Subj : Re: Your favourite games as a kid / teen?
To   : Irish_Monk
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Aug 30 2022 08:51:36

  Re: Re: Your favourite games as a kid / teen?
  By: Irish_Monk to MissChief on Tue Aug 30 2022 08:28 am

 Ir> Mine would be the game that I first seen on a friends computer that made
 Ir> me go and get my own 486dx33, The game was Doom! Thought it was the
 Ir> coolest thing that I could call someone elses computer and play against
 Ir> them. 

I liked playing Doom that way too.  At the time, I was 13 and hadn't started working yet, so I couldn't afford to buy my own PC - but I had a hand-me-down PC with a 386SX-16 at the time (I don't remember how much RAM, maybe 2MB). Doom on that ran super slow, though not totally unplayable.  I had to make the drawable screen size as small as possible in order to maximize the frame rate. Later, after I started running a BBS, I would sometimes play Doom over the modem with one of my BBS users, which was fun.  That was in 1995 - and I think by then I had been given a hand-me-down 386DX-40 (on a new motherboard, which I had help installing in my PC at the time).  Doom ran a bit better on that, but I think still a bit too slowly.

Nightfox
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