🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 02:21:00 GMT, ZiggyPopp <ZiggyPop@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>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


D3 is my favorite.  Even after 4 yrs it still kicks ass.

For video cards, makes no diff today.  D3 plays well on both ATI and
Nvidia cards.

3DFX and Glide are long gone.

Spaceball is history also.

Kali stil exist and there is stil ppl who play D1 and D2 but using a
newer openGL version.

If you get kali and log onto the Descent server, anyone will helpy ou
get started into D2x or D1x or even D3.