DOS Games Discussion

Added two Abuse ports to the list:

• Abuse 1996
• Xenoveritas SDL2 port

Hassle? DOSBox is incredibly easy to use.

GusCE6 wrote: ↑ Hassle? DOSBox is incredibly easy to use.

It is, to you and me and lots of other folks. But there are also people out there who find setting up DOSBox a challenge.

Anyway, I wanted to make a list of source ports and engine recreations, and this was a lame excuse to start a new topic. Welcome to the forums!

I think alien cabal had a official windows port

Noaboss wrote: ↑ I think alien cabal had a official windows port

Right, I forgot about that one -- thanks! Added to the list!

I also reworked and expanded the rest of the list, adding many new games.

Another game I know of with a Windows native version is spectre 1992, however it is a 16 bit Windows application

Noaboss wrote: ↑ Another game I know of with a Windows native version is spectre 1992, however it is a 16 bit Windows application

This one? MobyGames doesn't seem to have the Windows version listed. There's a DOS demo for sure.

Anyway, I updated the list a bit more and added a note about the possible requirement to use DxWnd or winevdm to launch certain old Windows games on newer systems.

MrFlibble wrote: ↑

Noaboss wrote: ↑ Another game I know of with a Windows native version is spectre 1992, however it is a 16 bit Windows application

This one? MobyGames doesn't seem to have the Windows version listed. There's a DOS demo for sure.

Anyway, I updated the list a bit more and added a note about the possible requirement to use DxWnd or winevdm to launch certain old Windows games on newer systems.

The demo definitely comes with a Windows version as there is a file named SPCWIN.EXE which is a Windows 3.1 application, I tried running it a couple of months ago and it was a Windows version of the game

Noaboss wrote: ↑ The demo definitely comes with a Windows version as there is a file named SPCWIN.EXE which is a Windows 3.1 application, I tried running it a couple of months ago and it was a Windows version of the game

You're right, it does have a Win16 binary with this name and I was able to run it using winevdm. However, it appears to be only the menu, while the game itself is likely still DOS only, and I was unable to play.

If you ran this in a native version of Win 3.1 or in Win 3.1 installed in DOSBox, it would work as intended of course.

Added Raptor, Space Plumber and Vitetris to the list.

Someone made an updated remake of Xargon:
https://jxargon.itch.io/xargon-remake-ep3

A demo is also available:
https://jxargon.itch.io/xargon-remake-demo