MutoidMan
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Posts: 2,232 | Re: 486 and early 90's PC memories.
on Thursday, October, 01, 2009 9:55 AM
| Compucore Wrote:I remember trying to get descent to work when it waspopular way back when. But due to something in my hardware way back when I couldn't play it at all over here. I was running it ona my old Cyrix machine at the time over here. Or was it my Pentium compter. It's been too long since I played it. |
Both Descent and Descent II work perfectly in DOSBox, so there's always that option.
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Compucore
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Posts: 4,450 | Re: 486 and early 90's PC memories.
on Thursday, October, 01, 2009 11:32 AM
I was in DOS 5.0 or in DOs 6.2.2 when I had bout the sharware version of descent. Some hoe it didn't like the computer that I was running on. But anyrate it is a old classical game. as well.
MutoidMan Wrote:| Compucore Wrote:I remember trying to get descent to work when it waspopular way back when. But due to something in my hardware way back when I couldn't play it at all over here. I was running it ona my old Cyrix machine at the time over here. Or was it my Pentium compter. It's been too long since I played it. |
Both Descent and Descent II work perfectly in DOSBox, so there's always that option. |
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Posts: 4,349 | Re: 486 and early 90's PC memories.
on Thursday, October, 01, 2009 5:42 PM
MutoidMan Wrote:| Compucore Wrote:I remember trying to get descent to work when it waspopular way back when. But due to something in my hardware way back when I couldn't play it at all over here. I was running it ona my old Cyrix machine at the time over here. Or was it my Pentium compter. It's been too long since I played it. |
Both Descent and Descent II work perfectly in DOSBox, so there's always that option. |
There's also the OpenGL ports of Descent 1 & 2, D1X Rebirth and D2X Rebirth, respectively.
http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/
 
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Compucore
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Posts: 4,450 | Re: 486 and early 90's PC memories.
on Friday, October, 02, 2009 12:27 AM
Tron.dll. Take a look I just specified that it was a dosbox not a winbloat box.  It was just before your post there. take a look see it was eithera dos 5.0 or a Dos 6.22 pc dos version of OS that I was using over here at the time.
TRON.dll Wrote:MutoidMan Wrote:| Compucore Wrote:I remember trying to get descent to work when it waspopular way back when. But due to something in my hardware way back when I couldn't play it at all over here. I was running it ona my old Cyrix machine at the time over here. Or was it my Pentium compter. It's been too long since I played it. |
Both Descent and Descent II work perfectly in DOSBox, so there's always that option. |
There's also the OpenGL ports of Descent 1 & 2, D1X Rebirth and D2X Rebirth, respectively.
http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ |
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