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[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: Fox5

Maybe once we get computers like $1000 times faster.

Huh?

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Fox5
Likewise, once I went from 4GB of ram to 8GB, a lot of my games started loading instantly instead of having load times. Reading in and operating on data can have memory requirements way in excess of what it takes up on the hard drive, for some reason.

Have Vista? That's superfetch in action.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Fox5
Heh, I'm writing some computational code at the moment, and as long as it stays within memory everything is done within 10 seconds. Once it starts hitting the harddrive, it takes close to a minute or two to get everything done.
....

Yup, that's the hard drive for you. Seek times are thousands of times slower than in RAM, and the transfer rates are several hundred times slower. Bear in mind too, the rates you see for hard drives (ATA-100 and such) are burst times, which I think must be maintained for around a thousandth of a second. Woooo!

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
It's way slow. I don't know what it is, but when I try to play it is VERY SLOW. VERY... :-/ I think Flash 10 is the issue, I only get these pop up errors with Flash 10 now.

Works perfect for me. I'm just annoyed that they switched the CRTL and Spacebar keys.

Yeah, and strafe is 'z'. ...such a terrible layout.

Originally posted by: Fox5
BTW, I didn't realize flash was this flexible to allow Doom 1 to work. I imagine it was a fair bit of effort involved in porting it, certainly not a simple recompile.

Someone posted a 3D fps flash game some time ago. I was very impressed by how well the game actually played and the graphics weren't all that bad...probably as good as the original Tribes.

 

[Born2bwire]

It keeps crashing IE for some reason. Ahhh screw it, I'll just download the shareware and Dosbox it.

 

[Jeff7]

Even more fun playing a place where there's a really dark room, and then suddenly there's a nice blast of thunder outside. Yeah, a good lat December thunder storm, and 55°F nighttime temperatures.
A week prior: Snowstorms.

 

[Born2bwire]

Until January 2nd, Steam is doing a bunch of discounts on all their games and...

Ultimate Doom and the Doom II pack (Doom II + Master Levels For Doom II) are both $1 each. Yoink!

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

IDDQD?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
It's way slow. I don't know what it is, but when I try to play it is VERY SLOW. VERY... :-/ I think Flash 10 is the issue, I only get these pop up errors with Flash 10 now.

Works perfect for me. I'm just annoyed that they switched the CRTL and Spacebar keys.

It's slow as hell on my Macbook Pro.

 

[Jeff7]

Just finished it. That strafe thing is really stupid though, with it being the Z key. I also couldn't figure out which key brought up the Computer Map, once that device was acquired. Most time was spent just trying to figure out how to get around; my sense of direction is pretty much nonexistent in games (well, not only in games).
That game could also really use an "Always Run" toggle.

I was never a WASD keyboard player, I always used the arrow keys. The WASD keys aren't aligned properly anyway - the W isn't aligned straight with the S key; the arrow keys are all nice and aligned, and they're not cramped in among other keys.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

It's slow as hell on my Macbook Pro.

Macs aren't for gaming.

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: PlasmaBomb

Originally posted by: Fox5

Maybe once we get computers like $1000 times faster.

Huh?

No sleep makes me insert things where they shouldn't go. Like a $ sign.

Someone posted a 3D fps flash game some time ago. I was very impressed by how well the game actually played and the graphics weren't all that bad...probably as good as the original Tribes.

Shockwave had it way back in the late 90's, though I'm not sure how shockwave and flash relate. Flash as a programming language is definitely interactive enough to do faked 3d (ala doom), and maybe even light 3d, but I wonder how many of these more complex flash games are actually running in flash, versus just acting as a visual front end to a program running elsewhere.
Also, it would seem to me that getting doom to work in flash would require a complete recode of the engine, not a simple port job.

Oh well, I just bought doom 2 on steam. It was only $1 and I've never really played it before. And I certainly got enough enjoyment out of id shareware and demos in the past that it's worth it. Come to think of it, Quake may be the only id software game I own, if you don't count the commander keen games. I paid for my doom shareware copy though back in the day, as well as various hacks/mods of doom. Oo, and I may have owned a copy of wolfenstein 3d that wasn't shareware.
I owned Hexen 64 if that was ID.
Crap, I also own Doom 3.
Guess I owned more than I thought. I owned a few of the commander keens, possibly wolf3d or at least its shareware, doom shareware (possibly full), maybe some other version of a doom game, quake, and doom 3.
And I also own Hexen 64 and Doom RPG.