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SilentThief 03-03-2013 04:12 PM
Old school DOSbox games
 
There are plenty I still want to check out, and you can find them at abandonware sites. You can even find the SSI goldbox games like FRUA, pool of radiance, and champions of krynn.

Anyhow the one I have played lately is "Legacy of the Ancients". Anyone ever heard of it? Nobody? (Am I the only one who is that old here...?) I dust it off every once in a while in DOSbox for something to do.

Any oldschool favorites you wanna mention/recommend that you have to use dosbox for?

ST man in the box

Shadow Stranger 03-04-2013 05:31 AM
Re: Old school DOSbox games
 
http://www.weekendwastemonster.net/crpgs/directory.html
This is one good place to start, it is the old Ice Storm site. It has lots of games, manuals and so forth.

Azred 03-11-2013 12:56 PM
Re: Old school DOSbox games
 
I have all the old Gold Box games, including Gateway and Treasure of the Savage Frontier. I have Dark Queen of Krynn but I don't think it works correctly; I cannot seem to find abandonware copies of Champions of Krynn or Death Knights of Krynn. At least, the last time I looked I didn't see them.

I still have Wasteland, all three Bard's Tales, and Dragon Wars so it's all good.

There are a handful of us here who are older than you are, so no, you are not the only one that old here.

Micah Foehammer 03-11-2013 01:09 PM
Re: Old school DOSbox games
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Azred (Post 1249059)
I have all the old Gold Box games, including Gateway and Treasure of the Savage Frontier. I have Dark Queen of Krynn but I don't think it works correctly; I cannot seem to find abandonware copies of Champions of Krynn or Death Knights of Krynn. At least, the last time I looked I didn't see them.

I still have Wasteland, all three Bard's Tales, and Dragon Wars so it's all good.

There are a handful of us here who are older than you are, so no, you are not the only one that old here.
Didn't take long to find all three of them:

Here:

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/champions-of-krynn-un
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/61...+of+Krynn.html

and here:

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/de...s-of-krynn-14q
http://www.abandonia.com/games/620/DeathKnightsofKrynn

and here:

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/th...n-of-krynn-1dk
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/62...nn%2C+The.html

all three are also at Shadow Stranger's link

Gavindale 04-11-2013 03:04 PM
Re: Old school DOSbox games
 
I don't know if this is a problem, I haven't tested it myself, but if I begin a game on DosBox, and the game screen is stretched because the monitor is widescreen and the game was written for full screen, how do I alter the game to a more traditional screen?

Shadow Stranger 04-11-2013 11:03 PM
Re: Old school DOSbox games
 
No idea, check the DosBox Readme file. I play in a window, that is not ideal but it does work.

ElfBane 04-12-2013 04:19 AM
Re: Old school DOSbox games
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gavindale (Post 1249149)
I don't know if this is a problem, I haven't tested it myself, but if I begin a game on DosBox, and the game screen is stretched because the monitor is widescreen and the game was written for full screen, how do I alter the game to a more traditional screen?
You'll have to muck around in the DosBox .ini file. Check the readme, but IIRC that's covered by FAQs at the DosBox site.

Gavindale 04-12-2013 10:33 AM
Re: Old school DOSbox games
 
Well I now have my new computer, with DosBox installed. It took a bit to make everything coincide with everything else, but so far all is right in the world. I'm always a little uneasy with messing with the various interworking files of programs such as DosBox, but I checked it out yesterday, I think the keystroke is "alt-enter", but I'm not sure, I will check when I get home.


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