pigware (Descent) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Aug 2001

Jeff Hellige <jhellige@earthlink.net>@classiccmp.org on 08/06/2001 03:13:26
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...
 >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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8 Meg... <grin> true, true.  The version of D2 you have may "require"
win95, but the Win95 "port"  (well, it was more of a wrapper for the game
really) of Descent 2 came out ummm... 9 months or so after D2 was released.
Interplay released it as a DOS game originally, (I think in 1994) and then
Win95 came out a year later and they released the "Win95 enhanced version."
<grin> with much pomp and circumstance.   (On that note, FASA/Hasbrough (?)
released Mechwarrior Mercenaries a similar way: write the game as a DOS
game with IPX network support, with a Win95 wrapper so win95 would think
that it was a wingame.

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