🚀 go-pugleaf

pop wrote:
> OK - here's the story so far: Installed the game on my winXP system
> and didn't know that the fan on the video card was bad. The screen
> went white as soon as the game was loaded - shortly afterward the
> power supply went! bummer... didn't have time to fool with repairs so
> I went back to my win98se system and continued with doom1 & doom2
> using jdoom. Found the patch to allow doom3 on win98se, installed it
> on '98 and patched the exe and wadda ya know, it runs and I finally
> got my doom3 fix. It's fairly smooth at 800X600, medium graphics for
> single player game - probably won't be good enough for online play
> with my system, but I didn't plan on doing that anyway.
> AMD Athlon @1.2ghz
> NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200 64MB
> Windows 98se
> Hey - nothing to brag about, but it's playable. I was using my winXP
> system as a work computer but I am retired now and was planning to
> upgrade anyway. I'll continue to use my win98 machine for gaming.
>
> --
> pop is Mark
> Old age ain't no place for sissies.
> --

Sorry to hear about the hardware dying.  At least, it's fixable!  Am
glad you got it to run on the spare puter.  I'm afraid my spare is the
old P3-800 with a Radeon 7000 in it.  I won't be running it on THAT box,
I'm sure :)
McG.