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  • 7 Forgotten Windows 3.0 Gaming Classics

    Explore seven games from the lost era of 16-bit Windows gaming.

    https://www.pcmag.com/feature/336891...aming-classics
    The Hackmaster

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    Castle Of The Winds is something I played a ton of, and the game is free these days. Can't get it running on newer Windows though. Windows says it's some unsupported DOS game, and DOSBox says it's a Windows game so it's basically unplayable. I still even remember some ways of exploiting the game a little bit to get what you want that I never saw listed on sites. If you wanted certain items in stores, just save before you enter the store. If you don't see something you like in a store, load your save and walk in again. If you saved after entering a store though, the items in there were saved. The same could be applied to dungeon floors too where you just save before going down a floor. Some of the dungeon floors had a slight randomness to them for certain events like you saving a human sacrifice, but the person wasn't always there so you could save before entering until they did appear. If you got a wand or scroll to clone an enemy, that was very useful on later floors for getting certain items too. I used to corner a giant down an empty path and put them to sleep. I'd then refill my health and everything to full and get ready to fight. You clone them, and the random clones have randomly generated different items they dropped, and you could use that to try making them drop more cloning tools or special leveling potions to max out your stats and levels instead of killing a million enemies just to level up. Lots of people have wanted to remake it to make it work on newer Windows, and I haven't looked in over 10 years but everything back then was people getting started and then stopping too quickly so there was never anything. I don't know if anybody managed to port it or anything at this point.


    I never understood what the purpose of SkiFree was. If you go slow, they yeti outran you and ate you. If you go quick, you move so fast it's impossible not to crash very quickly so you still get eaten. Didn't seem like there was a noticeable scoring thing or any goal in the game. Just ski for 1 minute, crash and get eaten.


    I don't know what the others on the list are, never heard of them.
    Last edited by bungholio; 03-03-2018, 09:45:28 AM.
    July 7, 2019

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      Best Windows 3.XX games ever! My memories....
      Doakan untuk MH370 / Pray for M370

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