Descent LOTW on a modern machine? HELP.

Jake857 · Post by **Jake857** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:24 pm

I was wondering if anyone can offer suggestions.

I am trying install and play Decent 1 (levels of the world) on an Athlon 900 machine runnning Win 98SE. The game installs, but the keys to not repond, the screen flickers, and in general the game won't run.

Someone suggested that I need an "emulator" because the clock speed is too fast?

Can you point in the right direction -or do I just need to find an older P2 class machine running Win 95 or DOS 6.x?

thanks.

RedBaron · Post by **RedBaron** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:41 pm

Get D1x - it is Descent 1 updated as a Windows program with various addons. I don't own D1 myself, so I don't know how good it is, but I use D2x, which is a variant of it for D2. It is a bit unstable, but unlike original Descent 1 & 2, it works nicely on modern machines. D2x is also available for Linux and MacOS X (I don't know if D1x is), and (I think) can use D1 data files.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:28 pm

D1x is also availible for *nix

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 10:57 pm

If you get D2x, get the CVS build. When you download the updated SDL files (links are in the readme file), it performs like a dream!