Maybe you're right - the D3D test in DXDiag from DirextX 6 fails before it can even start. Just for the hell of it I dropped DDHELP.EXE in the system32 folder, rebooted in safe mode and reinstalled DirectX 9.0c, and when I rebooted in normal mode, DDHELP.EXE wasn't there! It seems 9.0c deliberately …

Hi. I need some help getting this fine game working again. Expendable is crashing on me. It used to work fine but this time around go.icd crashes immediately after loading the first level. Menu, sound and intro movies are working fine. I own a boxed original but I'm getting the same crash if I …

Just a wild guess; maybe you need to connect your CD drive to your soundcard with an analog audio cable.

Here's a very nice video with comparison of a handful of popular games for PC-DOS and the Amiga 500. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cETl8PhUy_E As for sound and graphics, generally, the Amiga clearly had the upper hand at the time. That would soon change.

The easiest way to solve it would be to buy a used PCI soundcard with a gameport. It seems those USB to gameport converters don't work with everything.

I knew about Carmageddon II supporting Direct 3D, and also that the driver wouldn't work in DOS. But at least you got some "Glide only" stuff to run with it. Maybe some programmers can learn some tricks by looking at the hacked version, i don't know..:p

Once upon a time, before Creative Labs bought 3DFX, they released a "Unified Driver" for the TNT card that when running Windows, would translate Glide calls to DirectX. I remember playing Carmageddon II in Glide mode without much of a speed impact on the TNT1 i had back then. I saw the "wrapper" …