Great DOS games for cabinet!

[RetroBorg]

I have just installed a computer into a cabinet and I have it running just on DOS and have MAME running nicely on it, but I was wondering what other DOS games out there did forum users love on DOS that I can put in my cabinet.  

[SirPoonga]

Man, lots to list

Doom
Commander Keen
Scorched Earth

[stuzza]

I used to love Jazz Jack Rabbit (http://www.jazzjackrabbit.com/background.htm), which was a super mario/sonic platform sorta game where you control a crazy little rabbit with a gun.  You can still download the shareware version from the jazz jack rabbit website  

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[Zapper]

Try Wacky Wheels and Duke Nukem II, both from 3D Realms

[grafixmonkey]

Ultima Underworld 1 and 2 were both severely awesome RPGs.  I believe you could play those with a cab.  I dunno, it might require a trackball or mouse, but if I remember they had keyboard keys for lots of things.

Gothic is fun to play on my cab.  I don't know if it's dos or not...  I'm running it in windows.

I remember a "Jill of the Jungle" from the dos days too.  A NES or SNES emulator would be cool.  I remember there being lots and lots of fun side scrollers for dos, but I have no idea where you'd find that software nowadays.  

BTW if you want to try Ultima Underworld, you should, *ahem* um, talk to me privately (*gestures to inside of trenchcoat*).   I would love to see if it works properly under DOS.  I haven't been able to get the player to move correctly in either game since PCs topped the 300 MHz mark.  I'm wondering if the speed of the CPU causes a problem with the game, and I don't have any systems that can have dos installed on them.  My theory is that the game is internally running at such a high frame rate that it causes a problem with the player's velocity or position variables and the floating point precision of the code.  He only seems to move in cardinal directions now, when I know the movement was fine back when I ran it on a 486.

[Spaced Invader]

Take a look at this site...

http://www.the-underdogs.org/

There are literally hundreds of old dos (and old windows) games available for download. All have full reviews and screenshots.

[menace]

I love that site--I used to play the privateer series of games as well as the game syndicate--that was my first uber-violence game and i LOVED it!!  Hosing down some pedestrians with a chain gun is the best--never could get it to work outside of a dos environement though--I'm buying an old P100 laptop to play exclusive dos games since they are farely cheap now and don't take the space a desktop would.

Another very addicting dod game (ported to pc now) was starcon II--if the melee feature worked on a mame cab that would be very cool--head to head spaceship fighting.

of course x-wing/tie fighter were fun and the wing commanders were ok.

Sorry to drone, just happen to love dos games...

[Spaced Invader]

I love the old DOS stuff too.and I also got an old laptop for "work" (night shift at a mental hospital). My patients sleep all night every night...the state pays me to stay awake...and play old DOS games!  

[Buddabing]

I have just installed a computer into a cabinet and I have it running just on DOS and have MAME running nicely on it, but I was wondering what other DOS games out there did forum users love on DOS that I can put in my cabinet.  

Lemmings!

[Aceldamor]

Doom Series...since you didn't have to look up or down, very easy to play on a cab..you can also add the other old ID games, like Heretic, mabye hexen. For that matter, you can get the Aliens TC conversion for doom and make doom like the Aliens movie....good stuff.    Man...that brings back memories..

Lemmings is in mame already, though the sequals aren't.

If you looking at strat/turn based games nothing beats the X-Com Series and Master of Magic. (though a trackball/mouse is necessary)  All of which is abondonware I might add so you can pretty much get them
 for free.....

I've been reading some forums and sites about getting some of theese old dos games to play in XP..but lots of config work needed with only slight chance of success..

[menace]

I had forgot lemmings--anyone know where you can get the full version?--I assume the company that made it is long gone...did anyone license it?

[Aceldamor]

Lemmings is kind of abondonware..you can usually grab it on any site like underdogs, though some of the sequals still are produced for the 5 dollar racks in software shops....

But again...Lemmings is in Mame already

[menace]

Yeah checked there--I'm looking for lemmings for DOS specifically. I'll have to do some digging for this one I think.

[RetroBorg]

Thanks guys for the help, that site:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/

turned out to be a great resource for games,
so far have downloaded the following games:

Jazz Jack Rabbit (this one looks good)
Superkarts (had this one on my 486 years ago)
Epic Pinball (also used to play this on my 486)
Chaos Engine (loved this game on snes)

working on downloading other suggestions as we speak.

[teef two]

Cannon Fodder and Cannon Fodder II

[menace]

found another site--www.abondonia.com  has some good titles as well as links to other sites--very nice.

[Spaced Invader]

http://www.abandonia.com/ with an a.  

Nice site.

[menace]

doh!  I always make the same spelling mistakes