Never played a dos type, but do have the windows versions on a old
box. It was mostly level 1 with just dogs and monsters.
At 10:32 PM 12/19/2009, you wrote:
I remember reading in one of the later issues (after your excerpt)
that he originally developed a DOS prototype. It was broken and slow
As I recall, SOD was comprised of 4 files that you installed in sequence.
Also, was it a DOS game?, or was that Lone Wolf's first version.
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As I recall, SOD was comprised of 4 files that you installed in sequence.
Also, was it a DOS game
Hi Charles and all,
I hope Michael Feir will excuse me for reprinting the beginning of Shades of
Doom from,
Audyssey; Computer Games Accessible to the Blind
Issue 18: May/June/July, 1999
From David Greenwood:
Michael,
I have an idea which could be carried out on the Audyssey mail list
and
Hi Charles,
No, Shades of Doom was a Windows game from the beginning. Lonewolf and
Trek 99 were originally Dos games. However, he went back and wrote those
games in Visual Basic 6 to run on Windows 95/98 later on.
Charles Rivard wrote:
As I recall, SOD was comprised of 4 files that you
I remember reading in one of the later issues (after your excerpt)
that he originally developed a DOS prototype. It was broken and slow
and weird so he had to make the decision to switch to windows. I
don't actually remember playing a DOS prototype though - was that ever
released?
Anyway I think
Hi James,
If he did write a Dos prototype it was never released to my knoledge.
Besides that by 1999 and 2000 Dos was effectively the Dead Operating
System. Most people, definitely me, were using Windos instead of Dos.
Well, I was using older versions of Linux too, but it wasn't accessible
Hi Phil,
Oh, yeah. I do remember the split setup for Shades of Doom. for an
accessible game back then that was considered huge. Lol!
Now, that everyone I know is on cable for internet it takes , what,
maybe two or three minutes to download? Back then it took two or three
hours to download. A
