So you think you're a computer gamer?

[magellan]

You're not a computer gamer until you've played the original DOOM running on DOS w/mono sound effects created on a PC speaker (soundcards were a real and much forgotten innovation in PC gaming):

 

[Woomack]

I wasn't playing Doom back then. I was playing Wolfenstein 3D.

I was playing this thing too:

 

[EarthDog]

Ahhh, the mid 90s...Lol, I used to build maps for that Doom! IIRC, they were .WAD files.

 

[magellan]

@Woomack
I never knew IBM published any video games. Big Blue was all about mainframes back then (and PC's were REALLY a sideline to their mainframe biz.) so I'm surprised they would bother.
In today's world it could very well be mainframes and servers are IBM's bread and butter, because they don't sell PCs of any type anymore.

Post magically merged: Jan 19, 2024

The PC speaker wasn't capable of mixing sounds, so if you'll notice in the video when the guy picks something up and fires his shotgun there is no shotgun sound. I did some 8086/8088 assembly coding to generate speaker sounds and it was a royal *****.

 

[dfonda]

I am not a PC gamer...I wouldn't even play Half life 1 it looked so bad. Stuck to Snes till 2K golf and then Diablo 2

 

[Kenrou]

My father bought one of the PCs from he's company when he left (dirt cheap), so I played the original doom on a monochrome monitor, with an HDD so small that I had to doublespace it so the game would fit with DOS, so slow that I actually had to reduce the resolution to around half the screen size to be playable and with no speakers, that is, I played with the case beeper thingie... BUT IT WORKED

 

[Zerileous]

I was just a kid. I gave myself nightmares with Doom lol. Wofenstein was also fun.