Let's talk about early Windows games. Discuss favorites, hidden gems, and ways to get this shit running on modern computers.

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Anonymous Tue Oct 3 16:00:16 2017 No.4302602 [Reply] [Original]

Let's talk about early Windows games.

Discuss favorites, hidden gems, and ways to get this shit running on modern computers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 10:14:47 2017 No.4304526 File: 3.80 MB, 5100x3338, System Shock 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How do you get System Shock 2 running on modern PCs?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 10:28:10 2017 No.4304542 >>4302602 >>4304526 works on mine

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 13:09:39 2017 No.4304802 >>4304526 Buy and/or pirate the GOG version.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 14:09:25 2017 No.4304905 Early Windows games really are a crapshoot. Some of them work totally fine on Windows 7, others I've never been able to play despite looking up fixes online for hours. I guess virtual machines will be the best option as processing power increases.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 14:16:25 2017 No.4304917 I remember lots of ads for Take no Prisoners in magazines.

>>	Jibwib Simmerstim, Esq. Wed Oct 4 14:29:56 2017 No.4304943 Microprose's Magic: The Gathering. It's notoriously hard to get working on modern hardware.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 4 16:26:27 2017 No.4305132 >>4304943 Isn't there a heavily edited community version of Shandalar that is easy to get running? Not super smooth and prone to occasional crashes but still playable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 08:28:53 2017 No.4306420 >>4304542 What do I do with Take No Prisoners if the colors are all fucked up?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 11:34:37 2017 No.4306653 >>4306420 No idea. I have the same thing, different videocard manufacturer probally does help. (Not Nvidia in this case)

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 15:56:28 2017 No.4307071 >>4306420 Kill explorer.exe while the game is running https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Rainbow_color_problems_in_older_games

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 16:15:59 2017 No.4307103 Early Windows is pre-Windows 3. Not sure if they got any games but you can get Windows 3 running in DOSbox relatively easily so I don't think 1 or 2 would prove a problem.

Anonymous Thu Oct 5 16:19:02 2017 No.4307107

Dust: A Tale of the Wired West is a first person adventure game by Cyberflix, the company that would use the same engine to make the Titanic game. I really liked this games sense of humor and multiple orders/routes that you could take to accomplish some of the tasks though you can get stuck later in the game if you don't complete a certain objective on the correct day. It only runs on Windows 3.1 so you'd have to install it through DOSBox, at least I did on my XP machine.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 16:32:31 2017 No.4307137 File: 2.10 MB, 800x600, take no prisoners 1.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 16:33:39 2017 No.4307141 File: 1.90 MB, 800x600, take no prisoners 2.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 16:58:23 2017 No.4307201 >>4307137 >>4307141 This looks like Mageslayer with guns.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 5 17:20:26 2017 No.4307259 I just got my Windows 3.11 machine working again with networking and everything. I'm definitely looking for some good games to load on there.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 01:14:27 2017 No.4308291 >>4307071 >Kill explorer.exe what in the fuck does this even mean

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 01:31:18 2017 No.4308337 >>4307103 They're not talking about DOS games, dumbass.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:24:02 2017 No.4308452 >>4307141 >>4307137 Never heard of this and looks interesting, thank you! Starting up pcem with my virtualized win98/pentium already.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:25:58 2017 No.4308456 >>4308291 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/close-a-program-using-task-manager/

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>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:33:11 2017 No.4308475 File: 2.54 MB, 320x200, 1412882637259.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:34:25 2017 No.4308479 File: 68 KB, 637x382, 1422643149478.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:35:35 2017 No.4308482 File: 2.33 MB, 320x200, 1429397923790.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:35:35 2017 No.4308483 File: 2.33 MB, 320x200, 1429397923790.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:38:31 2017 No.4308494 File: 2.93 MB, 640x480, 1430582177751.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:39:37 2017 No.4308502 File: 1.26 MB, 640x480, 1430588515391.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:39:41 2017 No.4308504 >>4308494 Anyone playing GOG version?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:40:42 2017 No.4308506 File: 547 KB, 640x350, 1437049161049.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:41:55 2017 No.4308507 File: 2.97 MB, 853x480, 1443864806558.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:44:00 2017 No.4308510 >>4308504 i play it on my 98 rig with voodoo instead.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:46:49 2017 No.4308517 File: 810 KB, 640x361, Hunter 1991.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:48:04 2017 No.4308519 File: 2.87 MB, 320x200, ignition 2.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:49:24 2017 No.4308525 File: 2.82 MB, 319x233, 1471999834398.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4308504 yup

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 02:57:56 2017 No.4308535 File: 237 KB, 1920x1271, child-and-binoculars.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4308509 >>4308479

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 03:03:44 2017 No.4308548 File: 193 KB, 155x259, roxy.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4308535 >those computer games sure are pawsome!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 03:05:15 2017 No.4308549 >>4308479 >h-hide

Anonymous Fri Oct 6 03:32:42 2017 No.4308581

>>4308525
>>4308510
I do not own real voodoo rig, but tried to play in virtual machine emulating 3dfx. All other games work fine, but this crashes at startup when controller is connected. Full cd version I got with some pc gaming magazine. I have also bought GOG version but sound does not work properly. Do you have any ideas for a fix? Thanks!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 04:54:47 2017 No.4308653 >>4308494 >>4308494 what game

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 05:27:16 2017 No.4308698 >>4308653 POD

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 05:39:03 2017 No.4308710 >>4307137 like a shitty version of hotline miami

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 05:42:37 2017 No.4308715 >>4308710 can't get any shittier than hotline miami 2

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 06:32:14 2017 No.4308746 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2E02Pwh_0I FREEZE!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 21:06:58 2017 No.4310479 Why is someone dumping gifs?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 6 22:02:11 2017 No.4310571 >>4307137 This is edgy af no thanks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 7 06:57:57 2017 No.4311264 >>4310571 It's actually pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 7 11:39:12 2017 No.4311605 >>4310571 How? Looks like typical shooter from that era.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 7 11:45:33 2017 No.4311613 File: 40 KB, 320x240, x240-pmW.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4310571 Maybe this is more up your alley

Anonymous Sun Oct 8 07:47:41 2017 No.4313579
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I downloaded (something that was labeled) the GOG version of Thief II, installed it, and then ran the program from the installer. It started up just fine, BUT when I exited and then tried to start it again I got this message (pic related).

What the fuck am I doing wrong?

And how EXACTLY do I get this running consistently every time I try to start it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 08:29:10 2017 No.4313619 >>4313579 Run it as administrator.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 8 08:37:48 2017 No.4313641 >>4306420 Use dgVoodoo.

Anonymous Sun Oct 8 17:35:28 2017 No.4314720

I've got my Win98 pc set up with a Voodoo 3 and everything, but after about 20 minutes of operation it suddenly shuts down.
When I set the computer up, I had to switch out the power supply because the original one didn't work. Since the PC shuts completely off with no warning, I suspect the power supply I switched in might be inadequate somehow.
Could this be caused by the power supply not being able to supply enough current?
My other thought was that it could be caused by overheating, but I underclocked the processor and it still crashes after a few minutes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 09:34:01 2017 No.4316319 File: 104 KB, 252x306, 1507527330963.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4313579 >>4313619 I got Thief II working, but why does it run in 16:9 dimensions? Shouldn't it be 4:3?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 11:50:08 2017 No.4316530 >>4316319 Maybe you play in 4:3 resolution stretched to 16:9 by your monitor or video card? Check monitor or GPU settings panel to set how it should handle different aspect ratio.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 15:13:22 2017 No.4316971 >>4302602 Anyone have any luck with Sanitarium on Win 7? I can't get that shit to work Honesty, I think I have an old XP computer laying around somewhere. I'll install 2000 on it and just play on that shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 15:16:58 2017 No.4316985 >>4308507 Is this NFS II or High Stakes?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 21:20:02 2017 No.4317746 >>4308502 I was natonal champion of this game in 1998. Won a Voodoo 2, or something.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 9 21:22:44 2017 No.4317751 >>4316985 That's Sega Rally.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 02:45:28 2017 No.4318215 >>4316985 High Stakes

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 02:47:43 2017 No.4318217 >>4316971 I guess you can at least try emulator like pcem, you don't have to setup whole pc for that.

Anonymous Tue Oct 10 02:53:44 2017 No.4318224

It's really irksome, since there's a lot of adventure games I want to play that were made for windows specifically. Like the Bevis&Butthead games, Florence: Goldmine and so on and so on, and I can't get them to run on modern rigs and Virtual machine sounds too complex.

Anonymous Tue Oct 10 05:21:35 2017 No.4318403

>>4318224
Personally, I use pcem to play all these windows games, after one time setup there's zero additional work. Install and play, 3dfx or not, does not matter.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pcem+setup+tutorial&oq=pcem+setup+tutorial&ie=UTF-8

Plenty of resources and tutorials so I think it is really worth.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 05:36:08 2017 No.4318408 >>4304905 Diabnlo is made in 1997 and it works in Windows 10, 20 years later

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 05:52:31 2017 No.4318419 File: 46 KB, 800x600, Mageslayer_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4307201 Because it is! Both made by Raven Software, released on the same year even. I can't get it to run on modern systems :(

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 05:54:51 2017 No.4318420 File: 85 KB, 640x480, necrodome_screenshot2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4318419 Same guy here, forgot to mention some gems Played the shit out of Necrodome as a kid. Raven Software used to be great

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 10 14:10:42 2017 No.4318962 Does Deus Ex run on modern systems?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 08:10:21 2017 No.4320509 Is there a source port for System Shock 2, or do you just have to run it as is and leave it up to chance as to whether or not it runs on your system?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 12:39:57 2017 No.4320924 >>4320509 newdark

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 13:21:59 2017 No.4321004 Fuck yeah Journeyman Project >>4308746 >TFW you grab the sequel from compUSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0usxK8P6EZU

Anonymous Wed Oct 11 13:32:26 2017 No.4321024

>>4304526
I see SS2 as a tad too linear. Boy, I wonder how SHODAN would react if Soldier G-# tried to reason with her into a deal: The Von Braun and Tau Ceti system are hers, but the Earth and the system its, the Rickenbacker and the launched escape pod are off limits. Basically; allow the UNN Rickenbacker and escape pod to gradually return to Earth at sub-light speeds,while she can do what she wants with the Von Braun and Tau Ceti.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 11 13:35:39 2017 No.4321028 >>4321024 *system its in

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 12 02:00:54 2017 No.4322396 >>4320924 I looked into this briefly, but it looks like it still involves complicated setup/instillation/patching/etc. I'll give it a try anyway and see how it goes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 00:48:48 2017 No.4324238 Any other fans of Kingpin Life of Crime? Easily one of the most underrated FPSes of the late 90s.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 13 01:41:33 2017 No.4324292 >>4324238 Could be much better if not for bullet sponge enemies. IMHO this damaged gameplay, maybe this is the reason why game is forgotten.

Anonymous Fri Oct 13 23:58:04 2017 No.4326220
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How do I fix the resolution for Capitalism Plus? I've got the GOG version and it stretches out to fit a 16:9 monitor. Is there any way to get it to display in 4:3 with black bars on the side?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 03:15:33 2017 No.4326435 >>4326220 There is a set to scale option for your card driver.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 12:13:16 2017 No.4326967 >>4308479 That's just Might & Magic (2 I think?), its a DOS game, among other pre-Windows releases it had.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 13:08:52 2017 No.4327043 How to setup a Windows 98 live usb? I tried the one where you are supposed to install it through a command line when you boot up from your usb drive, but it didn't work.

Anonymous Sat Oct 14 21:10:59 2017 No.4327908

Hello everyone.
I'm looking for some games I played a long time ago. It was on windows 98, for sure.

I dont remember the name, but I guess it was a blue ninja. It was an adventure game, 3D, where the ninja have some stances, allowing him to jump, fly over water a little and stuffs like that.

Someone remember that game ?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 14 21:14:33 2017 No.4327917 >>4327908 I dont remember the magazine it came, but I have a lot of CD Rom with game. They are from Pc gamer, or PC "something", and have a month. Like - Pc "Gamer" November.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 15 08:14:35 2017 No.4328694 >>4327908 >>4327917 >>4268527

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 16 04:46:01 2017 No.4330584 File: 19 KB, 279x357, Atraincover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How's A-Train?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 16 16:15:08 2017 No.4331425 File: 3.06 MB, 1024x576, 1492925894_Fire.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How do I get the original Postal running?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 16 16:16:12 2017 No.4331432 File: 1.16 MB, 320x200, Postal_(PC)_12.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Because seriously it's a pretty cool game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 16 16:17:20 2017 No.4331438 File: 1.94 MB, 640x480, steamworkshop_webupload_previewfile_168282118_preview.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The source code was released, right? Is there a source port?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 16 19:26:39 2017 No.4331835 >>4308475 Still can't believe I've never played this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 17 11:02:22 2017 No.4333097 >>4331835 what game is that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 00:14:05 2017 No.4334717 >>4308746 >>4321004 these look funky

Anonymous Wed Oct 18 05:41:32 2017 No.4335061

>>4330584
It's alright and different enough from TTD, being mostly oriented on passenger transportation, with additional real-estate and stock market.

Just be warned that reading the manual and a dose of autism are required to optimize your trains and income.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 09:02:41 2017 No.4335203 http://mistwalkers.wikia.com/wiki/MistWalkers_Wiki Can still run but needs workaround

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 09:08:35 2017 No.4335207 >tfw I play tons of classic console games on a regular basis >played some early to mid 90s PC games growing up >find old PC games the absolute hardest to go back to I don't know why, they just feel the most fucking dated to me. Still,

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 12:09:07 2017 No.4335485 >>4308475 What game? >>4308482 What game? >>4308506 What game? Is this Shadow President? >>4308525 What game? I can see this is mostly spritework, but the 3D effect is very good!

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 18 12:19:58 2017 No.4335496 >>4335485 >What game? I can see this is mostly spritework, but the 3D effect is very good! World Rally Fever

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 03:23:53 2017 No.4337120 >>4335485 3rd game is Shadow President

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 12:48:32 2017 No.4337738 >>4335485 2nd game is SkyRoads

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 16:05:01 2017 No.4338170 >>4335485 I think the first game is Destruction Derby.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 16:08:05 2017 No.4338178 >>4335496 >>4337120 >>4337738 >>4338170 Awesome, grabbing all of these for my old PCs.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 16:24:22 2017 No.4338201 >>4335485 >>4338170 first game is Fatal Racing (aka Whiplash) it's a MS-DOS game though so I don't know why someone would post that in this thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 19 16:28:48 2017 No.4338208 >>4338201 Old windows just ran on top of DOS anyway, so lots of DOS games run if you launch them from windows. Sometimes there are driver problems though, since windows handles some drivers differently.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 20 06:29:19 2017 No.4339554 >>4338201 >first game is Fatal Racing (aka Whiplash) Does it play like Destruction Derby?

Anonymous Fri Oct 20 12:55:43 2017 No.4340156

In Capitalism Plus there's a file in the folder called "Graphic mode setup", which is listed as an application.

If I run this it tells me that the "current graphic mode" is "surface".

I'm trying to make Capitalism Plus run in the original resolution of 4:3 instead of stretched out to 16:9 (which it currently is doing). How exactly do I do this?

Anonymous Fri Oct 20 14:22:05 2017 No.4340306
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>>4340156
Have you tried using dgVoodoo? Even if it's not a glide game, dgVoodoo comes with replacement directx drivers too. You drop in the dlls and then you can use the configuration exe to select the scaling mode you want.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 20 17:06:08 2017 No.4340651 >>4340306 that shit sounds complicated

Anonymous Fri Oct 20 17:59:40 2017 No.4340783

>>4340651
It's not, you just copy and paste some dlls into the same folder as the exe for the game, and then you open that configurator in the screenshot and select one of the "keep aspect ratio" or "4:3 aspect ratio" options. It looks complicated because the tool can be used to do a lot more than that--but you can ignore everything else if you want to.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 21 10:00:21 2017 No.4342075 >>4340783 i'll try it

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 21 16:21:42 2017 No.4342804 >>4308470 That doesn't look like Windows. Is that PC-98?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 07:39:20 2017 No.4344287 >>4308494 Oh shit, POD. So many hours I used to spend to this one.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 12:42:35 2017 No.4344791 >>4344287 >POD de-abbreviate that

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 13:10:57 2017 No.4344867 >>4344791 planet of death

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 03:43:11 2017 No.4346807 >>4344867 thanks for the reply

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 23:28:24 2017 No.4348718 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clcirPeGqMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YFMKHiIegw These sound good for gmota

Anonymous Tue Oct 24 07:20:22 2017 No.4349281

Why were there so many "arcade style" racers in the late 90s on PC? There's Need For Speed, Metropolis Street Racing, Midtown Madness, Destruction Derby, Ballistics, Ignition, Rollcage, Screamer, etc.

Racing had never been a very PC centric genre, but then suddenly there were just a zillion of the fucking things all at once.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 11:05:28 2017 No.4349531 PROTIP : There's a program called DXWND that makes it a hell of a lot easier to run Take No Prisoners on modern systems without it fucking itself up. Also jesus fuck it's menu noises are loud.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 14:26:19 2017 No.4349835 File: 384 KB, 350x263, 1447102749653.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] To be honest with you lads, I was born young, and never was aware of all these games. Thanks for enlightening me, all of these games look extremely intruiging to me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 14:27:47 2017 No.4349837 >>4349835 >I was born young Fuck. I am young, and was born late.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 14:41:17 2017 No.4349858 >>4349835 No shit, homo. I will be born undead.

Anonymous Tue Oct 24 15:12:16 2017 No.4349921

I liked the original aliens vs predator by rebellion. That shit was dope. Can't for the life of me get that beast of a game running anymore.
A tip if you can't get your old games running - use VMware and make a winXP guest. Currently playing Delta force 2, GTA 1+2, homm2, red alert 1, microprose MTG and so forth. You just need a semi powerful pc to run it properly.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 15:15:49 2017 No.4349929 >>4349858 >replying 14 minutes after correction was posted You're the homo, retard.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 15:38:54 2017 No.4349986 >>4349921 Check pcem, it is really worth trying.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 16:54:36 2017 No.4350121 What was the windows game that was one of the first directx games? It was a kind of 3D isometric tank game

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 17:00:44 2017 No.4350142 >>4350121 G police?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 17:15:47 2017 No.4350175 >>4304802 And

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 17:20:14 2017 No.4350183 >>4350142 I think it was older? Kind of desert strike aesthetic

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 17:27:41 2017 No.4350196 >>4350183 If it's one where you got a choice of three tanks with varying speed/armor values then I remember it but not the name.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 17:51:50 2017 No.4350254 >>4350196 Yes, that’s it I think. I can’t even remember the year, maybe 97?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 17:55:22 2017 No.4350262 >>4350196 Return fire https://youtu.be/fyGy5rzyKGM Awesome game, that was the point where pc gaming really started to pick up the pace

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 18:20:55 2017 No.4350312 >>4350262 That's the one! I had almost completly forgot it had such a weird interface for the time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 18:56:43 2017 No.4350382 >>4349281 because games like Gran turismo, daytona usa and destruction derby got big on consoles

Anonymous Tue Oct 24 19:04:42 2017 No.4350394
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Does anyone here know how to get B-Hunter (old full 3d flying car combat game running on Win 7 and above without Virtual Machines? The game will start up, but after like 1-2 minutes of gameplay the game will lock up like clockwork.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 19:06:25 2017 No.4350396 >>4349281 What games didn't get a sudden jump in the 90s on PC thanks to the release of 3D accelerators? Voodoo 1 was released in 96.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 19:23:21 2017 No.4350426 >>4350396 A lot of side-scrollers didn't, you still tended to get 2D stuff instead of weird arse 3D on a 2D background that you got slightly later on.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 24 20:00:13 2017 No.4350489 >>4350394 wow, i used to play that on pc too. forgot all about it. dont remember it being that good

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 07:30:02 2017 No.4351407 Posting Machine Hunter in a thread with TNP, it was a pretty cool idea for a game where you played a dude who could posses robots you'd damaged but not destroyed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSr4kLjtsWk

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 25 10:33:18 2017 No.4351598 >>4349986 This looks awesome! Definitely gonna check it out when I have some time. Thanks

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 00:26:07 2017 No.4353446 >>4350262 I've always had a soft spot for top-down tank games.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 03:51:25 2017 No.4353697 >>4305132 If it's actually Shandalar, like the one where it's all like an RPG, count me interested.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 26 21:55:38 2017 No.4355330 >>4304943 Wait, they made a video game out of the card game?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 01:23:46 2017 No.4355660 >>4355330 There's books and stuff too, I think they're making either a movie or a TV show soon.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 02:52:14 2017 No.4355720 >>4308519 What game?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 03:31:38 2017 No.4355746 >>4308475 >>4333097 >>4335485 Fatal Racing/Whiplash - a racing game with some stunt elements and destructible cars. You can wreck your opponents, and you also have to manage your pit stops if you are not careful with the damage yourself.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 03:36:05 2017 No.4355748 >>4307137 Looks neat!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 03:42:04 2017 No.4355754 >>4355720 Ignition / Fun Tracks

Anonymous Fri Oct 27 03:50:56 2017 No.4355764
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Hellbender was made by Microsoft to showcase Windows gaming and directx. A demo came on the actual Windows 95 disc which I enjoyed playing from time to time even if I wasn't that good. Great music and voice work from Gillian Anderson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARNwWU0APPo

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 04:10:27 2017 No.4355784 >>4331438 >>4331432 >>4331425 steam and gog both have the "uncut" versions, as well as remastered versions.

Anonymous Fri Oct 27 04:22:47 2017 No.4355794
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I wish PC Gamer had a backlog of all their demo CDs

Coconut Monkey was a trip

anyways heres an obscure PC game I only rememerb playing the demo of on said PC Gamer disk, briefly before it crashed

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 16:44:33 2017 No.4356725 >>4355764 I had a blast with this one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 27 17:15:32 2017 No.4356775 >>4355794 You mean these? https://archive.org/details/pcgamer-cdroms More info here: http://www.blackfalcongames.net/?p=183

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 28 07:04:35 2017 No.4357983 >>4355784 Cool. I'll look into that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 06:34:05 2017 No.4360224 Is there anyone out there still making games for old operating systems? Like how SNES or Dreamcast still occasionally get new games?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 10:50:04 2017 No.4360452 >>4360224 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_City_Rampage This is the only one that I know of

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 29 11:00:39 2017 No.4360475 >>4360224 RetroArch's got a Win9x build... People almost crucified them for spending resources on such a retarded idea.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 02:56:37 2017 No.4362195 >>4360452 Wait, did that actually get a DOS release? How would that even work?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 30 10:42:59 2017 No.4362668 >>4362195 http://www.pcgamer.com/retro-city-rampage-for-dos-is-out-now-and-windows-31-is-next/ On a 3.5 inch floppy disk dumb dumb

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 31 08:30:29 2017 No.4364459 >>4362668 >windows-31-is-next WHY.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 1 07:49:52 2017 No.4366681 >>4362668 Where do you even get disks now?

Anonymous Wed Nov 1 12:44:30 2017 No.4367110

>>4366681
I don't know if they are still manufactured anywhere, but there is tons of inventory remaining. I see unopened boxes of floppies at thrift stores and electronics stores all the time. They probably only sold a very limited run of that game on floppies anyway--how many do you think it was? Probably under 1000, and it would not be hard to get that many floppy disks at all. I probably still have about 100 in my basement, although I bet only 75% of them or so still work.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 2 06:32:20 2017 No.4369013 >>4367110 >unopened boxes why would anyone have ever kept those and not opened them?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 3 04:26:19 2017 No.4371810 What game(s) is everyone currently playing?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 3 09:46:02 2017 No.4372116 >>4369013 They were cheap at the time so most people had a few boxes worth

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 3 09:54:17 2017 No.4372127 >>4317746 how did they compete in carmageddon competitively? like was it deathmatch, races, score based or what?

Anonymous Fri Nov 3 16:15:54 2017 No.4372823

>>4369013
They became obsolete really fast. Even when people commonly used ZIP disks and things like that, 3.5 inch floppies were the only thing that was pretty much guaranteed to work on any computer. USB flash drives replaced them in that niche by the Windows XP era, so a lot of people (and businesses especially) had leftover boxes of floppies that they would never again need to use. That's lucky for retro computer enthusiasts, because there's enough of a supply that we don't have to treat flimsy-ass floppies like irreplaceable gold.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 4 00:18:57 2017 No.4373774 >>4311613 You're absolutely up my alley.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 4 18:03:17 2017 No.4375452 >>4371810 Thief 1 and 2.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 5 07:38:13 2017 No.4377091 >>4371810 Been getting back into the Ultima series in a big way lately.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 5 20:32:42 2017 No.4378704 Is it just me or is Quake II really underrated?

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