hello. i'm an astronomer in ohio and i recently came across an old pentium 3 with windows 2000 installed and i thought i would try and play descent again. problem is, i can't find anywhere to buy it =(. i've looked at half priced books, as well as some random software shops, even ebay! but i can't find descent 1 or 2 anywhere. id rather play descent 2 again, but hell, i just need my old school fix. i would really appreciate it if someone could show me where to find it.
You can probably find Descent3 easier than Descent or DescentII. But if you come across one of the latter, be sure to check out the D2X-XL and/or DxX-Rebirth projects... they'll help run the original two games without the bugs, and with better graphics.
yeah it's just a bull★■◆● computer i salvaged from a hospital. pentium 3 800, 128mb ram, and some little 4MB integrated video. nothing much, it was free. thanks for the info guys. hopefully windows 2000 won't give me much crap with an old dos game.
i actually tried to run descent 3, at 640x480.. ran smooth till a bunch of robots came on screen. i really don't have the time for games but my friends here at the lab got a kick out of descent2. they actually remember it! mike told me he actually used a VR set with it. now i can see why his eyes suck so much when it comes to peering through our equipment for 8 hours
