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Got a 486 DX/2 50 for retro purposes, and put a SB16 with Wave Blaster in it, and the third game I had to play is Duke3D (I did Monkey Island and Doom before). But Duke3D is really a different game on period hardware, and if you've only played it in eDuke3d or one of the official modern ports it's kind of jarring. I did play it when new (on a Pentium 133), but I'd kind of forgotten.I know you can strafe in Duke3d but without modifying the CFG files it's really awkward. And if you're not circle-strafing the game is really different. Especially the boss battles - the Cycloid Emperor isn't a joke at all without it.Same thing with mouselook. Yes, the game supports it, but it's really not designed with mouse in mind, between auto-aim and the control scheme clearly designed for two hands on the keyboard. Using mouselook with jump set to A and crouch set to Z while you move with the arrow keys requires three hands to do effectively, four if you're also strafing using the < and > keys.And then there's performance. The conversation between Allen Blum and Richard Gray on the World Tour commentary talks about how their design goal was to hit 20+ FPS in Hollywood Holocaust on a 486 DX/2 66. On my 50 it still runs fine but it's definitely chugging a bit, and that's how a lot of us played it. 320x200 and 20-30 fps.I've been playing a lot of Duke3D lately and was kind of struck by how the base game really isn't that hard. But on original hardware/controls the difficulty goes way up. Just thought it was interesting to note, and isn't a secret to most of you.
is this possible? i have my user GRP files in the same directory as eduke32, but i do not get prompted to select any other GRP files beyond duke3d.grp at startup.
So this has been driving me mad for years as I can't seem to find any info about this.As you know DN3D is filled with gifs of various women (The one with the feather boa at the cinema, the winking one and of course the ones in the backrooms of the red light district)My question is does anyone know or have the devs ever explained the origin of them? Like if they're from real films or pornos?
Does anyone have any suggestions for some user maps or mods for Duke 3D to fit the Halloween season? I just played through the whole Red Series last Saturday for a livestream and I'm wondering what I should follow it up with this Saturday.
I know Duke 3D is meant to have a run-and-gun feel, but not being able to reload or aim on command feels really odd for me and takes me out of the game. Call it a personal problem.Maybe I'm really bad at looking for mods. I've been searching for a few days but I haven't found anything. If anyone out there can help it would be greatly appreciated!
This website has a lot of custom levels and mods for both duke nukem forever 2001 and 2011!
https://archive.org/details/cancelled-psp-games.-7z