Category: Games
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Hercules Graphics
Late last year I got a comment on one of my videos suggesting I could add Hercules graphics to my game project. It sounded like an interesting idea so I started considering how I would go about it. Hercules graphics isn’t that hard to program for, the main issue with…
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Neut Tower for DOS
Today’s game was made by SpindleyQ starting in 2018 releasing a shareware episode in early 2020. It is an EGA puzzle game that would have fit right into the shareware gaming scene in the late 80’s and early 90’s. The author took on an unique challenge, doing all the development…
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Solder Runner for DOS
Today’s game, Solder Runner, was made by Sumware Software back in 1996. This is notable as it’s after the release of Windows 95 and was in a time of decline for games development for DOS. It’s kind of like Paganitzu, Chaganitzu, God of Thunder or Bloxinies, except the puzzles span…
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Daymare for DOS
I found today’s game whilst playing random shareware I found on my F19 CD. Daymare is a dungeon crawler made by Jim Todd, originally it was made for the Atari ST, but was later ported to DOS in 1992. It was released as shareware with a sequel eventually being made.…
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Bloxinies and Bloxinies II for DOS
One afternoon I had a bit of spare time, whilst looking around the doshaven website for something to play I ran into two simple puzzle games. Bloxinies and it’s sequel Bloxinies II. These were both made by Sebastiaan Jansen (also known as Thandor) in 2013 and 2016 respectively. The first…
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Some DOS Games for the IBM PC
The early IBM PC was not really all that good at playing games, it was after all primarily designed for businesses. Despite this many developers did make games for them, although they were typically very limited by the capabilities of the PC. I didn’t get to play any of these…
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Skunny: Wild West for DOS
Having already looked at three of the Skunny games you’d think I would have learned my lesson and avoided today’s game Wild West, featuring our not so favourite Skunny Hardnut. This entry in the Skunny series of games came out in 1994 and was made and published by Copysoft. With…
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Silly Knight for DOS
Today I’m looking at a small home brew game named Silly Knight made by Petr “AfBu” Kratina in 2017. It was made for a DOS game creation competition hosted at high-voltage.cz. It uses a special CGA text mode for drawing at 160×100 resolution with 16 colours by using code developed…
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Paganitzu: Romancing the Rose for DOS
Whilst Apogee were better known for publishing action games they also had some puzzle games in their catalog. Todays game, Paganitzu is one of those puzzles games, having some features in common with Sokoban. I’m just playing the shareware episode, but you can still buy Paganitzu on steam or through…
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QB Debugger Heroes for DOS
I wasn’t sure whether I should include today’s game as a home brew as it’s creator, Gemini (Kris Asick), has produced commercial games. From the file date it was made sometime in November 2017. He made it using QBasic during a live stream, which is certainly interesting, unfortunately there doesn’t…
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