[HN Gopher] DOS Game Club
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DOS Game Club
Author : rocky1138
Score : 70 points
Date : 2023-09-02 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.dosgameclub.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.dosgameclub.com)
| iancmceachern wrote:
| I love seeing syndicate covered here. It was so unique, love that
| game.
| [deleted]
| beebeepka wrote:
| I never got to play it. What was unique about it, besides the
| multiplayer?
| tom_ wrote:
| It's like an RTS, but you only have 4 units, and you've got
| fairly close moment-by-moment control over their actions.
|
| It's continuous, not grid- or turn-based like X-COM.
|
| A lot of the maps feature police, antagonistic to all
| syndicates, and civilians, whose death or injury can attract
| the police. This aspect can require some management. I don't
| recall this kind of mechanic from any of the RTSs I played
| around that time.
|
| Also worth noting: it ran in 16-colour 640x480 VGA (or maybe
| it was 640x400...), so it looked nice and intricate. Sure,
| you take a slight colour count hit compared to 320x200 - but
| UK games artists in the early 90s were well practised at
| dealing with that, after years of doing ST and Amiga games.
| (The Amiga had a 32 colour mode, but it came with a
| performance penalty.)
| armchairhacker wrote:
| Also see Random DOS Game Show:
| https://www.youtube.com/@getoffmylawn6692/videos. He posts
| something nearly every day
| edfletcher_t137 wrote:
| The style for this site is _fantastic_. Is it available as
| importable source somewhere?
| poisonborz wrote:
| The site not capturing Alt + shortcut keys to control the menu
| is a big missed opportunity though.
| soneil wrote:
| It looks like it's trying to. On Safari ctrl+alt+f works for
| me.
| seritools wrote:
| When it comes to fonts there is this:
| https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
| treve wrote:
| Reminds me of Turbo Pascal (5/6/7)
| jsd1982 wrote:
| TurboVision!
| nathanaldensr wrote:
| It's the old IBM code page 437[1]. Lots of DOS applications
| were designed to look like this.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
| intalentive wrote:
| I'd like to see them cover MicroProse's Darklands, an
| underappreciated classic of historical party-based role-playing
| with interesting mechanics you don't see much in the D&D style
| slashers.
| nostromo wrote:
| Darklands is such an under-appreciated classic. I played and
| re-played it for at least a year as a kid, and still think
| about its complexities and interesting gameplay mechanics.
|
| If anyone creates the spiritual successor to Darklands, I'd buy
| it in an instant. There is a mobile game called Occidental
| Heroes that's loosely based on it, but a bit too simplified to
| capture its magic.
| kuhewa wrote:
| Does anyone know if they covered Sleuth
| jebarker wrote:
| The list of previous episodes contains so many games from my
| childhood I totally forgot about, e.g. Little Big Adventure
| harel wrote:
| Little big planet is available as a mobile game. Looks pretty
| accurate too
| mertd wrote:
| They are supposedly working on a new LBA.
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