ms-dos

The once ubiquitous floppy disk, which started its decline after Apple decided not to bother with a floppy disk drive on its new "Bondi Blue" iMac in 1998, now lives on mainly in skeuomorphic-form as the "Save" icon. But the floppy disk doesn't want to die, and Floppy Disk Fever, the first...

At first glance, this may just look like a standard version of The Secret of Monkey Island, but look closer, and you can see the perspectives change as you walk through one of the first locations in the game. The demo which is playable in SCUMMVM was created by Mausmoto using a technique called...

THQ Nordic announced yesterday that they are rebooting the Alone in the Dark series with a new game that has been in development since 2019. THQ Nordic describe the new game as a "love letter to the ground-breaking original" and say, "While presenting a completely original story, we incorporate...

When we first looked at Antstream Arcade three years ago, it featured just over 500 games across C64, Spectrum, Amiga, Megadrive, and Arcade platforms. Since then the platform has grown to include additional platforms (MSX, DOS, Atari Lynx, Game Boy, NES) and now boasts over 1,300 games. It can...

You may have come across Wordle - a web-based word game created by Josh Wardle in 2021 and since acquired by the New York Times. The idea is simple. You have six guesses to guess a five-letter word. If a letter you guess is in the word but in the wrong place, it is highlighted in yellow. If the...

Here are three upcoming books that may be of interest to retro gamers – two of them are being funded by crowdfunding, so take action if they interest you. Shareware Heroes Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet takes readers on a journey, from the beginnings of the...

Commodore Plus/4 Version The Curse of Rabenstein is a new horror text adventure from Stefan Vogt. The game is available on multiple formats: Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, ZX Spectrum Next, Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS and should you wish, ‘modern PC’. Vogt has previously...

The Internet Archive have added 2,500 MS-DOS games to its library. All can be played online, thanks to Archive.org’s “emulation in the browser” system. Some of the games included are: Sensible World of Soccer, The Secret of Monkey Island, Sim City 2000, Abe’s Odyssey, Earthworm Jim and loads...

Artist, Rocky Bergen, has created cut-out paper versions of a bunch of retro-computers and consoles. ideal for livening up your desk area! As well as the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and Amiga above, Bergen has also created cut-outs for Apple II, Atari 520ST, IBM 5100 Portable Computer, IBM 5150...