DOS Games Discussion

At least they support Soundblaster audio.

I can't believe HVB still made textmode games in 1997.

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gabonator wrote: ↑ So if there are some guys who had experience in cracking of ancient games, I would appreciate their help with finding or producing unprotected binaries (storm lord, titus the fox, arkanoid2).

For Titus the Fox, you could try http://ttf.mine.nu/

And the demo version of Titus the Fox.

gabonator wrote: ↑ So if there are some guys who had experience in cracking of ancient games, I would appreciate their help with finding or producing unprotected binaries (storm lord, titus the fox, arkanoid2).

For Titus the Fox, you could try http://ttf.mine.nu/

I wouldn't call Voornaam a game; it's just a database with information about given names.

Without checking whether I've remembered it right, you need to highlight the left character and then pressing left.

I've got a couple of those game and I can add them to MobyGames.

I found over 40 games of them on my dad's old floppies and would like to add them to playdosgames.com, but only if I have permission from the author. I was wondering, which HVB games do you have that aren't on the Mobygames' list of HVB games ? 5-Letter-Kruiswoord 5-Seconden 21-en Bind-Woord Boggle...

I came across this tweet : I would like to get in contact with "HVB Barneveld" or "HVB Software", who developed and published Dutch DOS games from 1990-1992. After trying for a couple of years without success, let's see the power of Twitter: please contact us! They're also known ...

Magic Pockets?

In 2007 I emailed the programmer of 8088 Othello and asked for its source code. In 1985 he sold the source code for $10, but in 2007 I got it for free.

Maybe you somehow got a beta of Duke Nukum II with those cheats.

I've looked at Nukem2.exe of the shareware version and the registered version and it doesn't accept any command line arguments. There isn't even a command line argument to disable joystick detection or AdLib / Sound Blaster detection, unlike other Apogee games.

I found some cheats for Back to the Future Part II.

At the screen that says "Press fire to start!" type EINSTEIN. If you've done this right, the screen will say "Cheating". Now you are invincible and if you press Tab, you'll warp to the next level.

Here's an interesting approach for finishing this game: http://tasvideos.org/4593S.html

BTW, on an EGA in 320x200 mode you can only use the default 16 colors. In 640x350 you can choose 16 colors from a palette of 64 colors.

Here's a list of games that tweak the EGA card: http://www.mobygames.com/attribute/sheet/attributeId,6/

Maybe some games on that list use a different palette of colors than the default 16 colors.

I've put the cheats for Contra & Gryzor on my website.
There are cheats for invincibility, level warping and even a cheat to quit the game.