Anyone remember the days of DOS or 3.1?

**Sean** · 11-06-2007, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Rainer.

http://lkbm.ecritters.biz/cotw/download.html
Castle Of The Winds still pwns...

I remember 3.1

YOU FOUND IT!!!! I loved that game, but forgot the name of it. I just assumed it disappeared into the abyss of Dos games...but you've found it!!!!

...and for that matter, the registered version is now legal to download.

Bryan · 11-06-2007, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by tht00

Bull.

One of my favorite games of all time was Subspace/Continuum. It was a massively multiplayer space shooter (incorporating various CTF/team/FFA/etc rules). The game was keyboard-only and fantastic.

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And for the record, one of the worst games of all time was Extreme Paintbrawl. Look it up. Yes, it used a keyboard and mouse. Yes, it sucked beyond belief.

like I said, there are exceptions, or perhaps you missed that part.

bobthecockroach · 11-06-2007, 09:44 AM

Cheapstakes. My family actually bought the registered version when we discovered the game because we loved it so much.

tht00 · 11-06-2007, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Bryan

like I said, there are exceptions, or perhaps you missed that part.

Yet the comment I replied to was stated to be an absolute.

Bryan · 11-06-2007, 10:25 AM

whatever, you're just nitpicking and being argumentative. I made a generalization. Generalizations always come with exceptions. I'm sorry if you are too blind to see it.

+SEAL+ · 11-06-2007, 12:53 PM

Ah, you're asking me to stretch my memory waaaaay back. But yeah, I remember that.

Giga Hertz · 11-06-2007, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Rainer.

http://lkbm.ecritters.biz/cotw/download.html
Castle Of The Winds still pwns...

That was a pretty fun game.

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Originally Posted by bobthecockroach

I can't believe I'm not the only one to play Castle of the Winds.

Lol, my brother got me started on that. But I always thought COTW2 was a bit easier.

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Originally Posted by Bryan

whatever, your average game today is better than your average game 10 years ago. gameplay is better and graphics are better. are there exceptions, of course there are, that comes with blanket statements.

I don't care about graphics. Half-Life 2 could've been software HL1 running at 640x480 and it'd still be a great game.

As for gameplay, it's rather a hit and miss today, particularly with EA Games and, in some cases, Sierra.
If you're a PC Gamer (more so than console), you'll have notice the appalling effort companies have been making when making a multi-platform release. There's often no mouse support, you can't change your video settings and you generally want your money back.

As for how Need For Speed's getting, ever played NFS1? That was made in the days of 3.1, the sad thing being it's more realistic than the latest ones (Which aren't realistic at all).

Take LucasArts and who the hire to develop the games. The Star Wars games have been poor lately and the developers can't seem to code properly. Battlefront 2, KOTOR2, etc.

RipVanWinkle · 11-06-2007, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Sean.thomson

Check out this site...

http://www.abandonia.com/

It has great old dos games, such as Commander Keen, and some of the classic sierra games, and shows you where to get a good version of Dosbox

Or the original Duke Nukem games (which were horrible

), Commanche, Stronghold... I hated building roads in WarCraft 1. And I also have to admit...I played the Eye of the Beholder series.

**Sean** · 11-06-2007, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by RipVanWinkle

Or the original Duke Nukem games (which were horrible

), Commanche, Stronghold... I hated building roads in WarCraft 1. And I also have to admit...I played the Eye of the Beholder series.

What was wrong with the original Duke Nukem games?

**thesteve** · 11-06-2007, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Sean

What was wrong with the original Duke Nukem games?

they were great for fans of Commander Keen

I can understand why some wouldn't like them...but for the time I sure loved 'em.

JerryLove · 11-06-2007, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Giga Hertz

Does anyone here remember the days of MS-DOS or Windows 3.1?

Very well.. I've supported both

[quote]And does anyone remember how much easier it was, compared to today, where installing something like XP or Vista without blue screening can take a few goes?]/quote] Nope. I recall frequent crashing in DOS 4.x, and 1.x not even having sub-directories. 3.2 was a pretty good DOS, and 5 was excellent. 6 was the DOS version of WinME.

Windows 3.0 crashed almost contantly... but blue screen with page fault / general protection fault. 3.1 was better, but still crashed a great deal (don't think you can multitask), and ISA was rife with memory address and IRQs.

3.11 was more stable as an underlying OS, but the WfW adds created all sorts of new problems... and don't get me started on WinSock under WfW.

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And the quality of games, does anyone else agree that the games on 3.1 and DOS were awesome? Like Commander Keen or Secret Agent/Crystal Caves. I want to make a DOS box now.

Halo 3, Call of Duty, Half-Life, Team Fortress, Civilization.. or (still very much windows) Kinghts of the Old Republic... most of my faavorite games.

Don't get me wrong: I loved Wing Commander (had to change my sound hardware to get compatabale), the Infocom Games, MOO, etc.

I think that hindsight is usually done with rose-colored glasses.

RipVanWinkle · 11-06-2007, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Sean

What was wrong with the original Duke Nukem games?

I guess it really wasn't that bad.
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gtrdave · 11-09-2007, 09:00 AM

I remember DOS 6.2.2 and Win 3.1.1 on my old 386 machines...Mac System 1 thru 6 (the true classic Mac OS's...and no 5) on my Mac Plus and Classic models...and cp/m running on a Kaypro II that I had for a while.

Thankfully, running OSX on my new Core 2 Duo iMac makes me forget all those dinosaurs.