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DesertFOX
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Ich will hier jetzt nicht viel Lärm drum machen, aber für einen alten Adventure-Spiele-Fan wie mich war es heute doch etwas sehr besonderes, endlich diesen Disketten-Satz auslesen und für euch hochladen zu dürfen:

Die deutsche Version von "The Secret of Monkey Island" in 16-Farben EGA auf 8x 5.25Zoll 360K Disketten:

archive.org/details/mi1_de_ega

Nach dieser speziellen Version hatte ich jetzt jahrelang gesucht. Dass am Ende wirklich alle Disketten in einem perfekten KryoFlux-Zustand waren, hat mich nochmal extra gefreut!

Viel Spaß damit! 😃

The Secret of Monkey Island, Scan der BigBox.
The Secret of Monkey Island, die 16-Farben EGA Version auf 5.25 Zoll Disketten. Hier die erste Diskette.
#RetroGaming#EGA#MSDOS
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DesertFOX
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Tonight, I'm checking out an old Sierra adventure game I never played before: "The Colonel's Bequest" from 1989.

86Box is such an awesome, little emulator. I can just fire up the virtual 386, mount the 720k floppy disk images into drive A:, pick the best graphics (EGA/VGA) and music device (MT-32) and everything just works just like that!

As a retro gamer, I think this is such a treat! :ablobcatattention:

A screenshot of "The Colonel's Bequest"
Another screenshot of "The Colonel's Bequest"
Guess what... yet another screenshot of "The Colonel's Bequest" ;-)
PC DOS-Shell showing the SIERRA/CB folder and its files.
#RetroGaming#SierraOnline#AdventureGames
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Carlos Rodrigues 🪣
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Shortly after "Shadow Knights" (1990), id Software used the same engine to do "Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion" (1991).

Neither is meant to represent what PC hardware could do at the time. Both are EGA when VGA was readily available, and both do PC Speaker beeps when proper sound cards were becoming a thing.

But you can fit both in a single floppy disk, and run them on most PCs of the time. And they do make good use of hardware limitations. 💾

Intro screen for "Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion" in 16-color EGA. Dave is grinning, while wearing a red cap and holding a shotgun. There's a ghost behind him and a mansion in the background. The red cap has no modern connotations. We have no information about Dave's political views.
Inside the mansion. There are two platform levels visible, and some doors. Dave is reloading his shotgun (you have infinite ammo, but have to reload every 8 shots). Someone had fun drawing those funny-shaped cacti...🤔
Dave just got mauled by a zombie. A small "zoomed in" animation box appears whenever he's killed.
#retrogaming#msdos#ega
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Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️
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Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic... aka I wonder if this was a (Mega)Traveller game where the license fell through in the end so Electronic Arts changed things up a bit and released it as its own thing. Either that or it's *heavily* inspired by it. So much so that the MegaTraveller game, Zhodani Conspiracy, that released two years later in 1990 now feels like a Sentinel Worlds knockoff!

Honestly, after tinkering around with it for a while, I already feel it's a better MegaTraveller game than the actual ones from Paragon Software.

I've been meaning to give it a bash for some time and I'm glad I did as it's going on the deeper delve list. And that name! Future Magic. What a coolness.

The title screen for Future Magic with all kinds of cool space scifi stuff such as a hooded Star Wars Emperor figure in blue-tinted silhouette in the background, in front of which an Arnie Terminator clone, close-cropped hair and shades at the ready, looms menacingly from the side while spaceships and planets and scifi troops decorate the rest.
The crew selection and editing screen where you'll tailor your Starcrew that'll crew your ship. There's a Sigourney Weaver in Alien/s look-alike alongside the previously mentioned Arnie-alike. No dying during character creation here tho!
The main spaceflight navigation screen with all kinds of cool ship display panels in green and simple icons for your ships and dots for the system display to indicate passing spacecraft.
A screenie of the Computer control display screen to demonstrate its similarity with MegaTraveller where you'll load up programs such as Jump and Manuever and Evade.
#Retrogaming#DOSGaming#EGA
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Games That I Missed
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This is a copy of Autodesk AutoFlix Version 1.0, still sealed in its packaging. Given the text of the printed letter and the packaging, this looks like it might have been a promotional copy?

I can't even use this (yet) – I don't have a computer with a 5.25 floppy drive at the moment. But, in my defense, it looked interesting and was sitting in a "free stuff" pile.

A clear plastic sealed package, containing a Mini Floppy Disk Mailer with a label that reads "Autoflix Version 1.0 720 KB Format." Behind the mailer is a a printed letter from Autodesk, dated 1989-08-16, which reads: "Dear AutoFlix™ Customer, Thank you for your interest in AutoFlix, an animation and presentation tool for IBM®-compatible and PS/2 computers equipped with EGA displays. With AutoFlix, you can assemble 'movies' and interactive presentations by combining Autodesk slide files, AutoShade® renderings, and standard text files. It is a powerful tool for making presenations of an educational, sales or informative nature. The AutoFlix softwre package includes two major components: • a set of tools, written in AutoLISP™, which are used within AutoCAD® to create a series of AutoShade renderings along a "walkthrough path" [the rest of the letter is obscured behind the mailer]
#Retrocomputing#EGA#Floppy
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