Divide By Zero - a blog by Kamran Ayub

Thanks to this Flickr set posted on Digg, I downloaded Day of the Tentacle for DOS yesterday. I seriously played it for like 6 hours straight. It’s a lot of fun and challenging (for me?). I had to peek at a walkthrough a couple times (only in dire circumstances!)

DoTT is from the mind of Tim Schafer. You may know him as the idea and go-to guy for Penny Arcade Adventures and many other awesome adventure games including Monkey Island and Psychonauts. I fished out my The Curse of Monkey Island CD that my friend borrowed to me years ago so that I could install it. I had installed it on a computer at some point a long time ago and never made it past the opening scene. Hopefully I will be able to now!

If you want to play (and you should) do this:

1. Download it at this site. It’s abandonware so it’s free. Click the Download link under the game title.
2. Download DosBox to play the game.
3. Run DosBox.
4. Type in “mount c c:\dott� or the path to wherever you extracted the files. I recommend a short directory. Mine is in D:\Games\DoTT so my DosBox command is:
   
   mount d d:\games\dott
   
5. Type in “d:�
6. Type in “tentacle.exe� and play!

Here is the list of keyboard commands. Have fun!