October 20, 2008 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Computer Games, Retro, Reviews, Science and Technology, The Magazine, The Old Shoebox
Cylindrix was coded to run in Dos DJGPP Protected Mode so that it could address more than 640 KB of memory, something that the Dos programmers felt was impossible at one point in history.
March 11, 2008 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Downloads, Full Programs, Retro, Science and Technology, The Old Shoebox
One of the best computer golf games is still Links LS 98
December 11, 2007 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Downloads, Science and Technology, The Old Shoebox
Long before Takara developed their 2002 mixed-reviews tank sim, Epic Megagames was distributing Seek and Destroy, a PC action game that combined tank and chopper elements.
I first encountered Seek and Destroy in the July, 1996 issue of Interactive Entertainment (IE), the CD portion of Computer Games Strategy Plus magazine (previously called Strategy Plus, then called [...]
December 2, 2007 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Downloads, Science and Technology, The Old Shoebox
Today’s Old Shoebox feature is a game that brought me a ton of joy in the mid-90s. The game is Raptor: Call of the Shadows and the CD I originally found it on is called “Aztech’s Super Games,” a red CD-ROM that came bundled with my first 4x CD-ROM drive many years ago. The CD [...]
