So, back in the days of 286 and 1200bps external modems, I played the greatest computer games ever written. And just last night I ran across it again. I have not gotten it to play, because I apparently no longer have a copy of “Dos”. I know it should be easily resolvable through FreeDOS, but while I spent a while trying to let it install last night I don’t think it should take that long in a virtualized environment on a dual core 2.16Ghz computer. I know if I had paid more attention I didn’t need all of the networking, assembly compilers, etc. However, I wanted to play some dnd. For the record, here is the site and a mirror:
http://dnd.lunaticsworld.com/– The Main Page
http://members.tripod.com/~rancourt/– The Mirror Site
I am pretty sure that I have a floppy disk (3.5″) somewhere that has my old game and my save games/map files on it, only because my uncle was kind enough to copy it over to a disk I could use years ago from the original 5 1/4″ disks I used to play it on. Its funny that I once again am stuck with the greatest game in the world, stuck on a format that I have no capability of reading. Oh well, I am pretty sure that I can get at least on version from that page to work correctly.
By the way, if you are in one of my guilds in WoW, and you are wondering why I never play anymore, give dnd.exe a shot. It could clear your addiction in its text-based glory. Oh, and the “server” never goes down.
Edit: Here is a screenshot…. I decided I would just boot my Windows XP install. Seems like a waste of horsepower just to run a 200K DOS app, but, man is it worth it.
