sub specie aeternitatis
I was playing some Quake 3 and listening to chip tunes last night. So maybe it is kind of pathetic to think of a lost friend by playing a video game while listening to cheezy musak, but it does. It’s good to look back once in a while, just as long as you don’t try to stay in the past. Time marches on, as they say.
I was thinking of games I used to play on my 286 and 486 this afternoon and decided to go looking for some of them. If you want to play these games, you will most likely need to use a program called DOSBox, which is an x86 emulator. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux (its open source).
Download Ben’s Abandonware Collection
Contents:
These are just some of the games I played on my 286 and then my 486. There are a few others I don’t have here that I played, I’m sure, but some titles aren’t easily available (even though they are no longer sold).
It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
16. A Concrete Block hanging out with his friends!
14. Concrete Block of the Dead!
13. Hold that Soil Back Concrete Block!
10. Senior Picture Concrete Block
7. Plasma Attack Concrete Block!
6. Concrete Block in a Stylish Blue Bag!
4. Concrete Block with Curve in the Middle Surrounded by Red!
3. I Think This Has Something to Do With Water Concrete Block!?
2. Eggrolls!
1. Carters Concrete Block, Inc!
Let’s see you top that, Digg!
(and you know what’s even worse than arbitrary lists? people who submit their own worthless stories to digg. d’oh!)
