Knee-deep in the nostalgia

[Ab]

Holy shit, DOOM is 20 years old.

[Lightspeed]

Half-way through Wired's interview of Carmack ATM:
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/1...-carmack-doom/

[aR Que]

+mlook is the key. Still remember the day, try fireball me now you impy bastard. *strafe strafe*

[Ab]

*blows off the cobwebs*



told u i was hardcore

[CCS]

Originally Posted by Ab

Holy shit, DOOM is 20 years old.

Which means you're more than twice as old as Doom... LOOOOOOOOOOOOLLL!!!1

[Ab]

To be fair, when DOOM came out in 1993 I didn't really notice - I was more a pinball/coin-op/Amiga/SNES guy at that time, and DOS games weren't really my thing.

I didn't get my first taste of DOOM until some time in the summer of 94-95.

[crocos]

Originally Posted by Ab

*blows off the cobwebs*



told u i was hardcore

Originally Posted by Ab

told u i was hardcore

Originally Posted by Ab

i was hardcore

Originally Posted by Ab

was

Originally Posted by Ab

*was off the waswas*

WAS

Was u i was hardwas

[StN]

Woz.

[IoriDyson]

lol

also, happy birthday doom! you killed the amiga for me.

[leadinjector]

i remember sneaking downstairs with my brother at night to play the doom demo that came on the windows 95 game cd. you know the one where you walk around inside that spaceship and go up to the various consoles in order to play the games? and it had like fucking 30 games on it, like mech2 etc. superb disc.

my mum would always snap us though. ears of a fucking hawk.

edit-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFXV2McmwoA

[cEvin]

wat is doom? looks balls, the grpahics are gay compared to halo

[Ab]

Seemed so lifelike and immersive at the time

[Cyberbob]

Originally Posted by leadinjector

i remember sneaking downstairs with my brother at night to play the doom demo that came on the windows 95 game cd. you know the one where you walk around inside that spaceship and go up to the various consoles in order to play the games? and it had like fucking 30 games on it, like mech2 etc. superb disc.

my mum would always snap us though. ears of a fucking hawk.

edit-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFXV2McmwoA

That CD was awesome. I loved Fury3 with my Sidewinder 3d Pro.

[Lightspeed]

I was too young for Doom really. Not too young for the actual game, I just didn't have access to a PC at the time, it was an unreachable wonder in the computer shop.

[Ab]

Then the first time I successfully got someone to dial in for a modem game

[CCS]

How about the first time you played a multiplayer game with a whopping THREE OTHER PEOPLE!

[StN]

SLIP on a shiny new Compaq laptop with trackball mounted on the screen. Might have been DOOM2 though... LTE Elite 486??

[Trigger]

Originally Posted by Ab

Then the first time I successfully got someone to dial in for a modem game

Kali dot net
never forget

[Farmer Joe]

Still remember running up and down the hill from Menace's house with Doom pkzip'd across ~16 disks. Every time I'd get back one would be corrupt.

Finished reading Masters of Doom by David Kushner a few weeks ago, really enjoyed it.

[IoriDyson]

arj, 4 disks

[Ars vitae]

Doom convinced me to stop being a tight bastard and buy a decent soundcard, thus the new release/hardware upgrade cycle began...

[Ajax]

Doom was a massive leap forward for gaming when it was released. The graphics were amazing and the whole concept of sharing a 3D space with other players was still a novelty. I had to read a fucking manual on networking and become familiar with scripting and various protocols (things I otherwise had zero interest in) just to get the dial-up working - that's motivation.

[Rince]

Originally Posted by Ars vitae

Doom convinced me to stop being a tight bastard and buy a decent soundcard, thus the new release/hardware upgrade cycle began...

and another 4mb of memory... so I could run doom without first disabling smartdrv.exe
soundcard+cdrom = $1000
4mb memory = $500

ffs.

[Gerbs]

Loading cdrom.sys and then mscdex.exe

*shudder*

Damn I had so much fun back then.
Now all I play is WoW.

[DrTiTus]

The game I never got to play due to poverty/hardware requirements was "Under a Killing Moon".

I just found it online for $4.99USD through gog.com. It's a 1.4 GB download, and it's 20 years old! Try spanning that bastard onto floppies with ARJ/ZIP...

[Trigger]

Originally Posted by DrTiTus

The game I never got to play due to poverty/hardware requirements was "Under a Killing Moon".

yep i played this when it first came out, was pretty fucken amazing
it was like playing a movie
came out on four CDs i think, think it was one of the first CD game releases I got... was cray cray

[StN]

Originally Posted by Ars vitae

Doom convinced me to stop being a tight bastard and buy a decent soundcard, thus the new release/hardware upgrade cycle began...

Originally Posted by Rince

and another 4mb of memory... so I could run doom without first disabling smartdrv.exe
soundcard+cdrom = $1000
4mb memory = $500

ffs.

I remember splashing out my entire performance bonus on 4MB RAM and a Video Blaster card.

7th Guest was the big game for me - spanning 2 CDs.

I think at one stage I sold my car to by my girlfriend a 21st present, oh, and an AWE64 for me. Up until then audio had been a novelty factor based on a bodged up parallel port and some resisters so I could play Amiga MOD files.

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Ajax

I had to read a fucking manual on networking and become familiar with scripting and various protocols (things I otherwise had zero interest in) just to get the dial-up working - that's motivation.

Modem initialisation strings, joy.

[Rince]

Originally Posted by StN

7th Guest was the big game for me - spanning 2 CDs.

yeah, 7th guest came with the soundcard+cdrom kit for me too.
I was stunned to browse (in DOS) the contents of the CD and see filesizes of 8 digits! woah!!

[_indigo1]

RAR was revolutionary, you could transfer games across 2 pcs with just 2 disks!
No more of pkzips 'insert last disk first'

Then there was serial + interlink.exe + go do something else for a couple hours...

I'm pretty sure I used to play dial up descent with TnT