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Space Invaders
Released in 1978 by Taito, Space Invaders is one of the first and most well-known of modern computer games. Its popularity increased by leaps and bounds in the following few years after its initial release, when the game spread from Japan to invade the USA (published, under the same name, in the US by Midway). Space Invaders' popularity only continued to rise as its addictive gameplay started to infect the rest of the computer-gaming world. Rumor has it that the arcade version was such a big hit in its native country, Japan, that it caused a coin shortage. This lead to an unprecedented first in arcade gaming's history - the country's coin supply had to be quadrupled! Space Invaders' gameplay is deceptively simple. Your mission: To defeat ever massing waves of alien invaders, by controlling a small spaceship at the bottom of the screen, heavily outnumbered and shielded by only a few, destructible bases. In each stage there are five rows of invaders. As they move back and forth across the screen, gradually descending upon you with each sweep - one step closer with every change of direction - they start to move faster and faster. After a certain number of the invaders are destroyed, the rest also begin to move with increasing speed. Apart from moving, they also fire projectiles from time to time to make your life harder. But you are not entirely defenseless... You can protect your ship by hiding under one of the protective shields, but these - as mentioned - are destructible and after a time they will perish. One bad thing about these shields is that the aliens aren't the only ones who can make a hole in them - your shots will also create a tunnel through your protective bases! So be warned that, even though it can be useful to burrow through your bases, from which to shoot (having afforded some protection from alien projectiles), it can also lead to an easy invasion for the invaders as, "all your bases are belong to us!" Each and every successive stage becomes a little harder. Your shields and bases do not get repaired and the speed at which the invaders descend gradually increases. Sometimes another invading space ship appears and flies across the top of the screen - this one is different, however: it disappears at the edge of the screen rather than bouncing back like the standard waves and, should you destroy it, it gives you extra points. It is not as easy to destroy as the regular ships - especially when a lot of other aliens are still alive and slowly making their way down the screen. You should remember that only one of your projectiles can be on the screen at any one time, so if your shot doesn't hit its target you will not be able to shoot again until it leaves the screen - as though the shot goes wide of its mark, instead firing off into distant space. There isn't much to say about the game's technical detail. In 1978, graphics and sound weren't as important as the gameplay (unlike a lot of the games today) and contemporary hardware was, as always, a major limiting factor. The game looks as it does and always has - basic, elegant, and minimal - and the only sounds you will hear are the gunshots and explosions, and an alert when the lone alien spaceship zips its way across the top of the screen. The graphics and sound remain true to the original arcade classic, which is great. Instead of the clunky PC speaker effects, that many versions of this essential part of any retro-gamer's collection retain, we have Adlib quality sound. The increasing rhythm of the invader's approach adds a lot of atmosphere to the game and, even if the sound-effects are very simple - without these sounds, the game just wouldn't be the same. Controls are unchangeable and are not what you'd traditionally expect in this type of game: Left CTRL = Move left Left ALT = Move right Right SHIFT = Fire! Esc = Quit
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Spiderman: Separation Anxiety
Requires 486DX-66 CPU, DOS, 8 MEG RAM, 15 MEG HD This is exactly like the SNES/SEGA versions, plays the same with the same graphics. This is in the line of Final Fight, a side scrolling beatem'up Only Thing missing from the CD is the animations..
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DOS / Multimedia / Not specified
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Stereoworld 3D imaging
3D imaging software, Stereograms and optical effects //The memory managers HIMEM and EMM386 need to be installed on your computer for STEREOWORLD to function correctly.
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Sysinfo Unknown
This is a very low level system information utility that I found on a computer years ago. It provides very detailed stats on the machine you're running and can even benchmark CPU and hard disk speeds and print reports. I'm not sure of it's origin, but it's a very handy tool to have with any old machine. It doesn't run in a virtual environment real well because it uses such low level calls.
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Windows 3.x / Utility / Not specified
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The Task Tool 2.3c
This is a Windows9x-like toolbar for windows 3.X. It was initially developed to improve the experience of CitrixWinFrame or Microsoft Terminal Server users. Shareware.
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DOS / Utility / Not specified
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Thinkpad 701 Battery Reset
Resets IBM Thinkpad 701 battery gauge if it is stuck on "full" but the battery is really "empty".
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DOS / Multimedia / Not specified
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Tran Speech Synthesizer
TRAN is a text-to-speech program for the IBM-PC. It can read ASCII text files, translate normal English spelling to phonemes, and sound out each phoneme through the speaker of the IBM-PC.
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Tutor de MS-DOS 3.21 Unknown
Tutor de MS-DOS 3.21. ¡¡A eso se les aparecía el famoso lema era: "EL PC (computador) ESTÁ JODIDO"!! al cargar el sistema (en el tutorial alli aparece).
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DOS / Other / Not specified
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Tutorial de WordStar 4 Unknown
Tutor de WordStar 4.0 de la mano de la oficial WordStar International, INC
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DOS / Utility / Not specified
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UltraCompressor II PRO 3 PRO
AIP-NL UltraCompressor II PRO Datacompressing archiver; optional GUI; powerful command line; up to 72% better compression; multi-volume UltraFAST self extracting archives; DOS executable compression; powerful version manager; OS/2 EA support; disk error recovery. UC2PRO.EXE is protected with USEAL.
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DOS / DBMS / Not specified
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Valkyrie 2.0 Full 2.0
It is a clipper summer'87 decompiler full version to regenrate source code form EXE files.
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DOS / Utility / Not specified
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Viejos Programas ??
Pack que incluye diversos programas para MS-DOS de los a?os noventas: Professional Write, Print Master, News Master, Funny Face 2, Banner Mania y PcGlobe
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Windows 3.x / Multimedia / Not specified
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Volume Mixer
Volume Mixer für Windows/WfW 3.1x. Benötigt eine 16bit Soundkarte sonst startet er nicht. Sieht genauso aus wie der Volume Mixer in Windows 95. Er wird in der Programmgruppe Zubehör abgelegt.
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