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PC 486SX (ao486) • QNX 4.25 (Unix-like OS) on ao486

MISTerFPGA about 8 days ago

Hello community,Preliminary notes:QNX is a Unix-like microkernel real-time OS, primarily targeted for embedded devices and which some of you might remember for its amazing 1.44 MB floppy demo from mid '90s sporting a fully bootable OS, GUI, mouse support, …
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Review: Zuiki X68000 Z - An Expensive But Appealing Substitute For The Real Thing

Time Extension about 5 months ago

The hardcore gamer's micro-console.Since Nintendo reinvented the micro console with the NES Classic Edition in 2016, the retro console market has become a mini-industry all of its own, with a surprising number delving into increasingly hardcore territory. …
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Jeff Minter's udderly amazing The Llamasoft Story coming 2024

Portable Gaming Roundup about 6 months ago

Jeff Minter is one of gaming's forces of nature and his trippy experiences, let's not be rude and call them mere games, have sound-tracked and lit-up many of our digital lives. That story will be told in full on "modern systems" soon with a release in …
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Review: Duke Nukem Collection 1 - The King's First Three Adventures In One Place

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Shake it, baby.A few years before he was "all outta gum", Duke Nukem starred in a pair of MS-DOS action platformers which were distributed as shareware. Created by Apogee Software, Duke Nukem (1991) and Duke Nukem II (1993) were two rare beasts, at least o …
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New Video Takes A Closer Look At The Internet's "First Emulation Streaming Series"

Time Extension about 6 months ago

'Zophar's Underworld' went live for the first time in 1999.If you hung around on the internet in the mid-to-late '90s and were a fan of retro gaming, there's a good chance that you'll have heard of Zophar's Domain, one of the early online websites dedicate …

32-bit acorn software: classic games • Decent PD, Freeware, Shareware Games?

Stardot about 6 months ago

Below are some of my favourites, please feel free to suggest more (including cover disk exclusive games).Ace Crusader - decent Defender clone with end of stage bosses - below average graphics but plays pretty wellShangai - the version by Julian Jiggi …

DOS DB program with images?

VCFed about 9 months ago

Does anyone know of a DOS database program that allows for pictures to be included (in a standard format like GIF, clip art, etc) and displayed along with accompanying text in full screen? I almost found it in a weather program called Weather Caster that a …

The Most Useless Software Ever (Mine)

68Kmla about 10 months ago

Okay, so I need to update one of my websites and, before I do, I thought I would present what is possibly the most useless piece of classic Mac OS software ever, the Pet Stone: Pet Stone v1.2 This was one of (I think) three pieces of software I released …
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Games Competitions • Super League 2023: Round 9 - Cast Your Votes

LemonAmiga about 11 months ago

Super League 2023 - Cast Your VotesSpecial Round 3 - PD GamesYou can vote for any games listed as public domain, freeware, shareware, licenceware, coverdisk releases, promotional and hidden games. Browse the relevant categories on the Lemon Database and …

DOSBox Development • Large number of demoscene stuff crashes with UMB enabled, but is fine with UMB disabled

Vogons about 11 months ago

I've recently started testing demoscene productions in DOSBox, and a strangely high number of them cause MCB chain corruptions which ultimately results in all sorts of misbehaviour and/or a hard DOSBox process crash.That's with the stock settings, so UMB …
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ao486 (PC 486SX) • Q87 - FPU software emulator for AO486

MISTerFPGA about 11 months ago

Hello,Starting from a Discord discussion about FX Fighter (https://discord.com/channe... ... 9090175057), after several tests I succeeded to run it with the use of and FPU (math coprocessor) software emulator called QuickWare Q87. That was the b …

General Old Hardware • Pentium 1 half-life benchmark

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi.I want to know if everything is ok, or if something is wrong, with my hardware running half-life.If you have pentium 1 system, can you please share your results here? (write your specs and fps result)My system specs are: lucky star socket 7 mobo with 5 …

Retronauts Episode 539: Minesweeper + Shareware

Retronauts about 11 months ago

Click on these books carefully. …
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The Commodore Amiga Shmup Library Essentials

Racketboy about 1 year ago

Presented by the_knives and Herr Schatten Over the years, Racketboy has covered the shmup libraries of numerous consoles, including the Turbografx-16/PCE, Genesis/Megadrive and Playstation, just to name a few. This guide focuses on the Commodore Amiga, a …

303 - X-Copy 'Dat' Floppy : Volume 1

Retro Gaming Discussion Show about 2 years ago

Here at RGDS Towers, we love our Amiga, and so in celebration of the wonderful new Amiga Mini console, we thought it would be fun to wax lyrical of some of our recommendations of lesser know Amiga games.   So grab some floppies and join us as we X-Copy ' …

219 Amiga PD and Shareware Games

Retro Gaming Discussion Show about 6 years ago

  In this episode of RGDS, we discuss the often forgotten scene of the Amiga Public Domain and Shareware scene, that in many ways kick started the vibrant Indie scene we see today. So come and join us as Kingy and Drisky take you through ten great examp …