MrFlibble Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 CuteFloor... sounds familiar. Pretty sure I've watched videos from that :3 Heh, I had the very same feeling, and even searched some of the forums I visit thinking that I've seen posts from a user with the same name... but found nothing. I guess it's just that when you search for DOS game related videos on YouTube that user's stuff gets listed rather often Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted February 2, 2012 Author Share Posted February 2, 2012 Just found this interesting video: http://youtu.be/bCLPrnrUQtM It appears to be an enhanced version of the Warcraft II shareware (most probably distributed on a CD) with mission briefing voice-overs, fully animated intro sequence and CD audio music. The main menu screen (visible at 02:07) identifies this version as WARCRAFT 2 SHAREWARE v1.08sh. Two other versions of the Warcraft II shareware - WARCRAFT 2 DEMO BETA v1.02elc and WARCRAFT 2 DEMO v1.20elc (both can be found here) - only have MIDI music, a static slideshow version of the intro, and no briefing voice-overs. [Edit] Found a download at a German website: http://www.warcraft-akademie.de/warcraft2/files.htm?PHPSESSID=0627e36805f40e03e990177f850fab8a It's not an ISO though, just the files in a folder, so I'm not sure if the high-quality music audible in the video is actually included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Looks like the same stuff my Battle.net CD has. Neat to see there was a demo that had that though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted February 4, 2012 Author Share Posted February 4, 2012 There was a DOS demo of Warcraft II included on the Battle.net CD? Anyway, here's some info on the actual CD: http://www.amazon.com/Warcraft-Tides-Darkness-Shareware-Version-PC/dp/B000MTRSUY I've heard both Starcraft and Diablo had boxed shareware CD editions, but the extent to which they are different from the respective electronic distribution releases is unknown to me. Perhaps the Starcraft one had the two extra missions that are included with the Precursor campaign, but that's just a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 no, dude, I meant the "mission briefing voice-overs, fully animated intro sequence and CD audio music". The battle.net version has all that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 no, dude, I meant the "mission briefing voice-overs, fully animated intro sequence and CD audio music". The battle.net version has all that too. I meant that the demo missions in the CD shareware version have voice-overs. The demo missions in the shareware version are in fact different from the retail version's missions, and briefing text is also not the same. The downloadable version of the shareware does not have voice-overs, meaning that those in the CD shareware version are unique. You can read more about the demo missions here. Again, I mentioned the fully animated intro only in comparison with the downloadable demo, as it has a slideshow version of the intro, obviously to reduce the size of the distributive. As for the CD Audio music, IIRC the Battle.net edition does not have CDA, it uses 22 kHz WAV files like Starcraft. Also, there's a little difference in that all music tracks that have MIDI counterparts (briefing, win and lose themes, and the first four in-game themes) were originally supposed to be looped (as they do when you use MIDI music in the DOS version), and the CDA tracks reflected that in that each tune loops once and then fades out halfway before finishing the second loop. In the Battle.net edition, these tracks are identical to the original MIDIs, in that there's actually no loop. For comparison, here's the CDA version of the second Orc theme, and here's the MIDI version (recorded on a Roland SC-55). The music in the official MP3 soundtrack released by Blizzard is also based on the original MIDIs and lacks the looped parts of the tracks (it also doe not include the tracks that do not have MIDI counterparts - it's one track per side for Tides of Darkness, one addition track for each side in the expansion, plus the bonus track; the latter can be downloaded separately from Blizzard). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 Here's a few more nice sites: http://www.ftp.funet.fi/index/msdos/games/ [ftp=ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos/games/]ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos/games/[/ftp] You can find there "clean" versions (original file names, no additional BBS comments) of online shareware distributions of games by big publishers like Apogee or Epic MegaGames, along with some other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 RGB Classic Games has moved to another domain: http://www.classicdosgames.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 S&F Prod. A neat site about oldies, with various interesting and useful info about classic games (and, in some cases, utilities like game data extractors). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 MicroProse Archive at GameFront Apparently, this is a mirror of the official MicroProse file archive. Playable game demos, previews, patches and related files can be found here. All the files have gone missing for whatever reason An archived copy of the MicroProse FTP can be found via the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/19980222073538/http://www.microprose.com/ftp/ However, not all files are available - hopefully this is fixed sometime in the future. El Zee's Amulets & Armor Forum A fan forum for discussing Amulets and Armor, a first-person action/RPG game that runs on the Doom engine. The forum can be now found here: http://www.elzee.co.nz/amulets/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 After a period of uncertainty and worry, classicdosgames.com is back online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 Your mileage may vary, but personally I find Mecha-Neko's game reviews at Super Adventures in Gaming quite entertaining to read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted May 25, 2012 Author Share Posted May 25, 2012 Found a Westwood FTP mirror: http://downloads.silverbulletservers.com/C&C/Westwood_FTP/ I wonder if it ain't maintained by any of you guys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 http://silverbulletservers.com seems to be an online community which started out on Renegade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted May 28, 2012 Author Share Posted May 28, 2012 BTW, have you played Renegade X? If so, did you like it? I've watched a couple of videos (my machine won't run the game itself), and TBH I'm generally undecided. It looks and most probably plays very different from the original game. It may be good, but may be not as much. The mix of original voice acting with something new from the dev team also makes a weird impressions sometimes. But at any rate, Renegade X looks like a very professionally done game, and for that alone the team behind it deserves the praise IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 I never even played Renegade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted June 2, 2012 Author Share Posted June 2, 2012 You should really check out the SAM site cutscene, it looks awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Okay, yeah, that IS pretty epic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 I watched more of the gameplay vids by that user, dunno how it plays but it sure looks awesome. All items, buildings, vehicles and terrain are done incredibly well. There's a probably even more epic cutscene further on, I won't spoil it for ya if you haven't seen it yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1iIF0ebDXk#t=357s For some reason, the URL parser here ignores the tag needed to jump to the time when the cutscene begins and always takes you to the beginning of the video, so you'll just have to copy-paste the link manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Huh, I used to get around the auto-embedding by using youtu.be, but it seems that's detected too now. Dammit Tore, disable that crap or make it work right [edit] Tore said any youtube url on an empty line is embedded. Add a space BEFORE it to get around that. I edited your post to do just that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 The problem wasn't with embedding, it's with making a URL point to a specific time in the video. You can see in my previous post that although the URL looks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1iIF0ebDXk#t=357s it actually points to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1iIF0ebDXk=357s if you click on it. The parser omits the #t fragment for whatever reason, and YouTube ignores the =357s pointer without it, so you'll always get to the beginning of the video instead of the 5 m 57 s mark. This is the reason I said copy-paste the link, not because of embedding issues. As for youtu.be share links, I haven't figured out how you put the time mark into 'em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Woah. Yes, that's weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted June 12, 2012 Author Share Posted June 12, 2012 Here's another mirror of the Westwood FTP: [ftp=ftp://ftp.games.skynet.be/spool1/games/ftp.westwood.com/]ftp://ftp.games.skynet.be/spool1/games/ftp.westwood.com/[/ftp] And here's a couple for Blizzard Entertainment: [ftp=ftp://ftp.gameaholic.com/pub/mirrors/ftp.blizzard.com/'>ftp://ftp.gameaholic.com/pub/mirrors/ftp.blizzard.com/]ftp://ftp.gameaholic.com/pub/mirrors/ftp.blizzard.com/'>ftp://ftp.gameaholic.com/pub/mirrors/ftp.blizzard.com/[/ftp] [ftp=ftp://ftp.games.skynet.be/spool1/games/ftp.blizzard.com/]ftp://ftp.games.skynet.be/spool1/games/ftp.blizzard.com/[/ftp] And some general FTP goodness (demos and suchlike stuff): [ftp=ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/clubix/demo/]ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/clubix/demo/[/ftp] [ftp=ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/clubix/demo2/]ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/clubix/demo2/[/ftp] [ftp=ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/clubix/demo3/]ftp://ftp.farlep.net/pub/clubix/demo3/[/ftp] [ftp=ftp://ftp.gameaholic.com/pub/]ftp://ftp.gameaholic.com/pub/[/ftp] [ftp=ftp://ftp.peliplaneetta.net/pelidemot/]ftp://ftp.peliplaneetta.net/pelidemot/[/ftp] [ftp=ftp://ftp.piotrkosoft.net/pub/windows/games/]ftp://ftp.piotrkosoft.net/pub/windows/games/[/ftp] [ftp=ftp://ftp.tpnet.pl/pub/games/]ftp://ftp.tpnet.pl/pub/games/[/ftp] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 oh wow, the old skynet.be mirror is still up? That's good to know! [edit] Goddammit, what's with these links? FTP links work when you Preview, but when you save it puts 'http' before them :ranting: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted June 13, 2012 Author Share Posted June 13, 2012 You're right! I didn't notice it. Forum software acting up again, uh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now