M D wrote:
playing the Mac port - my 1st 'Duke' experience - which I think sucks royally. Admittedly this was the Mac demo version, and is only MNSHO!
We can fix that Mike. I wouldnt be surprised if they're one in the same.
Most likely. I did have Duke 3D running OK in the Mac port... but do I have to get a G5 to get some life out of it? The DOS D 3d on my old P166 absolutely 'kicks ass'. Actually, D 3d played on the 100MHz DOS card in the G3 plays really great, maybe 3 to 4 times more responsive than on the G3. That's how it 'feels' to me anyhow.
As Gregg mentioned, I only have the Atomic ed 1.5, very snappy on the 7300. The Duke3d.group file is 42.3mb for the mac and 25.9mb for the plain pc, havent looked at swapping them. ;)
As for slow, there is a poor OpenGL version which may well require a G5 to get some value. I have a copy here somewhere. Nothing like the Quake2 OpenGL port. :(
So Duke plays on VPC3 and DOS? Cool.
As I understand it VPC will make use of a Voodoo2 breaking the 4mb ceiling for vram which I see as the major drawback of pc emulation. I'll throw a couple of bucks at it to find out, last local V2 on ebay went for $15, I was at work and missed it. Worst case, I have another old video card for yet another old mac or pc.
Oh OK. Well in that case it would be well worth the effort in obtaining this card. I'll keep my eyes open for one too. I get the feeling old PCI vid cards for Macs are rare, tho'.
I know Softwindows98 has options for both voodoo1 and 2 cards, I dont see the option with Softwindows95. Voodoo cards can be flashed with little trouble, stick with 3dfx rather than a third party.
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