DOS Games Discussion

@sonyvx: The OP already stated 'no promises' in the first paragraph.

I guess you are free to try them on your own, but various compatibility modes could perhaps work.

Thanks for the sticky.
I hope people have fun with these bits of history.







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I remember way way back when I still had my 386, I read a PC gaming magazine (not sure which one it was) and I remember seeing this list of 100 games. There were two columns, PC and MAC. And I remember the PC column had a black dot for every game listed. Only 6 dots or so showed up for the MAC column. And I just remember sitting there thinking, I'm so glad I got a PC!

Well, at some point we were going to upgrade the 386 to a 486, and I remember seeing this article in a PC gaming magazine about the 486SX chip, and that's the chip I was gonna get. Then Star Trek: A Final Unity was slated to come out and I just remember reading the system requirements, one of those requirements, 486DX because it has a math microprocessor or something the SX chips didn't have. So when dad said to me, so what did you decide on for the upgrade? I said, 486DX4, and I just had the most memorable gaming from 15 on up. I played that Star Trek game, Mechwarrior 2, Privateer, Star Wars Xwing and then later Tie Fighter, Star Wars Rebel Assault. Star Wars Dark Forces, that computer really did its job.

Pixelmusement just reviewed Unity on Youtube. I think Spectrum HB simply took too long to release it. As you mentioned, the math co-chip is required, so it must have been intended as a whopper of a game. But by the time it came out, many people had 100+ MHz Pentiums, which caused the game to run too fast. A DX4 would have been perfect.

It's fun reading about your upgrade adventures. I started by going from a 286 to a 386. I was drooling over the 486's in the magazines, but couldn't afford them with my cafeteria job pay. Once I got a real job, I left my old machine in the dust and bought that new P75, thus completely missing the 486 era. Well, sort of. It had NO L2 cache so it was basically just an expensive 486. Your DX4 may well have been faster.

The best free computer magazine in CA was Microtimes, which you could get at most newspaper racks. Basically ads, ads and more ads for all the local computer stores. Some of the issues have been archived here:
https://archive.org/details/microtimes