marcoooo Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 i have created 2600+ 3d covers for the exodos set thats out there ... (all the front and backs i could find ) and will continue with making them and was wondering what is the best way to share these with the community ? (if there is intrest offcourse) 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bundangdon Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 I'm guessing that you could upload them here. At least I've seen it done before with several other media-related files, or you can always use a cloud-sharing service like Google Drive or Mega. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 Keen to take a look at this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 They should be uploaded to the DB. There's a 3D box image category that they can be added to. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Is that a windows logo up top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcoooo Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 https://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-news-center-photos/msft_logo_rgb_c-gray/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcoooo Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 On 12/18/2017 at 3:18 PM, Zombeaver said: They should be uploaded to the DB. There's a 3D box image category that they can be added to. Thank you! if i know how i would be happy to do that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 would there be a reason for putting a windows logo on an ms-dos box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryoke Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 (edited) @marcoooo just zip them up , go to download section , click submit a file / game covers and job done. Edited December 20, 2017 by harryoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcoooo Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 2 hours ago, damageinc86 said: would there be a reason for putting a windows logo on an ms-dos box? https://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-news-center-photos/msft_logo_rgb_c-gray/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 5 hours ago, marcoooo said: if i know how i would be happy to do that Click on the "Games DB" button at the top. Create an account. Navigate to the relevant game, add the image to the appropriate category and submit the change request. I agree with @damageinc86 - I don't think they should have a Windows logo... they're DOS games. It looks like you're using some older source for images based on the ones you posted above - they all have a Mobygames watermark. Mobygames stopped watermarking their images a while back. If you look up License to Kill on Mobygames, the same image is there with no watermark. Same for the others. 5 hours ago, harryoke said: @marcoooo just zip them up , go to download section , click submit a file / game covers and job done. Except for the fact that that doesn't actually help anybody that's just downloading media/metadata for games in their library. The entire point of the DB is so that people don't have to manually download and rename a bunch of files to match their library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcoooo Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 as far as i know its part off the microsoft logo and if it that big off a deal then i will keep them private ... no probs at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombeaver Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 The problem isn't about Microsoft - the problem is that it's the Windows logo (the modern one, no less), which doesn't make much sense in combination with DOS games. The whole point is that they're pre-Windows. It would be like if you put a big Blu Ray logo on a DVD. You can play a DVD in a blu ray player, but that doesn't make it a blu ray. DOS games could be played natively in Windows 95 (which ran on top of DOS), but they're not Windows games - they're DOS games. If you put a PSX disc in a PS2, it'll play, but it's still a PSX game, not a PS2 game. They're separate things. Some DOS games had a separate Windows version, but a lot of stuff - especially the early stuff - wouldn't have anything for Windows on the box. If anything, they might say they're Windows 95 compatible in the hardware requirements once you get into the mid 90s+ It's not the end of the world, just odd. As I said, if you want to share them - and I'd encourage you to do so - you can add them to our Games DB. You could also upload them here in the forums/downloads section if you want people to help you upload them to the DB, but the DB is where they should ultimately go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcoooo Posted December 20, 2017 Author Share Posted December 20, 2017 again its the microsoft logo that they have used in diffrents shapes for windows but still microsoft and ms-dos is also microsoft .... or i am lost LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zombeaver Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 I don't know how else I can explain it other than to tell you that you will not see that logo on the actual boxes for those games. I own a large collection of physical big box DOS games if you'd like me to take some actual photos of them. You won't find it on them, I promise. MS-DOS is Microsoft's variant of DOS, yes. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything though. The boxes wouldn't have the logo. Microsoft has used that logo as early as 1995, in association with the launch of Windows 95. It hasn't been an actual part of the Microsoft logo itself until 2012. DOS/MS-DOS (and, by proxy, DOS games) was around well before 1995, going back to the 80s. And even the DOS games from 1995+ that specifically mention being 95 compatible would generally only do so as a little bit of text in the hardware requirements section. Using the logo is an anachronism, I don't know how else I can say it. It's not the end of the world it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damageinc86 Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Yeah sorry for noticing that, but DOS games never had a WINDOWS logo on them. Let alone the modern one. Some in the mid 90s might have a logo for windows 95 since it might be compatible with that OS, but they would still have been ran in actual dos. Then when the game was exited, you'd usually have to go back to C:\windows and then type "win" to get back to Windows if I remember correctly. Surely you can post and share what you like, I just don't foresee anyone who knows better to find them useful if There is such a contradiction right on the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrofrogg Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Ah...the spines on the boxes are back to front on the images at the top of this thread! Has this been fixed or is the whole pack like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcoooo Posted April 6, 2019 Author Share Posted April 6, 2019 nope not fixed decided not to share as they are not as the standaard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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