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vga256i can't really believe this research was never done or published over the years. it's funny how basic knowledge like this disappears: the original typeface that graced the cover of every Ultima game. "Victorian" was created by english typeface designers Freda Sack and Colin Brignall in 1976, and was included in the ITC typeface library.top: Victorian Standard Regular typeface.bottom: Worlds of Ultima - Martian Dreams box cover, with a slightly modified version of the Victorian font. You'll notice that the M has a very pretty descender added by an artist at Origin Systems. i *suspect* this was painted or airbrushed by Denis Loubet (does anyone know denis here?), but there are no credits given in any of the manuals.both use an exactly 64 point font.<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/typefaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#typefaces</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/ultima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ultima</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dosGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosGaming</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/gamePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gamePreservation</a>

Game Magazine Print AdsCasino Tournament of Champions Source: Electronic Entertainment 15 (March 1995) Scan Source: RetroMags<a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a>

DesertFOXIch steh auf solche feinen Details! Hatte darüber erst kürzlich gelesen und wollte mir das jetzt mal selbst in der deutschen Ausgabe ansehen: Für die EGA Version von Monkey Island hatten sie ja nur 16 Farben zur Verfügung und mussten da dann wohl etwas mit der Farbpalette jonglieren. In der Szene mit der großen, animierten Leuchtreklame wechselt die Aktivierungsfarbe daher im Inventar plötzlich von Hell-Lila auf Rot. Das war mir bisher nie aufgefallen! 😅 <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroGaming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOSGaming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PCGaming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/EGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EGA</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MonkeyIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MonkeyIsland</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LucasArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LucasArts</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#90s</a>

Game Magazine Print AdsTristan Pinball Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 5.5 (September/October 1992) Scan Source: RetroMags<a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a>

vga256back in the mid-90s just prior to sierra's downfall into fmv and poorly funded titles (their sale to CUC international), the company started looking for low-risk low-profit income avenues. in the post-doom FPS feeding frenzy, the bloom was off adventure games. they were expensive to produce, and their audience was shrinking fast.one solution was recycling old software, and honestly, it was great for a 13 year old kid like me, because it meant that i could buy a "sierra game" for $10 instead of the $60-$80 i would normally have to pay for a flagship titleCrazy Nick's Software Picks were collections of mini-games taken from sierra adventures. there were several of them - LSL, King's Quest - I happened to find this Conquest of the Longbow pack at a pharmacy.the games were *great* - Archery and Nine Men's Morris kept me absolutely occupied for weeks. I had no idea at the time that they were culled from a full sierra adventure, until I discovered it by accident in my twenties.today i found my copy of the game, buried in another game box. it still has the greasy kid fingerprint from me eating a bag of Old Dutch (regular) chips while i played<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/sierra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sierra</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retroGaming</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/adventureGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#adventureGames</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/softwarePreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#softwarePreservation</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dosGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosGaming</a>

Anatoly Shashkin💾Pulsoid (Fifth Dimension Company, 1998) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOSGaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UkrainianVideogames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UkrainianVideogames</a>

vga256how did i only learn now that Uncharted Waters 2 had a DOS port? 🤯 the dithering style is unusual and beautiful - almost like woodcuts with the very intentional horizontal spacing between vertical lines<a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retroGaming</a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/pixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pixelArt</a>

Jake in the desertBio Menace has been remastered by Apogee and is coming to Steam later this year 🔥🔥 (video via dosgamert, a nice dude and an excellent YouTube follow, as he does lots of playthroughs of DOS games and often posts exclusives like this that you'll see first on his channel.) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldaf8z2ik3o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldaf8z2ik3o</a>Wishlist it on Steam here: <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459100/BioMenace_Remastered" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459100/BioMenace_Remastered</a><a href="https://c.im/tags/BioMenace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BioMenace</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steam</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SteamGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SteamGames</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DOSgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOSgames</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Apogee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apogee</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOSGaming</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OldGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldGames</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gaming</a>

Game Magazine Print AdsGreat Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939-43 Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 5.5 (September/October 1992) Scan Source: RetroMags<a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a>

Game Magazine Print AdsDark Sun: Shattered Lands Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 5.5 (September/October 1992) Scan Source: RetroMags<a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a>

Game Magazine Print AdsHostage: Rescue Mission Source: VideoGames and Computer Entertainment 11 (December 1989) Scan Source: RetroMags<a href="https://mas.to/tags/amigagaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#amigagaming</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/c64gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c64gaming</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a>

vga256haha soback in 2013, blizzard re-released Blackthorne as freeware using dosbox on battle.netit.... was strange. if you hadn't played the game before then, you might not have noticed a bunch of glaring bugs, like missing sound effects and missing music in several places, including the intro. over the years, no one was able to figure out the cause, and the standard reply became "just download the original from a dos gaming site and play that instead"it always kind of pissed me off that blizzard released a truly *great* game in this state, so tonight i decided to figure out what was causing the missing audio. the first step was ruling out some audio configuration problems - except, blizzard stripped out the dos installer program from their release. no prob - I'll just grab a copy from an abandonware site. and so, I downloaded a fresh preinstalled copy of blackthorne from myabandonware.com and made sure the audio was configured properly.... and surprisingly, the game still played with missing music in the intro and on the first level, just like the blizzard version.on a hunch, i grabbed two original diskette images, and installed the game from scratch. i ran the audio configuration, ran the game, and - lo and behold - the music all worked fine... which made me realize: blizzard's team so was fucking lazy that they copied the buggy pre-installed version of the game from an abandonware site, and rebadged it with a blizzard logo. apparently no one on the team was familiar enough with the game to realize that the audio didn't work at all. 🙄 a multi-billion dollar company.so folks, if you want to play Blackthorne and enjoy the gorgeous music - grab the *disk images* here instead: <a href="https://archive.org/details/003030-Blackthorne" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/003030-Blackthorne</a><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/dosGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosGaming</a>

Game Magazine Print AdsSSI Advanced Dungeons & Dragons games: Triple your fantasies. Source: VideoGames and Computer Entertainment 11 (December 1989) Scan Source: RetroMags<a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/c64gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c64gaming</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a>

DesertFOXI just spent a few hours to re-scan some of my old CDs from the "Bestseller Games" magazines. I know, these CD-ROMs are pretty much everywhere on the internet, but I wanted to have better scans of my originals. These discs are precious to me!Here's the original disc from Bestseller Games, Vol. 1 from 1994. It contains the German VGA release of "Indiana Jones III - Der letzte Kreuzzug" for MS-DOS. Maybe it is useful to someone. Have fun!<a href="https://archive.org/details/bg1_indy3_v1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/bg1_indy3_v1</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IndianaJones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndianaJones</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MSDOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MSDOS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroGaming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/LucasArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LucasArts</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PCGaming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOSGaming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#90s</a>

Anatoly Shashkin💾Moses: Old Testament Adventure #1 (Three Rivers Software/First Row Software Publishing, 1987) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOSGaming</a>

DávidThe first computer I used regularly was an i286 running DOS. It had a black and white display and a large 5.25" floppy drive. I had 12-20 games like Alley Cat, Battle Chess, DigDug and Pac-Man clones on single disk. My favourite was Space Commanders II. I was 4 or 5.<a href="https://gridranger.frama.io/random-facts-about-me" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gridranger.frama.io/random-facts-about-me</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/randomfact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#randomfact</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/aboutme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aboutme</a>

Anatoly Shashkin💾Mystery Objects (MECC/Summit Educational Software, 1992) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOSGaming</a>

Game Magazine Print AdsHook Source: Game Players PC Entertainment 5.5 (September/October 1992) Scan Source: RetroMags<a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a>

Game Magazine Print AdsCrusader: No Remorse Source: Next Generation 8 (August 1995) Scan Source: RetroMags<a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrogaming</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/dosgaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dosgaming</a>

DesertFOXWer mal schnell 3 Stunden totschlagen muss und alte Disketten mag: Ein brandneuer und wahrhaft epischer "Stay Forever Podcast" ist erschienen!<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-z3cSSTeOc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-z3cSSTeOc</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroGaming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Disketten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disketten</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FloppyDisks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FloppyDisks</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerScience</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IBMPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBMPC</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DOSGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOSGaming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PCGaming</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#80s</a>

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