Installing a DOS Game From Floppy Disks

[@badmojo380]

This is nostalgia at its finest right here... No talkie.. Just the quiet hum and clicking of the mechanical floppy drive doing its thing is all I need for that sweet sweet hit of nostalgia. Mmmmm

[@GuyRification]

The sweet sweet sound of data.

[@MurraySwe]

If you're not waking up the entire neighbourhood when smashing the enter key, you're not pressing it hard enough.

[@krisnichols2560]

great meme

[@charlescolby45]

pro trick: watch movies at kaldroStream. Been using them for watching all kinds of movies lately.

[@coenkaden2889]

@Charles Colby Yup, been using Kaldrostream for since december myself :)

[@allenjaime3191]

@Charles Colby Yup, have been using kaldroStream for since december myself :)

[@briansretrocorner]

sound of floppy disk is amazing , love retro computer and games :-)

[@ReefGuzzler]

damn those sounds really brought me back!

[@Xanthopteryx]

I remember installing the operating system on our PCs (yes, we had several!). It was around 50 disks!

[@movAX13h]

Smashing that RETURN key like its 1993!

[@pavelgl5926]

Any keyboard was rock-solid back then :)

[@planet23k]

You might want to notice it's SPACE BAR : D

[@ljp1942]

Yeah his a dick.

[@zinzeta]

space key*

[@elfboi523]

I remember those days.

[@elfboi523]

I also remember using VGA Copy to copy protected floppies. The copy protection usually consisted of using nonstandard disk formats, with each track having a different number of sectors, and often one or two intentionally broken sectors. VGA Copy just read the raw track data from the drive without trying to understand the data, unlike Diskcopy.

[@happyemi23]

I was half expecting a plot twist of a disk error when trying to copy the last file of the last disk.I still remember the noise of the disk when trying to reread the same sector 2-3 times before showing an infamous "disk error"

[@whiteshadow59]

I want to install games like this again!

[@dosnostalgic]

Do it! Don't let your dreams be dreams.

[@silkwesir1444]

only six minutes to install, it sure felt a lot longer back then :D Then again, sometimes it did take longer and was much louder and you were praying/hoping that it would go through...

[@marccaselle8108]

Error reading drive A abort, retry, fail.

[@tomisabum]

Man, I gotta share this, just because of what a good reference it is for art/style guides. Much less the historic factor. You're doin' good work with this channel in terms of curation, man, ty.

[@shadowwolf1355]

Syndicate was a fantastic series. Thanks for this wonderful trip down memory lane. I like watching the Red Alert Install as well that you did.

[@Meme-go9ts]

How I miss saving a game on a floppy disk (like Castle of the Winds!)... Saludos from Argentina!

[@marccaselle8108]

Castle of the winds was awesome.

[@only257]

Remembering my dad use to install dos games on our computer when I was 7 in 1991💀

[@silkwesir1444]

Did you watch carefully so you could do it by yourself the next time?

[@marccaselle8108]

I was 9 in 1991

[@Cmdr_Rhialto]

I also have a Dell simmilar like yours (p3/450). For my retro fix. I got it for €5. It even has isa slots. So i have put in my Voodoo 2, and my Gravis Ultrasound, great for win98 and dos gaming. I also still use a bi panel file manager, even on my windows 10 and linux systems.

[@dosnostalgic]

I approve of *all* of this.

[@genericgermangamer]

Does someone remember ARJ? I used to get totally legal copies of videogames on up to 20 floppy disks compressed with ARJ. As a 13 year old in 1995 with horrible english skills and without internet access or any kind manuals it was such a hassle to figure it out. But I remember how satisfying it was to finally play the banned "rise of the triad" after unpacking 15 floppy disks. Good old times. Now I can download it on steam in one second.

[@matt1834]

LHA was my favourite

[@genericgermangamer]

@@matt1834 had to use what was offered to me. not sure why, but ARJ was by far the most common compression software back in the 90s. at least in germany.

[@monomanual]

Wow, same here! But in Chile ARJ was a real pain in the ass to learn without knowing english, but with a little patience (a lot really) anything is possible! Thanks for the memories!

[@genericgermangamer]

@@monomanual that is great. i just didn't understand compression in the beginning. for me it was like magic. "whaaaat? you can fit a 50 mb game on just 10 floppy disks?"

[@BFMedic]

I used ARJ in the early-mid 90’s as well 👍 Norway

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

Remembering that feeling of nervousness you instantly got as soon as you heard any unusual sound from the floppy drive. 😱

[@BilltheFifth]

Good GOD this is satisfying and crisp.

[@andrelqn]

Good times!

[@sgt.pepper253]

Holy shit I HAD THE SAME PC back in the day. A nostalgic kick in the ass to be sure.

[@UnbornApple]

is this asmr

[@tomisabum]

ooo she cronch

[@TheSilentPhil]

BDSM

[@J__C__]

Wtf is asmr and why does everybody always post it on stupid videos?

[@disneyscientist9461]

Vance Palodichuk yes

[@gilm0075]

if it error-ed out on first launch it would have been more authentic to the experience :D

[@rez9386]

This is amazing

[@TheTurnipKing]

Syndicate is one of those games from the window where the PC is genuinely starting to simply outmuscle the Amiga, at least for those willing to pay the exoribtant costs that a fully kitted out PC of the time would demand.

[@Spoomis]

I wish someone would bring back floppy disks.

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

One of the most boring things to watch ever, yet it still gets a thumbs up from me.

[@scooperfield]

I would prefer to hear you comments and memories while you do this process.

[@danmanx2]

@LGR Would REALLY LOVE THIS FLOPPY ACTION....

[@MES082]

Abort, Retry, Ignore?

[@intrinia]

... on disk 5

[@stonetic2515]

I wish they gave you an Ignore option anymore. Windows 10 has so many things I want to ignore.

[@armorgeddon]

Windows 10 ignores your wishes instead.

[@nielsoester]

Ohh geek, it's nerdy. I love it...

[@Jedislayer_]

Those ssds were wicked quick.

[@mrwebber35]

Graphics seem too advanced for a Win3.0 floppy game. Very amazing to see.

[@Arkan1986]

Use headphones for true ASMR experience.

[@ljp1942]

Sick.

[@phobos_2382]

Norton Commander!

[@dosnostalgic]

Volkov Commander even!

[@amandakelly7991]

can you make a vid about drilling hole into 720k disks to make then 1.44 brother used to do that back in the day lol..

[@dosnostalgic]

I'll add it to the list

[@armorgeddon]

Did that work with any 720k disk or like just with high quality ones?

[@amandakelly7991]

Any

[@amandakelly7991]

@@armorgeddon we used any type always worked if drilled in the right spot.

[@OzwellSpencer]

Magic!

[@marccaselle8108]

I wonder what the last dos game released on floppy diskettes was?

[@DeViLzzz2006]

@DOS Nostalgoa are there games both on floppy disk and other media (cd/dvd/blu-ray) that will not run from external drives? I need to know this before I go and waste money on external devices that won't do the job for me.

[@dosnostalgic]

Can't really think of any, but then again I never really had many external drives.

[@Null_Experis]

>Authentic >optiplex >using a Dos Shell I will give you credit for the having the same Rack Shelving for your retro PCs and the same air purifier as me.

[@dosnostalgic]

I have no idea what this comment is supposed to mean, but I'll take the credit when offered, I guess.

[@armorgeddon]

LOL

[@joeyjoejnr8108]

How do you play floppy disc games through windows 98?

[@tenniearmybarbie1959]

Hello looking for a name of a game i use to play on win 3.1/dos. You was the battle ship up top then there was submarines on the bottums and you would have to move left to right and drop gas drums on them as they pass by they also released gas drums up they would float up to the surface where u was

[@SoanosBarcoded]

Was expecting you to use DOS prompt like a *real* retro gamer. Sun, I am disappoint... :p

[@dosnostalgic]

If you installed and ran as many DOS games a day as I do, you wouldn't use command prompt either. Bi-panel orthodox file managers for life!

[@planet23k]

@@dosnostalgic True dat. Norton Commander for life : D

[@dactylionpriest]

My thoughts exactly! :D

[@nathan0401_]

Wow, it was so slow

[@christoffer4862]

How can the installation process continue once you take out the first install disk?

[@dosnostalgic]

The program has been loaded into RAM at that point, and it's being executed from there.

[@ninefingerdeathgrip]

Yes hi, i'd like to know why this channel is not called DOStalgia

[@Made_In_Heaven88]

Sick beat lol

[@Morpheus776]

well all know you can download abondendware games from the internet. my question is how can i put these games on a floppy to make it playable. alot of games just dont work. and alot of games are bigger than 1 floppy. for example simcity2000 you can download in the internet does not fit on 1 floppy but the original game came just on 1 floppy how did they do that? and how can i put a game on 2 or 3 floppys and make it bootable like a original game?

[@TheTurnipKing]

Sim City 2k most certainly came on more than one floppy disk. Heck, even OG Sim City came on more than one disk

[@armorgeddon]

Sim City 2000 came on two disks. Abandonware you can download often comes in already "installed form" which means somebody just took his installation of a game from his HDD, compressed it into zip i.e. and put it onto the internet. To play it on a real DOS machine you need to transfer it via any storage medium and if your only choice is diskette than you need to create a multi-disk compressed archive in a format that can be uncompressed insight DOS. Btw PC games that came with multiple diskettes were never bootable AFAIK. The only booter games I know of were single disk games, like the awesome game Digger for example.

[@krisnichols2560]

I will smash the the ENTER key until my mom will wake up

[@cvbabc]

Only about six minutes to install but I skipped ahead after about 2! 21st century patience.... LOL And I'm old enough to remember having to do this myself..., so ashamed. 😞

[@TouchedProductions]

So first that it hurts, baby!

[@Kawa-oneechan]

First time always hurts. Or so I'm told.

[@Lidok7575]

dosbox - normal work emulator for windows

[@Bogdan_Gordin]

Magic DOSBox, best emulator for Android phones.

[@ElCriticoCitrico77]

The sound, the worst when the disk was broken!!!

[@JTSuter]

Yeah, but how do you do this on windows 10?

[@dosnostalgic]

Hopefully I'll have a video about that soon

[@panteranegra5668]

Very Nice!!!!!!!!!👏👏👏

[@dross1705]

What computer is that?

[@dosnostalgic]

Dell Optiplex GX1

[@roberthastings5442]

The guy on the cover looks like John Cena

[@МерзляковСтепан]

7:20 new nvidia rtx tech

[@WildBeret]

still graphics are not like intros in 90's

[@alexander_mejia]

1 thumbs down from the guy who doesn't have working syndicate disks.

[@JohnsonLobster]

This is not interesting, especially without any commentary.