Subj : Re: About To Blow A Gaske
To   : Deuce
From : richardw
Date : Thu Jun 23 2005 02:15 pm

  Re: Re: About To Blow A Gaske
  By: Deuce to ROB MCCART on Thu Jun 23 2005 11:57 am

 >  > One of the DOS programs that I run frequently is Doom II via modem
 >  > and Win XP can't handle that at all. Doom II started out as a 386
 >  > program but really, with the newer monster levels now, it pretty
 >  > much takes a minimum MMX200 with 32 meg to manage it and XP doesn't
 >  > allow near those resources for their Dos (Win 95?) emulation or
 >  > whatever it is..  It just crawls..
 > 
 > Did you try Doom Legacy?  I mean, Doom has been open source for quite a
 > while... pretty sure there's a Win32 version now.

Final Doom came out before it was open source, and it was Win32.  It even 
ran at 800x600 res!

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