Today, I successfully installed, Doom 2 Hell On Earth by ID Software and finally have a game on my vintage PC. I've played the original Doom game before and have played different versions of the engine. I played zDoom and GzDoom and played the free to play online areanas like Zandaurm Doom. It was nostalgic to play Doom on my modern rig but when I installed it on my Windows 98 PC it felt right. Seeing it start up and boot into MS DOS and the title says 'DOOM II' on the screen and ID Software next to the copyright date of 1994, it felt authentic and truly nostalgic. From seeing it run on a system with a Pentium II and 224mb of Ram seemed like it was a match made in heaven. The game runs beautifully and I get a buttery smooth framerate! The version of the game is 1.666 which was the original retail release of the game. Most people had shareware copies of the game back then. So I did confirm this copy is in fact a legitimate copy. I plan to get more games maybe in the future or build a beast Pentium III Windows 2000 rig in the future. Anyway that project will be in the distant future or when I have the time to build another PC but built for power. (at the time) But.. hey I might run Windows 2000 Server to see what I could do with it and maybe work on a small network in my office to get my older machines linked and also somehow get a modern machine connected as well to the network. It'd be interesting considering the system is 20 year difference. Anyway this machine may do a lot of things another example is like the YouTuber VWestLife ran a Pentium III radio station. I would want to try that. I'll figure this out on what to do for my next project. I can be able to run it on a but its not even built yet... so only time will tell. Also till when I come back from college in the fall I may start searching for parts to buy so I can begin the project in the first place. I will go in more depth in a later post regarding what's going to be going on for the next few months and what I am doing, but for now this is what's happening for the time being.
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