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  • Wolf3D is 31 yrs. old!

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 5 23:34:24 2023
    XPost: free.games.wolfenstein, alt.games.wolfenstein

    I remember playing it on my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC with 1 MB
    of RAM and an original SB card! ;)
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    Wolf3D is 31 yrs. old!
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@21:1/5 to Ant on Sat May 6 12:07:33 2023
    On Fri, 05 May 2023 23:34:24 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

    I remember playing it on my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz PC with 1 MB
    of RAM and an original SB card! ;)

    I think I had, at the time, a 386/25 with 3MB* RAM. The sound-card is
    a bit trickier; it was probably a Media Vision Thunderboard, which was
    a cheap SoundBlaster clone but still a huge improvement over the
    ear-piercing beeps of the PC speaker.

    Wolfenstein 3D was impressive tech for its time, even if I couldn't
    really appreciate how cool it was. The gameplay was less impressive
    (even back in '92, I quickly grew tired of the mazelike levels).
    Still, it was good enough for me to buy the other episodes.

    I still wish they'd make a proper sequel/modernization of the original Wolfenstein games though...

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  • From rms@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 6 14:14:46 2023
    Wolfenstein 3D was impressive tech for its time

    I think I played it at some point after finishing RTCW. Didn't one of
    the more recent Wolf games have levels from it playable in hidden areas?
    That may be what I'm actually recalling as playing. Doom2016 had something similar as well.

    In any case, I have no interest in re-visiting Wolf3d. Actually at the
    moment, I can't dredge up any enthusiasm for nazi-killing games: The last
    Wolf I have played, The New Colossus, felt tiresome and played out to me,
    and Youngblood is apparently even worse; and Sniper Elite 5 gave boring and pointless new depths of meaning.

    rms

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