Just wanted to keep my two recent journals up front, to give you all a tiny helping of my "Nigel & Chanda" relevant writing, and to display up front for you all several links to ancient computer games of the PC's old "MS-DOS". :)

I seriously need to write more, but I'm so sleep deprived that I must lie down. I'm so addicted to my computer and the internet that it's dangerous to my health (being the lifelong connosuier of video games and their art, many old and newer TV shows and few movies, that I am, ever since 1982, when I was born.). I live in a new, comfortable home now, but I haven't just "let go" long enough to sleep blissfully. I need to, badly.

There's links to the individual DOS games in here if you're interested in perusing ancient computer games of the PC's old days.

 

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Nigel Wakes Up Chanda (Narration Snippet)

    He was still very young. Instead of supposing that any manipulative force were at work within his parts, he would merely squeak in disapproval, her desire to be awoken not dependent upon his own will.

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Just a snippet of narration. Nigel, still very young, earnestly tries to wake his enormous mother, yet upon the faintest of her conscious awareness of his efforts she resolves to directly, strictly inhibit his ability to move through the power of her far more potent telepathy - she paralyzes his body and, in being such a young kitty, he only has enough presence of mind to immediately acknowledge his own discomfort in a brief, expressive squeak. It's meant to be a cute little moment that yet holds nightmarish potential that just isn't tapped in to.

I have no idea what story it would take place in, for now. It just came to me in a brief wave of thought.

I may have never been prolific in providing viewers with what is in demand in this fandom, but I have always showered them with the offerings of prose and/or characterization born from my passion for creative writing. I've just been spending far too much time enjoying those works of those prolific artists that I've belittled my own.

Speaking of which, I seriously love this charr drawing. Warning: NSFW, and includes blood and scars (Direct link so you can still see it): https://www.weasyl.com/~tripletorch/submission/390549/tripletorch-scars-1384529.png The effect it has on me is that while finding it highly erotic I can only think "Please don't kill him..."

I guess I haven't posted much because I want an answer to a small question: "Do you care to see anything more from me? Would it please you if I shared more of my writings?" For some reason I just feel unwanted, like there are some kinds of "furry social norms" that I must amount to first for anyone to care much about me.....

 

Anyway, time to balance out this sleep deprivation with more brief rest...

 

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The DOS Memories Project, eXoDOS, and Windows 3.x games!

I'm speechless...

The brief info, and direct links to the collection/game files of these collections, can be found at these links:

 

The DOS Memories Project

The DOS Memories Project 1980-2003 | Individual game links

 

The EXO DOS Collection

Action games (v1.6) (June 2013) | Individual game links

Simulation Games (v1.6) (June 2013) | Individual game links

Role-Playing Games (v1.6) (June 2013) | Individual game links

Strategy Games (v1.6) (June 2013) | Individual game links

Adventure Games (v1.6) (June 2013) | Individual game links

 

A Misc DOS Collection

525 DOS Games From The 1980s | Individual game links

 

A DOS and Windows 3.x+ Collection

Oldies but Goldies - 1740+ Classic DOS & Windows games | Individual game links

 

Windows 3.x+ Game Collections

630 Windows 3.0 Games & More | Individual game links

530 More Windows 3.0 Games & Toys | Individual game links

 

The "whole collection" file links can be found near the bottoms of these pages where the filesizes for files are listed, but most of you might want to stick to downloading individual games from the list pages instead, because most of these collections are several gigabytes big; possibly a 3rd or 5th of your entire hard drive, if you don't have any removable storage media to store them on.

I recommend you read just a bit of the info about these collections on these linked pages. The assembler of the eXoDOS collections recommends that you delete the pd.txt files before running the setup batch files in the collections, because the pd.txt files prevent the installation of the DOSBox and Scummvm DOS emulators.

The "DOS Memories Project" collection may contain some games not found in the eXoDOS volumes.

Quick downloading

The "525 DOS Games From The 1980s" (132.8MB) DOS games collection, "630 Windows 3.0 Games & More" (133.1MB) Windows 3.x game collection, and the "530 More Windows 3.0 Games & Toys" (149.7MB) Windows 3.x game collection are the smallest files here if you chose to download the full collection files of them instead of downloading individual games. :)

 

I was surprised to find this collection through a bit of random Googling, but even more surprised to find that they were very easy to download. These games are from the PC's old days, Windows included, and are ready to play through not so very much required effort of your own.

Aside from (Link) this collection of 749 DOS games organized in the D-Fend Reloaded organizer and (Link) this collection of 3,000 DOS games (both hosted on The Pirate Bay), these are the most comprehensive collections of DOS games I have ever found before. The idea of being able to install several games into DOSBox and Scummvm (I don't know much about Scummvm) through a simple Setup batch file for easy access and maneuverability sounds like a great deal here, making these games far easier to play on modern operating systems.

I think it's safe to say that all, if not a good 97+% of these games are pure abandonware - no profit circling around them. There's a whole lot of varied content in these games, many of which I grew up with, and far more that I didn't grow up with.

I am very happy to have found these collections, and even happier to share them with you all. If you feel like perusing collections of "retro" games that were made for PCs as opposed to game consoles, have a look! :D

 

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I need for my body to shut down. Sleep deprivation can cause bad heart health. I am forever addicted to what occurs on this wonderful internet, but for now I must rest.

Part of the lack of sleep comes from personal convictions. But the more I see the rest of you guys freely express yourselves however you would so choose, the better I feel.

Sometimes, before I almost sleep genuinely, I think of a simple ceiling fan with turned off lights, and what was the "oblivion" of my mind back when I wasn't even 10 years old yet. Minimalism is peaceful. The less my mind is burdened with, the easier it is to sleep.

I still have so many WIPs to finish, some from back in 2010...

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It might seem confusing to some of you as to why I never get good sleep. It's because I remember too many things. To stay on the positive side of this.....

It's extremely hard to categorize myself under any one fandom, or as a heavy fan of any one thing. You may be familiar with my earnest appreciation of Sega Genesis paraphernalia. The Genesis was only one of several video game relevant things of gaming eras that I thouroughly experienced. Many people have seen the same gaming stuff that I have, yet not in as much abundance for any one thing.

I was born in 1982, and before I was self-aware I was surrounded by over 100 Commodore 64 games. And not only the most iconic, well-known ones. Read: My entire gaming life is highly diverse. I know of the popular icons and slightly less popular "cult favorite" icons, but even further, of gaming ventures hardly popular in any way - the "nooks and crannies" of gaming. It seemed that no subject was "too boring" to my father, or "too much". Even in being a heavily church-going Christian family, I remember C64 games of the much darker ventures of game design - games with "demons and devils" to speak of, or creepy or otherwise disturbing imagery (like a game with pitch black doorways that show stars of outer space, and will instantly develop a pair of white eyes with PUPILS that stare directly into your eyes for how it looks to look at the screen, and you have to walk through those doors anyway... ;3; ). There were cuter games as well, or, games that seemed to bear darker themes that yet included something quirky or adorable. There were games that tried to boast of varied styles and interpretations. And there were games that seemed to go out of their way to turn a simple gameplay concept into something highly disturbing, through animation and graphics, stories, and music. And there were also games that just made you feel very uneasy for the music they made, or so very suspicious of their themes or other music that you might become terrified upon understanding the nature of what was meant to be implied. And games that deeply frightened me, traumatizing me at that young, impressionable age, to the point where I shuddered at the thought of loading them up, even to the point of hiding around the corner of the room upon selecting them from floppy diskettes.

I remember the NES. We only ever owned 4 games, but played many other games through friends and distant family. The first time I played Super Mario Bros. 1 I saw it in black and white, on an old TV. We always rented games, sometimes too many at a time. I remember a few of them, but it seems I've forgotten others that I had no recollection of until I found certain NES videos on YouTube. But for the most part, I could have stood to play far more NES games, even though I remember many of the most popular ones (TMNT 1/2/3, Battletoads, Super Mario Bros. 1/2/3, Castlevania 1, Tetris, Dr. Mario, Fantasy Zone, Mega Man 1/2/3/4, and other obscure ones).

And the Sega Genesis. We only had 6 games yet we rented many. Rocket Knight Adventures. Sparkster. Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team, Bubsy 1/2, Shadow of the Beast 2, Golden Axe 2, Streets of Rage 1/2/3, Phantasy Star 2 & 4, Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole, Shining Force 2, The Lion King, Contra: Hard Corps, Aladdin, Primal Rage, Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, Sonic the Hedgehog 1/2/3/& Knuckles/3 & Knuckles/2 & Knuckles/Blue Sphere, Sonic Spinball, Sonic 3D Blast, Shinobi 3, Steel Empire, Vectorman, Vectorman 2, Comix Zone, Gods, X-perts, Eternal Champions, X-Men 1, X-Men 2: Clone Wars, Spider-Man vs The Kingpin, Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Spider-Man: Arcade's Revenge, Wolverine's Adamantium Rage, Toy Story, Home Alone, Ranger-X, Blaster Master 2, B.O.B., Earthworm Jim, Toejam & Earl, William Arcade's Greatest Hits, and many others I can't remember. Somehow, my memories with this system put it extremely high on my most loved game consoles list. Gotta love Yamaha 2612 sound. <3

I never grew up with a Super Nintendo. I only know about its greatness through emulation, ports, and hearsay. Wish I grew up with such a great game console. ;_;

 

The lists go on and on. Popular games of many gaming eras on many platforms, most of which I've played along with playing far less popular games.

 

And I have tons of these games on my computer now. Memories all around, which scares me to delve into because my gaming memories are far too broad and too expansive. I fear my own past, even though it was likable. I fear it because it was insanely vast where entertainment was concerned. Games, TV, and not so much movies or "popular" music, but them too, growing up with some of the most iconic movies (not so much in the cases of more mature movies due to strict parental regulation there, and not so very much of the greatest of "popular" old music so much as old music found only on PCs from Amiga games - me never knowing any "Amiga" existed - DOS games, and many other nerdy things).

My fondest memories are like a mountainously enormous monster, and not one necessarily pro-violence or even pro-pacifism. It's just a frighteningly huge, vastly unique "monster". I remember MOST of what people grew up with, which is hardly to say I remember all of it (oh no, never all of it). There is so much to reminisce about that to fully appreciate it all I must allow my entire psyche to be "swallowed whole". It can be deeply terrifying to me, how grand the entertainment-relevant parts of my childhood were. I was drowning in greatness, so when drudging up my memories I usually choose to only go so far for feeling deeply disturbed otherwise whenever trying to go into explicit detail of my memories. There is simply too much to look back on, and surely too much to fully appreciate.

 

Anyways, I must rest.

 

You are all wonderful, frightening, unique, terrifying, extraordinary, beautiful people, and I am eternally glad to have met you all, and befriended others amongst you. Were I true to how I feel about you I would be speechless - you are all truly amazing people, and I love you all. <333