Have refrained from upgrading from VPC version 2 for so long - if it ain't broke etc etc...
After a long period of happy VPC DOS experiences, I came across a program that VPC just cannot run. The original Duke Nukem 3D no less. Duke tries to load but the video refuses to and crashes VPC fairly spectacularly, I then need to get back into the Mac as gracefully as I can :)
Duke 3D requires me to disable the sound before I can get it running under windows, I guessed "sound blaster", probably wrong, which returns a stack error, killing the sound brings up the game.
This same Duke 3D runs quite happily on the Apple PC card in the same machine. G3 266 Mac OS 8.6 - VPC on this Mac runs DOS games like Doom and Quake without a hitch.
Duke is to heavy for windows under vpc4, playable but barely under vpc3 running windows. Very playable under dos on vpc3. I dont use vpc4 much, very happy with 3 as you are with 2. I hope to find a voodoo2 card which may bring me back to version 2. ;)
Anyone had better luck loading Duke Nukem on VPC?
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