First post, by Kerr Avon
First of all, sorry if this is in the wrong forum, or if this is a common question with a thread already devoted to it (I've looked, but couldn't find it), but I'm curious to know of any good DOS first person shooters that I haven't played.
See, for weeks I've been waiting for Carmageddon to be re-released, as it's been promised by the brilliant Good Old Games for a while now, so that I can play it in 3D mode reliably on my Windows 7 laptop, as it had always failed, for some reason the game has yet to be made available, but I found a link on another forum to:
http://atombomb.no-ip.org/blog/2010/12/10/how … igh-resolution/
which explains how to run Carmageddon (and the Splat Pack! expansion pack) on Windows 7 using DOSBox and nGlide, and it works great. Anyway, it's gotten me reinterested in running my old DOS games, and also to see what else I missed, as I got into PC gaming around 1996, so I missed many DOS classics. My favourite genre is first person shooter, and I already have Blood (very good, *much* better than Blood 2), and System Shock (not a FPS, it's an RPG/FPS, but very good indeed), but what else is there?
I know of course of Doom 1 and 2, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, and Shadow Warrior, but I already play those using third party built Windows front ends, since they are all open source (well, I don't play Quake, as I've never taken to it, but the others are great).
I know there's Powerslave, but I've never tried that, is it worth playing? I never liked Wolfenstein 3D (I played Doom before that, which I think spoiled W3D for me), nor Rise of the Triad, though maybe I just never gave it enough of a chance. I think there was a DOS Star Trek FPS, was that any good? That reminds me of Dark Forces, I should track that down, as I think I liked that back in my early PC days.
What other good DOS first person shooters are there, and I take it they will all run on DOSBox? Thanks for any answers, and also to everyone who makes DOsBox, VDMSound (wish it worked on Windows 7, as it was great for XP), and Vogons so great for us retro-fans.