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Anatoly Shashkin💾

@dosnostalgic.bsky.social

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MS-DOS gaming enthusiast, YouTuber, admirer of cats, RU in NY. Ask me about DOS games! Tell me your DOS game memories! I repost and swear a lot. (He/Him) YouTube: youtube.com/dosnostalgic Web: dosnostalgia.com Tip me: https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · Jan 7

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a close up of a person wearing a helmet .

ALT: a close up of a person wearing a helmet .

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 23h

Buccaneers and buried gold. Whipstaff doth a treasure hold.

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 1d

I only recently learned that Spear if Destiny has a boss key - F1. And that carried over to later versions of Wolf 3D as well, despite everywhere in it F1 still listed as help.

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 1d

I was gonna say "too new!," but it's a damn good shutdown sound. 🎵

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 1d

Good night.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 1d

My response to almost every other news story is "what could possibly go wrong?" like I'm goddamn Bubsy.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 2d

"Graphic media" 🤷

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 2d

Bluesky shadowbanned this post

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 2d

👆 This is what a lot of the "discourse" sounds like to me these days.

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 2d

What do Kandarian demons mean when they say "join us"? We don't actually know. Maybe they just want to hang out, have a few cold ones, watch a movie and whatnot. We just don't know.

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Reposted by Anatoly Shashkin💾

House of 1000 KaL's @kaly.blackskycomra.de · 3d

SET EQUATION TO MIND BLOWING

a photo of text from a MS-DOS game reading Equation Setting - Mind Blowing

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 2d

I think I'm yet to a raytraced mirror in a commercial game, and not a tech demo.

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 2d

In the old days? That's mostly how reflections still work.

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 2d

The scariest dude in One Battle After Another was the army guy, Sean Penn's 2nd in command. Because he was one of the characters that wasn't a caricature, and his interrogations felt *real*. Well, turns out he's just a real military guy they hired.

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 5d

Lol. Had a great time watching this. 😂 Didn't feel like 2 and a half hours at all.

"One Battle After Another" (2025) poster

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 2d

Good night.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 2d

One "downgrade" in the remaster of System Shock 2 is the textures in the Body of the Many. They are now painted instead of being digitized from someone's colonoscopy footage.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 3d

ScummVM announced testing of support of "Tex Murphy 2: Martian Memorandum"
scummvm.org/news/20251005/

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 3d

It's Schrodinger's Duke. He exists only when you look at him.

hot dogs are charcuterie sandwiches @riothobbit.bsky.social · 3d

Something Ive wondered: does that dude perform -all- the same actions you do during the level and you can only see him in one spot? Like, Duke2 is running and gunning like a hamster in a ball until he sees FreeDuke run past for a half second?

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 3d

Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the engine trickiest of them all?
#DOSGaming

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 3d

Btw, it's another contender for an early WASD-like FPS controls, as they are very Ultima Underworld inspired:
It's SZXC. S and X and for walking forwards and backwards, Z and C properly strafe, and A and D are used for turning. W is for running. The real question is would this be considered an FPS.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 3d

You can watch @macaw45.bsky.social play through the entirety of the 3 (!) levels the dreadful "Bram Stoker's Dracula" for DOS (1993) offers over the course of 7 hours:

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 3d

Nope, no battery. It's a wired mouse.

Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 3d

Well, now that it figured out I'm onto it, it stopped. 👀

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 3d

You can hear this, right?

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