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Descent 3's Source Code Has Been Released Online, 25 Years Later

Time Extension about 1 month ago

The shooter was published by Interplay back in 1999.Kevin Bentley, one of the original programmers on the Interplay and Outrage Entertainment first-person shooter Descent 3, has recently released the game's source code online for free.This even includes a …
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Salt & Sacrifice finally arrives on Switch

Portable Gaming Roundup about 6 months ago

One of the more stylish and challenging titles on the Vita, Salt and Sanctuary (thanks to a port by Sickhead Games) has been playable on the go since 2017. But the sequel to the hand-drawn, 2D, Souls-like, Salt & Sacrifice has clung to big screen conso …

Sound • Roland RAP-10 outputs in MONO only!?

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi,recently I bought a Roland RAP-10 card. Upon testing I found out that the sound output is in MONO but it plays music/sound effects on both L & R channels.I've tested with Descent setup program. Autodetect works fine and detects RAP-10 card. Digital …
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Discovering Alien: Isolation on Xbox One / Series X

Retro Arcadia about 10 months ago

When does something become a habit? This one started with Elite Dangerous, the fourth game in the space trading series that started in 1984 and I first experienced on the BBC Micro shortly after. It was on the Atari ST that it would become one of my top t …

Windows • Descent 3 pc version?

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi, game is not working on my laptop pc , but when trying from desktop pc it is working?they are have both using windows 8.1 , so whats difference?Statistics: Posted by cydvog — Today, 16:34 — Replies 3 — Views 93 …

General Old Hardware • Yet Another Win95/DOS Build – Socket 7 – Suggestions Wanted

Vogons about 11 months ago

I’m looking at building yet another Windows 95 / DOS machine, but unlike my Mini-ITX version, this one will not have any size restrictions and be more “era appropriate”. All I want to do it keep it as affordable as possible, and maintain as much com …

Software • Descent runs far too fast in FreeDOS

Vogons about 11 months ago

I'm trying to play Descent in FreeDOS, but I need to use both DOS32A and a slowdown program. I'm currently using MoSlo, but I cannot run something like C:drivers\moslo\moslo.com C:freedos\bin\dos32a.exe C:games\descent\descent.exe because MoSlo can't run …

32-bit acorn hardware • Acorn Gaming Machine

Stardot about 11 months ago

Greetings all,I am a new one so I don't know if this subject has also been mentioned before.Further to another post introducing myself, I would like to find which is the most suitable Acorn computer for gaming because I am a little confused. I have checke …

General Old Hardware • Having Massive Issues with Win 3.1

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hello, Having huge issues with Windows 3.1I did a fresh install of DOS 6.22 on the following rig-486 DX2/80 CPU (40 MHz bus)-UM4980 VLB motherboard, 256k cache-20 Mb RAM (1x16Mb, 1x4Mb 72 pin SIMMS)-VLB video (Trident 94xx series, IIRC) 1 Mb RAM, integrat …
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On the Retro Radar for June 2023

Retro Arcadia about 12 months ago

Time for our regular roundup of the mostly (but not strictly) retro-interest games releases on the way for the coming month, with trailers for (almost) everything, and if you’re lucky a few snippets of fascinating information too! We had some very big-h …

Artificial Life: Insects

CD-ROM Journal about 2 years ago

Somewhere in a sea of total blackness, strange insects float in the void. Weird abstract creatures, their form unknowable and their biology alien, fill the pages of Daizaburo Harada's Artificial Life. Like some kind of otherworldly biology textbook, it f …
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Sega Genesis Shoot' em Ups!

Retro Gamer Randomness about 4 years ago

The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive is known for its for shooters.  There are A LOT of shooters on the Genesis, so much so that I don't have the stamina nor inclination to write about them all. I should mention that I don't consider games like Contra Hard …