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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Speedball II Brutal Deluxe on the Amiga 500. Ice cream anyone? Photo shot in my studio.

Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Captain Blood was dubbed "the most beautiful game in the world" when it was released in 1988. Not only the 16 but also the 8-bit versions were awesome, including the C64 one shown here. A game that many played but few understood. Photo shot in my studio.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's all about setting your DSLR. If you look at the many others pics on this page ( many different computers) you won't see any scanline

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

XTree versus Norton Commander: two great answers to DOS file-management. Difficult to chose between them... XTree was probably the more sophisticated file-management tool. Norton Commander was probably the more elegant interactive file-navigation tool.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Dungeon Master season begins on Retro Dream! From now until the end of the year, we’ll explore one level each week, with still shots on Saturdays and a short video on Sundays, showing the essentials of all 13 levels.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Dungeon Master season begins! From now until the end of the year, we’ll explore one level each week, showing the essentials of all 13 levels. Level 0 is our opening prologue: the Hall of Champions. What characters did you choose for your own adventure?

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bubble Bobble, Amiga 500 with 1084S display. A great game to play with your pal after school! 100 increasingly devious levels, easy to learn, surprisingly hard to master and that incredible theme tune still refuses to leave your head. Photo shot in my studio.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Budokan: The Martial Spirit on the Amstrad PC 1640, in glorious 16-color EGA. Far from a simple action game, Budokan had a real simulation side: training, timing and discipline mattered. Button-mashing alone wouldn't make it.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tetris on the PC: simple graphics, no sound card required, and yet more addictive than games a thousand times more complex. By 1988, the Soviet puzzle phenomenon had reached worldwide. Four little squares were enough to ruin an evening.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

F-19 Stealth Fighter. A masterpiece of tactical flight sim by Microprose, 1988. Just cannot count the hours I spent on it back then. Didn't have any sound except for the PC speaker.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Microsoft BASIC was adapted specifically for MSX computers (here on the Japanese Toshiba Pasopia).

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

of course it works, just kidding

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The earliest Microsoft shell interface: DOS Manager. Many first-time dos users experimented with it before moving on to Norton or XTree, and it was rather clunky compared to them, although it did the job overall. Photo shot in my studio, IBM PS/1 model 2133.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The joy of running DEFRAG on DOS: watching those little colored blocks shuffle around the screen, slowly turning chaos into order. It felt strangely productive, almost therapeutic. And somehow, your PC always seemed faster afterwards, even when it actually wasn't.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

GEM graphical interface on the Atari ST. Photo shot in my studio. Retro setups, CRT scanlines, genuine hardware, floppy disks, ball mouse and wild joystick. Real stuff not emulation: that's my recipe for authentic Retro.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Test Drive III MS-DOS version. Photo shot in my studio, featuring IBM PS/1 model 2133 (486SX).

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Alone in the Dark, 1992, running on my IBM PS/2. This genial game invented the survival horror formula years before the term became famous. Polygonal characters, fixed cinematic cameras, puzzles, monsters and counted resources.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My retro computer database on Lotus 123. IBM PS/1 model 2133 running it.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Deluxe Paint II turned you into a serious pixel artist. Released by Electronic Arts in 1986 on the Amiga, it was ported to DOS several years later and helped define how game graphics were created. No layers, no undo history, just pixels, patience, and talent.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sensible Soccer on the Amiga 500. Tiny players, one-button controls, ridiculous speed... and somehow it felt more like football than games ten times as complicated. Sometimes a few pixels are all you need. Photo shot in my studio.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Civilization on the MS-DOS PC, and I remember how “just one more turn” could somehow turn midnight into sunrise. Sid Meier’s 1991 masterpiece made 640 KB feel big enough to contain 6,000 years of history. Few games have stolen so much sleep. Photo shot in my studio, IBM PS/2 model 30

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That's nice ☺️ thanks for sharing the story

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Powermonger on the Atari ST, Bullfrog’s follow-up to Populous. Its 3D landscape felt remarkably futuristic in 1990. And its universe boiled with action: villagers farmed, fished and worked while your orders travelled to distant captains by carrier pigeon, introducing an actual delay, very realistic.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

PC Tools was one of the big DOS utility suites competing with Norton Utilities, while also offering file-management features that overlapped with XTree. By the early 1990s it had grown into a huge toolbox: disk repair, undelete, backup, antivirus, compression and more. Did you use it too?

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Amiga 500 at sunset. Outrun scores screen. Photo shot in my studio.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is Norton Commander Gold, that I used extensively until Windows 95 came out. I still remember some of its shortcuts. Keyboard-driven, endlessly efficient, pure productivity. Photo shot in my studio, IBM PS/2 model 55SX

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Let's load Solo Flight from the Commodore Datasette on my C64 version C from 1986. This game was really something back in the day, one of the very first titles by Microprose, the first publisher dedicated to simulation games just after Sublogic (and after SSI if we consider strategic sims).

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The God Game: Populous on my Atari 520 ST

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Turrican II on my Amiga 500. A pity you can't hear the sound! What a glorious tune by C. Huelsbeck.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Prince of Persia ÷ Intro ÷ IBM PS/2 ÷ PC Speaker #gaming #retrocomputer #retrogaming

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The PowerBook 140 arrived in 1991 with a 16 MHz 68030, 640×400 monochrome screen and a trackball placed in front of the keyboard. That layout helped define the modern laptop. 2 MB of RAM and a 20 MB hard drive seemed perfectly portable. Photo shot in my studio.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lode Runner on the Apple IIe with Duo Drive. To think that a 5..25 flopoy disk over 40 years old still loads on a drive the same age... Not sure the stuff they make nowadays would last that long. Photo shot in my studio.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What I really like about OS/2 2.0 is its multitasking playground: native protected-mode OS/2, real DOS, DOS under OS/2, even Windows 3.x sessions. And that was years before Windows 95. Photo shot in my studio, 486 SX PS/1 model 2133.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Epic on the Atari ST really knew how to make an entrance. Huge spaceships, cinematic ambition, and Gustav Holst’s Mars and Jupiter from The Planets blasting through sampled ST sound. In 1992, this felt less like loading a game and more like launching a space opera. Photo shot in my studio.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Metroid on the NES was a revelation in 1986..A huge and eerie world. No obvious path to your goal, try to find your way through long caverns full of traps. Then came the final surprise: Samus was a woman. Nintendo hid that fact until the ending. Quite a twist for the 8-bit era.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Arkanoid on the MSX, loaded from cassette. The 1987 Imagine release needed a good dose of patience. You waited through the screeching tape just to bounce a tiny ball against bricks. Somehow, the loading ritual made finally seeing that title screen feel like a victory. Photo shot in my studio

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

That's interesting :) Thanks for sharing

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

R-Type on the Amiga looked like the arcade hit had somehow squeezed itself onto your desk. Released in 1989, it brought the iconic R-9, the Force pod and those terrifying biomechanical bosses home. Not arcade-perfect, but close enough to make Amiga owners very smug.

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Retro Dream @retrodream.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I found this moment the most hilarious in Leisure Suit Larry: a sign near the bed says "substantial penalty for early withdrawals"... One could also argue about late deposits :)

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