/vr/ - Retro Games

You could even play these on a raspberry pi. Just duke would not work all that great with a gamepad. Or on a hacked wii.

Don't know what distros would make this easy though if it was desired.

Skip Corridor 7, play Blake Stone: Planetstrike and Rise of the Triad instead. C7 is basically just an inferior version of Blake Stone and Rise of the Triad is the best out of all the Wolf3D-like shooters.

>>3807163

Perhaps, but I have nostalgia for Corridor 7, unlike Rise of the Triad (although the shareware is in my Duke 3D CD).

That still doesn't tell me what I need to download to play this games, tho'. Specially Doom, which should be the easiest and smallest of the bunch. And all them idTech 1 games, of course.

I'll ask a simple question:

What do I need to download to play Doom (besides the WADs, that is)

>>3807479
GZDoom. You can get it here:
http://gzdoom.drdteam.org/page.php?page=download

If you don't want to constantly drag and drop your wads into the exe, you can use a launcher like ZDL which you can get here:
https://github.com/qbasicer/qzdl/releases

>>3807573
Fucking perfect. Thanks, anon!

Second simple question:
Do I play Duke Nukem 3D out of my old CD or do I get it in Steam?

>>3807143
Duke works fine on the gamepad

>>3808093

Would my CD copy of Duke 3D run with EDuke 32? I mean, I genuinely have no idea what I'm doing...

>>3807125
>there was a thing called ZDoom
>However, it was apparently replaced by something else?
Not really. ZDoom is still a thing. GZDoom is a bit more popular because it was ZDoom in OpenGL (but I think ZDoom has a GL renderer now?). Either one is a very good choice for playing Doom mods, but does not give you a very authentic experience, even if you turn jumping and mouselook off. Chocolate Doom is a better choice for just playing plain old Doom on a modern system.

>Duke3D
If you can find ye olde DOS patch to upgrade 1.4 to Atomic, you could do that... easiest thing to do is just find the Atomic Edition for download somewhere, though. I'd recommend playing in Dosbox, though there is a Zdoom-style 'port' called Eduke32 you could use, too. Definately ignore the Steam version.

>Corridor 7
No... you're better off without it.
But I imagine it would run in Dosbox. Never tried. I don't hate myself.

>Can anyone point me to a good tutorial?
For Dosbox? Try Googling it if you need specific instructions, but the basic command you'll need is
>mount c c:\wherever\you\keep\your\dos\games
From there on, it's basic DOS commands, easy peasy lemon squeezy..

>>3808305
M8, I have taken pity upon your situation.
I'm just gonna upload my Duke3d directory for you in a rar file. It has Eduke32 in it, should be extract, click & play and is the full Atomic Edition. It will also work in Dosbox, if you wish to go that route. Here it is:

https://mega.nz/#!tQJ3zLTI!rwtWFSWfzHdlzCnOPDf6KWmGxse9OLcyfJsiam92GL8

>>3808926

Oh neat, thanks a trillion, anon!

Downloading as we speak.

>>3808908

Chocolate Doom? First time I ever heard of it.

>>3808908

Stupid question, but is there an Eduke32/ZDoom type program to run Wolfenstein-engine games? That would be SWEEEET.

>>3808957
There's a couple, try looking up ECWolf or Wolf4SDL. Should work with Wolf3D and Spear of Destiny at least, maybe with the SOD mission pack sequels too?

As for most other games, Dosbox all the way.

>>3808936
It's not that popular, it's the purist choice. Right down to the unadjustable 320x200 resolution!

>>3808936
https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/V3.0_beta

I think it's the best way to play closest to the original

>>3808124
Oh, goodie. So in addition to many wolf3d engine games and all normal doom engine games, that adds that and probably shadow warrior to the list of games that can huddle in on an emulation box, limits of porting progress aside. Though control as well as source reasons presumably make blood inconceivable as such.

>>3807163
Blake stone? What felt much more like a nicer version of Corridor 7 was Terminator Rampage.

>>3809102

Good luck knowing what the fuck you're doing in that game!

>>3809102

Planet Strike, specifically. I agree that Blake Stone 1 was nothing special. The sequel was a huge improvement over it in basically every way, making it something special imo.

So, Corridor 7 runs fine in DosBox... but it requires constant cycle raising and the mounting takes a bit. Something I can do to streamline the process?

You can streamline loading Corridor 7 by creating a dosbox configuration file. Adjust any game specific settings such as cycles, sound, window resolution, etc. Just be sure to add this:

[autoexec]
@echo off
mount c "C:\GAMES\Corridor 7"
imgmount d "C:\GAMES\Corridor 7\corridor7.cue" -t iso
c:
CORR7CD
cls
exit

Replace "C:\GAMES\Corridor 7" with the game's directory. From now on, just load the configuration file and you should be fine.

>>3809382

I got the floppy version. I'm guessing the imgmount command is not needed?

Also, where do I set the cycles in the config file?

Crap, something didn't work.

I right-clicked the conf file and selected to open it with DosBox. For some reason it gave me an error after I did and the game didn't run nor the cycles were set. It was mounted, tho'.

>>3810124
Correct. imgmount is only needed for the CD version. If you are using the floppy version then it should look like this instead:

[autoexec]
@echo off
mount c "C:\GAMES\Corridor 7"
c:
CORR7
cls
exit

>>3810247
You cannot use the configuration file this way. The easiest way to use it is to setup a new desktop shortcut. First, make a new dosbox shortcut and go into properties. Add this to target:

-conf "C:\GAMES\Corridor 7\dosbox_corr7.conf" -noconsole

In this case, change "C:\GAMES\Corridor 7\dosbox_coor7.config" to the location of the configuration file (include the filename) you want to use. Now you should be able to use the shortcut to start the game.

>>3810389
>>3810412

Ooooh, super nice. Will do, anon. Thanks!

>>3810247
Shit! I forgot to address the cycles... Just look for the [cpu] section in the configuration. Mine looks like this:

[cpu]
core=auto
cycles=12000
cycleup=10
cycledown=10

You may want to adjust cycles to your preference.

>>3810412
I don't understand why anyone would do all this per-game config file nonsense. The dude played the games back in the day, he knows how to use DOS. All he needs to learn is the mount command, maybe stick an automount in the main Dosbox config then it's straight back to the old days.

>cd\game
>game

Two commands to play game! So easy.

>>3810773

Well, I wouldn't mind having to type "run". It's mostly the cycles thing that I find very annoying.

>>3810773
Too bad running this on a real DOS machine may not be an immediate option.

The reason you should setup a config is to save time. This is great if you intend to re-visit any game multiple times, but do NOT want the hassle of setting up dosbox for the tenth time.

I don't know about you, but I think the setup is worth it if you intend to play this through multiple sessions. Otherwise, just stick with using the commands.

Question about that EDuke file. Everything works perfectly fine, and I'm very thankful to that anon who delivered out of nowhere.

But... is there a way I can play with the shitty-yet-nostalgic Sound Blaster music? Man, I miss those shitty synths.

>>3811343
Did you check the audio menu?

>>3811343
Download this and extract it to the music folder in the EDuke32 directory.

http://www.duke4.org/files/nightfright/music/duke3d_music-adlib.zip

>>3807125
>Corridor 7

http://www.old-games.com/download/1963/corridor-7-alien-invasion

Download the 'Easy Setup' package. This is self contained with DOSBox, preconfigured and ready to run.

>>3809382
Personally I like just automounting my dosbox's C directory as a folder with all my crap in it and loading in like normal dos and mounting any ISO's by right clicking in windows shell to a virtual drive that's premounted in DOS and can be ctrl+f4 refreshed whenever I need. My DOSbox config also mounts the actual CD drive as well if I have CDs for it.
So that way I just need to make sure the corridor7 CD is in, start dosbox type { CD cor[tab autocomplete] return cor[tab autocomplete]} and I'm off.
If I wanted to mount a specific file like that I'd just drop in a bat file with that mount command in the game directory to do that, possibly to start the game executable too.

>>3807125
Corridor 7 ... ahh, that came with quite a neat gamepad.

I can hardly expect my memory about such a thing to be rock solid, but it sure seems like the D-pad was seriously better implemented than on a gravis.

>>3812051

Good luck finding the full Corr7 CD. All I found was a "mini" version without the music and the films.

The floppy works fine for me because that's the version I played (and sadly lost. I was in 3rd grade, dammit!) anyway.

>>3812516
What do we have here?

http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/pc/dos-games/corridor-7-alien-invasion-cd/

>>3813019

Welp, I've been proven wrong again!

...and then there's this bastard! I always hated seeing his face pop up just to make me waste ammo.

>>3808908
>Duke3D
>Definately ignore the Steam version.

They patched World Tour a while back. All the main issues were fixed (being able to turn off auto aim, mouse movement, true widescreen, even sound quality iirc) and World Tour is still the only way to fully play the latest episode of the game, which maps range from OK to GREAT.

Yes, I'd still be using EDuke32 if I wanted to play any episode of the game other than Alien World Order, but they really listened to complains with World Tour and fixed their own shit.

>>3811902

So I tried to download Duke Nukem 1 from that site because why the fuck not, right? (Plus, Gearbox pulled them from the stores) and HOLY SHIT it has one of those fucking graphic filters that makes everything look like if it was animated in flash. How the fuck do I remove that crap?

>>3813471

Same guy. Nevermind. Found the right DosBox setting to change thanks to a GOG DosBox config I have (for Bio Manace).

>>3813019

After checking this, I have concluded this is the exact same mini version I found. It has no movies and no music whatsoever.

>>3815142
What the hell are you talking about? It DOES have have the FMVs and CD AUDIO!

I'll just assume you mounted the cue/bin img pair correctly and FULLY installed the game.

You did know you have to select the CD audio in the setup program, right? Even if you did, you have to manually start the music in the Adjust Audio menu to get the CD audio. The audio menu should look like this picture.

Protip: Use the Spacebar or Ctrl, NOT the Enter key when you select play.

>>3815142
>>3815182
I think I found the source of the problem! A whole bunch of files delete themselves after starting the game for the first time. I forgot how big of a pain in the ass DOS games can be...

Anyways, I'll just leave a link for anyone who still wants a working copy of the CD version.

https://mega.nz/#!ANU2VKAR!6ndRjVlHuDHPAJZ_q8EqH4N4-elt_3o9yDKr0tcgzwg