In this video we will install FreeDOS 1.3 under DOSBox-Staging. You can try using DOSBox or DOSBox-X but I can't guarantee it will work in either. I plan to make a separate video later on. If you have any questions please post on the forums or down below in the comments section.

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Installing FreeDOS 1.3 under DosBox-Staging

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Hi Everyone!

Let's get this forum on the road. I'm preparing for an early 2022 launch of my game, Ebony Spire: Quest. It's going to be published by Phoenix Ware with a Shareware version of the game handled by yours truly. From the looks of it, I have about 2-ish months to garner attention to the game and prepare for the upcoming launch. 

My goal with making the game was to emulate game development for the Macintosh in the late 80;s, early 90's. The entire development has been done on actual hardware (An SE/30 and moved to an 040 equipped Color Classic 2 and back to a now 040 upgraded SE/30) with both the manual and some art being designed on the device. Art from my artist was imported via an Apple Share drive and edited and prepared using Photoshop 3. 

So for the launch, I'll follow what devs back in the early days of the internet and early 90's did:

• Setup an old school HTTP and HTTPS websites with an oldschool look and accessible from vintage computers. The website will host screenshots of the game, a link to the store where it can be purchased and links to FTP and HTTP sites that host the shareware download + connection info for BBS'es.
  
• Do a trailer of the game and make it available on BBS'es and public FTP servers. of course, it will also be mirrored on youtube. I plan to get the trailer uploaded to cornica as well.
  
• Design late 80 Mac World style full page ads on the game and seed them around, maybe even talk with some vintage online magazines to see if they want to host one of these ads
  

Introduce yourself here! Tell everyone a bit about yourself and so on. I will naturally start

So I am The Retro Dev and I have a rather large passion for older machines. Tons of reasons for this to many to list here. Aside from retro machines I enjoy cigars, bourbon and programming.

Below is a selection of useful resources I've been bookmarking that may be of some use to you. I'll update this as I go. Feel free to submit your own contributions.

Bombjack
Very useful site FULL of old books, cd material. Really a very useful site archiving books out of print longer than I've been alive. Everything from the Commodore VIC-20, ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS, Turbo Pascal.. If it's old and retro this site probably has it!

WinWorld
Nice collection old abandonware software. A lot is for DOS but they have plenty of other software for other computers as well.

DOS Haven
Great site for DOS lovers. Full of libraries, tools, software and games.

PCjs Machines
Has web emulators and books related to DOS.

We have a forum category here called Vintage Devs this forum exists in order to provide vintage dev makers a forum for support, sharing their demo's/shareware, having a forum for support etc. Best of all you are already in a community of people very likely to be interested in your game. I have no plans at this time to provide selling of software/games. Only hosting shareware and freeware. As well as providing your very own forum.

Things I will provide:

• Hosting of your shareware/freeware software.
  
• Your own forum page where you are the moderator and have control over it.
  
• Page dedicated to you on the main site customized to your liking.
  

• Handling selling of your software.
  
• Publishing of your software.
  

First off as this forum is named this area is only for giving feedback on things related to The Retro Dev site, forum, BBS or other things connected to it. So please don't post anything else here. I will update this page here as needed. Definitely once the forum and site are "done". I'll need to tweak this a smidge.

Website:
The website is definitely still very much a WIP. I have quite a lot of content done but not uploaded. For example I completely redid the main page and added all of the social stuff. I'll launch that tomorrow but probably with everything but the forum link disabled. However if you find any typo's, other error's or have suggestions please post them. I need your feedback in order to make this the best resource for retro development / gaming.

Forum:
The forum is mostly done theme wise. There is still a few things to fix like the fact this blasted editor is still white even though I have modified all of the files properly .. No idea why it does but eurgh it does. Anyhow feel free to offer up suggestions and post and let me know if you find any area's that are broken. I may not know of them so don't be shy. The other thing is if you have a forum category area for a retro machine or whatever really. Post it with the title CATEGORY SUGGESTION. Doesn't have to be bold though .

Retro Machine in the profile field. If you have a machine that you would like added. Please respond here or make a new post and I will add it straight away and respond when it's been added.

BBS:
Not launched yet will update when it is

Please try to follow the rules here for the forum.

#Be a respectable human being
#Respect others opinions and debate them in a healthy manner
#No trolling, flaming or being a nuisance
#No threatening of violence of any kind for any reason
#No posting or linking to anything sexual
#Try to keep the political anger to a minimum. We are all here for technology not for our political views

#TL;DR - Be a decent person and you'll be fine

$The Retro Dev