The Dizzy series 😀.

Dizzy 1 does not have a DOS port but the rest of the series do.

95% or apogee/epic games
alone in the dark 1+2
blackthorne
the SSI rpgs
Lands of Lore
Desert Strike
Cannon Fodder
Gobliins series

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95% or apogee/epic games
alone in the dark 1+2
blackthorne
the SSI rpgs
Lands of Lore
Desert Strike
Cannon Fodder
Gobliins series

All these games run well on a 386? I have quicker machines as well, so want to limit to ~1992. Jazz Jack Rabbit, ROTT (Epic/Apogee), DOOM for instance I would rather play on my Socket 4 Pentium 66 (which is my next step up).

Stunts/4D Sports Driving will run on a 386, but with full detail settings it's much more fun on a faster system.
Test Drive II runs well on pretty much anything, Test Drive III is the one with speed troubles. 😉

Jazz runs fine, ROTT not so fine as expected, it's part of the 5% ... all the rest I listed are fine as well

keropi wrote:

Jazz runs fine, ROTT not so fine as expected, it's part of the 5% ... all the rest I listed are fine as well

I tested ROTT just for fun and I got a "Get a 486" message when I selected the smallest screensize 🤣

I'll test a bit myself. These are good suggestions though 😀

What I'm really hunting though are pre 1992 games with good gameplay that has aged well.

Prince of Persia
Atomix
Champions of Krynn
Secret of the Silver Blades
FS3
Rockford
Sokoban
Indy3
LHX
Links386
Pinball Fantasies
Pinball Dreams1,2
Silverball, Epic Pinball
Red Baron
Railroad Tycoon
Civilization
Silent Service 2
3D pool
Winter Challenge
Star Control
Ultima VI
Xenon 2 Megablast
CY AFT
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Grand Prix Circuit
Maniac Mansion (slowdown needed)
Neuromancer
Populous
Ports of Call
Silpheed
Sim City
Wings of Fury
Battle Chess
California Games
Gunship
Goldrush
Nyet
Pool of Radiance
Times of Lore
Up Periscope
Zak McKracken
all the Text Adventures, Hitchhikers Guide, Zorks etc.
4-D Boxing
Duke Nukem
Overlord (Supremacy)
Scorched Earth
XWing
Aces of the Pacific
History Line
Brix
Comanche
Dune and Dune2
EcoQuest
Kiloblaster
Adventures run generally well, from MM, Zak, Loom to Indy4, DoTT, Kyrandia 1,2, Simon, Gabriel etc.
Lure of the Temptress
Mad TV
Oxyd
Wolfenstein, Spear of Destiny
Supaplex
Ugh!
Waxworks
and Jazz runs fine

maybe the following is also playable:
Syndicate
Skyroads
Incredible Toons and Machine
Pirates Gold
Prehistorik2
Master of Orion
Lemmings2 The Tribes
Curse of Enchantia
Bio Menace
Blake Stone
Aces over Europe

^ syndicate wil be fine if the VGA is not crap, Blake Stone will be OKish and I know from personal experience that these will work fine:

Incredible Toons and Machine
Pirates Gold
Prehistorik2
Lemmings2 The Tribes
Curse of Enchantia
Bio Menace

Lotus: The Ultimate Challenge
Comanche: Maximum Overkill

http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/1992/dos/

^ comanche needs a Pentium, or at least a fast 486.

Welcome to 386 territory vetz 😀

Lots of good games you can play. Look at the release year, that's usually a good indicator. One game can work fine, like Wing Commander 2, but the next one will be unplayable, like Wing Commander 3.

I usually find most 3D games to slow on a 386. Like Doom, yes it runs, and with low details and tiny screen it's playable, but it's not for me.

I like my 386 for all the old Adventure games.

A crapload of flight simulators will work if you don't mind your cutoff point being Strike Commander. X-Wing and Falcon 3.0 included.

Star Trek 25th Anniversary will also work fine. Looking back, it's pretty impressive they pulled off bilinear filtering on sprites back in '92...

Thanks for all your suggestions. I've got plenty to check out here 😀

Went through some old disks and I've tested:

- Lotus III - Kick ass music from my Roland and good gameplay (Out Run clone?). Ran very well. Definitely a keeper.
- WIng Commander - Ran too fast on my DX33 (Much quicker than Mau1wurf1977's videos!). Turning off turbo slowed it too much. Had to turn off cache in BIOS settings..... Disappointing!
- Test Drive III - Ran too fast. Too slow with Turbo button. When I turned off external cache it was fine though.
- Stunts. Very good framerate with everything turned to max.

My experience with 386s are around the 16mhz mark, WC1/2 and TD3 ran okay on that.

Tell us more about your 386 rocket 🤣

I find Wing Commander runs good on either a 25 or 33 MHz 386. 40 MHz is definitely too fast.

vetz wrote:

- Stunts. Very good framerate with everything turned to max.

Really? Back in the days a friend of mine had it on a 386DX-33 and it got very choppy sometimes. But it may have been because of the very convoluted tracks we built. 🤣

5u3 wrote:

Stunts/4D Sports Driving will run on a 386, but with full detail settings it's much more fun on a faster system.

In my opinion and from what i can see with my 386's, a good 386DX-40 will provide already more than enough fluid experience for Stunts. I remember when i was a kid i could see quite a difference between my friend DX-33 vs my DX-40. And i was proud of my machine!

I'm so hoping that all these games come to GOG.com so I can buy them 😀

Really? Back in the days a friend of mine had it on a 386DX-33 and it got very choppy sometimes. But it may have been because of the very convoluted tracks we built. 🤣

I just tried some of the default tracks. They ran fine. Not that convoluted no.. 🤣

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Tell us more about your 386 rocket 🤣

I find Wing Commander runs good on either a 25 or 33 MHz 386. 40 MHz is definitely too fast.

I was maybe a bit quick with that statement. After closer examination it runs like in your video. I didn't slow down the speed of the ship when trying to dogfight so it seemed crazy fast. It benches very similar to your setup (1 FPS slower in 3DBench).

Specs:
-Asus ISA-386C w/ 64kbit L2 cache
-8x1 30pin FPM RAM
-ET4000AX 1MB
-Sound Blaster Pro CT1600
-Adaptec 1540 ISA SCSI
-9GB IBM SCSI harddrive
-Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM
-3com Etherlink III
-Midiman MM-401