3D Realms are back! (well, kind of)

Post by **MrFlibble** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:19 am

After many months of (im)patient waiting, the new 3D Realms website is finally launched:
https://3drealms.com/news/3d_realms-is-back/

And, they're offering the all-new (well, in fact, quite classic) 3D Realms Anthology with all the Apogee/3DR games, plus more.

Post by **emmzee** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 11:04 pm

Wow, nice! Good to hear they'll be making some new games!

And the anthology seems quite reasonable for the amount of games ... hmmm ... I already own a lot of them, some on the original floppy disks. Then again, I don't have a computer that has a floppy drive anymore

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 10:12 am

emmzee wrote:Wow, nice! Good to hear they'll be making some new games!

And the anthology seems quite reasonable for the amount of games ... hmmm ... I already own a lot of them, some on the original floppy disks. Then again, I don't have a computer that has a floppy drive anymore

If you needed a floppy drive, I just ordered one and it works great. I only was able to verify it with Microsoft Windows Vista. They say that it does NOT work with Windows 8. They go for $10 bucks on eBay. Here is the company I got it from:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/390956347512

Everything installed perfectly with it.

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Fri Oct 31, 2014 3:32 pm

emmzee wrote:Wow, nice! Good to hear they'll be making some new games!

And the anthology seems quite reasonable for the amount of games ... hmmm ... I already own a lot of them, some on the original floppy disks. Then again, I don't have a computer that has a floppy drive anymore

I just tricked a little trick. I loaded up DOSBox and see if it would detect it instead of using Microsoft Windows 8. Windows 8 does NOT allow the detection even after installing the driver. However, DOSBox "seems" to work. Although it does NOT have the format command, it does copy successfully onto the hard drive. So take it as you will, this might be a blessing in disguised.

You do have to mount it like this:

mount a a:\ -t floppy

Well, Thank you Cheezits and Rice!hehe Both my parents told me to study. So I did some studying and it turns out that the command prompt allows the floppy drive directly in Windows 8.

Post by **MrFlibble** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:00 pm

As promised, the 3DR team has started publishing interesting stuff (its' not only going to be about beta releases of Duke3D and other games):
The 3D Realms Vault: 1994 Design Tips from Tom Hall

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:11 pm

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

Does that mean I have to develop for Apogee now? haha j/k (Just kidding).

Post by **MrFlibble** » Wed Nov 05, 2014 2:47 pm

I guess this means everyone is encouraged to find their inner Apogee developer

tienkhoanguyen · Post by **tienkhoanguyen** » Thu Nov 06, 2014 12:01 am

Cheezits and Rice!hehe

MrFlibble wrote:I guess this means everyone is encouraged to find their inner Apogee developer

Thank God I found mine before it is too late hehe

Post by **MrFlibble** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 8:33 am

Part two of Tom Hall's design tips:
https://3drealms.com/news/3d-realms-vau ... ll-part-2/

Oh and just in case, the old version of the 3D Realms website can still be accessed at this address:
http://legacy.3drealms.com/index.html

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3D Realms are back! (well, kind of)

3D Realms are back! (well, kind of)

God, Cheezits and Rice, is number one!hehe

God, Cheezits and Rice, is number one!hehe