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Just an idea: maybe we could change the thread title to Official Old Games Thread; the place where we could share info about old games, how to run them on today's machine and O/S, exchange old games (I don't think exchanging abandonwares is against the law), exchange old game manuals, and such things.

Speaking about old games, there's a nice site where we can see reviews about them: http://www.the-underdogs.org. It's nonprofit, IIRC.

I still have the Original Tie Fighter and X-Wing games. They are the 1st games i install on any Machine i own.

MoO1 - You all probably already knew about that
Adom - don't have much time to play it lately
some Angbands - ditto
Master of Magic - Have it but I suck
Civilization II - Better than III, in my opinion

I used to have a bit more but I forgot to back them up before reinstalling windows.

Lord Poe wrote:Stunt Island. I don't even play it anymore, but I refuse to take it off my harddrive. I made a lot of great little movies with it, and there's still a large community that plays it and mods it. You can't say that about any other computer game that came out in 1992!

YOU HAVE IT!?!?!?

I've been searching for that game for two years!

Please, please, please...

I must find a way to obtain a copy!

I wish I had Civilization: Call To Power.

I had TIE Fighter SVGA (CD-ROM) and TIE Fighter Windows 95, but neither will run under Windows XP

TIE Fighter VGA will and it's damn fun, but the graphics are kinda sucky.

Star Trek Visual(DEATH TO THE KLINGON SCUM!)
SimIsle(Industrializatin, Deforestation, and Exploitation of the Natives!)
Scorched Earth
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans

Wolfpack
Warcraft 1 & 2
Flight Unlimited
Doom 1 & 2
Hexxagon
Scorched Earth

I still have a copy of Wolfenstien 3D on a floppy somewhere, as well as SimCity 2000. I hope those disks still work after sitting around for like 7 years.

aerius wrote:I still have a copy of Wolfenstien 3D on a floppy somewhere, as well as SimCity 2000. I hope those disks still work after sitting around for like 7 years.

My copy of Wolfenstien: Spear of Destiny still is.

aerius wrote:I still have a copy of Wolfenstien 3D on a floppy somewhere, as well as SimCity 2000. I hope those disks still work after sitting around for like 7 years.

I have Mac 68K versions of SC2K laying around somewhere...very fun, especially with the FUND bond cheat

Some old games (that don't use protected memory) run under DOSBox (an opensource DOS emulator). A lot of games that give you memory errors do when you choose sound (try disabling it in MOM and it will work), and they can work under VDMS (a sound hardware emulator for NT and XP).

I have a lot of old games. I get most of them from http://www.the-underdogs.org

My old games

X-wing Alliance
Jane's Fighters Anthology
Toon Struck
Grim Fandango
American McGee's Alice
and
The 7th Guest.

Hm, as far as old games go right now I have :-
Colonization
X-Com : Terror from the Deep
UFO : Enemy Unknown

I've loads more like all the old Eye of the Beholder ones....but they are safely stored away in zip files for now.

Hmm

X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
I would have Balance of Power but it won't install for some damn reason.
X-Wing Alliance
Counter-Strike
Quake III
Quake
Battlefield 1942
Need for Speed III
Galactic Battlegrounds
Clone Campaigns
Jedi Knight II Outcast

DOOM, CASTLEVANIA

Ahhhh.... Nostalgia

weemadando wrote:

Lord Poe wrote:Stunt Island. I don't even play it anymore, but I refuse to take it off my harddrive. I made a lot of great little movies with it, and there's still a large community that plays it and mods it. You can't say that about any other computer game that came out in 1992!

YOU HAVE IT!?!?!?

I've been searching for that game for two years!

Please, please, please...

I must find a way to obtain a copy!

Try eBay. Its being sold all over the web.

If you want good abandonware, tuol.org (the ultimate old games links) is a good place to go.

That's where I was able to find some of the old classics from the 80's....

I want microsoft space simulator back...

Rogue/Nethack & Ascii Trek with basic emulator

Dos emulating upgrades of Nethack
X-Com Enemy Unknown & Terror from the Deep
Elderscrolls: Arena & Daggerfalls
Temunjin
TIE fighter Defender of Empire
Evil twisted Monopoly (you can bribe hitmen to rob or rub other players or burn down their properties. You can also deal drugs to make up money if you want too)
Planets VGA
Scorched Earth.

I still got Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.

weemadando wrote:

Lord Poe wrote:Stunt Island. I don't even play it anymore, but I refuse to take it off my harddrive. I made a lot of great little movies with it, and there's still a large community that plays it and mods it. You can't say that about any other computer game that came out in 1992!

YOU HAVE IT!?!?!?

I've been searching for that game for two years!

Please, please, please...

I must find a way to obtain a copy!

Hmmm... here's a thought. Here I assume that exchanging and copying abandonwares is *not* against the law, so why don't why exchange old games with each other?

Small games may be exchanged through email. As for large games, I don't see the reason why can't we send each other physically (of course, it requires extra effort).

For example, weemadando is really desperate for Stunt Island. On the other hand, I have the game he wants (I actually have a copy. Seriously.). So he can give me his snail mail address, then I make a copy to CD and ship it there. Then he should in turn send me the funds to cover my expenses (a blank CD is no more than 2 US Dollars. Don't know about the shipping cost, though). Or alternatively, he can make a copy of the game I want and ship it to my snail mail address.

Of course, there's no guarantee that each party will cover each other expenses, or give the game he wants in turn. So it really depends on our honesty and trust to each other.

But on the other hand, what kind of idiot will bother frauding his friends for such a small amount of money? For example, let say weemadando has sent me all the funds to cover my expenses (blank CD and shipping cost), but I decide to pocket the money and not sending him the game. What a ludicrously small profit I would made by doing such fraud. It would be much better for me to maintain his trust, because who knows in the future he may have the game I need?

I don't know though. It was just an idea.

[disclaimer] this is assuming that exchanging abandonwares is legal. Of course, I won't encourage such things where it is illegal.[/disclaimer]

On my old Amiga i still play Leisure Suit Larry.

I have Detroit - the one where you administer your own car manufacturing corporation. Anybody remember that game??

I'm currently in that game operating a car company called "Innsmouth Cars", based in North East USA - and all their cars are named after fish or whales...... (bonus point for guessing where I got the inspiration)