I've never got to play this game but love the gameplay style and I'm happy to see that some coming games are using that control scheme again.

I used to love this game or at least the demo of it

It's amazing to me that so much of the doom sound design is just slightly altered stock sounds

Currently trying to get a speedrun of this recorded but a certain dino likes to keep crashing the game :/

There's thankfully still projects like eXoDOS/eXoWIN3x/eXoWIN9x that keep the spirit alive at https://www.retro-exo.com/

That might fill in a part of the hole.

I miss Abandonia

I did manage to see some of the gambling ads a few years ago, but I guess I figured they'd eventually maybe try a patreon model to fund itself or something, just never anticipated it would be shut down, as it was such a pillar for so long.

Looks like XTC Abandonware is still up, but worryingly they also seem to have gone down the path of gambling ads, listing them as affiliates and having a huge space dedicated to them in the testimonials section on the front page... Ech.

Home of the underdogs is still up too, and it looks like they went the Patreon route, thankfully! Though last update was 3 years ago.

Overall the abandonware space seems to be a bit of a shadow of its former self, unfortunately :(

Yeah, was an active contributer there and even had some discussions with the main admin Tom Henrick. Part of my childhood is just gone

Apparently it's been dead longer than actually it's posted death as it was sold and gambling ads were rampant shortly before the actual demise

Woah, I had no idea it shut down... That's an awful shame :(

RIP Abandonia....

This is great. I love this so much, even though I've never heard of Ibid.

Classic game, right up there with Monkey Island(s)

Probably not. Good catch.

Maybe I'm being dense, but should this be the same thing twice?

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Zzt was awesome. I've had so many adventures playing that game. It's creative use of ASCII, game mechanics and the need to use imagination was fun.

They put way more effort in this April fools joke than they should. Or they just really wanted to talk about half-life

lol

Judged solely as a shooter, Wolfenstein 3D feels particularly outdated compared to modern examples of the genre

oh no. 35 years old videogame is outdated? who would have guessed... i don't really see the point of the article.

This is cool. I will never use this since I'm lucky enough to have dedicated hardware for 9x. But the thought of having a massively overpowered machine for DOS gaming amuses me. 

Nice, they tested The 11th Hour, no 7th Guest though

I only noticed in the comments after posting this that the new release of FreeDOS doesn't actually have the newer kernel they'd been working on (it was released in the master branch a couple days before the video was released), so the test unfortunately doesn't show anything new compared to the previous version since it's using the same Kernel as 1.3. Hopefully the newer kernel addresses some of those remaining issues :)

FreeDOS is making some nice strides. Always good to see. Hopefully it will make MS-DOS completely obsolete some day.

I just reread the book recently!

Yeah it's actually pretty good, and the setting is cool

I LOVED this game when I was little! Played it (well, the demo) about a year ago and totally agree with this. It's held up great