On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:27 AM, SixthtySixthSix
<sixthtysixthsix@...> wrote:
> Of course, some of you must remember the flip side of this
> compatability coin. Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, there
> were many systems that simply didn't meet the 'high-end' hardware
> requirements for a game that featured (read required) 256(!)-color
> graphics and a soundcard(!)... lol! After we scraped past the super-
> distributed PC and PC2 to the 286, VGA was still pretty rare. My
> first 'enabled' system was one of the ibm microchannels. Back then, it
> wasn't a struggle to get the system to agree from the software-side of
> things ('cept for the soundcard)... a Real DOS box.

Actually, I never once had a problem with Darklands. Worked like a
charm on every DOS system I ever owned.

DarkSEED, on the other hand... but that's another mailing list.

R


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