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.
January 3, 2008 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Downloads, Game Demos, Retro, Science and Technology, The Old Shoebox
There once was a magazine called Launch.
Oh what a magazine it was. Launch was mainly a music publication, which offered a Macromedia-powered CD-ROM magazine in the 90s. It was an early form of convergence journalism, and we pay homage to them and their efforts.
Like just about every other good thing in the tech bubble years, [...]
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 6, 2007 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Downloads, Science and Technology, The Old Shoebox
Here’s another out of that old Aztech’s Super Games cd:
At the twilight of the Eastern-Han Dynasty of ancient China, under the reign of the frail and incompetent emperor Han-Ling, the country was in disarray when the government was run by a group of corrupted eunuchs-theso-called “Ten Attendants.” Hardship and famine finally threw the country into [...]
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 [...]
November 7, 2007 by John M. Guilfoil
Filed under Downloads, Full Programs, Science and Technology, The Old Shoebox
A lot of people just haven’t gotten used to the new AOL Instant Messenger style. It’s completely different after all, and functionality or not, many people just want to chat — not video conference, not voice chat, just and lol and brb their nearest and dearest Internet friends.
So I dug deep into 15 [...]


