July 2018 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

(Re)Building the LGR Windows 98 Pentium III Project PC

On July 30, 2018September 6, 2018 By LGR

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Skyrim Day 086 – Bittersweet Victory

On July 30, 2018September 5, 2018 By Raifield

16 Sun’s Dusk, 4E201 Isran is a driven man. There was no message at Solitude for Serana and I and no one I spoke to had even seen the Dawnguard passing nearby. With no instructions we had to assume we were to meet the Dawnguard at Volkihar Keep itself…which struck […]

Matt Chat 409: Might and Magic I and II

On July 30, 2018September 6, 2018 By Matt Barton

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King’s Quest VI – Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them

On July 29, 2018September 4, 2018 By TBD

Written by TBD When we left off last time, Alexander had just entered the Minotaur’s Labyrinth and fallen down a pit, with the game giving me a clue that the Cliffs of Logic aren’t the only place on this island where I’d need to refer to the manual. I check […]

Doing Windows, Part 6: Look and Feel

On July 27, 2018September 9, 2018 By Jimmy Maher

From left, Dan Fylstra of VisiCorp, Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Gary Kildall of Digital Research in 1984. As usual, Gates looks rumpled, high-strung, and vaguely tortured, while Kildall looks polished, relaxed, and self-assured. (Which of these men would you rather chat with at a party?) Pictures like these perhaps […]

LGR – After Dark Games

On July 27, 2018September 6, 2018 By LGR

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Blood Creek Witch Audiobook Now Available

On July 24, 2018September 4, 2018 By Rampant Coyote

Posted by Rampant Coyote on July 24, 2018 Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, a monstrous evil rises, and the only one who can stand against it is a teen-aged witch who doesn’t believe in magic. Blood Creek Witch is now available as an Audiobook through Audible This audiobook is narrated […]

Missed Classic 56: The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1981)

On July 24, 2018September 9, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Joe Pranevich In the mid-1980s, Douglas Adams’s career was firing on all cylinders. A comic writer since college, best known for his collaborations with Graham Chapman and Monty Python’s Flying Circus, he was writing for classic Doctor Who at arguably its creative height and had just launched […]

14 Virtual Reality RPGs for the PC

On July 23, 2018September 4, 2018 By Rampant Coyote

Posted by Rampant Coyote on July 23, 2018 Virtual-Reality-based dungeon crawling is something of dream-fulfillment for me. It’s the purpose I envisioned for VR back in the days when Ultima IV was high-tech. Of course, it’s not exactly what I dreamed of when I was 12 or 13 years old, […]

LGR – Opening Stuff You Sent Me! July 2018

On July 23, 2018September 6, 2018 By LGR

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King’s Quest VI – The Cliffs of RTFM

On July 21, 2018September 4, 2018 By TBD

Written by TBD When we last left Alexander, he had just visited the edge of Chessboard Land, and was hanging out in the garden of pun-named flowers, being hugged to death by the clinging vines. Reloading after being smothered by the clinging vines, I tried something I didn’t try earlier […]

Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try

On July 20, 2018September 4, 2018 By Jimmy Maher

The beginning of serious work on the operating system that would come to be known as OS/2 left Microsoft’s team of Windows developers on decidedly uncertain ground. As OS/2 ramped up, Windows ramped down in proportion, until by the middle of 1986 Tandy Trower had just a few programmers remaining […]

LGR – Unboxing a New 1980s Amdek Monochrome Monitor

On July 20, 2018September 6, 2018 By LGR

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Raspberry Pi C64

On July 19, 2018September 6, 2018 By The 8-Bit Guy

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How to Play Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy With Any Gamepad – Xbox 360 Controller Emulator (x360ce) Setup Guide

On July 19, 2018September 5, 2018 By Nikola

The remake of the original Crash Bandicoot Trilogy – Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy has been out for a bit now and I finally got it. Here’s a review – it’s amazing! Problem is, I don’t have an X360 gamepad. All I have is an ancient PS2 knockoff gamepad made by […]

TAG Banner Contest

On July 18, 2018September 8, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

By the TAG Team Our Hero-U Month has come to its conclusion with the launch of Hero-U and the interview with Corey Cole, and so it is time to decide what to do with our official TAG banner. We could just return to our old Monkey Island banner, but since that […]

Matt Chat 408: Ultima in The Silver Age

On July 17, 2018September 6, 2018 By Matt Barton

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NeXTStation Restoration and Upgrade

On July 15, 2018September 6, 2018 By The 8-Bit Guy

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King’s Quest VI – Isle of Punder

On July 15, 2018September 4, 2018 By TBD

Written by TBD When we last left Alexander, I had just found a ring I hadn’t noticed earlier. In the comments of that post, I was informed that the ring was mentioned either in the manual or a ‘help’ section of the game itself. It wasn’t in the manual, but […]

Eagle Dynamics Announces “Entry-Level” Combat Sim, “Modern Air Combat”

On July 13, 2018September 4, 2018 By Rampant Coyote

Posted by Rampant Coyote on July 13, 2018 Eagle Dynamics, creators of DCS World (Digital Combat Simulator), just announced a new flight sim to be released this fall, “Modern Air Combat.” This simulator comes with a whole bunch of aircraft that are all extremely familiar to fans of the DCS […]