/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1122274
I know what you mean.
Its a real pain in the arse, these AT and XT era motherboard setups.
Was fiddling around with this NCR 286 system awhile ago, and spent a long time rearranging jumpers just to get it to turn on.

And even when it came to software, there were BIOS settings, for DOS you had to configure your XMS/EMS manager, like quarterdeck, then all of your TSRs, mouse drivers, sound card drivers, then you needed a VESA TSR for your SVGA adapters and the like.

I didn't really get into building PCs until the late 90s, when everything was PS/2 or rather, ATX.
VLB was dead, and so was EISA for the most part. It was all plug and play PCI cards, and the occasional AGP 3d card.
Even my first Sound Blaster was a plug and play one, so A220 I5 D1 H5 pretty much worked as my blaster settings no matter where the card was.

Thank god Gateway2000 kept me covered. Dooming since 1995, when Ultimate Doom for Windows 95 came out.
Didn't get Doom 2 until 1998, and not Final Doom until the past couple years when I torrented it. Don't feel bad at all, TeamTNT should have made it free but they jewed out the last minute.

God the memories of getting Doom 2 (despite being a little late to the party). Got it in a new shrinkwrapped box on my bed when I got home on Friday after school, brother bought it for the both of us. Went to the new grocery store that opened up near our neighborhood, got tons of soda, and played DOOM II all weekend. Later spent a lot of time in DETH making maps with all the new Doom 2 monsters scattered everywhere, dark lighting, and the wooden Suburbs/Factory/etc. textures, then reversing DSBOSSIT in Windows Sound Recorder to see if the rumors were true.

>tfw doom 4 will be a total letdown, if it even gets released