Descent III: Sol Ascent? Worthwhile?

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2 total messages Started by Its Me Again Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:00

#89007

Author: Its Me Again
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:00

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I see it's avail in alt.binaries.cd.image.games.  AFAIK it's not avail to
buy.

Would I have any problem getting this to run on my GE4?  I haven't played
Descent for years so this could be a bit of fun over the weekend.

RRT

Re: Descent III: Sol Ascent? Worthwhile?

#89008

Author: Josh
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 01:18

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> [1.6] What is D3 Sol Ascent?
>
> D3 Sol Ascent is an OEM version (i.e. commercial version, no demo) of
> the D3 retail. It features levels 1-5 of the retail version whereas
> level 1: Deimos is also available for download as D3 Demo 2 and level 3:
> Piccu Station as D3 Demo 1. Sol Ascent also covers the multiplayer
> levels of both D3 demos: The Core, Polaris & Taurus. However, this OEM-
> version version is only available bundled with Voodoo 3 (3000 not 2000!)
> boards and does *not* run on other boards!
>
> There've been some unconfirmed rumours that this version has been
> bundled with other hardware recently which would indicate that you could
> run it on other graphics boards as well. However, I personally doubt it
> and if you're interested in playtesting the game I'd still recommend the
> demos since Sol Ascent is very buggy and Outrage will not release any
> patches for it.
> -- 

Thanks, moon.  I've been out of this NG for years but still remember your
name.  Descendarium was/is a great site.  Anyway I did d/l it and it works
fine so far.  Didn't get far beyond the initial startup and training though.

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