Old DOS stuff

[JKnightandKARR]

Just starting a list of interesting, usefull etc DOS/Win 3.x stuff

First is Dr Sbaitso
https://classicreload.com/dr-sbaitso.html
It's a program to kinda simulate a session talking with someone about whatever, inc being able to get it to say whatever you want by typing "say and whatever". Pretty neat.

[Chris Savage]

ELIZA (1966)

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[granz]

Just starting a list of interesting, usefull etc DOS/Win 3.x stuff

Are you requesting names of DOS/Win programs and packages that we like?

[JKnightandKARR]

Just starting a list of interesting, usefull etc DOS/Win 3.x stuff

Are you requesting names of DOS/Win programs and packages that we like?

Whatever you like, use oddball etc.  Another I can add is the old Johnny Castaway SS.

[JKnightandKARR]

https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/Download
I know there's not really much like this, but one of my FAVORITE racing games EVER from 1991. Stunts V1.1, there, the original book, plus a key sheet.  V1.1 is the better one, has 2 exe files to play with Stunts.exe and St.exe, ST disables the need for the key sheet.  Other then Stunt Driver, it's the ONLY racing game I've heard of, that has multiple cars, diff opponents or clock, and a track AND Terrain editor! Access with Shift + F1 btw...  lots of track options to be creative with, and since it's 91, all cars are manual or automatic and several colors, there's no multiplayer to cheat with.  I recommend DOSBox to play it on, and as an added bonus there's the added optional benefit of annoying someone's eye and ears at true CGA graphics and PC speaker sounds! ROTF

[granz]

Interesting, I do not remember ever seeing this game before. But then again, I wasn't interested in most games, so it's understandable that I wouldn't have seen it (or remembered it if I did see it.)

[Chris Savage]

Did anyone ever play any of the "Commander Keen" games? I found them highly amusing.

[granz]

Did anyone ever play any of the "Commander Keen" games? I found them highly amusing.

I remember playing "Commander Keen", but not very much. I may have had a couple of hours, total, playing that.

[JKnightandKARR]

Did anyone ever play any of the "Commander Keen" games? I found them highly amusing.

I got them ALL! Will share if desired.

[granz]

Funny; I was just googling "wrist mounted cyberdecks", and look at what Commander Keen is wearing on his left wrist. 

[Chris Savage]

Additional irony; with the new Fallout TV Series and the video games, there has been an uptick in related 3D printer models, including the blaster and PIP Boy.

[granz]

I've never been a fan of "cosplay," and so have no interest in the blaster, or pip-boy, models. But I do have great interest in those projects where they make a "real" pip-boy; one that has a microcontroller (or Pi, or something) that does real computing-type work.

[JKnightandKARR]

Additional irony; with the new Fallout TV Series and the video games, there has been an uptick in related 3D printer models, including the blaster and PIP Boy.

I've never been a fan of "cosplay," and so have no interest in the blaster, or pip-boy, models. But I do have great interest in those projects where they make a "real" pip-boy; one that has a microcontroller (or Pi, or something) that does real computing-type work.

Another project of mine, i have the pip-boy from fallout 76 and have a screen to make mine work, though wish it was little bigger to fill screen out...

[granz]

Another project of mine, i have the pip-boy from fallout 76 and have a screen to make mine work, though wish it was little bigger to fill screen out...

I thought that I remembered you posting something about that. You posted a picture, didn't you?

[zappman]

Did anyone ever play any of the "Commander Keen" games? I found them highly amusing.

Of course I (We) played the entire "Commander Keen" Series of games. By "We" I mean myself and two sons. Especially my older son. He spent an entire summer playing them. Embedded in the games where "signs" (words) written in a "Commander Keen" code, there are unique symbols for each letter of the English alphabet. He made it his "Quest" to decode the symbols and read the signs/words. He was successful in completing his quest. Oh yes, the sound of an "AdLib Music Synthesizer Card" (or clone card) in the game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Lib,_Inc.