- I got one of these from a co-worker. Really cool little device! I wish I had one back in 89 that would have been awesome
- cute. Sopwith was probably the first PC game I ever played. On the IBM XT(?) in a friend's dad's office, sometime around 1987 or so.
The PC speaker sound and simple CGA graphics are still burnt into my brain and I get nostalgia every time I see this game :)
- A simple phone call like "hey, sorry, we have no time/space/energy to do anything with your stuff, pick it up or it will be destroyed by $DEADLINE" would certainly have solved the problem
- haha wow who could have possibly predicted that...
oh wait...
- I think I still have that game installed on my old iPad :)
- > 10. Thou shalt not make vintage computing your G-d.
This one has no explanation. Anyone care to explain what a "G-d" is?
- boofar 641 days agoGod.
- At this point, who really cares anymore? Serious question! I think Doom has more clones, derivatives, hacks and reverse-engineered sources than any other game out there.
There's probably not much that this brings to the table. Or am I missing anything?
- It insures everything that can run DOOM actually does.
More seriously, Romero at least, likes to contribute to the history. That is the main contribution IMHO.
- Similar to Atwoods law for javascript. Carmack’s Law : all the things that can run Doom eventually will run Doom.
- > It insures everything that can run DOOM actually does.
How? I mean you can already port one of the existing doom ports to pretty much any system imaginable. Why would another source base (especially one as old and non-portable as this) be of any help there?
- I look at this as an action in conservation while preserving a hold on the IP on the game. I still believe that retro and vintage computing and sbc computers helps ,at least a little, to stem the tide in the war on general computing.
- DosBox-staging would be a much better (and easier) way than QEMU + FreeDOS
- I'd really love to see a thorough technical comparison of this vs Vice and WinUAE.
I always find it interesting that sometimes, a new emulator suddenly shows up that claims to be as accurate as existing ones that have been in development for 20+ years. I mean there must be some shortcomings, right?
- I was hoping for a bit more diverse selection. But it's mostly Final Fantasy and its spinoffs...
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