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<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 We&#x27;ve done lots of combat sims over the years, but never before under water, which is what 1993&#x27;s Subwar 2050 by Particle Systems and Microprose is all about!</p><p>Some say it&#x27;s merely &quot;aquatic Wing Commander&quot;, but when you dive into it (pun intended) there&#x27;s quite a unique experience to be had at the bottom of the sea!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/subwar-2050/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/subwar-2050/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/subwar-205</span><span class="invisible">0/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 We took a look at MDK, developed by Shiny Entertainment and released in 1997.</p><p>This game is quite the change for the team who put this together, as previously they were known for bright cartoony platformers such as Cool Spot, Aladdin and Earthworm Jim.</p><p>But despite their unfamiliarity with developing 3D shooters, MDK was very well received at the time.</p><p>What&#x27;s it like to play it now? Let&#x27;s find out!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/mdk/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.dosgameclub.com/mdk/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 Our unintended but much appreciated streak of space-themed games continues with September&#x27;s entry: Ascendancy (1995, The Logic Factory).</p><p>It&#x27;s a 4X turn-based strategy game, much in the same vein as Master of Orion, which we discussed earlier in episode 024 (November 2018).</p><p>How do they compare? Let&#x27;s find out!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/ascendancy/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/ascendancy/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/ascendancy</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾NEW PODCAST!💾 We took a look at Machiavelli the Prince, developed by Holistic Design and published by Microprose in 1995.</p><p>The game has nothing to do with Machiavelli, who was from Florentine while the game is set in Venice, and who lived after the events of this game.</p><p>While not as famous as other MPS titles such as Colonization, there is a lot to love here. Computer Gaming World named it &quot;Strategy game of the year&quot; for a reason!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/machiavelli-the-prince/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/machiavelli-the-prince/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/machiavell</span><span class="invisible">i-the-prince/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾NEW PODCAST!💾 Back when we started out in 2017, one of our earliest members <span class="h-card"><a href="https://dosgame.club/@toasty" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>toasty</span></a></span> (being a keen cricket fan) asked &quot;are there any cricket games for DOS?&quot;.</p><p>It turns out: there are! Lots of them, in fact.</p><p>We dove into the wacky world of DOS cricket and explored what&#x27;s there.</p><p>Don&#x27;t know how cricket even works? No worries, neither do we!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/cricket/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.dosgameclub.com/cricket/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 In episode 95 we take a look at Wacky Wheels, developed by Beavis Soft and published by Apogee in 1994.</p><p>The SNES had Super Mario Kart, but we had Wacky Wheels and that&#x27;s just as good, we thought. Especially those of us who hadn&#x27;t played Super Mario Kart 😅 </p><p>How does it hold up now? Let&#x27;s find out!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/wacky-wheels/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/wacky-wheels/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/wacky-whee</span><span class="invisible">ls/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>I just released v1.14.0 of <a href="/tags/dojs/" rel="tag">#DOjS</a> on <a href="https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS/releases/tag/v1.140" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS/releases/tag/v1.140"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS/relea</span><span class="invisible">ses/tag/v1.140</span></a></p><p>New Features:<br>- SMK file playback via libsmacker<br>- <a href="/tags/c64/" rel="tag">#C64</a> SID playback using cRSID<br>- <a href="/tags/exif/" rel="tag">#EXIF</a> data reading<br>- Sound synthesis based on MicroModSynth from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://leds.social/@benhencke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>benhencke</span></a></span></p><p>See thread below for more release details!</p><p><a href="/tags/msdos/" rel="tag">#MSDOS</a> <a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#DOSGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrocomputing/" rel="tag">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="/tags/javascript/" rel="tag">#JavaScript</a> <a href="/tags/freedos/" rel="tag">#FreeDOS</a> <a href="/tags/creativecoding/" rel="tag">#creativecoding</a> <a href="/tags/p5js/" rel="tag">#p5js</a> <a href="/tags/retrodev/" rel="tag">#retrodev</a> <a href="/tags/retrodevelopment/" rel="tag">#retrodevelopment</a> <a href="/tags/3dfx/" rel="tag">#3dfx</a> <a href="/tags/opengl/" rel="tag">#OpenGL</a> <a href="/tags/processing/" rel="tag">#Processing</a> <br>1/</p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 A while ago we held a poll here on Mastodon asking for a non-Lucas adventure game to play, and the winner was Beneath a Steel Sky (Revolution Software, 1994).</p><p>So that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re looking at in this episode!</p><p>Thank you for using LINC and be vigilant.</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/beneath-a-steel-sky/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/beneath-a-steel-sky/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/beneath-a-</span><span class="invisible">steel-sky/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 Because we&#x27;ve done over 100 episodes, we decided to celebrate this anniversary by revisiting DOOM, the very first game we ever looked at all the way back in March 2017.</p><p>Back then it was just the first game that came to mind, but in hindsight Doom is a vast rabbit hole that deserves further investigation.</p><p>So that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re doing!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/revisiting-doom/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/revisiting-doom/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/revisiting</span><span class="invisible">-doom/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a></p>

<p>There are loads of videos about MS-DOS, DOS games and DOS PCs on PeerTube, here&#x27;s a playlist:</p><p><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/social.growyourown.services/ms_dos.png" class="emoji" alt=":ms_dos:" title=":ms_dos:"> <a href="https://fedi.video/w/p/uEorJj9vYsrdmihjc2otzu" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fedi.video/w/p/uEorJj9vYsrdmihjc2otzu"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fedi.video/w/p/uEorJj9vYsrdmih</span><span class="invisible">jc2otzu</span></a></p><p>- Watching on a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist</p><p>- Watching on a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen</p><p>- Watching embedded: Click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in playlist</p><p>cc @msdos </p><p><a href="/tags/featuredplaylist/" rel="tag">#FeaturedPlaylist</a> <a href="/tags/msdos/" rel="tag">#MSDOS</a> <a href="/tags/dos/" rel="tag">#DOS</a> <a href="/tags/retrocomputing/" rel="tag">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="/tags/computinghistory/" rel="tag">#ComputingHistory</a> <a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#DosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a> <a href="/tags/peertubers/" rel="tag">#PeerTubers</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 After a month of Doom, we thought it was funny to do a month of Loom. So that&#x27;s what we did!</p><p>Loom (1990, Lucasfilm Games) is an atypical game, not only because of its unique fantasy setting, but also because it features a magical music-based user interface that doesn&#x27;t show any verbs at all.</p><p>It&#x27;s a beautiful little game that holds a special place in many of its players&#x27; hearts, and we want to hear all about it!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/loom/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.dosgameclub.com/loom/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 There were a lot of Doom-likes in the 90s, but Raven Software&#x27;s Heretic was more different than most.</p><p>Although... was it really? Let&#x27;s find out!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/heretic/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.dosgameclub.com/heretic/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 Why is a worm inside a space suit? Who cares! It&#x27;s funny and it kicks ass and that&#x27;s all the reason anyone needed in the 90s to have some goofy platformer fun.</p><p>Earthworm Jim (Shiny Entertainment, 1994) was initially released for SNES &amp; Genesis/Megadrive, but a year later arrived on PC and ran just as smooth as its console counterparts.</p><p>Do quality animations make for a fun game though? That&#x27;s what we wanted to find out!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/earthworm-jim/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/earthworm-jim/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/earthworm-</span><span class="invisible">jim/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST 💾 In October we looked at Halloween Harry, also known as Alien Carnage.</p><p>Zombies, jetpacks, flamethrowers, there&#x27;s a lot to like here for action game fans. But how long can we talk about a game that&#x27;s pretty straight-forward??</p><p>Pretty long it turns out 😅 </p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/halloween-harry/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/halloween-harry/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/halloween-</span><span class="invisible">harry/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.</p><p>i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school&#x27;s national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour</p><p>it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time. </p><p>and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.</p><p>so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book. </p><p>so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age. </p><p>we&#x27;re all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they&#x27;re weaved together into an arc that starts at my family&#x27;s first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school&#x27;s Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.</p><p>it&#x27;s finally published, and i&#x27;m super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.</p><p>enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️ </p><p>paperback edition: <a href="https://mybook.to/EDuUf" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>mybook.to/EDuUf</a></p><p>DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:<br><a href="https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/indiepublisher/" rel="tag">#indiePublisher</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/macintosh/" rel="tag">#macintosh</a> <a href="/tags/vintageapple/" rel="tag">#vintageApple</a> <a href="/tags/vintagecomputing/" rel="tag">#vintageComputing</a> <a href="/tags/msdos/" rel="tag">#msdos</a> <a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/yeg/" rel="tag">#yeg</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/alberta/" rel="tag">#alberta</a> <a href="/tags/bbs/" rel="tag">#bbs</a> <a href="/tags/smolweb/" rel="tag">#smolWeb</a> <a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieWeb</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST 💾 In November we looked at Toonstruck, the FMV point &amp; click adventure game from 1996 featuring none other than Christopher Lloyd (that&#x27;s &quot;Doc Brown&quot; from Back to the Future!)</p><p>This was a huge production at the time, with apparently a budget of around 8 million dollar!</p><p>Sadly the game seems a bit forgotten now, but that&#x27;s all the more reason for us to take a look at it.</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/toonstruck/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/toonstruck/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/toonstruck</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 Who hasn&#x27;t enjoyed a nice round of golf on their computer? The slowly rendered trees, the random bird chirps, it&#x27;s just like being outside!</p><p>We&#x27;ve done multi-game episodes before, but this one is our most ambitious yet, as no fewer than 50 games were discussed on our forums.</p><p>Some are text-only, some have all the multimedia features, but all are about golf!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/golf/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.dosgameclub.com/golf/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 In December we played Betrayal at Krondor, the 1993 open world RPG by Dynamix, based on the &quot;Riftwar Cycle&quot; universe by Raymond E. Feist.</p><p>The game isn&#x27;t based on a specific novel, but Feist was such a fan of the game he novelised it after the fact, when he published &quot;Krondor: The Betrayal&quot; in 1998.</p><p>There&#x27;s much more to talk about, so dig in!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/betrayal-at-krondor/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/betrayal-at-krondor/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/betrayal-a</span><span class="invisible">t-krondor/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>

<p>💾 NEW PODCAST!💾 In January we played Settlers II, the 1996 sequel to the first Settlers game by German developer Blue Byte.</p><p>The Settlers was and remains a staple of PC gaming in Germany and they even have coined their own terminology to describe it.</p><p>So listen now and learn all about what the &quot;Wuselfaktor&quot; means!</p><p><a href="https://www.dosgameclub.com/the-settlers-ii/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dosgameclub.com/the-settlers-ii/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dosgameclub.com/the-settle</span><span class="invisible">rs-ii/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/dosgaming/" rel="tag">#dosGaming</a> <a href="/tags/retrogaming/" rel="tag">#retroGaming</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a></p>