Re: Re: Classic mini retro consoles
By: jagossel to Nightfox on Thu Dec 06 2018 02:35 pm

I have been that way for a while now: more interested in replaying games that I played when I was a kid. I was primarily on MS-DOS and the Atari 1040 STF then; played a lot of shareware games because we couldn't afford full versions then. I have DOSBox now and purchased full DOS games from GOG.com or download shareware or now-freeware games from RGB Classic

I was the same way, I enjoyed playing a lot of games on MS-DOS back in the day. I did eventually buy full versions of some of the games I liked to play regularly (or sometimes got some of them as a gift). One game I liked to play was Wing Commander: Privateer, and quite a while ago I found an open-source remake of that game for modern platforms, and it's is free and includes the same music and graphics. I had fun playing that, although I never did finish the game.

Nightfox

Nightfox, to jagossel...

I have been that way for a while now: more interested in replaying games that I played when I was a kid. I was primarily on MS-DOS and the Atari 1040 STF then; played a lot of shareware games because we couldn't afford full versions then. I have DOSBox now and purchased full DOS games from GOG.com or download shareware or now-freeware games from RGB Classic

I was the same way, I enjoyed playing a lot of games on MS-DOS back in
the day. I did eventually buy full versions of some of the games I
liked to play regularly (or sometimes got some of them as a gift). One game I liked to play was Wing Commander: Privateer, and quite a while
ago I found an open-source remake of that game for modern platforms,
and it's is free and includes the same music and graphics. I had fun playing that, although I never did finish the game.

Titles like Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, and Descent are the ones that I
know for a fact they have an open source version of their engines that can
run on modern platforms. I have bought Descent on GOG.com and dropped the
game data files into the DXX-Rebirth folder and I can play a much more smoother looking version of Descent.

-jag
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Re: Re: Classic mini retro consoles
By: jagossel to Nightfox on Thu Dec 06 2018 07:40 pm

Titles like Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, and Descent are the ones that I know for a fact they have an open source version of their engines that can run on modern platforms. I have bought Descent on GOG.com and dropped the game data files into the DXX-Rebirth folder and I can play a much more smoother looking version of Descent.

I've played with DXX-Rebirth as well. I had sold my old copy of Descent & Descent 2 a long time ago, but a few years ago I bought them again just for DXX-Rebirth. It looks the same as the DOS version, and it plays very well.

There was another Descent engine update that I had played with a while ago that made use of more modern graphics features for more modern lighting and effects. It looked interesting, but it seemed a little buggy.

Nightfox

jagossel wrote:

Nightfox, to jagossel...

I have been that way for a while now: more interested in replaying games
that I played when I was a kid. I was primarily on MS-DOS and the Atari
1040 STF then; played a lot of shareware games because we couldn't afford
full versions then. I have DOSBox now and purchased full DOS games from
GOG.com or download shareware or now-freeware games from RGB Classic

I was the same way, I enjoyed playing a lot of games on MS-DOS back in
the day. I did eventually buy full versions of some of the games I
liked to play regularly (or sometimes got some of them as a gift). One
game I liked to play was Wing Commander: Privateer, and quite a while
ago I found an open-source remake of that game for modern platforms,
and it's is free and includes the same music and graphics. I had fun
playing that, although I never did finish the game.

Titles like Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, and Descent are the ones that I know for a fact they have an open source version of their engines that can run on modern platforms. I have bought Descent on GOG.com and dropped the game data files into the DXX-Rebirth folder and I can play a much more smoother looking version of Descent.

Duke Nukem 3D has a hi def pack you can download. It makes an amazing difference.
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I have been that way for a while now: more interested in replaying games
that I played when I was a kid. I was primarily on MS-DOS and the Atari
1040 STF then; played a lot of shareware games because we couldn't afford
full versions then. I have DOSBox now and purchased full DOS games from
GOG.com or download shareware or now-freeware games from RGB Classic

I was the same way, I enjoyed playing a lot of games on MS-DOS back in
the day. I did eventually buy full versions of some of the games I
liked to play regularly (or sometimes got some of them as a gift). One
game I liked to play was Wing Commander: Privateer, and quite a while
ago I found an open-source remake of that game for modern platforms,
and it's is free and includes the same music and graphics. I had fun
playing that, although I never did finish the game.

Titles like Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, and Descent are the ones that I know for a fact they have an open source version of their engines that can run on modern platforms. I have bought Descent on GOG.com and dropped the game data files into the DXX-Rebirth folder and I can play a much more smoother looking version of Descent.

Duke Nukem 3D has a hi def pack you can download. It makes an amazing difference.

I believe that DXX-Rebirth has Hi-Res texture packs as well; and two
different recodings of the game's music: OPL3 and SC-55.

-jag
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on 12/06/18, Nightfox said...

Re: Re: Classic mini retro consoles
By: jagossel to Nightfox on Thu Dec 06 2018 08:44 am

Yeah, it seems that a lot of the people who grew up in the 80s (and
90s), who are getting older, are nostalgic about that kind of stuff from when they were kids. I suppose I'm one of those people, as I grew up

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I heard Sega plans to release a Genesis Classic system too..

There have been genesis classics for ages but these were made by 3rd party manufacturers and the emulation quality was hit or miss. Sega making one
would be great but I personally would kill for a Saturn mini with proper emulation!

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