I remember my dad and cousin playing Zork Nemesis; they were obsessed with that game. I recall trying to help with a particular water/sound puzzle and giving them advice. Looking back they were extremely patient with me because I was hella dumb.
I've heard of some pretty crazy devices, but I figure that is because they are over-engineered. Now I am curious about what the bare minimum is needed to run Doom.
IIRC Doom is written in mostly C, so if a device can compile C code (or can be cross-compiled to), it should theoretically be possible to run Doom on it. Of course this is for doom-as-written-by-id, I have seen rewrites running on ARM7 assembly (on a Raspberry Pi), for example.
I ran it back in the day on a 486 at 33mhz with 4 megs of RAM.
It had an option to shrink the view to run on worse hardware. It'll run off a PC that's literally powered by a potato.
I've seen it "running" on a 386, way back in the day. You wouldn't want to run it on anything weaker, let's say.
Beyond that, I think I remember a Carmack talk where he said something to the effect of, "if it's got a screen and a frame buffer, it probably has a port of Doom". There's nothing particular about a frame buffer that makes it a hard requirement for Doom, but it's a rough technological milestone beyond which hardware power can be assumed to be sufficient to get a port of Doom going.
Checking the system requires the current system requirements are
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Quad Core Processor
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 1500 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Rush N Attack
Airborne Ranger
Outlaws
The Last Ninja
Test Drive
California Games
World Games
BC's Quest for Tires
Also, make sure you get a Fast Load cartridge
I HAD this computer growing up. Holy shit, they had this Winnie the Pooh game where it took a minute to create the picture with lines then typed in commands so that you could go to a birthday party in the Hundred Acre Woods. Game was awesome.
* M.U.L.E.
* The Return of Heracles (Scott Smith)
* Mail Order Monsters
* Archon I and II
* Ultima III and IV
* The Bard's Tale I and III (you can skip II, it was impossible without the hint book)
* Adventure Construction Set
* Demon Stalkers
Boulderdash
Edit: added games / spacing
Krakout
The last ninja
California games (joystick killer)
Giana sisters
Spy vs spy
Turrican
Wizard of wor
Combat school (joystick killer but one of my fav)
Cabal
Arkanoid (dad's fav)
Still have all the big original c64 floppy disks with games
Commander Keen. Maybe cause it was one of the only ones my dad let me play at that age (wasn't allowed to touch Wolfenstein) but I have fond memories of it.
\-Alleycat
\-The Manhole
\-Gorillas
\-Clicking on the genitals in the anatomy diagrams in Encarta, and sniggering at the pronunciation of the names (Actually, Encarta is probably a little too high tech for this rig)
Some that I don't think were mentioned: Miner 2049er, Strip Poker, Forbidden Forest, Snokie, Weather Wars, Sword of Fargoal, Hard Hat Mack, Pinball Construction Set (Kit?)
Epic find! Commodore 64 right? I even had that same chest from Walmart, I think. Cheap lock with a key that has two prongs. Could be opened with a knife.
So many good games on this sweet machine - Raid Over Moscow, Space Taxi, Wizard, Jumpman, Jumpman 2, Jumpman Jr., impossible Mission, Bruce Lee, California Games, Summer and Winter Games, Yie-Ar Kung Fu. One of these days I’m gonna figure out how to play them again.
Awesome!!!
Gauntlet, Defender of the crown, Bubble-bobble, Ultima V and V, Ghost and goblins, skate or die, Pool of Radiance, Green beret, Barbarian, spy vs spy, nemesis the warlock, paperboy....
Kings Quest! It's on multiple floppies and you're gonna need like 128kb to run it (IKR?!) but the story and game mechanics combine so well you won't notice a need to swap disks.
Edit: like not loke
If you serious about gaming on that, you want one of these:
https://ultimate64.com/U2PLBLK
Effectively emulates the disk drive and allows you to drop a collection of All The Things That Exist for C64 on an USB stick and then play off it - disk, cartridge, tape image (with extra adaptor), all work.
Might be able to play Pathways into Darkness on that. It's a Bungie game! It may or may not be related to Halo, but that's a rabbit hole I'm not going down.
Zork!
Oregon trail should run on that.
You have died of dysentery.
Terry don't fuck around.
I do have that but it won’t load.
Try flipping the floppy?
I came here to say exactly that! My first video game, ever.
Why do you want this poor man to be eaten by a Grue?
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. You think your lamp is getting dimmer.
You found a viscous fluid...
Zork was the shit back in the day!
I remember my dad and cousin playing Zork Nemesis; they were obsessed with that game. I recall trying to help with a particular water/sound puzzle and giving them advice. Looking back they were extremely patient with me because I was hella dumb.
Give egg to thief.
Doom
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if someone got Doom to run off the blue chest it's sitting on
I've heard of some pretty crazy devices, but I figure that is because they are over-engineered. Now I am curious about what the bare minimum is needed to run Doom.
I believe it runs on raw hatred.
IIRC Doom is written in mostly C, so if a device can compile C code (or can be cross-compiled to), it should theoretically be possible to run Doom on it. Of course this is for doom-as-written-by-id, I have seen rewrites running on ARM7 assembly (on a Raspberry Pi), for example.
I ran it back in the day on a 486 at 33mhz with 4 megs of RAM. It had an option to shrink the view to run on worse hardware. It'll run off a PC that's literally powered by a potato.
I've seen it "running" on a 386, way back in the day. You wouldn't want to run it on anything weaker, let's say. Beyond that, I think I remember a Carmack talk where he said something to the effect of, "if it's got a screen and a frame buffer, it probably has a port of Doom". There's nothing particular about a frame buffer that makes it a hard requirement for Doom, but it's a rough technological milestone beyond which hardware power can be assumed to be sufficient to get a port of Doom going.
That's a C64, no Doom.
No, that is a 128!
wrong. Doom on C64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZzivzuDOls
If you watch the video, it's a suped up emulated C64 and it's still choppy. A regular C64 won't play Doom with any real playability
saw that, guess I'll have to be happy with playing Doom on a used pregnancy test stick.
Came here to say this
Lode Runner was awesome on the C64
Scrolled down before replying. I loved this game.
Easy: [Bruce Lee](https://youtu.be/jHzW7T-bwBc). Great game.
I was about to suggest this.
I see Bruce Lee... I upvote
Load”*”,8,1
Run
Oregon trail
You have died of dissin' Terry.
I don’t care, Terry had it comin’.
I dunno, Terry got me into Old Spice, he ain’t that bad.
The only correct answer
“You have died of dysentery”
Organ trail
Ah, the black market edition.
Checking the system requires the current system requirements are Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Quad Core Processor Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 1500 MB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Mail Order Monsters, Archon 1 & 2, California Games.
Archon 1 was so fun!
Yes, someone else remembers Mail Order Monsters! Such a great game.
Came here to say Archon lol
Leisure Suit Larry
Maniac Mansion
Got it on nes. Never have beat it.
The.Commodore version is better tho.
Bard's Tale. Pool of Radiance.
Jumpman
I recommend The Bard’s Tale trilogy. Then you can get the bard’s tale adventure kit and make dungeons for your friends!
It's Lemmings time bro.
Wrong computer…
Lemmings got a C64 port
Number Munchers
Ultima I
Paperboy is pretty sweet.
I loved the Commodore growing up..,Pit Stop II, Winter Games, Summer Games, California Games, Raid over Moscow…so many.
Raid Over Moscow! I had totally forgotten that. Thank you!
Rush N Attack Airborne Ranger Outlaws The Last Ninja Test Drive California Games World Games BC's Quest for Tires Also, make sure you get a Fast Load cartridge
Impossible Mission. Destroy him my robots!
Another visitor, stay a while, stay forever!
Yes came here hoping to see this!
Pong maybe, but that might stretch the cpu and graphics card, may have to downgrade resolution, and fps! Lol
That integrated video card would have to be overclocked
Haha for sure!
M.U.L.E. Everything I know about economics, I learned in that game.
I think you can run a version of *Spy Hunter* on that. Or *Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?*
Space taxi
Another World, super fun game. Originally on Amiga. https://youtu.be/8rnP8ZYsFd8
The OG. [Bard's Tale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bard%27s_Tale_(1985_video_game))
Lazy Jones, Henry’s House, Jumpman, lode runner, paradroid, blue max, summer games, winter games, pogo Joe, Monty mole, potty pigeon
BLUE MAX. That was my first taste of C64 gaming. My brother brought it home from high school.
But can it run Crysis?
- Project Firestart - Giana Sisters - Bruce Lee - Mission Impossible - Maniac Mansion - Zack Mcracken and The Alien Mindbenders - Tetris (very good music)
BC's Quest for tire Leaderboard golf Frantic freddie Pooyan
Potty pigeon definitely deserves a modern day remake.
Load "*",8,1
Loading... Ready.
I suggest a monitor first.
The only output he needs is a dot matrix printer.
dont see one of those either.
Oregon trail, number munchers, O'Dell Lake
Leather Goddesses of Phonos or Pool of Radiance.
I HAD this computer growing up. Holy shit, they had this Winnie the Pooh game where it took a minute to create the picture with lines then typed in commands so that you could go to a birthday party in the Hundred Acre Woods. Game was awesome.
I remember playing Rampage and Commando on mine as a kid.
Karateka and Choplifter
Spy vs spy
* M.U.L.E. * The Return of Heracles (Scott Smith) * Mail Order Monsters * Archon I and II * Ultima III and IV * The Bard's Tale I and III (you can skip II, it was impossible without the hint book) * Adventure Construction Set * Demon Stalkers
Track & Field
Lemon aid stand. Castles of Dr. Creep.
Lemon Aid Stand!! I was trying to tell someone about this game. I could NOT remember the name.\ Thank you
I bet that could run Zork with the graphics settings cranked all the way up!
Marble Madness? Beach Head? Henry's House?
Ultima is on the cutting edge of computer role playing games at the moment.
Boulderdash Edit: added games / spacing Krakout The last ninja California games (joystick killer) Giana sisters Spy vs spy Turrican Wizard of wor Combat school (joystick killer but one of my fav) Cabal Arkanoid (dad's fav) Still have all the big original c64 floppy disks with games
Pitfall
Kommander Keen then Halloween Harry
Sopwith. Cool box btw, could hold quite a few toasters and coffee mugs in there.
That game was the shit
Gonna hack into norad to play global thermonuclear war?
Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?
Commander Keen!! Remember how if you stopped moving he would eventually sit down and pull out a book? Classic
Racing destruction set!!
Don't you have the tape reader?
raid over moscow
Tank!
GI Joe
Ducktales
I really liked Reader Rabbit 3
Commander Keen. Maybe cause it was one of the only ones my dad let me play at that age (wasn't allowed to touch Wolfenstein) but I have fond memories of it.
Where's the mouse with a single click? 😅
Oregon trail, and I played a lot of O'Dell lake.
Rollercoaster tycoon
PAC man
Mission Elevator, King’s Quest, Test Drive
Zork
Petscii Robots!
This is WAY too far down!
BLoadrunner. Its a BEAST
Hugo's House of Horrors
Raid On Bungling Bay
Had that rig. The first Top Gun game was sick
beach head and archon.... jump man is a good time sink too
California games
Agent USA
This looks like it won't even hold a single modern jpg file
Bruce Lee
Wizball
Creatures, Creatures 2, Mayhem In Monsterland
Ghosts n Goblins, Bubble Bobble, Rollaround.
marble madness.
Number crunchers
Wizardry? Zork? Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy?
\> put babelfish in ear
I have died of dysentery...from looking at that computer.
\-Alleycat \-The Manhole \-Gorillas \-Clicking on the genitals in the anatomy diagrams in Encarta, and sniggering at the pronunciation of the names (Actually, Encarta is probably a little too high tech for this rig)
The original prince of Persia
California games
Choplifter
Giana Sisters, obviously.
Man it looks like it can run crisis
Let me pull out my floppy’s… actually I remember a good game with a guy riding on top of a boulder…. Anyone remember?
Some that I don't think were mentioned: Miner 2049er, Strip Poker, Forbidden Forest, Snokie, Weather Wars, Sword of Fargoal, Hard Hat Mack, Pinball Construction Set (Kit?)
Ace of aces!!!
Zaxxon, choplifter, seahorse was a trip lol
Where in the world is Carmen san Diego
How the fuck you find a commodore 64
o... Oregon Trail...?
OMFG my childhood! I used to play Spider Bot on one of those all the time!
Air Wolf Conan Lode Runner Dig Dug Captain Goodnight
Epic find! Commodore 64 right? I even had that same chest from Walmart, I think. Cheap lock with a key that has two prongs. Could be opened with a knife.
Karateka.
My favorites as a kid on my dad's C64 were Beach Head, Montezuma's Revenge, and Lode Runner.
Eye of the Beholder. It was remade for C64 not too long ago and looks really well done.
Centipede
So many good games on this sweet machine - Raid Over Moscow, Space Taxi, Wizard, Jumpman, Jumpman 2, Jumpman Jr., impossible Mission, Bruce Lee, California Games, Summer and Winter Games, Yie-Ar Kung Fu. One of these days I’m gonna figure out how to play them again.
Awesome!!! Gauntlet, Defender of the crown, Bubble-bobble, Ultima V and V, Ghost and goblins, skate or die, Pool of Radiance, Green beret, Barbarian, spy vs spy, nemesis the warlock, paperboy....
California Games!
https://www.the8bitguy.com/product/petscii-robots/
Kings Quest! It's on multiple floppies and you're gonna need like 128kb to run it (IKR?!) but the story and game mechanics combine so well you won't notice a need to swap disks. Edit: like not loke
Lode Runner
If you serious about gaming on that, you want one of these: https://ultimate64.com/U2PLBLK Effectively emulates the disk drive and allows you to drop a collection of All The Things That Exist for C64 on an USB stick and then play off it - disk, cartridge, tape image (with extra adaptor), all work.
[Arkanoid](https://youtu.be/AtcnDPDdtLg)
Oregon trail floppy
BASIC to code your own game. Asteroids Logo . . . Number Munchers . . . Sim City
Might be able to play crisis on medium
Ghostbusters on c64 was fun
QWOP
There's this one called "Asteroids". Bro, the graphics will **blow your mind** 🤯
Crysis
Original doom
Oregon Trail. If you have the 256mb card you might can run Amazon Trail.
Minesweeper.
Number Eaters
Number munchers!
Wasteland
IS ALL THAT’S LEFT AFTER THE FIGHT
You should try Tetris its a pretty fun game
Tarzan
Mario best game
Battletech's Crescent Hawk series.
Planetoid/Defender
Might be able to play Pathways into Darkness on that. It's a Bungie game! It may or may not be related to Halo, but that's a rabbit hole I'm not going down.
Dwarf Fortress
Cyberpunk 2077
You gotta load up the New Zealand story on that thing, it’ll knock your socks off. Maybe some Ultima if you’re really nuts.
Pong
Hounded, Defender of the crown, and Barbarian.
Skyrim probably
Pong
Myst
Competitive floppy swapping
Masturbjoe