6 Aug
2001
6 Aug
'01
11:13 a.m.
True... For grins-n-giggles I loaded up DOS on my AMD
T-Bird 900 MHz box
with 512M or RAM when a certain bloated pig'ware OS crashed because it was
"out of resources" and ran Descent - a game designed to run on a 50MHz
processor... It ran like a spotted ape! Wonderful framerates!
I like the tagline BTW, and Descent came out in um.... 1993 I think, maybe
1992. So it's almost vintage. <grin>
The 3 CD's of the 'Descent I and II - The Definitive
Collection' are copyrighted 1997 but I know that Descent I came out
long before that. 1992/93 sounds about right though. It was always
one of my favorite 3D shooter games. That and Marathon on the Mac.
The specs listed for Descent I are a 486DX2-66, DOS 5 and 8MB of RAM.
Descent II required Win95 and was accelerated for the S3 Virge 3D
chipset.
Jeff
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