General Retro Discussion

[Colif]

I had this game when it was released, still amazes me Nintendo let Rare make it

I don't remember all of it, or didn't until I watched it. I wasn't sure if it had a ww2 section or if I was misrememberring... it did. I just forgot a few areas inbetween it and the erm... giant Poo stage.

It was unique for its time.

 

[Colif]

So, to run Doom on 3 monitors in the past, you needed 3 PC

And a very specific version of Doom

 

[Colif]

When you find a problem and have the skills to fix it

There is a mod that does it as well.
I used to like that game...

 

[Colif]

 

[Johnway]

I'm sure you're all aware but System shock 2 remaster is going to release soon. its the original game with higher end graphics, a multiplayer coop properly implemented with a whole load of QOL improvements.

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster on Steam

System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.

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[Colif]

that is a hybrid, its got almost all the right moving parts but animates the playing surface.
Ball doesn't look real enough to me, maybe it needs to be dirtier.

 

[Colif]

Wish I had the expensive one years ago

 

[Frindis]

Besides the Atari 520ST with its Yamaha YM2149F and Amiga 1200 with the Paula Sound Chip, my third PC was a Compaq Presario 75MHz, and it came with ESS Audiodrive (Sound Blaster Pro compatible)

With the Yamaha YM2149F, I remember this game fondly because of how amazing the theme soundtrack was:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTbpBG4l25c

For the Paula Sound Chip, I remember Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis as quite memorable sound-wise. I also remember some warez having awesome "crack" music. One of my absolute favorites was this track:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyPC0cIhZnc


As for the ESS Audiodrive, Phantasmagoria comes to mind. The intro music in this game stuck with me for many years.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Xr6EoW8VQ

 

[Colif]

I had a sound blaster at one stage. I don't remember off top of head when I swapped from using a sound card to motherboard. Looking at the motherboards I had, it was probably when I swapped from a Athlon to a Dual Core, as the Intel board had integrated 7.1, so about 2008.

Never played many DOS games, was only 2 years after I got my 1st one that XP was released and threw dos out the window.

No music from any game stands out to me (apart from Journey but its hardly a dos game). Perhaps I just had bad source gear most of the time... I did think about a soundcard in current PC but was talked out of it. There aren't many new ones around now.