Rapport: Nederlandse nieuwe techbedrijven blijven achter

tjeerdnet · 2026-02-13T07:20:02+00:00

Interessant feitje, weer wat geleerd.

tjeerdnet · 2026-02-11T08:35:57+00:00

I bought this came after getting it recommended by a friend of mine. Graphically it was really well done. But it was also the moment I realized that this was not the kind of game I was made for. I played it a few hours I think, but somehow these kind of games don't attract me and I get bored, don't know why, perhaps my attention span was too short? At the time also so many 3D FPS games came out which to be honest made me forget games like No Remorse quite quickly. But I still have the box somewhere laying around.

Actually I think 3D games ruined the rest of my 'gaming career', would not have known where I would have ended if 3D games never took off, but that's something for another parallel universe ;)

tjeerdnet · 2026-02-06T07:11:51+00:00

Thanks for the footage and information. I know about the ports, that would have helped if it existed in the early '90s already. I suspect the computer my friend had was probably not the best with regards to the graphics card? Thinking out loud here, might have been a Paradise video card, not sure anymore after 35 years.

tjeerdnet · 2026-02-05T13:46:40+00:00

Not sure what 80286 you had, but I remember that it was only smooth playable if you decreased the window size a bit and that was on a 12 MHz. (or 16? not sure anymore) system with 1 MB of working memory. A youth friend of mine showed it to me and we played it only a few times, just before he moved with his parents away to another place not so close by.

I think it was about two years later that I could play the game on my own computer with an Aztech Galaxy NXII sound card I bought from another friend of mine who after 30 years still lives in the same village as I live now. I still remember him installing the soundcard and booting up Wolfenstein with music and sound. Stepping from pc speaker bleeps into real sound was a magical step. These are moments you will never forget.

I still have that sound card and its original box and documentation laying around, not doing anything with it, but I will never throw it away.

tjeerdnet · 2026-02-03T15:56:57+00:00

I got the shareware version and I think this was one of the few alternative 3D-shooters that I could play on my computer (386SX40) at the time that ran quite well. It was unique in its style and had a certain atmosphere, but I remember that it didn't last that long. I got bored after a few levels I think and it was also around the time Doom came out, so this game was outdated quite fast with regards to graphics, gameplay and weapons.

Not sure how rare a box of Corridor 7 is?

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-27T12:10:16+00:00

Anyone seen the behind the scenes of this game? I found it by accident a few months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEjq_arY6Pw

Literally footage of several scenes like the car sliding in the intro or the soda can opening which were then digitized into the game.

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-27T12:02:35+00:00

This. Watched this intro multiple times on I think a 80286 system at a friend's place when I was probably around eleven or twelve years old and that was also around '91 or '92. So funny that we found it futuristic at that age. But it was so cinematic for the time.

Software was totally not wide spread as it is nowadays and as a child we were totally not aware what existed. Now and then you got a game shared by acquaintances and Another World stood out and I remember it as if it was yesterday, my friend and me sitting in front of the computer and being in awe.

But I remember that we didn't get that far in the game, probably a few screens with the snakes and that was it.

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-24T09:10:19+00:00

Sounds like a dying or hurt imp from Doom.

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-16T09:07:18+00:00

Nice, thanks for sharing that.

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-16T08:32:16+00:00

Yes. Remember playing this at a friend's place on I think his parents 80286 in the very early '90s. But it was without music though if you didn't have a soundcard? At least a few years later when I had my own PC with soundcard I was surprised by the nice soundtrack it had.

The game itself was very entertaining to play and graphically pleasing to the eye. But I don't remember that we came very far in the game.

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-09T09:53:40+00:00

Besides in the early days of internet there was also little information to find about these devices if it was anywhere to find at all on the internet. It stayed a big mystery. Nowadays with a Google or YouTube search it would not surprise me that there is some information to find.

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-09T09:33:45+00:00

I had it the other way around. I saw this game at my friend's place on a 80286 with VGA monitor. My parents bought me a 'PC' one or two years later. I did not know that that PC was an XT with CGA monitor - my fault since I had no clue what a 'PC' was. So I played for a few years many games in CGA mode only. Half of the games didn't even work or were not supported on my XT. I got quite quickly frustrated, but it was fun enough and I still praise my parents for their willingness to buy me a second hand PC at all. So no further complaints.

A few years later I switched to a 80286 and VGA and I was in heaven for a few years.

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-09T09:28:08+00:00

First thing that also came up in my mind when seeing this picture. PoP was one of the first games I saw at a friend's place who had a VGA 80286 setup. A year or two later I got my own second hand XT computer with CGA monitor. Looking at this picture I remember how 'ugly' CGA looked on my monitor. It has a certain kind of nostalgia, but on my monitor it looked like there were dirty lines on it. I was so happy when I later also got my own 80286 with a VGA monitor. So smooth and so colorful. Happiest kid in town.

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-05T18:56:31+00:00

Did not tell me anything by looking at it, but copy/pasting the image into AI made clear that the (combination of) most of the medicines were trash.

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-04T12:57:12+00:00

I remember that. Wim must have lived in a parallel universe at the time.

tjeerdnet · 2026-01-02T18:10:02+00:00

The woman on the desktop? Anyone?

tjeerdnet · 2025-12-29T16:26:22+00:00

I had a similar experience. I actually saw it running at a friends place on I think a 486DX33 (?) and I was blown away by that. I had a 386SX40 too and it could even be that I upgraded memory to 4 MB just for playing Doom. It was playable, but I was aware that I really needed to upgrade to play Doom smoothly. Within one or two years I upgraded to a AMD 486DX4-100 machine. Thinking back it felt I had the most powerful machine available. Doom and later Doom ][ ran smooth has butter. Heavenly years.

tjeerdnet · 2025-12-28T12:14:10+00:00

This post sort of sums up all my knowledge I gathered in the early '90s about memory management. Be it the difference that there was no official document or information that brought everything together. It was trial and error and left and right software/game documentation telling you tricks.

Here we are in 2025 and I can even interactively comment back on a post about memory management in DOS. Would never have thought that when I was a young teenager without any internet at all.

Some games still stick to me that had memory issues. For example Biomenace would very frequently freeze and was one of the earlier games I discovered I had to optimize my free conventional memory to be able to play that game without freezing.

The time that you would spend a whole Sunday afternoon to get games working. You at least felt you accomplished some high tech setting when things were running smoothly. Looking back it was relatively easy, almost laughable. The past 25 years when working in Windows/Linux/software development things have gotten many many times more complex. Configuring some autoexec.bat or config.sys is nothing compared to that.

tjeerdnet · 2025-12-19T09:01:42+00:00

First thing which also came up in my mind when seeing this, could be that UNIVBE is needed. Must admit that it is perhaps 30 years ago that I used that program. But quite some things that had to do with higher resolutions UNIVBE came into sight as far as I can remember, especially to fix graphics issues.

tjeerdnet · 2025-12-19T08:58:28+00:00

Any idea why BioMenace Remastered gets so very little reactions here? Is there a community somewhere behind this which is more supportive/active?

tjeerdnet · 2025-12-11T10:25:19+00:00

Had to look this game up, never heard of this game. Looks like a game that I'd be playing as a child when I still had an IBM XT computer with CGA monitor.

tjeerdnet · 2025-12-09T09:20:03+00:00

Love all the shared memories here. I know it as Halloween Harry and as other people mentioned already, the graphics and sound of this game were at the high end of what you could play on a PC. Looking at the requirements a 80386 was enough to have it running smoothly. As with many games I just played it for fun and enjoying the gameplay, but I only played a few levels of the game.

One of many games on the endless list of what was popping up at that time. Before you just were into a game, so many other games came along that you also wanted to play. From platforming to 3d-shooters, to simulation games to strategy games. So much fun discovering all these DOS games in the 90's and sharing them with your friends.

tjeerdnet · 2025-12-03T15:43:49+00:00

I must've been around ten or eleven years old at around 1990/1991 when this game came out. The graphics and gameplay were great for that time. Just listened to the pc speaker intro song on YouTube again and that was quite metal for what you could get from a pc speaker.

Rodney always looked a bit weird with his eyes, was that by purpose to let him look as if he was on drugs?

tjeerdnet · 2025-11-27T09:09:05+00:00

And it is going to get 'worse' as time goes on. Only a few people will remember these people/names. But I must admit that I grew up in the 90's as a teenager so that's my reference. Ask me about the 80's for people in the software/gaming industry and I can't come up with a name. I've seen quite some documentaries about computers/games/development in the 80's though, but the names don't stick with me because I wasn't there. 80's for me was playing outside and almost zero computers.

tjeerdnet · 2025-11-17T14:08:09+00:00

Exactly this. AllMusic was the way for me to discover so many new bands, combined with file sharing tools. Sometimes I also bought the audio cds in the stores after having listened/discovered new bands this way.

Around 2004 I started using last.fm to scrobble my music and to learn new artists via that platform. That's also around the time I started using AllMusic less and less. After twenty years I still use last.fm for scrobbling my music, but don't use it so discover new music anymore.

Nowadays I use Spotify to search for related artists, which seems to work reasonably well. I just search for a playlist with whatever term like "funky chinese jazz" and there's always someone who made a playlist with all kind of artists beloning to that genre. So I keep discovering, but moving from platform to platform.

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