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Started by Reg Pringle
Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:19
Descent 3
Author: Reg Pringle
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:19
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:19
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I havent been able to play descent for ages since I bought a new PC with XP on it. I can load the game but its to fast & my ship keeps bobbing about like a car with no dampers so that I cant controll it. I wish I hade kept my old 486 just for the purpose. I see references to Descent 3 in this group. Is there such a game & will it run on XP and be playable. Thanx
Re: Descent 3
Author: rms
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:31
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:31
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You can play Descent1 & 2 on new machines. What's needed are the recompiled executables, with frame-capping enabled. http://reprehensible.net/~donut/d1x/ http://icculus.org/d2x/ Just ask if you need more info. Descent3 should work as is I believe. rms
Re: Descent 3
Author: Ian Hoare
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 17:31
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 17:31
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Salut/Hi rms, le/on Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:31:30 GMT, tu disais/you said:- >You can play Descent1 & 2 on new machines. What's needed are the recompiled >executables, with frame-capping enabled. >http://reprehensible.net/~donut/d1x/ >http://icculus.org/d2x/ > >Just ask if you need more info. Descent3 should work as is I believe. Could you please be a bit more explicit. I also find that D2 and D1 (both commercial versions, Descent II is v1.2) are difficult to play on my 2GHz machine. I looked at the icculus site and found references to the shareware version and also to a 1.x>1.2 patch. Is that what you meant? -- All the Best Ian Hoare Sometimes oi just sits and thinks Sometimes oi just sits.
Re: Descent 3
Author: rms
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:50
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:50
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For D2X, get the newest zip from the link under Binaries (yes, Mr. Bell has zero web skills :), it has an installation readme. Once its running, cap the framerate to 35fps in one of the menus, and you should be good to go :) There are two different .exes, you can try both. Same procedure for D1X. rms
Re: Descent 3
Author: Ian Hoare
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 11:28
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 11:28
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Salut/Hi rms, le/on Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:50:45 GMT, tu disais/you said:- >For D2X, get the newest zip from the link under Binaries (yes, Mr. Bell has >zero web skills :), it has an installation readme. Once its running, cap >the framerate to 35fps in one of the menus, and you should be good to go :) >There are two different .exes, you can try both. Same procedure for D1X. Thanks for that. Web skills I can do without! What matters is the content not the form. To be sure I'm not being ultra dense, can you confirm that D2x is NOT a shortened shareware version, but a re-compilation of the full commercial version. In the index of /d2x/bin I see several zip files, as I write I am downloading d2x-0.2.5_mingw.zip. No doubt more will become clear when I unzip it. Thanks again. -- All the Best Ian Hoare Sometimes oi just sits and thinks Sometimes oi just sits.
Re: Descent 3
Author: rms
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 16:15
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 16:15
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The exe has been recompiled to work with either shareware or final data files. They want to eventually have a universal exe that runs D1 datafiles also. rms
Re: Descent 3
Author: Ian Hoare
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 21:11
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 21:11
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Salut/Hi rms, le/on Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:50:45 GMT, tu disais/you said:- >For D2X, get the newest zip from the link under Binaries (yes, Mr. Bell has >zero web skills :), it has an installation readme. Err... sorry about this. I've downloaded the latest dated zip file in the d2x/bin directory as I said. Unzipping it gives d2x.ini d2x-gl.exe d2x-sdl.exe sdl.dll sdl_image.dll No installation readme. Thanks for the info abt shareware vs commercial versions. -- All the Best Ian Hoare Sometimes oi just sits and thinks Sometimes oi just sits.
Re: Descent 3
Author: rms
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:00
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:00
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http://icculus.org/d2x/bin/d2x-cvs-20031107_mingw.zip This one does indeed have a installation.txt, take a look! rms
Re: Descent 3
Author: Ian Hoare
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:44
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:44
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Salut/Hi rms, le/on Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:00:40 GMT, tu disais/you said:- >http://icculus.org/d2x/bin/d2x-cvs-20031107_mingw.zip > >This one does indeed have a installation.txt, take a look! Brilliant!!! Thanks very much indeed. Downloaded, dezipped and it works!!! -- All the Best Ian Hoare Sometimes oi just sits and thinks Sometimes oi just sits.
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