r/dosgaming • • Dec 20 '22

Join the Retro Gaming Network Discord Server and talk about DOS gaming!

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r/dosgaming • • 1h ago

Stunts Online

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https://Stunts-Online.com is open!

It's a reverse-engineer/remake that drives identically to Stunts (aka 4D Spots Driving) from 1990, but we've added a whole bunch of modern features, like smooth framerate, online leaderboards, ghost cars, new track editor with new track features, and much more. If you recognize the original game, this might be fun to check out.

It's completely free to play, and runs directly in browser without installing anything.


r/dosgaming • • 22m ago

SkyNET & Future Shock port update: rewritten from Godot to its own C# engine, with an enhanced renderer, a mission editor and VR

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A while ago I posted my Godot port of Bethesda's SkyNET and The Terminator: Future Shock here (previous post). Thanks for all the feedback!

Since then I've rewritten it from scratch. Godot started to limit me: some of the trigger and scripting logic kept fighting the engine, working with its resources got clumsy, and I wanted a mission editor made for this game. So the port now runs on a small C# engine of its own, built on SDL3.

What's in it now:

- Original look: the DOS palette renderer, kept faithful to the original.

- Enhanced look: lighting, shadows, ambient occlusion, weather and fire. There are also ASCII and point-cloud render styles, just for fun (the videos show the same spot in all four).

- A modern HUD option for widescreen and high resolutions; the classic DOS panel stays.

- VR: a stereo mode for the desktop, and on Android you can play in a phone VR viewer (Cardboard) with head tracking.

- Android build with touch controls and gamepad support.

- Deathmatch with bots: HUMAN vs TERMINATOR classes, with an optional point-cloud "machine vision" for the Terminator.

- Built-in mission editor: terrain, triggers, entities, tables and mods, saved as mods without touching your game files.

No game assets included: it runs from your own copy of the game. Still a work in progress, no public release yet. I'd like to hear what you'd want from a port like this.


r/dosgaming • • 21h ago

Grand Prix 2 by Geoff Crammond is back - GP2 Revival

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For a year I've been working on my own Grand Prix simulator. Not an arcade game, but a real challenging sim engine with attention to detail and real life F1 physics. A friend works for the Williams F1 team and I've been a mega F1 since the 90s. Putting as much of my passion and knowledge into it as possible. And yes it has pit girls.

There's plenty of modern racing sims and the more photorealistic they get the more boring IMHO.

I felt I wanted to do something different, so I went back to the DOS days.

I have a custom 3D engine, and a game API, which translates GP2's logic to my new engine. It's way beyond just a port (or recomp). The gameplay and much loved AI is all there, even the original physics and cars, but the graphics and physics engine are new, and now basically everything can be modded or new features added like a dynamic weather system for wet races. Because it isn't an off the shelf engine like Unity I can maintain the 90s charm as well. My own lighting engine in C++, my own texturing, and so on.

Going to try and get it out the door next week! Some footage of it running: https://www.youtube.com/@GP2Revival


r/dosgaming • • 1h ago

My dad spent hundreds of hours on Spindizzy in the 80s. I wanted him to be able to play it again without fiddling with emulators, so I brought it to the modern browser.

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Hey everyone!

My dad used to talk about losing hours to Spindizzy back on 8-bit systems. He isn’t the type to deal with emulator configurations, ROM downloads, or keymappers anymore, so I wanted to make something he could just open in a tab and play immediately.

Play it here: https://spindizzy.adventure.io/

A few notes:
- Built on top of / forked from an earlier remake by IsoRealms, with fixes and adjustments for smooth modern browser play.
- Full credit to Paul Shirley for the brilliant 1986 original design.
- Controls: Arrow Keys / WASD / touch.

Hope you have fun with it!


r/dosgaming • • 1d ago

Dangerous Dave... it only took >20 years to beat it :)

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Finally I resolved a youth trauma... hehe


r/dosgaming • • 14h ago

Recommend me a joystick for DosBox.

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I would like to remind myself the games of my youth: Wing Commander 3 and Tie Fighter, but without the toil of mouse playthrough (it's been 30 years and I still hate the thought of a dog fight with an A-Wing in a Gunboat using a ball mouse).

Would you recommend me a joystick, preferably with hall-sensors, as I hate steering drift, that would work well with DosBox on Linux and wouldn't break the bank?


r/dosgaming • • 1d ago

Wing Commander 3 is getting a 30th anniversary edition with remastered FMVs from the restored original tapes

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r/dosgaming • • 1d ago

My full hour-long interview with Richard Garriott is up this week. Enjoy!

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r/dosgaming • • 2d ago

Ultima VII - The black gate - 1992.

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Simply a masterpiece for the year, and a worthy successor to the outstanding Ultima VI.


r/dosgaming • • 3d ago

CyberMage: Darklight Re-Awakened

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Hi Everyone!

I wanted to let everyone know that (using AI obv.) I made a Rust version of CyberMage: Darklight Awakening compatible with modern system, ultrawide, adaptive resolution targeting 60fps and full controller support.

I always liked this game but it really was always terrible to try to run it and the controls where not the best thing so I tryed to fix both things, I wanted to execute the game without dosbox and obviously add full controller support.

You can find the game here.

To play the game you need the iso of the US version of the game v1.01f... the one that you can easily find and download on abandonware.

The game is fully playable and is compatible with the original savegames, let me know if you find some bugs.

I hope you enjoy!


r/dosgaming • • 3d ago

Jones in the AI Race - I remade Sierra's 1990 Jones in the Fast Lane as a parody of the AI race. Free, in the browser

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r/dosgaming • • 2d ago

I rebuilt Ultima IV from its DOS binary as a free web game (Promptima IV): reverse engineered function by function, with an AI agent driving the tools

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r/dosgaming • • 2d ago

Raptor: Call of the Shadows running in your browser (WebAssembly port, smooth 60+ FPS)

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Hi all, I've AI SLOPED a browser version of Raptor: Call of the Shadows, the classic DOS vertical shooter. Actually I think that was very first game I've ever played.

It's a WebAssembly port of the open-source reverse-engineered source by skynettx/raptor, compiled with Emscripten and running in any modern browser. Nothing to install.

Play: https://arielkuzminski.github.io/raptor-web/ Source: https://github.com/arielkuzminski/raptor-web (a fork of skynettx/raptor, GPLv2+)

What's different from the original:

  • Smooth motion: game logic keeps its original timing, and rendering is interpolated between steps. Choose 60, 120, 144 FPS or match your monitor.
  • Widescreen: 16:9 presentation with a blurred copy of the game on the sides.
  • Music: Sound Blaster music is played through an OPL3 emulator, so no SoundFont files are needed.
  • Language: English by default, plus a Polish translation. The translation system supports other languages.
  • Saves and settings are kept in your browser.

You need your own game files. Nothing from the game is hosted or included in the project. You need the original FILE0000.GLB and FILE0001.GLB (shareware) or FILE0000.GLB to FILE0004.GLB (full version 1.2+). You select them on the start screen, and they stay in your browser only.

I'm not affiliated with the rights holders of Raptor. Feedback, bug reports, and issues are welcome on GitHub.


r/dosgaming • • 4d ago

Jumped on the bandwagon and combined Doom plus Descent

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WYTXA3c60Q

Doomscent.

Requires full or shareware Doom and Descent game files of course.

Download and information: https://github.com/wootbeer/Doomscent

Just a Sunday morning project for AI, we are at that point. Plays pretty well so far.

Updated: Chexscent, Herescent and Hexscent: Chex Quest, Heretic and Hexen are
playable. Chex Quest footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf-d011ZqbA


r/dosgaming • • 3d ago

2D Classic game with frogs jumping to clear blocks..

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r/dosgaming • • 4d ago

Super Off Road Multiplayer - looking for random friends to playtest

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Hello,
I decided this weekend to create a remastered HD version of one of my favorite childhood games Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road with a online multiplayer.

This was one of the first games I played. At that time I collected bottles to rent a NES console and this game. Had only 24hrs to play it so no much sleep during that time. Now with the current tech I was able to bring it back alive and would love to race against other people if there are any one who would like to playtest this with me.

It has also a sigle player mode so you can practice.

Game can be found at: https://offroad.blinkki.com


r/dosgaming • • 4d ago

Batman the Caped Crusader [1988] a Unique Comic Style 8bit game

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Batman: The Caped Crusader is an arcade adventure which uses a unique style, innovated by Jonathan Smith and Charles Davies, to display the action as though it takes place in a comic book.[2] This technique involved having each game location set in its own panel, often with a comic book style caption in the upper-left corner, with inactive panels faded out behind the current active location. This concept was expanded upon by Sega's Comix Zone seven years later.[3]

The game was split into two independently playable parts in which Batman is faced with two of his most well-known adversaries: "A Bird In The Hand" featuring the Penguin and "A Fete Worse Than Death" which involved the Joker. The gameplay involves Batman using punches and kicks and his batarang (a thrown weapon) in order to fight the villains' henchmen as well as solving puzzles.


r/dosgaming • • 4d ago

GLFrontier with Opentrack, VR and Gamepad support.

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r/dosgaming • • 3d ago

PE-MAN - powerful new savegame editor for Planet's Edge RPG

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r/dosgaming • • 3d ago

"Where Are We?" for DOSBox Staging

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r/dosgaming • • 5d ago

Just some Gold Box gaming.

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iPad Mini 7th Gen, iDOS 3, copied my Steam version to the iPad. The iPad actually fits in the box with the manuals, disks, etc.. 🤣


r/dosgaming • • 5d ago

openSEEK, a reimplementation of the DOS game Seek&Destroy, takes off today

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And it’s not another byte-perfect recreation, soulless port or web version (but that exists too!).

I played the game as a kid and loved it back then. A few years ago I tried it again, and some things just weren’t as fun anymore.
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to improve the game and make it more fun and enjoyable.
So here is my try with the game engine reimplementation using a modern framework, and the core mechanics are built with techniques that weren’t possible in the original DOS days.
This is my vision of how the game should have been, and I hope it will be fun for both old fans and new players.

The game is available on itch.io, GitHub, and there is also web build running on my personal web page with original shareware version of the game.

The game was released exactly 30 years ago (in 1996), and I recently found out that the original source code was lost in a flood. Anyway, happy anniversary to the game and the original developers!


r/dosgaming • • 5d ago

Jetstrike (1992) DOS Enhanced

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r/dosgaming • • 6d ago

I ported Xenon 2 Megablast to the Neo Geo Pocket Color, and the shop alien can talk

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