Quake 2 soundtrack

A masterpiece on its own, brilliant, kicks ass, makes me want to curse ’cause it’s so good 😉 Enjoying it while doing my work. Reliving bits and pieces of level fragments, monsters, secrets, … Everything is burned in my mind caused by excessive playing, … not to mention all the hours, days, weeks spending killing…

The DOS Back In Time Series: 1983

Hi everyone, I am proud to introduce a new series i’ve had as an idea for a while. Finally I can present the first episode. As you can see from the title I would like to play, discuss, cover PC games year by year. Which one eventually will make it in the episode is purely…

DOS VGA Benchmarking

Hi all, A couple of days ago i’ve found a great post on Vogons by Mau1wurf1977. It seems like he’s almost equally obsessed with Retro DOS machines & Retro DOS games like myself 😉 His post is about creating a VGA Benchmark Database worldwide for DOS computers 😉 It immediately grabbed my attention because it reminded…

Building your own MAME machine

Hi, I came accross this cool video by MetalJesusRocks on how to create your own MAME machine. I really wanted to share this one. I think these guys are rather funny ;-), and are handy in reaching their goal. This is something i also want to do in the future, just to play games like…

Retropals on Instagram

Hi guys, We just created an Instagram account and will be sharing pictures of our retro gaming adventures directly to you. Please add/follow us and share your best pics with the Retropals: http://instagram.com/retropals Just another way of expanding our participation in the retro video game scene, which we all love, right? Our first Insta-pic has already…

Abandonware Gaming

You have to admit that one of the biggest advantages PC-software has, as opposed to console games on cartridges & protected discs, is the fact that you can copy it more easily. I don’t want to start a PC vs console kind of thing, but it’s just the way it is. It was around the…

Retropals updates

As you notice we are still giving the blog it’s final shape and make a few changes here and then pretty often. Recently we changed the music blog post to a seperate page where we will bring you new music along the way. So keep your eyes out for new stuff there and enjoy what’s…