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Give me old PC game recs
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Just popping in here to say I got a CD-ROM installed so those fmv game recs are now totally valid. I'll have to see if full throttle and the dig will work on this machine.
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So, you can play Megarace fine, but Doom runs choppy?
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Yes.
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Bare boot your system. It won't run Windows and bring you to DOS right away. Then just load Doom like you normally would.
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That thing would probably run the hell out of scorch.exe
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I'm already doing that. I think doom was a high spec game for 1993 if you ran it at max settings, and this PC is probably around average for 1993.
Maybe I oversold how choppy doom runs. It runs pretty well with a few reduced detail settings, but choppy when maxed out. I took a video to demonstrate. Reduced settings in first half, high detail settings in second half.
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Since you're fortunate enough to own a GUS, why not experience all the GUS games?
Here's a list:
Here's a list:
- Archon Ultra
- Crusader: No Remorse
- Crusader: No Regret
- Death Rally
- DOOM v1.2 or below
- Epic Pinball
- Extreme Pinball
- Jazz Jackrabbit
- The Lemmings Chronicles
- One Must Fall 2097
- Pinball Arcade CD-ROM (Pinball Dreams & Pinball Dreams II)
- Pinball Fantasies
- Pinball Illusions
- Silverball
- Star Control II
- Turrican 2
- Zone 66
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I've been traversing the shareware underworld and coming up with a few cool titles. One of them is Flying Tigers, pretty heavily influenced by the likes of Raiden and 1942. The music is above average for a shareware game of 1994, the first level music even sounds like something you'd hear in Raiden 1.