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(DIR) Post #B5isKwkcE1TFtBuney by dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
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Good mooring, fellow DOS gaming enthusiasts. What were your favorite DOS games that fit on a single floppy disk?
(DIR) Post #B5isOnRklBOOBtvbwO by root42@chaos.social
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@dosnostalgic Zak McKracken? If you have at least a 3.5" DD or 5.25" HD...
(DIR) Post #B5isoBsR47ylCSW93Y by phl@mastodon.social
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@dosnostalgic STUNTS is definitely high up on the list. IIRC Hero's Quest was more than one floppy though.
(DIR) Post #B5itIp8Nfm5PdpaC3c by JennyFluff@chitter.xyz
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@dosnostalgic Sid Meier's Civilization
(DIR) Post #B5itUFS2AQUKRoDszA by thejaysunday@mamot.fr
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@dosnostalgic my fav was Xenon2!
(DIR) Post #B5iuLv3IE68YooF7Sq by Tebra@fosstodon.org
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@dosnostalgic Master of Magic, but maybe more than 1 disk
(DIR) Post #B5iug79cwN7W90pr9s by dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
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@Tebra Yeah, that's more like 8 disks.
(DIR) Post #B5iujnAZBZLTJx1pHE by kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@dosnostalgic original Wolfenstein
(DIR) Post #B5ivKXI7BQvmn251JA by stage7@owo.cafe
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@dosnostalgic I used to play Lotus III a lot 🥲.
(DIR) Post #B5ivge3ehmzO9CrKc4 by aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@dosnostalgic airball
(DIR) Post #B5ivj4Nho49eMpOSgq by wbpeckham@techhub.social
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@dosnostalgic oubliette Not the one that got trademarked, but the earlier one that fit on a single floppy and was an RPG in the style of a roguelike dungeon dive. I must have burned up two weeks worth of hours on that thing. 😁
(DIR) Post #B5ivt5GlMMaY17vBaK by hiddenbit@mastodon.social
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@dosnostalgic Definitely STUNTS. Also loved Raiden and Prince of Persia but can't remember if each could fit on a single floppy
(DIR) Post #B5iy1HkF3m5YvykSQK by Sonikku@techhub.social
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@dosnostalgic does Doom shareware count? Because I got about a 1000 hours of playtime out of that.
(DIR) Post #B5izlCELzhFx6gHyAC by Sonikku@techhub.social
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Wait that may have been two disks, can’t recall
(DIR) Post #B5izlCPLKq2xelQkIC by dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
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@Sonikku Two disks.
(DIR) Post #B5j7CnmFCiH53NFdnk by chebra@mstdn.io
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@dosnostalgic UGH!
(DIR) Post #B5j7GccWcuJzbrWj3Y by invaderoid@mastodon.social
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@dosnostalgic Jordan vs Bird One on One was a big one for me, and our first with an anti-piracy code wheel.
(DIR) Post #B5jBOno3JxwWR44hdY by jfaulken@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@dosnostalgic any infocom game! favorite at the time was probably Planetfall.
(DIR) Post #B5jDXD3pVdCuzBaiQK by flaws@bawue.social
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@dosnostalgic Sid Meier's Pirates!
(DIR) Post #B5jO5Otd0j5b52lHf6 by andrew@hodgson.io
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@dosnostalgic I seem to remember playing Keen1 shareware back in the day off a single 720K disk.
(DIR) Post #B5jSuh37g2KnxzusgC by crankyoldbugger@fosstodon.org
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@dosnostalgic Leisure Suit Larry!
(DIR) Post #B5jTSUJBYOzmIUXn4i by eiZen@mastodon.sdf.org
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@dosnostalgic Not favorite in a "repeatedly played" sense but one that I remembered for decades due to its overall atmosphere:Rise of the Dragon, 1990#DOSgaming #retrogaming
(DIR) Post #B5jZsFwCCqKoytSfBY by dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
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@eiZen Rise of the Dragon is nearly 8 megabytes in size. Definitely isn't fitting on a floppy disk.
(DIR) Post #B5ja50i28W0LW1v1Qe by andrew@hodgson.io
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@Sonikku @dosnostalgic Could you play that from the disk? I know it came on a single disk but was compressed wasn't it?
(DIR) Post #B5ja50vrJ740CuO3yi by dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
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@andrew @Sonikku It didn't come on a single disk. It's 4.7 megs in size unpacked, compressed to ~2 megs, and fits on two disks.
(DIR) Post #B5jeMd9OrgtPTlNPPs by andrew@hodgson.io
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@kwramm @dosnostalgic Could you play that from the disk? I know it came on a single disk but was compressed wasn't it?
(DIR) Post #B5jeMdWnShbkeKK5su by kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@andrew @dosnostalgic There was a special "floppy version" floating around at school (maybe created by the people who pirated it?) which everyone copied, so we could play it in the lab, directly from the floppy 😂
(DIR) Post #B5jeofkimhR3eoCksq by dosnostalgic@mastodon.social
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@kwramm @andrew Wait. I thought by "original Wolfenstein" you meant "Castle Wolfenstein" from 1984. 🤔But if we're talking about Wolfenstein 3D, then yes, the shareware version did fit on a single disk even uncompressed, so you could play it from a disk.
(DIR) Post #B5joEXmTwcFa3BRJRo by antdude@mastodon.social
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@dosnostalgic Thexder, Golden Axe, Wolf3D, etc.
(DIR) Post #B5k2vdtiTeDapbGiDw by eiZen@mastodon.sdf.org
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@dosnostalgic Bummer! It seems it was my memory about it which fits on one disk?
(DIR) Post #B5lj3xNgJT5wo6tKka by peron@mastodon.sdf.org
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@dosnostalgic I liked Micro$oft Flight Simulator 4 and MicroPro$e F-19 Stealth Fighter. But there were several 1 floppy games. Lemmings and Simcity 1 were fun 1 floppers!