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The first time I ran this game was on a 386/25 with 5Mb RAM. Played for hours. And I had the PC speaker sounds too. As an Apple 2 owner and user, I have a lov
by ddingus 3y ago
The first time I ran this game was on a 386/25 with 5Mb RAM.
Played for hours. And I had the PC speaker sounds too. As an Apple 2 owner and user, I have a love for those sounds, and for me they made WOLF3D more fun.
During that long session, I found myself at the end of a long, thin hallway with the knife and a couple health points. Was a dire, grim scenario.
Then I went for it! Rushed up the hallway to face three guards!
I did this round Robin knifing attack, stick one, then the middle, then the other, then the one, middle, other, repeat, until they were gone!
I stood there for a brief moment of disbelief, turned and ran to a nearby cache of supplies and was back in the game, able to finish the level!
And that experience has stayed with me. Simple, yet compelling and immersive gaming at a fine peak on hardware I did not expect to deliver.
Re: 5Mb RAM
One was on the main board, the other four on an expansion. Many programs that required 8Mb would run poorly on 5. I developed software on an XT class machine to pay for the 386 I had cobbled together from the cheapest parts I could find.
I was online with that machine running winsock and WFWG 3.11
- pbj1968 3y agoA 386 at 25MHz and 5MB of RAM would be like $5,000 today and was far above what most people owned in their homes when this game came out.
- ddingus 3y agoYup. The only reason I had that machine was the sale of some manufacturing related software I had written, and it probably was the worst 386/25 possible!