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Jumpstart 4th Grade Haunted Island
Teaches a bunch of subjects and helps develop problem-solving skills; its soundtrack has zero right to be so removedin’ but it is
Was asking about this today because I couldnt remember the name or franchise and Lemmy came thru, reuniting me with yet another thing I could remember sound of but not the content or name, long thought lost to the sands of time
Looking for stuff like Reader Rabbit, KidPyx, etc
Telemate, by Tsung Hu, was one of the best pieces of DOS software I ever got to use. It featured internal multitasking via its own file reader and composer. With every other terminal program out there if you wanted to create a new file or use a scratch pad you had to exit the program first and load something else.
With telemate you could download a text, open it in the internal reader, then start copying bits over to the internal composer and then cut and paste the whole thing back into the terminal. This was godlike power at the time.
It had a slew if other really useful comm program features, the file downloading system was super tight and had every protocol, the local file browser was really nice. ansi and other graphics support was superb.
I eventually put it into autoexec.bat so my 286 would boot right into telemate. I was terminally online when online barely existed 😅
I learned to program thanks to this app. I used it to dial up and access shell accounts so i could IRC and MUD. I made friends I still talk to today through it. For years it was my daily companion.
If i could celebrate one single DOS app it would be the humble yet amazing Telemate by Tsung Hu (who went by Winfred Hu at the time)
you can grab it here: https://archive.org/details/telemate
The only reason i ever stopped using it was I graduated on to Slackware!
one of the best DOS games ever, Battle Chess!
watching the knight lop the arms off the pawns never got old!
Treasure Cove
Gen z here. Animal jam was goated
I remember when they removed shelves from the in game stores so there was just a black market of shelves for no reason
Kingdom Hearts Re-coded is the best game ever and you can’t change my mind. I got my dad’s cartridge and DSi and it was the BEST.
Ive actually just now gotten around to playing the actual kingdom hearts 1 and OMG I don’t know how they managed to make the controls WORSE than a DSi game with like 10 buttons, it’s so bad you can’t see anything while in combat.
In the DS one you could at least snap the camera to look at the back of your headedit: also coolmathgames.com
DESQview - multi-tasking for DOS:
Norton Commander - shell/file manager for DOS:
I ran a BBS under DESQview X and it worked flawlessly!
It’s amazing how DESQview had pre-emptive multitasking which Microsoft couldn’t do until Windows NT.
Same here I had it running a BBS, FidoNet I think.
Roadrash & Prince of Persia & IGI 2
I like how if you hadn’t put IGI, there’s no way to tell if you’re talking early 90s or late 2000s
Hover! was so much fun. Hovering bumper-car capture the flag.
Also Math Blaster ages 9-12 with the flying monkey enemies.
Chip’s Challenge:
Commander Keen:
Can’t forget good ol’ Ski Free:
Hell yeah, Keen is a classic, I gotta emulate it sometime to relive the memories
Although I never saw the packaging. All games I had for the C64 I got at school.
Petz and Oddballz!
Thinkin Things
And Sammy’s Science House
Wonder Boy in Monster Land on the sega master system.
I’m frustrated I can’t seem to find a place to buy it for pc easily. (Admittedly it’s not like I’m trying very hard since I’m not really interested in tweaking with simulators and stuff.) There was a game with that name in a sega retro thing sold on Steam but it’s definitely not the original version. I still know the start by heart.
Ultima V
