Never could play these games due to nausea. A few decades later I had found a game with FOV settings. Increasing the FOV to 100ish enabled me to play more FPS games.
Holy shit, just got a flashback to the early 90s, i did the same thing! My mum set passwords on several games, but I did just start them through DOS like this
Just make a .bat file in the root of your C: drive that starts wolf3d from the correct directory. It takes like fifteen seconds, and you can do the same for any game that you start from the command line.
Yep, I still remember downloading it from one of my favorite BBS's, and playing it that very first time at my dining room table at 3am, cuz my body was on a night shift schedule from my work, and everyone else in the house was asleep. It was the first time a game ever made the hair on my neck stand on end.
I remember Quake 2. Fired it up again in the mid-nothings, when I still had a big CRT. Would do 1920*1280, but set the resolution to half that (for TFT/LCD only, that was eminently possible). On one of the Nvidia cards (possibly TNT 4) it could havver out 200FPS. Was gloriously smooth. Yeah, graphical requirements went way up, but it was glorious seeing the bug-out eyes of a PS2 owner seeing the silkiness.
I remember playing this game...but I didn't like that I had to kill German Shepherds in the game...hearing them whimper when they died made me stop playing the game right then and there...never completed this game...
It was. But it also contributed towards a culture that forgets what spawned the nazi world. If you avoid working with reality, you create nazis and other forms of empires. Empires are social adaptions to a cthullian finite world in which a exponential (life) bumps against the finite line that is the ressource limit. If you do not find a way to peacefully handle that- and not decomplexify, every move to fight the nazis, also feeds the nazis by sending the world more into a regression.
Nazism isn't a result of Malthusian limits, it's an emergent property of combining systemic ignorance with nationalism and the cultivation of demagoguery around the scapegoating of marginalized demographic populations.
The easter eggs were awesome too... found one in the sound settings once, for some reason I kept playing the test-sound, suddenly it pkayed "enjoying ourselves, are we" or something along those lines
It actually said "Enyoing yourself?" after a few times, and then if you insisted "It doesn't get any better than this". Also, 220h, IRQ 5, DMA 1. If you know you know 😂
My comment was just meant to be a joke :) I also bought a Sound Blaster in the 90's. Still have it, and several more. If I remember Sound Blaster had "Ad Lib", but Ad Lib the company was around before Sound Blaster as a totally separate thing.
SMarkt
unfiltered interactions with the machine. user interface? yeah, get lost, you got a keyboard, moron!
inthepines
SoundBlaster?
classGemJunkie
Never could play these games due to nausea. A few decades later I had found a game with FOV settings. Increasing the FOV to 100ish enabled me to play more FPS games.
djhash
HMI module Alpha Humana
TheFastpaws
Fuck I'm old. I remember the old commands. Can't remember many of the games names though.
Picoshi
Oh I didn't know old CRT's emitted some x-rays.
rezpawner
Good times.
DigitalDruid255
My dad had this game on his pc.
michaelfire
With "low radiation" I thought the game was "thermonuclear war"
PicassoCT
Ah, the generation, that was forced to become experts for gaming..
BillBarian
A 3.5” AND a 5.25” drive? Wooo whose Mr. Fancy-Pants!
alcaray
If you have an investment in games in 5.25 format, it was necessary.
ragazzino
Modern machines upgrade to the smaller format.
KuroNeko00
And a sound card! Us plebs had to make do with PC speaker.
DdCno1
Anyone who had PC back then certainly was no pleb. Even your run of the mill IBM-compatible was not cheap.
michelVizsla
Let’s do Ironman
J3lek
The old ways.
DOcelot1
Damn, blast from the past
LazerHawkAttack
Holy shit, just got a flashback to the early 90s, i did the same thing! My mum set passwords on several games, but I did just start them through DOS like this
Eldibs
Just make a .bat file in the root of your C: drive that starts wolf3d from the correct directory. It takes like fifteen seconds, and you can do the same for any game that you start from the command line.
Detoc
Or just access anything quickly with Norton Commander.
ToenailClippingsJar
Psh…
I used to create bootdisks with custom autoexec.bat and config.sys files to just allocate resources to the games I was playing.
Some use came out of all those ‘low-end’ 720k disks at least.
FoamingToad
I was there, three thousand years ago. Props to the greybeards.
mypylon
so many years ago I did this... It took me overnight to download the game
Detoc
Yep, I still remember downloading it from one of my favorite BBS's, and playing it that very first time at my dining room table at 3am, cuz my body was on a night shift schedule from my work, and everyone else in the house was asleep. It was the first time a game ever made the hair on my neck stand on end.
jekath
Nonono. Not many years ago. Many years ago, you got this game on 💾 from that shady guy. If you downloaded it, it's a few years ago.
Huor
Incorrect.
ArtisanFartisan
Unless you were dialing into a BBS.
mypylon
No, we didn't get it on disk. I downloaded it over my college's Internet access from a file stored at another university.
scribbydibbydo
Try MISSION IMPOSSIBLE on the commadore 6000. Epic waste of time. lol
acejlp
i had to load a game from a casette on my first pc. Schneider CPC464
FoamingToad
ZX81 representing here... We had a cassette interface, but it was pretty unreliable. The ZX Spectrum was a whole lot better in that regard.
bindedig
Is the boss mob Trump ?
redundancy
It better be Doom...oh, that's good too.
DarwinsAgain
That there is Doom's daddy, you show some respeck!
slack3rdav3
my first experience on a computer was changing to the a drive to load a game on a disk.
HandoB4Javert
Who are the bad guys? /s
FPAlpha
And kids these days get mental breakdowns if they slip below 60 fps.
FoamingToad
I remember Quake 2. Fired it up again in the mid-nothings, when I still had a big CRT. Would do 1920*1280, but set the resolution to half that (for TFT/LCD only, that was eminently possible). On one of the Nvidia cards (possibly TNT 4) it could havver out 200FPS. Was gloriously smooth. Yeah, graphical requirements went way up, but it was glorious seeing the bug-out eyes of a PS2 owner seeing the silkiness.
DonaldMerwinElbertAKATrashCanMan
Oh fancy, you had a sounblaster! (Ouch im so old?)
OrkenMork
I remember playing this game...but I didn't like that I had to kill German Shepherds in the game...hearing them whimper when they died made me stop playing the game right then and there...never completed this game...
tentacularfleshscape
It should be possible to find that death sound in the files and replace it, maybe with a clown honk
SMarkt
welcome to the club. i hate playing monsterhunter. killing animals for better equipment is pervert.
Dingledonglejingle
Gotta love that 40 MHz clock
digitreal
I remember when killing nazis was cool.
Eldibs
Brother, it's still the coolest.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Its pretty timeless.
SofaH3ro
Still is, but it used to be too
TiroDvD
Your Communism is showing.
YouRadicalizedMe
I could tell by wolf3d
DemSumBigAssRidges
Don't worry. It still is.
PicassoCT
It was. But it also contributed towards a culture that forgets what spawned the nazi world. If you avoid working with reality, you create nazis and other forms of empires. Empires are social adaptions to a cthullian finite world in which a exponential (life) bumps against the finite line that is the ressource limit. If you do not find a way to peacefully handle that- and not decomplexify, every move to fight the nazis, also feeds the nazis by sending the world more into a regression.
JohnnyLawlessEsq
Someone did a summer AP philosophy course.
Cloudypoona
I feel so much dumber from reading this
PirateArrrgument
Nazism isn't a result of Malthusian limits, it's an emergent property of combining systemic ignorance with nationalism and the cultivation of demagoguery around the scapegoating of marginalized demographic populations.
digitreal
It's okay to punch nazis.
Selfawerewolf
Bet you think everyone's a bad day away from becoming the Joker or whatever too.
TheUnrepentant
Achtung!
Those early 90s were a fun time for DOS gaming. I still get nostalgic when I hear AdLib from those classic games.
SwampApe75
TheUnrepentant
I remember when I upgraded from my AdLib to a SoundBlaster Pro. Stereo sound and digital sound effects! I didn't think it could better than that. :)
steelundecided
...and clicky keyboards
Flash82
The easter eggs were awesome too... found one in the sound settings once, for some reason I kept playing the test-sound, suddenly it pkayed "enjoying ourselves, are we" or something along those lines
MyOtherPetIsACat
It actually said "Enyoing yourself?" after a few times, and then if you insisted "It doesn't get any better than this".
Also, 220h, IRQ 5, DMA 1. If you know you know 😂
Flash82
... I do, but I was on IRQ 7 ...... and Sound Blaster Pro
MyOtherPetIsACat
Yup, 5 or 7 were the most common settings
ryftness6
This was from Warcraft 2! I still remember doing it. It happens after you install it. There is an option to test the sound card
Flash82
YES! That's it! .... excellent!
skibbyAU
Your sound card works perfectly.
Your sound card works perfectly.
Your sound card works perfectly.
It doesn’t get any better than this!
Flash82
I love that age of gaming where the games didn't take themselves so seriously
nupoile
Ad Lib *and* Sound Blaster....what are you? Rich?
baconpower
I know right? My PC speaker was beep booping sad Leisure Suit Larry noises
hsalonen3000
You are just ignorant, Sound Blaster had Adlib. It only requires one card. I used my summer job money to buy Sound Blaster 2.0 for 700 marks.
BurnieCinders
I bought an I/O card to plug a mouse into my 386 dx40.
nupoile
My comment was just meant to be a joke :) I also bought a Sound Blaster in the 90's. Still have it, and several more. If I remember Sound Blaster had "Ad Lib", but Ad Lib the company was around before Sound Blaster as a totally separate thing.
hsalonen3000
Oh and IBM PS/2 (my parent's computer) had Disney Sound Source. It was supported like 1% of the games and this was one.
SaturnineCult
It was basically the same thing than Covox, just a simple resistor ladder DAC. I think it was more supported with demos/trackers.
hsalonen3000
Scream Tracker did not support, at least directly. Did not try via covox support, since my new and shiny SB 2.0 was widely supported :D