Anatoly Shashkin💾
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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
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Microsoft is so fucking stupid.

Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App

I'm not joking
January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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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...
‘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
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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)
January 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
40 years ago...
January 5, 2026 at 2:22 AM
No DOS games appear on this AGDQ's schedule.
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
John Carpenter on making the music for "Sentinel Returns":
January 4, 2026 at 11:07 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.
January 4, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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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?...
January 3, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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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
- = E V E R G R E E N = -
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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January 3, 2026 at 6:13 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
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
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
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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
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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
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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
I feel l̶o̶v̶e̶ WinGroove. 🔊🎵
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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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...
Hovertank (id Software) Source Port - Preview (December 2025)
YouTube video by Havoc
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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...
January 2, 2026 at 8:58 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.
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
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
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Only 23 years until we live in his world. Hard to believe.
January 2, 2026 at 4:21 AM
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old sketch inspired by an game skifree
January 1, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Not trying to prove anything, just sharing yet another awesome MT-32 tune: 🔊🎵 #DOSGaming
January 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Gateway 2000
January 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM