Old DOS games poster

Cray said:
Same here, I think Dune 2 was one of the first things I fired up with my new Sound Blaster (the one I did a paper route to be able to afford :X3:). That and listening to all the over the top Sound Blaster effects from Wolfenstein (Door opening)
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Yup, going from PC speaker to Sound Blaster was a big step up, I remember going from mono to stereo with the Sound Blaster Pro 2 I got with a quad speed CD Rom. A buddy and me were so competitive we actually would benchmark our CD ROm drives, as he had an Goldstar 4x and I had Hitatchi.
 
Cray said:
Same here, I think Dune 2 was one of the first things I fired up with my new Sound Blaster (the one I did a paper route to be able to afford :X3:). That and listening to all the over the top Sound Blaster effects from Wolfenstein (Door opening)
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Lol, exactly what I did, a paper route for a sound blaster card and Dune 2 was what I played with it. Glad I was not the only one.
 
Kosmik said:
And where of where is Calgames? Actually or the Wizardry series.
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Calgames...sheez that was a keyboard breaker!
No wait..I'm confusing it with something else. An olympic game where you had to hit left/right very fast to run etc.
 
schuits said:
Calgames...sheez that was a keyboard breaker!
No wait..I'm confusing it with something else. An olympic game where you had to hit left/right very fast to run etc.
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Decathlon wasn't it? Bruce Jenner was in the game too :)
 
schuits said:
I think it was "Summer games" and "winter games", ZX-Spectrum. The keyboards buttons would tend to wear out.
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Ah okay, Decathlon on the PC had a simliar thing, bashing 1 and 2 if I can recall..
 
Recently the DOOM fast-run record that lasted for 20 years for the first level completion) was beaten. Its a shame that it did not even make any news on any gaming sites.
 
Geez I thought my number would be lower but I think I played 70 of these... wasted my youth on games and now I'm wasting my adulthood on work.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Nah PCs were awesome. The payoff from hacking ini files to get schit working was almost as rewarding as finishing the game itself. It's what piqued my interest in computers...
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Multiboot autoexec.bat files did it for me, for those few games that required silly amounts of base RAM
 
I wonder why the heck we don't get games similar to Descent anymore? Loved the Descent games and Forsaken.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
Nah PCs were awesome. The payoff from hacking ini files to get schit working was almost as rewarding as finishing the game itself. It's what piqued my interest in computers...
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Partitioning a 20mb harddrive in two, with fdisk, just to hide Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, was a feat on its own.
 
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