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Post #235326

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Ozkeeper
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Star Wars isn't the only one...
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Date created
15-Aug-2006, 9:19 AM
Ingo Sucks wins at Internet!

I /bow down before you Sir. You should have your own site or blog if you don't already.


I know I have the first release CD of Doom2 in my huge collection of assorted junk. I'm pretty sure I have the original DOS disks for Doom laying around here somewhere too, if that is of any use. I just threw out by original browser disks, all mint in box with manuals other day too. Quarterstaff or something like that? man, going on the net back then was a nightmare.

I was walking down the street past a PC shop, when they had Doom running. I had no idea PC's could run games like that, and went inside and brought a new PC that day. 486 dx2-66 I think, with 16 mb of ram (I think) and a CD drive so I could run the copy of Doom2 that was due out soon. I think it cost me $2200 back then(australian dollars), and ran Windows 3.1 and Dos6. I keep finding old price lists and stuff from back then, that would make your hair curl . 21 inch monitor...$3k . Anyway..it was state of the art back then. My gilrfriend would try to play, and get motion sickness from running around corners and jump outta her skin screaming.

Ahhh. Those were the days.

Edit: Yep, just went and had a look. I do have it , in its box with all the manuals and lists of other shareware stuff you could buy ( Jazz Jackrabbit!) from the local distributor, plus tips on how to get it running. They say it needs at least 3mb of free memory to run, and gives instructions on how to make a boot disk to free up that much memory! . It's on 4 floppies, version 1.666. I might have to try installing it on another comp to see if the floppies are still readable.