Doom, Quake, Heretic & Hexen for Palm OS Updated
Good news, 680 & 755p owners! Metaviewsoft has updated their excellent Palm OS ports of id Software's classic first-person shooters Doom, Quake, Heretic and Hexen with full keyboard and rumble support. In case you were living under a rock in the 1990's, these games defined the modern-day first person shooter with their advanced graphics and superior level design. Not to mention Doom's infamous array of awesomely violent parent-horrifying weapons like the shotgun, BFG9000 and chainsaw...
Performance is unchanged from previous versions: Doom, Heretic and Hexen run smooth as silk, but the fully-3D Quake is a little jerky (though still very playable). The ports are extremely well-done and have full support for Bluetooth gamepads and keyboards. You can even hold multiplayer deathmatches (or play co-operatively, if you're a pansy) via Bluetooth or over the Internet with other Palm OS devices.
You'll need to own an original or shareware copy (which can be downloaded from id's website) of the PC versions in order to install these, and have plenty of free RAM. Installation instructions can be found at yoyofr's forum.
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RE: Nah, need a HUGE screen for Quake
RE: Nah, need a HUGE screen for Quake
I am still astonished at how amazingly UNFUN Doom 3 on PC was/is in comparison to its predecessors.
I'm also probably one of the few people who was utterly disappointed in Doom 2 on the PC (I was expecting more than one new weapon in what amounted to just an expansion pack) when it was released in '94.
To stay OT, I have to admit that the Zodiac port of Doom 2 was a VERY good title and probably the best use of the Zod's (and POS) hardware capabilities.
P.S. Anyone with serious patience & a hankering for an FPS/RPG hybrid needs to try S.T.A.L.K.E.R. It's a flawed but engrossing masterpiece. And Bioshock, while rather overrated, is still the game of the year IMO.
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RE: Nah, need a HUGE screen for Quake
Agreed on Doom 3 as well - way to screw up a franchise, id! Sure, it was kinda scary... but Doom is about fighting hordes of monsters. Doom 3 was a totally different style of game - more survival horror than anything else.
Diagreed on Doom 2 - only one new weapon was hugely disappointing, but I loved the level design and the new monsters. Especially that bastard thing that spat the flaming skulls. Man, I feared those things...
I couldn't resist
Wow - it works.
I can see oodles of wasted time coming up.
a-GAIN!
Lol!
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Nah, need a HUGE screen for Quake
"Rumble support"...hmm...never tried any of these using my bro-in-law's gift - some type of chair with built-in speakers et al - we're talking major rumble effects possible...