Old School

[Red-Machine]

It's pointless running MS-DOS on that thing, it might not even run at all.  Plus no game will work.

[stewartsage]

You can always DOS Box/FreeDOS or something on your regular computer.  Not really all that useful unless you have some old DOS games or other programs to run though.  Always wanted to have a totally FreeDOS machine.

[Pitkin]

I use DOSBox practically daily, as most of the games I've played recently have been DOS classics I played (or saw someone else play more often) when I was a child. That and it's way easier to make work than Wine so I've kind of ignored the Windows-based games. ._.

[stewartsage]

Man, I need a System 7 or 8 emulator to play my childhood games.  Hellcats in the Pacific, PT Boat, Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, Dino-something or other, Bugdom, Super Munchers, and ClarisWorks (yes, that was totally a game).

Am I the only one who always thinks of
this when seeing the topic title?

[Chocofreak13]

@stew: little bit. :\

i still wonder if i should play the copy of FF7 for the pc, or should i keep it mint condition......

eh, i've heard that the pc version doesn't do the game justice anyway. :\

[Aurora Borealis]

I'm still able to play some of my favorite childhood games (from the System 7 era) on my G3 running OS 9.

@stew: There's Basilisk II, but I don't know how reliable it is. I've used it before a year ago or two, and it crashed a lot. It might have improved since then though.

[Red-Machine]

i still wonder if i should play the copy of FF7 for the pc, or should i keep it mint condition......

eh, i've heard that the pc version doesn't do the game justice anyway. :\

It doesn't, especially if you don't have a 3dfx graphics card to get the enhanced 3D mode.

[Bella]

I'd need a VAX emulator and an OpenVMS license to run my favourite childhood games. D,:

[svx]

Man, I must be getting old!

Feels like just a few years ago that I was playing Doom, the original Warcraft, Hexen, etc with my friend over a modem...

Had Windows 3.11 on a zip disk. But it was too new and unfamiliar to me  in the early 1990s!

[Chocofreak13]

i managed to get one of my old games to work in compatibility mode on here, though i've yet to play it, so i'm not sure. but it installed correctly, so i think it'll be ok. :3

[NejinOniwa]

Speaking of compatibility, Total Annihilation runs in normal mode too, but it's a LOT better in 98 mode. WINNAGE WAS HA(R)D, dat AI is seriouse shit.

[Chocofreak13]

should try out mindmaze one of these days....

[Raffaele the Amigan]

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Atari computers on fire running for entire weeks Orion videogames.
I watched C=Amiga CRT-TV beams blitter circuitry plasma effects in the dark, and I installed and played with Minix near the Tannembaum-Torvalds Debate.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to running Windows again.

[Chocofreak13]

that sounds too epic for words.

oh, and when i read the first part, i thought you LITERATELY meant on fire. o___o;

[Raffaele the Amigan]

that sounds too epic for words.

oh, and when i read the first part, i thought you LITERATELY meant on fire. o___o;

Who said it didn't? (snicker)