RickR 14,198 Report post 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? 3 GRay Defender, MaximumRD and Lost Dragon reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rowsdower70 4,513 Report post 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. 2 RickR and Lost Dragon reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RickR 14,198 Report post 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. 2 Lost Dragon and Rowsdower70 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rowsdower70 4,513 Report post Posted June 25, 2017 1 Lost Dragon reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arenafoot 2,336 Report post Posted June 26, 2017 a website like this? https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atari 5200 Guy 4,178 Report post 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. 1 RickR reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Starbuck66 719 Report post 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/ 1 RickR reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Atari 5200 Guy 4,178 Report post 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. 1 Starbuck66 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RickR 14,198 Report post 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..... 1 Starbuck66 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RickR 14,198 Report post 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. 2 Starbuck66 and nosweargamer reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Starbuck66 719 Report post 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!!! 1 RickR reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
