OceansRust
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#retro #retrogaming #awesome #pc_gaming
Mar 26, 2025 5:14 AM
OceansRust
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555
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#retro #retrogaming #awesome #pc_gaming
VaxxedCanadian
Phonecall in 5
VanessaNelson
Pardon me while I lust nostalgically 🤤🤤🤤🤤
Doomicorn
CptRobotNinja
Idkfa
inthepines
Doom on a computer? That's crazy
forelle
Is the "Turbo" button on?
ChristopherChristensen
Why would it be?! They had to hold it in while they PLAYED the damn game... How could they do THREE ACTIONS AT ONCE... Think for once you heathen /s
ChristopherChristensen
Three Actions at once... That would be like holding Forward AND Left AND Fire at the same time... absolute lunatic...
Ronelyn
When you could *feel* the hard drive head moving by touching your PC case.
CerisCinderwolf
All 64mb worth of it.
resolved
Ha deja vu
StTriniansHeadBoy
You want to map strafe to “.” & “,” and fire to “/“
crespomodesto
I'm reading Masters of Doom pretty cool
autofire
I miss these days
crespomodesto
iPhones nowadays like "look what they needed to do to mimic a fraction of our power"
sodomantis
cd doom
doom
cybergeek
Wild that that was just, like, 7 or 8 years ago!
IwishIwasJamesBond
Each one of these sounds is like music to my ears. 1966-er myself.
madmax17
Epic, low radiation 😂
huuuhhhfffhhhhfffffhuhhhhhhhhhhhfff
So we have radiation from computer monitors?
Zapathasura
idspispopd
slipvyne
this dude fucks
DwaneDibbley
*confused norton commander noises*
worldrecordstudios
You need to eat your vegetables! Can you hear me??
myloveforyouislikeatruckberserker
Soundblaster ey? You rich bastard
prcal
I had those exact speakers. I think that's the same IBM model M keyboard I had. Different monitor but similar computer.
criggie
Sorry, that's not a model M - its got windows keys.
prcal
Hmm. Your right, not the M. I was going from memory. Looked it up and this one has a key beside the alt instead of a blank space. No ibm logo either.
bloxxing
i played a lot of doom.
MrTheSpoon
I had to reduce screen size to get it to run smoothly on my 386dx. That's with the turbo up to 33mhz.
ThisIsMyUsernameThereAreManyLikeIt
Love that "LOW RADIATION" sticker
maddeninglemon
Your risk of radiation may be low, but never zero.
madmax17
Fallout saying.
FPAlpha
Way back in the early 90s my school had a computer room, about 20 networked PCs ( 486s or even Pentiums, can't remember) and someone brought Doom and we started to play it over the network, such a blast.
When the teachers "caught" us they were more fascinated by the network technology than with us playing an ultraviolent game.
So when we got to be seniors we could skip classes and write our own excuse notes and often enough it would go like "Wanna play Doom instead of going to class?" Good time
batkram
We did the same thing 15 years later with the Halo demo on flash drives
Archina
Holy fuck I'm not the only one LOL
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
...and THIS is the reason that I still can remember how yo type dos commands
GasBandit
Bad Command or Filename
OceansRust
I thought learning basic was cool, but dos was fun.
SuperAIUser
No DOS (out of the box) on C64, only BASIC. Good times.
graehall
If you liked that 90s retro gaming hit, you may also like this, sound on:
madmax17
lol
OceansRust
Hadn't seen that one, but I have the Promo for Dig Dug, it's a funny video/commercial that's cool. I played the hell out of Dig Dug on the PC so I might be prejudiced.
SuperAIUser
With PCem or the better 86Box, you don't need real hardware anymore. 86Box literally emulates every single part of a retro computer. Not just virtualization or DOSBox emulation garbage, but down to every single compontent. And you can select from hundreds of motherboards, GPUs, CPUs, soundcards, it's brilliant.
GentlemanScientist
Pardon my ignorance but what's the difference? Why is emulation garbage?
SuperAIUser
It's unprecise, buggy, tons of issues. DOSBox for instance has so many bugs and glitches, every single game needs to have tailor fixes for it to run well. 86Box is still emulating, but since it emulates EVERY SINGLE PART of a computer, it's far more precise and runs at correct speeds.
Nikolai5
When has it ever been about "need"? I love real hardware. I don't need it though, what has that got to do with anything?
SuperAIUser
I don't know about you, but I don't have the room to fit 10.000 PCs.
Nikolai5
In which case an emulator is just fine, especially when you're running games that are designed for CRT, in which case it's superior.
slipvyne
IDK If you know this but...you can run doom on a pregnancy test now. So...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5NTJSfUWDE
SuperAIUser
Myth. It's not running on it. It's just a passive monitor, doing zero processing.
slipvyne
https://imgur.com/fwOOhQb
Dragondraikk
Eh, that one in particular is kinda misleading. it's only using the screen, the rest runs on external hardware
slipvyne
I think you missed the point.
SuperAIUser
No, you missed the point. It's not running on it. It's just a monitor. It's doing literally none of the calculation, just a passive monitor.
slipvyne
holy fuck we got a special one with us. No, my comment was about the fact that doom runs on anything. You don't need to do any of that. it runs even on a prego test. And you come in with an uhm, actually. What happens when you have to explain the joke? fuck me this site is full of low iq.
afambelafonte
iddqd
lemonwipe
Idspispopd
PlatypusPowersActivate
idkfa
Bearroneous
idspispopd
slipvyne
I swear even if I am 90 years old I'm going to be drooling, in my diapers, on a chair, blankly staring at a wall, and one of the things I will randomly shout is iddqd idkfa
criggie
I D Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Pieces Of Putrid Debris
Gnakenheimer
Is that what the code ment? Holy shit
slipvyne
madmax17
I played Loom.
slipvyne
FOOLS! You think I didn't bring DOOM MEMES?!?
slipvyne
slipvyne
https://imgur.com/VOsH3lI
ThatSonOfaBitch
So, not to date myself, but I'm smack dab in the middle of Gen X: 1973. One of the most remarkable years ever! Don't believe me? The first mobile phone call, Skylab launched, Bruce Lee died, Dark Side of the Moon released, Secretariat won the Triple Crown, The OPEC embargo, the Paris Accords, Roe v. Wade, fucking Watergate!!!!, the Miami Dolphins were actually good. And I'm still mostly impressed with how much gaming has improved since I was in college.
HeShallKnowYourWaysAsIfBornToThem
Pioneer 10 flyby of Jupiter, Dec '73.
MutatedHorse
And cocaine!
FuckingTurtleBear
and best of all, you were born!
KnightWithShiningCamera
egolikeness
Why wouldn’t we believe you. You’re basically median age.
CitizenPrime
Main Character syndrome 🤣
kmgeb20003000
As someone who has played video games since you were born (Magnavox Odyssey), better graphics yes but not more interesting or entertaining gaming. I’ll take ROTT, Duke Nukem, Original COD, & Medal of Honor over current fair.
mudlark
If you were on the PC side, did you catch the monumental Wolfenstein 3-D / Ultima Underworld games around launch? I remember playing Star Control 2 after school and it really justified the Sound Blaster card I'd hassled my parents into including in the home PC build... didn't realize how revolutionary some of the games we were playing would become.
CyberWizard252
I remember going to the store to pick up a Sound Blaster and they were out. They salesman explained that they did have an SB Pro on hand which would give me stereo sound. Stereo was the magic word and I said yes just so I could get home and play with it. The guy just looked at me wide-eyed and said "These JUST came out. I think you might be the first person in town to get one!".
Unanaxios
I still remember the dizziness that playing Wolfenstein gave me
KsuviKhor
Star Control 2 is one of my all-time favorites!
CaldariBob
What did you have against Bruce Lee!?
Snooj
"Remarkable" doesn't necessarily mean "good".
ThatSonOfaBitch
Nothing. I was zero years old! :(
OceansRust
I have fond memories of playing King's Quest on a 1980s IBM-XT loading from a 5 inch floppy disk.
gordy77
Was it the hand drawn version? Loved how that animated
ThatSonOfaBitch
Yup! I played it the year it released on a friend's IBM. My family had Mac 512K (same year). The whole series Kings Quest and Space Quest are magical.
OceansRust
I had a friend at Shell Oil Co. with an IBM-AT and it played the same games so much faster than my XT, but we knew it was just the beginning of what was coming. I could write a book about all the tech giants that came out of our playing around back then. Earlier I meant to type 5.25" floppy, can't forget that extra .25" hahaha.
ThatSonOfaBitch
Do you remember the 8" floppies? The floppies from where floopies got their name? We never had a system that used them, but I saw them at my dad's work. He was a professor of metallurgy and operated an STM. It used those mega flopies and it was fun to load them into the drive.
OceansRust
Yes I programmed 8"discs for mainframes used by Typesetting and Printing Companies. My own were 8400s and 8600s Compugraphic Imaging machines that output onto various types of film, photographic paper, or hard drives. They were hardwired into the front end computer systems that used either 5.25" floppy's or hard drives and of course PCs were integrated into the network too. So long ago...
ThatSonOfaBitch
I just noticed I spelled floppies three different ways. Equal to the number of Tuesday night margs I've had. :|