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Running DOOM on a PC Card in a Power Mac?
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2023-10-14 13:16:03
Anyone have any luck getting DOOM to run on a PC Card? I recently got a Reply DOS on Power Mac card w/133MHz Pentium for my Power Mac 7600 and have Wolf3D up and running fine but every version of DOOM I try crashes. Here's what happens in Windoze 95 (which is the same that happens in DOS) when I try to run the installer and the game itself. Thanks in advance!

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Posted by: ymk on 2023-10-14 13:38:58
It works on my 6100's 486/66 card.
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2023-10-14 16:26:49
It works on my 6100's 486/66 card.
Ok, good to know. I got Doom95 working in Windoze 95. Any trick to getting the DOS version to work?
Posted by: ymk on 2023-10-14 16:43:58
Any trick to getting the DOS version to work?

I didn't have to do anything special. I'm running Doom under pure DOS and the 486 card has its own RAM.
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-10-14 16:48:57
I suspect you're having more of a general PC issue than a Mac issue, which... Well, we're not experts.

As others have said, DOS Doom worked fine in my borrowed 6100 DOS card and works find on my P630 DOS compatible. (Yes, it's slow, but at the time the PC was the background process and possibly needed the settings tuning).


Is it worth spinning up a fresh disk image with a clean install and try again?
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2023-10-14 17:05:20
Ok, figured it out. I was trying to install it from my shared drive (F🙂 instead of the C: drive. All good now!
Posted by: Byte Knight on 2023-10-14 17:44:26
I suspect you're having more of a general PC issue than a Mac issue, which... Well, we're not experts.

As others have said, DOS Doom worked fine in my borrowed 6100 DOS card and works find on my P630 DOS compatible. (Yes, it's slow, but at the time the PC was the background process and possibly needed the settings tuning).

Is it worth spinning up a fresh disk image with a clean install and try again?
Getting a little better frame rate with the Pentium:
Posted by: ArbysTPossum on 2023-10-17 06:56:01
It's not a DOS card, but the Orange Micro cards work well enough if you use Doom95 or zDoom. They don't do sound in DOS, but windows works swimmingly.
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