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DOS Nostalgia official t-shirts!

Grab yourself an official DOS Nostalgia t-shirt to show your support, and also to look cool. Available in classic CGA, EGA, or VGA colors! Buy in CGA: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/12576671-official-dos-nostalgia-cgaBuy in EGA: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/12576537-official-dos-nostalgia-egaBuy in VGA: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/12576069-official-dos-nostalgia-vga

Roberta Williams interview (July 1994)

A quick video interview with a legendary game designer and co-founder of Sierra On-Line Roberta Williams. Taken from the “Episode 3” issue of Interactive Entertainment CD magazine from July of 1994.Original audio was really bad, so I’ve decided to fix it up a bit. The result is a tad distorted, but I think it’s much […]

L-Man stream archive

Just relaxing on a Saturday night while playing a humorous Taiwanese turn based fighting game L-Man/蜥蜴超人 (Softstar Entertainment, 1996).

Westwood Movie Collection 1985 – 1995

A selection of internal photos and videos, along with a doze of game footage and music, documenting the history of Westwood Studios taken from the Westwood 10th Anniversary (Virgin Interactive Entertainment, 1995) bonus CD. Box blurb: “The history of Westwood Studios parallels the history of development in the computer entertainment industry. Westwood’s 10th anniversary sees […]

Quake 24th Anniversary stream appearance

The other day I’ve made a guest appearance on Human Interact’s stream dedicated to Quake’s 24th anniversary. Alex and I played a few games of deathmatch and capture the flag, and were joined by other members of Human Interact’s Discord server in voice chat later on.

Eggscellent Easter Livestream archive

Playing all the Dizzy (the egg) games for Easter. Games played: 00:08:45 – Fantasy World Dizzy00:27:58 – Fast Food00:32:25 – Magicland Dizzy00:49:40 – Kwik Snax00:56:27 – Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk01:06:00 – Bubble Dizzy01:12:00 – Fantastic Dizzy

Human Interact Spooktober stream appearance

I was happy to be invited to be a guest on another Human Interact stream to guide Alexander through one of my favorite games of all time – the original 3D survival horror game “Alone in the Dark”.

Weird French Computer Games

This is the presentation I gave at Long Island Retro Gaming Expo on August 10th, 2019. I was provided with an audio recording which I combined with my slides. Join me as I dive into a little bit of history of French computer games and then show off some of my favorite examples of very […]

Another DOS Game Club Podcast appearance

It’s been a pleasure to join the DOS Game Club podcast crew and talk about one of my favprote games of all time – Monolith’s 1997 Build engine masterpiece “Blood”. Give it a listen: https://www.dosgameclub.com/blood/

DOS Game Club podcast appearance

I finally got to be a guest on the DOS Game Club podcast, where I talked about one of my favorite DOS games of all time – Alone in the Dark. Check it out: https://www.dosgameclub.com/alone-in-the-dark/

X3MB Buran MIDI module review

Today I take a look at the X3MB Buran MIDI Module from Serdaco. It’s a very compact Sound Canvas 55 alternative with an impressive 50 megabyte instrument bank, and an interesting 3D printed case design. It sounded great no matter what obscure MIDI file or DOS game I threw at it. And of course now […]

Installing a DOS Game From Floppy Disks

Here’s a full process of installing a DOS classic Syndicate (Bullfrog Productions/Electronic Arts, 1993) from five 3.5 inch floppy disks. All authentic hardware. Enjoy the sounds of a working floppy drive. Orthodox bi-panel file manager Volkov Commander is used in this video because I can’t live without a bi-panel file manager. If you don’t have […]

My appearances on Human Interact streams

Here are some guest appearances that I’ve done for Alexander Mejia of Human Interact. Check them out! First we played DOOM multiplayer while talking about the game and its cultural impact: Then we played *both* PC versions of the classic adventure game LOOM™ side by side to be able to comments on the differences. Huge […]

Under a Killing Moon demo

A non-interactive part of “Under A Killing Moon” (Access Software, 1994) demo that I found on the CD for “Virtual Reality Madness… and More” book.

Inca CD-ROM version stream

Testing my new streaming setup and playing the CD-ROM version of Coktel Vision’s trippy classic “Inca” (1993). Watch me fail at the game, then attempt to cheat, then actually cheat, then crash the game. Overall it was a rather fun evening.   Sorry for all the audio dropouts. Apparently Gilles Douieb recycled a tune from […]

Introduction to DOS Gaming: Past & Present

A talk that I gave at Long Island Retro Gaming Expo 2018. Absolutely loved the event, and enjoyed being involved in it. I wanted the talk to be more entertaining than educational because I was anticipating an audience that wouldn’t be all that familiar with IBM PC gaming scene. I haven’t done any public speaking […]

Harlan Ellison “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” interview

We have lost a true legend of science fiction. RIP.   Footage taken from episode 13 of Interactive Entertainment CD-ROM magazine from May 1995.

“Platoon” Duke Nukem 3D total conversion stream

This was mostly to test my webcam and live chat capabilities, but I also get to reaffirm that both Platoon and NAM aren’t bad games multiple times throughout. (WWIIGI is though)   Download Platoon for Duke 3D here: http://www.moddb.com/mods/platoon-tc/downloads

Snow Day 01/04/2018 stream archive

Snowed in for the first time in 2018. Testing new internet service and router.   Played: 11:35 Blood – using BloodGDX http://m210.duke4.net/ 39:00 Ken Silverman’s Build engine tech demo circa 1994 49:33 Chex Quest

Shadow Warrior prototypes & alphas stream archive

Going through new historical materials released with Shadow Warrior Classic   Get Shadow Warrior Classic for free on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/238070/Shadow_Warrior_Classic_1997/ Shadow Warrior development updates 1996 – 1998 in one place: http://swcentral.weebly.com/development.html