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First post, by xjas

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What games are out there that directly support multiple monitors? Not talking about stuff where you can set a wide resolution and just span the window across everything, I mean specific support and use of multiple displays.

This goes way back BTW. There were definitely some early DOS games that used an MDA card in tandem with a graphics card and displayed stuff like HUD info on it. On the Mac side even a classic Mac II or SE/30 could use a second head on a Nubus video card. Don't know of any games that made use of that though.

Of course there must be stuff for modern Mac/Linux/Windows too. Looking for some suggestions of all ages to play around with. 😁

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Reply 1 of 6, by gdjacobs

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Mechwarrior 2 could display info on a secondary Hercules display.

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Reply 2 of 6, by Nvm1

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Supreme commander uses the second screen for mini map or some other functions.

Reply 6 of 6, by xjas

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chinny22 wrote:
leileilol wrote:

Doom 😜

But only early versions...still haven't tried it yet!
https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Three_screen_mode

Wow, I didn't know about that AT ALL. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm interested in dicking around with. Sounds like a pain to set up but I'm gonna have to give it a try (I wonder if I can get it to go in three networked virtual machines?)

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