Never gets old

Posted by Beige_Box_Enthusiast@reddit | retrobattlestations | View on Reddit | 20 comments

Most certainly not the best doom player or even good. But still enjoy it. Sound of the super shotgun. I'll usually take 2 or 3 networked systems to retro meets so people can come sit and play co‑op.

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DegenerateCuber@reddit

I'm a zoomer spoiled by modern shooters, and even I love Doom. It's so weird, it makes no sense, but it works, and it feels amazing to play. The shotgun is my favourite video game weapon ever, no competition. I was so disappointed when I tried Doom 3 and the shotgun actually worked the way you expect a shotgun to work.

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overand@reddit

Give it a try like most of us did in the olden days - keyboard only! (Or, even better, on an emulator or with settings to absolutely kill the framerate, shrink the screensize down too, and set it to low-rez mode! [https://www.mobygames.com/game/1068/doom/screenshots/pc98/979481/](https://www.mobygames.com/game/1068/doom/screenshots/pc98/979481/) )

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DegenerateCuber@reddit

I have played it keyboard only a decent bit, it's fun. I really need to get my 486 laptop up and running, think it's a 486dx2, it runs it pretty well full screen on low, but the pixel response time on the built in display is diabolical, it's completely unplayable on that screen, you're basically blind when you're moving or panning. I do have some CRTs I could hook up to it though.

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overand@reddit

Ooooh yeah, even active matrix displays at the time were bad, but if its PASSIVE matrix, then... yeah, Not good. Toss a CRT on it! My experience of Doom with a 486 DX2/66 has been rewritten in my memory as "that was definitely 60fps" but I suspect that's just how it felt in comparison to the 386 we played multiplayer with - it was never fun to be on the 386!

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DegenerateCuber@reddit

I'm planning on running w3.1 on it, but it's currently got w95, when I first fired it up, I went to turn the cursor trails off only to find that they were already off, I then set them to the max and it looked identical, it was so funny. It's an Acernote 760C, I found an ad for the 780cx where they specify it's active matrix, on the 760C ad in the same magazine, they don't say anything, so I'm going to assume it's not active, which explains a lot.

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overand@reddit

That's actually what the cursor trails are for! On some passive matrix displays (and active even), if you moved the cursor fast, it would essentially disappear.

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No_Transportation_77@reddit

Doom maxes at 35FPS, and will hit that most of the time on a 486DX2/66 with VLB or PCI graphics. To hit it in heavy action, though, a 486DX4 or a slow Pentium is better.

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oskarhauks@reddit

I once accidentally got into this level while playing with my brother. It was the only time we ever managed to open it because we had no idea what we did to trigger it. Had a save game dedicated to this level on the family computer if I remember correctly.

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Beige_Box_Enthusiast@reddit (OP)

Nzxt fan controller

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