expansion, and the setups for Goblins 3. Now we need a Goblins 7 about Blount becoming a journalist.

I'll give you one better: you don't have to put a space in there either.

Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision, 1993) #DOSGaming

How do you do, fellow olds? 😄