What the Hell is on my Disk?! #8 Games, BASIC & Wavs | Nostalgia Nerd

MYSTERY! We all love mystery, and for me, there's no better mystery than a dusty old floppy... who knows what could lurk within!? I mean, there was a time when 3.5" floppy disks were all the rage. It's a time I still pine for, on a daily basis. So much so that I frequently find my old MS-DOS floppy disks (from some 20 years ago) and find out if any of them work, whilst exploring exactly what can be found lurking in the dark recesses of this magnetic media. This is recorded on the fly and I genuinely don't know what we're going to find on these disks before delving in, other than what the vague labels suggest. Yes!... welcome to another mystery floppy disk (number 8 in the series as it happens) from my shoebox of oddity software, strange files and inexplicable games. I swear I don't know why I even backed half of this stuff up. Still, it's interesting to unearth 20 year old software and find out exactly what the hell it is, and why it even exists. Think of this as a blind bag, where the floppy disk is the bag, and the sweaty hand that creeps into the bag is MS-DOS, guided by my, errm, hands.
If you love Microsoft DOS, Microsoft Windows or if you're just looking for Strange DOS Games, general DOS destruction, Windows crashes, Weird Windows Software, Half broken BASIC games or inexplicable media files, then this is the place for you.
SPOILERS (not exhaustive);
Some DOS Mini Golf game
A 3D style DOS Tennis Game (with a video at the start)
An old QBASIC adventure game I madedddddd
A FLI animation file for DOS (Wooooowwww)
Some X Files WAV files
Some Star Trek TNG WAV files
Windows 3.11 Crashing
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[@duncanrathband5492]

04:35 that bit with your cat absolutely cracks me up! LOLZ

[@EA_Hendrix]

so when are you releasing that qbasic game?

[@ExcitingOnion]

You misspelled when talking to block of ice. That's why it didn't work. Now we'll never know what the ice thinks!!

[@Sam-lr9oi]

"Star Treck" lmao I just opened this and I love it already. I fall asleep to TNG almost every night these days, so I absolutely love the .wav of the intro.

[@satan2k]

1:00 The tune in the background is so "LGR-esque" :-)

[@Draugo]

Oh god, I had completely forgotten about those Sound Blaster programs and now I remember them so vividly.

[@waltherstolzing9719]

I wish I had kept my boxes of 5.25 (C64) and 3.5 (DOS) floppies. I haven't kept a single one... I gave away my 1541-II anyway; and haven't had a 'pc' floppy drive in 20 years. I've heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.

[@backofficeshow]

BTCMP, that old classic!

[@nrdesign1991]

It may be too late, but you can exit a QBasic program by pressing ctrl+pause

[@Kippykip]

Yeah Control+break/pause quits out

[@electronash]

So weird how a lot of us used the same sounds back then. I think everyone was watching the X-Files in the 90s, and I had my Windows start sound set to the theme as well. :p Funny seeing Win 3.11 again too, and realising that it's really not that different from what we're using these days, it's just that you can do more fancy stuff, and obviously the GPUs are World's apart now. I recall many times having to mess around with installing Quicktime, Video For Windows, and the (even more) horrific RealPlayer just to watch some grainy vids on a magazine CD. The bloopers clip from Wing Commander III was always a fav.

[@moxgirl5]

I laughed so hard at the YOU DON'T HAVE A SCROLL bit in that game xD

[@chatboxguy3363]

Back in the day, companies sold DEMO versions of a game. It would LAST for a certain amount, and then it would be over. Usually they SOLD it to make a profit. But it saved you from BUYING the full version. But then PC magazines and such would sign a contract to distribute. People would sign up for the service, and the software would come in the mail. It was a way to convince people to buy software. So, with there leaflet magazine they would relieve DISC's with 2 or 3 different DEMO games on it. This was originally how people recieved demos before the internet where as now you just download. One of the ways we saved money we spent on Internet.

[@TheOneTrueMaNicXs]

I have to say that Tennis champions 1991 looked awesome.

[@Mviews-hb4ib]

This is what im needing to do but my A1200 smokes when it turns on ! i have a pillow case full of disks in the loft and id say 80-90% are all stuff i have made with DPaint, Lightwave 3D, imagine, Blitz basic and Amos (wont go into Scarla etc!) .. Id love to read them on a pc

[@KK4CNM]

"Windows NT hard as a rock dumb as a brick" I love it! lol

[@cubeflinger]

Is dickhead the name of your cat?

[@tookitogo]

While skimming through KZbin in bed, with my glasses off, laying down sideways with one eye shut, I thought the thumbnail said “what the hell is on my... Richard” 😂

[@invghost]

Oh god.. that tennis game.. I'm pretty sure I just ran away from the court in it..

[@chatboxguy3363]

DOS has a TIME program written in it to measure the time on your CMOS. You just type TIME. And for the DATE type DATE. To change them you just add the prefix set before time/date.

[@killdeer]

I wish I had my own disks from this time. There was a bunch of drawings I remember backing up on floppy in 96-97 but then in 2002 I sold the entire lot with my old PC so I could get a new computer

[@LanIost]

I _LOVE_ your channel and literally only have one complaint. It's what you do @11:18. I can't tell you how many times I've seen you do a "what does this do?" and then go through it so fast you might as well have not hit it. It's especially maddening here because those options there have to be the most interesting ones. You've got some sort of weather option, a stadium option (which you specifically mentioned as missing), a .. referree (is that what you call them in tennis?), and either gender or .. girth? =)

[@chatboxguy3363]

I've seen these kinds of Script games. I used made a couple of them I liked placing options that would have sudden humerus negative results. A Ten foot MASTERDON is in your path, What do you do? USE THE TENNIS RACKET TO HIT HIM, USE A RIFLE TO SHOOT HIM, RUN AWAY, OR DIG A HOLE TO TRY TO TUNNEL AWAY. I would make it so the rifle misses, and then make it regergitate "The Mastedon or this particular one once lost a tennis match badly, and is afraid of the racket and runs away unhappily. LOL

[@tomrow32]

Nostalgia Nerd is Illuminati confirmed

[@DrewberTravels]

I love the way you underlined Games... fancy

[@Sparkette]

You should post the stuff from the disks, like that qbasic game

[@SteveNorwalt]

At first, I misread it to say "Forehead Flat," and I thought, "well duh." 😆

[@insleys]

My God! I remember that CLOCK.FLI file! I also remember making some really shit FLI files, but no idea how.

[@itzspencerr1403]

At least floppy disks weren't as annoying as cassette tapes. Tbh I wasn't born in the early 80s or the 90s, but I have heard how temperamental those tapes were.

[@Nostalgianerd]

The heads. The heads were always an issue. Especially if you were using *ahem* copied software, burnt using your Sanyo high speed dubbing all-in-one Hi-Fi

[@MichaelSartore]

funny at the end about the remote... BUT.. i think that onscreen remote graphics were to actually PROGRAM a USB or "SERIAL" ... external PHYSICAL remote ...

[@kamrongrant]

omg i used to play that tennis game and loved it!! awesome man.

[@andrewlittleboy8532]

Could be a faulty drive, I have many original Amiga and Acorn Archamedies disc and they work fine?

[@Inaflap]

QBASIC was fun. Well it was when I tried it yesterday. I put FreeDOS v1.2 on a USB flash stick thingy, and the M$ BASIC interpreter runs on that okay. Now I can boot from the stick thingy, and write crappy adventure games too.

[@LanIost]

@22:11, pretty sure you could always hit F3 to get the last line, right?

[@thomashobbs7066]

Can you do a ms-dos tutorial, i own a win 3.1 laptop and do a lot of dos stuff on that but dont know how to use the whole thing

[@Nostalgianerd]

PLAN.

[@thomashobbs7066]

+Nostalgia Nerd ?

[@ZipplyZane]

Are you putting at least the shareware/freeware stuff online? It would be really nice, giving back to the retropc community. I'd love to try some of this stuff.

[@ZipplyZane]

I mean, I want this Tennis game.

[@DEMENTO01]

I NEED THAT GAME YOU MADE IN BASIC

[@makkusaiko]

Is there any way we can get that adventure game somehow

[@TGApuleius]

As he wistfully whispers "... Picard?"

[@treahblade]

Hey Nostalgia where did you find your copy of windows 3.11?

[@peterhammes8321]

www.kirsle.net/msdos

[@Zizzily]

FLIC files were animation files from Autodesk. FLI was Autodesk Animator and FLC was Autodesk Animator Pro, if I remember correctly. Also, what was SUPERDRV.EXE? I guess we'll NEVER KNOW! MYSTERY!

[@jmm1233]

windows sounds , now all ringtones

[@_rmaze_quiambao5215]

wonder if Fry's still carries these...

[@RealRedRabbit]

That text adventure was made on my tenth birthday.

[@1960ARC]

The x files theme used to be my ring tone for unknown numbers

[@Spudcore]

Get behind the line! Argh! That's a pretty mad tennis game. Like where the hell is the court? The Holodeck maybe?

[@sanderkonings9057]

F3, as one will remember, will bring the last command back to the prompt ;-)

[@LanIost]

Also @19:36 did you intentionally hover over "finish" while looking for a subroutine for "ending?" Because...

[@BryonLape]

The first disk as Borland graphics files. Why would one think that a Windows program?

[@SlavTiger]

petition to make him release the game he made

[@denniswoycheshen]

I for sure had that second disk at some point...

[@Mattfromthepast]

I still like this game better than Mass Effect Andromeda.

[@MrGencyExit64]

Maybe the disks are so fragile because you keep re-purposing them from mailer/magazine inserts? :P I don't think those perfume / cologne scratch n' sniff things are very durable either.

[@MultiVince95]

Great video

[@MEATLOAFr]

"god damn you DOS"... said by every programmer

[@nerdyCmpUtrfrk]

Will you ever show us hitchhiker?

[@PeachyPixel28]

"Smug Twat" xD

[@SwitchingPower]

You are at the dos prompt and want to know the date, just type date and you know ;)

[@Nostalgianerd]

AHAHA. School Boy Error! XD Man, I'm out of touch

[@jamiemarchant]

Nice background.

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

I have mostly old bmp porn pics, shareware games and wav-files on my old discs.

[@LiEnby]

*x files music plays***glitches out**WINDOWS 3.1 UPGRADED TO WINDOWS 7*x files music keeps playing?*

[@simbone]

Please post the source code for your QBasic game. I'm sure many people here would like to give it a try :)

[@TheCyndicate.]

*HAHAHA!! How you must have felt having to listen to that Star Trek Intro here!!! Thats why you cut it off! HAHAHA!!*

[@xxnoxx-xp5bl]

I killed a Windows computer like that! Except I was playing with a horror theme and it would boot with "It's alive! It's alive! It ALALALALALALALALAL..." Then crash. Good times.

[@CartoonsKick]

Your Dos adventure game - The Stanley Parable 1996? :)

[@Nostalgianerd]

XD I hadn't thought about that. But pretty much!

[@Nostalgianerd]

And still it lies unfinished. I might publish it on my site actually.

[@jedits1988]

Fragile? I have a 25 year old set of Dysan DD disks reformatted (read: drilled out and force-1.44 formatted in 1993) with Windows 3.0 on them and I just installed it on a 386SX this summer. Maybe I live in a place that shields from magnetic fields or is something lead-lined? Either way, my diagnostics diskette from April 96 that has been in over 500+ floppy drives still works! Before I put anything into my retro rigs though I put them through hoops in my XP machine with an up-to-date FPROT - I've screened out an ANTIEXE, NYB, and another virus that evades me. Scan your disks mate!

[@VintageTechFan]

I think that (and this opinion is shared be quite a few other retro computer peope) floppy disks AND drives got dramatically down in quality after ~2000, when they weren't in common (commercial) usage anymore. My last drive misaligned after a few disks (could read only what it has written itself, and even that only for a short time) and the last box of disks was 6/10 DOA. Old disks from the 80ies? As long as they were stored SOMEWHAT reasonable, they just work. Drives from back then? Some lube, maybe a new belt, they work fine. The DID cost a few hundred bucks back then, at that shows in build quality.

[@izzieb]

Have you ever found something dubious in your disk collection?

[@Nostalgianerd]

You'll all be the first to know if I do! XD (well, after me of course)

[@izzieb]

+Nostalgia Nerd i.imgur.com/wH0RO.gif First thing that came to mind.

[@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii]

I remember a friend showed me an obscure erotic program it was called 'mandy' something, much worse but still better than the leisure suit Larry games. It was more like a polished QuickBasic demo, it had quirky animations like rockets taking off and steam engine pumping along with crudely drawn pixelated cartoon women.

[@OnlyEpicEmber]

What happened to this series?

[@wesmatron]

Anyone else awaiting discovery of ForgottenPr0n.bmp ?

[@maximal9857]

Wot?

[@Firefoxfifty]

Good attempt for the time but Virtua Tennis it ain't!!

[@Nostalgianerd]

Ahhhh, Virtua Tennis, my first true love (on the Dreamcast)

[@Daniel15au]

You didn't try superdrv.exe :(

[@hakemon]

Wow, I am really here first, just posted a minute ago. I'm at work, and don't care, I'll watch this anyway now. :P

[@PayneMaximus]

Dude, I was soooo into making games with qbasic! I reverse-engineered a game called Gorillas, ever heard of it?

[@KarpowSCX]

Don't you have any mysterious Amiga disks? :)

[@Nostalgianerd]

Yes, but they're not my originals. I DO have my original Atari ST disks however. Which I'll get round to...

[@white_mage]

hey i liked that game of yours lol would you share it?

[@Knipser69]

lets play: Tennis 1996...rofl :D

[@MrSatan-it5ww]

sorry mate we out of ballboys today....💾💻

[@jessieeyy908]

YES X FILES !!!!

[@TheToyBoy1978]

Star treck lol

[@hoangtran4736]

There IS IS IS IS IS IS IS IS IS IS TWO OPTIONS

[@MarkTheMorose]

Hopefully, 20 years has seen your spelling improve vastly!

[@CyrusHusky04]

June 9 is my birthday

[@marybergquist8017]

Holy porno music batman!

[@numbers9to0]

Temis.exe ningolg.exe

[@killdeer]

*cursor selected the sub routine 'finish'* "Now if only we cound find the end?" *scrolls around through many options, comes back to 'finish'* "Explore the city???" WHAT?