The Old Shoebox: Cylindrix
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
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 j...
The Old Shoebox: Seek and Destroy (1996)
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 Destro...
The Old Shoebox: Sango Fighter
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 w...
The Old Shoebox: Download “Raptor: Call of the Shadows” Shareware here
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...
The Old Shoebox: Download original AIM and AIM+ here
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 c...
