Will DOS Games like DOOM ever run under NT?
Mark Roddy
>Does anybody know if DOS games like DOOM, HERETIC, etc.
>will ever be runnable under NT -- *with sound and all* ?
>-jl
Well in general doom and descent run ok but a little slooooowwwwwww.
If you're playing on a network and other people are running native DOS
then you have a real disadvantage (ouch!).
But shouldn't you be working?
The real question is when are game developers gonna get with the
program and start writing good games for win32?
Frank Knobbe
>>Does anybody know if DOS games like DOOM, HERETIC, etc.
>>will ever be runnable under NT -- *with sound and all* ?
>Well in general doom and descent run ok but a little slooooowwwwwww.
>If you're playing on a network and other people are running native DOS
>then you have a real disadvantage (ouch!).
>The real question is when are game developers gonna get with the
>program and start writing good games for win32?
Well, I've seen one of our techs play Descent and Doom II on Windows
95, and Doom II ran much much faster than on plain DOS....HE would
have the advantage here....
Rob Lazenby
>The real question is when are game developers gonna get with the
>program and start writing good games for win32?
>
>
Actually - the real question is when will the NT DOS emmulator
be robust enough to allow us to runn legacy DOS applications
properly. If it could, we would be able to (easily) decide to
skip WIN95 altogether and move right on to NT Workstation as
our desktop environment.
Bradley S. Murray
>Does anybody know if DOS games like DOOM, HERETIC, etc.
>will ever be runnable under NT -- *with sound and all* ?
Acutually if you have ever seen Doom 2 for Windows, you have seen decent
performance under NT. The music plays, but the sound effects are very delayed
and choppy. The screen refreshes at 35 frames/second at 320 x 240 resolution
on a Pentium 66 w/ 32MB and 15 frames/second at 640 x 480. I never got the
networking to work because I didn't have any documentation. This was a beta
version of it that was dated April 13, 1995.
Dan Bird
>Actually - the real question is when will the NT DOS emmulator
>be robust enough to allow us to runn legacy DOS applications
>properly. If it could, we would be able to (easily) decide to
It's not even an issue of robustness - in a _secure_ OS you can not allow
applications to access the hardware as intimatly as most of our favorate
dos games do.
David Markle
>
>Can't run DOOM under NT? Please! I have a 16mB 486/66 and set up a pif
>giving 8mB XMS for DOOM and it runs like a dream!
>
I guess you don't have sound in your dreams.
-DM
Dennis Battiscombe
Rob Elmer
Dennis Battiscombe <bsau...@investec.co.za> wrote:
>Can't run DOOM under NT? Please! I have a 16mB 486/66 and set up a pif
>giving 8mB XMS for DOOM and it runs like a dream!
Heretic runs on my 32m p90, but it's not what I'd call responsive.... It's
slow to recognize keypresses, but if you hold the key down, NT apparantly
gives it a temporary priority boost causing it to react too fast :) It's
weird to play like that.
If you've gotten better results, would you mind emailing your pif to
rel...@planetcom.com?
Thanks,
Rob
David Hubbard
Dennis Battiscombe <bsau...@investec.co.za> could have written:
> Can't run DOOM under NT? Please! I have a 16mB 486/66 and set up a pif
> giving 8mB XMS for DOOM and it runs like a dream!
With sound?
See ya,
Dave.
dhub...@eng.usf.edu
http://bleach.eng.usf.edu/