Bonjour de Belgique !
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Hello. My name is JF, or Jeff, and my online nickname is Loomattic90.
This is a reference to the video game masterpiece of fantasy storytelling from Lucasfilm’s Brian Moriarty (^^) (the first game I ever finished)
I am living happily in the French-speaking part of Belgium and I’m a fan of rock / metal concerts and festivals, as well as nature walks with my 6 year old dog Benji.
For a few years, I am a nostalgic of my old Siemens PC XT 8086 3 1/2 DD disk with CGA colours… and MS-DOS games in general !!!
As kid i had the chance to get access to PC gaming and its endless library of games at a low cost :
first on XT 8086 (Monkey Island, Double Dragon), then AT 386 (Civilization & Lotus 3), 486 (Doom 2 and Theme Park),
Pentium (Tomb Raider, Xwing vs Tie Figher), and finally laptop for the LAN party (Diablo 2, Half-Life and its mods), and Pentium 3 with launchers (Half-Life 2, Warcraft 3).
For 20 years I am a big fan of abandonware-france website and i spend a lot of time going through their database to revive the good memories.
Recently I was looking the internet for the latest twitch, youtube and podcast resources covering MS-DOS games to expand my retro pc universe
and I found out your very enthusiastic community with the same roots as me : somewhere between Netherlands and Germany (^^)
Since then I am trying to catch up with the incredible amount of podcast episodes produced between 2017 and now.
I am enjoying discovering new MS-DOS game that i have missed back in the days and also hearing your comments about the games that I have played already.
Also I like very much participating to the leaderboards / scoreboards competitions related to Stunts (4D car driving), Grand Prix Circuits etc. Maybe we need some more ?
I have a sleeping youtube channel created 6 years ago, perhaps I would like to add some CGA MS-DOS games capture on a regular basis?
Let’s see if i keep on surfing the wave for a while … https://www.youtube.com/@Loomattic90
I wish you anyway the longest time to continue this beautiful MS-DOS adventure of yours !!! Keep up the good work !!!
Cheers from Belgium !
Loomattic90
Welcome!
What an amazing back story, you will fit in well here!
Some of those original hardware items were an incredible time in PC history, very fortunate you were able to use them and enjoy them.
We will have to look forward to you joining a future podcast episode soon then!
Also make sure you add some games to the suggestion forum, I’m sure you’ve got some interesting items from your French gaming roots 🙂
Thanks ! Unfortunately I only have the 2 pentium i guess and most of the time I use DOSBOX , but who knows where the nostalgia will lead me … as A suggestion My two dream games to see covered by DOSGAMECLUB are Al Lowe’s Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist and Cryo’s Dune! Maybe one of them in 2027! ? I will copy my wish in the suggestion forum !
https://bsky.app/profile/loomattic90.eurosky.social/post/3mtfxta5ozs2i
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