> speaking of old computers and such ..... I was cleaning out my bookcase and 
> discovered some old software (games) .....
> 
> quake2 plays on xp in compatibilty mode. haha spent the morning blowing the 
> heads off the bad guys .....
> 
> like i said .... the classics never get old.

Mmm... That's the first 3D game I ever played.

(Unless you count 3 minutes playing the shareware version of Doom, or an 
afternoon "playing" Gloom. My God, that game sucked so badly...)

Of course, I was playing it on a machine with 16 MB RAM. I actually 
thought it was *normal* for loading a level to take 20 minutes! And 
needless to say, no 3D hardware. Bilinear interpolation? What's that 
then? Still, if you turn the resolution down low enough, it's almost 
playable.

I presume it goes without saying that playing it on a more meaty machine 
was quite shocking for me. Loading the next level was *instant*! o_O 
There were *coloured lights*. And bilinear filtering makes everything 
look much better...

I wonder if it would actually play on my current PC? Somehow, I doubt it.

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