DOS ain't dead

Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 06.09.2010, 00:07

> The new WIP version of open sourced engine for Hexen 2 is released.
> Contrary previous announcements still supports also DOS.

It mentions DOS in every announcement on their site, so I don't see why you're worried here.

> The main project page is here: http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/

Yes, I played the (four-character) demo quite a bit a few months ago. (For some reason, id's FTP only holds the "old" crippled demo, which won't work here). Quite fun but confusing (stupid mill key). I think the only huge omission for DOS is no MIDI music (and I doubt that changed in the meantime). But yes, very interesting and fun and well done, just hard to find out where to go, etc.

This timed out for me, but there are probably mirrors if this still won't work later.

http://www.raven-games.com/essential.php#hx2

EDIT: This one seems to work.

http://www.gamershell.com/download_4561.shtml

> the DOS download link for newest build isn't at the main page but is in
> the
> sourceforge download list. Direct link is here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/uhexen2/files/HoT%...1.4.4-pre10/hexen2-1.4.4-pre10-dos.zip/download
>
> NOTE: It is the far most advanced DOS game at all!

Really? Not sure if I agree, but it's close enough true I guess. Based upon the Quake 1 engine (though commercially only for Win32 originally, had to be backported to DOS again).

P.S. I think? you can buy the demo data for the full game from GoG.com online. I kept meaning to consider that, but eventually never did it. Maybe soon if I get bored enough. (Been playing more of Duke Nukem 3D lately.)

Complete thread:

• Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - Laaca, 05.09.2010, 08:16
  • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - Rugxulo, 06.09.2010, 00:07
    • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - Zyzzle, 06.09.2010, 01:08
      • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - marcov, 06.09.2010, 15:39
      • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - Rugxulo, 06.09.2010, 22:07
        • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - DOS386, 06.09.2010, 22:44
        • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - Rugxulo, 08.09.2010, 06:11
        • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - RayeR, 11.09.2010, 02:36
          • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - Rugxulo, 11.09.2010, 23:38
            • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - RayeR, 12.09.2010, 13:25
              • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - Rugxulo, 12.09.2010, 22:27
                • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - RayeR, 13.09.2010, 02:04
                  • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - Rugxulo, 13.09.2010, 08:41
                    • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) - RayeR, 13.09.2010, 15:47
              • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) 1.5.0-rc1 - Rugxulo, 10.03.2011, 03:43
                • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) 1.5.0-rc2 - Rugxulo, 27.04.2011, 03:17
                  • Hammer of Thyrion (Hexen 2) 1.5.0-rc5 - Rugxulo, 13.07.2011, 22:39