🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,
I'm back after a brief hiatus. Grad school and two kids. When I
was playing, D2 was brand new, 28.8 was all I had, 3DFX and Gluide(??) 
were battling it out, a 3DFX Voodoo card with 2MB ram cost me about 
$350, my pc was sporting a whopping 16 Mb ram and a Pentium I over 
clocked at 100 MHz.

Lately, I've really missed the game. I've been in the stores recently 
looking at some of the new tech TV's and thinking "I wonder what Descent 
would look like on a smoking PC".

What is it like to play multiplayer over cable? Is the upload/download 
speed differential an issue? I'd played over the 28.8 modem in Kali and 
Kahn and, although I was severely hooked on MP D2, it sucked. I did play 
over a one on one phone connection a couple of times which was better.

How do you like D3 over D2?

What vid cards should I look at?

Are either Win2k or XP more D2/3 friendly?

How high can frame rates get on today's high end PC's?

Did Spaceware go out of business? They were the maker of the SpaceBall 
which I'm hooked on. Can't google much on them.  I'm worried that it 
will be a battle to relocate the drivers and set it up. I remember the 
config on it was such a PITA.

Does Derek the cow dude still play?

Thanks,
ZP - KGBUZZ