Running My games through Dos in The Olden Days
When i recieved my first true gaming pc it was ages better than the Nes clone I had at the time and the playstation was a fairly new console that was flipping expensive(so i couldnt afford one). Windows 95 was fairly new and I was still running ms dos 6.22 and windows 3.1. on my trusty old 486 dx4 100 (which was overclocked back then to 120mhz if you increased the Fsb to 40 by moving a jumper on the motherboard), it had 16 mb of ram and a 4 mb trident Vesa video card, And No Direct X wasnt even a word on anyone's mind back then.
running a Dos game in windows 3.1 flawlessly was a mission back the so to play a game like tomb raider or duke nukem I had to exit windows into ms dos mode then at the prompt i had to type in commands like :
c:\ cd tr1
c:\tr\setup.exe
which then gives you a setup program to config your sound card (you had to know what irq and dma range your sound card used , otherwise you had no sounds ingame)
something like this
after you save and exit the config the you had to type in the games exe file to run it at the command prompt ie c:\tr\tomb.exe and only then you can finally play.
Hell we have a progressed alot
Notable dos games
star wars dark forces
duke nukem 3d (obviaaaaaaaasly)
tomb raider
golden axe
shadow warrior
Need For Speed 1
doom and quake (quake ran on a 486 but it was slooow, the first true pentium game imo)
mortal kombat 3
Hexen
oh and California Games
Originally Posted by Dohc-WP
