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I may be wrong, but i think i read somewhere that Apogee sold Doom, but had nothing to do with it other than being a reseller just like other companies. But maybe i got that mixed up with Spear of Destiny. Maybe one of the ex Apogee guys can clarify this.

For a long time in the 90s most gamers PCs had the following line could be found in the autoexec.bat: SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 Many of them didn't even had a Creative Labs card in their PCs, but an cheaper compatible card. This was because Soundblaster wasn't just a family of soundcards, it was an defacto standard.

They may be not even sent to australia, they may be produced there. I can clearly identify one floppy there which have "Vollversion" printed on the label, which is german for full version, and i highly doubt that these where produced elsewhere than in germany itself. More so, if you consider the costs and the trouble to send vast amounts of these throughout the whole world, with all these different customs regulations. I am pretty sure that id had contracts with local partners, who produced the copies by themselves, and just payed a certain amount of money to id, depending on the amount of copies sold.

Remember the times when frames where the hottest new shit for some, and modern bullshit for others.

There you have the reason. On Quake II the GPU supports rendering the game. I guess if you switch to software mode, where the GPU is just there to send the picture to the monitor, the CPU and the system RAM have to be sufficient to run the game smoothly. Try using GLQuake instead of WinQuake should help here.

Software or hardware mode?

Just to get that correctly, are we still talking vanilla Quake (DOS, maybe even WinQuake), or are we talking GLQuake or even source ports? ;-)

A PC from 2020 with 4GB of RAM? Are you serious? How much of that RAM is used by the System in idle state alone?

Did you have tried to install it from these copies? Resellers seemingly have changed the label prints over time, if they had a new version for example. So the red an blue label prints may come from different versions.

This is the highest resolution YOU can play it smoothly. This could have various reasons. I was able to play it at 1024x768 smoothly on a pc from around 2000, and others here could do that too. So where's your point?

My collection is here: https://ogdb.eu/collection.php?collectionid=5473 Missing there are the original Doom Music CD by Bobby Prince, Masters of Doom, and some other books.

I wouldn't be surprised if the source of these recent leaks is located in denmark.

Let's be real, this generation of VR is just a technical upgrade to older experiments. But where is the point? VR as a gaming device is more or less a geek niche. For the mass market it is (if it will be affordable for the mass market) the "new Wii". People will be hyped about it, and half a year later it will collect dust, because people realize that sitting in front of a TV with a controller in hand, or in front of a monitor with mouse and keyboard is far more relaxed. And VR as a social media platform? In business there is no need for that stuff, they use Teams or something like that, which didn't need any expensive hardware. There is more to business than mindless babbling in meetings, most people have to do actual productive work to do. And as a general social media platform? Well, look what is going on in this world. Social media today means people watching 30 second videoclips on Tiktok, now show me how that need a VR helmet.

They were stupidly expensive. We're talking about prices in the 5 or 6 digits realms here. I highly doubt that these are qualified as a PC, if by PC someone think of it as an (even high end) gaming machine.

I have to correct myself here, i had the box opened in pretty low light. The Box have the prints on the sides, but they are really dark.

I think it was a rushed release in germany. Back then german resellers (like CDV or Pearl), who mostly operated per mail order processing just had a short amount of time to sell certain games before they landed on the infamous index. Once a game was "indexed" it was more or less dead for the seller, due to the restrictions which came with the index. I remember my copy of DN3D came without a proper handbook, because the final handbook wasn't ready at release. Certainly for the same reason they released the game as it was. This was the one, which came with the game. And this is the coupon for the final handbook:

I think these are produced for a foreign reseller. I have a german mail order release where the discs looks completely different.

Try search on https://ogdb.eu, the site is in german, but have much more detailed informations than Mobygames, and lots of scans and photos.

To be honest i am tired of all Doom 64 videos or topics, when anybody call the lasergun "unmaker", because it is not the unmaker. It works completely different than what was described in the doom bible, there are even some serious doubts that the guys at Midway even knew about the concept of the unmaker, or any of the other stuff described in the doom bible which never made it into the game.

My order arrived today. I have ordered quite some titles from LRG, and the reasons for the long delivery, as someone else here explained have reasons. Ordering from them is nothing for impatient people. I ordered all three editions for the Switch, the standard edition is okay, as always. $30 for a simple physical release. The deluxe edition is a bit pricey, at $80. But i like those extras like the steelbook, the keychain, etc. But the ultimate edition is really underwhelming. The box is really big, but does not look like the one in the promo. Only the upper side of the box have the print of that promo box, all other sides are plain black. The pin is really a pixelated mess, and the ring of shadows is a tiny bit of china junk. The shambler figure is okay, and i haven't had a deeper look at that rotating quad damage thing. I don't really know what it is why i feel like it isn't worth the $180, but the $130 Doom collectors edition gave me a far better feeling. Even though i had to physically destroy the game carts, and have to wait now for the patched replacements.

Which alternative protocol doesn't need ports opened on the firewall, etc.?

Not only this, you can do that even in a script using a command line application like ftp.exe in Windows.

I think beside Kaiser there is nobody active on DW who was involved in the Absolution TC. You can try to ask Elbryan, who hosted the forums for the development, he isn't active here anymore, i think. But he have an Youtube-channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/elbryan42 But he haven't uploaded anything in years.

Perhaps Dukes influence wasn't as big as Dooms, but one thing was started by DN3D, the comments. Back then it was copied by the other Build games like Shadow Warrior and Blood, but even today there are games where the figure you play give some random comments. This gave the heros in first person shooters a bit of personality, which even Half-Life didn't achieve, while it excelled in so many other fields.

You should hope that the Unreal Tournament fans don't read that comment.