Blast from the Past!!

[Burnout54]

I was playing around with DOSbox (DOS Emulator, for people that don't know, google it) and i had some fun playing the original DOOM95. Here it is, 16 years after that game came out, and i just now realized it has multiplayer coop in it. I was thinking , "Sweet, this will make for some fun LAN parties later." Then I did some digging around on the internet, only to find that the original version 1.0 of DOOM95 supported a triple monitor setup where you can watch your peripherals (using two other computers over LAN) That just blew my mind, and i had to try it myself. I couldn't find any pictures or documentation about it anywhere but 1 sentence on Wikipedia. After 3-4 hours of digging around on the internet, i found a copy of unpatched DOOM. Needless to say, that was a fun night. The peripheral vision isn't perfect, but remember this was 1993. (Some of you may not think this is that amazing, but almost pooped my pants when i got it to work)

 

[pipboy2010]

Regardless of whatever anyone else says, that's frigging genius. I have no idea why any of the devs thought that the game might need three monitors to play, but it's still genius.

 

[AkJay]

I'm more blown away by the fact that you actually use 3 monitors, one is enough for me, hah

 

[ghalkhsdkssakgh]

You lucky bastard. That's all I can really say.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

cool.

now if you'll excuse me,I need to go back to the future.

 

[Wildrow12]

Its Doom...TO THE EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEME!

 

[Vimbert]

NICE. If I wasn't broke, I would do try to do this right now.

 

[Radeonx]

I've seen that before. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

 

[ae86gamer]

That. Is. Awesome.

You're lucky... I wish I had that setup.

 

[Burnout54]

I'm more blown away by the fact that you actually use 3 monitors, one is enough for me, hah

The two side monitors aren't mine, i just borrowed them for this experiment

 

[brainless906]

good stuff man, good stuff

 

[Arkhangelsk]

That is awesome. You just added a new dimension to Doom (no pun intended).

 

[Emphraim]

A game that old allowed a triple monitor setup? Surely back then there were even less people with 3 monitors than there are now?

 

[mokes310]

Very cool indeed! Didn't the Tie Fighter/X-Wing games have that function as well?

 

[Burnout54]

Very cool indeed! Didn't the Tie Fighter/X-Wing games have that function as well?

i dont think so... i found the doom thing here and it only lists like 4 or 5 games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_monitor#Games_support

 

[SimuLord]

My wife uses two monitors (one for WoW running in a window sized to fit the widescreen and one old 4:3 monitor for surfing the web while playing WoW because she has a squirrel-like attention span). But three? That's just badass.