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.
The Old Shoebox: Download the original Tomb Raider demo
Jan. 3, 2008 1 Comment
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 [...]
The Old Shoebox: Seek and Destroy (1996)
Dec. 11, 2007 Leave a Comment
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 [...]
The Old Shoebox: Sango Fighter
Dec. 6, 2007 Leave a Comment
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 [...]
The Old Shoebox: Download “Raptor: Call of the Shadows” Shareware here
Dec. 2, 2007 3 Comments
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 [...]
The Old Shoebox: Download original AIM and AIM+ here
Nov. 7, 2007 3 Comments
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 years [...]
