DOS Games Discussion

LABYRINT-muster.png Here i made a compillation of all pixel-patterns, the maze-walls can be filled with (skipped pure black, because it looks the same in any size abd without it, the others fit into a nice square). some are not very clear about where the pathways are. LABYRINT-muster 2.png And here...

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Why do posts under existing threads lose their edit-button after a while, but only, when they where never edited in that time-span?

Startposts and edited posts seem to keep their edit-button forever.

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I recolored the theme of the windows 3.1 in my dosbox.
but the arrow-buttons at the ends of the scrollbars are still boring grey.
How do i recolor them to match the slider on the scrollbar?

Best regards Maxi

Does any one know, why the output-maze from the game-intern copy-function has only 5 pixel cell-size instead 8? 8 pixel cell-site would fit perfectly to the given wall-patterns and the mazes would look way cleaner (just like made with an extremely simple monochrome tile-set). It's pretty sure, that ...

I see no edit option on my answer from taday, so i must do this in a new post.

How do i download it from the linked page?

Edit:
I found a download here:
<snipped> ~MrFlibble

And it works well on my win3.1-dosbox.

So the gameplay seems a bit similar to Checkers or GO where you want to enclose or take over the opponents markers, but here with buildings instead? Enclosing is not needed, when two areas touch by the added building, the larger area takes over the smaller. And there are about 8-10 building-types t...

Hello Many years ago i had a pc-game, called cartell or something like that It seemed to be a multiplayer round based game, but it also was possible to Play around with it alone. At th beginning tha Main-screen was a tiled grass area with a few randomly placed tiles of brickwall-pattern to indicate ...

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Hello after i followed your unpacking steps, my dosbox said, it is still somehow compressed... than i downloaded this: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/releases but the installer crashes less than a second after the doubleclick on the file-icon. than i found that you linked an extracted and than z...

Hello i want to install an old labyrinth-game: https://ia802305.us.archive.org/7/items/franzis-verlag-labyrinth-windows-games/preview15.jpg It comes in an iso of a games-collection from here: https://archive.org/details/franzis-verlag-labyrinth-windows-games The screenshot above also comes from this...

Hello i am looking for an old labyrinth-game, that had a revealing map on the left and a pseudo 3d view on the right. In the attachment is a screenshot of a replica, that i made with godot. I remember, the map area was light grey in the original and revealed paths white. The player-marker on the map...

Hello i am looking for an old pixelart ecosystem or biotope creating game, that i played in my middleschool time one day at a teacher-PC in their little room as i had a long break between lessons or a lesson was canceled because of a sick teacher. In this sandbox-style game it was possible to create...

Hello i tried to put a request for finding a retro game, But it was at first Impossible to send it, because the new-topic-formular says invalid characters found. Which text-characters are invalid here? invalid characters, that i found, (i have to somewhat describe them, because i cannot send it when...

Another question about Zeek the Geek:
One game-element is a yellow barrel with "xx" on it.
Does this have any game-mechanic-differences to walls?

Hello I found this web-recreation of an old game called Zeek the Geek: zeek-jorge-rubiano.vercel.app (it does not let me turn the url into a link or even use the full url) In this version I found out following behaviours: The deinosaur like creature eats flowers(including the purple carnivorus one),...

Hello Is there any place, where i can download the Zeek the Geek level-editor (Zeek the Geek designer)? It´s in the collection of the thread-starter. And i also want to know, if there is any where a download for Zeek 2, that needs no installation? I already have downloads with installation-programs...