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I am a big fan of PhilsComputerLab.com. If you haven’t check this out, I urge you to do so, especially if you like DOS hardware & DOS games. I have learned some tricks I use today from his very explanatory videos he makes on his YouTube channel. (https://www.youtube.com/c/philscomputerlab) I love the fact that you can…
Hi everyone! Allow me shortly introduce myself: Cybercow is the name 🙂 Our Retropal friend Vulturius was kind enough to extend me an invitate to join the Retropals community. Something I have, of course, graciously accepted. Vulturius and myself actually go way back, some 25+ years, back to the day when Retro games were well just … games…
In the early nineties, a new way of playing games was introduced: network play. It was something I have never heard of before, because at that time I was just a teenager with only my game computer in my room without any connection to the outside world. It was unthinkable to me that computers could…
Hi retro addicts! Remember one of the first posts I made for this blog? It was about a little – well, pretty big – gem I got from AuronnBE, the infamous Admiral PC which came back to life again after a difficult rebirth. I didn’t want the story to end there and decided to upgrade…
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…
I was always fascinated, and still am, by sound in games. By sound, I don’t always mean the sound effects, but also the music score. You can compare it like a movie and it’s soundtrack; having that beautiful piece of artwork music breaks or makes the whole picture. I don’t want to say that this…
Today, you have scheduled to clean up the attic and it is with the most reluctance that you are commencing this job. Opening the hatch and climbing up the stairs, you encounter some old stuff that you need to get rid of. You take plastic bag and put it in there. You dig a little…
So now you have your precious DOS Retromachine installed with all its necessary components to begin playing the games you always wanted to; and having a lot of original Big Box Games is a plus because you can install them directly from the CD-ROM or floppy. But what about the ones you download from one…
One of the most important goals when playing retro PC games is that I like to run it on the hardware that existed the period the games were released. I not only like to play the games, but I grew up with the fact that the hardware could be upgraded, tweaked, changed… to have that…
Hi everyone, AuronnBE was talking about an old PC he came across at his parents in law. It appears that it has been shuffed away on the attic collecting dust. He first wanted to sell it on a flea market, ’cause he thought it would be worth a lot of money 😉 He asked me what the prize…