Anatoly Shashkin💾
@dosnostalgic.bsky.social
MS-DOS gaming enthusiast, YouTuber, admirer of cats, RU in NY.
Ask me about DOS games! Tell me your DOS game memories!
I repost and swear a lot.
(He/Him)
YouTube: youtube.com/dosnostalgic
Web: dosnostalgia.com
Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic
Ask me about DOS games! Tell me your DOS game memories!
I repost and swear a lot.
(He/Him)
YouTube: youtube.com/dosnostalgic
Web: dosnostalgia.com
Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic
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Microsoft is so fucking stupid.
Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App
I'm not joking
Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App
I'm not joking
January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Microsoft is so fucking stupid.
Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App
I'm not joking
Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App
I'm not joking
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Nice article in The Guardian about the story behind Prince of Persia's first making in 1989! 💾 A treat for me to see Broderbund co-founder Doug Carlston interviewed here- he's a great guy and was one of my first mentors.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
‘I wanted that Raiders of the Lost Ark excitement – you could die any minute’: how we made hit video game Prince of Persia
‘There was no animation software in those days. So I videotaped my brother David running, jumping and climbing in a car park’
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nice article in The Guardian about the story behind Prince of Persia's first making in 1989! 💾 A treat for me to see Broderbund co-founder Doug Carlston interviewed here- he's a great guy and was one of my first mentors.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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TEMU, a Game Boy emulator for the ZX Spectrum +2a/+3 capable only of running a Tetris ROM.
9 CPU instructions had to be implemented via emulation, the rest are executed directly. Other resources are spent on graphics & sound. Spectrum's CPU runs slower than Game Boy's.
(Real hardware capture)
9 CPU instructions had to be implemented via emulation, the rest are executed directly. Other resources are spent on graphics & sound. Spectrum's CPU runs slower than Game Boy's.
(Real hardware capture)
January 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
TEMU, a Game Boy emulator for the ZX Spectrum +2a/+3 capable only of running a Tetris ROM.
9 CPU instructions had to be implemented via emulation, the rest are executed directly. Other resources are spent on graphics & sound. Spectrum's CPU runs slower than Game Boy's.
(Real hardware capture)
9 CPU instructions had to be implemented via emulation, the rest are executed directly. Other resources are spent on graphics & sound. Spectrum's CPU runs slower than Game Boy's.
(Real hardware capture)
40 years ago...
January 5, 2026 at 2:22 AM
40 years ago...
No DOS games appear on this AGDQ's schedule.
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
No DOS games appear on this AGDQ's schedule.
John Carpenter on making the music for "Sentinel Returns":
![I'd love to, and I did a video game back in the 90s. It was Sentinel Returns. I was shooting a movie [1998’s Vampires] in New Mexico and they asked me to do the music. I went to a studio one Sunday, my day off, and just knocked out something and gave it to them.
They seemed happy, so, fine. I never saw the game. Nobody told me how it was, I don’t know anything. No one tells me anything!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ucwjleevh3u7yq4safl6dnsa/bafkreihxnyj3bwryvb6jc7sg3rky7nfg5wdzuuo4q4zckjic7uxibxwgge@jpeg)
January 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
John Carpenter on making the music for "Sentinel Returns":
Intro from the PC version of "Sentintel Returns", a 1998 remake of Geoff Crammond's action-puzzle 3D game "The Sentinel" (1986). Music by John Carpenter.
January 4, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Intro from the PC version of "Sentintel Returns", a 1998 remake of Geoff Crammond's action-puzzle 3D game "The Sentinel" (1986). Music by John Carpenter.
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Looks like Rémi Léonard is close to have a full reverse engineered Strike Commander. And he now has added VR support!
youtu.be/WlPiYIiAX2Q?...
youtu.be/WlPiYIiAX2Q?...
January 3, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Looks like Rémi Léonard is close to have a full reverse engineered Strike Commander. And he now has added VR support!
youtu.be/WlPiYIiAX2Q?...
youtu.be/WlPiYIiAX2Q?...
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I think my entire personality was set by the fact that the first computer game I ever played was a surgery simulator on MS-DOS. There was only one way forward from there.
January 3, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I think my entire personality was set by the fact that the first computer game I ever played was a surgery simulator on MS-DOS. There was only one way forward from there.
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And it's at that point all the people who went "I don't understand. Why don't the Russians just overthrow Putin? 🤔🤷" will be able to answer their own questions.
January 3, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project:
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.
Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
github.com/markmoxon/th...
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.
Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
github.com/markmoxon/th...
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
GitHub - markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro: Fully documented and annotated source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro
Fully documented and annotated source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro - markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro
github.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project:
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.
Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
github.com/markmoxon/th...
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.
Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
github.com/markmoxon/th...
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
Seeing a lot of Russians applaud Trump's actions because they are hoping he'll do the same to Putin, and now I finally understand how many people live in a completely imaginary world.
January 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Seeing a lot of Russians applaud Trump's actions because they are hoping he'll do the same to Putin, and now I finally understand how many people live in a completely imaginary world.
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I can think of 535 people off the top of my head who I wish were being a little more vocal this morning about our attack on Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I can think of 535 people off the top of my head who I wish were being a little more vocal this morning about our attack on Venezuela.
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This is the deepest cut i can imagine but i had to do it, for me
January 3, 2026 at 5:35 AM
This is the deepest cut i can imagine but i had to do it, for me
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Season 8 of Ancient DOS Games has begun! youtu.be/w7r_zwZtMBI
Maniac Mansion - ADG Episode 351
YouTube video by Pixelmusement
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Season 8 of Ancient DOS Games has begun! youtu.be/w7r_zwZtMBI
I feel l̶o̶v̶e̶ WinGroove. 🔊🎵
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 PM
I feel l̶o̶v̶e̶ WinGroove. 🔊🎵
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Today I learnt of a new source port under development for that other early id Software FPS: Hovertank 3D!
The developer, Havoc, has also acquired the rights to the game. He has a YouTube channel and maintains a blog on his website at havoc.de.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=koTn...
The developer, Havoc, has also acquired the rights to the game. He has a YouTube channel and maintains a blog on his website at havoc.de.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=koTn...
Hovertank (id Software) Source Port - Preview (December 2025)
YouTube video by Havoc
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Today I learnt of a new source port under development for that other early id Software FPS: Hovertank 3D!
The developer, Havoc, has also acquired the rights to the game. He has a YouTube channel and maintains a blog on his website at havoc.de.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=koTn...
The developer, Havoc, has also acquired the rights to the game. He has a YouTube channel and maintains a blog on his website at havoc.de.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=koTn...
Perfect time to start playing more DOS games!
ASUS will be increasing prices on various products from January 5, including the ROG Ally, to 'absorb increasing costs across the industry'
➡️ steamdeckhq.com/news/asus-an...
➡️ steamdeckhq.com/news/asus-an...
January 2, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Perfect time to start playing more DOS games!
Turns out this was very much the case of the projection. The new transfer of "Dogma" is perfectly fine. Old transfer exhibited all the usual signs of the time - it was overly bright, and reds were pushed too much. Not anymore.
I hope the projector in the theater I was at wasn't calibrated properly, and what I saw isn't how the film is gonna be released on home video soon. A bit too dark overall, and too cold on colors.
January 2, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Turns out this was very much the case of the projection. The new transfer of "Dogma" is perfectly fine. Old transfer exhibited all the usual signs of the time - it was overly bright, and reds were pushed too much. Not anymore.
Wow. Very cool of a company, an LLC of course, to notify their clients that a breach of their data happened SIXTEEN MONTHS ago.
January 2, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Very cool of a company, an LLC of course, to notify their clients that a breach of their data happened SIXTEEN MONTHS ago.
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Only 23 years until we live in his world. Hard to believe.
January 2, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Only 23 years until we live in his world. Hard to believe.
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old sketch inspired by an game skifree
January 1, 2026 at 12:08 PM
old sketch inspired by an game skifree
Not trying to prove anything, just sharing yet another awesome MT-32 tune: 🔊🎵 #DOSGaming
January 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Not trying to prove anything, just sharing yet another awesome MT-32 tune: 🔊🎵 #DOSGaming
