RickR Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 This all started due to a P'Tach on facebook. He asked if anyone had a really old laptop for sale. I did. A really nice Toshiba 486 laptop in pristine condition. The battery still holds a charge. His idea was to use the old laptop to play the old floppy disk based games. Most notably, DOOM. The dude turned out the be a major flake. I took a bunch of pictures, answered a bunch of questions, agreed to a price, and then....nothing. No "sorry, I changed my mind" (which would have been fine). No response at all. Cowardly flake. What is wrong with people? So now, I'm stealing his idea. I think it might be kind of cool. I plan on installing Doom and whatever classic games I can find on this thing and reporting here how it works. The only issue -- I threw out all those games eons ago. I'll do a googlo search, but maybe someone here can more quickly direct me to a download area for Doom (and other game) floppy images. The idea is to actually create the floppy disks and load them onto the laptop that way. Who wants to help a brother out? MaximumRD, Lost Dragon and GRay Defender 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowsdower70 Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Perhaps this will help:http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_download_and_run_DoomThere's a link to the final release shareware version of the original Doom for DOS. Lost Dragon and RickR 2 Quote "For you - Rowsdower from the 70 - have been appointed Omnivisioner of the Game Grid." ~ Atari Adventure Square Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted June 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Perhaps this will help: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_download_and_run_Doom There's a link to the final release shareware version of the original Doom for DOS. You are a hero. Lost Dragon and Rowsdower70 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowsdower70 Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Lost Dragon 1 Quote "For you - Rowsdower from the 70 - have been appointed Omnivisioner of the Game Grid." ~ Atari Adventure Square Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted June 26, 2017 Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 a website like this? https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games Quote Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Sounds like you are doing a similar thing that I've been trying to do with a Compaq Armada laptop. I've going here: http://www.abandonwaredos.com/ ...to find old games I once owned. I don't support piracy but if it is really abandoned then I don't see an issue. Otherwise I would hunt them down on Ebay, Amazon, or ShopGoodwill. RickR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starbuck66 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Rick, you should have snagged these while you were at it: https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/john-romero-just-auctioned-off-his-doom-2-floppy-discs-for-3000/ RickR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 3, 2017 Report Share Posted July 3, 2017 Rick, you should have snagged these while you were at it: https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/john-romero-just-auctioned-off-his-doom-2-floppy-discs-for-3000/ $3000?!? That's insane. Starbuck66 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 Check out what I found while looking for a blank floppy! The disk on the bottom is a supposedly "NT-compatible" version of Doom I got from Rowsdower's link. More coming soon..... Starbuck66 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 And BOOM...it works! It looks and plays great. The only issue is...this laptop has no sound card. So it's limited to the PC speaker. No music. Starbuck66 and nosweargamer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starbuck66 Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 And BOOM...it works! It looks and plays great. The only issue is...this laptop has no sound card. So it's limited to the PC speaker. No music. The DOOMTop Lives!!! RickR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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