Need your help guys!(project)

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:22 am

Hey,guys! I need your help for my school project,it is going to be a Powerpoint presentation of Dos gaming history,and Dosgames Forum History,so if you guys could help me finding history about those two topics,and if you could take screen shots of some of the well known games,like Duke Nukem 3D,Doom,Komander Keen Series(i'm open for suggestions)[Because i'm unable to work from my PC,i'm bounded to my dads PC at his Job],so if you would help me I would be very grateful,and of course i will mention your names in the Thanks to section of the presentation.
Hope you will help.

Post by **emmzee** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:34 am

I don't have time right now to help with the "history" part, but here's two places to get screenshots:

http://users.pandora.be/mpq/software/do ... _index.htm

and of course

http://www.mobygames.com

I'll try to make a post a bit later covering some history stuff

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:28 am

thanks!i hope others will help me!

Edit:BTW really nice screenshot site!

MarchingHome · Post by **MarchingHome** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:23 pm

http://www.dosgames.com/about.php

486 player · Post by **486 player** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:33 pm

Apogee's story
Id's -"-

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 1:20 pm

Thanks 486 and MarchingHome!

Post by **emmzee** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 10:15 pm

You may want to say a few words about DOS itself, this page presents a timeline of releases n'stuff:

http://www.abo.fi/~adeheer/students/itdoshis.htm

It contains such gems as:
"Microsoft releases MS-DOS 3.0 for PCs. It adds support for 1.2 MB floppy disks, and bigger (than 10 MB.) hard disks."

Some important DOS games you may want to include: (there's lots more that could be included, but these are the ones I came up with off the top of my head, listed very roughly in order from oldest to newest ... you can check the dates for all these on mobygames.com)

Zork
Ultima
King's Quest
SimCity
Tetris
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Civilization
The Incredible Machine
Wing Commander
Wolf 3D
Diablo
Doom
Warcraft II
7th Guest
Myst
HalfLife
CounterStrike
The Sims

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 1:07 am

nice,thats gonna help me alot!

EDIT:wait a minute!diablo isn't a dos game!

Gamer_V · Post by **Gamer_V** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:12 am

The sims isn't a dos game either, but it did have some influence.

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:27 am

HalfLife The Sims CounterStrike[b/]

Yeah DOS games -right.

Post by **emmzee** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:08 pm

Heh sorry got carried away there and lost the "DOS games" theme

Post by **Dogbreath** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:20 pm

Replace Diablo on Emmzee's list with Daggerfall and Half-Life with Quake. (Two other influential DOS games)

Post by **Wally** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:19 pm

Also R@am you should talk about dos before microsoft came along and took the software and made it their own.

BTW put our URLS in the credits too

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 1:55 am

No problem,would you take a momnet and check my new website?

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:34 am

Yay,i got an A for this presentation,thanks to all guy who helped!!!!!

Post by **Wally** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:20 pm

Cool!!!

Congradulations, you deserved it.

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:10 am

What could I do without your help guys!

Post by **Dogbreath** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:29 am

Well, I'll only ask for $15 US, since my post wasn't that large.

Gamer_V · Post by **Gamer_V** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:22 am

And I'll take a part of your A because of my positive motivation!

Ro@m · Post by **Ro@m** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:40 am

So i get an half-A,.

[quote]Well, I'll only ask for $15 US, since my post wasn't that large.[quote/]
You kiddin,right?