Posted on 03/19/2015 6:45:45 PM PDT by Utilizer
For those of you who remember such classic computer games such as Descent (a Doom-type First Person Shooter) and Descent II, ars technica has an article posted about how some alums of the game are attempting a reboot of the game for PC/MAC called "Descent Underground".
Another source states that a Linux version is planned but no reference is found in this article.
More info, history, and some nice graphics are at the website.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/classic-fps-descent-to-be-rebooted-by-star-citizen-alums/
Wake me up when “Redneck Rampage” gets resurrected.
Descent was fun.
Descent, Descent II, Privateer, Privateer II, and MechWarrior II were the ones I most played.
How about “Nude Tomb Raider”? *grin*
I actually loved the Descent: Freespace games. They’re available on GOG.com.
I still have the game CDs. Been thinking about installing one or two in one of the Win98 machines I have in the side room. Still can’t find a classic joystick, though, so I dunno how well it would work out re-doing the configs entirely by keyboard control.
You win, I lose. (But I *do* want a copy of "Nude Raider"!)
Privateer was great, but I couldn’t get past one mission to finish it heh.
Update: on the Kickstarter page, they list supported OS’s as including Windows PC, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, VR (supporting Oculus Rift and Gear VR now, as well as others coming soon), Linux, SteamOS, and HTML5.
Tablets and other mobile devices are not currently supported, but that may change in the future.
Privateer II was much better. :) Why not give it a try?
I remember using a Gravis Gamepad. I wonder if you could find a USB version that would work? I don’t think they have game ports on computers any more. lol
I found some USB Joysticks, but ‘98 support -even ‘98SE, for USB was not great.
Right now I am attempting to figure out some kind of VM to install ‘98SE under Linux to see if that will allow using a modern joystick and bypass the ‘doze driver requirements.
Where do you find this stuff now?
Which part are you asking about then? I have to go to sleep now but will look for your responce later on.
The part where I know the games I referenced, or the part where you might be able to review the games now or possibly re-load them on a machine today?
Or were you referring to something else entirely?
I was wondering where one would attain such a game today and how it works on much more modern systems heh.
The first one was fun, saving, building up your ship etc.
Right, well, I really must get to sleep so I will reply in more detail later on today.
The article referenced provides links to downloads for the particular game referenced, and the site there has many more available for purchase.
Playing those games in modern machines is a bit problematic due to the speed of current uProcs and memory, to name just a couple of difficulties, and small things such as video and sound and joystick drivers cause major headaches as well.
Wine under Linux helps quite a bit, as does QEMU, but a VM running a ‘doze setup under Linux is the way I am currently poised toward. Seems to bypass a lot of problems if I can ever get one of the setups working right.
Alternatively, you could verify that you have the original diskettes/ media of the games in question and ask someone to provide a link to download the setup disks and you might be surprised.
Right, I’ve got to crash. Hope I answered your questions then.
GOG.com (a.k.a. Good Old Games). Has plenty of games that are reformatted to run smoothly on modern machines. Enjoy it immensely because the games require no disc and automatically update over the years so that if you get a new machine so long as you can login to your account. I go there or Steam often because both have a decent selection of older games. Newer games are mostly, with few exceptions, overpriced movies.
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